In the most expensive judicial election in American history, the Democratic candidate for defending democracy and women’s reproductive freedoms has won. It could mark the beginning of the end of former Gov. Scott Walker’s subversion of democracy in Wisconsin through extreme gerrymandering to create a permanent far-right GQP majority in the state legislature. The New … Read more
Update to SCOTUS Argument in Moore v. Harper Today Could Portend The End Of American Democracy. Election law expert Rick Hasen has his hot take on today’s oral argument. Live-Blogging the Supreme Court’s Oral Arguments in the Moore v. Harper (Independent State Legislature); Now UPDATED with Analysis and Reason to Think Court Will Reject Maximalist … Read more
“Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by the naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.” -President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Today is Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. It may also be the next December 7 date “which will live in infamy” in … Read more
The Arizona Republic fka The Arizona Republican recently published the stupidest damn editorial opinion I have seen in a long time. Voters are done with extreme politics. The era of Kari Lake, Trump and MAGA is ending. Voters may have rejected theMAGA/QAnon Republicans at the top of the ticket in the statewide races, but in … Read more
Above: Michigan’s governor/secretary of state/attorney general will have “trifecta” control of the Michigan legislature for the first time in 40 years after a citizens initiative created an independent redistricting commission to create competitive fair districts. Despite Democratic gains in 2018 and 2020, turning Arizona into a “purple state,” The so-called Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission earlier … Read more