At the start of this week Politico did a half-ass job of reporting on our white supremacist insurrectionist Rep. Paul Gosar. Paul Gosar is finally speaking out about that video he sent to a white nationalist-organized event. He’s blaming it on a staff error. Gosar finally speaks: Rep. Paul Gosar is blaming his video appearance … Read more
The New York Times’ legal columnist, Linda Greenhouse, writes How Low Will Senate Republicans Go on Ketanji Brown Jackson? When Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination reaches the Senate floor soon, every Republican who votes against her confirmation will be complicit in the abuse that the Republican members of the Judiciary Committee heaped on … Read more
I have been registered to vote in Arizona for some 45 years. I have voted in every primary and general election. I have run for precinct committeman and been elected on numerous occasions over these years. Now the MAGA/QAnon cult Big Lie election conpiracy theorists want me to provide proof of citizenship, and force me … Read more
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has already been confirmed three times for the federal judiciary by a bipartisan majority of the U.S. Senate. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has more trial court experience than any sitting Supreme Court justice and more than any justice since Edward Sanford, who was nominated to the Supreme Court in 1923. Judge … Read more
Echoes of Tea Party candidate Todd Akin, the 2012 Republican Senate nominee from Missouri, who provoked ire across the political spectrum by saying that in instances of what he called “legitimate rape,” women’s bodies somehow blocked an unwanted pregnancy. Senate Candidate Provokes Ire With ‘Legitimate Rape’ Comment. A decade later, Republican MAGA candidates have only grown … Read more