Yesterday I suggested that Senate Democrats really need to pick up the pace in confirming federal judges: With Judge Jackson’s confirmation, there are eight vacancies on the federal courts of appeals, which are the last stop for thousands of cases. The president has announced nominees for six of those seats. Of the more than 80 … Read more
Ronald Browstein reports at The Atlantic, Democracy Is Already Dying in the States: While senator Joe Manchin is demanding that both parties agree on any further federal voting-rights legislation, a new study quantifies how completely Republicans have excluded Democrats from the passage of the restrictive voting laws proliferating in red states. In places such as … Read more
The “Grim Reaper of Democracy,” Mitch McConnell, and his obstructionist gang of GQP seditious senators filibustered the Paycheck Fairness Act in the Senate on Tuesday. Senate GOP blocks bill to combat gender pay gap: Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked legislation aimed at addressing pay inequality, marking their second successful use of the filibuster under President … Read more
New polls, commissioned by End Citizens United / Let America Vote Action Fund and conducted by Global Strategy Group and ALG Research released last month, show that the For the People Act (H.R. 1, S. 1)––which would protect Americans’ freedom to vote, stop billionaires from buying our elections, and put in place ironclad ethics reforms––is … Read more
First, a history lesson. History has made British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain the poster boy for appeasement of the enemies of democracy ever since the Munich Pact in 1938. Chamberlain thought he could stop what Winston Churchill correctly saw as the coming war in Europe from Nazi Germany by appeasing Adolph Hitler. Neville Chamberlain: A … Read more