Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) is the conservative uncle you have to tolerate at Thanksgiving dinner because he is family. In 2004, when Joe Manchin was running for governor of West Virginia, he received an “A+” rating from the NRA and received the group’s endorsement when running for governor. He won the 2004 gubernatorial election by … Read more
Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law, and Burt Neuborne, the Norman Dorsen Professor of Civil Liberties at the New York University School of Law, make a fascinating argument for declaring the anti-democratic Senate filibuster rule unconstitutional in the LA Times. The filibuster is unconstitutional. Here’s how Vice President Harris can take it … Read more
The House has already passed H.R. 1, The For The People Act, now the Senate is preparing to move on its version of the bill, S. 1, The For the People Act, next week. To do so means having to directly confront the anti-democratic Jim Crow era filibuster rule, which the “Grim Reaper” of the … Read more
Earlier this year, the House voted to remove the “QAnon Queen,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, from her committee assignments so she could collect a congressional paycheck and devote herself full-time to being a racist conspiratorial troll (your tax dollars at work). She should have been expelled from Congress, but that would take Republican votes, and … Read more
Trump Fluffer Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is one of the most vile individuals in the U.S. Senate. Just this year: Lindsey “Stonewall” Graham tried to help Donald Trump steal the election in Georgia, for which he is under investigation by the Fulton County D.A. Graham’s post-election Call with Raffensperger will be scrutinized in Georgia probe. … Read more