The Washington Post reports, Senate votes to advance bipartisan gun deal, breaking 30-year logjam: The Senate advanced a bill [Republicans didn’t filibuster] Tuesday night that would toughen federal gun laws and provide billions of dollars in new money to prevent future mass shootings after negotiators settled key disagreements, putting the legislation on course to be passed … Read more
Politico reports, Senators strike bipartisan gun safety agreement: A group of 20 senators struck a bipartisan gun safety framework on Sunday, marking a significant breakthrough in Congress’ attempts to address recent back-to-back mass shootings. In a Sunday morning statement, 10 senators in each party announced support for the deal. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer blessed … Read more
It has often been said that “The Constitution is not a suicide pact.” But the Constitution does include the seeds of its own destruction. Thomas Jefferson believed that a country’s constitution should be rewritten every 19 years. Instead, the U.S. Constitution, which Jefferson did not help to write (he was in Paris serving as U.S. … Read more
Golden State Warriors Coach Steve Kerr in an impassioned plea for congressional action said it best, America is being held hostage by 50 Republican Senators and the archaic Senate filibuster rule. He can add two Vichy Democrat appeasers of the enemies of democracy, Sens. “Manchinema”, who also value the Senate filibuster rule over the lives … Read more
On Friday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled in Migliori et al v. Lehigh County Board of Elections – a case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union – that 257 mail-in ballots that had been excluded from the 2021 general election because voters had not handwritten a date on the outer … Read more