The Hill reports, House passes bill to protect access to contraceptives after Supreme Court warning shot: The House passed a bill on Thursday to safeguard access to contraceptives, less than a month after Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said the bench should overturn the landmark case protecting forms of birth control. The legislation, titled the … Read more
In response to Justice Clarence Thomas – and Insurrectionist Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) – wanting to reverse the landmark decision of Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. 644 (2015) establishing an equal protection liberty to same-sex marriage, the House today voted to safeguard same-sex marriage by federal statutory law. The Hill reports, House passes bill protecting marriage … Read more
CNN reports, In response to Trump, senators agree to clarify vice president’s role in electoral certification: Senators from both parties have reached an agreement to clarify that the vice president only has a ceremonial role in overseeing the certification of the electoral results, according to two Senate sources, the first legislative response to former President … Read more
Nearly a decade ago, in June of 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Ariz., Inc., in a majority opinion written by conservative Justice Antonin Scalia no less, that “Arizona’s evidence-of-citizenship requirement, as applied to Federal Form applicants, is pre-empted by The National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA)’s mandate … Read more
The next Republican coup d’etat will not resemble the violent MAGA/QAnon insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021. No, this time it is a lawyerly murdering of American democracy by “the suits,” corrupt Republican lawyers and the Republican judges, that the “Grim Reaper of Democracy” Sen. Mitch McConnell has been plotting for decades. … Read more