Jeremy Duda at the Arizona Mirror reports that Governor Doug Ducey will be in South Carolina today and tomorrow for a meeting of the Republican Governors Association (oddly enough, you cannot find any information about this meeting on the RGA website). Arizonans should encourage our governor and his Republican governor colleagues to adopt a formal … Read more
The most chilling portion of last night’s debate came during the last question segment on election integrity. Donald Trump said the quiet part out loud, that he expects the Supreme Court, which he hopes will include his newly nominated Justice, Amy Coney Barrett, will be the one to decide the fate of the 2020 election – not … Read more
I will get to the judicial temperament and record of Judge Amy Coney Barrett, the Supreme Court nominee imposed on Donald Trump by the Federalist Society and Judicial Action Network, in another post. Right now I want to focus on process. Let’s be clear: no president, and no political party, has ever sought to nominate … Read more
Let’s vow to make this the very last election under our anti-democratic Electoral College. After what we are going to witness in the coming months, there is going to be renewed demands to rid ourselves of this anti-democratic anomaly in order to save American democracy. Barton Gellman in a lengthy analysis explains at The Atlantic how … Read more
Last week, in-person early voting began in several states, including Virginia (above). Long lines of voters motivated to vote early formed, even before the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday. Already, Donald Trump’s MAGA red caps, his version of Italian “black shirts” and German “brown shirts” fascist militias, whom he has encouraged to … Read more