Representative Kenny Marchant of Texas announced on Monday that he plans to retire, becoming the fourth Republican House member from Texas in recent weeks to head for the exits rather than face re-election in 2020 in a state that is rapidly becoming more competitive. A Fourth Texas Republican Congressman Will Retire in 2020: Rep. Marchant, … Read more
The media is focused on the obvious: Trump backs away from census citizenship question, direct agencies to hand over citizenship information to Commerce: President Donald Trump issued an executive order Thursday directing the Commerce Department to obtain citizenship data through means other than the US census, dropping a controversial plan to include a citizenship question … Read more
Sometime in the next month, the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule in Department of Commerce v. New York, the case in which the Trump administration sought to add a question about U.S. citizenship to the U.S. census. Oral argument before the court was in April. But new evidence has emerged at the eleventh hour that … Read more
Two separate stories this week about criminal justice and the right to vote offer a sharp microcosm of the difference between the major U.S. political parties. While Democrats debate social justice policy, Republicans are enacting voter suppression measures. Today’s op-ed in the Washington Post, Missouri Republicans want to undo voters’ redistricting wishes. The Supreme Court … Read more
Arizona Republicans think too many people voted, too many people volunteered, too many people registered other citizens to vote, and too many politicians said “no” to big money politics in the 2018 election. All of that voter participation created in the highest voter turnout… ever. The result was… Republicans lost seats!!!! The Republicans who got … Read more