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
Authoritarian wannabe tinpot dictator, Donald Trump, said the quiet part out loud last year: “They had things [in the bill], levels of voting that if you’d ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again,” Trump said during an appearance on Fox & Friends [of Fascism]. After losing the election … 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
When the history of the death of the Republican Party is written, people like Newt Gingrich, Tom Delay, Rush Limbaugh, Rubert Murdoch, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump will take up voluminous space. So will Enemy of the People-Obstructionist in Chief-Legislative Grim Reaper-Moscow Mitch McConnell. Since occupying a position in Republican Senate leadership, his three … Read more
In 2014, it was corporations and their interest in maintaining the profitability of corporations that led them to pressure the legislature to defeat the so-called religious liberty (“freedom to discriminate”) bills against the LGBTQ community – in Arizona this was SB1062 – when threats of boycotts and responding to pressure from business interests, and worries about … Read more