The New York Times reports, If Tennessee’s Legislature Looks Broken, It’s Not Alone (excerpt): There are 99 legislators in the Tennessee House of Representatives, the body that voted on Thursday to expel two of its Democratic members for leading an anti-gun protest in the chamber. Sixty of them had no opponent in last November’s election. … Read more
The former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan in Louisiana, David Duke, traded in his Klan robes for a suit and tie to make his way into mainstream U.S. politics. Making the Klan respectable and mainstream in the Republican Party. In an article tracing how the political worldview of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke … Read more
Above: Republicans long for the idealic past (a myth) of 1950s Americana – at the height of state-sponsored Jim Crow racial segregation, before the Libs gave us the Civil Rights Movement and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Some Republicans even long for the idealic past of 1850s … Read more
Last week, the radical Republican white snowflakes in the Arizona legislature waging a culture war against “Critical Race Theory” – something which is only taught in law schools and graduate level college courses – voted to send to the ballot a measure for Republican white snowflake voters to forbid teaching America’s actual history in the Arizona … Read more
In Rucho v. Common Cause and Lamone v. Benisek in 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal courts have no jurisdiction to review partisan gerrymandering cases, greenlighting the extreme gerrymandering that we have seen since the 2020 Census. But the court noted that federal courts do have jurisdiction to review racial gerrymamdering cases. Supreme … Read more