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Democracy Needs to Find the Will to Roar
We have, disastrously, discovered the final answer to whether or not it is a good idea to destroy the activist government that has protected us since 1933. Continue reading
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The Larger Story Is Not Over
The Republican Party has become a dangerous faction trying to destroy American democracy. But Republicans who still value democracy and their traditional values of equality before the law and equal access to resources could repudiate the radicals who have taken over their party.
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Democracy Abandoned
Democrat Biden won the election by more than 7 million votes and by 306 to 232 electoral votes. Trump has lost 55 of the 56 court cases he has brought to change the election’s outcome, and all 50 states have certified their election results. This election is not close; attempts to overturn it reject the central concept of democracy: that voters choose their leaders. Continue reading
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Trump Tweets “OVERTURN”
The White House appears to be trying to sabotage the Biden administration not only by keeping the Biden team from information it needs, but by tying its hands and slowing it down. Continue reading
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Two Visions Are in a Fight to Control Our Government
It seems as if Trump and President-Elect Joe Biden are in a contest to see who can will their vision of the future into life. Continue reading
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Originalism and the New Court
Originalists believe that all that the original text of the Constitution should stand, as written, in the late 18th century. Originalists often refer to jurists who take the stance that the Constitution is a living document as “activist” judges. Continue reading
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The Boy Who Called Fraud
What has stood out today is the degree to which Trump and his team have governed by creating their own reality. Now that that image is being challenged, they are flailing. Continue reading
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Supreme Court: Two Swing State Mail Ballot Return Deadlines Stand, But Ballots Could Still Be Rejected
Supreme Court: Two Swing State Mail Ballot Return Deadlines Stand, But Ballots Could Still Be Rejected Continue reading
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Fighting for Voting Rights, Again
New podcast: Republicans have gone back to their 1950s playbook of denying the vote. But American are fighting back gloriously. Continue reading
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Will Supreme Court Election Rulings be 2020’s October Surprise?
Late Monday, as its newest justice was about to be sworn in, the Supreme Court issued the first of what may be more rulings in coming days that underscore that the court’s conservative majority has a marked hostility to voting … Continue reading
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