GOP Warns Dems About Court Packing (Cartoon)
See also “Yes, Biden should pack the court: It’s time to fight back against Mitch McConnell’s power-grabs“
See also “Yes, Biden should pack the court: It’s time to fight back against Mitch McConnell’s power-grabs“
The best political commentary I’ve read in months: Gore Vidal, one of America’s best chroniclers of empire, once provided instruction to a British interviewer expressing confusion over the radical hostility Republicans showed toward Barack Obama, and the former president’s inability to react with equal aggression: “Obama believes the Republican Party is a political party…
By Tom Engelhardt From Tomdispatch.com Reprinted by permission of the author Yes, when he was running for president, he did indeed say: “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK? It’s, like, incredible.” Then he won — and this November 3rd (or thereafter), whether he…
From Greg Palast article in Capital Times: “Today, the Wisconsin Supreme Court may choose our President. That is, justices will hear arguments in a lawsuit that would force the state to remove 129,000 from the voter rolls on grounds they’d moved from their registration addresses. “But a report by the nation’s top experts in…
By Simon F. Haeder, Pennsylvania State University More than 10 years after its passage, the Affordable Care Act once more hangs in the balance. There have been plenty of near misses before, including previous Supreme Court appearances and Congressional votes. Yet in the wake of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, this time around Republicans…