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24 Aug 2020, 2:00 am
And how under Donald Trump, the GOP has been transformed into haven for racists, grifters, and conspiracy theorists. [read post]
21 Aug 2020, 3:00 am
National/Federal Biden Aides Headline DNC Fundraisers with Lobbyists Politico – Theodoric Meyer | Published: 8/13/2020 When Barack Obama won the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, he barred the Democratic National Committee (DNC) from accepting contributions from lobbyists in an attempt to purge their influence from his future administration. [read post]
21 Aug 2020, 2:00 am
A bill of information filed in the case says that Lewis opened a bank account in the name of “NC GOP, Inc. [read post]
20 Aug 2020, 1:19 pm
By contrast, prominent left-wing legal commentator Ian Millheiser sees it as a "timid" plan that "will do little to counter the GOP's grip on the federal bench. [read post]
20 Aug 2020, 11:26 am
Discussions of “constitutional hardball,” which are rife these days—and a major theme of Mark Tushnet’s new book discussed in a recent symposium here on Balkinization—include lots of possibilities, including Court-packing or even, should GOP controlled states refuse to certify electors in states Biden carries after November, the refusal by the Democratic House to seat any members of those states’ congressional delegations (inasmuch as they… [read post]
20 Aug 2020, 6:12 am
Trafalgar Group has Biden at 46.9% and Trump at 46.5%.I looked at FiveThirtyEight to see what kind of reputation Trafalgar Group has, and I found that "Trafalgar is a Republican pollster with a slight bias toward the GOP. [read post]
20 Aug 2020, 3:00 am
It’ll Pay Hefty $1.35 Million to Settle Claims” by Kim Bojorquez for Sacramento Bee Elections Florida: “Federal Appeals Court Considers Whether to Uphold Florida Felon Voting Law” by Gary Fineout for Politico Missouri: “Missouri Judge Finds GOP Redistricting Measure Misleading” by David Lieb for Associated Press News Ethics National: “Financial Disclosures Reveal Postmaster General’s Business Entanglements and Likely Conflicts of Interest,… [read post]
19 Aug 2020, 8:40 am
The field to replace Smith was crowded, with five candidates on the Democrats side along with two candidates running from the GOP. [read post]
19 Aug 2020, 5:01 am
” Tell that to the private equity investors, their politician puppets, the GOP, and the others who want to eliminate Social Security and toss it aside as they have eliminated pensions over the past forty years, in the name of “privatization” and “capitalism” run amok. [read post]
18 Aug 2020, 6:21 pm
The report, write six of the GOP members, “exhaustively reviews the counterintelligence threats and vulnerabilities to the 2016, but never explicitly states the critical fact: the Committee found no evidence that then-candidate Donald Trump or his campaign colluded with the Russian government in its efforts to meddle in the election” (emphasis in original). [read post]
18 Aug 2020, 4:17 pm
--but, rather, the altogether defensible perception, given the way our political system operates, that only the Clintons and the Democratic Party would get credit for needed reforms, confining the GOP to permanent defeat. [read post]
18 Aug 2020, 7:30 am
Some GOP critics, like the Texas Public Policy Foundation's Chuc Devore, want to pretend that $100,000 in transportation services to abortion clinics in a different part of the budget (this is Austin, after all) discredits adjustments to the police budget. [read post]
17 Aug 2020, 3:00 am
Campaign Finance National: “Biden Aides Headline DNC Fundraisers with Lobbyists” by Theodoric Meyer for Politico Elections National: “Postal Service Warns 46 States Their Voters Could Be Disenfranchised by Delayed Mail-In Ballots” by Erin Cox, Elise Viebeck, Jacob Bogage, and Christopher Ingraham for Washington Post National: “‘Gosh, I Basically Cover the Campaign from My Couch’” by Eli Okun and John Harris for Politico Ethics Florida: “A… [read post]
16 Aug 2020, 4:29 pm
Obama's 2008 GOP opponent, John McCain, also came under attack because he was born in what was then the Canal Zone.The latest Natural Born Citizen-controversy focuses on Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris, thanks to a Newsweek article by conservative legal scholar John Eastman, claiming that she isn't eligible despite being born in the United States, due to the possibility that her parents were not yet US citizens at the time she was born. [read post]
16 Aug 2020, 1:35 pm
But his October 2004 statement in favor of the amendment makes points that remain just as relevant today; though, sadly, the GOP's descent into anti-immigrant xenophobia makes it much less likely that a prominent conservative politician would submit a similar amendment now: While there was scant debate on this provision during the Constitutional Convention, it is apparent that the decision to include the natural born citizen requirement in our Constitution was driven largely by the… [read post]
15 Aug 2020, 8:15 am
Of course, if there is manipulation on the California market, there may well be some manipulation in the same direction on the main market, so maybe one should mentally shave one or two points off the estimate of the GOP chances of holding the Presidency. [read post]
14 Aug 2020, 1:24 pm
The anti-immigrant attitudes of much of the GOP base precluded it, at this time. [read post]
14 Aug 2020, 7:43 am
Dream on, GOP. [read post]
14 Aug 2020, 3:00 am
National/Federal Abrupt Change to Census Deadline Could Result in an Undercount of Latino and Black Communities Philadelphia Inquirer – Jose Del Real and Fredrick Kunkle (Washington Post) | Published: 8/9/2020 Census experts and advocates warn the Trump administration’s decision to end the decennial count a month earlier than expected will result in a dramatic undercount of Black and Latino communities across the country, which could have grave effects on federal funding and… [read post]
13 Aug 2020, 3:26 pm
The bonds, which are backed by gold, were issued by the Republic of China as long ago as 1912. [read post]
