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12 Oct 2020, 7:25 am
The Republican platform is unchanged. [read post]
12 Oct 2020, 6:30 am
One might well believe that such a “compact” could become truly effective only with congressional assent, and there is good reason to believe that there would be enough votes in the Senate, the traditional graveyard of progressive legislation, to withhold consent. [read post]
12 Oct 2020, 6:00 am
He did even worse with a Democratic-controlled Senate, which was even less willing to confirm his nominees that the Republican-controlled Senate had been with Bill Clinton. [read post]
12 Oct 2020, 5:45 am
Also in today’s edition of that newspaper, Nicholas Fandos has an article headlined “Parties Offer Divergent Portraits of Barrett as Senate Opens Hearings; Democrats will portray President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee as an ideologue, while Republicans will paint her as an accomplished working mother. [read post]
12 Oct 2020, 4:34 am
Should the Dems get the Senate as well, the doors are thrown wide open for some monumental changes in who and what we are as a nation. [read post]
12 Oct 2020, 4:08 am
The Senate Judiciary Committee begins its hearings this week on the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. [read post]
12 Oct 2020, 3:45 am
The first is whether any justice should be confirmed, given that the election of a new president has already commenced and the hypocrisy of Senate Republicans. [read post]
11 Oct 2020, 6:30 am
Johnson predicted: It destroyed the existing Democratic Party in the South, based as it was on white supremacy, and created at the same time the modern Republican Party, itself all-too-willing to fully adapt to Donald Trump’s ill-disguised racist dog whistles and, altogether relevantly, to devote itself, often with the approval of the Republican Supreme Court, to various measures designed to suppress the turnout of African-Americans who tend to be disproportionately… [read post]
10 Oct 2020, 7:35 am
Senate Republicans retook the Senate, and Senate Democrats responded with the first-ever filibusters of circuit court nominees. [read post]
9 Oct 2020, 11:13 am
He originally proposed $250 million for local governments, and by August, he had downgraded the commitment to $120 million,” said Senate Republican Leader Tom Kean. [read post]
9 Oct 2020, 11:06 am
The Republicans, coming off of 16 straight years in the White House, nominated Ohio Governor Rutherford Hayes, a former Union army officer and member of Congress. [read post]
9 Oct 2020, 8:20 am
Frankly, that is not the Biden that many of us knew from his time in the Senate. [read post]
9 Oct 2020, 6:30 am
As Keyssar observes of the failure of the proportionalist Lodge-Gossett reform of 1950 (led by the liberal Republican senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts and the Texas segregationist representative Ed Lee Gossett): “an institutional reform that, in itself, had long been regarded as democratic, might well have anti-democratic consequences in a nation containing a large region that lacked universal suffrage” (164). [read post]
9 Oct 2020, 3:00 am
The Trump campaign and Republican National Committee for months have promised to recruit as many as 50,000 poll watchers to monitor voting locations on Election Day. [read post]
8 Oct 2020, 9:01 pm
Trump engaged in masculinity contests with his numerous Republican opponents, referred to Marco Rubio as “little Marco. [read post]
8 Oct 2020, 2:28 pm
Now, Senator Joe Biden, Biden opposed that decision. [read post]
8 Oct 2020, 2:21 pm
“New Jersey has many manufacturers who are willing to commit their operations to produce personal protective equipment when called to action,” said Senator Greenstein (D-Middlesex/Mercer). [read post]
8 Oct 2020, 1:43 pm
Senate Republican Leader Tom Kean joined the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) in calling for an independent investigation of the nearly 200 deaths that occurred in State-run veterans homes due to COVID-19. [read post]
8 Oct 2020, 12:36 pm
He had vied unsuccessfully against Lincoln for the Republican nomination in 1860. [read post]
8 Oct 2020, 6:53 am
Soon thereafter, Senate Democrats and two Republican Senators expressed opposition to Dr. [read post]
