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10 Sep 2021, 12:26 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
  That is, given that the largest driver of the Trumpification of the Republican Party was the religious right, and given that the Republican Party has effectively ended constitutional democracy, I suggested that a good starting place to build a post-post-democracy democracy would be to create a very bright line between church and state.As much as the religious right in this country enjoys posturing as the victims of an anti-religious larger society, they are… [read post]
10 Sep 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
While such elections are often nonpartisan, the Republican Party sees an opportunity to build a pipeline of new candidates. [read post]
9 Sep 2021, 4:38 am by SHG
The five who voted for Texas (and the chief justice) were placed on the court by Republican presidents who ran on a party platform that called for the appointment of judges who would overturn Roe v. [read post]
7 Sep 2021, 5:20 am by Michael C. Dorf
DorfThe Texas Republican lawmakers who enacted S.B. 8--which forbids abortions after roughly six weeks and relies exclusively on private enforcement--bear primary responsibility for both the violation of the constitutional rights of Texans and for the diabolical scheme to deprive them of their ability to challenge the violation before it is too late for thousands of them. [read post]
4 Sep 2021, 10:34 am by Tom Smith
But Texas lawmakers devised a measure that shifts enforcement from the state to private parties. [read post]
3 Sep 2021, 11:40 am by Neil H. Buchanan
  This was 2002, when the Republican Party was much less radicalized than it is today. [read post]
3 Sep 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
To fund all that travel, advertising, and election gear, parties will be spending a lot of money. [read post]
1 Sep 2021, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
If New York and California want to allow abortions within their borders, so be it; but Texas and Alabama should be permitted to go their own way.Even before Republicans were able to enact a one-party autocracy, there was already serious doubt about whether they would stop merely at “returning abortion to the states. [read post]
1 Sep 2021, 1:19 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
The only way to stop what's happening is for Republicans to pay an electoral price. [read post]
1 Sep 2021, 9:06 am
 “Applicants do not have standing to sue a state judge or court clerk because a private party might file a lawsuit in his court,” Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas, a Republican, wrote in a brief filed Tuesday. [read post]
31 Aug 2021, 10:06 am by Neil H. Buchanan
"I am planning to write yet another Verdict column to be published this Thursday, where I will explore the future of federalism under one-party Republican autocracy.Here, however, I will not follow up on any of that. [read post]
30 Aug 2021, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Republican-run states from Georgia to Texas to Arizona to my own state of Florida have been busily passing anti-voting laws that must be overridden by those two essential pieces of federal legislation.For D.C. residents themselves, however, the problem is not that they cannot vote because of Republicans’ contrived claims about voter fraud or for other pretextual reasons. [read post]
27 Aug 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
California Republican Is Debt Free for First Time in Office. [read post]
25 Aug 2021, 4:30 am by Michael C. Dorf
That, in turn, led to his lawyers mounting a number of challenges in courts across the country, even reaching the Supreme Court in the case of Texas v. [read post]
22 Aug 2021, 6:22 am by Kevin LaCroix
  In its press release, the states that the directors’ group is a nonprofit membership organization incorporated in Texas. [read post]
20 Aug 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Others, like Texas, will have to draw their maps in a special legislative session. [read post]
16 Aug 2021, 4:30 am by Eric Segall
The Republican Party still views Scalia as their hero, but that is what we would expect from a political party either hostile to or indifferent towards the issues facing people of color, women, religious minorities, and the LGBTQ community. [read post]
13 Aug 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
But some fear the party is on track to make itself the face of the delta variant, endangering fellow Americans while also risking political damage in the long term. [read post]
11 Aug 2021, 12:07 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
  In his column yesterday, for example, Professor Dorf summarized an argument from Republican politicians:From Texas to Florida to Arkansas, politicians who oppose mask mandates in schools don't generally say that kids shouldn't be allowed to wear masks. [read post]