Clarence Thomas has not recused himself from cases related to events his wife, Ginni, participated in.
His refusal to follow basic ethics, apparent financial corruption, and stated intention to solicit even hypothetical cases to further his agenda warrant his removal from the Court. He aims to strip away Constitutional rights and reverse attempts to address systemic racism and gender inequality in national institutions and policies.
The court needs to become a major issue before the election. Clearly, if Thomas sits on this case it will show how arrogant and corrupt the court has become. I fear they are inclined to find words in the Constitution that will allow them to choose the next president.
The current high court has demonstrated its illegitimacy since Trump nominated Gorsuch for a seat. Thomas and Alito have NO ethics whatsoever, and they demonstrate such every day. They should both be impeached, as should Roberts and possibly Kavanaugh, for being on the take.
I agree!! We must put the courts high on election issues to bring out the vote. At this point, and even more so after today’s court hearing on immunity that has served to delay Trump’s criminal trials.
Clarence Thomas is unfortunately an example of what is wrong with the Supreme Court but expanding the court is not only difficult and almost impossible but not a long term solution.
Difficult, but not impossible provided that we turn a few seats in the House(very doable) and a couple in the Senate(more challenging but possible). The longer term corrections like term limits and an effective ethics code fit your description of almost impossible.
Tie the number of Supreme Court justices to the number of federal judicial districts. That expands it and ties it to something that makes sense and harks to themes of representation and helps limit future expansions being enacted for sheer political reasons.
Right now, I’d take a short term decision if it blunts to power of a renegade right wing majority, especially as represented by Justice Thomas but also the Chief Justice that has tried to disguise himself as a middle of the road guy. He’s not! Think only of his 2013 decision gutting voting rights in the south and opening the floodgates to voter suppression.
He is quite simply a horrible person who has no soul. Apparently abandoned by parents and raised in poverty by a brutal grandparent, he is filled with self-loathing. It explains a lot, but does not in any way excuse it. I think he hates everyone as much as he hates himself. IJS
Actually, as I’m sure you know, TC, the US did not declare war on Germany. Hitler declared war on the US on December 11, 1941–a step many historians believe to have been his greatest mistake (even more than invading the USSR).
Oh, and Churchill also said that providence has a special place for fools, drunkards and the United States of America.
Yes, Hitler did, and then we declared it back. That for Churchill was important because a country can decide to ignore a declaration of war, and given the size of the isolationist movement pre-war, it was important to get it nailed down.
It did turn out to be Hitler's worst decision. I researched it for my new book, coming out in July. Hitler (and everybody else) long considered the US the most powerful nation on earth. He (and the Japanese) both believed it would take the US until mid-1943 to be sufficiently mobilized to affect the war, and they hoped to inflict enough defeats (Germany on Russia and Britain in the U-boat war) that these would negate the US entry onto the battlefield. Both were surprised when we began taking effective action (North Africa and Guadalcanal) a year before expected. So, he knew he would have to fight us sooner or later, and so chose the moment he thought he would have an advantage. We're a surprising bunch.
Midway stopped them and their losses would never be replaced, but Guadalcanal is the real change. After that the Japanese never made another offensive move and the US never made a defensive one.
My new slogan for the Biden campaign is "We Do Better With Biden!" I really thought this up this morning after reading Matt Stoller's Substack BIG, where he says, "This Week is What Governing Looks Like". he is discussing what happened in Anti-trust law to protect people, which is what a government is supposed to do. Lina Khan is a Wonder(ful) Woman and my hero.
Your news today adds to that image of Biden getting things done that help us do better. Let us face it, all the states that produce defense products will be getting into swing. We are in a competition with Putin on being up to date with our armament as well as our important goal to help our allies stay democratic. Marc Thiessen of the Washington Post, a journalist I don't usually like, but since Trump has gone off the deep end, he is not supportive of him. He created a list of states who get defense contracts so we can have some sense of where this money is going that our Congress finally approved and Biden signed. https://wapo.st/3Uwr9wU
A lot of states are getting money for jobs. We Do Better With Biden!
Linda,thanks for WaPo link! I see my district will be getting 💲/jobs ( my Freedom Caucus Rep voted NO on Ukraine) as did two other FCR’s districts receiving 💲/ jobs who also voted NO Gatez and Luna.Senators Rubio and Scott also voted NO !📣
Regarding the youth vote - I believe it is imperative to help the youth understand that voting for President and Vice President is not just about those two people. What we really are voting for is an Administration. The youth need to look at the Cabinet and what is happening in those areas which are of concern to them. Sadly, it is not just our up and coming youth that need to understand that connection. We Biden/Harris supporters are not voting for an old man - we are voting for the whole package and this administration’s forward and inclusive thinking vision.
Karen, this is so well expressed! Biden's cabinet AND his senior aides have quietly and in the background, helped create the Biden agenda and helped get these things passed. Biden himself is a master negotiator, and worked with Mike Johnson to get the Ukraine package passed. We have been so lucky that the country has been in his (their) hands over these last three and a half years! It's the whole group who deserve praise for quietly going about their business and accomplishing as much as they have!
You make a very important point, Karen. I wish I knew how to implement it effectively: in my opinion, the American educational “system”, overall, has been producing ignoramuses about history and public affairs.
Today is Advocacy Day at the North Carolina General Assembly for volunteers with Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, Students Demand Action, and Everytown. With our coalition partners, we are meeting with lawmakers to promote gun safety measures, and every possible step to protect lives and end the uniquely American public health epidemic related to guns.
Over 100 Americans die every day from firearms, and twice that many are shot and wounded.
By 2020, gun deaths had become the leading cause of death in children (under 18 years of age).
It has been 25 years since the Columbine High School shooting, 12 since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, and next month marks the second year since the Uvalde school shooting that proves "a good guy with a gun" is not going to stop mass killings with assault weapons. Arming teachers is NOT a solution. More guns is NOT a solution. We have to change the culture.
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SCOTUS "should decide his immunity claim no more than a two weeks after hearing oral arguments."
Amen. To take longer than 2 weeks implies either the claim has ACTUAL MERIT, or they're bending over backwards to delay affecting the election under some misguided belief that they're serving the American people.
No --- that they are serving the orange monster! Seeing photographs of Alito (mr supercilious misogynist, Thomas, mr. corruption personified, and Mr hateful scream Kavenaugh make me want to throw up!!
This is a bit off topic...and "old news"... but....how come there is not more outrage over the fact that the media gave so much coverage to Trump's demands that Judge Merchan needed to recuse himself from the NY case because of the Judge's daughter's career in the political sphere....and there is no, none, zero, zilch coverage of Clarence Thomas' obligation to recuse himself from the presidential immunity case because of his wife Ginny's political work in support of Trump. On a matter of such significance, it seems stunning to me that this issue has not come up again.
The union ad is powerful - I hope it moves the needle with blue collar members of the building trades. Of all groups, they should have been the most sceptical of Trump after all those reports of him stiffing his building contractors for "shoddy workmanship" - not to mention leaving them holding the bag with all of his bankruptcies.
Talk is cheap and Trump is the 21st century version of a snake oil salesman or a flim-flam man. I'm not sure why so many of his accolytes cannot see this!
The answer may be hard for many Hubbell devotees and other liberals/progressives to digest: Many Americans resent and react against the attitudes projected by prominent Democratic“progressives”, e.g. Hillary Clinton, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, “Squad” members, and Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Use this infographic to follow the stories of eight women who have filed amicus briefs with the Supreme Court to protect EMTALA. "American woman stay from me: SCOTUS set to restrict EMTALA emergency care for pregnant women."
Make Alito swallow his own words: "The Speedy Trial Act of 1974 “was designed not just to benefit defendants but also to serve the public interest” — the words of Justice Samuel Alito, writing for a unanimous court in 2006."
Last night Lawrence O'Donnell played the entirety (?) of AG Mayes' announcement of the AZ conspiracy indictment. Once she was elected in 2022, she got straight to work. EVERY! SINGLE! VOTE! COUNTS!
People need to pay attention and they are not. President Biden signed the aid to Ukraine bill but what most voters did not take away from the signing was the fact that the US sent aid immediately from our stock pile and the depleted arms will be manufactured in the US by American workers creating new jobs in states like Texas, Pennsylvania and Ohio. This is significant yet underreported. Additionally bills were passed regulating coal fired furnaces and their pollution to our environment and a simple bill eliminating restrictive non compete clauses. New laws are going into effect regarding paying overtime to hourly minimum wage workers who have been taken advantage of because there were no stringent regulations. This alone will impact 4 million workers. The UAW contract in Tennessee is a major win for auto workers and impacts hundreds of workers. Every day the Biden Administration is initiating new legislation to protect and help American workers and their families and the quality of life for most of us. The Biden Administration has truly made “ America Great” a reality and the other guy is dabbling in chaos and hate.
I just shake my head in wonder and sorrow at how low Justice Roberts has let the court sink. Dobbs, Citizens United, Holder, and even today's deliberations around election interference related issues. It's like he's working for someone(s) else not interested in the promise of the US but rather in admiration for Gilead. How can he so consistently lead the court down the path of of a narrow Christian patriarchy without feeling creepy about it? <<< Gilead: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38447.The_Handmaid_s_Tale >>>
I had mistakenly thought he was a moderate when in September 2005 President Bush nominated Judge John Roberts to replace Chief Justice Willam H. Rehnquist. But 20 years of hard right rulings have disabused me of that fantasy.
I was turned off by Roberts’s remark, during confirmation hearings, that jurists call balls and strikes – when it’s well known that various umpires have their own strike zones. Senators should have queried Roberts about his strike zone.
The only possible reason: Chief Justice is not only a typical male, but he is also not sympathetic to women in general. Also he cannot stand up to Clarence Thomas's obvious corruption, because his fingers are somewhat stained (through his wife's work with high level Washington, D.C. law firms)with corruption as well.
Yeah, that was a Molly Ivins quote, was it not? How I loved her commentary! I can't even begin to imagine what she would have written about Trump. Blistering stuff, no doubt.
As a NC voter, I can certainly empathize with the situation in TX. GOP-controlled state legislatures gerrymander the district maps for both the state legislatures and the US Congress. When seats go uncontested, it has TWO devastating results: (1) Democrats have less incentive to come out and vote and (2) the GOP primary is the de facto election and the most extreme GOP candidate usually wins. That was certainly true with the latest primary election here in NC. Yikes!
But from a pragmatic viewpoint, we must ask ourselves: with limited resources available, should we invest our precious resources in a long-shot campaign or spread it around the swing districts where we have a better chance of success?
With respect to state legislative races, even if there are candidates from both major parties running, we have the issue of ballot roll-off. I attended a great Zoom this week from Sister District analyzing this issue. It was recommended by Jessica Cravek of Chop Wood, Carry Water and she writes about it here:
Jessica includes a link to the slide deck that was presented during the meeting and a Tiktok video she created. Please watch, review the slide deck, and share with your friends! Recruiting Dems to run in tough down-ballot races is critical, but we can't win in these tight races if Democratic voters "roll off" and don't vote in these down-ballot races!
We must do both; we cannot fall victim to the notion that it is "either or." We must do both. If not, we are ceding half the country to Republicans. What message does that send to Democrats in that half of the country? Republicans took over the state legislatures because the refused to adopt the "invest only in winnable races strategy."
Robert - when you get a chance, would you comment on the latest example of mainstream media malfeasance? That is the prediction, now with certainty, that Biden's 'incompetent' handling of Hamas will result in a repeat of the 1968 Chicago riots. Of course, Jennifer Rubin once again points her colleagues hubris in having supernatural predictive powers. Their crystal ball is made of plastic coated with PFAS!
On the issue in the Idaho case the Extreme Court heard yesterday, even after more than 50 years as a lawyer, I don’t understand why it’s not a simple issue of federal supremacy: Hospitals that take federal money must abide by EMTALA. Federal law is supreme. Federal law says that hospitals must stabilize all patients in an emergency, and may not turn people away. QED, Idaho’s anti-abortion stance is meaningless in such cases. Hospitals that don’t like the result are free to refuse federal funds.
Who else is as bewildered as I, over the daily details of the courts' confrontation with Trumpus ? To preserve my sanity I've abandoned both newspaper and broadcast journalism coverage of Trumpus' legal Twilight Zone, but relish the entertainment value of what may be coming...to this end I think it is possible that he'll be jailed for contempt of court because of his farting problem. Two jurors fainting when a cloud of methane drifts across the courtroom, at which point Judge Merchan adjourns proceedings, calls emergency medics and sends Trumpus to jail for contempt of court. His defense files an appeal with SCOTUS , asserting that farting is not tantamount to contempt of court ! The prosecution contends that the buildings HVAC system, upgraded because of the covid pandemic, was overwhelmed and threatened all jurors, and this is jury tampering....Ok I'll stop now....
Clarence Thomas has not recused himself from cases related to events his wife, Ginni, participated in.
His refusal to follow basic ethics, apparent financial corruption, and stated intention to solicit even hypothetical cases to further his agenda warrant his removal from the Court. He aims to strip away Constitutional rights and reverse attempts to address systemic racism and gender inequality in national institutions and policies.
Expand the Supreme Court.
Demand accountability.
Stop Project 2025.
Beverly, As Trump claims he’s above the law, Clarence Thomas is actually proving that HE is, in plain sight
The court needs to become a major issue before the election. Clearly, if Thomas sits on this case it will show how arrogant and corrupt the court has become. I fear they are inclined to find words in the Constitution that will allow them to choose the next president.
The current high court has demonstrated its illegitimacy since Trump nominated Gorsuch for a seat. Thomas and Alito have NO ethics whatsoever, and they demonstrate such every day. They should both be impeached, as should Roberts and possibly Kavanaugh, for being on the take.
I agree!! We must put the courts high on election issues to bring out the vote. At this point, and even more so after today’s court hearing on immunity that has served to delay Trump’s criminal trials.
As we know, the courts are not going to save us.
Clarence Thomas is unfortunately an example of what is wrong with the Supreme Court but expanding the court is not only difficult and almost impossible but not a long term solution.
Difficult, but not impossible provided that we turn a few seats in the House(very doable) and a couple in the Senate(more challenging but possible). The longer term corrections like term limits and an effective ethics code fit your description of almost impossible.
Tie the number of Supreme Court justices to the number of federal judicial districts. That expands it and ties it to something that makes sense and harks to themes of representation and helps limit future expansions being enacted for sheer political reasons.
Right now, I’d take a short term decision if it blunts to power of a renegade right wing majority, especially as represented by Justice Thomas but also the Chief Justice that has tried to disguise himself as a middle of the road guy. He’s not! Think only of his 2013 decision gutting voting rights in the south and opening the floodgates to voter suppression.
He is quite simply a horrible person who has no soul. Apparently abandoned by parents and raised in poverty by a brutal grandparent, he is filled with self-loathing. It explains a lot, but does not in any way excuse it. I think he hates everyone as much as he hates himself. IJS
But in the end, we did what America always does: We rose to the moment, we came together, and we got it done.
"Americans always do the right thing. After trying everything else." -- Winston Churchill on being informed the US had declared war on Nazi Germany.
Sometimes it takes longer than it should.
Indeed!
This time, for sure.
TC, Churchill’s saying that America paints itself into a corner that ended up being the correct corner to reside in for a while
Paint eventually dries and the Stupids become free to roam and paint again
Yep.
Actually, as I’m sure you know, TC, the US did not declare war on Germany. Hitler declared war on the US on December 11, 1941–a step many historians believe to have been his greatest mistake (even more than invading the USSR).
Oh, and Churchill also said that providence has a special place for fools, drunkards and the United States of America.
Yes, Hitler did, and then we declared it back. That for Churchill was important because a country can decide to ignore a declaration of war, and given the size of the isolationist movement pre-war, it was important to get it nailed down.
It did turn out to be Hitler's worst decision. I researched it for my new book, coming out in July. Hitler (and everybody else) long considered the US the most powerful nation on earth. He (and the Japanese) both believed it would take the US until mid-1943 to be sufficiently mobilized to affect the war, and they hoped to inflict enough defeats (Germany on Russia and Britain in the U-boat war) that these would negate the US entry onto the battlefield. Both were surprised when we began taking effective action (North Africa and Guadalcanal) a year before expected. So, he knew he would have to fight us sooner or later, and so chose the moment he thought he would have an advantage. We're a surprising bunch.
Don’t forget Midway.
Midway stopped them and their losses would never be replaced, but Guadalcanal is the real change. After that the Japanese never made another offensive move and the US never made a defensive one.
My new slogan for the Biden campaign is "We Do Better With Biden!" I really thought this up this morning after reading Matt Stoller's Substack BIG, where he says, "This Week is What Governing Looks Like". he is discussing what happened in Anti-trust law to protect people, which is what a government is supposed to do. Lina Khan is a Wonder(ful) Woman and my hero.
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/this-week-is-what-governing-looks
Your news today adds to that image of Biden getting things done that help us do better. Let us face it, all the states that produce defense products will be getting into swing. We are in a competition with Putin on being up to date with our armament as well as our important goal to help our allies stay democratic. Marc Thiessen of the Washington Post, a journalist I don't usually like, but since Trump has gone off the deep end, he is not supportive of him. He created a list of states who get defense contracts so we can have some sense of where this money is going that our Congress finally approved and Biden signed. https://wapo.st/3Uwr9wU
A lot of states are getting money for jobs. We Do Better With Biden!
Linda,thanks for WaPo link! I see my district will be getting 💲/jobs ( my Freedom Caucus Rep voted NO on Ukraine) as did two other FCR’s districts receiving 💲/ jobs who also voted NO Gatez and Luna.Senators Rubio and Scott also voted NO !📣
Make sure to let everyone know how they voted and that they cannot take credit for those jobs or the ensuing economy boost .
Regarding the youth vote - I believe it is imperative to help the youth understand that voting for President and Vice President is not just about those two people. What we really are voting for is an Administration. The youth need to look at the Cabinet and what is happening in those areas which are of concern to them. Sadly, it is not just our up and coming youth that need to understand that connection. We Biden/Harris supporters are not voting for an old man - we are voting for the whole package and this administration’s forward and inclusive thinking vision.
Karen, this is so well expressed! Biden's cabinet AND his senior aides have quietly and in the background, helped create the Biden agenda and helped get these things passed. Biden himself is a master negotiator, and worked with Mike Johnson to get the Ukraine package passed. We have been so lucky that the country has been in his (their) hands over these last three and a half years! It's the whole group who deserve praise for quietly going about their business and accomplishing as much as they have!
You make a very important point, Karen. I wish I knew how to implement it effectively: in my opinion, the American educational “system”, overall, has been producing ignoramuses about history and public affairs.
Today is Advocacy Day at the North Carolina General Assembly for volunteers with Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, Students Demand Action, and Everytown. With our coalition partners, we are meeting with lawmakers to promote gun safety measures, and every possible step to protect lives and end the uniquely American public health epidemic related to guns.
Over 100 Americans die every day from firearms, and twice that many are shot and wounded.
By 2020, gun deaths had become the leading cause of death in children (under 18 years of age).
It has been 25 years since the Columbine High School shooting, 12 since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, and next month marks the second year since the Uvalde school shooting that proves "a good guy with a gun" is not going to stop mass killings with assault weapons. Arming teachers is NOT a solution. More guns is NOT a solution. We have to change the culture.
Moms Demand Action and Everytown have chapters in every state, and over ten million volunteers.
Please join us by downloading the Demand Action app, or text READY to 644-33.
Thank you!
SCOTUS "should decide his immunity claim no more than a two weeks after hearing oral arguments."
Amen. To take longer than 2 weeks implies either the claim has ACTUAL MERIT, or they're bending over backwards to delay affecting the election under some misguided belief that they're serving the American people.
No --- that they are serving the orange monster! Seeing photographs of Alito (mr supercilious misogynist, Thomas, mr. corruption personified, and Mr hateful scream Kavenaugh make me want to throw up!!
This is a bit off topic...and "old news"... but....how come there is not more outrage over the fact that the media gave so much coverage to Trump's demands that Judge Merchan needed to recuse himself from the NY case because of the Judge's daughter's career in the political sphere....and there is no, none, zero, zilch coverage of Clarence Thomas' obligation to recuse himself from the presidential immunity case because of his wife Ginny's political work in support of Trump. On a matter of such significance, it seems stunning to me that this issue has not come up again.
The union ad is powerful - I hope it moves the needle with blue collar members of the building trades. Of all groups, they should have been the most sceptical of Trump after all those reports of him stiffing his building contractors for "shoddy workmanship" - not to mention leaving them holding the bag with all of his bankruptcies.
Talk is cheap and Trump is the 21st century version of a snake oil salesman or a flim-flam man. I'm not sure why so many of his accolytes cannot see this!
The answer may be hard for many Hubbell devotees and other liberals/progressives to digest: Many Americans resent and react against the attitudes projected by prominent Democratic“progressives”, e.g. Hillary Clinton, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, “Squad” members, and Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Not as many as those who abhor the actions of Donald Trump.
But, I fear, enough to throw the upcoming election to Trump, as apparently happened with the 2016 election. That was my (then-unarticulated) point.
Use this infographic to follow the stories of eight women who have filed amicus briefs with the Supreme Court to protect EMTALA. "American woman stay from me: SCOTUS set to restrict EMTALA emergency care for pregnant women."
https://thedemlabs.org/2024/04/24/scotus-to-ban-emtala-emergency-care-for-pregnant-women/
Make Alito swallow his own words: "The Speedy Trial Act of 1974 “was designed not just to benefit defendants but also to serve the public interest” — the words of Justice Samuel Alito, writing for a unanimous court in 2006."
Last night Lawrence O'Donnell played the entirety (?) of AG Mayes' announcement of the AZ conspiracy indictment. Once she was elected in 2022, she got straight to work. EVERY! SINGLE! VOTE! COUNTS!
People need to pay attention and they are not. President Biden signed the aid to Ukraine bill but what most voters did not take away from the signing was the fact that the US sent aid immediately from our stock pile and the depleted arms will be manufactured in the US by American workers creating new jobs in states like Texas, Pennsylvania and Ohio. This is significant yet underreported. Additionally bills were passed regulating coal fired furnaces and their pollution to our environment and a simple bill eliminating restrictive non compete clauses. New laws are going into effect regarding paying overtime to hourly minimum wage workers who have been taken advantage of because there were no stringent regulations. This alone will impact 4 million workers. The UAW contract in Tennessee is a major win for auto workers and impacts hundreds of workers. Every day the Biden Administration is initiating new legislation to protect and help American workers and their families and the quality of life for most of us. The Biden Administration has truly made “ America Great” a reality and the other guy is dabbling in chaos and hate.
Amen, Stephen!
I just shake my head in wonder and sorrow at how low Justice Roberts has let the court sink. Dobbs, Citizens United, Holder, and even today's deliberations around election interference related issues. It's like he's working for someone(s) else not interested in the promise of the US but rather in admiration for Gilead. How can he so consistently lead the court down the path of of a narrow Christian patriarchy without feeling creepy about it? <<< Gilead: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38447.The_Handmaid_s_Tale >>>
Justice Roberts has both lost control of the court but lost the respect of the county
I had mistakenly thought he was a moderate when in September 2005 President Bush nominated Judge John Roberts to replace Chief Justice Willam H. Rehnquist. But 20 years of hard right rulings have disabused me of that fantasy.
I was turned off by Roberts’s remark, during confirmation hearings, that jurists call balls and strikes – when it’s well known that various umpires have their own strike zones. Senators should have queried Roberts about his strike zone.
Were all of them ignorant about baseball?
The only possible reason: Chief Justice is not only a typical male, but he is also not sympathetic to women in general. Also he cannot stand up to Clarence Thomas's obvious corruption, because his fingers are somewhat stained (through his wife's work with high level Washington, D.C. law firms)with corruption as well.
Kind of like those early comments about George Bush: a man born on third base who then thinks he hit a home run
Yeah, that was a Molly Ivins quote, was it not? How I loved her commentary! I can't even begin to imagine what she would have written about Trump. Blistering stuff, no doubt.
Ascebic to the tenth degree
Oh yeah!
And "was born with a silver foot in his mouth"
That remark was made by the then-governor of Texas (forget her name), speaking before the Democratic Convention.
Yep. Ann Richardson 💙
As a NC voter, I can certainly empathize with the situation in TX. GOP-controlled state legislatures gerrymander the district maps for both the state legislatures and the US Congress. When seats go uncontested, it has TWO devastating results: (1) Democrats have less incentive to come out and vote and (2) the GOP primary is the de facto election and the most extreme GOP candidate usually wins. That was certainly true with the latest primary election here in NC. Yikes!
But from a pragmatic viewpoint, we must ask ourselves: with limited resources available, should we invest our precious resources in a long-shot campaign or spread it around the swing districts where we have a better chance of success?
With respect to state legislative races, even if there are candidates from both major parties running, we have the issue of ballot roll-off. I attended a great Zoom this week from Sister District analyzing this issue. It was recommended by Jessica Cravek of Chop Wood, Carry Water and she writes about it here:
https://open.substack.com/pub/chopwoodcarrywaterdailyactions/p/chop-wood-carry-water-423?r=1aiy5t&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Jessica includes a link to the slide deck that was presented during the meeting and a Tiktok video she created. Please watch, review the slide deck, and share with your friends! Recruiting Dems to run in tough down-ballot races is critical, but we can't win in these tight races if Democratic voters "roll off" and don't vote in these down-ballot races!
We must do both; we cannot fall victim to the notion that it is "either or." We must do both. If not, we are ceding half the country to Republicans. What message does that send to Democrats in that half of the country? Republicans took over the state legislatures because the refused to adopt the "invest only in winnable races strategy."
Robert - when you get a chance, would you comment on the latest example of mainstream media malfeasance? That is the prediction, now with certainty, that Biden's 'incompetent' handling of Hamas will result in a repeat of the 1968 Chicago riots. Of course, Jennifer Rubin once again points her colleagues hubris in having supernatural predictive powers. Their crystal ball is made of plastic coated with PFAS!
yes; can you give me a source?
On the issue in the Idaho case the Extreme Court heard yesterday, even after more than 50 years as a lawyer, I don’t understand why it’s not a simple issue of federal supremacy: Hospitals that take federal money must abide by EMTALA. Federal law is supreme. Federal law says that hospitals must stabilize all patients in an emergency, and may not turn people away. QED, Idaho’s anti-abortion stance is meaningless in such cases. Hospitals that don’t like the result are free to refuse federal funds.
Maybe these courts think federal laws are supreme except when they don’t like them?
Who else is as bewildered as I, over the daily details of the courts' confrontation with Trumpus ? To preserve my sanity I've abandoned both newspaper and broadcast journalism coverage of Trumpus' legal Twilight Zone, but relish the entertainment value of what may be coming...to this end I think it is possible that he'll be jailed for contempt of court because of his farting problem. Two jurors fainting when a cloud of methane drifts across the courtroom, at which point Judge Merchan adjourns proceedings, calls emergency medics and sends Trumpus to jail for contempt of court. His defense files an appeal with SCOTUS , asserting that farting is not tantamount to contempt of court ! The prosecution contends that the buildings HVAC system, upgraded because of the covid pandemic, was overwhelmed and threatened all jurors, and this is jury tampering....Ok I'll stop now....