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Leonard Lubinsky's avatar

Win the Senate in 2022 (the House, too -- but that's harder to write about briefly). 1. Defend the four vulnerable seats: Kelly in Arizona, Warnock in Georgia, Cortez Masto in Nevada, and Hassan in New Hampshire. 2. Flip a bunch of Republican seats: Start with Demings over Rubio in Florida, Ryan over whoever in Ohio, even Booker over Paul in Kentucky. Lots of choices in Pennsylvania to flip the open Republican seat, Lots of choices in Wisconsin to flip Johnson. 3. It gets harder. In Missouri, if the Rs nominate Greitens, a Democrat could win. North Carolina keeps promising us a win. Maybe this time. It seems impossible to consider a win in Alabama, but it is nearly impossible to think of Mo Brooks (if he is the nominee) as a US Senator. Give money, write postcards, campaign as if the country's future depends on what you do.

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Jon Margolis's avatar

The preliminary decision in Whole Women's Health is likely to be the Dred Scott decision of our time. At the time, that case to signal the ascendence of the South, and slavery, over the whole nation, but in the end it doomed its proponents. (I have sometimes cited Dred Scott v. Sandford, 69 US 393 (1857), rev'd sub nom, The Civil War--the lawyers out there will get it.) For many years, I thought that the battles over unionization and free speech and civil rights had been won. In the past 20-30 years I've come to realize that they have to be re-fought over and over. This is our time. And the ultra-reactionary wing of the court has, I hope, just galvanized the majority of our citizens to take up the battle seriously. (On a somewhat lighter note, the anti-women forces in Texas have set up one or more tip lines to report those who connive at women's rights, which apparently have already been overwhelmed by false reports (Ted Cruz? Greg Abbott?), memes and porn. They deserve it.)

And you, Robert, deserve a long weekend. Enjoy it! Let's all use Labor Day to gird for our labors ahead.

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