You must have had several of your readers attending the Fair Fight Action webinar yesterday. I'm so glad you included the 888 number for calling senators in today's piece. If Stacey Abrams and FFA recommend an action, you'd better believe they think it'll be effective. Make those calls!
Could be. I received about a dozen notes with the same / similar information. I am glad to see that Fair Fight is back in the fight again. Thanks for all you do!
Very happy to see you mention Jim Clyburn's suggestion. It's hard to see that not becoming the main event. How can Biden not go for it (if it is reasonably well drafted), and given that Joe Manchin is already on record as favoring at least some reform on voting rights, I don't see him or Synema going against a limited change in the rule.
(I might add that every exception to the rule makes it easier just to junk the whole thing. But that's not much or an argument for allowing voting rights to be limited more.)
The same day as Gopnik published his "thoughtful essay" regarding Biden's low-key approach in contrast to Trump's approach of "breaking all rules" , Katie Benner in the Times laid out how Merrick Garland has adopted a similar quiet approach to re-establishing the Independence of DOJ, which had all but been destroyed under Barr and Sessions.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/09/us/politics/merrick-garland-justice-department.html?smid=em-share . He clearly is mirroring the efforts of AG Edward Levi in the post-Watergate era.
Tom, you make a good point, though Biden's mission and Garland's are different. Garland's mission is to pursue justice without regard to politics, so saying that he is taking a low key approach suggests that he is making a political decision to ignore the misconduct under Trump's tenure. I promised to stop talking about Merrick Garland in the newsletter, so I will quit while I am ahead in the comments to the newsletter.
Garland's low-key approach is consistent with his personality and necessary for what he needs to achieve a restoration of Independence w/o which the most important of the agencies of the executive can be turned into simply one acting at the beck and call of the president. I choose to wait to see Horowitz's report and revisit this subject again then. I do not believe that Edward Levi, everyone's ideal model of a model AG ever conducted extensive investigations of career lawyers at DOJ in order to clean-up the augean stables left by Kleindienst and Mitchell.
“The inevitable march of history toward tolerance and liberalism” is my favorite sentence today. The Trump Republicans are running scared. Their star is sinking and they cannot stop it in spite of drastic, even ridiculous, words and actions. I’m sure respectable Conservatives and Republicans cringe at these antics.
You must have had several of your readers attending the Fair Fight Action webinar yesterday. I'm so glad you included the 888 number for calling senators in today's piece. If Stacey Abrams and FFA recommend an action, you'd better believe they think it'll be effective. Make those calls!
Could be. I received about a dozen notes with the same / similar information. I am glad to see that Fair Fight is back in the fight again. Thanks for all you do!
Very happy to see you mention Jim Clyburn's suggestion. It's hard to see that not becoming the main event. How can Biden not go for it (if it is reasonably well drafted), and given that Joe Manchin is already on record as favoring at least some reform on voting rights, I don't see him or Synema going against a limited change in the rule.
(I might add that every exception to the rule makes it easier just to junk the whole thing. But that's not much or an argument for allowing voting rights to be limited more.)
The same day as Gopnik published his "thoughtful essay" regarding Biden's low-key approach in contrast to Trump's approach of "breaking all rules" , Katie Benner in the Times laid out how Merrick Garland has adopted a similar quiet approach to re-establishing the Independence of DOJ, which had all but been destroyed under Barr and Sessions.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/09/us/politics/merrick-garland-justice-department.html?smid=em-share . He clearly is mirroring the efforts of AG Edward Levi in the post-Watergate era.
Tom, you make a good point, though Biden's mission and Garland's are different. Garland's mission is to pursue justice without regard to politics, so saying that he is taking a low key approach suggests that he is making a political decision to ignore the misconduct under Trump's tenure. I promised to stop talking about Merrick Garland in the newsletter, so I will quit while I am ahead in the comments to the newsletter.
Garland's low-key approach is consistent with his personality and necessary for what he needs to achieve a restoration of Independence w/o which the most important of the agencies of the executive can be turned into simply one acting at the beck and call of the president. I choose to wait to see Horowitz's report and revisit this subject again then. I do not believe that Edward Levi, everyone's ideal model of a model AG ever conducted extensive investigations of career lawyers at DOJ in order to clean-up the augean stables left by Kleindienst and Mitchell.
“The inevitable march of history toward tolerance and liberalism” is my favorite sentence today. The Trump Republicans are running scared. Their star is sinking and they cannot stop it in spite of drastic, even ridiculous, words and actions. I’m sure respectable Conservatives and Republicans cringe at these antics.