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In the final opinion of its October 2022 Term, issued on July 4, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the United States Constitution unconstitutional. In an opinion by Chief Justice For All Practical ...
by TheseusInWisconsin
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on Wed Jul 05, 2023 at 09:55 PM PDT
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— On MSNBC, Joyce Vance, Former United States Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, identified this as one of the memorable clear-cut points, were learned from today’s 1/6 Hearing: Eastman claimed Pence – but not Democratic VPs – could...
by jamess
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on Thu Jun 16, 2022 at 12:22 PM PDT
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Good Friday evening everybody! I'm dropping this delicious tea here! Has anyone seen the maps lately? Let's start with this tweet about the Congressional districts! I live in OH-10; it has Montgomery, Greene, and part of Fayette county. Here's the link...
by abluerippleinohio
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on Fri Sep 24, 2021 at 07:54 PM PDT
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It took five years for the Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct to issue a public warning to a judge who ordered a defendant, on three occasions, to be shocked with a stun cuff during his criminal trial. The order to place the cuff came after the...
by Lauren Sue
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on Mon Sep 20, 2021 at 11:32 AM PDT
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To the horror of Americans, Trump and his minions broadcast the nightmare scenario of his restoration to the Presidency, an impossible and unconstitutional contingency.
by danielcm
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on Mon Jun 07, 2021 at 08:35 AM PDT
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Very few if any of America’s corporations, through their leaders, have come out to forcefully condemn the sham, anti-democracy, anti-Constitution disgrace that is being planned and perpetrated by the Congressional Republican Party. I know, and in...
by Dont Know Nothing
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on Mon Jan 04, 2021 at 06:51 AM PST
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This is an open letter to the federal agents trying to occupy Portland, Oregon. You should resign your post and leave. I’m going to cover here exactly why this is so. It involves some brutal ...
by Liberal Thinking
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on Thu Jul 30, 2020 at 04:00 PM PDT
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Circuit Court Judge Richard Brueggemann showed his true pro-COVID-19 colors today with his ruling that all of Governor Andy Beshear’s actions against the coronavirus are unconstitutional. For those not in the know, a group of businessmen and Republican...
by Merlin1963
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on Tue Jul 21, 2020 at 02:55 PM PDT
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The question of whether the Individual Mandate can be separated from the rest of the ACA (or some parts of the ACA), and therefore whether the entire ACA is unconstitutional, parts of the ACA beyond the individual mandate are also constitutional, or...
by jpmassar
96 comments
on Wed Dec 18, 2019 at 02:12 PM PST
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Campaign Action
On Friday, May 24, the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Alabama, and Planned Parenthood Federation of America filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama challenging the...
by Karen L Freund
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on Fri May 24, 2019 at 09:33 AM PDT
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The house today, reported by The NYTs, voted to Block Trump’s “Emergencia Bacional” in regards to Spanish speaking people invadiendo América.it was bipartisan with more than a dozen Republicans joining the vote.
Now goes to the senate , which, with...
by El Mito
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on Tue Feb 26, 2019 at 03:42 PM PST
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U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor ruled the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional by way of the Tenth Amendment Friday night, and Americans everywhere exploded at the news, and rightfully so.
Yes, an alarming amount of people exploded in the totally...
by Jessica Sutherland
187 comments
on Fri Dec 14, 2018 at 06:27 PM PST
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In a little over a year, getting arrested in California is going to look very, very different than it does today. Thanks to the California Money Bail Reform Act, also known as SB10, the cash bail system is going to be eradicated from the Golden State. ...
by Jessica Sutherland
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on Wed Aug 29, 2018 at 11:09 AM PDT
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GOOD NEWS. Appeals Court Strikes Down Trump Executive Order Withholding Funds From Sanctuary Cities. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has, by a 2-1 vote, declared Trump’s EO threatening to defund so-called Sanctuary Cities unconstitutional.
Court Decision
The ban was not made nationwide, but returned to the lower court for further scrutiny.
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by GayIthacan
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on Wed Aug 01, 2018 at 11:56 AM PDT
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There have been a number of recent stories that the GOP has announced an updated strategy, to be financed to the tune of $125 million, of their successful 2010 effort to literally gerrymander Congress. We have already endured the historically-unique...
by citixen
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on Sun May 20, 2018 at 10:15 PM PDT
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Any American who believed the Trump White House was finished ravaging women’s healthcare after past two weeks was tragically mistaken. It seemed impossible the evangelicals running Trump’s America could get any worse after the Health and Human...
by Rmuse
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on Tue Oct 24, 2017 at 12:14 PM PDT
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Oh, what a lovely week it was.
Out of frustration that the Republican Congress had not repealed Obamacare, last week Trump announced that he was cutting Obamacare cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments. The CSR payments subsidize insurers for...
by bmethven
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on Sat Oct 21, 2017 at 05:25 PM PDT
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It has been just over 248 days since the beginning of the Drumpf administration and I now find I can no longer stand to look at him, or even listen to his voice. I know he is ugly, and I know he will spew racist and/or vile filth out of his mouth with...
by Penguinn
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on Mon Sep 25, 2017 at 04:34 PM PDT
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There are many reasons to despise the Graham-Cassidy Obamacare Repeal Bill. The myriad of reasons have been uncovered and discussed by experts and diarists on this site. Now the authors of this abomination are trying to buy the vote of Lisa Murkowski...
by Eihenetu
135 comments
on Thu Sep 21, 2017 at 03:57 PM PDT
with 263 Recommends
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From The Hill:
The Department of Justice has requested information on visitors to a website used to organize protests against President Trump, the Los Angeles-based Dreamhost said in a blog post published on Monday.
The web...
by AlanC
138 comments
on Mon Aug 14, 2017 at 05:11 PM PDT
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- Today, the state of Louisiana managed to do something I didn’t think possible — they found a new low. Once Jeff Landry, a far-right acolyte, was elected governor I knew the place was going to be in rough shape. The state legislature is hopeless, with...67 comments 221 Recs
- This is the best news of the day. As Dark Brandon might say, trashing an over-the-horizon radar is a big fucking deal. Is that the silhouette of Ammo Dump Jesus in the ball of flame blessing the bavovna? Run away! Run away! Russians try an assault with...60 comments 257 Recs
- Dickie Betts has passed, now jamming with Duane. The Allman Bros were a major part of my life’s soundtrack. Not because I was into them but my little brother was. Donnie had them cranked all the time, Southern Rock was his genre. Donnie also recently...125 comments 325 Recs
- GET OUT THE VOTE BIG TIME! HERE ARE THE RESOURCES YOU NEED TO DO THAT! Hope Springs from Field PAC (background in this DKos story). Voters of Tomorrow (younger voters) led by Santiago Mayer Leaders We Deserve (younger voters) led by David Hogg The...16 comments 130 Recs
- I’m hoping Mark Sumner will be up with a live blog but there’s a load of stuff already happening: All from WaPo Liveblog: Justice Juan Merchan dismissed Juror No. 2, a nurse who said she had concerns after people she knew identified her as a juror and...374 comments 342 Recs
- Ever since Russia invaded Ukraine, my heart has been heavy at the suffering of so many innocent people in Ukraine. War is always a tragedy, but this war is particularly touching to me because of its David vs. Goliath, good vs evil quality. The bravery...149 comments 302 Recs
- Today should be an interesting day in Judge Merchan’s court room.� Donald Trump reposted an attack by Fox’s Jesse Watters on the jury members selected for Trump’s current trial in NYC on ...229 comments 444 Recs
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- Hello all, and happy Thursday! I got thinking about safe spaces recently —�what they are, how do we create them...�I am writing this from inside my very own portable safe space, Wheeliehouse :-) ...159 comments 125 Recs
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- Jewish Space Lasers redux The Republican House is trying to pass a bill giving supplemental aid to Israel for the rest of fiscal 2024. Rep. MT Greene (R-GA) has problems with it. And has offered an amendment, the sole purpose of which is to throw sand...29 comments 66 Recs
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- ABC news and Reuters report that Israel has struck a site in Isfahan, Iran near an airport. Currently, information is still coming in and we do not know if there are casualties or serious damage. Read here: abcnews.go.com/… www.reuters.com/...5 comments 7 Recs
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- Today at Columbia University the NYPD was called to execute a fascist raid against college students…exercising their right to protest…. www.nytimes.com/… I haven’t seen anything about this here..,.but this is a police state type action. These young...17 comments 5 Recs
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- The horse race isn’t really relevant right now. For one thing it can change, for another swing states are what matter, but there’s a lot more to polling that is of interest. Last week Kerry Eleveld, a DK staffer here made a post showing how polling...13 comments 14 Recs
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