A condensed version of the history of voting in America from eLocalLawyers:
On Wednesday, these folks will be around to encourage everyone to help get out the vote as part of the DK GOTV Blogathon—7:30 a.m.: Senator Sherrod Brown; 11 a.m.: SEIU President Mary Kay Henry; 1 p.m.: House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi; 3 p.m.: AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka; 5 p.m.: Van Jones. As always, all times are Pacific.
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2011—'Flexible' on federalism: Republicans and 'states rights'
No doubt you have heard about the conservative Republican demand for "limited federal government" and their deep respect for "the rights of the states." If you catch them in the right moment, you might even hear them speak of the Civil War in terms of a fight to protect "the rights of states," echoing Jefferson Davis himself:
It has been a conviction of pressing necessity -- it has been a belief that we are to be deprived in the Union of the rights which our fathers bequeathed to us -- which has brought Mississippi to her present decision. She has heard proclaimed the theory that all men are created free and equal, and this made the basis of an attack upon her social institutions; and the sacred Declaration of Independence has been invoked to maintain the position of the equality of the races. They have no reference to the slave[.]
Yes the "Lost Cause" of "states rights" burns to this day, at least when it is convenient. But what about when it isn't? Well, like Roger Taney himself, whose trampling of "states rights" in Dred Scott is an oft-overlooked aspect of the case (one of the upshots of the decision would have been the inability of a state to prohibit slavery), conservative Republicans are more than capable of turning from deep concern for states rights to a deep confidence in federal government. Consider, for example, the Republican proposal to reform state tort law by federal edict, the styled Medical Care Access Protection Act […] |
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Kagro in the Morning post-debate wrap with
Greg Dworkin &
Armando. Romney's nutty throwback theories. Path to the sea? Bayonet trutherism? Then, back into Republican voter registration criminality and the growing trend of boss on worker political coercion. And sadly, more multiple shooting incidents, plus one bizarre story, that once again have the NRA hoping we'll all squint just right and see things their way.
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