ACLU’s Dale Ho Confirmed to New York-Based US District Court #politics
More Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett please. #politics
Michael Popok
DeSantis #breadcrumb is now the subject of a FELONY criminal complaint w/ the San Antonio district attorney luring Venezuelan asylum seekers from Texas on to a plane to dump them off in Massachusetts. find out what the Sheriff has to say about it on my 🌶️ Take:
https://youtu.be/8ugPr1u3OS4
Some #HCR on Second Burrito day.
Three more candidates have entered the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination this week #politics
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/june-7-2023
Fuckery in Wisconsin.
Chris Larson
There is buzz in the state capitol that legislative Republicans are waiting for public schools to break for the summer before they seek to break them permanently.
They're planning to again underfund them while prioritizing funding for private schools, through vouchers. #politics
Dan Friedman
Durham's final report was complete crap. But he sorta got away with it most writers didn't pay much attention or were Trump partisans would have lauded it no matter what it said. But @emptywheel has gotten into details of how sloppy and dishonest it is.
The dishonest and incompetent FBI work John Durham learned to love. #politics
Anderson Clayton
North Carolina Democratic Party Chair
"Whoever said democracy dies in darkness hasn’t met the new North Carolina Supreme Court, whose Republican majority is proudly and systematically hacking away at our democracy in broad daylight." #politics #voting #elections #nightmare
How a Fringe Legal Theory Became a Threat to Democracy
Lawyers tried to use the independent-state-legislature theory to sway the outcomes of the 2000 and 2020 #elections. What if it were to become the law of the land?
By Andrew Marantz
#politics #voting #elections #nightmare
https://archive.ph/x7xMM
"Having now appeared in public as both a leather daddy and a cowboy, Mike Pence is only four costumes away from achieving his dream of cosplaying the entire Village People." -- Mrs. Betty Bowers #politics
The Dark Money Behind Kansas’ Misleading Anti-Abortion Campaign
Tax records show how Leonard Leo’s $1.6 billion dark money network is quietly working to eliminate state abortion protections #abortion #politics
https://www.levernews.com/the-dark-money-behind-kansass-misleading-anti-abortion-campaign/
Oklahoma Supreme Court’s Abortion Ruling Shows Path Forward in Deep Red States
"...But this week’s ruling, together with the court’s decision last March, gives some teeth to the limited right the court identified. The court’s decision suggests a kind of middle path for courts in red states to carve out limited, but real, protection for abortion and other pregnancy-related care—and to make abortion exceptions something more than political theater." #abortion #politics
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/06/oklahoma-supreme-court-red-state-abortion-laws.html
The Real Story of the Voting Rights Case
If there’s one thing the Roberts court has been consistent on, it’s this
#politics #voting #elections #nightmare
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/06/real-story-behind-voting-rights-cases-court.html
Tristan Snell
Ken Paxton suppressed 2.5 million mail-in ballots in Texas in 2020.
Donald Trump only “won” by 631,221 votes.
Stop saying Texas might turn blue “someday” — it might already be blue
#politics #voting #elections #nightmare
McCarthy races to sell newly released debt deal amid rumblings of far-right rebellion
The full text was released Sunday evening
#DebtCeiling #politics
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/28/mccarthy-debt-right-wing-rebellion-00099114
Mehdi Hasan on Kissinger.
Thanks @Apocryphiliac
#politics #nightmare
Impeachment recommended for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton
An impeachment vote of the full House could come as soon as this weekend and would force GOP lawmakers to decide whether to eject one of the state’s most prominent Republicans #politics
Former President Trump's criminal trial to begin March 25th, 2024, determines Judge Juan Merchan
DeSantis’s book banners face a tough new foe: Angry moms with lawyers
#breadcrumb #politics #nightmare
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