As I reported Monday, it’s no exaggeration to say that the Mississippi abortion case the Supreme Court took up is the biggest threat Roe v. Wade has faced yet.
Continue reading “How Much Will SCOTUS’ New Abortion Case Shake Up The 2022 Election Cycle?”
Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) on Monday urged Congress to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act in an effort to demonstrate bipartisan support for the protection of voting rights. Continue reading “Manchin And Murkowski Urge Bipartisan Reauthorization Of Voting Rights Act”
It’s not just the Supreme Court’s recent jerk towards the right that makes its grant Monday of a major abortion case such a big deal. It’s how the justices went about deciding that they were going to wade into the issue.
The House Judiciary Committee claimed a win last week in the somewhat-forgotten but still-raging fights over lingering congressional investigations into former President Trump.
Continue reading “House Nabs A Moral Victory In The McGahn Case, But Not Much Else”
From TPM Reader JO’N …
On Josh’s note of two COVID Americas today, I think he’s right. But one thing to notice about the map, and to account for when making sense of the geography of this, is the huge strides that Native American governments have made in getting their people vaccinated. In Montana, the Blackfeet Tribe was away ahead of the rest of the state, with a particularly aggressive outreach and compliance plan.
Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (R), one of ex-President Donald Trump’s few Republican critics, announced on Monday that he will not be seeking reelection in 2022.
States are running out of time to change their voting laws // Congressional Democrats are running out of options for pushing back // House GOP goes all in on embracing Trump’s election lies
Hi, there! I’m Tierney! I have been covering voting rights for the better part of a decade and things have never been crazier. So we at TPM are excited to bring you The Franchise, a weekly newsletter that will cover all the big news in democracy and ballot access. Every week, we’ll be recapping what’s been happening in the fights over who gets to have their voices heard in our system of governance and how they get to express it. So let’s get to it.
Rudy Giuliani was once dubbed a human hand grenade by John Bolton. Now he is flinging himself at Trumpworld in a bid to defend himself against an increasingly serious federal criminal investigation.
Continue reading “Rudy To Feds: An Attack On Me Is An Attack On All Of Trumpworld”
It’s not for a lack of access in the U.S.
Republicans are still the main the main demographic unwilling to get the COVID-19 shot.
Continue reading “Where Things Stand: Politics Is Still A Main Indicator Of Vaccine Hesitancy”
When it was announced last week that Rep. John Katko (R-NY) had negotiated a deal for a Jan 6th Commission I was not so much skeptical as wondering what it was I was missing. Striking a deal usually means you speak for the people who are agreeing to the deal. I saw no evidence this was the case with Katko. It just seemed to me that one Representative had come up with a deal with one other member of Congress, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS). The fact that Katko was one of only ten members of the House to vote for the President’s impeachment over Jan 6th would, it would seem to me, instantly discredit any deal he struck with most Republicans.
Admittedly, the two are the chair and ranking member of the Homeland Security Committee. So it’s relevant jurisdiction. But committee leaders don’t create commissions. That’s something done by congressional leaders and full caucuses. When Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R) responded with a skeptical wait-and-see approach, it seemed to me that this was less “agreement” than “proposal”, and maybe not a very promising one at that, inasmuch as it was presented to me as largely adopting the Democrats’ demands.
This morning Politico Playbook sheds new light on the situation which manages to make it both more interesting and more clownish all at once.
Continue reading “McCarthy Cues Up New Performance of Fealty to Trump”
