With the approval of a state House committee Thursday morning, an Indiana bill adding new ID requirements to the mail voting process is heading to the state House floor.
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As I wrote Wednesday, there’s a new battlefront in the ongoing 2020 census wars: whether states can and should use other sources of data to start drawing their legislative maps before the Census Bureau releases the official enumeration.
White House communications director Kate Bedingfield on Thursday brushed off concerns over Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) reiterating his opposition to eliminating or weakening the filibuster in a Washington Post op-ed, as Democrats work to push their sweeping voting rights bill and other major legislation forward. Continue reading “WH Says It’s Not Sweating Over Manchin Promise To Preserve The Filibuster”
The chairman of the right-wing street gang the Proud Boys will speak to a local Florida Republican club next month to tell “his side of the story” and “set the record straight.”
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The Trump Organization has hired New York criminal defense attorney Ronald Fischetti to represent it in the Manhattan district attorney’s criminal probe into former President Donald Trump and his company.
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Get ready for a truly spectacular galaxy brain take.
Continue reading “TX GOPer Likens Corporations Criticizing Voting Restrictions To ‘Fascism’”
I just got around to reading Joe Manchin’s new OpEd in the Post. And, well … it’s pretty bad news and by my read almost all bad news. With anything less than heroic squinting and wishful thinking, it reads pretty clear: Manchin won’t support abolishing or weakening the filibuster. Full stop. This seems to take back what had seemed to be his pretty clear openness to some version of a talking filibuster earlier in the Spring. He claims early efforts to weaken the filibuster have only increased partisan polarization, a claim that makes no sense – correlation, causation, etc.
What jumps out to me most is that his argument is absurd even on its own terms.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Wednesday accused those opposed to a restrictive voting rights law in Georgia of “playing the race card,” insisting that any notion of voter suppression was a far cry from reality.
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Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) on Wednesday doubled down on his opposition to blowing up the filibuster or even weakening it, striking a blow to Democrats hoping he could be swayed to do so to advance their sweeping voting rights bill and other major legislation.
Continue reading “Manchin Digs Heels In On Keeping Filibuster, No Exception For Voting Rights Bill”
Federal investigators are examining a Bahamas trip Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) allegedly took as part of an inquiry into whether he violated sex trafficking laws, according to multiple reports.
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