After back-to-back mass shootings in Atlanta and Boulder in the past week, gun reform advocates are once again hoping to see an expansion of red flag laws, which allow authorities to confiscate guns from individuals deemed to be particularly dangerous. They’re one of the few gun control measures that some members of the pro-gun lobby will get behind due to their case-by-case enforcement.
MI GOP Has A Plan For Getting Restrictive Voting Measures Around Guv’s Vetos
Michigan Republicans are eyeing using a petition process in a bid to get several restrictive voting measures around a promised veto from the state’s Democratic governor.
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Trumpers Unbound
Here are some fascinating takeaways from a series of focus groups Democracy Corps conducted with Trump supporters and various varieties of conservatives. One notable thing is the difficulty they had recruiting volunteers. “It took a long time to recruit these groups because Trump voters seemed particularly distrustful of outsiders right now, wary of being victimized, and avoided revealing their true position until in a Zoom room with all Trump voters — then, they let it all out.”
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Senate Republicans Dig In On Iowa House Race, Pressuring Companies With False Equivalency
Senate Republicans have become increasingly interested in the goings on in the other chamber: namely, the House committee adjudicating the disputed election in Iowa’s second district.
Memories of My Mother
Forty years ago today my mother died in a car wreck. I was twelve. And the trauma and repercussions of that night have echoed down through the subsequent forty years of my life. It is mystifying to me that it was so long ago. Yet in another way it might be centuries, it seems so distant and alien. From the perspective of today I see that it was just a brief prelude before my life, as I now understand it, really began.
Georgia Law Creating New Hurdles For Voters Already Faces A Legal Challenge
Almost immediately after Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) signed into law sweeping changes to the state’s election rules Thursday, Black community groups filed a lawsuit challenging several of its provisions, which the groups say are unconstitutional and a violation of the Voting Rights Act.
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Dominion Slaps Fox News With $1.6 Billion Defamation Suit
Dominion Voting Systems filed a massive defamation lawsuit against Fox News on Friday morning for boosting ex-President Donald Trump’s evidence-free accusations that their ballot counting tech was fraudulent in the 2020 election.
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Trump Claims His Mob Was ‘Hugging And Kissing’ Police During Capitol Attack
Former President Donald Trump on Thursday falsely claimed a mob of his supporters had posed “zero threat” when they attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6 and that some had engaged in simply “hugging and kissing the police.”
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Cuomo Ordering Priority COVID Testing For Family Now Included In Impeachment Investigation
The New York General Assembly committee that’s holding an impeachment inquiry into New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) will look at reports that the governor’s family and allies jumped the line for priority COVID-19 testing in the early stage of the pandemic.
House Panels Launch Review Of Jan. 6 Capitol Attack
Seven House committees launched an investigation Thursday into federal handling of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, demanding communications in the month preceding the violent breach and in the days that followed it that might provide further insight into security and intelligence failures.
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