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This is what a representative government–the kind that the right-wing elitists on the Supreme Court are trying to extinguish–looks like. This is American democracy. This is what’s called being held accountable for your actions. Advocate for Americans and the rest … Continue reading →

Larry Beinart at Al-Jazeera explodes it head-on. “When it comes to money and power,” Kennedy had been “an agent of the top one percent in its class warfare against the rest.” Justice Kennedy voted against democracy over and over again, … Continue reading →

His ridiculously weak strategy is to abandon any demands that Trump’s latest Supreme Court horror appointment be tabled until after the election. Cory Booker made the persuasive argument last week that Trump, the subject of a criminal investigation, should not … Continue reading →

and then retreats to Lickspittle Bartiromo’s safe space to shake his finger at the Democrats. Meanwhile, the Democratic leaders scold Maxine Waters for demanding that Trump and the GOP’s atrocities be confronted head on. Brava to Rep. Waters for refusing … Continue reading →

Sen. Collins is, as usual, setting the bar as low as possible and setting herself and her constituents up to be played. All Trump’s new Supreme Court nominee has to do is whisper that Roe is the law of the … Continue reading →

There is no difference in tone or even substance between her propaganda duet with Herr Trump and what we see in societies that have gone entirely totalitarian. “News Corpse” at Daily Kos gets granular about every unhinged, traitorous remark exchanged … Continue reading →

“Where is Barack Obama?” is the title of an unsparing cover story in New York Magazine by Gabriel Debenedetti. I would argue that it’s not that Obama’s refusal to engage is new; it’s that the calamitous Trump presidency throws it in … Continue reading →

Will the judicial candidate support Trump’s conviction that he is above the law?

Back in the 4th century B.C., Theophrastus in his “Characters” describes “Dissembling”: “He pretends he has not heard when he hears, and says he has not seen when he sees; and when he has admitted you right he avers he … Continue reading →

The Democrats couldn’t sustain a filibuster against even John Roberts and Samuel Alito. And look where we are now.