It says something about American standards that Giuliani qualified as a lawyer. The man is an idiot.
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Also, just because he’s Trumps lawyer doesn’t mean he has to tweet exactly like him
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As i said earlier the country is broken. Pack her up, she’s done.
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Also I love how they think that “card carrying anti-Trumper” is an insult. When I see that phrase all I think is “reasonable human being”
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Media writers explaining hard things? What planet are you from?
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I think you’ll find John Farnham’s team of songwriters came up with this deeply poetic line as a moving refrain in the decade defining “Two Strong Hearts”. Why can’t they beat as one? is the question they might’ve been asking.
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Republicans are staging mini-coups across the US
Lawrence Douglas
An 11th-hour tactic in Wisconsin is an attack on progressive causes and the integrity of the electoral process
Republican passed a sweeping bill designed to radically check the powers of the incoming governor Tony
Democracies empower the will of majorities. In the US, Republican lawmakers on both the state and national level have rejected that basic principle.
In a lame-duck session in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, Republican legislators in the state of Wisconsin passed a sweeping bill designed to radically check the powers of the incoming governor. The result of this 11th-hour tactic is an attack on progressive causes, the integrity of the electoral process, and democratic accountability.
Last month, Democrat Tony Evers won the state gubernatorial race, unseating Republican incumbent Scott Walker. Among other things, Evers, who made affordable healthcare a key issue in the race, promised to withdraw Wisconsin from yet another tiresome suit against provisions of Obamacare. But the Republican bill would strip him of the power to do so.
Evers also made gun control a central issue of the campaign, promising to ban guns from the Wisconsin Capitol. No, the legislators now say, you can’t do that.
Evers promised to clean up Wisconsin’s “Economic Development Corporation”. Created by Governor Walker, the EDC is the kind of scandal-ridden, crony-stacked organization that the great Republican senator from Wisconsin Robert La Follette once labored tirelessly to expose and reform. But now legislators have acted to undermine the governor’s power to regulate the wasteful and arguably corrupt corporation.
If Republicans no longer respect the rules of the democratic process, then they must be forced to pay a political price for their arrogance
However disgraceful, the power grab by Wisconsin’s Republican legislators is hardly idiosyncratic. Hard on the heels of Democrat Roy Cooper’s capturing the governorship of North Carolina in 2016, Republican legislators in that state voted to aggressively limit the governor’s power. Last month, Democrat Gretchen Whitmer captured the governor’s seat in Michigan, trouncing her Republican opponent by 10 percentage points. Lame-duck Republican legislators are now scheming to strip the state’s highest executive of essential powers. On the national level, Senate Republicans stunningly refused to so much as grant Merrick Garland, President Obama’s nominee to the supreme court, a hearing.
Pundits have described these actions as Republicans playing “hardball”, though the description obscures a noxious reality: Republicans aren’t playing ball at all – they are rejecting the basic rules of the game. The notion that elections count only when our side wins is nothing short of a repudiation of democracy. Republicans, on both the national and state level, are essentially staging minor coups.
If Republicans no longer respect the rules of the democratic process, then they must be forced to pay a political price for their arrogance. And yet Republicans have been largely insulated from paying this price thanks to the success of an even more audacious campaign to nullify the peoples’ will.
In November, Democrats in Wisconsin won 54% of the statewide vote, and yet they captured just 36 out of 99 seats in the Wisconsin state assembly. This was thanks to the Republicans’ success in partisan gerrymandering. The Wisconsin legislative map was declared unconstitutional by a federal court in 2016, but remains in place thanks to a technical ruling by the US supreme court earlier this year.
Hyper-partisan gerrymandering is perhaps the most radically anti-democratic fixture of our present political reality. We should all, then, be encouraged by one of most consequential, but largely overlooked, results of last month’s midterms.
Voters in Michigan, Missouri, Colorado and Utah passed ballot initiatives emphatically rejecting such gerrymandering. They endorsed the creation of non-partisan redistricting commissions or otherwise voted to limit the power of a controlling party to unilaterally draw electoral maps.
We can only hope that these efforts will spread and succeed, spelling the end of radical Republican efforts to ignore the will of the majority.
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Carnts. Pure unadalterated Carnts.
And our Libs are getting more & more like them daily, especially since ScuMo emerged from their ooze.
The crap they pulled yesterday, and then virtually closing Parliament and refusing to actually Govern until they’re ready smacks of the same playbook.
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It is ■■■■■■ incredible what’s going on Wisconsin and North Carolina. I would go as far as to call it treasonous.
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I’m more than a bit disappointed in your countrymen in those states DM, … It’s such an obnoxious undemocratic abuse of power, I was expecting Marches and even riots days ago.
And the biggest concern is they’ve gerrymandered the state so that there is no way for them to lose power. It’s effectively eliminated the democratic process.
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And I’m amazed there isn’t a legal avenue all the way up to the supreme court to have this dealt with, and even the prickz that orchestrated it thrown in prison.
It’s a weird and fcked up system over there to let this even be possible.
But it is.
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I am seriously trying to avoid reading any more on this (yes, head in sand approach). The democrats won the elections fair and square and are now having the very rights they were democratically given stripped away. Embarrassing and shameful. More worryingly, incredibly dangerous.
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Now in Michigan too:
Oh you don’t say:
And, here is the Presidential response:
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The alt-right dude that killed Heather Heyer with his car at the Unite The Right rally in Charlottsville was found guilty on all counts.
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Filings on Michael Cohen by New York federal prosecutors implicate Trump in a felony, saying that the two campaign finance violations Cohen pled guilty to were at the direction of the now President.
This is pretty surreal to watch. It’s like a slow-motion race, between the ability of the justice system to methodically investigate Trump’s actions and those of his cronies and bring charges, vs the attempts by Trump and senate republicans to corrupt the process and appoint lickspittles to positions of authority in order to prevent this happening.
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Exactly.
Interesting that they have classified this as a felony as I thought campaign violations are civil matters and end up in fines.
I guess attempting to cover it up and lying won’t do you any favours.