Resist, Elections Officers, Resist!

Have a little attempted voter suppression with your lunch. Kobach asked the Connecticut secretary of state’s office to provide the commission with all publicly available voter roll data, including the full names of all registered voters along with their addresses, dates of birth, the last four digits of their Social Security numbers, voting history and …

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The Republican Party doesn’t like strong women

I know, I know. What’s new, right? But tonight takes the cake. Senator Elizabeth Warren wanted to read a letter from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s wife Coretta Scott King on the floor, because it advised the Senate Judiciary Committee of 1986 that in her opinion Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, at the time a US Attorney …

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Muslim ban

If it weren’t so tragic for so many people this would be pathetically funny. Just read the details in this CNN tick-tock. Administration officials weren’t immediately sure which countries’ citizens would be barred from entering the United States. The Department of Homeland Security was left making a legal analysis on the order after Trump signed …

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Internal Resistance to Trump

This is quite something. The vulgar talking yam (© Charlie Pierce) hasn’t yet been in office a full week and already there are more than 50 unofficial Twitter accounts from within the Federal Government dedicated to publishing information in defiance of his team’s edicts that their agencies not communicate with the public. Many appear to …

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