The Commission on Presidential Debates should cancel the remaining presidential debates. The honorary co chairs of the commission should call for it, and the members should resign if a move to cancel does not prevail. … [Read more...]
Unequal Justice Under Law.
In his new book, “Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation”, the chief lieutenant on Mueller’s special counsel team, Andrew Weissman, writes that in a fateful meeting, the team pressed Mueller to subpoena Trump. They pleaded with … [Read more...]
Trump Plans to Use the Constitution to End the Constitution
Incredibly, the Constitution as interpreted by Bush v. Gore (2000), lays out no limitation whatsoever on state legislatures as to the power to pull back (i.e., steal) the choice of electors from the voters. A federal statute, 3 U.S.C. … [Read more...]
Elizabeth Warren and Maura Healey explain Ranked Choice Voting
Still undecided on Question 2 for Ranked Choice Voting or don't know how it works? Watch Elizabeth Warren and Maura Healey explain how it works and why it yields better campaigns and fairer, majority … [Read more...]
Why RCV Q2? Texas Enron hedge fund money!
If you have ever wondered why the Massachusetts legislature is opaque and lethargic, it is a function of the state's electoral system. Legislators view themselves as immune to any kind of political pressure to get anything done because they … [Read more...]
[In memoriam:] RBG, Erwin Griswold, and me
Editor's note: I wrote this rather long piece more than a year and a half ago, when the Ruth Bader Ginsburg biopic On the Basis of Sex came out. I didn't finish the post to my satisfaction, and I let it lie. Ginsburg's passing prompts me to … [Read more...]
How does “Free College” help us win the White House?
From the Pew Research Center: Overall, whites with a four-year college degree or more education made up 30% of all validated voters. Among these voters, far more (55%) said they voted for Clinton than for Trump (38%). Among the much larger … [Read more...]
Nancy Pelosi Is On Fire
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the savior of the nation, is on fire this evening on the All In with Chris Hayes program on MSNBC. I met her in 1986. In that 34 years, I have never once heard her more lucid and penetrating in her … [Read more...]
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Changed America for the Better
She tried so hard. She gave it her all. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 1933 - 2020. She made America a more just society, for women, and for so many others. A true American hero and an American original. Rest in Peace. Tears. … [Read more...]
New Jersey is Leapfrogging Massachusetts
Gov. Phil Murphy is accumulating quite the progressive record in NJ and can now point to a millionaires tax as another notch in his lapel, alongside able coronavirus management and a $1k baby bonds initiative. Gov. Philip D. … [Read more...]
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