The Supreme Court just ruled that rights don’t really matter America’s highest court declined to hear a case that essentially redefined the word “peaceful” and eliminated some people’s right to protest. 04/18/2024 - 5:10 am | View Link
Patrick Mahomes on staying out of presidential race: ‘I don’t want to pressure anyone’ Mahomes joined Lebron James’s More Than a Vote campaign to help increase African American voter turnout in the 2020 election. He told Time that he is still considering his plans for the upcoming ... 04/17/2024 - 4:05 am | View Link
SD Secretary of State errors shadow primary elections The 2024 primaries represent the first slate of elections overseen by current South Dakota Secretary of State (SOS) Monae Johnson, who was sworn into office in 2023. So far, there have been a few ... 04/16/2024 - 3:31 am | View Link
Secretary of State errors shadow primary elections The 2024 primaries represent the first slate of elections overseen by current South Dakota Secretary of State (SOS) Monae Johnson, who was sworn into office in 2023. So far, there have been a few ... 04/15/2024 - 10:17 am | View Link
Supreme Court allows police officer’s suit to move forward against Black Lives Matter leader The Supreme Court allowed a police officer’s lawsuit against a Black Lives Matter leader to move forward Monday. In a brief order, the justices turned away activist DeRay Mckesson’s First ... 04/15/2024 - 3:37 am | View Link
Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) hinted that death threats may be behind his early resignation decision, WLUK reports.
Said Gallagher: “This is more just me wanting to prioritize being with my family. I signed up for the death threats and the late-night swatting, but they did not. And for a young family, I would say this job is really hard.”
Rick Wilson: “This week has been a howling vortex of suck for the MAGA movement and Donald Trump. Imagine a black hole in the profound interstellar vacuum in the cold emptiness of space, drawing all matter and energy into its brutal singularity, an ineluctable and final journey into nothingness.”
“That’s the GOP this week.
“There is no other way to describe it, it is surrender, it is disappointing. I won’t support it.”
— Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), quoted by CNN, on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) bringing up a Ukraine aid package.
Financial Times: “In another troubling sign for Republican fundraising efforts, Trump has 270,000 fewer unique donors than he did at the same stage of his 2020 White House run. His campaign and affiliated political action committees got money from 900,000 donors from July 2023 to the end of the first quarter of 2024, down from 1.17 million four years earlier.”
“This shrinking donor base leaves questions about how Trump will sustain the costs of his legal battles on top of what is expected to be the most expensive presidential race in US history.
Just published: A Supreme Court Unlike Any Other: The Deepening Divide Between the Justices and the People by Kevin J. McMahon.
“A data-rich examination of the US Supreme Court’s unprecedented detachment from the democratic processes that buttress its legitimacy.”
A Supreme Court Unlike Any Other: The Deepening Divide Between the Justices and the People
McMahon, Kevin J.
Within hours of Donald Trump announcing his “leave it to the states” abortion position, Joe Biden had already shot a direct-to-camera response video.
The Biden campaign then released an ad featuring a Texas woman who nearly died because she was denied abortion care with the tagline: “Donald Trump did this.”
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