Survival of Missouri constitutional amendment plan in doubt after Democrats block vote Senate Republicans brought the House plan to the floor for final action Monday. But Democrats blocked a vote for 50 hours, and a bipartisan coalition voted for the negotiations with the House. The ... 05/16/2024 - 11:00 am | View Link
Missouri Senate Democrats block vote on plan limiting constitutional changes Republicans are trying to push through the ballot question before the 6 p.m. Friday deadline to complete legislation. 05/15/2024 - 1:01 am | View Link
Legal experts say a TikTok ban without specific evidence violates the First Amendment The Justice Department is expected to argue that its clamp down on TikTok is about national security, but Constitutional lawyers say there is no way around grappling with the free speech implications. 05/14/2024 - 5:59 am | View Link
Trump Suffers Yet Another Blow on Hush-Money Trial Gag Order Ahead of trial proceedings regarding hush-money payments made to adult actress Stormy Daniels to cover up an alleged 2006 affair with Trump, the former president was flanked by a gaggle of ... 05/14/2024 - 5:43 am | View Link
Appeal Imminent After NY Judge Blocks Equal Rights Amendment From Ballot State constitutional amendments are supposed to be approved by the state attorney general’s office before the legislature can vote on them being included on the ballot. In July of 2023, the ... 05/13/2024 - 6:33 am | View Link
Colorado voters in November will decide whether to make abortion a state constitutional right after the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office announced Friday that backers of a ballot initiative had gathered enough signatures.
Advocates for the measure turned in 159,930 valid signatures last month — more than enough to place the question on the ballot, according to the state agency.
The ballot measure, if approved by 55% of voters, would prohibit state and local governments from outlawing or impeding access to abortions.
President Biden drew a parallel on Friday between Donald Trump “and his MAGA Republican allies” and segregationists in the 1950s who tried to prevent Black and white Americans from going to school together.
Speaking to Black leaders gathered at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Biden described meeting with some of the nine people who faced racist jeers and abuse to attend Little Rock’s Central High School in 1957, three years after the Supreme Court ruled segregation in education was unconstitutional.
The shit hit the fan when Chaos Crew member Marjorie Taylor Greene insulted Texas Democrat Jasmine Crockett for wearing "false eyelashes," as if the Georgia Sasquatch has room to talk about anyone's appearance. Insults were lobbed back and forth, and Ocasio-Cortez demanded an apology from Klan Mom Marge.
That wasn't going to happen (narcissists never apologize unless they're desperate and it's rehearsed), but MTG did agree to have her words stricken from the record.
"Oh, girl," AOC said.