State legislatures will have a lot on their plates. They’ll deal with issues in wildly differing ways. We set the context for the 2021 session with an overview of everything from abortion to redistricting.
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Reporters? Or unpaid publicists? On her Thursday show, MSNBC s Hallie Jackson was joined by NBC reporter Blayne Alexander in Atlanta just publicizing calls to boycott Georgia and the lies that justify them, including President Biden s Wednesday remarks where he outrageously called the Georgia s new election law Jim Crow on steroids.
MSNBC just casually put that on screen, like it was an authoritative statement of fact.
Jackson noted that The sports world and corporate America pushing back against the new law, too, as President Biden now says he supports calls to move the MLB All-Star game out of Georgia because of it and CEOs of Delta Airlines and Coca-Cola, both based in Atlanta are slamming the law as unacceptable.
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State lawmakers face a terrible hangover of problems from 2020. First and foremost is the pandemic, which is at its worst even as vaccinations are rolled out across the country. Caseloads and death tolls are adding uncertainty to the economy, which in turn is hampering state budgets.
As legislatures began to meet this month, some convened virtually due to concerns about COVID-19, while capitols were boarded up or surrounded by perimeter fences and SWAT teams because of the ongoing threat of political violence.
Anger about the election and its bloody aftermath is leading to partisan divisions about how to handle voting. Democrats would like to see more mail voting and other expansive measures, while Republicans argue that even the suspicion of widespread voter fraud while shot down repeatedly in dozens of court cas
Sanctions Against Trump Lawyers Urged By Election Officials
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As Rudy Giuliani and the rest of President Donald Trump s campaign legal team continue their frivolous efforts to overturn the results of the election despite having little to no evidence to support their claims, officials in multiple states are calling for sanctions to put an end to this ongoing ordeal, according to ABC News.
On Thursday, Republican lawyers headed back to court to continue its fight for an audit of Detroit s election results. Although the area is heavily Democratic with an overwhelming number of Black voters, Trump s legal team is refusing to accept the fact that he was greatly defeated in the Motor City.