An administrative investigation ordered by the Jonesboro City Council alleges that Mayor Donya Sartor committed multiple wrongdoings — including possible criminal activity and violations of the city charter.
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Senate Democrats should get rid of the legislative filibuster. The United States has come to a point where members of Congress no longer find they can work across the aisle to pass legislation. With the filibuster in place, our legislative branch of government is ineffective in a way we have never seen before.
The need to have 60 votes in the Senate to pass most legislation now results in session after session during which little substantive policy comes out of Congress, and political campaigns are focused on rhetoric alone. Republicans create fear about a Democratic agenda that can never get passed, and develop no real policy plans of their own because they know they will never have to do the hard work of governing.
A Republican at Wednesday’s impeachment hearing argued that President Donald Trump’s speech was protected, per Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969). He got it wrong.