Just a year ago, the right to vote was not a highly contentious, polarized political issue. Then came an extraordinary period in American history: A president, without hard evidence, claimed an election was “rigged.” His supporters, egged on by his words, rose in insurrection and bashed their way into the U.S. Capitol.
Now Republican lawmakers in many states are pushing “voting integrity” bills that they say are necessary to restore confidence in election machinery. Yet the courts, election officials, some Trump appointees, and even Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky say that much evidence shows the 2020 elections were clean and fair. Democrats say that “election integrity” really means making it more difficult for Democratic constituencies, including Black voters, to cast ballots.
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THE PRESIDENT: Madam Speaker; Majority Leader Schumer; Minority Leader McCarthy; my friend, Minority Minority Leader McConnell; members of Congress; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Milley; Attorney General Garland; Mayor Bowser; all the Capitol Hill Police and all that are here to pay tribute to this Capitol policeman who fell in the line of duty; Acting Chief Pittman, and the men and women of the Capitol Police Force: I’m sorry the second time in two months we have such a ceremony.
And, you know, Mom, I didn’t know Billy, but I knew Billy. I grew up with Billys in Claymont and Scranton, Pennsylvania. Billy was always the kid that you know if you got in a fight and you’re outnumbered three to one, he’d still jump in, knowing you’d both get beaten.
I grew over well over 6 inches after sophomore year HS. And I’m not quite 5’11”
It was way more than 6 inches, I was just 5 ft tall in at the start of ninth grade. That was when I passed my older sister who was 18 and never made it over 4’11”.
That was the only fight I’ve ever been in, although as I told here once, I attended an all boys, catholic technical HS for one year. I’m not catholic and there were maybe 4 of us out of about 400. Fathers and Brothers ran the place and lived in the seminar next door. Second week we had an assembly in the auditorium/chapel, each freshman class was told to select the smallest boy to go up on the stage. Yep, I was selected overwhelmingly. I told them to fuck off (I learned to swear at a young age…) that if I stood up I was walking out the front door and I would be flipping them off the entire way, I would walk to where we boarded the buses and would wait till they came and I would never set foot here again. I was small, I wasn’
A long-dormant judicial volcano belched some smoke and ash into the morning breeze earlier this week, leaving some of the villagers below more than a little bewildered: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas abruptly announced his support on Monday for broad and muscular government regulation of private business.
The case that motivated Justice Thomas’s opinion,
Knight First Amendment Inst. at Columbia University v. Donald J. Trump, was a suit filed on behalf of citizens whom Trump had blocked from his Twitter page. The court saw no merit in the plaintiff’s First Amendment argument and dismissed the case. Justice Thomas agreed with the dismissal, but added a concurring opinion to the ultimate decision in order to pontificate on the merits of government regulation.
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