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Former Senate majority leader Harry Reid cautioned against adding seats to the Supreme Court and predicted that the Senate filibuster is “on its way out,” in an interview on CNN on Saturday.
Reid’s comments came after President Biden ordered the formation of a commission to study whether packing the court and instituting term limits for justices would be appropriate.
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“I have no problem with the commission, but I think that the commission is going to come back and disappoint a lot of people,” Reid said. “I think they’re going to come back and say, we should just kind of leave it alone.”
Washington Post headline above an article that explained why I have relatively little to complain about. Key word in that sentence being
relatively. It appears above an article authored by three
Post reporters: Annie Linskey, Jeff Stein, and Ashley Parker. With that headline, the
Post hits the trifecta. It’s patronizing, demeaning, and sorta, kinda accurate. All at once. Let’s start with the so-called accuracy. It’s true, as a leftie, I’ve never felt so much love from the centrist wing of the Democratic Party. It’s not just President Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure bill, which comes on the heels of his $1.9 trillion COVID relief legislation.
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(Photo : Mario Tama/Getty Images) Supporters Of President Trump Demonstrate At Arizona Capitol After Biden Wins Elections
PHOENIX, ARIZONA - NOVEMBER 07: Supporters of President Donald Trump listen to the national anthem at a ‘Stop the Steal’ rally in front of the State Capitol on November 7, 2020 in Phoenix, Arizona. News outlets project that Joe Biden will be the 46th president of the United States after a victory in Pennsylvania with Kamala Harris to be the first woman and person of color to be elected Vice President.
The Arizona attorney general asks two Arizona senators a no vote to the Democrat H.R. 1. The new bill rammed by House Democrats which hedges election in their ill-favor.
Democrats currently have an opportunity to swiftly erase much of the damage that Donald Trump’s administration inflicted on workers, consumers, immigrants, the environment, and pretty much every vulnerable group in the country. But this opportunity will not last forever; in fact, the window is closing quickly, and will slam shut by early April. Yet Democrats have shown virtually no interest in seizing the moment. They are, in short, refusing to use one of the most powerful tools they received upon winning control of Congress.
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That tool, the Congressional Review Act (or CRA), is a powerful yet obscure law passed in 1996. It allows a new Congress to roll back the clock on the previous president’s regulatory agenda. Every administration issues new rules on a vast variety of issues the Department of Labor sets overtime standards, the Environmental Protection Agency restricts toxic chemicals, and so on. By favoring large corporations and industries, Trump’s regulatio