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Top Democrats had immediate, lukewarm reactions to a bill that proposed expanding the number of seats on the Supreme Court from nine to 13 members, seemingly putting the legislation on hold.
But the bill s Democratic sponsors indicated that the purpose of the legislation is primarily to be a building block and tool to garner more support for packing the court with more members who are ideologically friendly.
Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey and House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, along with Reps. Hank Johnson of Georgia and Mondaire Jones of New York introduced the Judiciary Act of 2021 on Thursday.
Minutes before the lawmakers introducing the legislation began a press conference about the bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi threw cold water on the effort: “I have no plans to bring it to the floor,” she said, redirecting attention to President Joe Biden s 36-person commission, which is set to spend 180 days studying whether and how to alter the Supreme Cour
by Matt Baume • Feb 25, 2021 at 2:05 pm
Minnesota s Angie Craig presides over the vote with a fetching mask. CSPAN
The House just voted by a slim margin to approve the Equality Act, 224 to 206. The breakdown looks pretty much exactly how you’d expect, which is that the Democrats voted for equality and the Republicans didn t. Sponsored
The gist of the Equality Act is that it would add gender identity and sexual orientation to a list of already-protected classes, so you couldn’t be fired or expelled or evicted on those bases. Seems like a good idea, but of course Republicans are jumping on the opportunity to pretend they care about a Culture War skirmish, and are flagging their opposition as if this sort of thing actually matters to them. (It is darkly hilarious to see conservative members of Congress act like they have ever given a shit about the sanctity of women’s sports.)
Yet in March, Lawson, who is Black, queer, an activist, social media pioneer, vegan, a veteran, and a musician, will become Reconstructing Judaism’s inaugural director of racial diversity, equity and inclusion. (Reconstructing Judaism is the central organization of the Reconstructionist movement of Judaism.)
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Revoking Trump s Military Transgender Ban Isn t Enough | Opinion Kristin Beck On 1/26/21 at 6:57 PM EST
I am not jumping for joy.
Don t get me wrong, this is great news but it was already done in 2016 by President Obama and fully supported by Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter. The policy was overturned by President Trump with another executive order. Now the tennis ball has been hit the other way. Meanwhile, there are over 15,000 transgender Americans serving in uniform at this time in history. Thousands more were kicked out or left the military due to President Trump s banishment. Thousands of highly qualified and trained military personnel were unceremoniously dismissed from military service.