Thursday, March 4, 2021
Dear Editor,
A fellow Republican inquired of whether I thought as good the Resolution of Disappointment and Rebuke, drafted against Senator Ben Sasse, and passed on a majority vote by the Nebraska Republican Party State Central Committee (SCC) Saturday, 27 February 2021. I replied that my thoughts remain conflicted.
Notwithstanding that 251 individuals from SCC District (315), inclusive of nine counties, signed their names to a petition demanding Senator Sasse be censored the least of their desired penalties, which ranged from recall (unconstitutional), to resignation (a snowballs chance), to expulsion from the Republican Party (unenforceable), to Senator Sasse, one short rope, one tall tree, and some assembly required.
Letter to the Editor: Resolutions, Revelations, and Rebukes – Oh My! (3/4/21)
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Becerra hides from his record of targeting the Little Sisters of the Poor.
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Today, Xavier Becerra, President Biden’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, refused to answer questions from Senator Sasse about his longstanding legal battle to force the Little Sisters of the Poor to purchase contraceptives.
“So again, a whole bunch of words. But you know well, you’re an incredibly smart man, you know well that what the federal government did was make sure that you couldn’t target the nuns. So, you sued the federal government because the federal government said the nuns didn’t have to buy contraceptive insurance. You can put 17 layers of ‘You were following the law to go after the federal government for administering the program or doing X or doing Y that made it difficult for you to, for California, to administer the program.’ But it was just about nuns buying contraceptive coverage.
It is a time of political peril for the seven Republican senators who voted to convict the dominant figure of their party. State and local Republican parties have censured or are thinking about censuring several of those senators. And Donald Trump himself is set to re-emerge for his first public appearance as former president this coming weekend. Yamiche Alcindor reports.
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Judy Woodruff:
It is a time of political peril for the seven Republican senators who voted to convict the dominant figure of their party.
State and local Republican parties have censured or are thinking about censuring several of those senators. And Donald Trump himself is set to reemerge for his first public appearance as former president, this coming weekend.