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Gerrymandering: We are given reason to hope
OK, the Supreme Court Gill decision would have sunk me into the earth if I weren’t already there, given all the horrors surrounding us nowadays. And I was so, so crossing all my fingers and toes that Kennedy would determine … Continue reading
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Tagged Brennan Center, gerrymandering, Gill v Whitford, James McGill Buchanan, June 30 immigration protest, Justice Kennedy, Koch Bros final solution to democracy, Nancy MacLean, political gerrymandering, SCOTUS, SCOTUS decision on gerrymandering, Supreme Court of the United States, Thomas Paine Park, Tom Paine
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Charles Blow takes on the Koch Bros Final Solution to Democracy
Charles Blow has been admirable and staunch in his delineation of Trump and his destructive administration. I read each of his essays with a loud “Yes!” Today he widens his view and, I think, writes perhaps the most important and … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Blow, Democracy in Chains, Foyle's War, James Buchanan, Koch Bros final solution to democracy, libertarianism, Nancy MacLean, Trump
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Guns: “How the NRA Rewrote the Second Amendment”
Source: How the NRA Rewrote the Second Amendment – POLITICO Magazine A fascinating, beautifully written 2014 piece by Michael Waldman, the President of the Brennan Center, reproduced today given what happened in Vegas. When I say, “beautifully written,” I mean … Continue reading
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Tagged " George Mason University, "liberatarianism" and gun rights, Antonin Scalia, Brennan Center, DC v Heller, Democracy in Chains, gun control, gun nuts are racist, Jack Rakove, Michael Waldman, Nancy MacLean, NRA, Patrick Henry and gun rights, Politico, Second Amendment, the War Between the States, Thomas Jefferson and gun rights, Volokh Conspiracy
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