Al Franken used the blue slip to block radical right David Stras Chuck Grassley blew up the norm to put Stras on the 8th Circuit bench. Now Stras is blowing up what is left of the voting rights act.
The outrageousness of the Eighth Circuit’s #votingrights decision blocking private action to defend access to the ballot is captured well by @AdamSerwer. He notes it ignores “Congress’s intentions, Supreme Court precedent, and decades of practice.” https://t.co/czhPG1FYLM
Tim Scott announces a "Made in America" strategy that will create high-tech manufacturing jobs in the U.S.
Biden is already doing this—and Sen. Scott voted against the bill that made it happen.
10 November 1929 | A Czech Jewish woman, Helga Hošková-Weissová, was born in Prague. Today she turns 94.
Deported from #Theresienstadt ghetto to #Auschwitz in Oct 1944. Her father was murdered in a gas chamber. Helga & her mother were moved to Freiberg & liberated in Mauthausen.
“A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons.”
-- Hillary Clinton, right about everything
He couldn't even control himself in court, FFS.
.@Kasparov63: "The fight against authoritarianism is like a game of chess: it’s black or white, but this is not like chess. There is no draw. You win or you lose." https://t.co/wmAAE7PUYM
Trump continues to cite Viktor Orban as his model European leader. Hungary has had 20% inflation over the past year and has been in recession since Q3 of 2022. Story …https://t.co/4wcuLT17Za
Trump wants to send the military after Americans on Day 1 of a 2nd term:
“…his associates drafting plans to potentially invoke the Insurrection Act on his first day in office to allow him to deploy the military against civil demonstrations.”
https://t.co/Ujgrp7zx1K
We just learned our economy created 150,000 jobs in October – bringing the total since I took office to 14 million.
That's on top of an unemployment rate that has stayed under 4% for 21 months straight, the longest stretch in over 50 years.
Bidenomics is working.
Good morning to readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.
But Crimea remains in Russia’s grasp.
Meet the commander forming a Crimean battalion to take back their land from Russia.
The time to liberate their stolen home has come, he said.
https://t.co/FmHUglP6hI