Greg Abbott signed legislation that prohibits cities from requiring employers to give water breaks to construction workers.
This nullified laws that were passed to prevent workers from heat exhaustion during extreme Texas summers.
Folks, this is the GOP's vision for America.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that the Supreme Court has an ethics problem when two justices independently accept — and fail to disclose — luxury travel from GOP megadonors who have had cases before the Court.
Hello?
Justice Alito justified his estimated $100k ride on a billionaire’s plane for a luxury fishing trip to Alaska, saying the seat was vacant. Turns out the seat was intended for an eight year-old Make-a-Wish Foundation who always wanted to catch a halibut.
Nothing says the Supreme Court needs a code of ethics like a justice accepting free luxury travel from a GOP billionaire megadonor, and then failing to recuse himself when that donor had business before the Court.
How we beat back the corporate takeover of America:
1. Break up corporate monopolies
2. Continue building union power
3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics
Let’s keep working to unrig the system.
So let me get this straight: Every single federal judge in every single jurisdiction in the U.S. is subject to a binding code of ethics — except the justices on the single most powerful court in the country?
Hello?
I've heard political analysts say that they would support a Trump pardon if, among other things, he admits his guilt. I disagree. Trump is a liar. He would go right back to claiming to be a victim, and our country would live through another 200 years of division.
Folks, the struggle of our time is not left versus right, Democrat versus Republican.
It’s a struggle for democracy versus authoritarianism.
Know the stakes.
The richest 1% accumulated nearly twice as much wealth as the rest of the world put together over the past two years. It's not radical to tax the rich. It's radical to allow this level of extreme wealth concentration to continue.
A history of the top marginal tax rates on the wealthiest Americans:
1940: 81%
1950: 84%
1960: 91%
1970: 72%
1980: 70%
1990: 28%
2000: 40%
2010: 35%
For 50 years, corporate backed politicians in Congress have slashed taxes to line the pockets of their wealthy donors.
Classified documents that Trump allegedly stored at Mar-a-Lago included details about U.S. defense and weapons capabilities, as well as information about nuclear programs.
This is what Republicans are defending?
I don't want to hear another word about "law & order" ever again.