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Sunday, February 02, 2025

The Honeymooners." "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet." "Leave It to Beaver." In campaign ads and rhetorical flourishes, Democrats are prone to conjuring fuzzy images of married couples sitting at their kitchen table struggling to cover their monthly bills. "Kitchen table" issues remain, at least in my party's mind, shorthand for middle-class economic struggles. In real life, however, tight family budgets aren't the only challenges folks discuss in the kitchen. Democrats too often refuse to address anything beyond what they're comfortable discussing " and our obvious discomfort talking about those other worries makes voters very uncomfortable. read more


Thursday, January 30, 2025

On May 7, 1945, Germany signed an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Reims, France, to take effect the following day, ending the European conflict of World War II. read more


Friday, January 24, 2025

With the vote split at 50-50 in the Senate, Vice President JD Vance will need to vote to break it and confirm Pete Hegseth, President Trump's pick to lead the Pentagon.


Wednesday, January 01, 2025

At least 10 people are dead and dozens injured after a driver plowed a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year's revelers in New Orleans on Wednesday, days after the vehicle was spotted crossing the U.S.-Mexico border into Texas.


Thursday, December 26, 2024

The Constitution provides that an oath-breaking insurrectionist is ineligible to be president. This is the plain wording of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. "No person shall ... hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath ... to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof." This disability can be removed by a two-thirds vote in each House. Disqualification is based on insurrection against the Constitution and not the government. The evidence of Donald Trump's engaging in such insurrection is overwhelming. The matter has been decided in three separate forums, two of which were fully contested with the active participation of Trump's counsel. read more


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Ohhh if only you all understood what's probably about to happen next, from Dan Huff via X:

DOGE, a single district judge has issued a ruling blocking the executive branch from access to Treasury data. There's a simple fix: DOJ should demand injunction bonds. 1/
This will be a repeat problem for the Trump administration, just like it was in the first term, unless something is done to rein in frivolous injunctions. Activist judges could single-handedly gum up the entire Trump/DOGE agenda. 2/
Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(c), judges can issue injunctions "ONLY IF" the suing party posts a bond to cover potential damages if they're wrong. But guess what? This rule is hardly used! 3/
When I was in the White House, in Trump's first term, I suggested this, but DOJ didn't make it happen. Imagine if we had applied this to the travel ban " activists would think twice before blocking policies with potentially billions at stake. 4/
The government has expert economists who can easily price out the cost of policies like birthright citizenship or wasteful spending. Price injunction bonds fairly, and frivolous lawsuits become a financial risk, not a free pass. 5/
Without injunction bonds, the American people bear all the costs of activists and judges blocking the agenda they voted for. Why should activists and judges get to overrule the American people with no penalty if they're wrong? Our system wasn't meant to work this way. 6/
For national injunctions, we're talking bonds in the hundreds of millions or even billions. It will become prohibitive unless the activists have a slam dunk case. 7/
If a judge tries to lowball the bond amount, it's a quick and easy reversal given the unambiguous language in the federal rules. 8/
The best part? This doesn't block activists from court; it just stops them from using preliminary injunctions to pause government action based on arguments that might not hold up in an appellate court.

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