Why wasn't this done before? Because dems want to play nice-nice with repubs?

Hopefully the gloves are off for good. Let the senate get rid of all of its archaic rules set up to inflate their egos and sense of being "better than the house".

The filibuster has got to go. Get rid of all senatorial courtesies.

You can't play nice-nice with people that are not acting in good faith. If there are any good republican senators, you had better expose yourselves or be swept out with the other Trump enabling toadies.

If the tapes do cast Mr. Cameron in a poor light, his political career in Kentucky is probably over, shortly after it started...

I would hope that there is some penalty other than the potential of an aborted political career. Perhaps disbarment?

Trump is going to prison and his (remaining) assets will be seized and auctioned off.

But I can't help but lay some at the feet of those who value their jobs more than public health, the very thing they spend their careers supposedly trying to improve.

EXACTLY! These people are civil servants and so a certain degree, relatively immune from firing except for cause. Political operatives, in retaliation, might try to transfer the person to Timbuktu, but at least they would still have a job. I suspect that there is some type of appeal process that would delay/prevent an actual transfer but at least the person would have a job. And, given a change in administrations, defiance of an unethical/non-professional order might be rewarded!

peace force

I like that!

This is what most people are talking about when they say "defund the police". Defund doesn't mean taking police budgets to zero; just using some of that budget to fund a "peace force" composed of social service and mental health peace officers.

I don't think in terms of prison. I think is terms of watching Trump's mighty gold plated empire crumble under the weight of his greed and insatiable thirst for power coming home to roost.

Because of his campaign finance violation(s), Trump, like his partner in crime, Cohen, will be sentenced to prison. Somewhere near the end of his sentence, NYC and NY State will have revealed Trump's other criminal activities (i.e. money laundering, tax fraud, etc.?) which will bring the feds back into the picture. Trump, not only stands to lose his freedom, he stands to lose his assets. Finally, the Russians will have to gloat and let it be known just what they had on Trump. This will serve notice on the other repubs that they have their claws into that they had better play ball.

If Trump wins and the dems take the senate and keep the house, Trump is facing a bleak future because of NYC and NY State. If it becomes public that Trump has committed NYC or NY State crimes, he's toast. His presidency is over because the HOR will impeach and the Senate will convict.

Republicans up and down the ballot need to lose and lose bigtime. For the most part, they are liars, cheats and anti-democracy. There is no negotiating with them.

Hopefully the size of their loss in Nov will empower those with some degree of sanity (i.e. Lincoln Project) to regain the reins of power and do the type of outreach to a changing demographic that would allow them to be a modern, forward looking party.

That's why an attorney for Taylor's boyfriend Kenneth Walker, who fired at the police during the raid, is demanding that Cameron release the evidence that was presented to the grand jury.

Taylor's boyfriend's attorney needs to figure out a way of suing the PD to bring forth the information that may have been suppressed.

They're coming out of the woodwork now. Christian church leaders, police officers, politicians...

Good. It will be easy to identify them once Trump is out of office.

"We do believe it was a coverup from go. They always intended to sweep this under the rug as if Breonna Taylor's life didn't matter," Crump told CNN's Anderson Cooper Thursday.

Crump said the three-page police report that said there were no signs of forced entry was filled with lies. He went on to say that "they had the audacity to say there were no injuries, yet Breonna was executed there in the hallway of her apartment."

I wonder if Fox News will mute the audio when they televise his appearance?

They did! They just talked right over it.

That had to be galling!

I wonder if Fox News will mute the audio when they televise his appearance?

Maybe I am whistling past the grave yard, but I have enough faith in the American people and the judicial system that gives me faith that Biden will win. With that faith, this election could be the election that STRENGTHENED America because it will highlight the structural fault lines that threaten our democracy; the lines that Trump and bad faith repubs were able to exploit.

The HOR is working on a bill that will fix some of those structural problems. However, from what I have heard of the bill, much, much more work needs to be done to prevent another POTUS from ever abusing his/her power in the way that Trump has.

A question I have not yet seen a complete answer to is: why did the police make the mistake of going into the wrong apartment in the first place?

The police were at the RIGHT apartment but at the WRONG TIME. At one time, the man they were looking for, Taylor's previous boyfriend, used to live at that apartment. I haven't heard when he moved out. In any event, the previous boyfriend was ALREADY IN POLICE CUSTODY at the time of the raid.

What's even more troubling is that an attempt was made to get the previous boyfriend to Taylor in his criminal activities. The boyfriend refused.

During the televised statement yesterday, the AG stated that even though the police had a No Knock warrant, they knocked and announced themselves. This is non-sense! Why would they do that? But, one civilian came forth to state that the police did knock and announce themselves. However, what's missing from the AG's statement was that multiple other witnesses, including the current boyfriend, said they did not knock or announce themselves. When you consider that someone unsuccessfully tried to get Taylor's previous boyfriend to implicate her, it makes you wonder whether or not they incentivized someone to state that the police did not. By not having a trial, Taylor's attorney can not get to assess the truthiness of the lone witness to the knock and announcement.

Finally, the current boyfriend was initially charged but later released. They also falsified the police report. If the police did it fact knock and announce their presence, I would expect the current boyfriend will be re-arrested and charged with interference in the lawful execution of a warrant. I suspect that he won't be charged because then his attorney would rip a gaping hole in the AG's decision. If I were a member of Taylor's family, I would use some of the proceeds of the settlement to pay the attorney fees of the current boyfriend so that he can sue the PD and expose the injustice that has taken place.

Unless they never again win the House, Senate and White House simultaneously, the constitution gives Democrats plenty of ways to restore our democracy even without resorting to McConnellism or Trumpism. They can expand the electorate by restoring the Voting Rights Act, making voter registration universal, and passing comprehensive immigration reform. They can blunt (if not entirely offset) the GOP's Senate advantage by granting statehood, and two senators apiece, to Puerto Rico and Washington DC. They can undo the effects of McConnell's court-packing by expanding the bench " not just the supreme court, but lower courts as well.

What's notable about all of these positions is that they stop far short of what the constitution allows. They don't involve granting voting rights to recent immigrants, splitting California into seven states, restricting the supreme court's right to review most cases, or any other long-shot scheme. In other words, should Democrats ever regain power in Washington, they won't have to choose between ambition and caution. They can exercise both " and thanks to favorable demographic trends and the overall popularity of much of their policy agenda, they can be confident that they can maintain power by reflecting, rather than ignoring, the people's will.

The reason repubs are ok with Trump's actions AT THIS TIME, is because they know that a demographic change favoring democrats is happening and this is their final gasp at holding onto power.

I am not at all upset or surprised by repubs action to replace RBG during the final year of a presidency because if Biden wins, this action, with the help of a dem senate, can be nullified and other disastrous Trump policies can be erased. Furthermore, I feel that TREMEMDOUS pressure will be placed on Biden and other dems to FULLY implement the hardball solutions outlined in the article.

Even if Biden doesn't win and the dems retain the HOR and take the Senate, Trump's goose is cooked; he will be impeached, convicted and tossed onto the street so NYC, NY State and the feds can have a run at that fat @$$.

The nightmare scenario is Biden loses and repubs retain the senate.

If dems are fortunate to take over congress and the White House, they must understand that half measures WILL NOT WORK. They must go all in. The current crop of elected repubs are bad actors, are anti-democracy and are acting in bad faith. They can't be negotiated with.

Are their jobs and incomes expendable in the name of being so righteous? The man apologized. He can't take it back

Whatever happened to people taking personal responsibility for their actions? He did something that he admitted was wrong. Now it is time to pay the piper. Why is that a bad thing?

Saying you're wrong and expecting no adverse consequences is a child's way of thinking of things. There needs to be consequences to bad behavior lest there be more bad behavior. People must think before they act; not just of themselves but of others that may get hurt.

Not only should the dems pack the court they should reorganize how it works. Expand the SCOTUS to have dozens of judges. Although 9 judges would hear a case, the 9 judges selected to hear a case would be chosen by lottery. With such a scenario, MULTIPLE supreme courts could be operational at the same time. Multiple supreme courts would also help reduce any backlog of cases that might arise.

Such an approach would also reduce the partisanship associated with the selection of supreme court justices.

He did not address the NAACP's call for his mayoral resignation, but did ask that people consider the hundreds of South Carolina workers Palmetto employs before boycotting the brand.

Why is it that he thinks other people should be considerate when he obviously wasn't considerate of people supporting the BLM movement? He should have been thinking about his employees before making such a dumba.. comment.

If Trump wins re-election, and Dems win the Senate, is everyone okay with Trump never getting another SCOTUS pick?

If Trump wins re-election, and Dems win the Senate, Trump will be impeached, convicted and on-the-run from NY City, NY State and the feds.

Trump-loving Anti-Masker Dies from Covid-19

Can't fix stupid.

Just saw this article:

Statement by U.S. Conference of Mayors on DOJ Announcement Regarding New York City, Portland and Seattle

There are state and municipal level national associations i.e. National Governors Association, United States Conference of Mayors, etc. Blue state governors and mayors need to make it known that their organizations need to take a public position regarding Trump's efforts to penalize blue states or blue cities lest the same thing happens to red states/cities when a democrat becomes POTUS.

MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction) worked to keep things in check with the Soviet Union. The same type of strategy needs to be deployed by dems wrt to repubs. Repubs need to know that dems will play just as hard as they do otherwise, dems and the people that support them will be the door mats of American society.

The only reason that many people support dems is that repubs are worse.

A few weeks ago, I was called a "monster" for suggesting that teachers may lose their jobs if they don't go back to the classroom. I was not advocating that they lose their jobs just suggesting that innovation, technology and need would combine to reduce the importance of face-to-face teacher/student contact which could result in the loss of teacher jobs.

Remote learning with the student staying at home is not a viable solution because parents can't leave their children at home alone while they go out and earn a living. And what do you know: along comes Prenda to fill the gap.

I do not advocate Prenda but, with some enhancements (i.e. require more training, accountability, background checks, certifications, etc. on the part of guides), the "concept" of Prenda could be a platform to build on. In fact, un-employed teachers with children of their own could become guides for children similar in age to their own. While the teacher is instructing their own child(ren), they could be instructing other children.

A major question to be answered is where to get the content that would be used to "guide" the students. Answer: the school system could have teachers make a video their classes and make those videos available to the "guides".

Teachers won't like the concept of Prenda; there is no security, no union, no pension, etc. They would become just another cog in the gig economy. But, if we can't get back to face-to-face teacher/student interaction, something akin to Prenda could be in our future.

Recent guidance from the CDC indicates that 6 feet is not enough distance between people in an indoor situation to prevent the spread of the virus. The only way out of this pandemic is an accurate, rapid (i.e. a few minutes or less), cheap and easy to administer test. People, in large numbers, will not take any vaccine authorized by Trump administration officials until it becomes obvious that it is safe and effective. So, alternatives to large gatherings that will allow people with school age children to get back to work may be with us for a while.

Should a Scotus Confirmation occur before the election, consideration must be given to packing the Court if we are able to elect a Dem majority in House, Senate and win the Presidency.

EXACTLY! In fact, I would go so far as to say even a confirmation is made AFTER after the election and Biden wins, packing the court should occur.

Biden has already stated that he wouldn't consider packing the court which brings me back to the problem with Biden: he is to wedded to the idea of the senate being an august, honorable institution; the most deliberative body in the world. I am afraid that he won't take the steps necessary to recognize just how far the senate has moved away from what he thought it was. He, in effect, wants to make the senate great again (MSGA).

Biden is going to tick off a lot of his supporters but (hopefully) they will hold their noses and vote against Trump.

The joy of receiving more money in your paycheck will quickly evaporate when it comes time to pay your taxes. By then, elections are over and Trump will achieved his goal of making people think that he has increased their pay.

It won't work. Trump will lose and will eventually go to federal prison unless he resigns and Pence pardons him. Even then, NY State prison has a cell with his name on it.