Following the practice of ignoring precedent, an appellate ruling seeks to destroy consumer and investor protection.
— Read on prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/another-sweeping-far-right-court-ruling/
Category Archives: GOP
Justice Department Sues to Compel a U.S. Businessperson to Register Under the Foreign Agents Registration Act
Justice Department Sues to Compel a U.S. Businessperson to Register Under the Foreign Agents Registration Act | OPA | Department of Justice
— Read on www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-compel-us-businessperson-register-under-foreign-agents-registration
Sore loser Madison Cawthorn threatens Dems and GOP with “Dark MAGA” in cringeworthy tweet
A wounded Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R–NC) didn’t take his defeat in Tuesday’s primary race too well, angry at Democrats, angry at Republicans, angry with the world. So he took to Instagram today to lash out with a long, ridiculous, babbling post that seems more like bad sci-fi prose than the reflections of a Congressman.
— Read on boingboing.net/2022/05/19/sore-madison-cawthorn-threatens-dems-and-gop-with-dark-maga-in-cringeworthy-tweet.html
Shocker — 2020 Census That Trump Admin Messed With Was Historically Inaccurate
Music, Film, TV and Political News Coverage
— Read on www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-census-2020-wilbur-ross-1355783/
Republicans Just Voted Against Feeding the Baby They’re Forcing You to Have
192 House Republicans voted against a $28 million emergency funding bill to address the baby formula shortage.
— Read on www.vice.com/en/article/bvn9ba/house-republicans-baby-formula-shortage
Pretty Weird How Republican Megadonors Keep Getting Popped For Being Unregistered Chinese Agents, Huh?
It’s always, always, always projection with these people.
— Read on abovethelaw.com/2022/05/pretty-weird-how-republican-megadonors-keep-getting-popped-for-being-unregistered-chinese-agents-huh/
Las Vegas Newspaper: We Struggle To ID GOP Candidates Who Aren’t Threat To Democracy
The Las Vegas Sun issued a desperate plea to non-MAGA Republican candidates.
— Read on www.huffpost.com/entry/las-vegas-newspaper-gop_n_6285ed69e4b00685b6691865
Ted Cruz target of bar complaint for role in undermining 2020 results
A group of lawyers says Cruz played an outsized role in the efforts to void the 2020 election results and accuses him of repeatedly making false claims about voter fraud.
— Read on www.texastribune.org/2022/05/18/ted-cruz-donald-trump-complaint-texas-bar/
Tucker Carlson Shares Blame for Buffalo Supermarket Attack
Payton Gendron’s racist shooting rampage in a Buffalo supermarket caused conservatives to defend Tucker Carlson, an advocate of “great-replacement theory,” a conspiracy theory that inherently lends itself to violence.
— Read on nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/05/tucker-carlson-buffalo-supermarket-attack-great-replacement-white-nationalism.html
Grooming America’s Domestic Terrorists — Elise Stefanik pushed ‘replacement theory’ that inspired Buffalo shooter. Got free ride in media.
No. 3 in GOP House leadership, the New York Republican is more influential than Cawthorn, Gosar, Greene and others. And promotes white supremacy just like them.
— Read on signorile.substack.com/p/elise-stefanik-pushed-replacement
Hate and white supremacy are now fixtures of American conservatism
The American right put out a welcome mat for hate. And the casualties pile up.
— Read on www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/15/buffalo-shooter-hate-tucker-carlson/
Thread by @MattLRobison
@MattLRobison: I want to offer a reminder of history – one that really matters now.Key point: the American religious right made abortion their big issue *not* out of moral conviction, but as a tactical choice to……
— Read on threadreaderapp.com/thread/1524098806345830407.html
Scrutiny of Republicans who embrace ‘great replacement theory’ after Buffalo massacre
Extremist ideology has found favor with media figures like Tucker Carlson and also with elected politicians and others seeking office
— Read on www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/16/buffalo-massacre-great-replacement-theory-republicans
Zelenskyy meeting with a bunch of people who thought extorting him wasn’t worth impeaching a President over.
If you’ll starve an immigrant baby, it still means you’ll starve a baby.
Samuel Alito’s False Call To Return The Issue Of Abortion To ‘The People’
Through their voting rights and gerrymandering rulings, the Supreme Court’s conservatives have limited who “the people” even are.
— Read on www.huffpost.com/entry/samuel-alito-roe-democracy_n_627d144fe4b0f0ea7afdcf21
Even NC ‘bathroom bill’ defender Pat McCrory is now too ‘liberal’ for extremist MAGA Republicans
Back in 2016, then-North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory was praised by many social conservatives for supporting NC House Bill 2 —the so-called “North Carolina bathroom bill,” which banned transgender Americans from using public restrooms for the gender they identified with.
— Read on www.rawstory.com/even-nc-bathroom-bill-defender-pat-mccrory-is-now-too-liberal-for-extremist-maga-republicans-report/
How do you solve a problem like Alito? – by Luppe B. Luppen
May 11, 2022
— Read on www.nycsouthpaw.com/p/how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-alito
DeSantis-appointed judge says his map is an unconstitutional assault on Black voting power
Smith, who was appointed by DeSantis, said the map diminishes Black voting power.
— Read on www.salon.com/2022/05/12/desantis-appointed-says-his-map-is-an-unconstitutional-on-black-voting-power/
Stop The Republican Steal — Republicans respond to potential South Philly ‘ballot harvesting’ by GOP operative with firings, campaign attacks
PHILADELPHIA — The fallout from the discovery of a potential GOP “ballot harvesting” operation in South Philadelphia continued Tuesday, as two state party staffers lost their jobs, the matter became fodder for attacks in the Republican primary for governor, and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle jockeyed to define just what the situation said — or didn’t — about the security of voting by mail. Republican Party officials fired Shamus O’Donnell, 27, and C.J. Parker, 24, both of whom had been affiliated with the Republican Registration Coalition, the political action committee behind the South …
— Read on nordot.app/896943827028213760