It's not cool to admit this but it sucks that I've spent 15 years building up an audience on this platform and then a billionaire bought it on a lark and turned it into a megaphone for the far right
IMO, we should probably focus less on who gets into Harvard, which is not that important, and more on supporting the educational institutions where most racial minorities and children of working families enroll
To recap: Supreme Court justices nominated by a president who lost the popular vote and confirmed by Senators representing far less than half the country have eliminated abortion rights, green-lighted anti-LGBTQ discrimination, and ended affirmative action.
"Florida governor and presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis signed a bill Thursday that would allow for roads across Florida to be made with "radioactive" mining waste that has been linked to cancer."
This is important as it completely undercuts the claim of the IRS whistleblower, who says Weiss wanted to charge Hunter in DC but was blocked by Graves
RT @ChadPergram@twitter.com
1) From colleague David Spunt. Spokesperson for DC US Atty Matthew Graves on Hunter Biden case: "As the Attorney General has said, U.S. Attorney Weiss was given full authority to bring charges in any jurisdiction he deemed appropriate."
"Aides said he talked about Ivanka Trump's breasts, her backside, and what it might be like to have sex with her, remarks that once led John Kelly to remind the president that Ivanka was his daughter"
6. It's unlikely that the three liberal justices who signed onto Roberts' majority opinion wished to endorse a controversial aspect of Bush v. Gore. But it was the price for avoiding a more extreme outcome.
3. Roberts ruling, however, comes with a potentially significant caveat.
He says while state courts can review actions of the legislature on election issues, federal courts can overrule state courts if they "transgress the ordinary bounds of judicial review"
4. WTF does that mean? Well, Roberts is essentially establishing a concurrence in Bush v. Gore as precedent
In that case, 3 justices wrote that the Florida Supreme Court's order to recount certain ballots exceeded "ordinary statutory interpretation" and was invalid.