But it was the Republican Supreme Court — mostly men again — that put the shiv a little deeper in democracy’s back this week. Originalists or textualists, all sounded more or less Trumpist as they seriously entertained Trump’s argument that his assaults on the constitutional order are protected by the Constitution itself. There is no way to make honest sense of such a liar’s mash. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-04-26/donald-trump-supreme-court-justices-corruption
So far, all the pressure on Biden has come from those seeking an end to the violence. . . . On Wednesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson called Biden “an anti-Israel president.” If Hamas, Hezbollah, or another ally of Iran were to launch a deadly attack during a pause in weapons shipments, GOP hysteria would reach the stratosphere … https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-04-11/biden-s-gaza-mistake-could-haunt-him-in-november
The official GOP position is that Republican lawyers are such incompetent buffoons that they couldn’t win a single election case even in front of Trump judges, and that Trump is such a weakling, coward and fool that he let old Joe Biden rob him of victory and chase him from the White House even as Trump controlled the executive branch. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/03/26/rnc-2020-election-stolen-trump-hiring/
Frustrating article that makes good points about the flaws in the nonpartisan top-two primary system, but doesn't mention reforms that would fix it. In passing it says "Alaska has its own variation" of a non-partisan primary, but that variation (#RankedChoiceVoting) fixes all the problems listed in this article!
@alan hi, Alan. If the Top 4 primary had been in effect in Ca this time, then it would simply have reconstituted the primary field — Schiff, Garvey, Porter, Lee. I’m not sure how that solves anything.