Both senate races for Republicans and Democrats are on the June 16 runoff in Alabama. So glad Norm Eisen and his team are filing briefs in the Alabama districting maps the 3 judge court ruled on this week.
Senator Andy Kim's attempt to inspect the Delaney Hall detention center in New Jersey this week met confrontation outside the facility's gates. The right of a sitting senator to conduct that inspection is a constitutional instrument of oversight, one that exists because Congress appropriates the money that runs the facility and the people whose representatives authorized that spending retain an interest in knowing whether it operates as represented. Whatever one's view on immigration enforcement, the question of whether Congress can verify what it funds belongs to every citizen whose representative sits on the relevant appropriations or judiciary committees.
Those representatives should be asked directly whether they intend to find out.
Constituents' voices need clear, low friction channels to the chamber.
In California, the concern is not that we get ONE Republican on the general election ticket, but that we get TWO. They have fewer candidates running than Dems do, so it's possible that two Reps as top vote getters if Dem vote splits among too many candidates. One Rep & one Dem is the desired outcome here, and it's likely the Dem will win in November.
Both senate races for Republicans and Democrats are on the June 16 runoff in Alabama. So glad Norm Eisen and his team are filing briefs in the Alabama districting maps the 3 judge court ruled on this week.
Senator Andy Kim's attempt to inspect the Delaney Hall detention center in New Jersey this week met confrontation outside the facility's gates. The right of a sitting senator to conduct that inspection is a constitutional instrument of oversight, one that exists because Congress appropriates the money that runs the facility and the people whose representatives authorized that spending retain an interest in knowing whether it operates as represented. Whatever one's view on immigration enforcement, the question of whether Congress can verify what it funds belongs to every citizen whose representative sits on the relevant appropriations or judiciary committees.
Those representatives should be asked directly whether they intend to find out.
Constituents' voices need clear, low friction channels to the chamber.
In California, the concern is not that we get ONE Republican on the general election ticket, but that we get TWO. They have fewer candidates running than Dems do, so it's possible that two Reps as top vote getters if Dem vote splits among too many candidates. One Rep & one Dem is the desired outcome here, and it's likely the Dem will win in November.
Thanks for promoting the League of Women Voters Vote411.org website as a reliable resource for voters!
My “Good Trouble” bracelet is my favorite accessory!
Thank you, Norm and your legal compatriots, the ACLU, for your fight to defend our democracy.
Trump is trying to get his chunk of the world. South American countries cooperating with him are ignorant fools.
We should be 'attcking' Republicans directly. Hold demonstrations in front of their local offices.
Thank you for this important information and the links.