Constitutional amendment tracker

https://united4thepeople.org/amendments/

This page tracks the resolutions in Congress proposing Constitutional Amendments to overturn various aspects of Citizens United v. FEC.

Charlie Cooper

Majority-Republican Committee in Texas move forward with articles of impeachment on AG Ken Paxton

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/state/2023/05/25/ken-paxton-impeachment-recommendation-texas-attorney-general-investigation/70258573007/?utm_source=usatoday-dailybriefing-strada&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=narrative&utm_term=narrative&utm_content=usat-8872UT-nletter02-weekday

The charges are somewhat similar to what Clarence Thomas has done. The Committee moved very swiftly, and it will now go to the floor of the Texas House.

Charlie Cooper

Chief Justice Roberts issues new statement on SCOTUS ethics

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/chief-justice-john-roberts-defends-supreme-courts-highest/story?id=99568601

A total nothing-burger.

Charlie Cooper

Minnesota enacts National Popular Vote Interstate Compact

https://minnesotareformer.com/2023/05/24/minnesota-lawmakers-bring-national-popular-vote-one-step-closer-to-reality/

With the addition of Minnesota (10 electoral college votes), the NPV nterstate Compact, which would assure that the winner of the popular vote becomes President, now has 205 of the 270 electoral college votes it needs to take effect.

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Republican Secretary of State reelected after rejecting election denialism

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/once-again-gop-voters-reject-election-deniers

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State-level voting restrictions keep piling up

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/08/us/politics/voting-laws-restrictions-republicans.html

With less publicity, Republicans in state legislatures, with funding from a network of billionaires, continues to pass laws making voting access more restrictive.

Charlie Cooper

Republican voters reject election deniers in primaries

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-nightly/2023/05/17/another-rough-day-for-election-deniers-00097548

Primaries of May 16, 2023, showed Republican voters rejecting candidates who made election denialism centerpieces of their campaigns.

Charlie Cooper

Sen. Joe Manchin is getting the most money in Congress from oil and gas industries

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2023/05/manchins-vows-to-block-radical-climate-agenda/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=manchins-vows-to-block-radical-climate-agenda%2f5%2f12%2f2023&emci=3645e6be-0ff1-ed11-907c-00224832eb73&emdi=985f8118-11f1-ed11-907c-00224832eb73&ceid=8234144

He vows to oppose any Biden nominees to EPA.

Charlie Cooper

The Court SHOULD be delegitimized

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/12/opinion/clarence-thomas-supreme-court-legitimacy.html

NY Times  opinion columnist says the Court is and has been an unaccountable branch of government that caters to the needs of the wealthy class. Working people should not accept it.

Charlie Cooper

Big money Dem funder opens up on his election strategy

https://badnews.substack.com/p/how-democratic-insiders-are-thinking?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1711&post_id=120117553&isFreemail=false&utm_medium=email

Progressive journalist Ryan Grim interviews Dmitri Mehlhorn about his anti-Trump, pro-Israel, pro-corporate Super PAC strategy. Dmitri is linked to LinkedIn billionaire Reid Hoffman. They believe that social issues are primary and can be used or avoided (as appropriate) to get people to the polls to defeat Trump. This interview almost completely ignores bread-and-butter economic issues. Grim does a service by having this influential person talk on the record, but we learn nothing of his feelings on economic inequality, labor unions, monopoly, wages, banking, or taxing the rich.

Charlie Cooper

[The Washington Post] Judicial activist directed fees to Clarence Thomas’s wife, urged ‘no mention of Ginni’

Judicial activist directed fees to Clarence Thomas's wife, urged 'no mention of Ginni'

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/05/04/leonard-leo-clarence-ginni-thomas-conway/

Thomas did not declare this income, which went to his wife, for work in gutting the Voting Rights Act. The case called Shelby County v. Holder went in favor of those seeking to dilute African Americans votes, and Thomas did not recuse himself despite his wife's role.

Charlie Cooper

 

Did Rep. Jim Clyburn collude with Republicans to gerrymander SC congressional map?

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-rep-james-clyburn-protected-his-district-at-a-cost-to-black-democrats

The NAACP has sued calling the current SC district map a racial gerrymander. This story uncovers communication between Democratic leader Jim Clyburn's office and Republican legislative staff who were working on the map. NAACP wanted fewer black voters in Clyburn's district to create a competitive district elsewhere with the possibility of  electing two black representatives in a state where the black population exceeds 25%. Clyburn presented Republicans with a map that would increase the black percentage in his district. He denies the collusion charge.

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Harlan Crow admits paying tuition for child of Clarence Thomas

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-private-school-tuition-scotus

Billionaire Harlan Crow paid at least thousands of dollars of tuition for a grandnephew of Clarence Thomas. Thomas was the boy's guardian. Thomas failed to report the gift. The full extent of this largess is not yet known.

Charlie Cooper