The Supreme Court of the United States consists of 9 members appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate.
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The Judiciary Democrats' tough questioning of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh exposed his absolute contempt for workers' rights and immigrants' rights. Organized labor is marshaling forces to put the pressure on.
They're...
by Joan McCarter
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on Wed Sep 12, 2018 at 01:15 PM PDT
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Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders’ (I. VT) re-election campaign:
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I. VT)
by poopdogcomedy
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on Wed Sep 12, 2018 at 12:12 PM PDT
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Republican Maine Sen. Susan Collins is rallying the right wing to push back against people-powered democracy in her home state. Mainers for Accountable Leadership, the Maine People's Alliance, and Be A Hero, founded by national health...
by Joan McCarter
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on Wed Sep 12, 2018 at 11:32 AM PDT
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Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) can't get her story straight. Up until now, she's been insisting that she's not hearing from her constituents on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court like she did on Affordable Care Act repeal. So why should...
by Joan McCarter
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on Wed Sep 12, 2018 at 10:29 AM PDT
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Schumer needs to be willing to play as dirty as McConnell to win back the Senate, save the judiciary Mitch McConnell has a number of tools at hand to try to divert that "shipwreck" Senate Republicans are fearing in November's election. Like this sledgehammer: keeping the Senate in session in October, and keeping the 10 Democrats running for...
by Joan McCarter
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on Wed Sep 12, 2018 at 09:57 AM PDT
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The Judiciary Committee is still at work behind closed doors. What is out of sight should not be out of mind however.
I have been calling Republicans suggesting that a vote for this nominee at this time, given everything THEY know from the...
by hummingbird4015
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on Wed Sep 12, 2018 at 10:03 AM PDT
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National polling by CNN conducted at the end of hearings for Brett Kavanaugh show that he's hardly more popular than the unindicted co-conspirator who nominated him. Just 38 percent of Americans say he should be confirmed, while 39...
by Joan McCarter
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on Wed Sep 12, 2018 at 07:18 AM PDT
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Sen Whitehouse Questions Kavanaugh’s Gambling Habits, Debts and Spending-IT’S NOT OVER- KEEP CALLING www.huffingtonpost.com/...
I don’t have time to do more than just put this HuffPo article out there. If someone else does an in depth I’ll take mine down. But this is important news.
by hummingbird4015
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on Tue Sep 11, 2018 at 08:45 PM PDT
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The following is my letter to Senators Collins and Murkowski.
Please consider the words of Abigail Adams to her husband in the year 1776:
“…by the way in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would...
by rvtravel
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on Tue Sep 11, 2018 at 03:16 PM PDT
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Follow me on Twitter at @MattBors and check out the comics magazine I’ve launched at The Nib .
by Matt Bors
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on Wed Sep 12, 2018 at 04:50 AM PDT
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There were so many issues involving stolen emails and perjury and torture and war crimes going on in Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation hearings last week that senators didn't have an opportunity to get around to a major...
by Joan McCarter
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on Tue Sep 11, 2018 at 02:11 PM PDT
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Let’s begin with areas of agreement:
There is a very slim path to Democrats taking back the Senate in 2018, emphasis on the “very.”
There is no path to Democrats taking back the Senate ...
by bunnygirl60
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on Tue Sep 11, 2018 at 04:11 PM PDT
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Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) is apparently so afraid of getting a primary challenge from the right in 2020 that she's willing to lose all of the moderates, the independents, and the Democratic women who have supported her in the past. In...
by Joan McCarter
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on Tue Sep 11, 2018 at 08:29 AM PDT
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Three Republican judges go into a St. Louis courtroom in March; an anti-abortion opinion-flouting Supreme Court precedent walks out in September. Is it any surprise, as emails surface in which Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh circulated articles...
by Rebecca Pilar Buckwalter Poza
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on Tue Sep 11, 2018 at 10:57 AM PDT
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The most important consideration when choosing a justice for the SCOTUS is their and our view of the US Constitution, government and human rights. Some think we get our rights from the constitution. Others, including myself believe it is the other...
by PhotonDemon
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on Tue Sep 11, 2018 at 07:14 AM PDT
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In his response to Kamala Harris's question about whether he thought "both sides" were to blame for the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Kavanaugh demurred, saying "the principle of the independence of the judiciary means I can’t...
by Jen Sorensen
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on Tue Sep 11, 2018 at 04:50 AM PDT
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To get Collins and Murkowski against Kavanaugh, Schumer has to whip Democrats into united opposition Campaign Action
The only two even remotely likely Republican senators to oppose Brett Kavanaugh are Susan Collins (ME) and Lisa Murkowski (AK), and their opposition is less likely than you may think. Both are feeling pressure at home, Collins from...
by Joan McCarter
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on Tue Sep 11, 2018 at 06:10 AM PDT
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The right to have an abortion in the United States could either be overturned entirely or whittled down enough to be meaningless by next summer, if Trump nominee Brett Kavanaugh becomes a Supreme Court Justice. Planned Parenthood has...
by Joan McCarter
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on Tue Sep 11, 2018 at 07:08 AM PDT
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Maine Sen. Susan Collins has made a career of late out of being willfully dumb about Republicans' true intent. She did it for months on the Affordable Care Act and taxes, and she's been doing it for weeks on Brett Kavanaugh, the...
by Joan McCarter
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on Mon Sep 10, 2018 at 12:21 PM PDT
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As the country anxiously watches the Senate Judiciary Committee conduct hearings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation as a Supreme Court Justice, the nation’s political dialogue has been ablaze. Not to be left out, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce...
by Chamber Watch
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on Mon Sep 10, 2018 at 12:02 PM PDT
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