Fox News is repeatedly lying about H.R. 1 and S. 1, the For the People Act, which recently passed in the House of Representatives and now is before the Senate. Most of the falsehoods pushed by Fox are recycled from past right-wing voter suppression efforts, but challenges to the constitutionality of the bill are a new twist.
However, the false claims that the For the People Act is unconstitutional because it asserts federal control over the states are an ahistorical “caricature of an argument.” Rather, this lie is in part a byproduct of a failed argument of the former president in his efforts to baselessly challenge the legitimacy of the 2020 election results. Worse, the argument is an ugly reminder of the type of voter suppression the Reconstruction amendments and the civil rights movement were supposed to prevent.
What Ohioans get from the COVID bill
Here s how Brown s office breaks it down for Ohio:
• More than 5 million households will receive a total of $14 billion in stimulus checks.
• The poverty rate for Ohio children will be cut almost in half, from 11.4% to 5.8%, and the deep poverty rate would be sliced by almost two-thirds because of additional aid in the bill.
• Families of 92% of Ohio’s children will benefit from the expanded, and now refundable, Child Tax Credit. That gives parents a $3,000 credit for every child age 6 to 17 and $3,600 for every child under age 6 (up from $2,000 per dependent child up to age 16).
As C&L previously reported, Ali Alexander (formerly Ali Akbar) has claimed that he “came up with the idea of January 6th, when I was talking with Congressman Gosar, Congressman Andy Biggs, and Congressman Mo Brooks.” Now, reporter Luke O Brien (sadly, just laid off) has done a very deep dive at HuffPost into Alexander’s journey from right-wing blogger and tweeter to Tea Party and MAGA activist that makes his claim quite believable. He has also been drawn into circles with some very big Republican names.
For example, the Koch brothers:
Early in his career, Alexander appears to have come to the attention of Mike Roman, the head of Charles and David Koch’s “competitive intelligence” team, a surveillance and intelligence-gathering unit that the Koch Industries brothers used to monitor and counteract liberal groups and activists. Roman, one of Alexander’s first Twitter followers, took to occasionally boosting the young operative’s account. Roman would go on to work for T
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The 12 state coalition of Republican A.G.s claims Biden overstepped his authority.
(Trent Nelson | Tribune file photo) Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes joined a coalition of Republican attorneys general in suing the Biden administration over an executive order on climate change.
| March 9, 2021, 6:49 p.m.
Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes is joining a coalition of 11 other states to sue President Joe Biden over an executive order that seeks to establish the “social cost” of greenhouse gases. All of the states involved have Republican attorneys general.
The order directed a group of agencies to calculate the social cost of carbon emissions, which will assist the administration in determining the pros and cons of potential regulations of greenhouse gases. The Obama administration set that cost at $50 per metric ton, while the Trump administration dropped that to just $7 per metric ton. The Biden administration says it will temporarily return to the Obama administration’s