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Commentary Look at the county-by-county voting map of the country by party. What you observe is an ocean ...

Next five days or so. ryan, take us inside the courtroom on the other side of the january 6th investigation which is a sentencing for a guy, because he is from jersey, he didnt know congress met in the capitol, which even he acknowledges, in his words, that it is id ottic, right? >> i will say for the record, that not only some not know that they meet in the capitol but nazi sympathy as well. the judge openly read the sentence of four years and that is below what the prosecutors had gone for six...

When one political party, be it Democratic or Republican, controls the executive and both legislative branches of the federal government, the checks and balances inherent in the U.S. Constitution fail

Scandalous, blockading of my constituent, merrick garland, who of course now is attorney general. but theyre refusing to conduct a hearing for him in the last year of the term, a rule which they proceeded to violate the moment that trump got in, and he was able to nominate somebody at the very last minute. given that 6 to 3 majority, i would tend to favor the nomination of someone who will be able to speak out as forcefully for the democratic constitution, thats a small d, democratic constitutio...

Forcefully for the democratic constitution, thats a small d, democratic constitution. just as scully did for a right-wing conservative prosecution. if you look at a majority of the constitutional amendments adopted since the bill of rights, theyve been about democracy expanding, suffrage extending movement and the country. women suffrage, and the 15th amendment to dismantle race barriers, and the 17th amendment to allow for direct election of u.s. senators, and so on. thats the meaning of our co...

Down in the fine print, that folks often dont read, and if they do, theyll never get through the phone tree to find snoob complain about it and try to strike it out of the contract. its a take it or leave it proposition. build into that th youve given up your right to a jury. your 7th amendment right to a jury. that is right in the bill of rights. and i cant think of another right that the course pays less attention to or throws more readily under the bus if you read the mandatory arbitration da...

0 of marriage, correct? >> i am aware there are various religious faiths that define marriage in a traditional way. >> do you see that when the supreme court makes a dramatic pronouncement about the invalidity about state marriage laws, it will inevitably set in conflict between those who ascribe to the supreme courts edict and those who have a firmly held religious belief that marriage is between a man and a woman? >> well, senator, these issues are being litigated, as you know, throughout the ...

Commentary The 17th Amendment transferred elections for the U.S. Senate from the state legislatures to the general electorate. ...

Philonise so eloquently said, it shouldve been maximum because we seem to have a dual justice system in america. we know for african-americans would have did something as heinous as that, he would have been put in prison for life, if not worse. and so we have to continue to fight to get accountability and the 7th amendment -- the george floyd justice act, which you have been saying long before george floyd, long before michael brown, reverend al, you have been calling for a police reform on the ...

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