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Justice Stephen G. Breyer announces his retirement, clearing the way for President Biden to make his first appointment to the Supreme Court.

Justice Stephen G. Breyer will retire, clearing the way for President Biden to make his first appointment to the Supreme Court.

League of Women Voters of Southern New Mexico seeking nominations for 2022 Democracy Award

Have an ambassador in our embassy, as long as we have a democratic president, because republicans wont allow that anymore, and also, we have this guy whos left over from the trump, heres whos running our national postal service now, and hes a guy whos under fbi investigation, we know, and under him apparently we cant figure out how to mail things to your country anymore. weve given up on that is a logistical challenge, i just want to warn, you are not going to be able to send a thank you note th...

How you change it. whats yours? they say we know you change it because we used to be able to post a story about an ag agriculture policy then when you changed your system, we dont get traffic for that anymore. the only time we get attention and clicks is if we say negative things about our opposing political parties and we dont actually want to do that, but you changed your algorithm. so what that shows is that we dont have the sort of invisible hand of the political marketplace in choosing, wer...

Up, whos down question. president biden was elected 81 million people, sent him to the pinnacle of power to try to see if democracy can deliver, if democracy can work in an era of weaponized propaganda, in a domestic sense, high anti-immigration sentiment, corrosive identity politics, which all of which are perennial forces in american life, but which are flowing at such a pace right now that to torture the metaphor a bit, the waters are about to jump the levee. and so i think that what i hope w...

Votes and who decides if the will of the people in a certain state gets to count? >> well, i honestly dont see them getting to 60. the question is, will there be enough pressure brought to bare to reform the filibuster at least to the extent that we can recognize this is a matter of civil rights? this is not, in all due respect to us actually having infrastructure. this isnt about building a bridge. this isnt about deciding what military base gets funding. this is the heart of the matter. this i...

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the annual luncheon could not happen this year. Credit: League of Women Voters of Midland Author: Zach Leff Updated: 9:17 AM CDT April 3, 2021 MIDLAND, Texas — The League of Women Voters of Midland has announced Judge Robin Malone Darr as its 2021 Making Democracy Work Honoree.  "Judge Darr exemplifies every quality it takes to make democracy work in Midland County," said Karmen Bryant, LWV Board President. "We are so proud to hav...

Abuse of power. i think the american people, democrats and republicans want to make the democracy work. and its not about politics. if it was about politics then we would have never been to this point. >> neil: there is a sense here that it could backfire on democrats and it pushes this vote, if it comes to a vote, around the holidays or slightly thereafter. we are right into the caucuses in the primaries and all the senators are running for president. i think there was six of them. they are a t...

Democrats were at a 9/11 and in the course of their commemoration.h investigation, have people in the trump organization lied to >> if this is the way you them, is that another charge? believe democracy work, shame oi you. so this is just the beginning to >> when "all in" starts right pull this yarn on this sweater. now."a good evening from new >> let me ask you this, nick, for people, cynthia was just hampshire. talking about cy vance, so im ali velshi in for chris hayes. manhattan district a...