Put grocery tax cuts back on the table in the Alabama Legislature
The Montgomery Advertiser 1 day ago Seton Parsons © Jake Crandall/ Advertiser Shoppers roam during the opening of the new ALDI grocery store in Montgomery, Ala., on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019.
In the United States Supreme Court case of New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann, Justice Louis Brandeis posited that states serve as laboratories of democracy, trying novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.
If this theory holds true, then Alabama legislators must revel in their role as mad scientists.
Lawmakers in Montgomery have met for fifteen of the thirty regular session days so far this year. During that time, the Alabama Legislature has grappled with some of the most important issues of our time, such as a bill that would lift the ban on yoga in public schools. Even though the yoga bill mandates exclusively English names for poses and prohibits namaste greetings, t
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“We are here today because the United States Supreme Court is broken, it is out of balance and it needs to be fixed. Too many Americans view our highest court in the land as a partisan, political institution, not our impartial judicial branch of government,” Markey said at a press conference.
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The effort is the latest salvo in progressives’ effort to expand the Supreme Court amid liberal outrage over recent Republican appointments.
Democrats were infuriated when Senate Republicans denied then-President Obama the ability to fill a vacancy in early 2016 on the premise that a seat should not be filled in an election year.