Senate rules require a “supermajority” – 60 out of 100 senators, including both Democrats and Republicans – to pass major legislation. But presidents have found it difficult to fulfill the promise of bipartisanship, which would require negotiation between Democratic and Republican leaders and the agreement of substantial numbers of lawmakers from both parties.
NYPD Reformer s City Council Candidacy Finds Financial Support From Fellow Officers
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When NYPD Lieutenant Edwin Raymond blew the whistle on alleged arrest quotas pushed by the department, he became a target of scorn and derision from his superiors who wrote poor job evaluations, which hobbled his career. His revelation that a numbers-obsessed NYPD was purposefully arresting Black and brown New Yorkers as a means of being proactive which he opposed despite confidants advising he keep quiet earned him national prominence and exhortations from supporters to run for office.
Five years after secretly recording superiors pressing him to meet arrest quotas, which resulted in an ongoing federal class action lawsuit filed by 12 officers (Raymond included) against the city, he took his supporters advice by running in this year’s Democratic primary for Brooklyn s 40th Council District. The winner of the pri
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Iowa voters are likely to see constitutional amendments involving hot-button issues on their ballots in 2022 and 2024 and Republicans say the measures create an opportunity to drive up engagement and turnout during two high-stakes elections.
The Republican-controlled Legislature has advanced measures this year that would enshrine in the state Constitution protections for firearms owners and limit them for people seeking abortions.
The firearms measure is set to appear on the ballot in 2022, sharing space with high-profile elections for governor, all four congressional districts and Chuck Grassley’s seat in the U.S. Senate. Gun rights are a key issue for the Republican Party’s core base of voters, and the ballot measure will appear before voters at a time when Democrats control the White House and Congress, potentially stoking Republican fears about new limits on access to guns.
Editorial
Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his administration made a critical mistake in March 2020 by ordering nursing homes to accept COVID-19 patients for recovery thus bringing the coronavirus into the place it was most deadly. And worse much worse it has now been confirmed that the governor and his appointees tried to cover it up by withholding statistics about the deaths that resulted from this mistake. Thanks to state records the Associated Press obtained this week after six months of resistance by the Cuomo administration, we now know more than 9,000 recovering COVID patients were moved from hospitals to nursing homes early in the pandemic as a result of this state Department of Health directive. From those 9,000, the virus spread to workers and fellow residents. Thousands of nursing home residents died of COVID-19 around that time, and it only stands to reason that many would still be alive if the virus hadn’t gotten into their homes through these hospital transfers.