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The glaring flaw in the GOP's new talking point on Georgia voting The idea that that Colorado and Georgia are effectively the same in imposing voting restrictions is demonstrably ridiculous. A voter drops an election ballot off at the Pitkin County Administration box in Aspen, Colorado, on Nov. 6, 2018.Anna Stonehouse / The Aspen Times via AP April 6, 2021, 6:56 PM UTC BySteve Benen Major League Baseball recently pulled its All-Star Game from Atlanta in response to Georgia's new voter-suppression law. The exhibition will instead be played this year in Denver. And that, evidently, gave some Re...

Biden's presidency may seem dull compared to the head-spinning drama surrounding Trump's first month, but let's recalibrate what constitutes "interesting."

The problem with the Republicans' 'offer' on a COVID relief package Republicans apparently expect people to believe legislation should be assessed, not on its merits, but in its capacity to make the GOP minority happy. Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, left, and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington on Jan. 15, 2020.Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images file Feb. 1, 2021, 1:00 PM UTC BySteve Benen As Democratic officials move forward with an ambitious COVID relief package, Senate Republicans have focused on two principal concerns. The first is that i...

Rand Paul heard Joe Biden denounce political extremists, and for reasons he did not explain, the senator took offense.

The soon-to-be-ex-president tried to pressure Republican legislators to overturn the election results in the states where Biden’s margin of victory was narrow. They rebuffed him. His legal team filed 59 suits to subvert the popular will — and lost every one of them. The president has even tried to enlist the help of the Supreme Court, which pointedly ignored him. All of these strategies have failed. Despite many accusations of fraud, the president and his party have been unable to produce even one piece of credible evidence. Wherever recounts took place — two counties in Wisconsin, st...