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Court and other judicial vacancies. what has changed here is obviously the republican senate under mitch mcconnell. mitch mcconnell has frozen judicial nominees and famously refused for the first time in history to even hold a hearing to consider or look like the senate was considering barack obama's nominee for the supreme court merrick garland. now, republicans are writing to reap the rewards of that unusual or unprecedented strategy. depending on how you see it, this was either an unprincipled, unprecedented power grab of the worst kind or maybe just the shrewd politics that has come to def...

As people started tuning in to c--span to see something different, the cameras cut out. recess. republicans said that the house was in recess. more importantly that met the chamber would have its cameras go dark and so they wouldn't broadcast a thing. but luckily for those opposition protesters who were all democrats in this instance, their message still got out from the house floor. for more than 25 hours they continued their protest and it was actually seen because they themselves livestreamed it on these new apps that allow these kind of broadcts straight from anyone's smartphone. namely ap...

Territories the and our democrats abroad. i'm running for all of them. our problem, ari, was we sort of got drunk off the fact that we were able to elect president obama in 2008 and 2012 and we forgot how we were actually able to do that, how we took back control and that was with howard dean's 50-state straj gee. we stopped investing in state parties. as a result the party infrastructure was broken. that's how republicans now control 33 of 50 governorships. that's why they control 69 of 99 statehouses and we've lost over a thousand or almost a thousand democrats in state legislatures the over...

Differently and they're right now arguing that republicans should actually be forced to pay a price for it, otherwise, liberals warn, that rewarding the tactic will only further normalize it. an unusually scathing christmas day editorial, for example, "the new york times" said basically the republicans supreme court maneuver was a robbery, the crime that can only be put right by the nomen ais of a centris to the bench. pat leahy called the blockade, quote, the most outrageous act of obstruction and irresponsibility he's seen in, count them up, his 42 years in the senate. others want a leveling...

Now, in the end, that particular instance was considered pretty effective at getting attention. they didn't ultimately get that instant vote they were asking for on the gun bill. but as they marched out of the capitol more than 25 hours after the protests began, those democrats were greeted by something members of congress do not seed all that often outside the place where they do business. a crowd of spontaneously cheering supporters of people psyched and inspired by something that happened on the floor of congress. the reason all this is interesting right now is because today there's an upda...