I posted on a related thread; reposting here because highly relevant:
Of those who plan to vote by mail for the first time, 70% identify as Democrats, 13% are independents, and only 16% Republicans .
So the Repugnants are terrified and will stop at nothing.
You be bad.
She believes whatever her fucking masters tell her to believe, and that includes her husband, her church/cult and the Federalist Society.
Isn’t this the same “Conservative” court that backed away from fairness by insisting that gerrymandering, no matter how unfair, was the bailiwick of the individual states? Now the “Conservatives” on the court want to interfere with the process of elections in those states.
This x1000
I just had to say that I really really really enjoy your twisted sense of humor! It brings a great deal of lightness to Very dark subjects. Thank you!
Did you read about Manafort’s state charges over at Politico?
A four-judge New York state Supreme Court appellate panel unanimously ruled Thursday that the state’s double-jeopardy law — aimed at preventing reprosecution of defendants on the same or similar charges already faced in federal court — barred a 16-count indictment that Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. brought last March.
Think a Trump pardon might be in the cards?
That right there is called a psychotic break.
Daylight savings time is Nov 8 this year.
And white of course.
As long as they have an idea on how to handle the succession in Vermont. Leahy is up in 2022, at age 82, and would be going for a NINTH term if he stayed on, and then you would have a special for Bernie’s seat too. And the state has a habit of electing Republican governors…
President Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order creating a new classification of “policy-making” federal employees that could strip swaths of the federal workforce of civil service protections just before the next president is sworn into office.
The order would create a new Schedule F within the excepted service of the federal government, to be composed of “employees in confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating positions,” and instructs agency heads to determine which current employees fit this definition and move them—whether they are members of the competitive service or other schedules within the excepted service—into this new classification. Federal regulations stating that employees hired into the competitive service retain that status even if their position is moved to the excepted service will not apply to Schedule F transfers.
Positions in the new Schedule F would effectively constitute at-will employment, without any of the protections against adverse personnel actions that most federal workers currently enjoy, although individual agencies are tasked with establishing “rules to prohibit the same personnel practices prohibited” by Title 5 of the U.S. Code. The order also instructs the Federal Labor Relations Authority to examine whether Schedule F employees should be removed from their bargaining units, a move that would bar them from being represented by federal employee unions.
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Federation of Government Employees National President Everett Kelley
said in a statement on Thursday that the executive order is “the most
profound undermining of the civil service system in our
lifetimes.”“This executive order strips due process rights and protections from perhaps hundreds of thousands of federal employees and will enable political appointees and other officials to hire and fire these workers at will,” Kelley said.
— Tamara Cofman Wittes (@tcwittes) October 22, 2020
Motherfucker.
Free and fair whaaaa…? Oh, no, God forbid!!!
You do know that as a young attorney she worked to get absentee ballots discarded on Florida?
And referrig those gerrymandered out of power to ‘political’ means of fixing it?
Dear SCOTUS:
Save us! We went to all that trouble of defanging the Post Office and this goddamned state found a way to count mail-in ballots any way. So unfair.
The (Republi)Con Party
GMTA
I doubt that it will happen here, but Biden is wise not to rush into great changes. For one thing, even if Dems have a couple of votes to spare in the Senate, some Democratic senators will need to be brought around to get the number of justices increased.
“As part of the decree, the board also agreed to loosen up North Carolina’s witness requirement for absentee voting. The Republicans are asking the Supreme Court to block that accommodation for voters as well.”
I found that shocking, since it would effectively invalidate all mail ballots. I checked the Republican’s filing, and found that this assertion by this reporter is apparently false. In fact, the loosened witness requirement was enacted by the legislature, and not by the Board as asserted here. That’s 10 demerits for Tierney Sneed!