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The lawsuit seeking to transform Wisconsin into a democracy, explained.
In fact, Tennessee is located roughly 1,700 from Mexico and borders Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia
Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., suggested on Monday that Tennessee residents want a "wall" on state's southern border to guard against illegal immigration – even even though Tennessee is not located along the U.S.-Mexico border.
"Tennesseans want a wall on our southern border," the conservative tweeted without any further explanation.
The comment bewildered many critics online, many of whom noted that south Tennessee is bordered by Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi – none of which border Mexico.
"YOUR southern border is with Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia, MORON," tweeted political commentator Keith Olberman.
"In Joe Biden's America, people can just cross between Alabama and Tennessee at will!" joked Ian Millhiser, Senior Correspondent at Vox.
Historian Kevin M. Kruse also chimed in, saying that he was "surprised Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia haven't already built one there themselves" given the "sheer amount of stupidity Republicans are pushing on the state."
Blackburn, a stalwart conservative, has been a fierce critic of Biden's immigration policies. Back in August, the Tennessee lawmaker introduced a bill that would defund Amtrak in order to fund Donald Trump's failed border wall. Blackburn has also proposed a measure with Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex., designed to preserve Title 42, the Trump-era policy that allowed border patrol agents to mass-expel thousands of migrants over COVID-19 concerns.
Blackburn came under fire recently during the March confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Jackson Brown, the first Black woman and former public defender to sit on the bench.
In one exchange, Blackburn demanded that Brown define the word "woman," alluding the recent debates around transgender identity. However, Brown declined to indulge the senator, noting that she's "not a biologist."
Days after the back-and-forth, Blackburn was asked to define the word herself. According to HuffPost, the Tennessee Republican dodged the question three times before answering: "Two X chromosomes."
However, not every person who identifies as a woman has two X chromosomes. And some people, like those with Swyer syndrome, have both an X and a Y chromosome, even though they have biologically female reproductive organs.
He has fought to undermine voting rights his entire career.
“Preclearance — requiring states to get federal permission before changing their own voting laws — was an “extraordinary” measure adopted to “address an extraordinary problem,” Roberts claimed. Yet, nearly a half-century after the Voting Rights Act first became law, “the conditions that originally justified these measures no longer characterize voting in the covered jurisdictions.” Black voter turnout “has come to exceed white voter turnout in five of the six States originally covered by” Section 5, Roberts claimed.
Preclearance worked. So there was no longer any need for it.
There are a number of fairly obvious criticisms of this argument. One of the most famous was raised by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in her dissenting opinion: “Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.”
Never underestimate what an intellectual genius Justice Ginsburg was. There are many reasons why she IS a hero.
There's a lot of nostalgia for the Warren Court among democrats. There's a lot of liberals who think that what we're about to live through with Gorsuch and Kavanaugh is the anomaly, and that we've got to protect the court because the REAL Supreme Court is whatever Warren did. And if you look at the long arc of the supreme court's history, it's Dredd Scott, it the Lochner era, it's Korematsu. The Warren Court was the anomaly.
Ian Millhiser
(via Neil Gorsuch’s very first decision on the Supreme Court was to let a man be killed)
Three words: "the unitary executive."
Article: future US tariffs
An article I came across by Ian Millhiser: Trump’s tariffs could tank the economy. Will the Supreme Court stop them? Of interest, I think, to: Anyone interested in the future of the economy and inflation based on Trump’s own statements Anyone who voted due to concerns about the economy
