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MADAME SPEAKER, YOU ARE NO SUFFRAGIST…

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Madame Speaker, you and you alone have setback the hard-earned, hard-fought suffragist movement decades in mere seconds by appallingly ripping up the President’s State of the Union address behind his back last night. Your thoughtless, disrespectful, angry behavior as Speaker of the House NOT Speaker of the Progressive/Neoliberal Party would never have been achieved without […]

MADAME SPEAKER, YOU ARE NO SUFFRAGIST…

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by Helen C. Tansey February 5, 2020 Frances Perkins: “The door might not be opened to a woman again for along, long time and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and […]

‘No Blank Check for War’: House Votes to Bar Trump Military Action on Iran…

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On Thursday the Democratic-led House passed legislation to stop funding for military action in Iran and to repeal the 2002 war authorization for Iraq — which multiple administrations have based unilateral military actions on without the approval of Congress. Predictably, Trump has threatened to veto both bills amid an ongoing struggle in which doves in […]

Day Five – Senate Impeachment Trial, Defense Begins – 10:00am Livestream…

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There will be 24 hours of presentation by House Impeachment Managers (over 3 days); 24 hours of presentation by Defense team (over 3 days); 16 hours of Senate questioning; 4 hours of closing arguments, equally divided; and then a Senate debate/vote on further motions to include witnesses. If there are going to be witnesses, they […]

‘The Origin of The Feces’ – White House Lawyer Patrick Philbin Explains House Circumvention of Constitution During Impeachment…

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As 21 different state attorneys general noted earlier today, there are several reasons why the impeachment effort is unconstitutional. These are not process arguments; they are factual arguments central to the constitutional framework of our government. The failure of a full House vote to authorize the House Judiciary Committee to pursue evidence -via enforceable subpoenas- […]

Impeachment Managers Must Now Choose the Disastrous or the Unpalatable…

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John Kenneth Galbraith once described politics as “the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.” Those words could not more aptly describe the choice now facing the House managers who lost this case before it began — not because of the Republican majority but because of the House managers’ own historic blunder in […]

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