In case you forgot, Chris Van Hollen went to the foreign torture prison to assist his constituent.

That required at least some personal bravery.

As far as I know, the Kennedy Center’s donation problems didn’t really start until after a judge told him they couldn’t put Donald Trump’s name on the building.

This is aimed at some opinions that Kavanaugh wrote that suggest that maybe Kavanaugh won’t second guess any “national security” rationale for this arch, no matter how flimsy it is.

Kavanaugh is often what passes for a swingy vote on the court nowadays.

CT is computed tomography. Lots of 3D graphics type of calculations.

The leader’s main job is fundraising. And recruiting candidates who can win. Jeffries has been very effective at both.

He’s got committee chairs / ranking members to handle specific issues.

As the article is written, it appears that Merz responded to this question with a non-answer, as politicians will sometimes do. Instead of responding directly, he went on an extended tangent about German law on Holocaust denial, which applies to German immigrants as equally as to native Germans.

And to be clear the Holocaust these laws are about is a set of events that occurred in Germany and German-controlled territory from 1933-1945. It is illegal in Germany to deny the truth that 6 million Jews and a number of others were murdered by the government during that time.

I hereby sentence him to APA Lawsuit.

That’s, uh, not what the article says.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Friday that immigrants from Muslim-majority countries must recognize Germany’s historical responsibility for the Holocaust or leave the country,

(Emphasis added.)

It’s not just a rebrand. It’s an attempt to invoke National Security Concerns ™ in the arch lawsuit. And then they’ll say the the judicial branch should not scrutinize the National Security determinations of the Executive branch.

Making Attorneys Get Attorneys.

I think the whole strategy is to win the provisional ballot fight and get the secretary of state to trigger a recount on the main ballots and hope that recount goes really well for them and shutdown any further recounting after that and then somehow keep the provisionals from ever being counted.

I think it’s a lot of hopium.

Provisional ballots are created when a voter shows up at the poll, but there’s some kind of problem with their registration that prevents them from voting. On election day the provisional ballots are tossed in a metaphorical pile labelled “in case of close race, open me.”

In most elections, the margin of victory is high enough that no one needs to open the provisional ballots or check their eligibility.

But in this race, it is close enough, so they now need to check whether each individual provisional vote is really eligible to vote or not. This is called “chase and cure,” and it usually involves tracking down and talking to the voters and others (the chase) and getting whatever documentation is missing to establish the eligibility (the cure).

The Republican party doesn’t want these ballots to be cured or counted, because they expect the votes inside to skew heavily Democratic. So they will oppose. Partly because they caused a bunch of the provisional ballots by kicking people off the rolls wrongly.

However, I think this is a pretty good position for Colom, if he has an 1,800 lead or so, and he expects any added votes to skew to him.

She’s in the same seat that was held by Strom Thurmond and John C. Calhoun. That’s just wild to think about.

And thanks to the Permian Basin, the oil and gas industry in Texas is a very, very large chunk of the United States’ entire production. And the US is a big petro state exporter.

They didn’t get control of the state senate, but they did win lieutenant governor, who is the President of the senate and has a lot of power to set the floor agenda.

It’s show your hoohaw to a doctor or submit a DNA test result.

The Washington state “genital exam” measure for girls sports passed.

They also voted down the gerrymandered map that the supreme court had to shut down three times.

Specifically, standing that the plaintiff here, an immigrant rights group, has to be suffering or has to be about to suffer, some kind of real, articulatable harm.

So the group’s argument is probably, “the group of people we represent are being harmed by these bullshit allegations.”. And the DOJ’s argument is probably like, “the group is not the people they represent. If people on the list are harmed, then they need to file their own lawsuits.”

It’s dumb. DOJ has been doing these dumbass, legalistic arguments for the last 22 months.