To recap, the D-controlled House *passed* two Covid relief bills; the R-controlled Senate hasn’t taken one up yet. The Trump White House repeatedly calls off negotiations with the House; when talks do go forward, the Senate refuses to attend.
The biggest apparent problem in the process is that the Republican leadership in the Senate does not have enough votes in its own conference to pass any relief bill and is unwilling to pass a bill (and potentially defeat its own members’ filibuster$ with Democratic votes.
Accordingly, McConnell has been almost entirely disengaged from the issue, aside from the occasional press release and a proposal that lacked his own party’s support. He doesn’t bring anything to the floor, doesn’t allow committee work, doesn’t go to meetings.
Before the election, with Republicans unable to move anything themselves, the big gambit was to see if Pelosi would pass McConnell’s proposal *before* he put it on the senate floor.
McConnell’s proposal is chock full of poison pills for D members, like corporate liability protection for covid claims, and Pelosi wouldn’t do it. To that extent, Ds are dug in. But it pales in comparison to R Senators neither moving their own bills nor working on a compromise.
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If you’re not familiar with PACER, each court has a separate site with its own login and it’s a huge hassle.
... it also means the chances of *the system* filing something in the wrong jurisdiction are essentially zero. An attorney or paralegal having an extended brain fart could pull it off; but there’s like no conceivable technical glitch that would file your suit in the wrong court.
I read this more as Barr signaling his more Trumpy US Attorneys to shoot their shot—and I’d hazard a guess he is looking at McSwain in particular—rather than ordering up a probe of specific subject matter ala Durham.
This is probably where the donor money goes, putting Rudy and Pam and probably the little warlord Harlan and his “team” up at the Four Seasons downtown.
Media decision desks were willing to call Virginia for Biden when he was behind in the tabulation, but they are letting us go through a long national game of ‘99 bottles of beer on the wall’ with Pennsylvania. Am I right to think this is bc calling PA is calling the presidency?
The votes have been CAST—in many cases postmarked and given to the federal government—but they still need to be COUNTED. Every vote needs to be counted.