Let’s review the bidding on the #ChamberofCarbon climate efforts. It started when InfluenceMap nailed @USChamber as “worst climate obstructor in the U.S.” Some companies griped about being associated with that brand and demanded better climate performance from #ChamberofCarbon.
#ChamberofCarbon responded by corralling those companies into a climate “conversation” that has now been going on for over two years. Every good climate thing goes to climate conversation, where it dies. But not the bad stuff.
All the Chamber’s fossil-fuel-funded evil bypasses that “conversation” and goes straight into operations, including #ChamberofCarbon attack right now on climate-aware Fed nominee Raskin and opposition to climate-friendly reconciliation bill.
Outside HFC legislation (which doesn’t trigger fossil fuel interests), the “climate” stuff #ChamberofCarbon has supported has no significant effect on emissions reduction.
In sum, they remain a bad net negative against getting on a pathway to climate safety. They are still a top U.S. obstructer.
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Americans hate politicians picking their voters by gerrymandering. SCOTUS just decided a big case on this issue, and it’s good news/bad news.
Partisan gerrymandering, corrosive and undemocratic, is fueled by dark money groups with big-donor agendas too unpopular to win a fair fight. It’s that simple.
Dark money uses sophisticated mapping to weaponize gerrymandering for special interests. SCOTUS decisions opened the door for gerrymandering, worsening partisanship and dysfunction.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is a thoroughly qualified nominee. She will bring to the Court a wealth of experience, a sharp legal mind, and a firm commitment to equal protection under law. I look forward to considering her nomination in the Judiciary Committee in the weeks ahead.
I hope my colleagues across the aisle consider Judge Jackson in good faith, as our Founders envisioned when entrusting the Senate with the responsibility to provide advice and consent.
Even before this nominee was named, the right-wing donors who packed the Court under President Trump sought to disparage Justice Breyer’s replacement, alleging the same dark-money scheme that they, themselves, hatched and executed.
Gerrymandering at its worst because Supreme Court at its worst said political gerrymandering cases were “non-justiciable” despite lower court cases finding “justiciability.” washingtonpost.com/opinions/inter…
Easy to spot: significant unexplained difference between statewide vote and delegation make-up (i.e. 50/50 and 13-5). Plus trial discovery showed redistricting mischief in plain view.
Easy to repair: approve maps, with benefit of doubt to those drawn by bipartisan commissions.
The attack on Biden’s Supreme Court nominee has begun, spearheaded by the Judicial Crisis Network, and it all boils down to one thing: dark money.
Can we start with the fact that the Judicial Crisis Network is not even a real organization, but a “fictitious name” of another organization, one of several “fictitious names”?
Throw in the secret donors, and it’s so gross it would gag a maggot.
In 2011, the Supreme Court’s conservative justices opened the floodgates for dark money with Citizens United, allowing unlimited spending in our politics. Right away, a network of right-wing groups, donors, and non-profits sprung up and got to work.
Here’s the deal. Once Senate debate on a measure ends, you can pass the bill with a simple majority vote. So if you’re willing to outlast the other side, you don’t need cloture. This could take weeks, as other Voting Rights bills did, but we have a few tools that help.
One is my DISCLOSE Act being in the bill. Republicans must vote against it for their dark-money donors, but that kills them with voters. Ditto gerrymandering. Lots of focus on those painful votes for them in the bill will help.
Another is the Senate speak-twice rule. Senators who’ve spoken twice on a question can be ruled out of order if they keep at it. That’s why real filibusters were long, uninterrupted speeches. Not one and done, but two and done. (Yup, that’s 100 speeches by Rs — sorry!)