If you wanted to design a presidential ticket most likely to offend women voters, you would pick as the presidential nominee an adjudicated rapist, someone caught bragging about sexually assaulting women and who comes with a history of demeaning and insulting women. You would make it someone who mused about punishing women for having an abortion and who boasts about taking away women’s bodily integrity.
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/… Then, for vice president, you would find someone who has implied women should to stay in abusive relationships (he denies that’s what he meant but listen for yourself), wants to ban abortion even in cases of rape and incest, favors a “federal response” to prevent women from traveling to states where abortion is legal, accuses single women (“childless cat ladies”) of lacking a stake in America’s future, votes against protection for in vitro fertilization and wants higher taxes for childless people. (He later said he had not meant to offend cats.)

The reckless, unfounded impeachment and shutdown are a test for the mainstream political media; Will they avoid both siderism and place Rs under a microscope. I hope I'm wrong but I doubt it. It is not "The White House says there is no evidence." It is "There is no evidence."

Apparently, neither the media nor supposedly sober Republicans have learned anything from the past
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/… From the coverage, you would never understand how incoherent he sounds, how far divorced his statements are from reality, and how entirely abnormal this all is. Talk about burying the lead.

Excellent. And you know what their nagging sense that despite originalist interpretation no help can be extended to minorities and the sense that overwhelming white advantage is the norm/default? White supremacy. You don't need a hood to adopt that mindset.

https://twitter.com/Dahlialithwick/status/1587223766345678849

when they say they don't care about diversity, they are endorsing white domination of institutions. they want them to reflect THEM not the American "We the people..."

The overall impression was that Vance is a smarmy lightweight beholden to extremists. Ryan’s performance is mandatory viewing for Ds. He repeatedly took down his opponent without appearing nasty. His tone was more incredulous than angry.
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/… Ryan looks like a regular guy. He appeared totally at ease, often standing with one hand in his pocket. His entire persona reinforced his message that he’s part of the “exhausted middle class,” as he put it.

Walker might be the most egregious Republican candidate since Trump himself, personifying the party’s abject disregard for character and cynical attitude toward public service. In this mind-set, politics is not about problem-solving or public service.
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/… This is a game of revenge, owning the libs and tearing down institutions — part of a long mass primal scream from those who resent their loss of status in a country that is increasingly secular, diverse and urbanized.

one of his strongest policy areas: Americans 53 - 43 percent approve of Biden's plan to cancel some federal student loan debt for Americans earning less than $125,000 a year
poll.qu.edu/poll-release?R… Americans 18 - 34 years old (69 - 26 percent) and 35 - 49 years old (58 - 39 percent) approve of Biden's plan

For starters, we should keep in mind that they are not only lying about the 2020 election, repeating the thoroughly debunked falsehood Biden was not legitimately elected. In no other era would a natl party have nominated such crackpots to any office, let alone gov or U.S. Senate. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…

Kagan: The maj says it is simply “not plausible” Congress enabled EPA to reg power plants’ emissions through generation shifting. Ante, at 31. But that is just what Congress did when it broadly authorized EPA in Sec 111 to select the “best system of emission reduction” And even then, it does not address straight-up what should be the question: Does the text of that provision, when read in context and with a commonsense awareness of how Congress delegates, authorize the
agency action here?

So let’s take a moment to review the totality of evidence concerning Trump’s seven-part plan to overturn to election, as the committee presented thus far, and where the investigation goes from here.
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/… The red-herring issue of Trump’s intent has also been thoroughly crushed.

an immediate test for opponents of forced birth: defeat the Kansas referendum on Aug. 2. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/… “The constitutional amendment on the Kansas ballot will mandate government control over our private medical decisions and pave the way for a total ban on abortion — with no exception for rape, incest or to save the mother’s life.”

Only in the 20th century did some states affirm women's right to hold property or take out credit or hold certain professions. Gay people and minor children had no rights to speak of, nor did the physically or mentally disabled.
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/… This court declares we are stuck with the precise state of the law pre-civil rights, pre-women’s rights, pre-modern.

let's get creative: a woman from a state that bans abortion should get in-state tuition at schools in states that protect women's autonomy. Private schools should offer hardship scholarships. expedia and other travel sites should offer full refunds to anyone who wants to drop travel to a forced birth state and rebook in a pro-woman state.

you know what else is protected by substantive due process, Justice Thomas: Meyer v. Nebraska and Pierce v. Society of Sisters - right to send your kid to a private school. oh, and parental rights: scholarlycommons.law.hofstra.edu/cgi/viewconten…

He clarifies that guns can be prohibited in “sensitive” places (perchance the Supreme Court building?), as opposed to general public spaces. But again, where does this rule come from?
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/… He adds, “Even if a modern-day regulation is not a dead ringer for historical precursors, it still may be analogous enough to pass constitutional muster.” If that is not a recipe for confusion and endless litigation, I am not sure what is.

Congress conducted its 9/11 investig not to change public opinion about Bush but to construct a definitive account of the first attack on the homeland since Pearl Harbor, apportion responsibility and make recommendations to protect us.
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/… If the committee demonstrates that and fits the facts into the criminal code, it will “matter” for those who want to know what happened on Jan. 6. It will matter in that it will assign responsibility to Trump officials and any other Republicans involved

First, one has no wonder whether “trust” in govt is akin to “liking the direction the country is heading” — a sentiment few people ascribe to. These are cynical times, when complaining about government (not to mention a great deal else) is in vogue.
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/… Second, the media plays a large role in shaping negative opinions about government and denigrating good-faith efforts at governance. Consider NYT headline showcasing reporters’ habit of casting serious, conscientious efforts as nothing more than partisan food fights.

Whenever the government has attempted to control women’s reproduction, an extraordinary degree of surveillance, intrusion and spying has been required. Whether it was Ceausescu’s infamous Decree 770 of one-child in China
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/… since the “crime” takes place in a woman’s womb, the enforcement mechanism by necessity will be intrusive.

@VP says it exactly right at @emilyslist : "a direct assault on freedom, on the fundamental right of self-determination." Yes. she should embrace this as her issue, making the pitch exactly as she did

right-wing maj eager to cast aside the restraints of precedent, making good on supporters’ Christian nationalist agenda. Assuming life begins at conception they'd impose a faith-based regimen shredding a half-century of legal and social change.
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/… By moving in such a radical fashion, these justices risk setting off a political firestorm and encouraging calls to rein in the court either by “packing” it or by dispensing with lifetime tenure.

McCarthy has done the worst thing imaginable for someone in the MAGA movement: incurred the wrath of the top dog in the GOP — not the defeated former president (who had forgiven him and seemed pleased that McCarthy had knuckled under).
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/… He now feels compelled to lie or deflect questions about these conversations for fear that he will lose the confidence of Republicans he considered a menace to the country — and whose support he craves to grab the speaker’s gavel.