Vox discusses why Ross Perot performed so well in 1992
Nineteen percent of the national vote is incredible. I had no recollection of it being nearly that good a performance for him.
Why did Ross Perot do so well in 1992? And could something like that happen again in 2024?
Americans were dissatisfied with both major-party options for president. The incumbent was viewed as prioritizing foreign affairs while failing to address voter dissatisfaction with the economy back home. The challenger was dogged by scandal. There was a palpable yearning for someone else. So a third-party contender entered the race — and was received with raucous enthusiasm, shooting to first place in the polls.
The year was 1992, and the third-party candidate was billionaire businessman Ross Perot. Obviously, Perot didn’t end up winning. But he had what now stands as the strongest performance for a third-party presidential candidate in the past century — he got nearly 19 percent of the vote nationally.
The billionaire businessman [Perot], who had made his fortune in computer and IT services, had long gotten media attention as an opinionated entrepreneur with a Texas twang. CNN host Larry King had heard that people around Perot were hoping he’d get into the presidential race as an independent, and on February 20, 1992, he invited Perot on his program to quiz him: Why won’t you run? After initially demurring, Perot said that, if the American people helped him get ballot access in all 50 states, he would run. It kind of went viral — volunteers and donations poured in, more media followed, and polls soon found him drawing significant support in a three-way race.
Scrutiny of Perot’s history and character intensified, with journalists covering his penchant for conspiracy theories and his frequent use of private detectives and surveillance. Critics denounced him as a kook or even a budding fascist. He made gaffes on hot-button social issues, saying he wouldn’t appoint any gay Cabinet officials (before reversing himself), and referring to Black Americans as “you people” at an NAACP meeting. And, he believed, opposing campaign operatives were trying to manufacture dirt about his family. So in mid-July, having fallen back down to third place in the polls, Perot quit the race.
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In November, US Economy saw prices fall for the first time since April 2020
Will be curious to see if it is a trend or an aberration. If the prices resume moving upwards, it is a very bad sign.
After three-plus years of prices steadily — and sometimes sharply — increasing month after month after month, they fell in November.
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November's Personal Consumption Expenditures price index, a comprehensive measure of prices US households pay for goods and services, declined 0.1% from the month before, bringing the annual inflation rate to 2.6%.
It's the first time the headline PCE index decreased on a monthly basis since the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic. Annually, it's a marked improvement from a 2.9% rate in October and the 40-year high of 7.1% notched in June 2022.
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What happens now that Colorado barred Trump from their ballot?
In the wake of the Colorado Supreme Court ruling that bars Donald Trump from the ballot in the state's primary and general elections, The Conversation U.S. asked Mark A. Graber, regents professor of law at the University of Maryland Carey Law School, what this all means – for Trump, for regular Americans and for the 2024 election.
The key questions are about Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. That provision bars people from holding federal and state offices if they have taken an oath to uphold the Constitution and then violated that oath by participating in an insurrection.
The write-up outlines the potential outcomes:
- Trump chooses not to appeal, he doesn't need Colorado's electoral college votes
- Trump appeals to the Supreme Court, but they refuse to hear it
- Trump appeals to the Supreme Court and they rule on it, which could go in a few ways. Actually, it's easier to just quote the article:
The simple option is that the Supreme Court could rule that yes, Trump is disqualified under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Then he can't be on the ballot anywhere.
The second option is the Supreme Court says he's not disqualified. But the court could hand down two different kinds of rulings saying that.
It could reverse the Colorado Supreme Court's decision on substance, finding that Trump did not engage in insurrection as insurrection is understood by the 14th Amendment. That would mean no further proceedings are permissible – no state can challenge it, and Congress can't challenge it.
Or the Supreme Court could reverse it on a technicality – maybe Trump is disqualified, but the 14th Amendment's Section 3 doesn't apply to a primary election, or Congress should weigh in, or one or another detail that could mean another lawsuit down the line might be successful.
There's a third major option if you look at the way the framers understood how the 14th Amendment would operate. The record of their debates shows that they believed it would first be implemented in the states.
Part of the history is people in the 19th century thought differently than we do. Not simply that they came to different conclusions, but they understood the structure of the government quite differently.
Today, we hear people say many laws and standards can't be established at the state level, that they need to be uniform across the country. But back then, people were less fearful of diversity. So they were willing to let states vary more. If uniformity was needed, or if Congress did not approve of what the states were doing, Congress could pass more general legislation.
So the court could say, "Colorado has disqualified Trump. That's OK for Colorado. Other states, you get to do what you think best. And Congress, if you don't like the mish-mosh, pass a law standardizing it." I think that's the least likely outcome, but it may be the one most consistent with the history.
I fully expect Trump to appeal, his ego won't allow him to leave it. So the question is about the Supreme Court. We'll see.
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"Rudy Giuliani must pay election workers $148 million for defamation"
Former Trump campaign attorney Rudy Giuliani has been ordered to pay a staggering $148 million to two former Georgia election workers he spread lies about following the 2020 election.
The decision comes at the end of a week-long federal civil trial in Washington D.C., where an eight-person jury heard from the workers — Wandrea "Shaye" Moss and her mother Ruby Freeman — about how 2020 election conspiracies spread by Giuliani and former President Donald Trump turned their lives upside down.
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Jamelle Bouie is one of the TikTok accounts I follow where I try to watch almost everything he posts. He's a contributor for the New York Times, and he addresses political and world topics in a very thoughtful way. This video is part of a series responding to a video by another TikToker who puts forward the idea that the Democratic party now only exists to lose to Republicans in service to corporate funder's demands.
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President Biden on Sandra Day O'Connor's passing
I follow a feed of official statements by the President, here are his comments regarding America's first female Supreme Court Justice:
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was an American icon, the first woman on our Nation's highest Court. She spent her career committed to the stable center, pragmatic and in search of common ground. I did not agree with all of her opinions, but I admired her decency and unwavering devotion to the facts, to our country, to active citizenship and the common good.
Defined by her no-nonsense Arizona ranch roots, Justice O'Connor overcame discrimination early on, at a time when law firms too often told women to seek work as secretaries, not attorneys. She gave her life to public service, even holding elected office, and never forgot those ties to the people whom the law is meant to serve. She sought to avoid ideology and was devoted to the rule of law and to the bedrock American principle of an independent judiciary. Unrelenting in her interrogations of attorneys before the Court, she was willing to learn and to change, open to the experience of fellow Americans, and always conscious of the law's real impact on their lives.
As a U.S. Senator on the Judiciary Committee, I remember the hope surrounding her historic nomination to the Supreme Court. The Senate voted 99–0 in her favor, proof that our Nation can come together to move history forward.
Justice O'Connor never quit striving to make this Nation stronger, retiring only to care for her husband John, the love of her life. She never quit calling on us all to engage with our country and with one another, and her institute's work to promote civics education and civil discourse has touched millions. She knew that for democracy to work, we have to listen to each other and remember how much more we all have in common as Americans than what keeps us apart.
Our hearts today are with Justice O'Connor's three sons Scott, Brian, and Jay; her brother Alan; her six grandchildren; and all those who loved her.
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Biden announces funding for high speed rail... like we'll ever see it happen
Look. I want it. I want to believe. But California is the perfect case to show that this won't happen. Especially through different Presidents. The next Republican president will undo this funding.
Additionally, $8 billion is nowhere near enough for this investment. It's off by a factor of 10, at least, I think.
Today, the Biden-Harris Administration is announcing $8.2 billion in new funding for 10 major passenger rail projects across the country, including the first world-class high-speed rail projects in our country's history. Key selected projects include: building a new high-speed rail system between California and Nevada, which will serve more than 11 million passengers annually; creating a high-speed rail line through California's Central Valley to ultimately link Los Angeles and San Francisco, supporting travel with speeds up to 220 mph; delivering significant upgrades to frequently-traveled rail corridors in Virginia, North Carolina, and the District of Columbia; and upgrading and expanding capacity at Chicago Union Station in Illinois, one of the nation's busiest rail hubs. These historic projects will create tens of thousands of good-paying, union jobs, unlock economic opportunity for communities across the country, and open up safe, comfortable, and climate-friendly travel options to get people to their destinations in a fraction of the time it takes to drive.
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"US vetoes UN resolution calling for Gaza ceasefire"
Sadly unsurprised by this. Sick at the further evidence that we're the bad guys to millions upon millions of people.
The U.S. vetoed a UN Security Council resolution Friday calling for a ceasefire to the fighting in Gaza. The U.S. and Israel have opposed calls for a ceasefire, saying it would strengthen Hamas.
The vote was delayed for several hours over worries the U.S. would veto it. Diplomats from several Arab nations met with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to try to convince the U.S. to abstain from voting.
As a permanent member of the council, the U.S. has veto power, and had signaled it planned to block the resolution. The U.K. abstained from the vote, while the 13 other members of the council voted for it.
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"You’re Telling Me That Thing Is Forged?"
I forget the name of the book I read, but it was discussing the absurdity that was the Trump regime and how inept they were at actually running the country. It was in that book that I was first introduced to John McEntee. The linked article recounts a bit more about John. This first excerpt captures what had been highlighted in the book, which was the absolute absurd levels of loyalty which were required by that regime. The second one was new to me and absolutely wild to read about.
Edit: Ah yes, the book I was trying to think of was Michael Lewis' The Fifth Risk.
The Fifth Risk by
Johnny McEntee was just twenty‑five years old when he volunteered to work on the Trump campaign in 2015. He didn't have much experience—he was a production assistant on the news desk at Fox News at the time—but he was eager, confident, and willing to work hard. Most importantly, he loved Donald Trump. A former quarterback at the University of Connecticut, he achieved short-lived internet fame in 2011 when a video of him throwing trick passes went viral. Trump liked having him around and soon made him his personal assistant, taking him along whenever he traveled. As the campaign ramped up, he became Trump's "body guy," carrying the candidate's bags and relaying messages.
McEntee reprised the role in the White House after the 2016 election, but was fired in early 2018 by then-chief of staff John Kelly when a background check turned up a serious gambling habit that was considered to pose a national security risk. He didn't leave for long, though. After Kelly himself was fired, McEntee returned to the White House in February 2020.
His second stint in the administration proved to be more consequential. McEntee resumed his role as Trump's body guy with a seat just outside the Oval Office, but he was also named director of the Presidential Personnel Office, which is responsible for the vetting, hiring, and firing of the four thousand political appointees who serve in the executive branch. McEntee may have never hired or fired anybody before in his life, but he was fiercely loyal—and for Trump, that made him the perfect choice for the job.
McEntee's efforts to root out Trump infidels in the administration were often comically petty, but they came with the force of a presidential mandate. Just weeks before the 2020 presidential election, for example, somebody on McEntee's staff discovered that a young woman in the office of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson had liked an Instagram post by pop star Taylor Swift that included a photo of Swift holding a tray of cookies decorated with the Biden-Harris campaign logo. The transgression was brought all the way to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, who placed a call to Carson's top aide. The message: We can't have our people liking the social media posts of a high‑profile Biden supporter like Taylor Swift.
Now, this comes out from January 6th investigations, and is mind boggling.
The January 6 Committee's investigation unearthed the extraordinary story of what happened next—but the information didn't make it into any of the committee's hearings or its final report. What follows is based on the sworn testimony of the key players, including McEntee and Macgregor, as well as National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien and General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Three days after Macgregor arrived at the Pentagon, he called McEntee and told him he couldn't accomplish any of the items on their handwritten to-do list without a signed order from the president.
"Hey, they're not going to do anything we want, or the president wants, without a directive," Macgregor told him, emphasizing the need for an official White House order signed by Trump. The Pentagon's stonewalling made sense, of course: You don't make major changes to America's global defense posture based on a glorified Post-it note from the president's body guy.
The order, Macgregor added, should focus on the top priority from McEntee's list—Afghanistan—and it had to include a specific date for the complete withdrawal of all uniformed military personnel from the country. He suggested January 31, 2021.
McEntee and an assistant quickly typed up the directive, but they moved the Afghanistan withdrawal timeline up to January 15—just five days before Trump was set to leave office—and added a second mandate: a complete withdrawal of US troops from Somalia by December 31, 2020.
McEntee, of course, didn't know the first thing about drafting a presidential directive—let alone one instructing the movement of thousands of servicemen and -women. He had two jobs in the White House—only one of which he was qualified for—and neither one had anything to do with national security or the military. An order even 10 percent as consequential as the one McEntee was drafting would typically go through the National Security Council with input from the civilian leadership at the Pentagon, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the military commanders in the region. Instead, the guy who usually carried Trump's bags was hammering it out on his computer, consulting with nobody but the retired colonel the president had just hired because he had seen him on cable TV.
The absurdity of the situation was captured in McEntee's interview with the January 6 Committee:
Q: Is it typical for the Presidential Personnel Office to draft orders concerning troop withdrawal?
McEntee: Probably not typical, no.
Because they were so out of their depth, McEntee and his assistant ended up reaching out to Macgregor again—they didn't know how to arrange the document they were working on. "I was called on the phone by one of McEntee's staffers who was having trouble formatting the order and getting the language straight," Macgregor recalled. The retired colonel told the thirty-year-old staffer to open a cabinet, find an old presidential decision memorandum, and copy it.
Easy enough. The duo wrote up the order, had the president sign it, and sent it over to Kash Patel, the new acting defense secretary's chief of staff.
Chaos ensued.
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"Biden-Harris Administration Announces $3.5 Billion for Largest Ever Investment in America’s Electric Grid, Deploying More Clean Energy, Lowering Costs, and Creating Union Jobs"
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McCarthy Out
Historic event. Predictable and absurd.
Remember, remember, the 3rd of October.
The date McCarthy was tossed out.
I know no reason
Why his many failures
Should ever be forgot
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Homeschooling is increasingly a misnomer
An interesting article about a growing trend of "microschools" which appear to basically be daycares that facilitate online homeschooling. It calls out a company called Prenda, which looks to be the AirBnB of this by connecting "guides" with families.
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"How the Dark Brandon Meme Evolved From an Online Joke to Joe Biden’s Unlikely Weapon"
A fun little read. I knew they had sold the merch, but interesting to see these numbers.
The Biden campaign started capitalizing on the popularity of the Dark Brandon meme when the president officially announced his reelection bid in April. At that time, the campaign included the Dark Brandon meme as an Easter egg on Biden's reelection website, debuting a 404-error page with a Dark Brandon image, as well as a $32 Dark Brandon t-shirt.
To date, Dark Brandon products have accounted for more than 54% of the online store's total revenue, according to the Biden campaign, and drive nearly 76% of all clicks to the website. The Dark Brandon t-shirt and the Dark Brandon mug are the number one and number two products in the entire store.
The success of Dark Brandon-themed products even motivated the Biden team to launch a "Malarkey Monday" campaign, where new Dark Brandon products are added to the story every Monday.
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Trump promises conclusive evidence of stolen election
All it took was George's grand jury indictment to get him to finally reveal the truth.
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"Seattle becomes first in U.S. to protect gig workers from sudden deactivation"
From the link:
The Seattle City Council passed legislation Tuesday that would protect gig workers from being suddenly kicked off apps like Instacart or DoorDash.
It’s the first gig worker protection measure of its kind in the entire country.
“This will help prevent homelessness, fight displacement, and allow families to meet their basic needs,” said Councilmember Lisa Herbold, who sponsored the bill.
There's a comment on HackerNews which is an example of the problem with gig work:
When I was in college, I used to work Uber as a side gig. One day, while working, my account was blocked, and I would couldn't pick up any more passengers. I was 2 hours away from home. Apparently, one of the customers had filed a complaint about a missing item (gloves or some bs like that), it was not in my car. My account was blocked until the case was "reviewed". So I had to drive back 2 hours without picking up any passengers. (The passenger later found the item in their bag)
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A look at Huntsville's Space legacy and discussing the impact of Space Command remaining in Colorado
Alabama Senator Tuberville could be to blame for his idiotic fight against abortion rights in the military. Single handedly blocking promotions and titles in the Pentagon, leads many believe this decision for Space Command's location to not move to Alabama are political blowback.
But this week the Pentagon announced it had reversed that call, instead keeping the headquarters in Colorado Springs. The decision left many in Huntsville smarting at being cast into the outer orbit of influence and questioning whether their city was passed over for political reasons beyond their control.
The article goes on to highlight that this isn't explicitly political blowback on Tuberville, but many think it is:
Pentagon officials said keeping the headquarters in Colorado, where it has been temporarily located on a Space Force base shared with NORAD command, was a matter of maintaining military readiness and avoiding a potentially lengthy and costly move.
But some political observers saw the choice of a Democratic-controlled state both as a rejection of the hard-line conservatism in Alabama and a repudiation of its senior Republican senator, Tommy Tuberville, who has blocked hundreds of military promotions over a Pentagon policy that reimburses military personnel who travel to obtain an abortion or fertility care
I have friends in Huntsville and it's the only city in the state that I'd agree to visiting. It's role in the Space industry was fascinating to me since it wasn't Florida, or Texas, or California. It always felt weird to me. But that's how politics go. Someone pulls a favor or makes a deal and suddenly you've got a government industry in your state.
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"Trump charged in probe of Jan. 6, efforts to overturn 2020 election"
The article also linked to the 4-page PDF detailing the indictment. The four counts against Trump and unnamed coconspirators.
Not from the article, but pulled from elsewhere, this is the summary of the counts:
- A conspiracy to defraud the United States "by using dishonesty, fraud and deceit to obstruct the nation's process of collecting, counting, and certifying the results of the presidential election," according to the special counsel's office. This count carries a 5-year maximum sentence.
- A conspiracy to impede the Jan. 6 congressional proceeding at which the collected results of the presidential election are counted and certified. This count carries a 20-year maximum sentence.
- A conspiracy against the right to vote and to have that vote counted. This count carries a 10-year maximum sentence.
- Obstruction of, and attempt to obstruct and impede, the certification of the electoral vote. This count carries a 20-year maximum sentence.
Doing further reading, here is a piece on Politico: Key revelations, groundbreaking strategies and notable omissions in the new Trump indictment
The indictment does not identify any of the six alleged co-conspirators who prosecutors say unlawfully agreed to aid Trump's bid to subvert the election. But five of them were readily identifiable based on the widely known details in the indictment. They are:
- Rudy Giuliani, Trump's lawyer and the leader of an effort to pressure state legislators to reverse election results.
- John Eastman, a constitutional lawyer who helped develop the strategy to pressure Mike Pence to overturn the election on Jan. 6.
- Sidney Powell, a conservative lawyer who pushed fringe theories about manipulation of voting machines.
- Jeffrey Clark, a Justice Department lawyer who pressed DOJ leaders to sow doubt about the election results.
- Ken Chesebro, an architect of key elements of Trump's fake elector strategy.
The identity of the sixth alleged co-conspirator, a political consultant, was not immediately verifiable, but the indictment says that person played a role in the effort to assemble false slates of pro-Trump presidential electors in states that Biden won.
The article also highlights the following revelations from the indictment:
- Prosecutors say Trump offered — and Clark accepted — the job of acting attorney general on Jan. 3, 2021. The select committee found phone records listing Clark as "acting attorney general" before Trump rescinded the appointment under the threat of mass resignations from DOJ leaders, but the committee did not confirm that Trump had made the official appointment.
- Prosecutors say that Pat Philbin, Trump's deputy White House counsel, warned Clark that if he and Trump pressed ahead with plans to stay in power past Biden's scheduled inauguration, there would be "riots in the streets" across the country. According to the indictment, Clark responded, "That's why we have an Insurrection Act."
- The indictment reveals that Mike Pence kept contemporaneous notes, including of his conversations with Trump in the weeks leading up to Jan. 6. In one Dec. 29, 2020, conversation, Trump falsely told Pence that the Justice Department had identified "major infractions" in election integrity, prosecutors say.
And the last part, at the end of the article which I found notable. I had considered the second point, but not really the first or third, but seeing them called out here makes me wonder about them as well.
Many of the central details in the indictment tracked closely with the evidence amassed by the Jan. 6 select committee. But large swaths of the committee's probe went unmentioned. Among them:
- The indictment makes no reference to the organization of Trump's Jan. 6 rally or the financing that went into it.
- It omits evidence of Trump's serious consideration of a plan to use federal or military power to seize voting machines from several states in which Trump disputed the outcome.
- It includes no allegations of any links between Trump and the extremist groups who attacked the Capitol or references to others featured by the Jan. 6 committee as key players, like Roger Stone, Steve Bannon and Alex Jones.
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"It's Time To Learn To Love Procedure and the Nuance of Law"
I follow this blog's author, Teri Kanefield, on Mastodon and quite enjoyed this explanation around the letter Trump received, what it likely means, and more insights into the way this process works.
I particularly enjoyed this section:
Trump’s Trial Schedule
- January 15: The next Jean E. Carroll trial (civil)
- March: Manhattan hush-money case (criminal)
- May: Stolen documents case (criminal)
Plus, we’re expecting two more indictments, one from Georgia and of course, one for the J6 insurrection. You can see that Trump’s 2024 trial dance card is getting full.
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"Judge clarifies: Yes, Trump was found to have raped E. Jean Carroll"
What a disgrace of a human to have held the highest office of the country.
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Biden's statement on the end of the chemical weapons stockpile
For more than 30 years, the United States has worked tirelessly to eliminate our chemical weapons stockpile. Today, I am proud to announce that the United States has safely destroyed the final munition in that stockpile—bringing us one step closer to a world free from the horrors of chemical weapons.
Successive administrations have determined that these weapons should never again be developed or deployed, and this accomplishment not only makes good on our long-standing commitment under the Chemical Weapons Convention, it marks the first time an international body has verified destruction of an entire category of declared weapons of mass destruction. I am grateful to the thousands of Americans who gave their time and talents to this noble and challenging mission for more than three decades.
Today—as we mark this significant milestone—we must also renew our commitment to forging a future free from chemical weapons. I continue to encourage the remaining nations to join the Chemical Weapons Convention so that the global ban on chemical weapons can reach its fullest potential. Russia and Syria should return to compliance with the Chemical Weapons Convention and admit their undeclared programs, which have been used to commit brazen atrocities and attacks. We will continue to stand with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to prevent the stockpiling, production, and use of chemical weapons around the world. And together with our partners, we will not stop until we can finally and forever rid the world of this scourge.
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Pending appeals, the cases against Biden's election have all finally been defeated
The ruling means that finally, more than 2 ½ years on, all the Donald Trump-inspired "Big Lie" lawsuits here have been dismissed (pending any appeals). Justice took that long, even though no one ever provided any hint of proof that Washington state's 2020 election was compromised, tilted, botched or rigged.
The commitment to this contrived obsession has been cultlike. But today, in the spirit of the upcoming national birthday on July Fourth, I'm going to look at it from a different angle. Which is: Chalk up another win for democracy.
Seriously: After being pummeled onto the ropes, democracy is making a comeback.
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"Biden Says He’ll Try Another Way to Cancel Student Debt"
This news is significant because, for years, debt cancellation advocates have pushed the administration to use the Higher Education Act (HEA), the 1965 law that governs federal student loans, to cancel student debt. Biden's initial student debt cancellation plan relied on a different law, the George W. Bush-era HEROES Act, to issue sweeping cancellation, but Friday's Supreme Court ruling closed off that route.
As I wrote last year, some of the earliest champions for cancellation, including the Debt Collective and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), have made the case that the HEA presents the best legal option for canceling debt. They've maintained that the portion of the law called "compromise and settlement authority" gives the Education Department carte blanche to tweak or even throw out its claims against borrowers. (Notably, the Debt Collective expressed skepticism on Twitter about the administration's planned use of the HEA because it doesn't implement relief automatically.)
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Supreme Court rules in favor of anti-same sex marriage web designer
I know many aren't surprised by the ruling, and I'm not either.
The dispute was one of several to land before the justices in the wake of its 2015 landmark decision establishing the right to same-sex marriage that raised the question of whether a business owner can refuse service to LGBTQ customers because of their religious beliefs.
In 2018, the high court sided with a Colorado baker who was sued after he refused to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding, but did not address whether a business can deny services to LGBTQ people. Instead, the Supreme Court said the state's Civil Rights Commission was hostile to baker Jack Phillips' religious beliefs in violation of the First Amendment.
In the years after, the Supreme Court declined to clarify whether states could force religious business owners to create messages that violate their conscience. But the court's rightward shift, solidified by former President Donald Trump's appointment of three justices, raised concerns that the Supreme Court would erode LGBTQ rights by allowing businesses to deny services to LGBTQ customers.
For full transparency, I edited the above to correct a typo from the news article. It originally said, "LGBTQ peple" which I feel confident is meant to be "LGBTQ people."
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