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Yep, good article, to link - Not Trump, but it could be arguable that McConnell's refusal to take Obama's nomination of
Merrick Garland forward was against the spirit of the division of powers constitutional setting.
Mitch McConnell says he would confirm a Supreme Court nominee in 2020
This contradicts the Senate majority leader’s position in 2016
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"American Democracy May Be Dying Authoritarian rule may be just around the corner.
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Yet Wisconsin, like most of the country, is under a stay-at-home order. So why did Republican legislators, eventually backed by the Republican appointees to the U.S. Supreme Court, insist on holding an election as if the situation were normal?
P - The answer is that the state shutdown had a much more severe impact on voting in Democratic-leaning urban areas, where a great majority of polling places were closed, than in rural or suburban areas. So the state G.O.P. was nakedly exploiting a pandemic to disenfranchise those likely to vote against it."

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Princeton Prof: ‘We are in deep trouble’ From Trump
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Eddie Glaude Jr., a professor of American Studies, sounded the alarm on the GOP letting Trump seize dictatorial powers. He discussed with co-host Joe Scarborough the acquiescence by the GOP to whatever actions the president takes.
P - Glaude said that the Republican Party’s members of Congress completely gave in to Trump after he invoked a national emergency to build his long-promised border wall without congressional approval. For weeks they had warned the president not to declare an emergency, but once he did it they fell silent.
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Georgia Literally Steals An Election. LITERALLY!
Disclaimer: I actually know John Barrow and have worked with him. Barrow is a good man, more of a Blue Dog, but Democrat to core and damn proud of it! Forgive me for the liberal use of “literally”. I can’t help it, dammit.
P - Georgia Supreme Court Justice Keith Blackwell is on the ballot for reelection in May. He announced his retirement from the bench, however, effective 11/8/2020. This creates a vacancy that “Governor” Brian “I stole it from Stacey” Kemp can fill until the next Congressional elections, effectively bypassing the May election and literally stealing a Supreme Court seat from the people of Georgia.
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America's shameful history of voter suppression
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How Democracy in America Can Survive Donald Trump
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The next president must rebuild a functioning democracy, an effective government, and an equitable economy, while treating the opposition with comity and dignity. It’s a tall order, but as Tocqueville might have observed had he lived through the full tumult of American history, we’ve done it before and can do it again.
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And voters of Wisconsin and other states must vote in numbers enough to surmount the undemocratic weight of over-zealous GOP gerrymanders and boot the bastards from power.