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Negotiating with post-Trump Republicans is like dealing with a toddler’s tantrum

While one side is happy to defecate on the floor, the other side has no choice but to clean up the mess

The Guardian - US · May 19, 2023

New GOP argument: Juries don't count

John Durham's report cements the new GOP line of attack on democracy: Rejecting the legitimacy of jury trials

Salon · May 19, 2023

2023 sees highest number of public-sector union bills in past five years

Welcome to the Friday, May 19, Brew. 

Ballotpedia · May 19, 2023

Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s return to Capitol has been closely watched. Can she still do her job?

WASHINGTON — For seven months in 1988, Joe Biden was absent from the Senate, recovering from operations to repair brain aneurysms.

Tribune News Service · May 19, 2023

Tim Scott launching ad campaign in Iowa, New Hampshire for expected presidential bid

Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina plans to begin airing ads in Iowa and New Hampshire early next week as he prepares for an expected 2024 Republican presidential campaign

The Independent UK · May 19, 2023

Editorial: Appalling remarks made on NC House floor. Do better, Republicans

It was, simply put, shameful.

Tribune News Service · May 19, 2023

George Skelton: Newsom and California lawmakers need to say where they stand on reparations for slavery

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Gov. Gavin Newsom and the California Legislature will soon receive a sweeping set of recommended reparations for African Americans whose ancestors suffered economically from slavery and racial discrimination. Then what?

Los Angeles Times · May 19, 2023

Commentary: The Trump trap

For anyone who may have forgotten (or tried to forget), there was Donald Trump, that pied piper of the extreme right, again on full display for seventy-minutes in a town hall/campaign rally that CNN thoughtfully provided for him. Any American harboring illusions that the man had changed, even the teeniest…

Tribune News Service · May 19, 2023

Jackie Calmes: Why is the climate on the table in the debt ceiling fight?

Lost amid all the attention to the partisan standoff over raising the nation's debt limit is the insanity of a big part of the Republicans' bargaining position: Many of the savings they demand in return for a higher debt ceiling would come from killing the landmark clean energy initiatives President…

Los Angeles Times · May 19, 2023

Noah Feldman: Biden has no power to unilaterally raise the debt ceiling

If Congress fails to raise the debt limit, can President Joe Biden somehow borrow more money to save the United States from default? The short answer is no. But that hasn’t stopped a group of Senate Democrats from urging Biden to act unilaterally by invoking the Fourteenth Amendment.

Tribune News Service · May 19, 2023