Voting Rights Roundup: Pennsylvania Supreme Court strikes down the GOP's...
Leading Off●Pennsylvania: On Monday, Pennsylvania’s state Supreme Court dealt Republican gerrymandering a crippling blow when itstruck down the GOP’s congressional map for illegally discriminating...
View ArticleCSGOPOTD: Mike DeWine- 2018 Update
On this date in 2015, 2016, as well as 2017, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day posted profiles of Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, who once voted for the impeachment of Bill Clinton, supported...
View ArticleIn 'rebuke of Congressional authority,' ICE deports Ohio dad after nearly 40...
Just days ago, the GOP-controlled House Judiciary subcommittee passed a “private immigration” bill that should have temporarily halted the imminent deportation of Amer "Al” Adi Othman, an Ohio dad and...
View ArticleAmerican taxpayers fund Trump's trip to Ohio to declare Democrats 'treasonous'
Donald Trump traveled to Ohio Monday on the taxpayer dime supposedly to sell the GOP's big tax law. xTaxpayers are paying for this Trump visit to Cincinnati, right? Not the RNC? Just checking. Because...
View ArticleOH-Gov: Richard Cordray (D) Rips Trump's CFPB For Stonewalling Equifax Probe
Received this e-mail today from former Attorney General and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director, Richard Cordray’s (D. OH) gubernatorial campaign:When news broke last fall that the credit...
View ArticleThis Week in Statehouse Action: I Want To Know What Law Is edition
Roses are redViolets are blueValentine’s Day is next weekSo here’s an appropriately themed statehouse update for you… sorry.Love is in the air in state legislatures across the country, and by “love” I...
View Article'I miss my wife, the kids, I miss Youngstown': Ohio dad deported to 'land he...
Family reunions should be joyous occasions. A son seeing his mother for the first time in decades should be a joyous occasion. Reunions should be by choice. But for Amer "Al” Adi Othman, his reunion...
View ArticleVoting Rights Roundup: Pennsylvania's GOP congressional gerrymander is history
Leading Off●Pennsylvania: On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court dealt Republican gerrymandering a crippling blow when it refused to block a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling that struck down the GOP’s...
View ArticleOhio's redistricting reform ballot measure is just a cynical Republican ploy...
Ohio is home to some of the most extreme Republican gerrymandering in the country, so it may come as a surprise that the GOP-dominated legislature overwhelmingly approved a state constitutional...
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Rachel Crooks, who is running for office after being assaulted by Trump, is...
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View ArticleRepublican state AGs have a secret bulletin board for donors to influence...
While he has Oklahoma’s Attorney General, Scott Pruitt chaired the Republican Attorney General Association (RAGA). RAGA also has a policy arm called Rule of Law Defense Fund “RLDF”.The “Rule of Law...
View ArticleUniversity of Cincinnati nixes Richard Spencer event because he's too cheap...
Don’t be fooled by the grouchy Orange Feather Duster in the White House: resistance to white supremacy is alive and well across the nation, and Cincinnati, Ohio, is no exception. Today, the home of the...
View ArticleThis Week in Statehouse Action: I Vote The Line edition
February’s just over halfway done, but it already feels longer than a Folsom Prison sentence.Partly because so much hurt keeps happening.But also because 44 state legislatures are actively meeting this...
View ArticleThe ACLU goes to bat for reproductive rights in Ohio
The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation have launched a legal challenge to the state’s new anti-abortion law on behalf of Ohio-based abortion...
View ArticleResolution in Cincinnati
At the end on January visiting judge Sylvia Herndon said she would rule on the fate of a transgender boy in Cincinnati, whose parents refused to accept his gender identity. I shared the state of the...
View ArticleOH-Sen: Jim Renacci's (R. NRA) Tone Deaf Response To Mass Shootings: Monitor...
Talking Points Memo highlighted the six worst ideas from conservative gun nuts to respond to mass shootings that don’t involve any form of gun control so as to not make the NRA have a sad. This idiot...
View ArticleTrump despicably attacks Rachel Crooks, a Trump assault victim who is now...
There is a big feature in the Washington Post this morning about Rachel Crooks, a woman who says Trump assaulted her in Trump Tower. She’s now running for the State House in Ohio and giving inspiration...
View ArticleCustody of transgender teen given to grandparents after religious parents...
After a fight that lasted over a year, a judge has ruled that a 17-year-old transgender teen has the right to pursue hormone therapy, and has placed him in the care of his maternal grandparents, rather...
View ArticleOH-Gov: Richard Cordray (D) Rolls Out His Plan To Combat Gun Violence In Ohio
Received this e-mail today from former Attorney General and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director, Richard Cordray’s (D. OH) gubernatorial campaign:What happened in Parkland, Florida is...
View ArticleOH-Sen: Sherrod Brown (D) Continues To Hammer Trump For Putting The Great...
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown’s (D. OH) re-election campaign:The Great Lakes are in jeopardy again.The Trump administration released its budget. For the second year in a...
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