Voting Rights Roundup: Court strikes down Ohio GOP's House gerrymander and...
A note to our readers: The Voting Rights Roundup will be taking next week off. We'll resume publishing in two weeks.Leading Off●Ohio: On Friday, a federal district court delivered a major win against...
View ArticleFormer House Judiciary General Counsel Warns 'We're In a Constitutional...
Guest: Ted Kalo, 14-year veteran House Judiciary attorney, details what comes next; Also: Good news for voters in OH, bad news for voters in FL...Our guest today, the former U.S. House Judiciary...
View ArticleRemember, Trump beat Hillary from the working class left
This week I’ve been hearing a lot about Joe Biden. According to some of what I’ve been hearing, the story is that Biden is the person who can beat Trump. The thinking goes that Biden is a regular...
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Emails, Documents are Stark Reminder of Ohio's Secret Gerrymandering Process
The League of Women Voters and Common Cause Ohio issued a report last week containing emails and other documents showing how GOP operatives worked secretly to redraw Ohio's congressional district maps...
View ArticleThis Week in Statehouse Action: Dear Mama edition
Happy almost Mother’s Day!While many of us will take a pause this weekend to thank maternal figures in our lives, Republicans in state legislatures are busy doing things their moms are probably pretty...
View ArticleUPDATE: Ohio & Georgia: 11-year old girls can now be sentenced to...
UPDATE: Slightly edited headline since it's been pointed out that the Supreme Court has ruled that minors can't receive the death penalty, so I guess that means "only" life in prison for them. If...
View ArticleAbortion bill that is ‘dangerous on many levels’ introduced by GOP state...
Republicans are constantly trying to control what women can do with their own bodies, and a dangerous bill introduced by Ohio state House Rep. John Becker is another attempt. While banning private...
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Hot off prosecuting 11-year old rape victims, Ohio GOP following up with...
After writing about the newly-signed laws in Georgia and Ohio banning virtually all abortions after 6 weeks (when most women don't even know they're pregnant), even in most cases of rape, incest of the...
View ArticleOhio Republicans back at it with the worst forced-birther bill yet, going...
An Ohio Republican, Rep. John Becker, is getting backing for legislation that would ban most effective methods of birth control by deeming them abortion, and would also ban most private insurance...
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AC Meetup: The Struggle over Women’s Bodily Autonomy and the Dehumanisation...
It has been a rather horrific couple of weeks for women’s reproductive rights in the US. Convinced that they finally have the means to overturn both Roe vs Wade and Doe vs Bolton (1973) due to numbers...
View ArticleA major Democratic leader is fundraising for one of the most anti-abortion...
Even after state legislatures in states like Ohio, Georgia, and Alabama have passed draconian anti-abortion laws designed to criminalize women and attempt to convince a far-right U.S. Supreme Court...
View ArticleFL's Sancho: 'No Confidence' 2020 Will Be Secure After New 2016 FBI...
Leon County's 30-year veteran Election Supervisor tells us FBI lied about hacks in 2016; Rubio covered up in 2018; FL ballots will be unverifiable in 2020; calls NSA 'leaker' Reality Winner a...
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LMLOS News Round-Up -- May 16, 2019
It’s Thursday, May 16, 2019, and it’s time for more news from Liberal Minded Ladies of Substance.This feels like it should be titled the “Pro Choice Edition” or, more accurately, “Dispatches from...
View ArticleDonald Trump is “the Greatest Hoax Ever Perpetrated on Americans!”
As William Barr mounts his already shame stained DOJ throne to squat on the rear receptacle crusted over with Trump’s executive order to defy all Congressional subpoenas, his stream of spying spin,...
View ArticleRNC chair slams abortion laws lacking exceptions for rape, incest
It’s hard to imagine what Ohio and Alabama might do for an encore. Reinstitute prima nocta? Public stonings for unmarried nonvirgins? Forced marriages of 13-year-old girls to Roy Moore or … James...
View ArticleVoting Rights Roundup: Michigan GOP attempts to sabotage redistricting reform...
Leading Off●Michigan: Michigan voters overwhelmingly approved a ballot initiative last year to amend their state constitution and create an independent redistricting commission, but Republican...
View ArticlePart of Ohio anti-abortion bill based on an article from 1917—yes, the 1917...
Do you currently have the power of speech? Prepare to temporarily lose it. The Ohio Republican pushing an anti-abortion bill requiring insurance companies to cover surgery to reimplant ectopic...
View ArticleBesides Trump's Tariffs, Overproduction Is Hurting Farmers.
There is so little good information about what is going on with farmers, especially in KY, if you are not plugged into a rural community that is (I’m a city boy in Louisville). But I came upon this...
View ArticleAmash Declares Trump 'Impeachable'; Gerrymandering Led to Radical Abortion...
Guest: Dave Daley of FairVote: Also: Tornado swarms erupt across U.S. amid climate crisis; Ford to fire thousands of workers...Our guest on today's BradCast, argues that representative democracy is...
View Article#StopTheBans rallies for abortion rights launch across the country today
Campaign ActionToday, thousands of people across the country are marching in support of abortion rights and safe access. #StopTheBans rallies, as they’re being called on social media, are largely in...
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