Incrementalism is why in 2010 Congressional Democrats passed a Republican healthcare bill from 1993 and the Republicans still gutted it. Incrementalism is why multiple right-wingers can run as Democrats and win and then vote in line with the GOP with no backlash. Incrementalism is why it took a Supreme Court ruling to…

One answer from a 12-year-old confirmation hearing does not his legal history make. Also, that was in reference to being confirmed to the D.C. Circuit, in which he would have no power to overturn SCOTUS rulings and would have to be bound by them or overturned on appeal. Now he’s going to be confirmed to SCOTUS. The…

It’s not just that he’s “probably anti-abortion”, it’s that his existing legal positions show that he would be a bad fit for SCOTUS. He seems to believe that his own personal animus against a ruling is sufficient grounds to set aside stare decisis, and he has a string of rulings favoring both religious interference in…

This needs to be brought up every single time. Someone who intentionally and knowingly attempted to cast multiple votes is getting a lighter sentence than someone who, through ignorance of the law, attempted to cast one vote she was barred from casting - a vote which was not even counted.

I saw Dear Friends in 2005. The last song before intermission was Aerith’s Theme (played over video of her death scene). The first song after was To Zanarkand.