Sanders’ policies are not “significantly to the left” of Booker’s.  Their DW-Nominate scores are about the same; in other words, they are both among the most leftwing senators and the only senator further left is Warren.  They might differ slightly on some issues-- Sanders is worse on gun control, Booker is worse on…

He’s probably depending on an all-white, MAGA jury in Utah to believe him. His chances aren’t as low as they should be.

I was right about Pearce. DDay has a post on the rest of the deal: a couple Obama-appointed judges, Pearce, and nomination of an SEC commissioner, in exchange for . . . a shitload of rightwing lunatic judges. It’s not a good deal, but at least we know the particulars now:

Based on recent reports from Bloomberg that Mark Pearce has been renominated to the NLRB, I think his reappointment is likely part of the deal (there have been rumors about a deal that includes his reappointment for weeks). I doubt just him would be enough to offset quick confirmation of this many judges, but I don’t…

This is not a good deal. Indochino regularly marks suits down to $300 about once a month on Fridays for their “happy hour” deals. It’s quite common to see promotions that mark suits down to $350, such as their spring break sale, which ended a couple days ago. This is also considerably worse than the last Kinja Deals…

This is not a good deal. Indochino regularly marks suits down to $300 about once a month on Fridays for their “happy…

Not actually a good deal if you’re flexible about what suit to buy. They have Happy Hour deals nearly every Friday where they put a decent selection on sale for $299. This deal is worth it if there’s a particular suit you’ve been eyeing for a while; probably more useful for those of us who buy suits fairly regularly…

Not actually a good deal if you’re flexible about what suit to buy. They have Happy Hour deals nearly every Friday…

No, I’m criticizing it because you’re praising it because you seem to think it has worked out in this situation. It’s not a zero-sum game; I’m quite able to criticize high bail every other time while thinking the bail set here was actually appropriate.

And that’s wrong, and shouldn’t be the case. Bail is ridiculously high in many places in this country. I’m not saying her bail wasn’t lower than average or anything like that. I’m saying her bail was appropriately low given her flight risk, and high bail in other cases is a problem that should be fixed, not…

I agree, if she were black, she’d have a really high bail. That doesn’t mean her bail should have been higher— it means black people’s bail should be lower.

What does that do with how likely she is to show up for her court date? The point of bail isn’t to make statements about how bad the alleged crime is.

I think this misses the main reason why secession would be bad, which is that we would lose any civil war, and it wouldn’t be close. Unlike in 1860, the armed forces today are loyal to the federal government. Seceding states have virtually no ability to raise their own militias. So there’s no way to secede, and…

This is just not true. Poor people of color voted against Trump by overwhelming margins, and they’re going to be the ones most screwed.

Yeah, but Oregon put price controls in that airport. Any store there that also has a store that’s not in the airport has to charge the same prices at both. So that sort of proves the point here.

Not at all. Most world leaders aren’t elected solely because of these features. In our last three presidential elections, the winner won both the popular vote and the electoral college, and would have won under just about any system currently prevailing in democracies. I also do not understand how a foreign power…

But it’s not a zero-sum game. They can oppose ALL nominees, and not only that, they won’t pay a political price for it. McConnell proved that over the past eight years. This makes no sense to me.

The worst is that they’re admitting that they got nothing out of this meeting. They went in trying to get a commitment from Trump not to gut Davis-Bacon, since prevailing wages are pretty much the most important thing to the construction unions. A commitment from Trump doesn’t mean anything, but they didn’t even get…

Good story to know, but I quibble with characterizing an RT reporter as a journalist, rather than, say, a propagandist.

Didn’t say that he did. But there is absolutely an identity of interests between those who instituted the Electoral College, which was made to privilege rural, slave-owning voters, and Trump. Is it cheating? No, but it’s a good reason to see those who don’t win the popular vote as illegitimate.

Your definition of cheating— manipulating actual ballots— is ridiculously narrow. Most dictators don’t actually manipulate ballots. They just suppress voting (which Republicans here do), or announce that they won more votes than they actually did (which Trump has done consistently when he claims he got more votes…

Right. It’s only illegal if the MSPB says it is. And Trump’s going to be appointing the MSPB members. I highly doubt whomever he appoints will have an expansive view of federal employee rights.