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Example: Montana, Nov., 2022 Red-state Montana voters rejected a legislative referendum for the Born Alive Infant Protection Act. The measure declared that an embryo or fetus is a legal person with a right to medical care if born prematurely or survives an attempted abortion, among other birth...

Example: Kansas, Aug., 2022 Red-state Kansas voters rejected a proposed state constitutional amendment that would have said there was no right to an abortion in the state; 59.0% to 41.0%.

Example: Michigan, Nov., 2022 Purple-state Michigan voters approved an amendment to the state’s constitution guaranteeing the right to abortion and other reproductive health services; 56.7% to 43.3%.

Example: Vermont, Nov., 2022 Blue-state Vermont voters approved a state constitution amendment, the Reproductive Liberty Amendment," 76.74% to 23.26%.

Example: Kentucky, Nov., 2022 Red-state Kentucky GOP-dominated legislature imposed a near-total ban on abortions and put the proposed constitutional amendment on the ballot. Voters rejected the proposed amendment 52.3% to 47.7%.

Voters don't elect their representatives to be in step with the House. They elect their representatives to represent them.

As with any presidential election, in which all US House Seats and a number of US Senate seats are also in play, a host of issues come to the fore. But as we head into 2024, I think there is a single issue that will top all others in importance, and I think that issue alone will result in voters...

Did they incite violence in last week's events? I know of no physical conflicts or property damage. If disruptive loud talk constitutes violence, then yes, they were violent. But that would stretch the commonly understood meaning of "violence."

DeSantis Now Pro-Tax, Pro-Tolls Out-foxed by Disney, and embarrassed to have the Disney chapter in his book and a key stump speech element rendered obsolete by Disney's pro move (vs. DeSantis' rookie mistake -- thinking he won before he won), DeSantis is now scrambling to save face and saying...

Said King George to America's Founders

Another Reason DeSantis is Slipping A couple weeks ago (or so), I asked above why DeSantis's standing in the polls plummeted compared to Trump's. That was before Trump was indicted. Some ideas were floated and I concluded that the primary reason for DeSantis's decline was that Trump's vicious...

That's one argument. I'm sure we'll hear others.

There is the long game to consider. These people are now national figures. Their livelihood on the speaking circuit is guaranteed for life, if they chose to go that route. Their political stature has greatly increased, as evidenced by likely action by county councils to re-appoint them to their...

That is correct. They have no remorse for what they did and no apologies were issued by any of the Tennessee Three.

Should a judge who donated a trivial amount of money to political causes that could be construed as anti-Trump, years before any Trump-related case came before his court, recuse himself from a Trump-related case now before him? Yes, I think he should. Judge Merchan should recuse himself from...

In fact, their speaking on the floor demonstrated good decorum. They waited their turn. They made respectable speeches. Not once did the Speaker call them out of order.

True, but a party line expulsion is unprecedented. In that House, expulsions are exceedingly rare and until yesterday there has never been a party line expulsion. Some could but no one who had a say in this did. The official violation was said to be a decorum rules breach. It didn't. I...

A dubious explanation.

Jones alleged racism at that point, and others did the same as the events of the day played out. Three representatives were subject to expulsion votes. Now known as "The Tennessee Three," two of them are young black men (one mixed-race Filipino/Black) and one is a 60-year-old white woman. All...

Precedent is often a factor when determining the suitability of the consequences for a given offense. Expulsion of Tennessee state representatives by the Tennessee House is not unprecedented. It's been done before. So we can look at those examples to determine whether yesterday's expulsions were...