Where is Congress? It was said that legislators would stay in session for August, yet they don’t even have a meaningful agenda to fill up the month of July. In today’s show, we observe all the ways that Congress, urged…
The Comatose Congress
Category: Politics
FCC having second thoughts about creating state-run media
It’s no mystery to even the casual observer of American politics that Donald Trump has little love for Freedom of the Press as he repeats his claim of “Fake News” like a broken record any time the news media reports…
Christian, conservative, and all-in for Trump Republicans race to lead House conservative caucus
After years of compromising their convictions and trading their principles for political power, the GOP provided little resistance to Donald Trump and his nationalist populist ideology as he and the so-called new American right seized control of the party. As…
Despite claims to the contrary, Trump and McConnell aren’t fixing our broken judiciary
While so-called conservatives and Trump supporters—but I repeat myself—have been singing the praises of Donald Trump for nominating Brett Kavanaugh to replace Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court, Mitch McConnell has been busy singing his own praises for his work…
Why DC Establishment is Missing the Point on the Judiciary
What is it that is broken about the courts? What are the trends? How do we fix it? And where does a Scotus pick help in redressing that problem? The D.C. legal conservatives don’t want to observe these problems or…
2015 NSA opinion indicates Kavanaugh is a threat to Fourth Amendment
Much as it was when the Democrats passed Obamacare and the Republicans passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, when it comes to what kind of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh might be, we’re going to have to wait for…
Trump picked Kavanaugh for solely self-interested reasons
When Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement, faux-conservative hearts were all-a-flutter over the prospect of replacing the part-time judicial activist with a strict constructionist who would help return the federal judiciary to its constitutional roots. Sadly, that didn’t…
