Month: June 2018

Latest NBC/WSJ poll

links and tweets on the poll

Trump’s popularity has increased

Democrats have a 10% point edge in the generic congress question

The complete poll

 

 

 

More great tweets from Florida Man

 

 

Trump’s made-up story that people in Houston watched the hurricane on boats

This is just more nonsense.  Is he lying or just ignorant?  He’s making stuff up.

He’s done this before.  The article reminds us: “This isn’t the first time the president has made comments that seemed bizarre or ill-informed. For example, he claimed without evidence millions of people voted illegally and inflated the number of people attending his inauguration and other rallies. He wrongly claimed to have seen Muslims in New Jersey celebrating the 9/11 attacks on television.”

AP Fact Check

Sad!

A great idea for a law

 

The Trump campaign should have report the Russian offer for dirt on Clinton to the FBI.

Trump is in no position to talk

Trump has attacked journalists for speculations about Melania Trump. He has lumped legitimate questions from the media in with tweets from the public

The article states: “By attacking journalists who have speculated or asked questions about his wife, the president put himself at odds with his own personal history of using his platform — and a number of his supporters — to target women and effectively amplify rumors about their health, appearance and personal relationships.”

Trump is in no position to talk:

  • During the 2016 campaign, he questioned Hillary Clinton’s health
  • He said Mike Brzezinksi had been bleeding from a face-lift and had a low I.Q.

Sad!

 

Charitable giving is declining

update 11/24/18

 

Black defendants get longer sentences from Republican appointed judges

This article discusses a study based on over one half a million defendants.  The Republican appointed judges also give shorter sentences to women.

The study states: “The racial gap by political affiliation is three months, approximately 65 percent of the baseline racial sentence gap,” the authors wrote. “We also find that Republican-appointed judges give female defendants two months less in prison than similar male defendants compared to Democratic-appointed judges, 17 percent of the baseline gender sentence gap.”

This problem will only get worse as Trump has filled many judicial vacancies.

This article includes this quote: ““Trump’s judicial nominees in particular are demonstrating what we see as a breathtaking hostility toward equal rights,” said Todd Cox, director of policy at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.”

 

What will the Supreme Court rule on gerrymandering?

This analysis reviews the possible outcomes of Supreme Court rulings on gerrymandering.

After discussing the options, it concludes:

“No matter how the court rules, here’s what we know already: People are increasingly paying attention to how districts are drawn, and they aren’t happy about it. If the court does strike down extreme partisan gerrymandering, the legal battles could continue for years. If the court sides with the gerrymandering states, opponents will try to change things outside the Supreme Court.”