🎉🥂🎉🤸 Tomorrow, we get back to work. We have those two senate run-off races in Georgia, then lots of healing and repairing. Apologies to people who have sent me questions. It’s been a crazy week. I’ll try to get to a bunch of them in the next few days. I’ll tell you one story from …
[Click here to read on the Just Security website.] President Donald Trump governs—and manages his own life—as if all the world is a reality show. He writes the script and directs the play—and we all find ourselves trapped in a world of his creation. When Trump succeeds, it is because so many of his followers …
We’re almost on the other side. As I write this, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, and North Carolina are counting votes. It definitely wasn’t what we hoped for. A Biden win (which seems highly likely) stops the slide to autocracy. But not winning the Senate puts us in a holding pattern: With a Republican-held Senate and …
Remember when Trump said that if we “get rid of ballots” there won’t be a transition of power? Looks like a few Republicans took that to heart. They’re not stopping with absentee ballots. They’re going after any ballots in Democratic-leaning areas. A group of Republicans filed a petition earlier this week to halt “drive-through” voting …
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[Click here to read on the Just Security website] Two important events relating to the upcoming election occurred on Monday evening, October 26: ● Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote a concurring opinion in Wisconsin National Committee v. Wisconsin State Legislature in which he mentioned in dicta “those States [that] also want to be able to definitively …
Last night two things happened thirteen minutes apart. At 4:30 pm California time, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a decision in the Wisconsin dispute over whether late-arriving mail-in ballots should be counted. Kavanaugh’s concurrence raised some eyebrows. Exactly thirteen minutes later, Trump tweeted something so inaccurate that Twitter hid it from view …
I. Overblown and Empty This week’s 60 Minutes interview contained some drama. Trump kept changing his story about health care. First he said he already had a health care plan worked out to replace the Affordable Health Care Act. Then he said he would have one after he learned what the Court would do. Lesley …
This question came to me through the “Ask Teri” tab on my blog 👇 Can we be sure that election results are processed fairly and honestly? Can poll workers fudge the results? Is there oversight as people count the votes? Yes, no, and yes. Elections are regulated by statute, the statutes provide for oversight, and …
Here you have it. The greatest threat to democracy: Democracy is based on rule of law, which requires a shared truth (a functioning public sphere). Fascism, to thrive, must destroy the common factuality so that myth can take hold. Trump walked out of the 60 Minutes interview in frustration because he has only one way …
This question came in from the Ask Teri tab: I’m wondering if, in the next administration, it would be better to let Trump and the others off the hook or prosecute to them? I understand the need to get on with the business of running, putting back, and healing the nation, but the alternative, doing …
