The Russian Disinformation Attack and the Disappearing Rabbit Trick

“The more I think about it,” Heather Cox Richardson said this week, “the more it seems the main story of the past decade has been Russian disinformation to undermine U.S. democracy.” This was a notable comment because Richardson follows all the major political stories from the perspective of a political historian, and she has been […]

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How (and why) the Republican-Russian partnership came about

In the 1980s and earlier, the Republicans hated the former Soviet Union because, in the former Soviet Union, the government owned all the nation’s resources and industries. The Republicans believe all (or almost all) resources and industries should be privatized. When the Soviet Union broke up, the Russian Federation was established as a constitutional republic,

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Are Women and Black people “people” under the 14th Amendment? (The 18th and 19th Century Debate)

First, a few words about the Colorado Trump-Ballot issue Oral arguments on the Trump-Ballot issue were on Thursday so I updated my earlier blog post on section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Click here for the updates. Also, some personal news: Teri Earns an A I turned in the manuscript for my book on the

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The Anti-Democratic Opposition

This week I plan to demonstrate that any democratic government—by its very nature and under its own terms—will have a dangerous anti-democratic opposition. The opposition can be blunted and, with constant work, can be prevented from weakening or toppling the democratic institutions, but anti-democratic opposition can never be eliminated because (1) too many people have

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No Time to Panic

No Time To Panic A Mastodon user said this: There is never a time to panic. Even in an airplane emergency, a cool head saves lives. But Teri! Trump is openly running for president as an autocrat and he has a non-zero chance of winning! Yup. If you haven’t been paying attention, Trump is echoing

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Fun With Criminal Procedure, A Bit About Liz Cheney’s Book (and more)

First, some business. I appeared this week on the Politics Girl Podcast, which you can see here or, if you prefer to read a (rough) transcript, it’s here. Also, my website got a beauty makeover. I now have a separate landing page and other fancy stuff. (My technical support staff—my husband—has been busy.) And now

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Trump Claimed Absolute Immunity From Criminal Prosecution (and the court said ‘nope’)

Fun Reading Legal Documents And now it’s time for fun reading a legal document. What? You didn’t know that reading legal documents can be fun? Well, I am about to demonstrate. Here is Judge Chutkan’s order denying Trump’s motion to dismiss the charges in the DOJ / January 6 Election Subversion case based on claims

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