The Virginia Supreme Court announced the conclusion of its consideration of redistricting maps for the Commonwealth, terminating an unsuccessful episode of political cartography by the Virginia Redistricting Commission. Thus, the state may now enjoy (or curse) the judiciary’s result for… Read More ›
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DISHONOR ROLL — LEST WE FORGET
On January 6, 2021, and into the early morning of the next day, members of Congress had the Constitutional duty to affirm the Electoral College results from all US jurisdictions. A band of 147 Republican members of Congress voted to… Read More ›
Interview With a Nullifier
This article is almost fiction. On the other hand, in reality, it reflects both concerns about the nation’s electoral process and the duty of elected House representatives. Readers may imagine the interviewee to be any one of the 138 GOP… Read More ›
Fateful Day
The 535 voting members of Congress were to assemble in the Chamber of the House of Representatives at 1:00 pm on January 6, 2021, to bear witness to the recording of electoral votes from the states as submitted following the… Read More ›
The Replacements
1 To some, the term “replacements” will evoke a smile recollecting the 2000 motion picture comedy starring Keanu Reeves and Gene Hackman about a group of misfits recruited to play professional football. However, there are advocates of a sociopolitical replacement… Read More ›
VA Is Dot in Dirty Tricks Trail
Dirty tricks in politics are as old as politics itself. A number of observers have itemized those in the United States and ranked them. A review of those lists indicates the top three dirty tricks in American politics are: (1)… Read More ›
Democraphobia Redux
1 The Founding Fathers feared direct democracy as “mob rule” and crafted safety valves into the Constitution to ensure that rabble-led political forces did not consume the new central government or its state constituents. Notably, the electoral college process and… Read More ›
ICYMI………….December 27, 1845
1 One hundred seventy-six years ago today, John Louis O’Sullivan, a journalist, coined the term “manifest destiny” to justify annexation of the Texas and Oregon territories by the United States. O’Sullivan was a native New Yorker, educated at Columbia University… Read More ›
ICYMI…………….December 20, 1860
One hundred sixty-one years ago today, in 1860, the General Assembly of South Carolina, the Palmetto State, voted unanimously to secede from the United States following the victory of President Abraham Lincoln. A formal declaration of secession proclaimed that “A… Read More ›