Our new Attorney General, Matt Denn, announced Wednesday that he will create a new division of the Department of Justice to address the rights and liberties of Delawareans.
The Office of Civil Rights and Public Trust will address three main areas: the enforcement of laws protecting residents’ civil rights, upholding public trust and election laws and investigating police use of force and other areas where some of DoJ’s responsibilities may present the appearance of conflict.
Denn says he has heard from attorneys and other Delawareans about improvements that could be made regarding civil rights law enforcement.
“I did have a fair number of people approach me during my campaign to tell me they thought it would be a good thing for the state to have more enforcement of laws involving rights of Delawareans with disabilities, housing discrimination and employment discrimination issues,” said Denn.
Delaware has the fastest
2013 Progressive of the Year Sarah McBride has one. I want one. And Delaware better not pass any laws banning them.
First Read: “So after years of making President Obama and Democrats own the state of the economy, McConnell is now taking credit for the improving — two days into his new job? And based on the expectation that the GOP was going to take over the Senate? If anything, this is a reminder that the Republican Party realizes that — if the economy continues to get better and better — they can’t allow Obama to get all of the credit. Oh, and we get a new monthly jobs report [today].”
And that job report finds that another 252,000 jobs were created in December, and the unemployment rate fell again to 5.6%, making 2014 the best year of job growth since 1999. Another 50,000 jobs were added to the months of October and November as well. Man, I love that Republicans can travel back in time and create jobs. I suppose that is the only way they can do it.
New York Times: “The party is different in tone and substance, moving toward a stricter, limited-government brand of conservatism in response to President Obama’s liberalism, a change that has generational and ideological dimensions. Now, deviations from orthodoxy on education, health care, immigration and the environment that some Republicans flirted with or embraced during George W. Bush’s presidency are as out of vogue on the right as flip phones.”
Sen. Joe Manchin has a sad. You see, he is so West Virginia dumb that he doesn’t understand basic balance of power stuff about the three branches of government. He said he was disappointed that the White House threatened to veto his legislation approving the Keystone XL pipeline, arguing the president’s move was “not the way a democracy works.” Oh really?
“He never even gave it a chance, never even gave it a chance. Now, that’s just not the way you do legislation. It’s not the way a democracy works. And it’s not the way the… three branches of government should work.”
Well, first off, you are the one not giving something a chance. You are the one who wants to rush this to a conclusion, you dumbfuck Carper wannabe. The State Department and the Nebraska and U.S. Courts are reviewing the pipeline, so you are not giving them a chance to complete their work. Second, the President is free to tell Congress at any time he wants that “hey, Congress, you might not want to waste your and the taxpayer’s precious time on this ill conceived bill, because I am just going to veto it anyway.” There is nothing anti-democratic or unconstitutional about that. In fact, he is doing Congress a favor. Now, if Congress wants to waste their time and pass the bill anyway, that is of course their prerogative. But that does not require the President to sign it. You see, some Republicans, and obviously some West Virginia Democrats, believe that when Congress passes a bill it is automatically law. Go back to Social Studies class, Senator.