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DL Open Thread: Saturday, May 6, 2023
I’m tossing in my nickname for Eric Buckson, along with his (not-so politically correct) theme song: You’re welcome. Good luck getting that song out of your heads. Drip, Drip, Drip. Phony Georgia Electors Granted Immunity: Prosecutors for Georgia’s Fulton County have granted immunity to at least eight people under investigation for conspiring to overturn Georgia’s […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, May 5, 2023
If you read only one Open Thread today, make it this one! Because the tides are turning (in one case, literally), and it’s beginning to feel like Watergate Summer. As in drip, drip, drip. Starting with the rusty orange drip: A New ‘Deep Throat’ Threatens Trump On Hiding Of Classified Documents: Federal prosecutors investigating former […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, May 4, 2023
Two disappointing, but not entirely unexpected, committee results headline today’s wrap-up. HB 104 (Bush), which yet again expands the ability of developers to avoid most oversight, cleared the Senate Housing & Land Use Committee. When the Chamber and the Building Trades join forces, there’s not much you can do. HB 96 (Morrison), which would enable […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, May 4, 2023
The Family That Rules Montana. As in, the man who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee; his daughter, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee; and his son, who is the Speaker of the House. They are Christian conservatives with decidedly un-Christian views: During a legislative hearing in 2011 that was a prelude to Montana’s debates on abortion, State […]
The Cook Report Casts Its Eyes On–Sarah McBride
While we’ve written about most of these scenarios here, the fact that a major national political news source reports this is damned exciting. Especially since everybody in Washington reads this. It’s a piece looking at the at-large Congressional seat in Delaware: DE-AL: Lisa Blunt Rochester (D) – Entire state Solid Democrat. First elected in 2016, Blunt Rochester […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., May 3, 2023
Thumbs-up to the General Assembly’s work yesterday. SS1/SB 2(Lockman) passed the Senate on a straight party line vote of 15-6. Meaning, both Kyra Hoffner and Russ Huxtable voted for it. With a seemingly exponential increase in gun violence, the NRA’s wilful mangling of what the Second Amendment means is becoming less popular by the day. […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, May 2, 2023
Big day in the Senate. ‘Permit To Purchase’ is first on the Agenda. It will pass. Whether we have the marathon debate, or whether the opponents hold their, pardon the expression, fire, for the House, remains to be seen. I’ve heard the debate so many times that I likely won’t watch. As always, the part […]
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: April 2023
What strikes your fancy or, in the case of dance numbers, your fanny?: Might want to do the Horizontal Mambo to this one: MY kind of band!: Already the second song from this artist to make it on to my Best-Ofs this year. Love the Toni Morrison mash-up: Whoa. Last-minute addition, and it’s quite a […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, April 30, 2023
How George Mason Became The Federalist Society’s Go-To Law School: In the fall of 2017, an administrator at George Mason University’s law school circulated a confidential memo about a prospective hire. Just months earlier, Neil M. Gorsuch, a federal appeals court judge from Colorado, had won confirmation to the Supreme Court seat left vacant by […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, April 29, 2023
Just Another Texas Mass-Killing. He got pissed off when his neighbors told him to stop shooting his AR-15 in his front yard. So he killed five of ’em: The suspect was the victims’ neighbor and went to their home Friday night after they asked him to stop shooting an AR-15-style rifle in his front yard […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, April 28, 2023
Pence Spills The Beans. More than five hours before a Grand Jury. He’ll never be President, but he might just have saved democracy: As the target of an intense pressure campaign in the final days of 2020 and early 2021 by Mr. Trump to convince him to play a critical role in blocking or delaying […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., April 27, 2023
The Big News: The Permit To Purchase Bill cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee. Because of the cost, it heads to the Senate Finance Committee. As always, the Fiscal Note does not consider the revenue that will be generated once the bill takes effect. Not considering revenue, the projected annual cost is around $9 mill. I […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, April 27, 2023
Montana Legislator Barred For Being Transgender. Merely one of several precursors-if good people don’t step forward: The Montana House of Representatives took the extraordinary step on Wednesday of blocking a transgender lawmaker from the House floor for the remainder of the legislative session after an escalating standoff over her remarks on transgender issues in House […]
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