H.R. 1 would federalize and micromanage the election process administered by the states, imposing unnecessary, unwise, and unconstitutional mandates on the states and reversing the decentralization of the American election process—which is essential to the protection of our liberty and freedom. It would (among other things) implement nationwide the worst changes in election rules that occurred during the 2020 election; go even further in eroding and eliminating basic security protocols that states have in place; and interfere with the ability of states and their citizens to determine the qualifications and eligibility of voters, ensure the accuracy of voter registration rolls, secure the fairness and integrity of elections, and participate and speak freely in the political process.

Curtis Houck
@CurtisHouck
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Mar 26, 2021
BOOM: Fox's Peter Doocy just read to Jen Psaki the 2005 comments from Joe Biden in support of the filibuster and then asked if that meant Biden was supporting "the legacy of the Jim Crow era." //

Psaki’s rebuttal was that the filibuster has somehow been abused only in the last few years, with there being 5 times as many filibusters on average now than during the 1970s. //

Even more laughably, Psaki tried to claim that the last year’s frequent use of the filibuster is proof that it needs to go. Yet, she failed to mention that it was the Democrats who carried out every single one of those filibusters. //

Robal
10 hours ago edited
It was brought to everyone's attention that last year(2020)democrats used the filibuster 327 times, while Republicans used it only once. Doocey missed a great opportunity to make a fool out of Psaki. //

cafeblue32 indylawyer
2 hours ago edited
Nothing is like it was in 1970. Remeber all those 5000 page 2 trillion dollar legislative initiatives passed then? Me neither.

Laws today are made more or less like this: Lobbyists and donors meet with a few congress critters on key committees in private meetings, where agreements are made and said lobbyists and donors write the bills. Every Dem sees this window of opportunity to get all they can and so they overeach, as they always do. All across the party, pols facing re-election are in a hurry to pay back their constituency groups and donors while they can and cement a permanent majority based on dependent citizens and government provider. They submit as many non-related items they can shove into a "relief" bill. This is why they don't bother with budgets and operate on emergency spending bills, sequesters, XOs, and any other way they can wait until something is so chaotic the public demands relief.

Lobbyists write the 5000 page monstrosities with 9% of it going to its stated purpose, Congress votes on them without reading what's in them, and the moment it becomes law they gets busy building an entire new impenetrable bureaucracy built to service whatever unsolvable social condition they deem to be a sin. Lobbyists and donors get theirs, the p0licitans get their donations, and the party rewards them with reelection support. And now add in governing by XO and SCOTUS rulings as a replacement for legislating and here we are.

So, we have politicians who lie to get elected, who don't write laws, who don't read the ones they vote for, who place as much of their responsibility off onto the executive as they can, and all of it being run by Party apparatchiks and the elites in the donor and lobbying class, many of whom are former senatiors and congressmen who know how to skirt the rules.

The latest report is that Wisconsin has joined the ranks of states that will investigate what happened last year by adopting a resolution authorizing an investigation that “would give the investigators subpoena power to compel testimony and gather documents.” That’s at least three states who are keeping the issue in front of the public, counting Arizona and Georgia.

While these actions are excellent, there are three significant challenges that must be overcome in order to restore election integrity and voter confidence in US elections:

Overcoming Democrat attempts to institutionalize election fraud nationwide, as well as their unified resistance to revising state election laws to prevent fraud.
Restoring trust in federal and state government agencies, especially law enforcement, to enforce state election laws to the letter.
Educating the general public about why restoration of election integrity is of vital importance in preserving our constitutional Republic. //

Signing HR 1 into federal law will effectively end our constitutionally-based political system, with all of its checks and balances, replacing it over time with a one-party political dictatorship that would be immune to the outrages of average Americans over capricious authoritarian federal and state policies implemented since corrective elections to replace “elected officials” would be impossible. Third World dictators would be proud.

We should prepare ourselves for an announcement that VP Harris will be attending in person for the United States, standing in for Biden, due to some compelling reason that will only be disclosed at the 11th hour. Biden will participate via videoconference, which will allow his involvement to be managed. It has already been acknowledged that Biden has allowed Harris to conduct solo conversations with world leaders on behalf of the Administration. Having her attend the G7 will be another data point — another marker along the pathway to installing her as president.

Did I mention that a deliberate policy has been implemented — for the first time ever — to have all federal agencies identify the current Administration on their websites as the “Biden-Harris Administration”. //

Joe Biden’s name might be on the door, but Joe Biden isn’t running the United States government in the sense that has always been assumed to be the case about the person elected to the office — since President Wilson, at least.

We are a nation now governed by a political party apparatus — a collection of apparatchiks and commissars.

Just like China and the CCP.

Successful libel actions are good for the press. They help keep it free of censorship, by enabling the public to trust that the press has respect for the truth and does not knowingly or negligently spread lies. Allowing blatant falsehoods to circulate unchecked turns the public against the press.

Accordingly, trust in the media has been declining steadily since the Sullivan decision and is now at an all-time low. The latest Gallup survey found 60 percent of the U.S. public has little or no trust in the media, with self-identified Republicans’ trust dropping from 32 percent in 2015 to 10 percent in December 2020.

To help restore at least some of that lost credibility, the Supreme Court should heed Thomas and Silberman and revisit the arrogant, unjustified, and immensely destructive Sullivan decision.

Life’s failures come at you when it’s quiet.

She wakes at 6:30 a.m. to leave for work by 7:30. Forty-five minutes later she’s parking in the basement garage then taking the elevator up to the 24th floor. Ten steps through the glass doors then make a right. Go down past the first door and make another right into the kitchen to put her brown bag lunch in the fridge and grab a coffee. She walks to her office, turns on the lights, and closes the door. Six months at a new job in a new city. It felt like 60 years.

Sit on a vinyl chair made to look like leather at a fake desk made to look like wood. She wishes her desk were wood. There is a warmth to wood. The desk - laminate covering particle board - feels cold and unnatural. Her skin wasn’t formed to touch these things. The fluorescent lights cast shadows over her face, magnifying every crease and aging her 10 years compared to the glow of daylight. The tiny lines in her forehead look like canyons at sunset. Her eyes look defeated. Bags that could carry the world. She appears pale despite the mid-summer tan. //

For her, the unsaid is quite simple: kill your ambition before it kills you. We hope she realizes this before it’s too late. There are so many like her.

Ted Cruz
@tedcruz
These are the pictures the Biden administration doesn’t want the American people to see. This is why they won’t allow the press.

This is the CBP facility in Donna, Texas.

This is a humanitarian and a public health crisis. //

Senator Thom Tillis
@SenThomTillis
Replying to @SenThomTillis
Here are babies handed over by smugglers. Babies. //

Sen. James Lankford
@SenatorLankford
Day two from the border—this is a pod that’s designed to hold 80 people that’s currently holding 709.

But now the pictures are out and you can decide. Let’s first look at the pictures that show he had the faces and description of each reporter, what outlet they were with, with some circled with the numbers on them (order in which they were supposed to be called on?).

Brick Suit
@Brick_Suit
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Mar 25, 2021
Joe Biden had a cheat sheet of all the reporters with numbered circles by the ones he was supposed to call on.
#Scripted

Early today, a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia reversed a detention order entered by a district court judge and remanded the case for a further detention hearing for Eric Munchel and Lisa Eisenhart. Munchel has been identified as a member of the Oath Keepers, and Eisenhart is his mother and a vocal proponent of the January 6 protests.

The decision was 2-1, and the panel of appeals court judges included a Clinton appointee, an Obama appointee, and a Trump appointee. The Trump appointee, Judge Katsas, dissented, but only on the basis that he would have remanded the case back to the district court judge with an order that the defendants be released on bond, whereas the two-judge majority was sending the case back for further proceedings consistent with the Appeals Court’s order.

So it was really a 3-0 loss by the government on the lower court decision to hold the defendants without bail pending trial — something the government has asked for in a number of Jan. 6 protest cases.