More that it was branding intended to contrast with the prior system.
If the name of bills proposed in Congress meant anything more than branding then no one would be able to oppose the “Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act”, because its meaning of either “safeguard” or “American voter” is quite far from what the bill actually does.
Maybe. But it also covers “you need this $6000 test and a $2000 per month medicine”.
A.PPACA plan should cover that annual checkup without any preventative care without deductable or copay, however.
(And while inferior to Medicare for all or VA-like single-payer, our near-dystopian PPACA system is better than the “we cut you off right when you really need us” system it replaced.)
The $100,000 hospital bill when your annual checkup catches cancer early enough to treat with simple outpatient surgery.
Exactly none of the US system of checks and balances includes expecting an employee of the executive branch to defy the head of the executive branch.
It works by the courts invalidating executive orders as illegal or unconstitutional, and the Congress refusing to fund or legislate at the executive’s whims.
Our checks and balances are working fairly well, especially considering that the GOP hold majorities in every part of the federal government. The problem is just that Congress let the other two branches assume too much of its own authority.
Seriously? Why give them over a month to answer such a simple question?
Apparently, because there was already an order for a report from the Kennedy center due at that time. And the Kennedy center not being POTUS is one major point of the lawsuit.
The American right is all about pretending they didn’t lose. Short list of examples in cronological order:
Of course the USA lost this thing with Iran. We didn’t even state a clear goal and STILL wound up in a state where the absolute best we could hope to describe it is as a draw.
It isn’t running to the right to describe things factually. Reality, after all, has a well known left-wing bias.
The least reliable members of the facist block of SCOTUS are those appointed by Mr. Trump.
He’s really, really bad at the job.
We know Roberts isnt playing politics. He thinks he’s a priest-king who can dictate his own beliefs as inarguable decree.
It would be one thing if he followed the history of the court and was bound by precedent, but letting six functionaries who were specifically asked about abortion and made unambiguous promises to respect it overturn the recognized right of bodily autonomy has made every right Americans enjoy subject to judicial nullification
The only sane thing is to specifically take away judicial supremacy, and restore the unelected academics to a subordinate role deferential to the actually elected branches of our government. Sure, wed essentially give up any hope of free speech or marriage rights or religious liberty being out of the each of Congress, but better a Congress who can be voted out than judges who arent protecting those rights anyway.
She lost an unwinable election.
No time in American history has an incumbent quit mid-campaign and had their VP win.
No time in American history has a challenger survived an assassination attempt and lost.
No time in American history has the incumbent party won with both an economic downturn and an unpopular war.
That Harris nearly won is astounding. And since she’s eligible to run, it’s natural and sensible for her to be the default candidate.
Any 2028 contender who can’t persuade dems that they’d be better than Harris shouldn’t bother.
100% of self-identifying MAGA supporting Trump still means mostly that those who don’t support him anymore no longer. Identify as MAGA.
You’re presuming that the CEOs would give honest answers, instead of whatever answer helps them get a bigger bonus.
(Not to mention all of the businesses that don’t actually have a CEO, or the subcontractor shell games they play so cleaning and support staff dont actually work for the company…)
Is that summary right? They’re measuring how “democratic” the USA is by surveying professors at universities?
Isn’t that like surveying CEOs about employee wages and then saying you’re “measuring” employee compensation?
Newsom isn’t a democratic nominee running against Trump. He’s a Democrat who wants to be chosen over other Democrats to be the 2028 nominee.
Calling out any apparent backsliding or bigotry is relevant, be it transphobia, homophobia, Islamophobia, anti-semitism, sexism, or racism.
Not really. Congress is constitutionally “in session” except when they themselves deliberately and formally pause for at least a weekday. And to do that requires the exact same two-chamber majority that is required pass a bill. (“Pro forma” sessions with just one senator and one house member are common.)
Until December 21st Congress is essentially immune to the “pocket veto” unless they specifically choose to be.
The “State of the Union annual speech” has been pointless since before anyone living was born.
And yet it still happens, because “rapist who breaks all norms” still does it. (Were I a congressional dem, my pick for next speaker would be whomever pledged to not invite an infamous sex pest to ramble in person.)
Parliamentary systems are substantially more susceptible to facism and nationalism than multicameral legislatures with a separate executive.
And they’re hardly proof against the sort of gerrymandering that makes the US House less responsive to general election voters than it should be.
“We should abandon all those queer kids in small communities because there are so many grown up MAGA redcaps around them” is a hell of an opinion.
That sounds like an argument for abolishing the fundamental parts of the united states.
It would be very bad thing if every governor and attorney general suddenly became as subject to Republican malfeasance as local mayors in Texas.
Also, there are some federal rules for what counts as special “birth certificates” to efficiently prove that a US citizen asking for a passport was born in the USA. But states don’t have to follow them if they choose, and depending on their reason could presumably go to court to get the federal rule adjusted or discarded.
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-22/chapter-I/subchapter-F/part-51/subpart-C
I’m very relieved to hear it was only water and apple cider vinegar. “Unknown liquid sprayed by an attacker” is just short of actually wounding someone when it comes to anxiety induced.
MN should throw the book at him. And at anyone who helped him do it.
I’d be shocked if a CNN poll had a margin of error less than 1%