This is Michigan’s 12th congressional district, where I live. It didn’t always look like this. There was a time, prior to the Republican redistricting of 2001-2002, when the borders of the 12th district pretty much formed a square. But that changed in the wake of the 2000 census, when the Republican majority in Lansing took […]
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Federal court rules that Michigan’s partisan gerrymandering is unconstitutional
Posted in Civil Liberties, Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Denise Hood, Eric Clay, First Amendment, gerrymandering, Gordon Quist, Jim Stamas, Jocelyn Benson, Ken Horn, Lana Theis, League of Women Voters, League of Women Voters of Michigan v. Benson, Michigan's 12th Congressional District, Proposal 2, special elections, voter suppression, voting rights 3 Comments
You can’t argue that Obama imprisoned child immigrants while also arguing that he had an open border policy
I’d like to preface this post by saying that, as a result of economic insecurity, climate change, authoritarianism, and any number of other factors, the United States will almost certainly see more immigration over the coming decades, as an increasing number of people, quite understandably, begin gravitating toward more stabile, less dangerous countries. And, as […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged ACLU, Amy Kremer, anti-Muslim, authoritarianism, bone spurs, border wall, cages, child abuse, child cruelty, civility, Climate Change, CNN, complexity, conspiracy theorists, cult of victimhood, Diane Feinstein, Donald Trump, due process, economic insecurity, Einstein visa, fact check, family separation, fascism, fear, fifth amendment, FOX News, gerrymandering, harassment, human rights, hypocrisy, hypocrisy watch, ICE, illegal immigration, immigration, immigration refom, Ivanka Trump, Jeh Johnson, Judicial Branch, Latin America, Maxine Waters, Melania Trump, Mike Huckabee, MS-13, Nazi analogies, Neil Gorsuch, open borders, Paul Ryan, post-fact, professional victims, racism, reality television, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, shithole, Steve King, Supreme Court, The Red Hen, the short attention spans of Americans, threats to Democracy, travel ban, Trumpism, unaccompanied minors, unconstitutional, undocumented workers, white victimhood, Women for Trump, zero tolerance 58 Comments
Move to Amend chapter to open in Ypsi/Arbor, challenge concept of corporate personhood
Some local folks are starting an Ypsi/Arbor chapter of a national organization dedicated to the elimination of so-called “corporate personhood.” Their names are Reagan M. Sova and Joel Skene, and I thought that I’d take the opportunity to ask them some questions. Following is our brief, but dense conversation. MARK: So, I hear that you’re […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Corporate Crime, Economics, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged 14th amendment, abuse of power, Adam Smith, are corporations people, Article V, Brown v. Board of Education, Buckley v. Valeo, Citizens United, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Constitutional amendments, constitutionalists, corporate fascism, corporate personhood, corporate speech, corporate takeover of politics, corporations, corporations are not people, Fire Rick Snyder, First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, Free Speech, Frenchie's, Glenn Greenwald, graduated income tax, grassroots organizations, Inherently Unequal: The Betrayal of Equal Rights by the Supreme Court 1865-1903, J.C. Bancroft Davis, Jean Baudrillard, Joel Skene, Julian Assange, Laurence Goldstone, legal precedent, masters of mankind, Michele Bachmann, money as free speech, Move to Amend, Nancy Reagan, National Lawyers Guild, New York Railway, Noam Chomsky, organic institutions, Reagan M. Sova, Reagan Sova, recall, reconstruction, Rick Snyder, Ronald Reagan, Santa Clara Blues: Corporate Personhood and Democracy, Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, Sheila Tate, slavery, Supreme Court, the rule of law, threats to Democracy, William Meyer 26 Comments