I try not to let Republicans get too far under my skin (Trump being a notable exception) but it's becoming really hard not to hate Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell with every fiber of my being. It's not because he's a Republican. Or that he's owned by Wall Street and the ...read more
With the presidential election just a week away and polls showing their nominee, Donald Trump losing bigly, GOP senators are walking back their promise to let the next president pick a new Supreme Court Justice. Shortly after Justice Antonin Scalia died early this year, ...read more
When President Obama named Merrick Garland as his nominee to replace influential racist Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, it's likely the last thing he concerned himself with was whether his choice would appeal to identity politics-obsessed millennial Tumblr-users. Not only ...read more
On Sunday morning's edition of This Week, News One Now anchor Roland Martin summed up Republican frontrunner Donald Trump and his campaign of violence and intimidation in as perfect a fashion as has been achieved thus far. In a panel discussion about Trump's campaign manager ...read more
On Thursday night, I tweeted out a clip of Bernie Sanders, without commentary, that showed him making a little bit of news by saying that he supports President Obama's nomination of Chief Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, but if the vacancy persists until after the ...read more
With President Obama's Supreme Court Justice pick of Merrick Garland, we can assume that given his deliberative tendencies, he took many factors into account in reaching his decision. Today’s toxic political climate forced him to become far more tactical than he’d like to have ...read more
President Obama‘s nomination of DC Circuit Court Chief JudgeMerrick Garland has escalated the fight to replace deceased Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has taken to citing something called “The Biden Rule” as justification ...read more