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Joe Biden and George Wallace

Barack Obama is, of course, free to compare Donald Trump to Bull Connor or George Wallace for sending federal police to protect a courthouse in Portland — even if the violence in that city is largely perpetrated by white Marxist Antifa types and has nothing to do with equality.
But since Obama brought it up, it’s worth noting that the only person in modern American politics to have repeatedly praised Wallace and other segregationists is Joe Biden. It was Biden who bragged that in 1973 Wallace considered him “one of the outstanding young politicians of America.” It was Biden who wrote in 1975 that the “Democratic Party could stand a liberal George Wallace.” It was Biden who in 1981 told a black witness in the Senate that “sometimes even George Wallace is right.” It was Biden who, while campaigning for the presidency in Alabama in 1987, claimed that he’d been the recipient of an award from Wallace in 1973 (it probably wasn’t true; but what a thing to brag about!), and then boasted that D…

Federal judge reinstates straight-ticket voting in Texas

In a ruling surely to be quickly appealed, a federal district judge has reinstated straight-ticket voting in Texas for the November election. The ruling came in a lawsuit filed against Texas Secretary of State Ruth Hughes in Laredo, a Texas COVID-19 hot spot, by Democratic groups and the Texas Alliance for Retired Americans.
The plaintiffs claim that the lack of straight-ticket voting would cause long lines, burden Texas voters, have a disproportionate effect on the African-American and Hispanic populations and decrease turnout for the Democratic Party. In issuing her ruling, Judge Marina Garcia Marmolejo took the state of Texas to task for not doing more to ensure voters will be able to safely cast their ballots during the pandemic.
“Granting this injunction is in the public’s interest,” Marmolejo wrote. “Texas’ rules around voting during the pandemic have been perplexing. Administering in-person voting the same way it has been administered for almost 100 years is not about a mere co…

Trump plans to pick Amy Coney Barrett to replace Ginsburg

President Trump will nominate Judge Amy Coney Barrett to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court on Saturday barring any last second change, multiple people familiar with the process confirmed.
Two sources with knowledge of the process said that Barrett is the pick, barring any change of Trump’s mind before Saturday evening’s announcement in the White House Rose Garden.
A Republican official said Trump began informing allies on Capitol Hill of his intention to nominate Barrett, a judge on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Barrett is the favorite choice of conservative Christians who hope to overturn the landmark decision in Roe v. Wade establishing a woman’s right to an abortion, and has strong support from conservative GOP senators, including her home-state senator, Mike Braun (R) of Indiana.
“He’s made his decision and it’s Barrett,” said the official.
Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews Friday evening that he has made his decision in his “own mind” but declined to con…

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