Special election time in South Carolina. Elizabeth Colbert Busch and Mark Sanford square off to determine… well, not very much in the grand scheme of things, but the winning party will pretend it’s a huge mandate. We continue our discussion…
Remember that roughly 48 year experiment with actually letting people vote without getting discriminated against? That was a blast! Joe, Nick and Allison discuss the upcoming argument in Shelby County v. Holder, the latest challenge to Section 5 of the…
Sorry for the late (and short) post today. I’m getting run ragged by a lot of other projects, including tonight’s podcast, but I couldn’t let this go by without comment. We may actually get filibuster reform. It seemed like a…
The trillion dollar coin is dead. Long live the trillion dollar coin. I would save this for the Dumbest Thing I Heard This Week, but Larry Kudlow trying to nix Jack Lew is not comprehensible enough to even reach the…
Upon hearing “moose hunt,” most people assume they’ve stumbled upon a rerun of Sarah Palin’s Alaska and reach for their remote and/or loaded handgun to end the pain. But in this case, the moose hunt factors into a six-count indictment against three…
Yesterday, the House of Representatives voted 398-1 in favor of a bill removing the word “lunatic” to federal law. The bill began its life six months ago as a bipartisan proposal in the Senate, passing unanimously. When you realize that…
Mitch McConnell is not happy about the prospect of filibuster reform. Not one bit. But his fire and brimstone-laden floor speech yesterday features a basic inconsistency that dooms his mission. The filibuster, the procedural safeguard of the minority party that…
The usual suspects are joined by Elie Mystal of Above the Law to gloat about the election results and sacrifice the customary goat to our overlord Nate Silver. We also discuss the sex scandal involving Gen. David Petraeus where Elie, the…
1) To people who hate math — Suck it: It’s not dumb to say that we have heaped more praise upon Nate Silver (and his compatriots like Sam Wang) than deserved. After all, it was the community of pollsters who…
Reminder: The next President will have a major impact on the Supreme Court. John Dickerson explains what qualities we would look for if we interviewed presidential candidates. Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois functionally violates the Catholic Church’s tax exempt…
