"In Ohio, the victory was especially significant given that Republicans in the state legislature have openly rebuffed the will of the voters recently. Last year, they ignored a constitutional amendment passed by voters in 2015 to end extreme partisan gerrymandering in the state legislature. They kept districts distorted to preserve their supermajority in the state legislature, and then used that majority to send Issue 1 to the ballot."
~ Sam Levine
#Ohio #Republicans
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/10/ohio-election-issue-1-republicans-abortion-vote
"Glaringly missing from those documents is any plan by which the archdiocese of New Orleans could reliably protect children from contact with clerics who had been suspended from public ministry following molestation allegations – but who for years stayed in close proximity to and were financially supported by the church."
#Catholic #SexualAbuse #NewOrleans #GregoryAymond
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Ramon Antonio Vargas writes,
"After the US’s second-oldest Roman Catholic archdiocese filed for bankruptcy protection in 2020, attorneys for people claiming sexual abuse at the hands of the organization’s clergymen reviewed thousands of records outlining how the church managed the careers of priests and deacons faced with substantial allegations."
#Catholic #SexualAbuse #NewOrleans #GregoryAymond
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Not only did the archbishop of New Orleans, Greg Aymond, fail to list large numbers of priests credibly accused of sexual abuse of minors on his list of clerical abusers; not only did Aymond repeatedly ignore the decisions of his own advisory council re: many credibly accused priests and allow those priests to continue in active ministry: but he also did not monitor many priests accused of sexually abusing minors.
#Catholic #SexualAbuse #NewOrleans #GregoryAymond
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"Trump wants something no other criminal defendant gets. He wants the government to build a personal sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF) for him, a facility used to review classified material. …
This isn’t about cost savings. It is, yet again, about fostering more delay to keep Trump from facing justice."
~ Joyce Vance
#Trump #crime #criminal #LawandOrder
“A previously unseen internal memo from the 2020 Trump campaign describes in detail the plot by Donald Trump and his lawyers to subvert election results in six states, according to a copy obtained by The New York Times.”
~ Mary Yang
#Trump #Republicans #crime #criminal #LawandOrder #insurrection #GuiltyasSin
"Let us be clear about what is exactly happening: it turns out people don’t like it when a historically unpopular party powered by out-there conspiracy theories steals a Supreme Court and then begins to whittle away at all the hard-earned protections, rights, and liberties of the past century, creating an apartheid state in which minorities and women are second-class citizens and children are being prepped for hard and painful labor."
~Jared Yates Sexton
#Ohio #GOP
https://jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/an-obvious-way-forward-ohio-and-a
As Philip Bump notes, for a long time, Republicans have argued decisions about abortion should be left up to the states, to a popular vote — because Republicans assumed (erroneously) that a majority of people wanted abortion rights abolished and abortion outlawed.
But once the Dobbs decision was handed down, with the Supremes saying this is all best left to the states, Republicans changed their tune.
#abortion #Dobbs #Ohio #MinorityRule #democracy
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/08/08/ohio-issue1-abortion-gop/
Republicans then began trying in every way possible "to game the process of adjudicating abortion laws" and avoid popular referendums, since they knew they were on the losing side of the abortion issue.
"So, instead of letting states decide, as they’d championed for so long, Republicans are often trying to limit how voters weigh in at all."
And this is what the Ohio battle was all about.
#abortion #Dobbs #Ohio #MinorityRule #democracy
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As Philip Bump notes, for a long time, Republicans have argued decisions about abortion should be left up to the states, to a popular vote — because Republicans assumed (erroneously) that a majority of people wanted abortion rights abolished and abortion outlawed.
But once the Dobbs decision was handed down, with the Supremes saying this is all best left to the states, Republicans changed their tune.
#abortion #Dobbs #Ohio #MinorityRule #democracy
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/08/08/ohio-issue1-abortion-gop/
"The defeat of Issue 1 also represents a major victory for one-person, one-vote democracy, at a time when the extreme right-wing forces that now dominate the Republican Party have made it abundantly clear that they will stop at nothing to prevent voters from rejecting the party’s candidates and its agenda."
~ John Nicholls
#Ohio #Republicans #abortion #democracy #MinorityRule
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/ohio-election-abortion-issue-1/
"Elon Musk’s Twitter refused to comply with a federal search warrant for Donald Trump’s Twitter account, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines for the social media company, according to court documents released Wednesday.
Special counsel Jack Smith obtained the warrant in mid-January and served the warrant to Twitter, now called 'X,' alongside a 'nondisclosure order.'”
#Trump #crime #Twitter #ElonMusk #JackSmith
https://newrepublic.com/post/174936/elon-musks-twitter-held-search-warrant-trumps-account
Katherine Pompilio shares the unanimous decision of D.C.'s U.S. Court of Appeals upholidng the district court's ruling to find Twitter in contempt with a fine of $350,00 for refusing to comply with a search warrant obtained by Jack Smith for Trump's Twitter account.
#Trump #crime #criminal #Twitter #LawandOrder
nostr:npub1gk2wfr4awwkz7pq93jeqfqsfnuwcxe49fdgtwr39p0h9njvr8tps04f4qz I, for one, don't intend to stop fighting.
"Literally preaching to the choir served them poorly when it came to properly understanding the state of American popular opinion. And by arguing for over 50 years that abortion is 'murder,' Republican politicians have zero room to try and sell a 'compromise' that might soften voter anger. If abortion is murder at 38 weeks, it’s murder at 16 weeks, and it’s murder at one week."
#Republicans #abortion #SupremeCourt #theocracy #Ohio #Dobbs #democracy
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"By actually delivering what Republican politicians had long promised their voters, the Supreme Court ensured Republican electoral losses in the 2022 midterm elections, and the repercussions continue.
It must’ve been quite the shock to the theocrats in states like Kansas, Kentucky, and Montana to so handily lose the abortion issue at the ballot box."
~ kos
#Republicans #abortion #SupremeCourt #theocracy #Ohio #Dobbs #democracy
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"When you do everything you can to rig an election and still lose, you have a problem. Voters in Ohio told the state’s Republican Party on Tuesday that it has a big problem, and they sent that message to the GOP nationwide. …
[I]f Issue 1’s defeat was a statement about abortion rights, it was also a harsh judgment against the anti-majoritarian politics that Republicans are practicing in many states they control."
~ E.J. Dionne
#Ohio #abortion #Republicans #democracy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/08/ohio-referendum-abortion-republicans/
"The Dobbs ruling has turned a coalition of liberal, swing and moderate Republican voters into a political force. Even in August in Ohio."
~ Lisa Lerer
#Ohio #abortion #Dobbs #SupremeCourt #democracy #MinorityRule
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/09/us/politics/ohio-election-abortion-voters.html
"More than 300 priests in the New Orleans archdiocese are accused sexual abusers. Less than a quarter are on the official list."
Gosh, I wonder if stories like this might explain why so many Catholics are walking away? It's not only abuse of vulnerable people by religious authority figures. It's brazen lies of those at the top like Archbishop Aymond. Betrayal of pastoral concern, protecting abusers and cold-shouldering victims ….
#Catholic #SexualAbuse #NewOrleans #CoverUp #GregoryAymond
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"More than 300 people employed by Roman Catholic institutions in the south-eastern US city of New Orleans have been accused of sexually abusing children or other vulnerable people whom they met through their work over the last several decades, secret documents obtained by the Guardian reveal."
~ Ramon Antonio Vargas
#Catholic #SexualAbuse #NewOrleans #CoverUp #GregoryAymond
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/09/new-orleans-archdiocese-clerical-sex-abuse-claims
"Though New Orleans’s 230-year-old archdiocese has spent a significant portion of its recent history managing the fallout from its association with the worldwide Catholic church’s clerical molestation scandal, the organization has generally sought to keep hidden the exact number of priests, deacons, nuns, religious brothers and lay staffers – such as parochial school teachers – under its supervision who have been named in abuse claims."
#Catholic #SexualAbuse #NewOrleans #GregoryAymond
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