Friday, May 21, 2021

The Minnesota Legislative Process: Still Crazy After All These Years

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  Watching the Minnesota budget process is like living in Groundhog Day. The 2021 regular session of the Minnesota Legislature limps to an e...
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Saturday, May 15, 2021

The states are not friends of voting rights in America

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 Todays blog originally appeared in The Hill. The story of voting rights in America yields two truths. First, even though since 1787 there h...
Saturday, April 17, 2021

The Gentrification of Midway-Rondo in Saint Paul (and why Mayor Carter’s recent veto is illegal and enabling it).

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  Saint Paul Mayor Melvin Carter’s veto of the City Council vote to deny the go ahead on the Alatus housing plan at University and Lexingto...
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Saturday, March 27, 2021

Georgia, Voting Rights, and the Second Great Disenfranchisement in America

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              Georgia’s decision to restrict voting rights in partisan retaliation for Democrats flipping the state should come as no surp...
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Sunday, March 21, 2021

The US Senate Filibuster: It does not Produce Compromise, It Does not Protect Minority Rights

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  The debate over repealing the US Senate filibuster is reaching a partisan fever pitch.   Democrats are worried that after passing the $1.9...
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Sunday, February 14, 2021

What’s an Impeachable Offense?  We Don’t Know and that is the Problem

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 After the 57-43 Senate acquittal of Donald Trump on the impeachment charge of inciting insurrection against the government we are constitut...
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Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Impeaching Trump Will not End the Pandemic

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 No question that Trump’s January 6, speech as well as other lies instigated  the storming of theCapitol.  No question this was wrong.  No q...
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