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ROUNDUP: Third-Party Threat Looming Large, Despite RFK Jr.’s “Suspension”

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West’s Anti-vax, Stein’s Anti-climate Views In the Spotlight … And RFK Jr. Is Still on the Ballot in Three Battleground States WASHINGTON, D.C. – As Democrats continue to rally behind Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz after last month’s strong and joyful showing at the Democratic National Convention, it is becoming clearer than ever that the third-party threat is still looming large over the 2024 presidential race.  With Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fully debasing himself to please Donald Trump, Cornel West’s campaign is seizing on the moment to…

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DeSantis is raking in the DeVos family fortune in large part thanks to his anti-CRT legislation

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It’s no surprise that President Trump’s former Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, and her family would back Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential run. Because of course this family with practically zero experience in actual education are big fans of DeSantis’ ongoing war against teaching real American history (in all its brutality) and education that includes discussing gender differences and sexual orientation in classrooms. RELATED STORY: A tiny, largely unknown Christian college is at the epicenter of today’s dark conservative movement According to reporting from Salon, DeSantis’ campaign records show that between the middle…

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‘Substantive Due Process’ Looms Large in Jackson Hearing

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When Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota questioned Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing on Tuesday afternoon, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont proved they have something in common in addition to being members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Neither of them was in the hearing room. Yet that did not necessarily make them outliers on the committee. A number of senators on the committee did not stay in the room to personally witness Klobuchar’s questioning of Jackson.…

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