“Today’s young people have grown up & been #politicized as the age of #polycrisis has emerged, during which forms of #climate, #economic, #technological, & #geopolitical turmoil have grown & reinforced each other to a degree never seen before,” OSF president Mark Malloch Brown wrote. “So, although most people globally still have faith in #democracy, that faith is running on fumes.”
#UnitedStates #NationalSecurity #Power #SuperPower #geopolitics #Republicans #Minoritarianism #Authoritarianism
“What precedes a #democratic breakdown is #political #stalemate & #extreme #dysfunction where there’s a sense that nothing can get done,” said Steven Levitsky (Harvard political scientist & co-author w/ Daniel Ziblatt of ‘Tyranny of the Minority’). “When governments can’t respond in genuine crises, it has a delegitimizing effect, & it reinforces the sense among citizens that we have to resort to other means.”
#UnitedStates #NationalSecurity #democracy #Republicans #Minoritarianism
Central to the #crisis is the “Trumpist infection,” observed Spanish daily El Pais, which lamented the former president’s “rehabilitation” after the #Jan6, 2021, assault on the Capitol, as well as the worrying implications of dozens of #Republican lawmakers openly or tacitly endorsing #Trump’s well-documented attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
#UnitedStates #NationalSecurity #WorldPower #geopolitics #Republicans #Minoritarianism #Authoritarianism
With the chamber in paralysis, a new battle over #funding the govt looms next month, while boosters of #Ukraine’s war effort fear #DC lawmakers may be unable to authorize crucial new installments of #military #aid.
But the concerns harbored by onlookers abroad go far deeper.
#UnitedStates #NationalSecurity #democracy #WorldPower #SuperPower #AmericanDecline #geopolitics #HouseRepublicans #Republicans #Minoritarianism #CompetitiveAuthoritarianism #Authoritarianism
1> #activism #bigotry #blm #capitalism #christianright #conservatives #corporations #corruption #crt #culturewars #darkmoney #defundbillionaires #defundcorporations #desantis #discrimination #disinformation #education #extremewealth #extremism #extremistgroup #freespeech #genocide #gop #grandmasterflash #hate #hategroup #influence #lgbtq #lgbtqia #lol #m4l #mao #meritocracy #minoritarianism #momsforliberty #mopar #musk #neofascism #newsmedia #oligarchy #paypal #plutocracy #republicanparty
Many people trace the start of the #conservative #legal movement to 1982, the year of the founding of the #FederalistSociety, which provided a forum for #law students & profs w/conservative ideas to incubate their theories.
But the movement that has had such a profound impact on the courts today — one that involves #money & #politics, more than legal theories or principles — gained steam in the wake of the #CitizensUnited decision.
In a rare joint op-ed, the secretaries of the #Navy, #AirForce & #Army call on Sen. #Tuberville to stop blocking #military promotions
Tuberville: Stop this dangerous hold on senior officers
#USN #USA #USAF #RightWing #Extremism #AbuseOfPower #Minoritarianism #AbortionRights #NationalSecurity
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/04/army-navy-air-force-secretaries-tuberville-military-hold/
At Stake in Ohio’s #Referendum on Amending the #StateConstitution
The #vote could play a big role in the future of #AbortionRights in #Ohio. But it also raises questions about the #power of ordinary #citizens over elected #politicians.
The results could have far-reaching consequences for an issue on the #ballot in Nov: whether to establish a #right to #abortion.
#AbuseOfPower #Republican #Minoritarianism
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/08/us/ohio-referendum-constitution-abortion.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
The reason is no secret. Since the #SCOTUS overturned #RoeVWade last year, voters across the country, in multiple elections, have approved ballot measures protecting the right to #abortion. A similar election has been scheduled for Nov in Ohio, & legislators are hoping the higher bar for passing amendments will lead to its defeat.
#AbortionRights #AbuseOfPower #Republicans #GOP #democracy #Minoritarianism
#Texas Judge Says #Doctors Can Use ‘Good Faith Judgment’ in Providing #Abortions
The ruling sought to clarify the #MedicalExceptions in the state’s #AbortionBans, & was in a response to a #lawsuit from women who were denied abortions despite #medical emergencies.
#AbortionRights #ReproductiveRights #Law #Extremism #Minoritarianism
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/us/texas-abortion-ban-lawsuit-ruling.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
The outcome sets up a showdown w/the #Senate, where lawmakers are expected to vote next week on its version of the #legislation which lacks the divisive components in the #House measure.
#Democrats & moderate #Republicans predict that the defense bill, in its current form, will die in the Senate, raising uncertainty for the fate of major items that ldrs from both political parties had identified as national #defense imperatives.
#NDAA #MAGA #Extremism #AbuseOfPower #illiberal #minoritarianism
#House narrowly passes divisive #Pentagon policy bill
Nearly all Democrats voted against the $886 billion legislation, outraged by Republican-backed amendments targeting the #military’s #abortion policy & #diversity initiatives
#Defense #MAGA #Extremism #Minoritarianism #AbuseOfPower #illiberal
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/13/pentagon-abortion-policy-house-republicans/
“‘I wouldn’t want anybody to … make me a wedding website?’ he continued, sounding a bit puzzled but good-natured about the whole thing. ‘I’m married, I have a child—I’m not really sure where that came from? But somebody’s using false information in a Supreme Court filing document.’”
#ripeness #law #legal #SCOTUS #JudicialActivism #minoritarianism #LGBTQRights #equality #equity #discrimination #precedent
“This week, I decided to call Stewart and ask him about his inquiry.…
“…It took just a few minutes to reach him. I assumed at least some reporters over the years had contacted him about his website inquiry to 303 Creative—his contact information wasn’t redacted in the filing. But my call, he said, was ‘the very first time I’ve heard of it.’
#ripeness #law #legal #SCOTUS #JudicialActivism #minoritarianism #LGBTQ+Rights #equality #equity #discrimination #precedent
“…Colorado web designer… Lorie Smith… refused to make websites for same-sex weddings & sought an exemption from anti-discrimination laws…(citing) a couple named Stewart & Mike. Acc/to court filings from the plaintiff, Stewart contacted Smith in Sept 2016 about his wedding to Mike ‘early next year.’…Stewart included his phone, email, & the URL of his own website—he was a designer too….
#ripeness #SCOTUS #JudicialActivism #law #legal #minoritarianism #LGBTQ+Rights #equity #discrimination
ICYMI:
The Mysterious Case of the Fake #GayMarriage Website, the Real Straight Man, & the #SupremeCourt
In filings in the #303CreativeLLCvElenis case is a supposed request for a gay wedding website—but the man named in the request says he never filed it.
#ripeness #law #legal #SCOTUS #JudicialActivism #minoritarianism #LGBTQ+Rights #equality #equity #discrimination #precedent
https://newrepublic.com/article/173987/mysterious-case-fake-gay-marriage-website-real-straight-man-supreme-court
#Justice Sonia #Sotomayor delivered a passionate #dissent to the court’s #conservative majority. Sotomayor decried the decision protecting rights of a web designer to refuse to create websites for the weddings of #SameSex couples.
Sotomayor called it a “sad day in American constitutional law & in the lives of LGBT people.”
Dissent starts p33
#LGBTQ+Rights #law #equality #gender #legal #SCOTUS #303CreativeLLCvElenis #minoritarianism
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-476_c185.pdf
The org has successfully #lobbied since 2021 for #laws in >a half-dozen states that ban #GenderAffirmingCare for #transgender youths, w/ its representatives testifying before state #legislatures against the guidelines recommended by mainstream #medical groups, acc/to its records. It gained further #national prominence this year as one of the plaintiffs in the #federal #lawsuit to limit #access to #mifepristone, a key #abortion drug.
The records show that after long struggling to attract members, the #AmericanCollegeOfPediatricians gained outsize #political #influence in recent years, primarily by using #conservative #media as a megaphone in its quest to position the group as a reputable source of information.
Documents show how #conservative doctors influenced #AbortionRights, #TransRights
A small group of conservative #doctors has sought to shape the nation’s most contentious policies on #abortion & #transgender rights by promoting views rejected by the #medical establishment as #scientific #fact, acc/to docs reviewed by WaPo that describe the group’s internal strategies.
#HumanRights #Minoritarianism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/06/15/abortion-transgender-christian-doctors/
