The Pulse: Criminal Justice Under a Republican State Supreme Court, More Lessons from the Midterms, and Same-Sex Marriage Gains Bipartisan Support in US Senate: The Week’s Top Stories on Policy Watch
This article features Government Accountability Project whistleblower client claims and was originally published here.
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So now what? What are we to make of the results of the 2022 midterms now that they are – at least for the most part – finally in the books?
While most everyone agrees that the results generally defied expectations given the much-smaller-than-anticipated size of the Republican “red wave” (and the best performance by a sitting president’s party in more than 40 years), triumphant claims of ideological victory and mandates have been understandably scarce.
Many at the national level, of course, have pronounced Donald Trump, as The Wall Street Journal put it, last week’s “biggest loser.”
And indeed, while some diehard MAGA people remain unrepentant and as fiercely loyal to their diminished dear leader as ever, it’s clear that a reckoning on some sort is underway in the Republican Party, where a sizable bloc is interpreting last week as a repudiation of the Big Lie about the 2020 election and the crazy conspiracy theories and candidates to which it helped give rise. [Read more…]
Five Black incumbent legislators lost elections in eastern North Carolina districts last week, contributing to an overall decline in Black representation from rural counties...
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