US Politics Mega-thread - Page 3752

On May 06 2016 07:23 Lord Tolkien wrote:

Hrm? So you're saying cis-gendered heterosexual males (which is a false assumption, I can assure you) cannot discuss feminism at all, or understand it?

On May 06 2016 08:46 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
So supporters have access to high dollar donors of Republican campaigns?

On May 06 2016 08:46 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
So supporters have access to high dollar donors of Republican campaigns?

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama has commuted the prison terms of 58 people, nearly a third of whom were serving life sentences, the White House said on Thursday.

Most of the convicts who will be freed early were non-violent drug offenders.

Obama said in a blog post that “it just doesn’t make sense to require a non-violent drug offender to serve 20 years, or in some cases, life, in prison.”

He has pushed to reform the U.S. criminal justice system to reduce the number of people serving long sentences for such crimes and it one of the few issues where the Democratic president has received support from Republican lawmakers.

The Obama administration announced the most ambitious clemency program in 40 years in April, 2014. The program has struggled under a deluge of unprocessed cases.

Still, the number of commutations Obama has given is more than double the previous six presidents combined, the White House said.

Obama has now commuted the sentences of a total of 306 people, including 110 who had been serving life terms.

On May 06 2016 10:49 ticklishmusic wrote:
He'll figure out some way to force Congress' hand I think.

I don't see the problem with asking Republicans who don't like Trump for money. Appeal to their sense of civic responsibility (or their sense of stick-it-to-Trump) and convince them Hillary will be a much better alternative and whatnot.

Besides as the Bernie or Bust guys says why does it matter b/c Hillary is basically a Republican anyways so there's nothing new to hem and haw about really?

North Carolina state House Speaker Tim Moore (R) said Thursday that the legislature will not meet the deadline to respond to the Justice Department's allegation that the state's new anti-LGBT bill violates the Civil Rights Act.

"We will take no action by Monday," he told reporters, according to the Charlotte Observer. "That deadline will come and go. We don’t ever want to lose any money, but we’re not going to get bullied by the Obama administration to take action prior to Monday’s date. That’s not how this works."

Moore said that legislators are discussing next steps with their attorneys.

Senate Leader Phill Berger (R) indicated that the legislature would offer some type of response, but he was unclear on what that would entail.

"Obviously there’ll have to be some response – you’ve got the deadline – but I don’t see the legislature, as the legislature, taking any specific response," he said Thursday morning, according to the Charlotte Observer.

The Justice Department on Wednesday sent a letter to the North Carolina government notifying the state that its new anti-LGBT law violates the Civil Rights Act. The DOJ gave the state until Monday to confirm "that the State will not comply with or implement HB2."

Gov. Pat McCrory (R) on Wednesday decried the letter as "Washington overreach."

On May 06 2016 11:08 oneofthem wrote:
btw for the breakaway left people, remember when i said how the governing coalition will be more right than present dem. hillary not going to be that rightwing but same cannot be said for the future

dominant economic interest is the professional class involved in corporate america and this sets some limits on practical politics even without considering the need for sound policy for the lower half

On May 06 2016 08:47 Yoav wrote:


No, he's saying that you have an impoverished discussion if it's conducted *entirely* by men (I didn't see anything there about cis or straight). A balance discussion among 12 zerg players is not really a balance discussion, no matter how much some of them are striving for objectivity.

The family members of Sandy Hook shooting victims will get to see the internal records of how gun companies market military-style rifles, a Connecticut judge ruled on Thursday.

It is the latest in a string of victories for the Sandy Hook families in their longshot lawsuit against the manufacturer, distributor and dealer of the rifle used in the December 2012 school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.

The Bushmaster XM15-E2S rifle used to kill 20 first-graders and six educators was a legal weapon, and it was sold legally to Nancy Lanza, who was also killed by the shooter, her son Adam Lanza.

In the wake of the shooting, some family members of victims questioned whether the gun companies’ aggressively macho advertising of military-style rifles was irresponsible, and whether gun companies were intentionally targeting their product to troubled, violent young men like Lanza.

Thursday’s ruling will give the families and their lawyers a chance to request internal documents and interviews with company officials to answer the question – even if their lawsuit arguing that gun companies were negligent to sell military-style weapons to civilians is ultimately unsuccessful.

The gun companies targeted by the lawsuit had argued that they are not responsible for the criminal misuse of their products, and that a 2005 federal law specifically shields them from lawsuits like this one.