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Threat on the U.S. Supreme Court” provided some major policy guidance. citations is itself ludicrous. Nov. 2-8 issue] is revealed as a farrago Those systems considering the Third: Progressives’ most reliable of errors, falsehoods and muddled Before commenting on the balance expense were to speed transit between ally is demographic dominance. interpretations of a disjointed collection of Nordell’s article, I must point out urban centers in a direct lin. ptown This last campaign may prove of facts. that the American Civil Liberties Downtown would have been the most to be the last hurrah for crucial Union supported the Supreme Court’s obvious choice had it been discussed aging segments of the 2016 Trump Nordell begins his diatribe by decision in Citizens United. You may and examined by the PIC. Coalition. Remember, Trump lost the complaining about a syndicated mae of that what you will. popular vote. ld white men lie column by Diane Diamond in the – Stephen Verchinski me) will be dead or marginalized by Albuquerque Journal wherein Nordell appears to object to the fact 2020. If Democrats don’t continue to Diamond discussed U.S. Supreme that certain members of the Supreme To the Editor: ignore rural voters, they may sway Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s Court are members of the Federalist some of them away from politicians comments on Donald Trump. Yes, Society. So what if they are? They es, the emocrats offered merican who shill for Wall Street, Big Ag, Big it’s true: Ginsberg has the First have just as much right to belong to voters the wrong candidate. Energy, Big Chemical and the rest of mendment right to spout off about the Federalist Society as Ruth Bader In the ustified eal among mainline the GOP’s client base. anyone or anything. Doesn’t she insberg has to spout off about Democrats to elect a female president, also have the duty to exercise some Donald Trump. the emocrats too their finger off the ourth Tae bac the state discretion? He complains about these same pulse of the American political body. governments. The Electoral College originally allowed small, wea states I cannot recall one occasion in the members – never named, except for Clinton proved unpersuasive, and her a bulwar against the power and past 40 years when a Supreme Court Antonin Scalia, who is dead – being campaign leaders were as inept and influence of larger, more affluent justice has made a public statement “signatories” to the Project for the New insular in 2016 as they were in 2008. states. But now those small states about a presidential candidate’s fitness American Century (PNAC) and says What to do now? this constitutes a violation of their oath can obstruct the will of the united for office. insberg is not following There are four forces in favor of a of office. list of signatories to the collection of states. an established precedent of justices recovery by the nation’s Progressives. PNAC’s Statement of Principles can be But the Electoral College won’t remaining silent about presidential Anger and disappointment can fuel found online, and no Supreme Court simply fade away. So, instead, candidates. motivation. So, Democrats, stop justices are on this list. concentrate on redistricting. Because Nordell next accuses certain members moaning and dissipating your energy. the DNC and Democrats at large of the Supreme Court of being Besides, the PNAC became defunct The 2018 midterm election and failed to pay enough attention to fascists. ince he does not define in 2006, so why is Nordell complaining New Mexico state election has now winning state governments in 2010 the word “fascist,” his accusation is about it? The PNAC addressed itself begun. Tea Partiers were successful and 2014, the GOP has redrawn worthless. Later on, Nordell says that to foreign policy, so why would a because they understood that the districts all over the country to favor in the Citizens United decision, Chief Supreme Court justice have joined it? roots of a movement had to be incumbents, especially Republican Justice Roberts “declared the United Finally, Nordell bemoans what planted and nourished before it incumbents. Taing bac state States to be a fascist country.” The he calls a “secret” memo written by could grow and spread. legislatures and governorships is word “fascist” does not appear in Justice Lewis Powell in 1971 and Instead of vetching and blaming, critical to winning the White House the Citizens United decision; hence, claims that the memo “spelled out run for city councils and school and especially the U.S. House Nordell’s claim is false. In the interests how business could tae control of the committees. earn what it taes to win of Representatives. Without the of exactitude, I must point out that federal government.” This is false. The office and the give and tae of how to Congress, a president gets little Justice Roberts did not deliver the memo influenced the .. hamber get things done. To garner attention accomplished. Please, gear up for decision of the court in Citizens United. of ommerce to modernie its efforts exponentially and save money, the 2018 mid-term campaigns for Justice Kennedy delivered the decision, to lobby Congress. The Chamber of campaign as a slate with common the House, Senate and your town’s and Justice Roberts wrote a concurring Commerce has as much right to lobby goals. Don’t expect slate allies to agree elections. lection wor will start opinion. Congress as Ruth Bader Ginsberg on everything – just enough of the before Labor Day 2017, so on your has to spout off about presidential Nordell claims that the decision important issues. mar, get ready s for , the was “wrong.” (He refers to its candidates, doesn’t it? Democrats have a great “bench” Listen to constituents more than “wrongness.”) Does he have any – Steven Dapra of candidates ready to replace you preach. It’s not about you, ualification to mae this allegation resident Trump ens. ory ooer, the individual. It’s about us, the What are they? Tammy ucworth, eff erel, citizenry. What you hear should To the Editor: Chris Murphy, Patty Murray, Kirsten Somewhat more to the point, the inform your issues. And people The Middle Rio Grande Council of Gillibrand – and maybe a few question of whether the Citizens notice when you listen.