There is absolutely no mention of climate or abortion during any of the major campaigns. That is a mistake. The Democrats let the Republicans run on standard issues of their party and not the issues of the country or the Democrats. Education is irrelivant. The USA still has problems, but, is now ranked 1st globally according to many reports.
Politics is local. Trump is no more. And every person in the country if not already concerned about the climate crisis and abortion, should be.
Run on the issues that are most urgent like climate and abortion. Education is not an issue, unless, one wants to discuss the huge dispartiy in diversity between public and private schools. Diversity that is not only ethnic, but, also those that are disabled. Private schools do not admit disabled students and/or students of ethnic diversity, except on a rate occassion. The public schools have the most burden and the private schools are skating along without a care in the world. If private schools continue in this manner, segregation and racism will sustain for at least another generation.
Candidates have to get out from behind desks and in offices and make contact. Rallies have far less effect on voters and their issues than door to door. Wear masks and bring extra for those that want to talk and feel compromised to do so in the age of COVID.
The Supreme Court is dismantling precedent in plain sight.
November 2, 2021By Josh Blackman
An Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court (click here) heard oral arguments in two challenges to S.B. 8, Texas' new abortion law. The "fetal heartbeat" statute allows private citizens to sue those who perform, aid or abet abortions. The government itself is expressly barred from enforcing the law. Texas cleverly made it difficult, if not impossible, for abortion providers to block the enforcement of S.B. 8.
Yet, two members of the Court seem prepared to creatively jettison long-standing precedent to stop the law nonetheless. Regrettably, Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett have succumbed to judicial supremacy. A defeat here for Texas will be short-lived. But the long-term impact of this judicial descent will endure for a generation.
In our republic, the Constitution and other federal law are the "supreme law of the land." And Supreme Court justices take an oath to support and defend the Constitution and federal laws. But the decisions of the Supreme Court are not the "supreme law of the land." And Supreme Court justices do not take an oath to defend the decisions of the Supreme Court. For much of American history, these principles were self-evident. But in Cooper v. Aaron (1958), the Supreme Court purported to elevate its own decisions to the status of "supreme law of the land." In doing so, the justices arrogated to themselves the power to resolve any constitutional dispute, notwithstanding the traditional rules of adjudication....
