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05.02.2026 - 22:01 [ Politico.com ]

‘Weak,’ ‘whiny’ and ‘invisible’: Critics of DNC Chair Ken Martin savage his tenure

(June 19, 2025)

Other Democrats cited what they described as Martin’s ham-handed approach to the DNC’s influential rules and bylaws committee, which is charged with setting the 2028 presidential primary calendar. Martin purged members of the panel, including Weingarten and Saunders, who had supported Martin’s top opponent in the February election for DNC chair.

Of the 15 Democrats he took off the panel, 13 of them hadn’t voted for Martin, according to an internal record obtained by POLITICO.

05.02.2026 - 21:36 [ Democrats.org ]

Ken Martin Elected as New DNC Chair, Commits to Build Democratic Party to Win, to Expand, and to Last

(February 1, 2025)

Today, Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Chair and Association of State Democratic Committees (ASDC) President Ken Martin was elected as the new Chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) with overwhelming support from DNC members on the first ballot.

05.02.2026 - 21:32 [ Democrats.org ]

DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee Votes to Recommend 2025 Rules of Procedure for Election of DNC Officers

(December 12, 2024)

Today, the DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee (RBC) voted to recommend the Rules of Procedure that will guide the election process for the next DNC Chair as well as National Committee Officers.

20.12.2023 - 16:10 [ Glenn Greenwald / Twitter ]

After 2016 — first Brexit, then Trump‘s win — Western elites decided populations could no longer be trusted with basic freedoms: they choose and think wrong. That‘s what led to the censorship/“disinformation“ regime. Now they‘re barring the leading candidate from running:

Imagine if Biden wins with Trump banned or jailed: US sermons about „democracy,“ or condemning Putin imprisoning Navalny, will be seen as an even bigger joke than now.

One of the West‘s key dissidents (Assange) is jailed. They censor dissent. Now they‘re trying to ban Trump.

It‘s always been a huge propagandistic mystery that the US media succeeds in convincing Americans that the US Govt defends freedom as it props up the worst dictators (Saudi, Egypt, etc.).

They‘re now escalating it in desperation: first after 2016, now seeing Trump/Biden polls.

Fear of free populations is a global trend. In Brazil, they imprisoned Lula in 2018 when leading all polls, then banned Bolsonaro from running.

In Pakistan, CIA engineered removal and imprisonment of Imran Khan.

All Western countries are increasing online speech controls.

20.12.2023 - 14:59 [ Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Independent candidate for President of the United States / Twitter ]

I’m not a Trump supporter (if I were, I wouldn’t be running against him!) But I want to beat him in a fair election, not because he was kicked off the ballot. Let the voters choose, not the courts!

20.12.2023 - 14:50 [ New York Times ]

Colorado Voters Share Sense of Unease After Court Disqualifies Trump

“I think it disenfranchises voters,” said Jeremy Loew, a longtime defense lawyer in Colorado Springs who described himself as a progressive who had never voted for Mr. Trump. “Our whole system is built around people running for office and letting the voters decide.”

“We can’t just kick people off the ballot because they have been accused of something,” he added.

21.08.2023 - 07:44 [ Amerika21.de ]

Guatemala kurz vor der Stichwahl zur PrÀsidentschaft

(17.08.2023)

Im Mittelpunkt der Proteste standen die fortgesetzten Angriffe der Staatsanwaltschaft auf die sozialdemokratische Partei Movimiento Semilla, die ĂŒberraschend bei den Wahlen am 25. Juni den zweiten Platz erreicht hatte. Sie tritt mit ihrem Kandidaten Bernardo ArĂ©valo zur Stichwahl fĂŒr die PrĂ€sidentschaft am kommenden Sonntag gegen Sandra Torres von der Partei „Einheit der Nationalen Hoffnung“ (UNE) an.

Mitte Juli hatte die siebte Strafkammer in Guatemala-Stadt nach Ermittlungen der Sonderstaatsanwaltschaft angekĂŒndigt, die Partei Semilla wegen angeblicher UnregelmĂ€ĂŸigkeiten bei den Mitgliederlisten auszuschließen. Zwar hob das Verfassungsgericht den Beschluss wenige Tage spĂ€ter auf, allerdings nur fĂŒr den laufenden Wahlprozess. Eine Klage von Semilla wies das Verfassungsgericht zurĂŒck, so dass der Prozess der Suspendierung der Partei weiterhin offen ist.

29.07.2023 - 07:40 [ theHill.com ]

Alito says Congress has ‘no authority’ to regulate Supreme Court

(28.07.2023)

“I know this is a controversial view, but I’m willing to say it,” Alito told the Journal. “No provision in the Constitution gives them the authority to regulate the Supreme Court — period.”

Although the Constitution enables Congress to structure the lower federal courts, it explicitly vests judicial power within a singular Supreme Court.

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The piece also revealed Alito’s first public comments on the recent ethics push since he authored an op-ed for the same paper that was shared just before a ProPublica investigation into an undisclosed Alaskan fishing trip the justice accepted in 2008 paid for by a conservative donor was made public.

29.07.2023 - 07:25 [ Washington Post ]

Biden faces renewed pressure to embrace Supreme Court overhaul

(04.07.2023)

As Democrats reel from another painful set of defeats at the Supreme Court in recent weeks, President Biden is facing renewed pressure from a range of elements in his party, from liberal lawmakers to abortion rights activists, to more forcefully embrace far-reaching changes to the high court.

05.07.2023 - 19:03 [ Haaretz ]

Netanyahu‘s Judicial Overhaul: Knesset Takes First Step to Disband Israel‘s Bar Association

The Knesset passed in a preliminary vote on Wednesday a bill to dismantle the Israel Bar Association and replace it with a politically appointed council. The bill would replace the bar association with a “lawyer’s council” with its head appointed by the justice minister.

The bar association selects two people named to the Judicial Appointments Committee, whose composition the coalition seeks to alter in its favor. Last month, the election for its leadership saw the candidate backed by opponents of the judicial overhaul overwhelmingly defeating his rival, a supporter of the overhaul.

05.07.2023 - 12:56 [ Middle East Eye ]

‚No red lines‘: US response to West Bank assault underlines Israel‘s free hand

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has wasted no time trumpeting US support as a counter to domestic opponents who say his far-right government has imperiled relations with Israel‘s closest ally.

„America has provided Israel with moral and political backing,“ Netanyahu said. „Security cooperation [with the US] has never been better, intelligence sharing has never been deeper.“

05.07.2023 - 12:20 [ Times of Israel ]

Netanyahu in weekend interview: Overhaul necessary as Supreme Court ‘too powerful’

(27 March 2023)

In an interview recorded Saturday night, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted his government’s planned judicial overhaul was necessary as the Supreme Court is “too powerful,” claiming the controversial attempts to neuter the court would result in a “stronger democracy.”

While the interview was expected to air Monday evening, it was released online hours earlier amid concerns it was fast becoming outdated as the country was roiled by mass protests and Netanyahu was expected to announce a freeze to the controversial overhaul.

05.07.2023 - 12:12 [ Washington Post ]

Biden faces renewed pressure to embrace Supreme Court overhaul

As Democrats reel from another painful set of defeats at the Supreme Court in recent weeks, President Biden is facing renewed pressure from a range of elements in his party, from liberal lawmakers to abortion rights activists, to more forcefully embrace far-reaching changes to the high court.

01.07.2023 - 15:38 [ Fox News ]

Roberts scolds liberal justices for demonizing rulings they don‘t like: ‚Disturbing feature‘ of dissents

„It has become a disturbing feature of some recent opinions to criticize the decisions with which they disagree as going beyond the proper role of the judiciary,“ Roberts wrote. He said the majority came to its decision by adhering to court precedent „old and new“ that „requires that Congress speak clearly before a Department Secretary can unilaterally alter large sections of the American economy.“

06.10.2021 - 20:21 [ Reitschuster.de ]

Unglaublich: Paul-Ehrlich-Institut kassiert bei Impfstoffen den Schutz vor Infektion

Bis Mitte August (15.08.) hatte das PEI auf seiner Homepage zur Information der BundesbĂŒrger noch geschrieben: „COVID-19-Impfstoffe schĂŒtzen vor Infektionen mit dem SARS-CoV-2 Virus.“
Anfang September (07.09.) lautete die EinschĂ€tzung der Fachleute im sĂŒdhessischen Langen schon etwas anders: „COVID-19-Impfstoffe schĂŒtzen vor einem schweren Verlauf einer Infektion mit dem SARS-CoV-2 Virus“. Ende September (23.09.) wurde die EinschĂ€tzung des PEI hinsichtlich des Wirkspektrums der Corona-Impfstoffe abermals korrigiert. Nun hieß es: „COVID-19-Impfstoffe sind induziert zur aktiven Immunisierung zur Vorbeugung der durch das SARS-CoV-2 Virus verursachten COVID-19-Erkrankung.

09.09.2021 - 15:45 [ RairFoundation.com ]

Exposed: CDC Rushed to Change Definition of ‚Vaccination‘ On Same Day Israel Study Touts Natural Immunity over Vaccine

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) quietly changed their definition of “Vaccination” on September 1st, exchanging the word “immunity” for “protection,” now that it appears that breakthrough cases can no longer be explained away as an anomaly.

The definition change occurred on the same day – September 1st – that a massive study was released demonstrating that those who had been vaccinated were “13 times more likely to be infected with the Delta variant (what has been called a “breakthrough” infection) than those with natural immunity,” as summarized at the American Conservative.

14.12.2020 - 09:38 [ Mairav Zonszein ŚžŚšŚ‘ Ś–Ś•Ś Ś©Ś™Ś™ŚŸ / Twitter ]

“This system allows tracking of every citizen or resident of Israel. It can also follow intentions or motivations, and not just specific people. It can track everyone who visited the website of anti-Netanyahu protest movement and block the website.“

14.12.2020 - 06:40 [ avi scharf / Twitter ]

Police spying on Israelis online via secret backdoor. Israeli police have for years required internet providers to allow them to track users or websites through a special system

14.12.2020 - 06:09 [ Omer Benjakob / Twitter ]

This is CRAZY Israel‘s police have a secret backdoor that allows them to follow any Israeli online or track anyone who visits a certain website: “We say China‘s a technological dystopia, but here we live in one too and just don‘t know it“

27.10.2020 - 13:32 [ theHill.com ]

Democrats would destroy Supreme Court with scheme to pack justices

Litmus tests and the idea to pack the bench would not honor Ginsburg. They would instead destroy the Supreme Court she loved. These moves would obliterate an institution that has over history preserved the stability and continuity of our country. The Supreme Court has performed this vital role based on its legitimacy and authority with Americans that will surely evaporate if Democrats conduct litmus tests or pack the bench.

27.10.2020 - 13:30 [ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, ABgeordnete im US ReprÀsentantenhaus / Twitter ]

Expand the court.

27.10.2020 - 13:27 [ voanews.com ]

If Democrats Can, Should They Pack US Supreme Court?

(20.10.2020)

The number of justices has changed over time, from six to as many as 10, but the number has remained steady at nine since 1869. In the 1930s, President Franklin D. Roosevelt tried to pack the court to preserve his New Deal legislation, which kept getting struck down by the high court. He failed.

20.06.2020 - 16:41 [ Krystal Ball / Twitter ]

Outrageous!!! 1 polling place for all of Louisville!!!???

20.06.2020 - 16:36 [ Washington Post ]

Kentucky braces for possible voting problems in Tuesday’s primary amid signs of high turnout

State officials anticipate a higher turnout than in past presidential primary years, driven in part by a late surge by upstart Senate candidate state Rep. Charles Booker, who is challenging former Marine fighter pilot Amy McGrath for the Democratic nomination to take on GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in the fall.

18.06.2020 - 15:23 [ Vanity Fair ]

“It’s Just a Raw Power Struggle”: Progressives and Moderates Square Off in War Over Primarying Incumbents

(10.06.2020)

Progressives see hypocrisy rooted—not in principle or policy—but in maintaining power. “It’s almost like all the rules are thrown out the window if you’re not coming from the left,” progressive strategist Rebecca Katz told me.

05.04.2020 - 19:12 [ theHill.com ]

Biden says Democratic convention may need to be virtual

Joe Biden said Sunday that the Democratic National Convention may need to be held virtually.

The former vice president and 2020 Democratic frontrunner told ABC’s “This Week” that his party‘s convention is “necessary,” but added it may not be possible to bring thousands of people to one location safely amid the pandemic.