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My paper "New Data on Court Curbing by State Legislatures" was just published online. cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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Meghan Leonard
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Meghan Leonard
@ProfLeonard_ISU
Associate Professor - Political Science Illinois State University: judicial politics & state supreme courts. she/her @meghanleonard.bsky.social
Katılım Temmuz 2012
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Sen FETTERMAN calls on the Senate to vote to expel Sen Menendez following new charges.
Fetterman: “We cannot have an alleged foreign agent in the United States Senate.
“This is not a close call.”
Expulsion required 2/3rds majority.
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After years of organizing we are forming a union at ISU. So proud of my fellow faculty ✊🏼💪🏼
IL Federation of Teachers@iftaft
In a huge win for public higher education & the labor movement in IL, 650 tenured & tenure-track faculty at Illinois State University filed authorization/membership cards today to form a union, joining University Professionals of Illinois & the IFT! Welcome United Faculty of ISU!
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Vote early, vote appropriately, and mostly, let’s just have some fun.
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NEWS: WNBA player Dearica Hamby filed an EEOC complaint against the WNBA and the Aces last week, per a source
The complaint alleges Hamby was traded because she was pregnant, but also that the WNBA "failed to properly investigate" as a form of retaliation. Story to come
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Frank R. Baumgartner of @UNC finds that in many states, support for the death penalty is driven by racist attitudes bit.ly/46fHERA
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So the GOP just got rid of their own Speaker after bringing the country to the brink of a government shutdown, while their presidential frontrunner is in court for fraud and getting gagged by the judge for defaming the clerk.
The big question then: what about Joe Biden’s age?
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GOP learns the hard way: Turning the base up too high blows out your Speaker
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Nationscape data is now available on the Harvard Dataverse! @vavreck and I interviewed over 500,000 people from June of 2019 to January 2021 about their political views.
You can access the data at doi.org/10.7910/DVN/CQ…
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"the office of Speaker of the House...is hereby declared vacant"
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if "American politics" were broken, we'd have seen things like this happen when Democrats controlled the House
but we didn't
what's broken, very specifically, is the Republican Party
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Here we go.
The House has moved to bring up Matt Gaetz's resolution to kick McCarthy out of his speakership.
GOP Rep. Tom Cole moved to table it.
The House is now voting for 15 mins on whether to table this resolution (i.e. block it).
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Here's my new working paper w/ @robmickey & @dziblatt.
tl;dr influxes of Black people during the Great Migration led Northern towns & cities to remove directly elected mayors & replace them with appointed city managers
ungated: dropbox.com/scl/fi/r54lw8s…
1/n
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Clarence Thomas recuses himself in case relating to John Eastman's emails about the Jan. 6th insurrection at the Capitol.
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Happy first Monday in October. They’re back.
Atlanta, GA 🇺🇸 English
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The Republicans got what they wanted. The ONLY purpose of the Biden impeachment hearings was for Trump’s impeachments and indictments to matter less.
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During a shutdown -->
Members of Congress: Get paid
Congressional staffers: No pay, but get backpay
Congress' janitorial/cafeteria contractors: No pay, no backpay
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Alyssa Thomas has played 190 consecutive minutes (and counting) 😳
THE ENGINE 🔋
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