Given there is a very important trial going on right now in New York, people are naturally quite interested in it. I have a few thoughts of my own. One: Don't have the ability to strike (or challenge, depending on the jargon of the jurisdiction in question) a juror without cause. Two: The jury pool needs to use the biggest possible list of people you could reasonably find. Even residents who aren't citizens who are resident for a good length of time, like 5 years, who can otherwise communicate with the court, and aren't disqualified for some other reason, and have a basic understanding of the ..read more

Obviously, no movements are the same, but I am thinking about it terms of a sort of ancestry of human political thought. Are there MAGA thinkers/influencers who cite/reference previous political movements as inspiration? I am kind of starting from the position that cultural movements all have historical antecedents that represent the same essential coalition. submitted by /u/Tranesblues [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

Just observing some of the recent elections in various countries with relatively immature democracies. In general those countries tolerate more questionable practices compared to the US. Yet, for some of the practices that are more scrutinized for potential corruption, it seems that the consensus is that those practices are normal or even encouraged in mature democracy such as the US. Therefore, in these 3 practices, please let me know if you think these practices have justifications in US elections, if you agree that the corrupted version it is compared to is indeed bad, and if there’s a fal ..read more

Will a bill to force Bytedance to divest TikTok or face a ban in the US being part of the larger foreign aid package that is likely to be passed by the Senate and signed into law, will it hurt Biden? Trump is already trying to pin the blame on Biden despite trying to do the same thing when he was President and with TikTok having over 170 million users in the US with it's main demographic being young people who Biden needs to court, will the "TikTok ban" end up hurting him in November? submitted by /u/Kevin-W [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

In case you haven't read about Project 2025 here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025 and here: https://www.project2025.org/ Key planks in this platform include: -integrating Christianity into government -rejecting climate change -outlawing transgenderism as pornography (all pornography would be outlawed) -outlawing abortion -mass deportations of immigrants -replacing the civil service with loyalists -giving the president direct power over all executive branch agencies Are these tenets likely to make a winning case for the candidate who runs on them? Will a majority of the country supp ..read more

The pundits seem to think this is likely to result in a hung jury; they believe it is unlikely 12 jurors will reach a unanimous guilty verdict. The questions are: Do you think he committed a crime? Do you think he'll be found guilty? Do you think the trial will result in greater awareness of his behavior causing him to lose some support? submitted by /u/davida_usa [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

If for some reason, whether it’s legal problems, a worsening mental or physical health or an inability to finance the race, he has to stop? Will the republicans just not have a nominee? Are the other republican candidates allowed to reenter? Or will RFK take over all of Trumps base? If he actually would be convicted and therefore prevented from participating in the election, this would no doubt result in immense chaos, as the idea of a „political witch hunt“ would gain even more popularity. But should this be a real possibility the GOP needs to prepare for? submitted by /u/pjo33 [visit reddi ..read more

A trustee doesn't act like they take instructions, they are voting mostly out of conscience for what they think is right and then just leaves their record out for voters to decide if their overall judgement was good. A delegate acts more like the voice of the people in their constituency, doing mostly whatever more of them want them to do. The former would generally have considerable terms, no recall, no term limits, and would have some decent independence from their locality. They often have a significant identity of being part of an institution that is collectively powerful and its collecti ..read more

Link to article on it: https://www.axios.com/2024/04/18/kennedy-family-biden-endorsement-rfk-jr The event saw RFK Jr.'s own sister, Kerry Kennedy, invoke the legacy of her father Robert F. Kennedy and her uncle, famous US President John F. Kennedy, as she talked about President Biden being "a champion for all the rights and freedoms that my father and uncle stood for". It also included veiled digs at RFK Jr.'s campaign, with references to there being only two candidates with any chance of winning in November (Biden and Trump). Following the event, Kennedy family members will now start knock ..read more

Yesterday I was listening to The Economist's "Checks and Balance" podcast, and they had on the author of this opinion column in the NYT last year, Jed Shugerman, a law professor who is strongly against the trial and thinks it's a legal travesty. Now that's all fine and good, and I can appreciate many of the points Prof Shugerman makes. The part that surprised me was that all of the other commentators on the Economist episode 100% agreed with him. No one pushed back at all to argue that there are some strengths to the case, as I had read and heard from other sources. Of course I get that this ..read more