Telling The President, “You’re Fired”: The bigly amount of impeachment talk inspired The Economist to report on the topic of impeachment. In researching their new book on the matter, Harvard Constitutional Law professor Laurence Tribe and former SCOTUS clerk Joshua Matz found that the exact criteria for impeachment are, at best, ambiguous. The two men lay out that, ultimately, any move toward impeachment would involve a lot of risk calculation, given the tremendous potential for backlash.
2020: California’s scheduling of its 2020 primary for Super Tuesday has led Sen. Bernie Sanders (S-Burlington) to make a play for the Golden State’s delegates. As such, he’s currently planning on a swing through SoCal this June. Will his pocket of hot air not combust in the sunlight? Somewhere on the 2020 general election trail, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Land of Hypocrites) is quaking in whatever she wears to fit her audience.
Freedumb Caucus: Despite being the first to whine about getting punished for failing to vote with leadership, the increasingly lickspittle House Freedom Caucus has proclaimed that any members who vote for immigration reform legislation will face repercussions. Perhaps its members will find life in the minority more preferable.
Democrats Don’t Get Very High Marx: The Economist took the time to properly dissect the Democrats’ “new” jobs guarantee idea. Their findings? Well, the magazine speaks for itself: “The timing of Democrats’ revival of the idea of a jobs guarantee is strange because many economists, including those at the Federal Reserve, think that the economy is beyond full employment. To their mind, the unemployment rate is unnaturally low, and if policymakers try to sustain it via stimulus, inflation will result. If they are right, today’s joblessness is the result of structural factors, such as insufficient skills, unrealistically high wage demands, or an unwillingness of workers to leave stagnant areas. It is not the involuntary unemployment, resulting from a weak economy, which so concerned Keynes.”…
May 22, Primary results also at the link…