PoliticsYahoo NewsTexas attorney general asked Trump administration to revoke COVID relief funds for Harris County
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asked the Trump administration in the spring to revoke millions of dollars in COVID-19 relief for Harris County, which includes Houston, because the funds were earmarked to expand mail-in voting in the 2020 election. Paxton wrote a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on May 21, the Houston Chronicle reported, claiming that using federal money to increase mail-in voting during the coronavirus pandemic violated state law. “We respectfully ask the department to scrutinize its award of CARES Act funding to Harris County in light of the county's stated intent to use federal funding in violation of state law, and to the extent possible, seek return of any amounts improperly spent on efforts to promote illegal mail-in voting,” Paxton wrote in the letter.
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Two people died Monday after the small plane they were in crashed near Dallas, officials said. The plane was attempting to land when it crashed just before 3 p.m. in Grand Prairie along a service road, the fire department said in a statement. The small passenger plane had taken off from the city's municipal airport minutes earlier, officials said.
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Trump pardons 15, commutes 5 sentences, including GOP allies
President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned 15 people, including a pair of congressional Republicans who were strong and early supporters, a 2016 campaign official ensnared in the Russia probe and former government contractors convicted in a 2007 massacre in Baghdad. Trump's actions in his final weeks in office show a president who is wielding his executive power to reward loyalists and others who he believes have been wronged by a legal system he sees as biased against him and his allies. Trump issued the pardons — not an unusual act for an outgoing president — even as he refused to publicly acknowledge his election loss to Democrat Joe Biden, who will be sworn in on Jan. 20.
"When people's votes are treated as unequal, it's a short jump to treating people as unequal."
“The Electoral College was created to give people in diverse states influence in selecting a national leader.”
“The electoral college exacerbates racial privilege by allowing predominantly White states an outsized say over the future.”
“If the answer is ‘majority rules,’ why stop with the White House? Why not put the Bill of Rights up for popular vote?”
“We can keep the Electoral College — but only if the U.S. gets rid of political parties. We can’t have both.”