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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The disappointing downfall of Dr. Deborah Birx
In the aftermath of President Trump's astounding suggestion in April that people may want to inject disinfectants to flush the coronavirus from their bodies, much of the public reaction focused on Dr. Deborah Birx. The respected AIDS doctor, who had joined the White House coronavirus task force earlier in the spring, was sitting to the president's right in the Brady Briefing Room as he mused on alternative cures; cameras captured — and social media memes promulgated — her astonished reaction, which reflected perfectly the growing exasperation of Americans with a president who consistently subverted and maligned science, sowing confusion every time he took to the podium. “Dr. Birx is all of us right now,” read one tweet from a prominent Trump critic that was shared thousands of times.
"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.”