Whereas DeJoy was pressured to quickly droop a few of his operational adjustments final yr within the face of a nationwide uproar and quite a few court docket injunctions, the postmaster common now seems intent on shifting ahead along with his plan to cripple the company—a plan that has Democratic lawmakers and postal staff clamoring for motion from the Biden administration.

As a result of Biden is prohibited by statute from firing DeJoy straight, congressional Democrats are urging the president to terminate each sitting postal governor—together with those that publicly cheered on the postmaster common’s adjustments as they produced main package deal backlogs nationwide and slowed delivery of prescription medicines and mail-in ballots—and change them with officers keen to take away the postmaster common and shield the company. […]

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“If anybody can say ‘return,’ it is Native People. My Pueblo ancestors, regardless of being focused at each juncture – regardless of going through famine and drought – nonetheless inhabit this nation as we speak. However indigenous folks aren’t asking anybody to return to the place they got here from.” ~~Deb Haaland (2019)


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On this date at Each day Kos in 2019—John Dingell’s ultimate plea to Home on Trump administration: ‘Haul their asses as much as Capitol Hill’:

Rep. John Dingell, the longtime dean of the Home of Representatives and the longest-serving member of the legislative chamber, ever handed away on Thursday at age 92. To the very finish, Dingell was passionately loyal to the establishment he served for therefore lengthy and to the Structure which enshrined it.

The Washington Publish recalls Dingell’s ultimate directions to his former colleagues and to the brand new Democratic majority, written in his memoir revealed in December titled The Dean: The Greatest Seat within the Home.

Dingell despised Trump, as everybody who adopted his Twitter account is aware of, and feared the injury he was inflicting the nation. He wrote that Trump is “a transparent and current hazard to america of America,” and blasted former Speaker Paul Ryan and his management for “ignoring its constitutional duty to test the chief’s authority.” If that wasn’t clear sufficient: “I am informed by my younger buddies that whenever you write one thing in all capital letters, you are yelling. So, let me shout this out: WE HAVE ABDICATED OUR CONSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM OF CHECKS AND BALANCES IN THE UNITED STATES! Perceive this: I am not saying this as a partisan. I am speaking about anyone in any administration, Republican or Democrat, who thinks they’re above the regulation.”

In that vein, he had recommendation for Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the brand new majority: “If we actually wish to make America nice once more, we have to begin by hauling their asses as much as Capitol Hill in entrance of really bipartisan oversight committees and make them swear to inform the reality underneath penalty of perjury. […] Consider me, it really works. I’ve seen the moist spots on the chairs after they’ve completed testifying.”