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2020 was supposed to be the “Year of Milwaukee” and then the pandemic upended everything

2020 was supposed to be the “Year of Milwaukee” and then the pandemic upended everything

Posted by | Aug 5, 2020 |

DNC host committee finance chair and Bucks SVP Alex Lasry believes his adopted city is on its way up despite the scaled-down presidential nominating convention. For Alex Lasry, 2020 was supposed to be the “Year of Milwaukee.” The 33-year-old had high hopes for his adopted city, scheduled to host the Democratic National Convention — the bid for which he chaired — beginning August 17. On top of that, the Milwaukee Bucks clinched the playoffs in February, giving hometown pride to Milwaukeeans who have not celebrated a basketball championship since 1971. Lasry, who serves as the Bucks’ senior vice president,...

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Tactic of an Autocrat: Trump is provoking a replay of the pre-Civil War conflict over federal authority

Tactic of an Autocrat: Trump is provoking a replay of the pre-Civil War conflict over federal authority

Posted by | Aug 3, 2020 |

Federal agents poured into Portland, Oregon in July to crack down on anti-racism protests. They beat up peaceful protesters and fired impact munitions at demonstrators, seriously injuring one of them. They drove around the city in unmarked vans pulling people off the street. Oregon officials at every level—the city, the state, and congressional representatives—have demanded that these agents of the Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Marshals Service, and other federal authorities leave Portland immediately. The state has even filed suit against these federal agencies. The ACLU calls it a constitutional crisis. President Trump is doubling down, not backing...

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Election fears over mail-in ballots spells an end to the postal system established in our Constitution

Election fears over mail-in ballots spells an end to the postal system established in our Constitution

Posted by | Aug 2, 2020 |

Everything now coming from the White House is about Trump’s reelection. While all presidential candidates want to win, they are usually able to accept the idea of a loss. Trump, though, has gone so far as to suggest delaying the election, an unprecedented step which would buy him some time in the hope a coronavirus vaccine would help the U.S. crawl out of the hole it’s in and turn his popularity around. In his quest for reelection, he is attacking the idea of mail-in voting, although he himself has used it often—his distinction between mail-in voting and absentee voting...

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COVID-19 cannot be so safe for schools to reopen but so dangerous as to delay a national election

COVID-19 cannot be so safe for schools to reopen but so dangerous as to delay a national election

Posted by | Aug 1, 2020 |

“As Trump may or may not know, the date of the election is set by law, and would require an act of Congress to be overturned. Trump cannot postpone the election, the bedrock of American democracy, but the greater danger is that he can destroy its legitimacy.” – David A. Graham Lagging in the polls and grappling with deepening economic and public health crises, on July 30 President Donald Trump floated the startling idea of delaying the November 3 presidential election. “With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT...

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Masks and Distancing: Democratic National Convention outlines safety plan for Milwaukee event

Masks and Distancing: Democratic National Convention outlines safety plan for Milwaukee event

Posted by | Jul 31, 2020

Photo by Gage Skidmore and licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 Everyone attending the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee next month will have to wear a face mask, consent to daily testing for COVID-19, fill out questionnaires and maintain a physical distance from others. Organizers of the convention released details of the coronavirus safety plan on July 27, three weeks before the August 17 start of the four-day event. The convention has been scaled down from original plans and now will be mostly online with only a few hundred people gathered at the Wisconsin Center in downtown Milwaukee. “Ensuring the...

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Mandatory mask ordinances designed to protect public health do not violate the Constitution

Mandatory mask ordinances designed to protect public health do not violate the Constitution

Posted by | Jul 30, 2020 |

By John E. Finn, Professor Emeritus of Government, Wesleyan University Many public health professionals and politicians are urging or requiring citizens to wear face masks to help slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Some Americans have refused, wrongly claiming mask decrees violate the Constitution. An internet search turns up dozens of examples. “Costco Karen,” for instance, staged a sit-in in a Costco entrance in Hillsboro, Oregon after she refused to wear a mask, yelling “I am an American … I have rights.” A group called Health Freedom Idaho organized a protest against a Boise, Idaho, mask mandate. One...

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