Michael Thorning

🗳️The Supporting Military Voters Act protects the rights of active-duty military and their families, who often have to jump through hoops to make it to the ballot box. Thank you @RepLaurelLee and @RepJoeNeguse for helping bridge the gap so everyone can vote on what matters most.

Fascinating findings with implications well beyond the ongoing Jan-6 debates. “We found a surprising pattern: people living in counties with either substantial increases or decreases in the population who were people of color were more likely to describe the event as a…

Depending on who you ask, and whether their party holds particular levers of power at a given moment, all three branches are now imperial. So either “imperial” does not tell us much of value or we have fundamental differences, and perhaps situationally different, views of the…

It's fascinating how Hunter manages to have all of the bad attributes of each of the Roy children.

Grass is always greener. Have heard from many Republicans who regret how the 6-year term limit has become a disincentive for staying in the House.

In Judge Sullivan's telling, this is not a close case. Congress has plenty of power to require information about the executive's management of funds, and there is no reason to believe that this automatically constitutes interference with the prerogatives of the executive.

Important victory for Congress here: the executive branch can't conceal its apportionments (actual allocation of funds) despite statutory requirement that they publicize them.

👨‍👩‍👦 The lack of caregiving support for working families can strain household stability, reduce workforce participation, and hinder economic growth. Our most valuable resource in America is our people – our human capital – and we need more pro-family policies that help parents stay…

Hahahahahahahahaha… everything is so stupid. The latest reason to fire Jay Powell is the Fed's use of “premium marble” as part of an "ostentatious overhaul" of its offices. But the Fed wanted glass. Trump appointees insisted on marble. apnews.com/article/powell…

The demon pass returns.

BPC Action President Michele Stockwell sat down with @ProbSolveCaucus and other bipartisan leaders today to get to work on bipartisan solutions that will serve all Americans. BPC Action stands ready as a partner in this imperative mission.

The entire pathology of Congress for the last 40 years or so has been allowing the president to undercut laws via executive order. In Grassley's defense, he is one of few members who regularly pushes back on presidents--even of his own party--in discrete instances, but there is…

The value of majority-winner requirements exemplified. Sure to give ranked choice voting advocates added ammunition in case the DC council starts to wobble on implementing the initiative voters passed last election.

Hard to imagine that this administration is spontaneously going to start being cooperative with congressional appropriators. They’ll have to decide how bad they want the upper hand.

You say you want a unitary executive but you don’t even believe in the power of the autopen.

New analysis on key gov’t transparency issue: both Republican & Democratic US lawmakers say Trump admin for months has only shared limited info—if any—on how taxpayer $$ is being spent this year: [1/5] reuters.com/world/us/trump…

Interesting pattern. I'm not a SCOTUS expert or watcher so I'm curious what various explanations might be. SCOTUS has allowed a near equal number of injunctions to move forward. But it seems Trump admin has been subject to many many more total injunctions. Are district courts…