Links for 11/21/19

Links for 11/21/19
On the Koch money, it is not the cash that is the problem, but the strings attached (like at the Mercatus Center at George Mason U.).  The Rubio comments at CUA are not as much a cafeteria Catholic view as much as a misunderstanding of how economics works at all. Consider the audience. The reality is that capitalism is what hurts the poor and the environment, not the Pope's views. Marco is projecting.

Testing the term Latinx is a branding question. It is better to test it before using it. Also, there is no one Latino economic picture. We should not try to paint one.

The association is all about supporting constitutional rights. Note that supporting the defense of federal supremacy on civil rights cases, equal protection rights for women and their doctors (no criminal investigation of voluntary abortions and not therapeutic abortions or expecting people who contract for murdering an adult have a different penalty for killing a fetus) or, for that matter, investigation of first trimester pregnancy loss at all are the relevant issues, not the moral issues of abortion itself. Anyone who is not literate on these issues should not have a law license at all. Or write about abortion at all.

There are few voters who are not very partisan if they are planning to vote. The question of how to explain abortion rights is important in Midwestern swing states where Catholic bishops have a say in how people vote. If Warren, Klobuchar or Harris treat abortion as a women's issue rather than explaining what I just wrote above so that even Catholic bishops and theologians can understand it, the Blue Wall may be not as much a wall as Rachel 'Doc' Bitecofer says - and she correctly concluded that Hillary's choice of a running mate and her flub on partial birth abortion cost her the election. The main question for voters is still Trump.

Doc will be the first person to take a new look at the election in the likely event that Donald Trump resigns once the Supreme Court rejects his claims of absolute presidential immunity. He thinks that the Republican appointees will vote party on this issue. They won't. Indeed, they will not even hear the case. The popular media meme that questions the loyalty of the Court to the Constitution is toxic. Pence as pro-life candidate will make abortion the main swing state issue. If Pence is implicated and resigns too, all models go out the window - although I suspect that the GOP will still be trounced with Marco Rubio or Lindsey Graham as their standard bearers.