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...Buzicky described herself as a “typical ROTC cadet” during college, spending time training and taking specialized classes on top of her standard Princeton course load. But instead of immediately entering the military after her graduation in 2002, Buzicky took an “education delay??—to study first at Oxford with a Rhodes Scholarship and then at the Law School...
...company that also financed a $440,000 lobbying campaign in support of the Russian government. House ethics rules bar congressmen from receiving travel reimbursement from lobbyists. Similarly shady trips to South Korea and England have attracted further attention. In addition, reports sprang up earlier this month that DeLay??s wife and daughter received more than $500,000 from the congressman’s political action committee, an unusually large amount for the campaign work they contributed. To top it off, DeLay??s association with the Republican push for redistricting in his home state of Texas...
...timetable for these battles has shifted. A recent unprecedented effort at mid-decade redistricting in Texas, orchestrated by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas), succeeded in picking up five Democratic seats this past November. While politically motivated redistricting schemes have long been de rigeur, the timing of DeLay??s actions have set a dangerous precedent. Assistant Professor of Law Heather K. Gerken explains, “The rules were, fight it out once a decade, but then let it lie for ten years. DeLay??s tactic was so shocking because it got rid of this...
...stop any partisan redistricting plans. That precedent, coupled with the potential repercussions of the Texas redistricting scheme, have laid the groundwork for a crisis in the democratic process. The next time a party wrests control of the executive and legislative branches in a large state, its leadership may imitate Delay??s tactics. Such a move would wreak havoc on the democratic process...
...aren’t quite hacking it on the airwaves. I’m not saying they have to lower themselves, but sophisticated policy needs to be packaged with a command of language. Democrats could propose a “Fair Districting Act” to stave off Tom DeLay??s gerrymandering program, or an “Anti-Misinformation Law” to keep the Pentagon from resuming its absurd project to deliberately mislead foreign journalists, or a “Corporate Patriotism” bill to close the loophole that lets companies avoid billions in taxes...