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Michigan

JackHughes

(166 posts)

10. In Michigan, the Republicans...

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Sat Dec 13, 2014, 01:15 PM

Dec 2014

In Michigan, the Republicans treated the 2010 mid-terms not as an election but as a coup. They are using anti-democratic means -- including the literal destruction of a great American city simply because it was a Democratic stronghold -- to retain power. They will be hard to dislodge from power even after a wide majority of the state's voters reject them.

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Convicted With No Evidence by an All-White Jury, Black Community Leader Faces Life in Prison [View all] marmar Dec 2014 OP

Kick.... daleanime Dec 2014 #1

K&R for more visibility. nt Mnemosyne Dec 2014 #2

Message auto-removed Name removed Dec 2014 #3

Seems like the juries should be of approximately the same racial Trillo Dec 2014 #4

This is going to have to go to the dancing Supremes, unfortunately Demeter Dec 2014 #5

K & R! LovingA2andMI Dec 2014 #6

Obama should issue a pardon. Spitfire of ATJ Dec 2014 #7

Unfortunately, he can't, since the convictions are for state, rather than federal crimes. n/t ColesCountyDem Dec 2014 #8

Then there needs to be a civil rights case. Spitfire of ATJ Dec 2014 #11

The DOJ should definitely look into the matter, if they haven't already done so. ColesCountyDem Dec 2014 #18

That's a distortion of Batson v Kentucky which found in favor of the defendent... PoliticAverse Dec 2014 #9

In Michigan, the Republicans... JackHughes Dec 2014 #10

Interesting that in a city that's 90 percent black they managed to empanal an all-white jury. Shrike47 Dec 2014 #12

Michigan is becoming Mississippi North world wide wally Dec 2014 #13

That is the plan. Then Ohio. Enthusiast Dec 2014 #16

interesting how he is a "black community leader" hfojvt Dec 2014 #14

He certainly has a bad past, and I wouldn't want to know the guy, but a life term seems extreme. C Moon Dec 2014 #17

any comments on the current case? noiretextatique Dec 2014 #19

I am commenting on the JOURNALISM hfojvt Dec 2014 #20

Kicked and recommended a whole bunch! Enthusiast Dec 2014 #15