How Mitch McConnell helped pioneer the GOP's latest tactic for taking democracy out of the hands of voters.
But McConnell urged, and the Kentucky Legislature took the step of changing that state’s law—overriding the veto of the governor to do so—in a way that assured that Republicans would maintain control of McConnell’s seat should it become vacant.
This effort—to remove powers from elected representatives who are Democrats—has become the new method of disenfranchising voters and maintaining perpetual Republican political power. And it is being undertaken with alarming frequency and speed across the country. This may be the most dangerous and efficient structural attack on our democracy. Its threat, and pernicious ingenuity, lies in its ability to make voting itself irrelevant.
in the Republican-dominated Legislature would remove all serious criminal cases from Gardner’s authority, and the attorney general has filed a petition to remove her from office.Other prosecutors have faced similar efforts.
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