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SCROTUS have expanded their power to harass and intimidate Americans by giving congressional staff the power to interrogate people under oath.
Congressional investigations have a legitimate function, but Republicans are not interested in pursuing real abuses. Their goal is to crush despised climate defenders and abortion providers, by hook or by crook.
SCROTUS want to eliminate or neutralize the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, because it does a good job of protecting people from banks that would cheat them.
More US states have fallen under the control of Republicans and ALEC.
They generally gerrymander the districts so that they subsequently always "win" even when they don't get most of the votes.
Thugs in Alabama killed Robert Earl Lawrence for refusing to show identification. All he did was refuse.
He brought a stray dog to an animal shelter, but refused to show a driver's license, so the staff called the thugs. How gratuitous. They could just as easily said, "We won't take the dog from you without your identification, so just let it run loose outside the door." It would have been stupid, but no more stupid than what they did.
The FCC's weak ISP privacy rules are too much for the trumpets. They plan to eliminate them.
ISPs should respect customers' privacy by not taking any note of their traffic, except pursuiant to a specific court order.