If you were worried about speaker Jim Jordan, Speaker Mike Johnson might just curl your hair.
If you are feeling any sense of relief that Jim Jordan won’t be the next House speaker, stop and worry again., Rep. Mike Johnson , might be more dangerous than the firebrand Ohio Republican. For Jordan’s shirt sleeves demeanor and wrestler’s pugnacity, substitute a bespectacled, low-key presentation, a law degree and an unswerving commitment to conservative dogma and former president Donald Trump.This is not an upgrade.
Don’t rely on the assessment of Democrat Josh Shapiro, then Pennsylvania’s attorney general, now its governor, that Texas’s effort to interfere in those states’ determinations was a “seditious abuse of the judicial process,” asas “a dangerous violation of federalism” that “sets a precedent to have one state asking federal courts to police the voting procedures of other states.”
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