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Darryl PaulsonMay 21, 2016

On May 18, 2016, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump releases a list of 11 judges that he would “most likely” use to select his appointees to the Supreme Court. The list of 11 names included 11 whites and eight males. Six of the 11 were appointees of George W. Bush, and the other five are […]

Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterMay 19, 2016

Republican Senate hopeful Ron DeSantis is applauding Donald Trump for his potential Supreme Court picks. On Wednesday, Trump released a list of 11 potential Supreme Court nominees to replace Justice Antonin Scalia. Scalia died in February, creating a vacancy on the Supreme Court. President Barack Obama nominated Judge Merrick Garland to fill the vacancy, but […]

Guest AuthorMay 6, 2016

What a blessed relief. Presidential political junkies are down to Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, down to the Cinderella finalists and we can take the summer off. OK, I know Bernie Sanders is still hoofing the “I want to live in the White House” shuffle, but he’s not going to be at the top of […]

Guest AuthorMay 5, 2016

What a blessed relief. Presidential political junkies are down to Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, down to the Cinderella finalists and we can take the summer off. OK, I know Bernie Sanders is still hoofing the “I want to live in the White House” shuffle, but he’s not going to be at the top of […]

Mitch PerryApril 8, 2016

Florida’s Congressional District 13 seat based in Pinellas County has received a lot of attention in recent years. The special election to replace the late C.W. “Bill” Young in 2014 was one of the most expensive congressional elections in U.S. history. After the Florida Supreme Court ordered the state Legislature to redraw the district last year which […]

Mitch PerryMarch 29, 2016

Tampa-St. Petersburg Democratic U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor and three other Democratic activists stood in front of the steps of the U.S. Federal Courthouse on Tuesday with a simple message for Marco Rubio and the rest of the Republican Senate regarding Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland. “We are here to ask Senator Marco Rubio to please do […]

Martin DyckmanMarch 23, 2016

In 1789, as the new United States of America was just taking root, Thomas Jefferson wrote to a friend that “If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.” The quotation is making one of its frequent rounds on the Internet. The remark was ironic, if […]

Mitch PerryMarch 20, 2016

Todd Wilcox was the early aggressor against David Jolly in the first one-on-one encounter between the two aspiring Florida Republicans for the U.S. Senate on Friday, but Jolly more than held his own in a spirited debate at the Tampa Tiger Bay Club. The two men are part of a field of five candidates running to succeed Marco Rubio in the […]

Bob SparksFebruary 19, 2016

The already heated political rhetoric about replacing the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court is a sad spectacle. It is unseemly. Some shared their relief that Scalia was dead via social media. Most showed far more class. Before Scalia’s body had even left the morgue in Texas, the politics of replacing him […]

Guest AuthorFebruary 17, 2016

The passing of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Feb. 3, has created an opportunity for both the executive and legislative branches to work together. If they can’t, American politics will face a crisis of enormous magnitude. That is how serious the situation has become. Whether liberal or conservative, most agree that Scalia was a […]

Tag: Antonin Scalia

Darryl Paulson: Donald Trump goes a-courting

Ron DeSantis: ‘Donald Trump has released a list of outstanding jurists’

Linda Cunningham: Ignore politics for a few months, enjoy the summer

Linda Cunningham: Ignore politics for a few months, enjoy the summer

Mark Bircher: I wouldn’t run if I couldn’t win CD 13

Kathy Castor, other Democratic activists call on GOP Senate to give Merrick Garland a vote

Martin Dyckman: Smart Republicans need to start thinking, acting on their own

Todd Wilcox, David Jolly clash early, often during Tiger Bay debate in Tampa

Bob Sparks: Another Antonin Scalia is not in the cards, no matter who appoints justice

Darryl Paulson: The Antonin Scalia battle: The stakes have seldom been as high