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mikeyank
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Today is Election Day and I always vote on the day of the election. It looks like Zohran Mamdani will be the next mayor of New York City. And I’ve thought long and hard on if I should vote for him or for former governor Andrew Cuomo and I decided to vote for Mamdani. I’ve always considered myself a liberal or a progressive and while Mamdani’s major proposals of a rent freeze, free buses and city run affordable grocery stores are all unlikely to come to fruition but I like his youthful energy and progressive ideas. Trump has threatened to withhold funding for New York City if he wins but he doesn’t have any legal authority to do that and it sounds like extortion to me.
Obviously the proposal in California for redistricting and the gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey are key today as well. These are very strange times we are living in and the big vote for the House of Representatives will be a year from now, but today could be an indication of what America is thinking. Very interesting and important votes coming today and next year.
Rockstar
Active Member
Young people of today are facing issues that Mamdani is representing. He may not be able achieve them but he is identifying and talking about issues that are relevant to them. The other candidates are not identifying with this group. On the other side of the country I’m looking forward to a huge victory on California’s Prop 50. I already voted two weeks ago, while we still have the right to vote by mail. Fingers are crossed for victory and will be watching the news tonight with high interest.
mikeyank
Long time forumite
Last night was a very good night for the Democratic Party throughout the United States, which will hopefully lead to a way out of the nightmare of Donald Trump and his MAGA movement which is threatening our democratic way of life, ironically with our 250th birthday as a nation coming up next summer. Last night was a step forward in Virginia, New Jersey and in California as well in other races in less high profile elections throughout the country. In New York City Mamdani won, but New York is a separate case than the rest of the country. But what Mamdani does have in common with Spanberger, Sherrill and others is that the main focus of all their campaigns was the one keyword, “affordability”. Trump ran on lowering costs and has done the opposite. The American electorate votes with their pocketbook and if Trump did the opposite of what he promised they will try a different approach. I feel better today about America’s future than I have in the last year.
kgmets
BSB God
I compliment you on your thoughtful decision on who to vote for for NYC mayor. One political analyist who divided politicians between those focused on policy and those emotionally appealing to the young on the affordability issue, asserts that Trump did this in 2024 from the right and Mondami did this this year from the left, and that Mondami has picked up 80% of Trump's 2024 young male NYC voters this year plus lots more. Mondami himself picked up on this in his victory speach yesterday but then laid down the gauntlet that Trump did nothing about affordibility, that he would, and that would be even bigger than their right/left difference. Trump's hatred of Mondami appears to indicate that Trump himself has picked up and feared this.
mikeyank
Long time forumite
Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
apnews.com
Some good news for a change.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
The justices, without comment, turned away an appeal from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples after the high court’s 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges.
Davis had been trying to get the court to overturn a lower-court order for her to pay $360,000 in damages and attorney’s fees to a couple denied a marriage license.
Her lawyers repeatedly invoked the words of Justice Clarence Thomas, who alone among the nine justices has called for erasing the same-sex marriage ruling.
Thomas was among four dissenting justices in 2015. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito are the other dissenters who are on the court today.
Roberts has been silent on the subject since he wrote a dissenting opinion in the case. Alito has continued to criticize the decision, but he said recently he was not advocating that it be overturned.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who was not on the court in 2015, has said that there are times when the court should correct mistakes and overturn decisions, as it did in the 2022 case that ended a constitutional right to abortion.
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Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
Some good news for a change.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
The justices, without comment, turned away an appeal from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples after the high court’s 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges.
Davis had been trying to get the court to overturn a lower-court order for her to pay $360,000 in damages and attorney’s fees to a couple denied a marriage license.
Her lawyers repeatedly invoked the words of Justice Clarence Thomas, who alone among the nine justices has called for erasing the same-sex marriage ruling.
Thomas was among four dissenting justices in 2015. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito are the other dissenters who are on the court today.
Roberts has been silent on the subject since he wrote a dissenting opinion in the case. Alito has continued to criticize the decision, but he said recently he was not advocating that it be overturned.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who was not on the court in 2015, has said that there are times when the court should correct mistakes and overturn decisions, as it did in the 2022 case that ended a constitutional right to abortion.
I was relieved that they declined that case, but I'm betting there will be a new one coming up out of Texas soon. Judges can now not perform gay marriages there if it's against their sincerely held religious views (apparently it's a whole thing about them being impartial while on the bench since officiating weddings falls outside their normal duties)
