Erik Loomis

1 day ago | lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com | Erik Loomis

Gov. Sarah Sanders said Arkansas is in “dire need of federal assistance” in an appeal letter last week after the federal government denied help after last month’s damaging storms. Fourteen tornadoes touched down in Arkansas on March 14 and 15, leaving three dead and dozens injured. The next week, Sanders asked President Donald Trump for a major disaster declaration, the first step in securing federal funds and other help from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

1 day ago | lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com | Erik Loomis

This is the grave of Joshua Bowen Smith. Probably born in 1813 in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, Smith was a mixed race man. His mother was part Black and part Native and his father was white. He grew up in Philadelphia and educated in Quaker schools. He moved to Boston in 1836 and got a job as a headwaiter in a hotel. This hotel, the Mount Washington House, happened to be the favorite hangout of Charles Sumner and his allies, such as John Fatal.

2 days ago | lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com | Erik Loomis

Just weeks after creating a $50 million tax credit to help families pay for private school tuition and homeschooling, Idaho has shut down a program that helped tens of thousands of public school students pay for laptops, school supplies, tutoring and other educational expenses. The Republican leading the push to defund Idaho’s Empowering Parents grants said it had nothing to do with the party’s decision to fund private schools.

2 days ago | lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com | Erik Loomis

As I’ve said again and again, the policy positions of the Trump administration are to return the U.S. to the Gilded Age, repealing the 20th century. Maybe it would help if Americans stopped watching the Nazi documentaries and remember that their own country is at fault for many of the problems in the world and that to understand what is happening in the U.S. today, focusing on our own history makes a lot more sense.

2 days ago | lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com | Erik Loomis

At 1 o’clock on the morning of Saturday, April 19, the Supreme Court issued a terse, one-paragraph order that amounted to John Roberts telling Donald Trump to stop playing in his face. The court, by a presumed vote of 7-2, ordered Trump to halt a number of planned deportations to El Salvador of immigrants being held in Texas. I believe this is the first time that a majority of Supreme Court justices have gotten pissed at the Trump administration’s lawless refusal to follow basic court orders.