The Indiana Republican Party, having carefully gerrymandered themselves a supermajority in the Statehouse, works exactly the same way. They see no need for anyone else’s opinion in the legislature.

The quiet majesty of this little item.

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Legal experts should tell us how to ask to see police credentials and proper warrants. What to say and not say, what counts and doesn't count as valid documentation and credentials if an "officer" or "agent" waves something in your face, what you must comply with and what you can refuse to do.

We can't waste this crisis on Democratic politicians who are just hoping to return the the status quo of, say, 2014, which nurtured Trump and helped alienate half the country.