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Did a Republican Senator Really Say Interracial Marriage Should Be Left to States?

Republicans want to return power to the states, where those who are allowed to vote can impose discriminatory laws on minorities

March 25, 2022 • by Heather Cox Richardson

Right on cue, Republican Senator Mike Braun of Indiana today told a reporter that states not only should decide the issue of abortion but should also be able to decide the issues of whether interracial marriage should be legal and whether couples should have access to contraception. He told a ...

Did a Republican Senator Really Say Interracial Marriage Should Be Left to States?

Reflections on sometimes supporting politicians who make us sick, and on politicians and musicians who raise us up

"I merely took the energy it takes to pout, and I wrote some blues." -Duke Ellington Last Thursday night, while watching MSNBC, I was taken aback to see a new TV ad from the re-election campaign of Senator Joe Donnelly (D-Indiana). Donnelly, along with West Virginia’s Joe Manchin, has long positioned ...