The Pros And Cons Of Senator Elizabeth Warren

On November 8th, 2016, the United States will finally have its presidential election for the 45th President of the United States of America. This election will be a grating race between a number of political parties and their respective nominees. Two parties are more notable than the others, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. The Democratic Party has a well-known nominee; Hillary Clinton, who has served as secretary of state, and has been the senator of New York, she has also been the first lady of the U.S while her husband, former president Bill Clinton was in office (Hillary For America). Mrs. Hillary Clinton is mainly a candidate for president because of her experience and great attributes. Alongside Clinton is Mr. Donald J. Trump, who is the respective presidential nominee for the Republican Party. Donald Trump is a well-known billionaire real estate personnel, who rose up to his status due to his great business intellect (Donald Trump Biography). In like matter, there are other nominees for president; however, Trump and Clinton are the two that are most significant and one if not the other will eventually overtake the position as President of the United States. Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are formidable

Condoleezza Rice was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1954 and was the child of a teacher and Presbyterian minister. Most of Rice’s younger years were spent enclosed around racism. She graduated from the University of Denver and Notre Dame. Rice then became a professor of political science. At Stanford, Rice became the first African-American and first woman to serve as provost of the university.

President Barack Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor for Supreme Court justice on May 26, 2009, making Sonia Sotomayor the first Hispanic female to be nominated for higher court. Sonia Sotomayor was born on June 25, 1954. She is currently a federal judge on the U.S Courts of Appeals for a Second Circuit. If nominated she will be replacing the retiring Justice David Souter and she will also be the first Hispanic and the third female Justice. This will be a huge milestone for the Hispanic community. Looking closely into Sotomayor qualification and experience we can predict that she will most likely be approved by the Senate.

Throughout the course of American politics, superstar senators have risen from the frameworks of capitol buildings on federal, state, and local levels. Some were ruthlessly manipulative in their desire to achieve success, choosing to push their own agenda for the sake of a spot in history. Others served a more earnest cause, putting their country before their party. From the founding fathers to post World War II America, senators of the extremely partisan kind worked in Washington, these men certainly were not the last of the “cut throat” politicians, their actions setting a precedent for future men and women in their partisan agenda. However, noble men who worked endlessly for the prosperity, safety, and unity of America are often swept

To draw a modern-day analogy, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas used a procedural filibuster as a mechanism to shut down the federal government in opposition to President Obama’s Affordable Care Act. While some argue his political intentions were admirable, his self-interested nature drove his use of underhanded political tactics to achieve his ultimate end. In turn, his actions proved destructive for the public good—costing taxpayers millions of dollars. Supporters of Senator Cruz argue that he chose the right course of action. “The loyalties of every Senator are distributed among his party, his state and section, his country and his conscience.” The competing pressures of party interests, public interests, and personal moral responsibility to vote in the interests of his conscience forces the Senator to compartmentalize himself. As a result, Senator Cruz acted upon his ideal of statesmanship by pursuing private interest instead of adhering to party loyalty.

Over the last few years, education has become more of a priority and crime has become more of an issue. Kids are dropping out of school and more people are going to jail each and every day. Our country needs a president that makes sure these topics are taken care of effectively. That person is Bernie Sanders. Bernie Sanders should be the next president of the United States of America.

After Senator Boxer's unsurprising re-election to Senate, one of her most noteworthy decisions was to urge Senate to keep the filibuster. A filibuster is something that the Senators use to postpone or delay actions from being made. Recently, the Republican Party wanted to do away with the filibuster so that the Democrats could not use it against their judges. In 1995, Senator Boxer voted to get rid of the filibuster and admitted she did so out of "frustration". The Senate came to an agreement that if the Democrats use filibuster free votes for Judges Priscilla Owen, Janice Brown, and Wilson Pryor, they can block the nominations on Judges Henry Saad and William Myers without the Republicans trying to do away with the filibuster again.

Now we get this, and it is Republicans blaming themselves with an eloquence that the Democrats could never muster. Barack Obama has broken every law and presidential protocol he could get his hands on. Harry Reid has done the same in the Senate. But when the Republicans finally gain power in Congress, they see themselves as hamstrung by the Democrats and admonish themselves for their self imposed impotence. Yes, there are those holding firm, like the Ted Cruz’ of the Senate, but those men and women are pariahs in the Republican party, with a target on their back the size of Mitch McConnell’s

Nearly 100 years after the emancipation of slaves, African Americans still experienced the brutality of discrimination and various forms of oppression. Jim Crow laws and Black Codes during the 1890’s, segregated public facilities and increased tensions between races. Individuals like 36th President Lyndon B. Johnson, and Chief Justice Earl Warren, attempted to address civil right issues within American society. Their important contributions led to an increase in rights and equality among all Americans.

Donald Trump announced on November 23, 2016, that he would appoint Betsy DeVos to be his pick to be the United States Secretary of Education, head of the Department of Education. Donald Trump promised his supporters that he would “drain the swamp”, but many argue that yet another cabinet choice, Betsy DeVos, contradicts this. While some might stipulate that Mrs. DeVos is not nearly as controversial as a Rex Tillerson, Jeff Sessions or Steve Mnuchin, opponents to DeVos state that she is easily as dangerous for the future of the nation, putting the next generation of young people at stake. Based on her performance in the recent Senate hearings and prior record, it is evident that Betsy DeVos is a controversial pick between Democrats and Republicans

Early on it was emphasized that the hearings would remain sharply divided along party lines, with each senator accusing the opposing side of taking a position on an issue strictly because it is politically advantageous for them to do so. Senator Orrin Hatch, a republican from Utah, argued that the Senate owes a president discretion in picking his judicial nominees and pointed out that Gorsuch had received the highest rating possible from the American Bar Association, the "gold standard" in vetting judicial nominees. He then continued to criticize democrats for wanting Gorsuch to outline how he would vote on certain cases, saying that to them, "judicial independence requires he be beholden to them and their political agenda" on issues like abortion. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, pointed out that he had voted to confirm President Obama's two Supreme Court nominees, Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, because they were qualified for the job and not because he agreed with their politics and urged his Democratic colleagues to give Gorsuch the same

For the record, I don't think either party should be doing this. However, it is very hypocritical of the Democrats to say that the Republicans are obstructionists when the Democrats advocated the same thing against an outgoing Republican President. The lack of maturity on both sides is mind-boggling. Good grief people! If you advocated one position and flipped on it later, then don't lie about it. Tell what your original position was and state why you were wrong at that time or why you changed your position. It is this type of behavior that makes people not trust politicians.

The Equal Right Amendment (ERA) is “Equality of right under the law shall not be abridge by the United States or by any state on account of sex.” Section1 of the ERA which was first proposed to congress was in 1923 by the National Women’s Party. The Advocates for the ERA intended it to give women a constitutional protection. The first amendment was submitted to the states in 1972, shortly after it submission to the states, thirty five states had ratified the ERA. However, at the end of the seven year deadline the ERA was three states short on becoming law. During this time the ERA had encountered opposition, the opponents stated that, there are certain inequalities between men and women and some legislation and state policies must be taken

Mary Anne Warren’s argument on the legal status of abortion stands on a concrete understanding and realization of an individual’s personhood. Now Mary Anne Warren’s unyielding argument on the basis of personhood is that, “If we assume that an entity is a person just because it happens to belong to our favored biological classification, we stand convicted of speciesism, close cousin to racism. There are properties that do qualify an entity as a person, but simply being human is not one of them” (124). To first be able to argue why the abortion of a fetus is permissible she needs to give a clear distinction of what can be established a decisive factor of personhood. To distinguish a line between a fetus and a human and if abortion is to be morally permissible there needs to be an understanding of when this cut off between the two officially happens. In an example of the potential personhood and a right to life Mary Ann Warren uses a hypothetical scenario of a space explorer who lands on an unknown plant. While on this plant he encounters a race of aliens. Now since he is on another plant in the presence of these alien beings how should he act towards these beings. He must first determine if they have the capability of morality or if it is acceptable to consume these aliens for food. To determine if these aliens are in fact part of a moral personhood maybe he can notice works of art, forms of tools, and communication. However, even without evidence of these things they could

Elizabeth Warren is a democratic senator from Massachusetts who was elected on November 6, 2012. She is known for fighting for the middle class and because of this she is skilled in the topics of bankruptcy and financial pressures that face the middle class (Biography). When she was campaigning for senate in 2012 Elizabeth proposed the question: : Do we want to be a country that thinks "I got mine, and the rest of you are on your own? Or are we a country that believes that we make investments in our future so that we can thrive and our kids can do better than we do? (Issues).” She keeps the middle class in mind when making political decisions. Warren bases her political choices on her upbringing. Her family struggled with medical bills, making her in favor of Obamacare. She grew up with pride in her country, and she wants to allow immigrants to have the chance to feel the same way about the United States.