Franklin County Democratic Women -Middle Tennessee

06/02/2026

Tennessee taxpayers will give Starbucks a $30 million incentive in exchange for the $119 billion corporation locating its Southeast headquarters in Nashville.

06/02/2026

Whether you support or choose NOT to, remember this guys.....it's not about the colors of a flag you fly, nor personal choices regarding who you are or choose to love; it's about , , , , your right to on your own terms, basic , and ultimately and for oneanother as HUMAN BEINGS ‼️💯

Anything else falls in "GOD'S DOMAIN" .......my advice; ‼️👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

05/25/2026

05/18/2026

"STEP OFF, CHUCK!" DEMOCRATS STUNNINGLY WARN SCHUMER TO STAY OUT OF RACES AFTER MAINE MILLS MELTDOWN

‘The Democratic establishment is completely disconnected from where Democratic voters are,’ one strategist told Eric Garcia, after the rebuke to the seemingly out-of-touch 75-year-old Senate minority leader.

Democrats are pressing Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, 75, to stay out of future primaries after his 78-year-old pick for Maine’s Senate race dropped out this week, Politico reported.

On Thursday, Gov. Janet Mills announced that she would drop out of the Democratic primary, essentially clearing the field for insurgent progressive candidate Graham Platner to become the party’s nominee to challenge Republican Sen. Susan Collins.

Schumer had backed Mills, the two-term governor of Maine, for the marquee race involving the only Republican representing a state with a majority that voted for Kamala Harris.

But Mills consistently polled behind Platner despite a litany of controversies around the oysterman regarding his use of a slur for people with disabilities, and his comments on Reddit from more than a decade ago about Black people not tipping at restaurants and sexual assault.

"I think the math and polling would indicate that that would be a good idea,” Sen Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) told Politico about the stunning rebuke to Schumer and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

05/13/2026

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson asks public to back judicial independence
Despite barbed opinions, Supreme Court’s newest member insists relationships among the justices are “fine.”

DALLAS — Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson urged Americans on Tuesday to defend the judicial system against salvos that jeopardize its independence, warning that such threats have the potential to do serious damage to American democracy.

“Equal justice under law is a key tenet to freedom in our society, and in order to have that, you have to have an independent judiciary — one that is not beholden to the political branches or beholden to people,” Jackson said during an appearance before hundreds of students at Southern Methodist University. “I just wish that people really focused on that and, therefore, stood up in some ways for the judiciary, when people — judges are being attacked and undermined, that is really an attack on our society.”

Jackson did not mention any specific attacks on the judiciary, although since the Supreme Court struck down a key aspect of President Donald Trump’s tariff policy earlier this year, Trump has unleashed an unusually caustic series of attacks on the three members of the court’s conservative majority who joined the liberal justices in the 6-3 ruling.

Trump has also called for the impeachment of district court judges who have ruled against the administration on other issues, like deporting alleged gang members to a notorious anti-terrorism prison in El Salvador without due process. Those calls prompted Chief Justice John Roberts to declare publicly that he believes that judges should not face impeachment due to disagreement with their rulings.

During a conference in Puerto Rico a year ago, Jackson offered a similar warning about attempts to intimidate the judiciary. However, she delivered that message to a group of federal judges, while her latest comments were more squarely aimed at encouraging the public to counter intrusions on judges’ autonomy.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/12/justice-ketanji-brown-jackson-judicial-independence-00918230?shem=dsdf,sharefoc,agadiscoversdl,,sh/x/discover/m1/4&fbclid=IwVERDUARxxkBleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR4yKcpzmbvew5dl6xHyIi4tGYdvKVpFkpoBleCLZY1qCITJ5Il2wCqrR7m2hg_aem_k7lWGX4eIsPZ4IhD0TRXGw