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Woundedas Boris Johnson is, it is worth remembering that his government still has plans for the most significant attack on human rights in twenty years.

By that I do not mean thePolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, or theJudicial Review and Courts Bill, bad as both are. I am thinking, rather, of the governmentsconsultationon watering down the Human Rights Act.

For sixteen years, Conservative MPs have been calling for that act to be repealed. Their voices have been amplified by the right-wing press, with stories blaming immigration on lawyers finding human rights defenses for their clients.

That campaign obscures the historic function of the act. Before it was passed in 1998, if a citizen wanted to challenge an act of government as unlawful, they would invoke our unwritten constitution and our common law (i.e., judge-made) tradition of the rule of law.

Essential rights such as the authority of a jury over a judge were established on a case-by-case basis without any agreement as to what the most important rights were whether it was the right to silence, or freedom from slavery, or freedom from torture.

The reason the Human Rights Act passed is that there had been one attempt to codify the common law tradition after 1945, when a group of Conservative lawyers had wanted to draw up minimum legal standards for Europe after the defeat of fascism. They had summarized the UK tradition into twenty articles for export: the European Convention on Human Rights.

In passing the Human Rights Act in 1998, a Labour government took the convention and chose to use it both as a statement of universal human rights principles and as the best starting guide to the common law. The UK constitutionalized the common law (i.e., recorded it in a single document), providing a degree of certainty for the first time.

It would, in principle, be open to any government to repeal the Human Rights Act and withdraw from the Strasbourg human rights court. We could start again and say that only domestically recognized rights matter. Two states in Europe refuse to accept the European Convention on Human Rights: the Vatican City and Alexander Lukashenkos dictatorship in Belarus. We could join them, but it would be such a defeat for British ambitions of soft power that not even Boris Johnson proposes that.

The Conservatives propose, rather, a pick-and-mix attitude toward rights, in which some rights would be enhanced and others would be diminished.

The governments central purpose in attacking human rights is to prevent illegal and irregular migration, by which ministers mean that refugees have the temerity to arrive in Britain on false travel documents. But that is the point about dictatorships: they jail or kill their critics they do not give them visas to help them make their protests from abroad.

The government wants to put obstacles in the way of human rights claims; for example, requiring permission before they can be brought, or preventing courts from enforcing certain rights contained in the convention, or reducing the power of the courts to strike down legislation intended to curtail rights.

But the Human Rights Act has been used by a wide-ranging coalition of interests and campaigners: the Hillsborough families, tenants fighting eviction, parents trying to challenge local authority proposals to take children into care. The new obstacles would not only harm migrants they would take rights from everyone.

What is most striking is the lack of ambition behind the governments proposals. It would not be difficult to take the existing Human Rights Act and bolster it to make certain rights overt that have too little protection in the law. A more ambitious government, seeking to increase popular rights, might constitutionalize the rightto housing, tobe fed, to the environment.

We are supposed to be governed by a generation of libertarian MPs. If so, then why not increase peoples ability to challenge the state by reducing the barriers to Human Rights claims, making them cheaper and easier to bring, and not restricting them to the High Court?

Instead, the consultation would work by taking away much that we have now, and in return only add two things a vague commitment to jury trials and a restatement of the existing defense of free speech.

Would a British Bill of Rights protecting trial by jury have shielded the Edward Colston jurors from ministerscriticisms of them? Indeed, how does the government have the cheek to pretend it supports trial by jury, when it is increasing the sentences magistrates courts can pass from six monthsto a year, thereby taking tens of thousands of trials away from juries?

Would a clause protecting free speech cause the government to pause for a moment, before implementing its Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, with its bans on noisy protests and its criminalization oftraveler encampments?

To ask the questions is to answer them. The Conservatives proposals will only strengthen the state: the partys libertarianism is skin-deep. Their changes to the Human Rights Act will only serve to make rights harder to enforce.

If the removal of Boris Johnson would make it harder for the government to press on with its plans to take away our rights, thenhis fallcannot come soon enough.

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What you need to know about Arkansas' 2022 Primary Elections

Updated: 2:28 PM CST Jan 28, 2022

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WE SAW IN 2020 AND THEN OF COURSE WE HAVE THE IN-PERSON VOTING FOR TWO WEEKS FOR EARLY VOTING AND THEN ON ELECTION DAY, BUT YES, YOU MUST DECLARE WHICH BALLOT YOU WANT. WE ARE NOT ASKING WHICH PARTY BELONG TO AND IN FACT ONCE THIS SELECTION IS OVER WHEN YOU GET TO THE GENERAL ELECTION, THATS WHERE YOULL SEE THE CANDIDATES ATTH WON THEIR PRIMARIES ON ONE SINGLE BALLOT NOW. YOU TALKED ABOUT THE RISE IN ABSENTEE VOTING. IS IT BECAUSEF O COVID-19 OR MAYBE SOME CHANGES TO LAWS? WHY ARE WE SEEING THAT SURGEON ABSENTEE VOTING AND DOE W EXPECT IT TO CONTINUE ON? SO WE DEFINITELY SAW RISE IN ABSENTEE VOTING DURING 2020 BECAUSE OF COVID-19, YOU KNOW, WE HAD ABOUT A 12% OF NUMBER FOR ABSENTEE VOTING WHICH IS MHUC LARGER THAN THE TYPICAL ONE TO VEFI PERCENT THAT WE HAVE FOR PRIMARY OR GENERAL ELECTION. NOW BACK TO 40/29 NEWS ON THE RECORD ORVE THE LAST FEW WEEKS. WEVE HAD THE CHANCE TO HEAR FROM OUR CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR AND LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR FOR THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS. 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What you need to know about Arkansas' 2022 Primary Elections

Updated: 2:28 PM CST Jan 28, 2022

In 2022, Arkansans will cast their ballots to choose new local officials and representatives to congress along with a new governor and lieutenant governor.Primary ElectionsArkansas' primaries will be held in May.The Democratic and Republican Parties of Arkansas will hold primaries to select their nominees on May 24, 2022. To vote in these primaries, you need to be registered before April 24, 2022. Early voting will begin on May 9, 2022.You can vote in either the Democratic or Republican primary, not both. You will be asked to select a party ballot when you arrive at the polling place.The Libertarian Party of Arkansas will hold a convention in early 2022 to select its nominee.Independent candidates are not running with a party and are not subject to primaries or conventions.Big RacesSeveral candidates are running to replace Asa Hutchinson as governor of Arkansas. Former White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the only declared candidate on the Republican side, but several other candidates have announced. Follow this link to learn about the candidates for governor.The situation is reversed in the race for lieutenant governor. Six Republicans but only one Democrat, Kelly Krout, is running.General ElectionTo vote in the general election, you must be registered by Oct. 10, 2022.Voting begins Oct. 24, 2022, and lasts through Election Day on Nov. 8, 2022.If runoffs are needed, they will be held in December.

In 2022, Arkansans will cast their ballots to choose new local officials and representatives to congress along with a new governor and lieutenant governor.

Arkansas' primaries will be held in May.

The Democratic and Republican Parties of Arkansas will hold primaries to select their nominees on May 24, 2022. To vote in these primaries, you need to be registered before April 24, 2022. Early voting will begin on May 9, 2022.

You can vote in either the Democratic or Republican primary, not both. You will be asked to select a party ballot when you arrive at the polling place.

The Libertarian Party of Arkansas will hold a convention in early 2022 to select its nominee.

Independent candidates are not running with a party and are not subject to primaries or conventions.

Several candidates are running to replace Asa Hutchinson as governor of Arkansas. Former White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the only declared candidate on the Republican side, but several other candidates have announced.

Follow this link to learn about the candidates for governor.

The situation is reversed in the race for lieutenant governor. Six Republicans but only one Democrat, Kelly Krout, is running.

To vote in the general election, you must be registered by Oct. 10, 2022.

Voting begins Oct. 24, 2022, and lasts through Election Day on Nov. 8, 2022.

If runoffs are needed, they will be held in December.

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What you need to know about Arkansas' 2022 Primary Elections - 4029tv

WashingtonNational Democrats added U.S.Rep. Dan Kildee's seat to their program that aims toprotect vulnerable incumbent Democrats in the Houseand said they aim to target the seat held by Republican U.S. Rep. Peter Meijer in the midterm elections.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee updated its Frontline Program this week as a result of redistricting. The DCCCaddedKildee and kept on the list U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Holly, who is running for reelection in a new Lansing-based district. Thirty-two Democratic incumbents are part of the program.

The DCCC removed from the Frontline Program U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens of Waterford Township, as she's now running for reelection in the 11th District that's considered a safe Democratic seat. Stevens is facing a primary against U.S. Rep. Andy Levin, D-Bloomfield Township.

"Frontline House Democrats head into November with a record of delivering for the American people by fighting to end this pandemic, rebooting our economy, and putting millions of Americans to work rebuilding America,DCCC Chairman Sean Patrick Maloney said in a statement.

Across the country, Republicans will have to defend their extremist agenda that just doesnt work for American families.

The National Republican Congressional Committee has not yet announced its Patriot Program for vulnerable Republican incumbents.

The DCCC on Thursday announced that the new 3rd District in west Michigan is among 38 GOP-held or open seats that it's targeting this fall. The groupsaid it views the new 3rd, which covers the Grand Rapids, Grand Haven and Muskegon areas, as trending toward Democrats and noted Meijer's challenge by John Gibbs, a Republican who has been endorsed by former President Donald Trump.

Democrat Hillary Scholten of Grand Rapids has spoken with the DCCC and is expected to be a contender. In 2020, she lost to Meijer in the old 3rd District 47% to 53% when the seat was open due to Libertarian Rep. Justin Amash's retirement.

Jeff Winston, Democratic chairman of the congressional district, said a Democrat will have a "fair shot" at the newly drawn seat.

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"After decades, upon decades of just horrible partisan gerrymandering, theCitizens Redistricting Commission did a really good job. In our particular case for the 3rd Congressional, it made it way more competitive," Winston said.

"On a level playing field, this is this is where the rubber hits the road. Our candidates are better, our message is better. Let the voters decide in a fair way, and Democrats will be victorious."

The DCCC is also targeting the open battleground seat in new 10th District, which includes parts of Macomb and Oakland counties and is rated "likely" Republican by Cook Political Report.National Republicans are hoping that former Senate nominee John James runs in this swing district, where the Democratic primary field is starting to grow.

Trump narrowly won the district in 2020, butDemocrats have also been successful there, including Sen. Gary Peters in 2020 andGov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2018.

Members of the Frontline Program would usually get extra fundraising and organizational help from the party organization, especially as Democratsseekto protect their majority in the House this fall.

The Lansing-based district where Slotkin plans to runis rated a tossup by the nonpartisan Cook Political Report.

Slotkin flipped a GOP seat in 2018 andrepresents one of just seven Democratic-held districts won by former President Donald Trump in 2020.Shecould end up facing state Sen. Tom Barrett, a Republican from Charlotte, who launched his congressional campaign late last year.

Kildee of Flint Township chaired the Frontliner Program in a previous cycle. He is running in the new 8th District thatincludes Flint and the Tri-Cities and which President Joe Biden wonby about 2 percentage points. The district is also rated a tossup.

National Republicans are aiming to snag a top-tier candidate to run against Kildee after former state Attorney General Bill Schuette of Midland opted not to run this month.

"Dan Kildee is one of the most vulnerable Democrats in the country because of his lockstep support for Nancy Pelosis socialist agenda," National Republican Campaign Committee Mike Berg said. "The Pelosi-Kildee agenda has led to closed schools, rising pricesand skyrocketing crime.

At least one Republican has jumped into the race already Paul Junge of Brighton said this month said he intends to moveto Genesee County to run. Junge ran for Congress in the 11th District in 2020 and lost to Stevens.

Kildee was reelected in 2020 54%-42% over former state Rep. Tim Kelly, R-Saginaw Township.

mburke@detroitnews.com

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