This Week in the Laboratories of Democracy

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Being our semi-regular weekly survey of what’s goin’ down in the several states where, as we know, the real work of governmentin’ gets done, and where the winds of Chicago tear you to shreds.

We begin in Pennsylvania, specifically in Bucks County, a large and politically vital swing county. Back last month, the voters there turned out their Republican sheriff and returned a Democratic attorney named Danny Ceisler. The main issue in the campaign was the fact that the GOP incumbent, Fred Harran, had worked closely with ICE, including signing a contract with the agency to cooperate in rounding folks up. From Bolts:

Since Donald Trump’s return to office, local and state agencies across the countr

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