I’m going on vacation for a week. Honestly, I really need it. But before I do I couldn’t help leaving with you not with anything particularly insightful but something actually pretty obvious to anyone who has a brain and/or doesn’t harbor a lot of racial animosity toward black people that needs to find some comeuppance or ‘I told you so’ about Trayvon Martin.
So here goes. Read More
Plotters wanted to abduct police officers, put them on trial in people’s courts and then execute them in order to build a following for their radically antiauthoritarian political movement. “We need to arrest the police and take them to our jail and put them in a cell and put them on trial in a people’s court,” David Allen Brutsche allegedly said, “If we run into the position that they resist, then we need to kill them.”
Donald Trump, birther extraordinaire, doesn’t want to talk to TPM about Ted Cruz’s Canadian birth certificate.
It seems pretty clear that the Justice Department is testing out the extent of its powers under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act against Texas first because Texas is a much stronger case. It’s not easy to prove intentional discrimination, which is the bar that DOJ must now meet, since the Supreme Court’s June decision that Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act was unconstitutional. But lucky for DOJ, a federal court has already ruled in an earlier case that a Texas redistricting map was deliberately discriminatory. That gives DOJ a leg up as it argues that Texas should be subjected to stricter oversight under the law. Today’s new effort by DOJ to block the Texas voter ID law follows the same basic theory. Read More
Justice Department files new lawsuit against the state of Texas, contending that the state’s voter ID law violates the Voting Rights Act.
Just as the federal investigation into Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) was reaching a boil, the U.S. attorney overseeing the whole thing announced he is stepping down.
Embattled and ridiculous San Diego Mayor Bob Filner reaches tentative deal to conclude sex harassment lawsuit against him and the City of San Diego.
This could be fun. It turns out that a few years ago Ted Cruz was asked under penalty of perjury for a federal government background check whether or not he was a dual citizen.