That terror suspect shot and killed in Boston yesterday allegedly had plans to behead Pam Geller.
I’m chagrined I didn’t know about this earlier. But it is another amazing development out of the fun-house world of Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R), the progenitor of anti-immigrant laws around the country but most known as perhaps the biggest charlatan in the on-going war on voting which goes under the heading of anti-‘voter fraud’ activism. And, Good Lord, is it a high bar. Generally, someone in a position like Kobach occupies must make a referral to a prosecutor if they believe they have evidence of a crime like voter fraud. But apparently even in Kansas, where he should have a friendly audience among local prosecutors, he can’t find anyone to indict people over his bogus claims and witch hunts. So he’s got a solution. He’s got a new law passed which in addition amping up a bunch of criminal statutes gives him as Secretary State the ability to prosecute supposed offenders on his own. (The law is currently on the governor’s desk.) In other words, he no longer has to convince actual prosecutors that a crime has been committed. He can just prosecute anyone he wants. Here’s the story.
Another state scrambling to get situated in case the Supreme Court nixes Obamacare’s federal subsidies. Tierney Sneed talks to Delaware’s health and social services director.
Four people served with arrest warrants after being charged with “disturbing the peace” for cheering too loud at graduation ceremony.
Pennsylvania has become the first state to step up and announce a plan for protecting its citizens and their Obamacare health insurance subsidies if SCOTUS adopts the latest Republican challenge to Obamacare.
Helps a lot of course if you just elected a Democratic Governor.
Newly released documents show that one of Josh Duggar’s alleged molestation victims was 5 years old.
Ed Kilgore points to new poll data which suggests the billionaire purchase of politics made possible by Citizens United – if approached in a smart way – could give Dems an opening with white working class voters. Check this out.
Jon Stewart: Iraq Is a “Cluster-Quagmire-Catastroph-F*ck”. Watch.
You cannot be in that much trouble if you are looking at the beginning of a long run for President, which will end almost a year and a half from now, and still lead every plausible opposition candidate. That’s where Hillary Clinton is right now. For various reasons, I still think her chances of being elected next November are good. But the latest polls do point to a real issue for her – not just the sort of nonsense you hear from media organizations who sponsor the polls or the hyperactive beltway horserace watchers.
Let’s look at the numbers.