If you’re playing catch-up on the JPMorgan debacle like I am, Heidi Moore’s explainer is a good place to start.
The Justice Department went after Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio back in the ’90s in a case depressingly similar to the one it filed against him yesterday, but DOJ let him slip through its grasp back then in what nearly everyone agrees was a big failure. The U.S. attorney in Arizona at the time? A rising star named Janet Napolitano.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) describes to a billionaire contributor — captured on video — how dismantling collective bargaining for public employees is the first step in his strategy to “divide and conquer” labor unions and turn Wisconsin into a right to work state.
Fox News knows who the real victim is in the DOJ’s lawsuit against Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio for alleged abuse of Latinos’ civil rights.
That would be… Sheriff Joe. Watch.
The Jonah Goldberg takedown is an old and tired genre, but Alex Pareene breathes new life into it and makes it pleasurable again.
TPM Reader WB has another angle on whether it’s credible that Mitt Romney doesn’t remember this incident from high school …
I think the question of whether Romney remembers this incident is a really interesting one. I do think it is possible he doesn’t remember the event, but in many ways that is a more troubling proposition than assuming that he’s lying about not remembering it.
Romney on alleged bullying incident: “I’ve seen the reports, I’m not going to argue with that.”
Benjy Sarlin has the story of what happened to the Governor’s Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth during Mitt Romney’s time as Massachusetts governor.