Editor of small-town Alabama daily (The Democrat-Reporter of Linden, Alabama) calls for “the Ku Klux Klan to night ride again” against “Democrats in the Republican Party and Democrats … plotting to raise taxes in Alabama.”
“If we could get the Klan to go up there and clean out D.C., we’d all been better off,” wrote Goodloe Sutton.
Asked what he meant by ‘clean out’, Sutton said he meant lynching.
Curious what criminal defense lawyer readers have to say about this: When a federal judge issues a show cause order that raises the possibility of revoking your client’s conditions of pre-trial release, do you prepare them for the chance they won’t come home after the show cause hearing?
In response to my question below, TPM Reader JM writes:
Trump makes it official, announces Rod Rosenstein’s replacement, Jeffrey A. Rosen … Read More
This is fascinating. Six days into Bill Barr taking over the Justice Department we have an announcement that the end of the Mueller investigation will be announced as early as next week with a “summary” of Mueller’s report released to Congress at some unspecified point in the future. Barr has made clear that he does not believe the DOJ can release negative information about people who have not been charged with a crime.
New DC-area domestic terrorism case involving an alleged white nationalist who was working at Coast Guard headquarters and who, prosecutors say, was planning “to murder innocent citizens on a scale rarely seen in this country.”
Here’s the latest on the implosion of Mark Harris in the absentee ballot fraud alleged in the NC-09.
I was invited to join a discussion about the pros and cons of government subsidies as one way to save journalism. I put my thoughts together and posted them at that thread at Galley. But I thought I’d share what I wrote here too. Read More
In an amazing reversal, Mark Harris conceded from the witness stand that there should be an election do-over–and then abruptly left the hearing room.
The news is flying this afternoon, but don’t miss Tierney Sneed covering Roger Stone’s come to Jesus moment with the judge whose picture he Instagrammed with a crosshairs.