Demands for audits, accusations of satanism, “kookiness” and back-stabbing: Over the last month, the country’s most prominent QAnon promoters and election fraud boosters have, perhaps inevitably, turned their rhetorical tools against each other. And it’s a big, public mess.
Continue reading “The Heroes Of The Voter-Fraud Obsessed, QAnon Universe Are Turning On Each Other”Jan. 6 Committee Homes In On Links Between Trump, Big Lie Rallies
The Jan. 6 Committee issued subpoenas on Friday to six more people who were involved in organizing rallies around the capital promoting the Big Lie.
Continue reading “Jan. 6 Committee Homes In On Links Between Trump, Big Lie Rallies”It Goes Way Beyond Abortion
A DC lawyer reader is dismayed by the coverage of today’s Supreme Court decision on the Texas abortion ban:
Continue reading “It Goes Way Beyond Abortion”The press coverage of this decision is all wrong.
Sure, the 5-justice majority permitted a narrow route into federal court. But it will be easy for Texas and other states to close that route and block all access to federal court – because the majority makes clear that is permissible.
Sotomayor Invokes John C. Calhoun In Takedown Of Texas Abortion Ban
In a blazing dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor took the conservative bloc to task for laying federal supremacy vulnerable to tactics she compares to those of pro-slavery crusader John C. Calhoun.
Continue reading “Sotomayor Invokes John C. Calhoun In Takedown Of Texas Abortion Ban”Why the Threats?
As is often the case with Trump crimes and Trump adjacent crimes, it’s easy to get distracted by the cloud of nonsense and not focus on the specifics. A few days ago I wrote up Bart Gellman’s new piece on the insurrection in The Atlantic. The best part of Gellman’s piece is how he captures the time urgency going into January 6th. That was the point of no return that even the coup plotters recognized. They needed to stop that clock. In this boffo story and video of Kanye’s “director of operations” threatening this election worker and trying to force her to admit to a plot the deadline for her to come clean is January 6th.
Continue reading “Why the Threats?”Must Read
This is the best thing you’ll read on the Supreme Court’s oral arguments in the soon-to-be landmark Mississippi abortion case.
Amy Coney Barrett Was Speaking In Anti-Abortion Code. Here’s What She Really Meant.
In an exchange that set much of the internet aflame, Justice Amy Coney Barrett posed a question to an attorney for Mississippi’s Jackson Women’s Health during last week’s oral arguments. Why, she wondered, were abortion rights necessary when “safe haven” laws exist to dispense with the “consequences of parenting and the obligations of motherhood”?
Continue reading “Amy Coney Barrett Was Speaking In Anti-Abortion Code. Here’s What She Really Meant.”Kanye West’s Publicist Reportedly Pressured Election Worker To Confess To Non-Existent Crime
Ruby Freeman had been publicly targeted by the Trump campaign, the right-wing media outrage machine, and now… Kanye West’s publicist?
Continue reading “Kanye West’s Publicist Reportedly Pressured Election Worker To Confess To Non-Existent Crime”Trump Coup Plot Now Includes Kanye’s Weirdo Publicist
Here is yet another story from the range of conspiracies and criminal plots that were afoot last winter to overthrow the government of the United States and keep Donald Trump in power after losing the 2020 presidential election. Georgia election worker Ruby Freeman was one of those innocent bystanders who became the target of death threats and harassment tied to a conspiracy theory that she had helped steal the presidential election in Georgia for Joe Biden.
On January 4th 2021 – two days before the Capitol insurrection – a woman named Trevian Kutti knocked on Freeman’s door and told her she was in danger. If Freeman didn’t confess to the truth of Trump’s election rigging charges within 48 hours unidentified persons would come to her home and Freeman along with members of her family would be sent to jail.
Kutti is a publicist and head of Trevian Worldwide, a PR firm. As of 2018 she is also the “Director of Operations” for Kanye West, a friend and political ally of Trump. (Just before signing on with West Kutti had been PR Director for R Kelly. But she quit that job as sex trafficking and assault accusations piled up.) She was there as West’s employee but only identified herself as the emissary of a “high profile” individual with an urgent message and an offer of help.
Continue reading “Trump Coup Plot Now Includes Kanye’s Weirdo Publicist”Gaetz And Bannon Talk About Unleashing ‘Shock Troops’ If Trump Wins 2024, ‘Or Before’
Top Trump allies Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and ex-White House chief strategist Steve Bannon mulled a plan on Thursday to establish thousands of “shock troops” to go after their political enemies.
Continue reading “Gaetz And Bannon Talk About Unleashing ‘Shock Troops’ If Trump Wins 2024, ‘Or Before’”