President Joe Biden on Tuesday will describe state-level Republican voting restrictions as the greatest threat to Democracy since the Civil War, invoking the Ku Klux Klan and the Jan. 6 Capitol attack during a speech on voting rights, a White House official said.
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“Just say we won.”
While former President Trump was pushing lies about voter fraud for months leading up to the 2020 election, new reporting on what occurred on election night at the White House is a reminder of the extent to which Trump’s democracy dismantling was rooted in absolutely nothing. That night, Rudy Giuliani was leading the lie-flinging charge.
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Fresh off their flight, Texas Democrats held court outside the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday where they argued that their exodus was only as extreme as the GOP actions that forced it.
Jenna Ellis, who was part of former President Trump’s legal team that unsuccessfully sought to challenge the election results, on Tuesday continued her crusade against Republican National Committee officials who had been skeptical of Trumpworld’s bogus claims of a “stolen” presidential election. Continue reading “Big Lie Lawyer’s Fury Grows As RNC Downplays Its Early Skepticism Of Election-Reversal Fight”
As noted, fired Social Security Commissioner Andrew Saul’s decision to show up for work on Monday as though nothing had happened was deprived of some drama and charge since he was logging on from the home office in his mansion in New York. He found his login credentials had been revoked. “I’m here to do the job, but I can’t do anything with the communications shut down.”
Former Trump-appointed Social Security Administration commissioner Andrew Saul, who’s been stubbornly clutching onto his post after President Joe Biden axed him last week, hit a snag in his gambit on Monday.
We’re witnessing another of these state legislators abscond across state lines dramas in Texas. As I mentioned a few weeks ago, it hearkens back to a similar drama in 2003 which presaged much of our current politics. But I’d like to take this in a different direction. What we’re seeing right now with these efforts to short-circuit the legislative process is what the legislative filibuster in the Senate should be like.
Now, I’m not suggesting that we move to a system where Senators run off to Canada or I guess in some cases Russia. It gets a bit more complicated in jurisdictional terms. But Texas Democrats clearly believe these laws are of an extraordinary character. Texas legislative Democrats get outvoted all the time. But they view this law as different from other laws they oppose. And most critically their actions are public and self-limiting.
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A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things.
Republican National Committee chief counsel Justin Riemer fully recognized that Rudy Giuliani and Trump campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis’ post-election lawsuits were a clown show, according to an email obtained by the Washington Post.
Lin Wood, one of the “Team Kraken” lawyers behind some of the ridiculous lawsuits to steal the election, deleted a Telegram post that included a clip of the sanctions hearing he and the other Krackenistas faced yesterday that threatens to take away their law licenses.
The President will hammer on Republicans’ voter suppression efforts during his speech in Philadelphia today.
The President will also reportedly make a call to action for a “new coalition” of activists, faith leaders, and businesses to fight against the legislation.
In the late 2000s, Arizona Republicans went to war against a Mexican American studies curriculum that they accused of being “anti-American” and “race-based,” and eventually banned it in 2010.
The indicted Trump Organization has jettisoned the indicted Allen Weisselberg from leadership positions in dozens of the company’s subsidiaries.
Several Republican senators who backed the bipartisan infrastructure deal are threatening to jump ship as Democrats work on their separate reconciliation bill that they plan to pass on their own.
Key Analysis: “Moderates want to cut the spending on Biden’s plan. They should remember 2010.” – The Washington Post
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s own former clerks say they don’t understand why their ex-boss still hasn’t retired after the end of SCOTUS’ term last month.
A Newsmax host argued that getting vaccinated “is just generally kind of going against nature” and that a bunch of people dying from disease is just the way the cookie crumbles, man.
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The U.S. Capitol Police officer who fatally shot Ashli Babbitt on January 6 as she was trying to break into the hallway where lawmakers were evacuating was not security detail assigned to a specific member of Congress, NBC News reports.
Continue reading “Report: Trump’s Claim About Officer Who Fatally Shot Ashli Babbitt Is Fully Wrong”
Texas Republicans are spinning their Democratic colleagues’ walkout as an abdication of duty, with the lieutenant governor in particular vowing that there will be a vote on the voter restrictions Democrats are trying to block.
