Lin Wood deleted a Telegram post on Monday that risked running afoul of a federal judge that he had already spent part of the day antagonizing.
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‘Kraken’ Team Pelts Judge With Fraud 2020 Redux In Sanctions Hearing
A group of attorneys who sought to overturn the 2020 election doubled down on the effort in a sanctions hearing in federal court in Detroit on Monday, enraging a federal judge as they pushed for one last chance to explain to the world how the election was stolen.
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Big Lie Lawyer Turns On Top GOPers Who Questioned Efforts To Overturn Election
Jenna Ellis, who was part of former President Trump’s legal team that led fruitless crusades to overturn the 2020 election results, is going after the Republican National Committee following a report on officials questioning efforts to push the big lie of a “stolen” presidential election. Continue reading “Big Lie Lawyer Turns On Top GOPers Who Questioned Efforts To Overturn Election”
Trump’s Team Kraken Is Taking It On the Chin In Sanctions Hearing
U.S. District Judge Linda Parker for the Eastern District of Michigan is holding a hearing Monday morning on whether or not to sanction some of the loudest propagators of the most brazenly absurd conspiracy theories around the 2020 election.
Judge Parker denied a request from attorneys Lin Wood, Sidney Powell, and others to have an attorney represent them at the hearing. So, on Monday, the pro-Trump attorneys who sought to cast doubt over the 2020 results are appearing over Zoom regarding a measure of accountability over conspiracies about a stolen election.
Texas Democrats Flee State To Prevent Quorum On Voting Bill
Members of the Texas House Democratic Caucus fled the state Monday in an effort to prevent a quorum for new Republican voting restrictions.
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Where Things Stand: GOP Fretting About ‘Discrimination’ Against Unvaxxed Reaches New Level
The Conservative Political Action Conference over the weekend provided lots of concerning examples of just how dystopian Republican fearmongering around the COVID-19 vaccine has become.
Trump-Endorsed VA GOPer Tries To Distance Himself From Ex-POTUS’ Blessing
Glenn Youngkin, Virginia’s GOP gubernatorial nominee, doesn’t seem too proud to be the only person in his race ex-President Donald Trump likes.
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‘Make These People Squirm’: Far-Right Congressional Candidate Sparks Scuffle At Katie Porter Event
A far-right congressional candidate in Orange County, California called on his supporters to “Confront Katie Porter” in an Instagram post that featured the walk-up music of a pro wrestler.
Trump Demands Republicans Embrace the Insurrection
A week ago I noted that Donald Trump’s Sarasota campaign rally demand for freedom for indicted insurrectionists signaled the central theme of the 2022 midterm campaign. Trump also demanded retribution against for the officer who shot Ashli Babbitt as she broke through the final line of defense protecting fleeing members of Congress. The subsequent week has only confirmed that prediction as Trump has escalated his demands and fine-tuned his rhetoric.
Trump returned to the theme twice yesterday, first in an extended interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News and then in a speech to CPAC in Dallas. With Bartiromo he declared the insurrection “a lovefest between the Capitol Police and the people who walked down to the Capitol” and repeated his demand that “they have to release the people that are incarcerated.”
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