Senate Republicans are candidly admitting their political calculus in opposing a January 6 commission: they don’t want it to encroach on the 2022 midterms, during which they worry it would be “weaponized politically.”
Trumpism at the Local Level
There’s a rural county in California where the local militia is threatening violence if the local government doesn’t do what it’s told on COVID.
The New York Criminal Probe Against The Trump Organization Heats Up
How serious is it for former President Donald Trump that New York Attorney General Letitia James is joining Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance’s criminal probe of his company?
I spoke with two senior former officials with the New York attorney general’s office to get a sense of what this might mean.
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LA Times Has The Wild Story Of A City Facing Rebellion Over COVID Rules
A right-wing effort to oust several county supervisors in Shasta County, California has devolved into threats, fist fights, and… overly sentimental documentary filmmaking?
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Where Things Stand: The Other Giuliani
“I’m a politician out of the womb.”
This is how the son of Rudy Giuliani announced his bid for the Republican nomination in New York’s gubernatorial race, a fittingly bizarre statement for an under-the-radar bizarre boy.
McConnell Comes Out Against Jan. 6 Commission Proposal, Describing It As ‘Unbalanced’
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced his opposition to the January 6 commission bill Wednesday just hours before the House is scheduled to vote on it.
GOP May Face Some Defections As House Vote On January 6 Commission Bill Looms
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) last-minute denunciation of the bipartisan bill to set up a January 6 commission has left some members of his caucus unswayed.
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The Perps Never Support the Cops
Yesterday in a close door Senate GOP caucus meeting, Mitch McConnell announced he can’t support the Jan 6th commission deal which Kevin McCarthy’s negotiator negotiated apparently because McCarthy assumed nothing would ever come of it before it blew up in his face. According to Axios, McConnell hasn’t yet come up with any clear reasons why he opposes such a commission other than vague suggestions about its work interfering with the DOJ’s probes. The main concern is that the commission might subpoena members or “alienate members of the GOP base, as well as former President Trump.”
Earlier this week, the number two GOP Senate leader John Thune expressed support for the Commission and said he expected it to pass. Yesterday he said that after hearing that McCarthy had pulled his support he wasn’t so sure.
Trump Claims ‘Unfairness’ In Plea To GOPers To Block Bipartisan Jan. 6 Commission
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday urged congressional Republicans to resist voting to form a bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, which will likely cast a spotlight on his role in the deadly riot, calling the effort a “Democrat trap.”
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The Word Has Gone Out
On a January 6th Commission, ex-President Trump tells congressional GOP leaders that “this discussion should be ended immediately.”