Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) has been evading efforts to serve him a complaint in Rep. Eric Swalwell’s lawsuit against the Alabama Republican over his role in inciting the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, according to Swalwell’s lawyer.
Twitter Suspends Account That Tried To Circumvent Trump Ban
Twitter on Thursday suspended an account that reposted statements former President Trump shared on his own website, which appeared to be an attempt to evade the ban that the platform placed on the former president’s account in the aftermath of the deadly Capitol insurrection he incited. Continue reading “Twitter Suspends Account That Tried To Circumvent Trump Ban”
Giuliani To Headline Fundraiser For Trumpy State Senator In PA Weeks After FBI Raid
Rudy Giuliani is set to headline an event for Pennsylvania state Senator Doug Mastriano (R), who is publicly mulling a run for governor, just weeks after the FBI raided Giuliani’s home and property.
Want To Restore Balance To The Supreme Court? Expand It.
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Last month, Democrats in Congress introduced a bill to add four new seats to the U.S. Supreme Court — a once-fringe idea that has now fully entered the mainstream.
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NY AG James Wants In On Lawsuit Against Wohl And Burkman Over Racist Robocall
New York’s attorney general wrote to a federal judge on Thursday, asking to be tagged into an ongoing lawsuit against the right-wing hucksters Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, who allegedly sent robocalls targeting Black voters in an attempt to suppress voter turnout ahead of the 2020 election.
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In Interview With Bannon, Stefanik Cozies Up To Big Lie While Praising Sketchy AZ Audit
As House GOP leadership openly boosts her bid to replace Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) as conference chair, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) on Thursday flirted openly with former President Trump’s election fraud falsehoods during an appearance on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast. Continue reading “In Interview With Bannon, Stefanik Cozies Up To Big Lie While Praising Sketchy AZ Audit”
Where Things Stand: The Great GOP COVID Relief Credit Theft Continues
The small club of Republicans shamelessly touting COVID-19 relief they voted against in March has grown steadily every week since.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), preemptively annoyed that this would happen since before the American Rescue Plan even passed, has been diligently blasting out press releases calling out the GOP lawmakers for their hypocrisy. She’s been kept busy.
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What Drives Cheney?
I think TPM Reader AM somewhat clouds the issue by using the old money/new money analogy. It sounds too snooty and snobbish. But I think he’s really on to something. One of the things about Liz Cheney is that she clearly has as much or more contempt or lack of respect for Kevin McCarthy as she has for Donald Trump. She’s repeatedly and gratuitously embarrassed him in public. She likes disrespecting him publicly. As I mentioned in yesterday’s discussion with Kate in the podcast, Cheney has literally been around the highest echelons of the GOP since early childhood in the 1970s. Through her parents and her own life and political experience, she sees herself as part of the older, grown-up GOP.
I take her core conviction here – Trump’s danger, the danger of The Big Lie and the insurrection – as very genuine. But her refusal to ‘look forward, not back’ is, I think, both characterological and rooted in her deep-seated belief that guys like Kevin McCarthy and especially Donald Trump are just beneath her.
Here’s TPM Reader AM …
Why DOJ Is Interested In How The Arizona Recount Is Handling Ballots
A Justice Department letter to the Arizona Senate leader who ordered the sketchy audit of the 2020 election was a first shot across the bow amid calls for a federal intervention into the ongoing recount.
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How Elise Stefanik Adopted Trump’s Cult Of Personality To Become The Anti-Cheney
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) is inching closer to succeeding Rep. Liz Cheney (WY) as conference chair in an ouster poised to erase some of the few remaining vestiges of opposition to former President Donald Trump’s enduring power within the GOP caucus that has been buoyed by falsehood over a stolen election.
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