When the leaders of a review of Arizona’s election were trying to convince a judge not to halt their sketchy audit of Maricopa County’s 2020 results, they claimed they’d be perfectly happy to find that nothing was amiss in the tally.
Continue reading “MAGA World Thinks The Sketchy AZ Audit Will Pave The Way To A 2020 Reversal”
President Biden met his first COVID-19 vaccination goal: 200 million doses in the first hundred days.
Now, the administration is set to announce a new goal.
In a speech later Tuesday, Biden will announce plans to have 70 percent of all American adults vaccinated by July 4.
Continue reading “Biden To Announce A New Vaccination Campaign As Uptake Rate Declines”
A Democratic state representative in Georgia has launched a campaign with the hopes of nabbing the job of top elections official in a state where a battle over ballot access has led to restrictive new election laws.
A dead woman voted in Pennsylvania — for Donald Trump. Her son pleaded guilty to fraudulently voting on her behalf Friday, walking away with five years’ probation and plaudits from the prosecuting attorney in one of the vanishingly few cases of actual, malicious voter fraud in the 2020 election cycle.
Continue reading “A Real Vote Fraudster Pleads Guilty In Tiny Pro-Trump Scheme”
Just in case the House minority leader’s sleeping arrangements were keeping you up at night — he told “Fox and Friends” this morning that he will soon be back to sleeping on the couch in his office on the Hill where he, apparently, belongs.
Nature is healing, etc.
But why are Kevin McCarthy’s sleeping arrangements a topic of discussion? Continue reading “Where Things Stand: McCarthy’s Back On The Couch”
From TPM Reader WB …
There’s a fascinating dynamic at play in the Cheney drama. While Trump’s presence and influence have receded on the national stage, they have only grown within the Republican Party. Since he lost the election Trump has occupied very little of my headspace. I don’t know anyone who still talks about him. It’s amazing in its own right how quickly most of us have learned to ignore him. And yet at the same time fealty to Trump has become the sole organizing principle of the Republican Party. For a while it looked like apostates like Cheney might survive in the party, but now it’s clear they will not.
Over 350 scholars, historians and political scientists urge Congress to take action on filibuster reform in a new letter first obtained by TPM, arguing that the Framers never intended for the Senate to rely on supermajorities to pass even routine, bipartisan legislation.
A Justice Department official all but quashed the National Rifle Association’s hopes at declaring bankruptcy and moving to Texas on Monday.
Continue reading “NRA Gets Rare Rebuke From DOJ Bankruptcy Official As It Tries To Escape NY AG”
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Tuesday once again refused to go to bat for Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) as House Republicans threaten to oust the third-ranking Republican as conference chair. Continue reading “McCarthy Again Passes Up Chance To Defend Cheney As GOPers Push For Her Ouster”
Kevin McCarthy signaled this morning that Liz Cheney may be on the way out as conference chair. She can’t effectively deliver the message, he says.
The truth is he’s right. And that is damning. It confirms that the GOP message is loyalty to Donald Trump, embrace of the Big Lie of a stolen election and – subsidiary to these two points – pretending the insurrection never happened.
