Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) suggested on Tuesday night that Washington, D.C. was “completely dead” after Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd — and that it was evidence of collective fear and that Black Lives Matter is a “terrorist threat.”
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CBP’s Prescient Warning About The Construction Contractor That We Build The Wall Worked With
Government documents I obtained this week via the Freedom of the Information Act showed that President Trump’s Department of Homeland Security coordinated with the pro-Trump private border wall building outfit We Build The Wall to a greater extent than was previously known.
GOP Rep Nancy Mace Offers Faulty Reasoning To Deny DC Statehood
Rep. Nancy Mace on Tuesday (R-SC) offered faulty reasoning for denying statehood to Washington, D.C. suggesting that its population size fell short of qualifying for a congressional district.
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Barrett Hearings Day 2: The First Round Of Questioning
As senators get their chance to question Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, she’s wriggled out of answers that political and legal observers are particularly concerned about. She refused to commit to recusal on a hypothetical case to decide the November election, dodged on whether she thinks Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided and wouldn’t agree that President Trump delaying the election would be unlawful.
Democrats are trying to exact the ultimate political price for Republicans’ rush job, and they’re doing it by bringing up social issues people feel strongly about: health care, LGBTQ civil rights, abortion rights, etc. Republicans, for their part, have also been outraged at Democrats’ lines of questioning about her views on those issues, trying to make the argument that she is an entirely blank political slate and that no one can guess how she’ll rule.
Follow along with the hearing below.
Trump Said ‘Peaceful’ Once While Inciting Insurrection. Now GOP Clings To That To Go After Waters
Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) on Tuesday threw his support behind House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) plans to introduce a resolution to censure Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), amid Republicans’ performative outrage over Waters’ remarks urging protesters against police brutality to “get more confrontational.” Continue reading “Trump Said ‘Peaceful’ Once While Inciting Insurrection. Now GOP Clings To That To Go After Waters”
REVEALED: How Trump’s DHS Cozied Up To The Allegedly Fraudulent We Build The Wall Gambit
At first, when We Build The Wall hosted a flashy event on May 30, 2019 near the U.S.-Mexican border, the Department of Homeland Security had no interest in participating.
Making Sense of the Post-Trump Era #1
I’m working my way through your emails on making sense of the post-Trump Era. Please keep them coming. (See the linked post for more details.) They are fascinating but like the topic itself they are hard to bring into focus. There are common themes but they are elusive. I will be publishing a number of them. But I wanted to start with this note from TPM Reader CC, who lives in Australia. It’s a very different perspective given that’s from someone in a foreign country on the other side of the world. But I found it very interesting as a window into what America now looks like from abroad …
Cornyn Tries Same Voting Rights Gotcha With Stacey Abrams As He Did With Kristen Clarke
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) has displayed a similar strategy recently as he cross-examines witnesses before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the racist effect of restrictive voting laws.
Where Things Stand: Bush Describes Modern-Day GOP As ‘Nativist’
“It’s not exactly my vision,” former President George W. Bush said of his Party during a live interview with NBC’s “Today” show this morning.
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Accused Sexual Harasser Mark Halperin Finds His Comeback At ‘No Labels’ Org
Disgraced reporter Mark Halperin has finally managed to make his long-sought after comeback with a new contract with “No Labels,” a D.C.-based policy group that believes he’s made amends since his firing over disturbing sexual harassment allegations, like rubbing his genitals against female colleagues.
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