White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain said on Wednesday night that Neera Tanden, President Joe Biden’s embattled pick for director of the Office of Budget Management (OMB), will be offered another role in the administration if the Senate refuses to confirm her.
Don Jr. Deposed By DC Attorney General In Lawsuit Alleging Misuse Of Inaugural Funds
Former President Donald Trump’s son Don Jr. was deposed as part of the District of Columbia’s lawsuit alleging the misuse of Trump inaugural funds, according to a court filing.
One Capitol Insurrectionist Was Greene’s Close Ally
One of the insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol grounds on January 6 and later bragged about breaking into the building was a close ally of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who has falsely claimed the attackers were Antifa in disguise.
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Meet The Voting Rights Heavy-Hitters That Biden Has Picked To Lead DOJ
President Biden has chosen for top positions at the Justice Department three advocates who have spent their lifetimes in the civil rights arena and the last four years in particular combatting the Trump-era’s most egregious assaults on democracy.
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No Lucy Football with the Jan 6 Commission
I’ve mentioned a number of times that to avoid the errors of the Obama years Democrats must make a firm commitment not to engage with bad faith arguments or bad faith actors. “This to me is the greatest negative lesson of the Obama era: the willing engagement of good faith with bad faith in which bad faith is, by definition, always the winner.” This necessity has cropped up again with Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s plan to create a commission to investigate the January 6th insurrection against the US capitol.
Congressional Republicans are doing everything they can to scuttle the idea. They’re opposing Pelosi’s plan to give Democrats a 7-4 majority on the panel (that’s not an unreasonable argument in the abstract) and more tellingly insisting that they can only support the idea if it also looks at violence during the summer protests in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. In other words, the Republican response is to whatabout the insurrection at the Capitol and the attempt to overturn the 2020 election by force. The latest gambit comes from Senator Minority Leader Mitch McConnell who says he could agree to the whataboutist model – Capitol insurrection but also antifa and everything that happened last summer – or a much narrower commission focused solely on Capitol security procedures.
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Dem Rep Trolls Greene With Trans Flag After GOP Rep Attacks LGBTQ+ Equality Act
Rep. Marie Newman (D-IL) on Wednesday said she installed a trans pride flag outside her office that sits across Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) after the GOP lawmaker called the LGBTQ+ rights bill known as the Equality Act “an attack on God’s creation.” Continue reading “Dem Rep Trolls Greene With Trans Flag After GOP Rep Attacks LGBTQ+ Equality Act”
Gohmert Actually Blames Dems For Causing Jan. 6 With ‘Russia Hoax,’ Censorship
In a classically convoluted logical journey, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) went from claiming an insurrectionist had ties to antifa to blaming Democrats for the January 6 attack wholesale in a cool five minutes on Wednesday.
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Alleged Capitol Rioter Spent Insurrection Texting Ex, Who Then Ratted Him Out To Feds
One consistent theme so far in the enormous federal investigation of the Jan. 6 attack on Congress is the overwhelming willingness of friends, family and lovers of Capitol rioters, past and present, to rat them out to authorities.
Here’s How The Postal Service Board Would Get Rid Of Louis DeJoy
One exchange at Wednesday’s congressional hearing featuring Postmaster General Louis DeJoy can tell us a lot about the bureaucratic battle over DeJoy’s future.
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Virginia GOP Settles On Drive-In Convention After Trumpian Wing Sows Months Of Chaos
The Virginia GOP has finally, after months of infighting and refusal to cooperate from its Trumpian wing, settled on how it will nominate its candidates for statewide races: a drive-up “convention.”
At Liberty University — if it’ll have them.