MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell doesn’t seem too keen on his portrayal in a recent lawsuit as an election falsehoods profiteer, so he wants to make sure Americans know that he expects to lose $65 million in revenue this year, after a host of retailers dropped his products from stores over election conspiracy theories he parroted.
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I thought your appreciation of Mitch was good. I am nearing completion of the Years of LBJ by Robert Caro, and in the Passage of Power after the assassination, LBJ sees the legislative pickle JFK got himself into. I have left off right where Richard Russell says that they (the Southern bloc) could beat Kennedy, but that they won’t beat LBJ. I have not gotten to the part where LBJ figures the way out, but Caro makes a point here (and throughout the series in some ways): Congress was broken from the time FDR’s court packing scheme died all the way through the Kennedy Administration, and the only progress that was made was when LBJ pushed through measures as Majority Leader (limited as they were–geared to him becoming President). And Caro points out that the reason Congress was broken was that the old bulls of the Southern bloc controlled the Senate.
Democratic House leaders are reportedly boosting a new candidate for the director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) behind closed doors as Neera Tanden, President Joe Biden’s pick for the slot, grapples with an increasing unlikely path to confirmation.
Shortly before holding a candle lighting ceremony and a moment of silence at the White House honoring the more than 500,000 Americans who have died from COVID-19 thus far, President Biden delivered emotional remarks in which he spoke of his personal experience with grief while empathizing with families who lost loved ones amid the pandemic. Continue reading “Biden Marks Grim Milestone Of 500K COVID Deaths: ‘We Can’t Accept Such A Cruel Fate’”
The confirmation hearing for Merrick Garland — the moderate, well-liked federal appellate judge who was infamously denied a Supreme Court seat by Senate Republicans — did not exactly provide the kind of contentious, partisan fodder that accompanied past attorney general nominations. But that doesn’t mean Democrats and Republicans passed up an opportunity to use the proceedings to take swipes at department conduct during previous administrations.
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Much like Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) Cancún getaway during one of his state’s worst disasters in modern history, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, fled to Utah last week while millions of Texans suffered from a power outage crisis in freezing temperatures. Continue reading “Texas AG Also Pulled A Ted Cruz-Like Texit Amid State’s Energy Crisis”
Judge Merrick Garland bobbed and weaved around several GOP gripes about the Justice Department under previous Democratic administrations during what has so far been a crisp confirmation hearing for the attorney general nominee.
After the top Republican on the committee signaled that there would be bipartisan support for his confirmation, Garland — who was boxed out by Republicans for a Supreme Court seat during the Obama presidency — is on a glide path to becoming attorney general.
So far, Republicans have brought up many of their pet issues about the Justice Department, with questions about the Durham review of the Russia investigation, use of the death penalty, gun rights and immigration enforcement. But they haven’t dwelled on Garland’s dodges or pushed him too hard when he danced around some of their questions.
Garland, currently a judge on the the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, has earned bipartisan respect for both his middle-of-the-road judicial approach and his record earlier in his career as a Justice Department prosecutor.
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Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance now has a clean shot at former President Donald Trump’s tax returns.
During his confirmation hearing Monday, Judge Merrick Garland made two things clear about how, if he confirmed, he’d lead the Justice Department’s response to the Jan. 6 insurrection.
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When Genevieve Peters marched onto the Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, after the police line had been broken by a mob that overwhelmed law enforcement, she believed the crowd around her was engaged in a powerful show of force — a demonstration that real Americans weren’t going to take a fraudulent election laying down.
