President Donald Trump escalated his attacks against Dr. Anthony Fauci, one of the White House’s top experts on COVID-19, into a full-blown smear campaign on Monday.
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The Great Moonwalking, long foretold, is beginning in advance of President leaving office or even losing office. We are now hearing that even some of President Trump’s most committed lickspittles and toadies were in fact anti-Trump all along, just working secretly, operating from the inside. To borrow the Catholic hierarchy’s usage, they were in pectore members of the resistance.
Last week we had Ben Sasse detailing all the President’s many transgressions in a campaign call he was sure would rapidly make it into the papers. Yesterday John Cornyn, one of the President’s most loyal Senate soldiers, announced that contrary to all appearances he has not in fact loyally supported the President at every turn. In fact he has opposed almost all of his major policy initiatives – just secretly. Cornyn cast himself as an abused wife who has only latterly realized there’s no changing Trump. “Maybe like a lot of women who get married and think they’re going to change their spouse, and that doesn’t usually work out very well.”
The backlash over Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) disdainfully mocking Sen. Kamala Harris’ (D-CA) first name during President Trump’s campaign rally on Friday quickly went from the political arena to the world of poultry over the weekend.
The Twitter account of Perdue Chicken — the Maryland-based poultry giant that is unaffiliated with the Georgia senator — spent the weekend, and even Monday morning, responding to angry comments by reminding people that they’re just a chicken company. Continue reading “Perdue Chicken Falls Prey To Backlash Over Senator’s Racist Mocking Of Harris’ Name”
It’s been 13 days since the U.S. Supreme Court received its last round of briefings in the closely-watched dispute over whether Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court can extend the deadlines for absentee ballots to be received in the state. The justices have typically sought to settle such election disputes pretty quickly, so the delay in this case is notable, and has election law experts on edge. Usually when the court is dragging its feet on weighing in on an emergency dispute like the Pennsylvania case, it’s because a justice is writing — either a substantive opinion (which is not required in emergency requests for the court’s action) or a vehement dissent.
Democratic nominee Joe Biden on Monday morning bluntly agreed with President Donald Trump’s decidedly ill-advised accusation that Biden would dare to “listen to the scientists” regarding the COVID-19 pandemic if he wins the election.
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Sen. David Perdue’s (R-GA) disdainful mocking of Sen. Kamala Harris’ (D-CA) first name during President Trump’s campaign rally on Friday appears to have worked in Democratic rival Jon Ossoff’s favor. By Sunday evening, Ossoff raised more than $1.8 million from at least 42,000 donors since Perdue’s controversial and viral moment, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Continue reading “Perdue’s Mocking Of Harris’ Name Gives Dem Rival Ossoff A Big Fundraising Boost”
Immediately after I started saying that Democrats should expand the number of Justices on the Court in response to Republican court packing, I heard from a couple people telling me that the coteries around Pelosi and Biden were saying, no way. Not happening. (Interestingly, I heard a pretty different message from within the Senate caucus leadership – which is and should be the real locus of decision-making.)
But things are changing. Last week Joe Biden shifted his public statements to explicitly connecting his decision on expanding the Court to the outcome of the Barrett confirmation process. Her confirmation is of course a foregone conclusion. But clarifying the cause and effect, the order of events is critical: Democrats are reacting to and trying to repair the damage caused by Republican court-packing and corruption. If Republicans are upset by the prospect of all their hard work and corrupt acts going up in smoke with a simple majority vote they can take the opportunity to rethink their next actions.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear the Trump administration’s appeal of a lower court ruling that it improperly diverted money to build portions of the border wall with Mexico.
The high court has previously allowed construction to continue, even after a federal appeals court ruled in June that the administration had illegally sidestepped Congress in transferring the Defense Department funds.
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White House COVID-19 response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx reportedly told Vice President Mike Pence recently that Dr. Scott Atlas, who peddles anti-science talking points about the virus that bolster President Donald Trump’s attempts at PR amid his botched handling of the pandemic, needs to go.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, one of the White House’s most prominent COVID-19 experts, said on Sunday that President Donald Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis wasn’t a surprise given how often the President openly disregards the dangers of holding large gatherings, such as his campaign rallies, and not wearing masks.
