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In each of former President Donald Trump’s four indictments, he has been allowed to stay out of jail before his trial so long as he abides by certain conditions commonly applied to most people accused of crimes in the U.S.
Continue reading “In Objecting To Judicial Orders Restricting His Speech Trump Is Only Hurting Himself”Burgeoning attempts to disqualify Donald Trump from the ballot under the 14th Amendment’s Disqualification Clause have been met with everything from ridicule to giddiness.
Continue reading “What It Will Take To Enforce The Disqualification Clause Against Donald Trump”Although it’s not a new trend, 2023 thus far has undoubtedly been a prolific one for GOP fear mongering fake controversies into existence.
Continue reading “A List Of Household Items Republicans Lost Their Minds Over For No Reason”We have another pretty sobering general election poll out. This one is from the Journal. Toplines are 46% to 46% horse race number, widespread misgivings about Biden’s age. In general, as you’d expect, Trump’s supporters and potential supporters are basically 100% united behind him whereas Biden’s are far less so. Among the poll respondents actually interviewed for the article are two independents who voted for Biden in 2020 to get Trump out of office. One is considering writing someone else’s name in; another is considering voting for Cornell West.
Continue reading “Poll Shows Biden-Trump Tie Race”This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The Conversation.
Jason Aldean’s song “Try That In A Small Town” extols small towns as bastions of conservative values standing up against a litany of violent big-city bogeymen. The song, and the backlash against it, threatens to strengthen popular conceptions about the inherent conservatism of country music.
Continue reading “Molly Tuttle Extends Country Music’s Lineage Of Songs On Reproductive Rights To Post-Roe Era”As good government groups, various attorneys and some candidates around the country gear up to try to disqualify Donald Trump from running for the presidency via the Disqualification Clause, state officials are taking notice.
TPM reached out to secretaries of state and election boards for what are likely to be some of the swingiest states next year, including the states that Trump attempted to overturn in 2020.
Continue reading “What Key Election Officials Have To Say About Efforts To Disqualify Trump From The Ballot”This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The Conversation.
Many people believe governors make good presidents. In fact, a 2016 Gallup Poll found that almost 74% of people say that governing a state provides excellent or good preparation for someone to be an effective president. As a result, many political commentators have tried to explain why Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is stumbling in his campaign for president.
Continue reading “Why ‘Imperial Governors’ Like DeSantis Don’t Make Good Presidents”It’s a feature of the Trump era that his norm-breaking behavior is met by unprecedented responses.
He tried to strong-arm Ukraine into fabricating dirt on his political enemy, and was impeached. He, at the very least, inflamed his followers into trying to violently stop the certification of the 2020 election, and was impeached again. Thanks to the coup attempt, hush money payments to a porn star and his refusal to cough up government documents after he was ousted, he’s been indicted four times.
Those on the vanguard of invoking the seldom-used Disqualification Clause of the 14th Amendment, under which Trump’s role in Jan. 6 would preclude him from running for office again, acknowledge that what they’re doing is unprecedented in the modern era. But so is a president attempting to foment an insurrection.
Continue reading “Inside The Effort To Use The Disqualification Clause To Keep Trump Off The 2024 Ballot”Where to start? Dan Friedman and David Corn have a piece up this morning at Mother Jones detailing a whistleblower complaint from an FBI agent, Johnathan Buma, who says he was stopped from investigating whether Giuliani was “compromised” by Russian intelligence when he was on his various “dirt” safaris marching through Ukraine and other post-Soviet states trying to drum up dirt on the Bidens to sabotage the 2020 presidential election. Friedman and Corn say other stymied agents may soon be coming forward as well.
Continue reading “For All Rudy’s Troubles, There’s Much More Still There”Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Friday called out far-right House Republicans for taking appropriations bills hostage and risking a government shutdown.
Continue reading “Schumer Places Blame For Any Impending Shutdown Squarely On MAGA House GOP”
