Special Counsel Jack Smith subpoenaed the Arizona secretary of state’s office as recently as May for information related to the unsuccessful lawsuits brought by the Trump campaign and the Arizona Republican Party about supposed errors in the 2020 election. As you’ll recall, Arizona was a hotbed of conspiracy theories tied to the effort to overturn the election after President Biden flipped the longtime Republican stronghold state, leading to Trumpworld outrage, a phony and expensive state election “audit” and the lawsuits.
Continue reading “Where Things Stand: Smith Zooms In On Trump Circle’s 2020 Lawsuits In Arizona”Iowa Governor Calls Special Session To Pass Abortion Restrictions After State Supreme Court Deadlocks On Ban
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) is calling the legislature back for a special session next week to pass abortion restrictions after the state Supreme Court deadlocked on a six-week ban last month, keeping the procedure legal in the state.
Continue reading “Iowa Governor Calls Special Session To Pass Abortion Restrictions After State Supreme Court Deadlocks On Ban”Calling All Lawyers!
As we make the final push to reach our $500,000 goal for the TPM Journalism Fund drive, I want to thank all of the lawyer contributors and see if I can convince a few more to help out.
Some of the biggest contributions to date to the TPM Journalism Fund drive have come from the legal community. We can’t thank you enough for that.
Continue reading “Calling All Lawyers!”Georgia Bar Steers Lin Wood Into Retirement
The Georgia bar allowed Celebrity Kraken attorney Lin Wood to retire on Wednesday, saying that the lawyer’s permanent exit from the practice of law was a suitable resolution to his propagation of outrageous claims about the 2020 election and his own divinity.
Continue reading “Georgia Bar Steers Lin Wood Into Retirement”Stewart Rhodes Pushes Deep State Conspiracy Theories About Trump In New Jailhouse Interview
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes — who was recently sentenced to 18 years in prison for seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack — used a new jailhouse interview to push “deep state” conspiracy theories and claimed that his trial can be used as a blueprint for how federal prosecutors will convict former President Donald Trump.
Continue reading “Stewart Rhodes Pushes Deep State Conspiracy Theories About Trump In New Jailhouse Interview”Ohio Groups Say They Have Enough Signatures To Get Abortion Safeguards On Ballot In November
The groups behind the effort to put abortion rights to a vote in Ohio this fall announced Wednesday that they’d officially turned in “over 700,000” signatures to get the proposal on the ballot.
Continue reading “Ohio Groups Say They Have Enough Signatures To Get Abortion Safeguards On Ballot In November”Hawley Slammed For Using Fake Founding Father Quote To Push Christian Nationalism On July 4
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) came under fire on the Fourth of July for tweeting a false historical quote pushing components of Christian Nationalism ideology and falsely attributing it to a founding father.
Continue reading “Hawley Slammed For Using Fake Founding Father Quote To Push Christian Nationalism On July 4”Three More Days
We’re at the end of the drive, folks. Three more days. Friday is the last day. We’re at $445,000. That’s 89% of the way toward our goal. We have $55,000 to go. If you’ve been waiting, if you’ve been on the fence, now is the time. We can still get there but we’ll need a big final surge to do it. Here’s the link. It’s super fast, especially if you’re already a site member. We thank you in advance.
Inside Twitter’s Extended Weekend of Doom
The ups and downs of social media platforms aren’t usually a focus of my writing. But they interest me to the extent they intersect with politics and public conversation in this country. You may have heard that over the weekend Twitter went into a kind of extended meltdown, rapidly introducing a series of “rate limiting” restrictions because the platform was having a hard time staying online. Behind the jargon of “rate limiting,” this essentially meant the site was forced to start rationing Tweets and the ability to engage with them, an ominous move for a company whose business is literally selling engagement. The site’s owner, Elon Musk, later claimed that this was in response to various online bad actors overwhelming the site’s infrastructure. The site’s (for the moment) CEO later claimed that it was all done out of the blue to catch the online bad guys unaware and off guard. Giving any advanced warning (even to employees, it turns out) would have given the online bad guys a heads up and allowed them to escape.
Continue reading “Inside Twitter’s Extended Weekend of Doom”Wild Ruling On Social Media Companies Is Latest Instance Of Trump Judge Setting Nationwide Policy
As Trump-appointed judges vie to see who can produce the most nakedly partisan rulings completely divorced from precedent and case law, a new contender has thrown his hat in the ring.
Continue reading “Wild Ruling On Social Media Companies Is Latest Instance Of Trump Judge Setting Nationwide Policy”