A few days before an enormously important Supreme Court race in Wisconsin, both Democrats and Republicans are, perhaps unsurprisingly, projecting equal confidence that their candidate of choice will win.
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Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) was discharged from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Friday morning, and is back home in Braddock. He’ll return to Washington D.C. when the Senate reconvenes in mid-April.
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A Delaware judge allowed Dominion Voting Systems’ lawsuit against Fox News to proceed, striking down the conservative network’s claims while finding in favor partly for the aggrieved voting machine company.
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I saw in a press report earlier that while Republicans are stuck in a Soros, Soros, Soros rage fugue Democrats are a mix of giddy and anxious. I’ll assume some version of that is correct. I certainly see a lot of giddiness and sundry booyahs! and similar comments. Those are totally understandable. Donald Trump has made a lifetime of skating. He’s run roughshod over the whole country for seven-plus years and skated on every bit of wrongdoing. So of course people are excited, satisfied, pumped and relieved that finally he’s hit a bump in the road.
But there’s also that note of anxiety.
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Out of the hundreds of reactions to President Trump’s unprecedented indictment on Thursday, one stood out.
Continue reading “NY Young Repubs: We Said ‘Trump Is Our Soul’ To Get Attention”Manhattan DA Slams House GOP For Giving Trump’s ‘Inflammatory Accusations’ A Platform
The Manhattan district attorney’s office slammed House Republicans for trying to interfere with its investigation into former president Donald Trump.
Continue reading “Manhattan DA Slams House GOP For Giving Trump’s ‘Inflammatory Accusations’ A Platform”DeSantis Had 10 Months To See What Disney Was Up To
Yesterday we noted the interesting and hilarious fact that Disney appears to have outmaneuvered and outwitted Ron DeSantis’s effort to strip the company of its quasi-governmental powers over the huge parcel of land that makes up Disney World as payback for the company’s support of gay rights. When we heard the story yesterday it may have sounded like the company just pulled off some last-minute switcheroo when for a minute the folks in Tallahassee took their eye off the ball. But that’s not quite right. It was an effort that took place in plain sight over almost a year.
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President Trump’s Thursday indictment marks a historic first, but brings the United States in line with a norm that exists in many other advanced democracies.
Continue reading “Trump Shatters Glass Ceiling Of Indictments For Presidents”What We Know About How Trump Spent His Indictment Night
Former President Donald Trump, his aides and advisers were caught off guard Thursday evening when news broke that the grand jury investigating Trump’s role in the $130,000 hush money payment made to porn actress Stormy Daniels voted to indict him, according to multiple reports.
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I was scheduled to go on Ari Melber’s show yesterday afternoon to talk about the Dominion lawsuit. Had to bone up on the latest developments. Then about fifteen minutes before we were set to go on air the indictment story broke. So obviously the topic changed. I got to speak about a few things. But this is the thing (video after the jump) I was most interested in saying.
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