Since losing their midterm elections, several election deniers have sought leadership positions within their state Republican parties, all part of a national play by Trump supporters and Big Lie enthusiasts to keep election denialism alive and well, while they seek more control over local elections.
Continue reading “Election Deniers Who Lost In Midterms Advance Trumpian ‘Precinct Strategy’ As State GOP Chairs”We’ve Seen This Movie Before
Lots of headlines this evening that FBI Director Christopher Wray says the FBI also believes COVID originated in a leak from a Chinese lab. As I’ve said in other posts, I don’t think we know one way or another. Not knowing has been twisted in a lot of reports into the lab leak conclusion being an established fact. But set that question aside for a second. In the exclusive interview which Wray gave to Fox News he actually said something far more dramatic. He claims that it was an accidental leak of a virus designed to kill Americans.
Continue reading “We’ve Seen This Movie Before”Top GOPer Upset Beau Biden Wasn’t Indicted Either
Chatting with Fox Business’s Lou Dobbs, chief Republican investigator Rep. James Comer (R-KY) got so frustrated that Trump DOJ appointee David Weiss hasn’t indicted Hunter Biden yet that he went on a tangent venting that the President’s elder son Beau Biden hadn’t been indicted either, according to a report in The Daily Beast.
Continue reading “Top GOPer Upset Beau Biden Wasn’t Indicted Either”Gorsuch Attacks Dynamic That Has Been Enormously Useful To Anti-Administration Litigants
Justice Neil Gorsuch made a point Tuesday during oral arguments on the Biden administration’s debt relief plan that, if adopted by the other justices, would drive a stake through the heart of a highly successful, largely right-wing legal scheme.
Continue reading “Gorsuch Attacks Dynamic That Has Been Enormously Useful To Anti-Administration Litigants”Right-Wing Justices Conjure Up Lawn Care Strawman To Juxtapose With Supposedly Elite Student Debtors
A number of conservative justices weighed a question more at home at a political roundtable than a court of law during Tuesday’s oral arguments on the Biden administration’s student debt relief plan: Is the President’s initiative really fair?
Continue reading “Right-Wing Justices Conjure Up Lawn Care Strawman To Juxtapose With Supposedly Elite Student Debtors”Student Debt Case Reveals How Far Conservatives May Go With Major Questions Doctrine
As the Supreme Court weighed the future of President Joe Biden’s student debt relief program, the right-wing justices brought up the same “doctrine” they nearly always do during questions of agency power: the major questions doctrine.
Continue reading “Student Debt Case Reveals How Far Conservatives May Go With Major Questions Doctrine”Abbott Tries To Resurrect Trump Border Wall Project Through Bizarre Use Of State Resources
Last month, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) had an announcement to make: he was picking up where Trump left off.
Continue reading “Abbott Tries To Resurrect Trump Border Wall Project Through Bizarre Use Of State Resources”Report: House GOP Moves To Give Jan. 6 Defendants Access To Internal Capitol Security Footage
House Republicans are planning to provide Jan. 6 rioters and other defendants in insurrection related cases access to internal Capitol security footage.
Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), the chair of the House Administration Committee’s oversight subpanel, told Politico that the access, which was green-lighted by Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), would be granted on a “case-by-case basis.”
Continue reading “Report: House GOP Moves To Give Jan. 6 Defendants Access To Internal Capitol Security Footage”Ignore the Noise. It’s Still Trump’s Nomination to Lose
Every day we see more evidence that Donald Trump has jumped the shark — poor fundraising, deteriorating elite GOP support, mounting criminal legal peril and more. Meanwhile, Ron DeSantis, coming off a resounding reelection win, has all the malevolence and lib-owning of Trump and none of the baggage. The only remaining bright spot for Trump are the polls which continue to show him … well, to be the leader of the GOP and the odds-on favorite to be the 2024 GOP nominee. Yes, that’s what I’m saying. Don’t believe the hype: Trump is still the guy. And if you look at recent polls he seems to be becoming more the guy rather than less as we get further from the November election.
Continue reading “Ignore the Noise. It’s Still Trump’s Nomination to Lose”More on the DC Elite’s Latest Biden White House Shiny Object
As a follow-up to the that ludicrous Times op-ed yesterday about an open primary for vice president, TPM Reader JS shares some thoughts …
Continue reading “More on the DC Elite’s Latest Biden White House Shiny Object”I was never a Kamala partisan, I was for Loretta Sanchez in the primary (even after she came out dancing around at the state party convention, even after she lost the nomination there). There was just too much trying to bottle Obama’s lightning going on with how her ascent was handled in California politics and Loretta had my eternal thanks for ridding us of Bob Dornan. I thought Kamala was the inevitable and solid pick for VP. I agree that she’s less than ideal as a presidential candidate, that her performance was poor in the primary, and that performance was connected to her indelible traits as a leader.
But what all of these stupid articles miss, whether it’s NYT editorialists who’ve had too much box wine or a certain former-Slate podcaster or some other hot take, is that the perfect way to make her stronger is for her to, you know, actually be the President.