After the Justice Department pressed the congressional Jan. 6 Committee to provide all of its deposition records for ongoing federal criminal cases, members of the committee said that while they wouldn’t be an obstacle to the DOJ’s work, they also had to focus on their own investigation and wanted federal prosecutors to be more specific in their request.
Continue reading “Jan. 6 Committee Members Push Back Against DOJ Request For ‘All’ Interview Records”Anti-Abortion Politics Have Always Been The Right-Wing’s Trojan Horse For Racism
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Roe v. Wade is living on borrowed time. It’s now a matter of weeks, possibly even days, until the landmark 1973 ruling which legalized abortion nationwide is struck down. While most Americans support Roe, and many are deeply outraged at its likely demise, white evangelicals, the most fervently anti-abortion, right-wing voting bloc in the country, are celebrating as their decades-long consolidated effort to end nationwide legal abortion is about to bear fruit.
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Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), a member of the Jan. 6 Select Committee, on Sunday issued a dire warning about potential violence heading into the 2024 presidential election unless the GOP gets a “grip” on election fraud falsehoods pushed by former President Trump and his allies.
Continue reading “Kinzinger: 2024 Will Be A ‘Mess’ Unless GOP Gets A Grip On Spread Of Big Lie”Important Stuff, Truly Must-See
I mentioned a few days ago that the most compelling part of the Jan 6 committee hearings so far for me has been the description of the particulars of how the breach of the Capitol complex happened. The story is usually presented as something like this. There was a big group of angry and potentially violent Trumpers. There was a much smaller group, maybe as few as a few dozens of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers with a more focused ideology, a clearer plan of the insurrection and so forth. They were both more eager to get violent and had a lot more experience getting violent. But they were in the extreme minority of the people up there. So even though they’re now the ones facing serious charges including seditious conspiracy they are only a small part of what happened.
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Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia Secretary of State who Trump threatened and demanded “find” 11,000 votes is going to testify before the Jan 6th committee on Tuesday.
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TPM alum Greg Sargent has a column up at the Post looking at the work of experts in the field of democratic breakdown. Not collapse — that’s a bit different. We hear a lot of predictions about a coming U.S. civil war. But if the analog is the civil war of the 1860s that’s never been realistic. If nothing else the political geography doesn’t work. This would rather be an era of chronic political violence and instability: with episodes of paramilitary violence often egged on by elected leaders, assassinations, bombings, political crises, claimed stolen elections and actual stolen elections.
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Iowa Supreme Court Reverses Its Own Recent Decision To Declare State Constitution Doesn’t Actually Protect Right To Abortion
The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday upheld a waiting period for abortions virtually identical to one it knocked down four years ago, abruptly reversing its 2018 finding that Iowans have a fundamental right to abortion under the state constitution.
Continue reading “Iowa Supreme Court Reverses Its Own Recent Decision To Declare State Constitution Doesn’t Actually Protect Right To Abortion”The Curious Jan 6 Moonwalk of ‘Team Normal’
There he was, on tape if not in person: Bill Stepien, the very campaign manager of Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign, explaining calmly and matter of factly that President Trump lost, he and the candidate knew he had lost and every conspiracy theory and false claim and desperate attempt to stay in power was in the words of Bill Barr, bullshit. It wasn’t even begrudging nor presented as an admission. Just matter of fact.
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