U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Florida Aileen Cannon denied a bid from the DOJ to keep using classified records seized from Mar-a-Lago last month for investigative purposes.
Continue reading “Cannon Denies DOJ Bid To Keep Use Of Mar-a-Lago Classified Docs”Where Things Stand: Tossing Their Leverage With The Bathwater?
Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and the rest of the bipartisan group of senators working on the passage of a same-sex marriage bill announced today that they’re going to table their efforts until after the election. Baldwin in a statement noted that she’s confident the group will get enough Republicans on board post-midterms for the bill to pass the Senate.
Continue reading “Where Things Stand: Tossing Their Leverage With The Bathwater?”Prigozhin Surfaces Recruiting Troops In Russian Prison
The same guy whose company was charged for interfering in the 2016 election appeared in prison this week.
Continue reading “Prigozhin Surfaces Recruiting Troops In Russian Prison”The Dobbs Moment #3
From TPM Reader PP …
Continue reading “The Dobbs Moment #3”I just wanted to add a slightly different perspective to how women feel post-Dobbs and one reason for their anger. I am a lesbian. I have never been pregnant, I have never wanted to become pregnant. I can have all the casual sex I want without being in danger of getting pregnant, so abortion doesn’t matter to me personally except … I can still be raped and end up pregnant as a result.
Listen To This: Graham Cracks
A new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast is live! This week, Josh and Kate discuss Lindsey Graham’s new national abortion ban and whether or not Democrats can trust the polls.
You can listen to the new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast here.
Unpacking The Law Behind Cowboys For Trump Founder’s Removal From Elected Office
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The Conversation.
A county court in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on Sept. 6, 2022, became the first in more than 150 years to disqualify a person from public office because they participated in an insurrection.
District Court Judge Francis Mathew found that Couy Griffin, a former county commissioner and founder of the group Cowboys for Trump, had participated in the violent U.S. Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021. Mathew invoked a nearly forgotten part of the 14th Amendment, called Section 3, which can disqualify certain people from state or federal office if they have “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” or given “aid or comfort” to the United States’ enemies.
Continue reading “Unpacking The Law Behind Cowboys For Trump Founder’s Removal From Elected Office”Clark Under Investigation For Conspiracy And Obstruction Tied To His Role In The Big Lie
A new report in the D.C. Bar’s ethics case against Jeffrey Clark revealed what potential crimes the DOJ’s watchdog is considering in its investigation into Clark: false statements, conspiracy and obstruction of justice.
Continue reading “Clark Under Investigation For Conspiracy And Obstruction Tied To His Role In The Big Lie”Is This Legal?
It’s a given that this new GOP governor (with presidential ambitions) tactic of shipping migrants and asylum-seekers to symbolic “liberal” parts of the country as a sort of “own-the-libs” performance art is gross, degrading and the kind of thing that awful people do. That’s a given. But I’m very curious about this latest stunt by Ron DeSantis. First of all, Martha’s Vineyard? Again, it’s using these scared and generally helpless people as a stunt guffaw. But is this legal? In some cases migrants might be perfectly happy to be transported from Texas to New York. Maybe they have relatives there. Maybe the social climate seems more inviting. Who knows? But there’s news coming out today that these people shipped to Martha’s Vineyard were told they were being sent to Boston to get special job permits.
Continue reading “Is This Legal?”Jan. 6 Panel Now Receiving ‘Huge’ Tranches Of Secret Service Material, Members Say
House Jan. 6 Committee chair Bennie Thompson (D-MS) and member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) suggested on Wednesday that the panel’s made some major progress on obtaining key communication records from the Secret Service.
Continue reading “Jan. 6 Panel Now Receiving ‘Huge’ Tranches Of Secret Service Material, Members Say”The Dobbs Moment #2
From TPM Reader JS …
Continue reading “The Dobbs Moment #2”As a native Kansan, my astonishment began with the media reaction day after KS primary where the mostly ladies in KS “surprised” many and even “shocked” others. Really? No polls but we knew registrations by mostly younger women spiked day after Dobbs and continued upward until the election. In one KS county, Douglas, home of KU and fondly labeled “one of the most liberal counties in the US”, the vote was roughly 80% no to 20% yes. My native county, rural, strongly Republican, Catholic, the vote was far closer than recent elections.