The legal team of Steve Bannon claimed in a court filing on Friday that prosecutors last month provided more than 790 documents that “reflected efforts by the Government to obtain telephone records and email records from the personal and professional accounts of defense counsel” Robert Costello, who is one of Bannon’s three criminal defense attorneys.
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“Were you struck, as was I, by the absence of an ad hominem attack on Pence in Trump’s responsive statement? Trump attacks ‘Old Crow Mitch McConnell’ but nary a word against Pence. Looks to me like an invitation for a quid pro quo — I won’t attack you if you are circumspect with the Jan 6 Committee. He knows that Pence has the goods but he is offering a non-aggression pact.”
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Alabama’s congressional maps, which were tossed just last week by federal judges in a surprise loss for the state, have now become a battleground for the future of Americans’ ability to fight racial gerrymanders.
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The Republican National Committee today voted to censure Reps. Cheney and Kinzinger. But in the course of doing that they officially declared the January 6th insurrection and the conspiracy that preceded it as “legitimate political discourse.”
As we’ve been saying for months, it is an explicitly pro-insurrection political party.
‘Congressional Workers Union’ Announces Effort To Organize Congressional Staffers
A group of congressional staffers on Friday announced an effort to unionize the Capitol’s press officers, policy wonks and constituent case workers, saying it was time to give staffers a voice in the workplace.
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Over and over again, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) has gone back and forth on the answer to a simple question: did he speak with President Trump on Jan. 6?
Continue reading “CNN: Trump, Jordan Spoke For 10 Mins On Jan. 6”Yet Another GOP Colorado Election Clerk Faces Probe Over Potential Voting Security Breach
We’re now at three Republican county clerks in Colorado who are facing questions over allegedly unauthorized copies of election system data.
Continue reading “Yet Another GOP Colorado Election Clerk Faces Probe Over Potential Voting Security Breach”New York Republicans Sue Over Democrats’ Dramatic Congressional Gerrymander
A Republican-led group of voters is challenging the newly approved congressional districts in New York, arguing in a lawsuit that the new districts are unlawfully gerrymandered in Democrats’ favor.
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Encircling Ukraine with thousands of troops, Russia has set up a standoff that’s led many to predict imminent military action.
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I think public opinion, which is currently sour on the direction of the country and thus on the Democrats as well, isn’t mostly driven by jobs numbers or other government statistics. It’s more fundamentally driven by lived experience. And a lot sucks right now, even though there’s been a lot of positive economic news. Having said that, there’s really no question the consistently flawed jobs tabulations have hurt Joe Biden significantly. Again and again we’ve found out that a slackening recovery was actually a series of counting errors. The reports are “revised” later. But those revisions, in the nature of things, don’t get a fraction of the attention that the monthly reports do. I’m basically certain there’s no funny business going on. At least in broad outlines the cause seems pretty clear: the chaos of the pandemic has at least temporarily broken our system of tabulating jobs numbers.
Journalists have taken way too long to absorb this fact.