Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) on Sunday hopped on the GOP bandwagon of accusing President Biden of “politicizing” the Supreme Court nomination process after he reaffirmed his commitment to nominating a Black woman.
Continue reading “Susan Collins Joins GOP Cries That Biden Is ‘Politicizing’ SCOTUS Nomination Process”Durbin Rebukes GOPers Who Cast Biden SCOTUS Nominee As An ‘Affirmative Action Quota Pick’
Senate Judiciary chair Dick Durbin (D-IL) on Sunday pushed back on Republicans’ go-to strategy of preemptively casting President Biden’s not-yet-existent Supreme Court nominee as an unqualified individual who only got the job because she’s a Black woman. The President has reaffirmed his commitment to nominating a Black woman to the Court, but has not announced a nominee thus far.
Continue reading “Durbin Rebukes GOPers Who Cast Biden SCOTUS Nominee As An ‘Affirmative Action Quota Pick’”Graham Tries To Both-Sides Away Ex-POTUS’ Eagerness To Pardon Jan. 6 Insurrectionists
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Sunday tried serving up a bothsides-ism as he sought to distance himself from former President Trump’s suggestion that he might pardon the mob of his supporters who participated in the deadly Capitol insurrection if he is re-elected.
Continue reading “Graham Tries To Both-Sides Away Ex-POTUS’ Eagerness To Pardon Jan. 6 Insurrectionists”‘Oh My Goodness, No’: GOP Guv Decries Trump’s Floating Of Pardons For Insurrectionists
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) on Sunday condemned former President Trump’s comments dangling the prospect of pardons for his supporters who participated in the deadly Capitol insurrection if he were re-elected.
Continue reading “‘Oh My Goodness, No’: GOP Guv Decries Trump’s Floating Of Pardons For Insurrectionists”Butterfly Center On Border Shuts Doors, Fearing It’s A Target Of Right-Wing Rally
The National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas has been through hell in the four years since it became a surprising right-wing fixation. Now, things have gotten bad enough that they’re shutting down for the weekend due to safety concerns.
Continue reading “Butterfly Center On Border Shuts Doors, Fearing It’s A Target Of Right-Wing Rally”Jan. 6 Committee Subpoenas Alternate, Trump-Backing Electors
The Jan. 6 Committee on Friday issued subpoenas to fourteen people who sought to act as supposed alternate electors for Trump in 2020.
Continue reading “Jan. 6 Committee Subpoenas Alternate, Trump-Backing Electors”Listen to This: The Breyer Scoop
A new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast is live! This week, Josh and Kate discuss Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement and some good news on the redistricting front.
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TPM Reporter Kate Riga: My Literary Collection of ‘Demented Girls’
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Reporter and co-host of The Josh Marshall Podcast Kate Riga is up this month. Check out her literary collection of ‘demented girls.’
Continue reading “TPM Reporter Kate Riga: My Literary Collection of ‘Demented Girls’”Is This Ukraine’s Last, Best Chance At Avoiding War?
With tensions running high in and around Ukraine, the negotiating sides keep pointing back in time to the peace agreement that ended the last major bout of the conflict between Kyiv and Russia-backed separatists in the country’s east.
Continue reading “Is This Ukraine’s Last, Best Chance At Avoiding War?”The Past Is Never Past
A few weeks ago I got onto one of the genealogy kicks I get on every few years in response to a new family history revelation. Since genealogy was in the air my wife decided to follow up on some information she’d discovered a few years ago about a relative who died in the Holocaust. My lineal ancestors were all living in the United States no later than 1920. Others arrived in the late 19th century; some arrived in North America as far back as the 1630s. My wife’s background is quite different. Her grandparents immigrated to Palestine in the 1920s and 1930s. Much of her family three generations back were murdered in Hitler’s Final Solution.
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