David Kurtz
Lindsey Graham is exactly who we knew him to be. Susan Collins? She’s not as she usually is, notoriously concerned. But let’s wait and see.
Mitch McConnell just consigned the McConnell Rule to the same trash bin of history as the non-precedential Bush v. Gore ruling. Another shoddy expedience momentarily gilded until it was no longer expedient.
Justice Ginsburg is dead, and one can barely utter the words without thinking of the battle to fill her seat, not out of disrespect for her and her enormous imprint on the course of American legal history, but because of how quickly Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump will move – tonight – to lock down that Trump will fill the seat before his term ends. The mourning will inevitably be colored by the rush to lock in a historic conservative majority on the court.
Federal judge rips Trump’s USPS “reforms” as a clearly intentional effort to undermine the pandemic election.
To send you into the weekend with conviction, a striking bit of BLM music and oratory from Kentucky musician Tyler Childers:
TPM Reader MH:
I cannot think of a better example than the Stanford Med letter of how conservative money influences our public debate.
TPM Reader GB shares a photo of the spooky scene today in Salem:
I want to confirm TPM Reader JK’s observations about fire on the West Coast. And it’s not just in California. There are multiple fires in Oregon and Washington.
TPM Reader JF reports from the Bay Area:
This isn’t the sort of thing you normally cover, but it is really remarkable.