Opinion: Lock Them All Up. Trump’s DOJ Violated U.S. Law By Ignoring His Crimes
Anyone remotely aware of Trump’s, or any of his surrogates’, crimes is required by law to alert the proper authorities.
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Anyone remotely aware of Trump’s, or any of his surrogates’, crimes is required by law to alert the proper authorities.
The quick solution to force Trump’s people to testify according to the House’s legal subpoenas served on them eliminates the Department of Justice from the equation.
Trump’s MAGA devotees are indeed a very dangerous lot, but they are ignorant sheep who are being incited to violence against the government by Trump’s most loyal lieutenant Steve Bannon.
America desperately needs legislation bringing some objectivity to the High Court justices who are in plain terms a law unto themselves with accountability to no-one.
Democrats need to “grow a pair” and put an end to McConnell’s ability to rule the nation from a minority party’s position.
As horrific as the Texas abortion ban is, and it is horrifying, the religious architect of the law has his sights set on criminalizing homosexuality and banning same-sex marriage.
Researchers reported that the insurrectionists who attacked the Capitol on January 6 represent a far more mainstream movement than any earlier instances of violent right-wing extremism.
The results of the study provide a damning indictment of Trump as well as reveal the willingness of Americans most likely to take the word of a failed business man over experts.
These brutish bullies are taking their savagery a step farther and infringing on other Americans’ personal freedom to protect themselves, their families, and communities from a deadly disease.
The problem for the growing anti-vaxxer cult, however, is that nearly all major religions, including the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), do not call for or support a religious exemption to the COVID-19 vaccine.
If any American was curious about how far afield from reality Republicans will go to placate the MAGA crowd and reinforce their authoritarian worldview, they need look no farther than Florida and Texas.
If Abbot wasn’t a liar, he would man up, stand up, and tell women on national television that he believes they do not have the right to control their own bodies, much less their reproductive health.
If any American was curious about how far afield from reality Republicans will go to placate the MAGA crowd and reinforce their authoritarian world view, they need look no farther than Florida and Texas
It is time for the clever legal maneuvers to stop and for advocates for women’s rights to target the source of these barbaric control measures – religion as defined by the extremist and fanatical religious right.
The mainstream media are just as guilty of omitting the facts about the end of the Afghan war as Trump is guilty of surrendering to the Taliban and setting up a no-win situation.
If Americans have learned anything since the global pandemic wreaked havoc on the world, it should be that a fair number of their fellow citizens are even more dangerous, than one imagined.
America’s infrastructure is crumbling and none of that “war money” was spent to build or maintain dams, bridges, highways and roads, rail lines or public buildings.
In an effort to push back against vaccine and mask mandates, Ted Cruz used an example that should embarrass other really stupid people.
What has happened over the past 72 hours is precisely what Trump negotiated with the Taliban and hailed as awesome by Republicans at the time of the deal.
Trump’s words are not simply dangerous for the Capitol Police, they are further attempts to incite his followers to violence against anyone he deems is a member of the “radical left.”
The Republicans’ flagrant disregard for living, breathing American citizens and attempts to control private businesses for political gain is a direct result of the pandemic.
Based on their deliberate and coordinated deadly assault on America’s children, they now comprise what was once the mythical death panels; and they are specifically targeting children.
A group of Trump supporters promise they are “going back to the Capitol” to protest in support of what they claim are the “political prisoners” charged in the January 6 insurrection.
DeSantis is very angry that a private corporation dares deprive Israel’s West Bank and East Jerusalem of their scrumptious ice cream.
Based on the latest incident where it is certain her past statements do, in fact, represent her character she should be summarily removed immediately.
It is evident that even when the Supreme Court upholds anti-discrimination laws Republicans will do anything in their power to attack and ignore them and continue their discriminatory ways.
The Republican motivation appears to be more about inciting another insurrection than simply covering over their own complicity or protecting Trump.
America is the richest country on Earth, but the wealth is being held by a tiny percentage of the population. A fact that millennials and Gen Z are all too aware of and the reality that does not inspire pride or patriotism.
This is the first time in recent memory that a Republican has openly confessed that his drive to control women is borne of a flawed religious belief that is nowhere to be found in the Christian bible.
It is time for federal and state authorities to begin creating and enacting laws mandating that every citizen be vaccinated. The health of the nation depends on it and the Supreme Court has ruled it is legal.
Josh Hawley has to be one of the least qualified people in America to profess a desire to promote patriotism
Many of these anti-vaxxer types are only alive today because of vaccines, and yet they are the frontline advocates willing to endanger more American lives.
Trump to block the commission by any means possible. Republicans obeyed Trump and put a stop to the negotiated bipartisan investigation.
When Ms. Pelosi formed the Select Committee, Trump’s only remaining option was placing surrogates for himself and Giuliani on the committee.
Nancy Pelosi had no option but to bar the two Trump devotees from serving on the committee.
Now the GOP assault of free and fair elections is an all-out assault on democracy and a majority of Americans believe that the rash of Republican election audits are an effort to undermine the previous election’s results and sow suspicion in America’s electoral process.
One might ask: Would Republicans deliberately endanger the lives of their base to win elections? Of course, they would.
It is not solely because their monuments to white supremacy, and treason, were removed; it is because they are being exposed as white supremacists driven by white rage because people of color are demanding to be treated as equal American citizens.
What is not normal is Republican Senators begging the Democratic Administration to undo the catastrophic damage their alleged man-turned-god inflicted because Republicans abdicated their sworn duties to a fascist madman.
The group of lawyers’ valid complaint was that the law illegally confers legal standing on any evangelical extremist in any state in the Union who takes it upon themselves to punish a healthcare provider even though they sustain no personal loss or injury.
SCOTUS is on pace to approve every new iteration of Jim Crow Republicans can devise and it will be the undoing of America as a representative democratic republic – which is precisely what Republicans dream of at night.
A select committee will identify every last treasonous Republican in Congress and state legislature who helped incite Trump’s acolytes to attack the Capitol with the sole intent of overthrowing the Constitution.
There have been plenty of warnings that Trump represents a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States.
One would think that a United States senator would have something important to do other than attempt to sic the religious police on a foreign nation enforcing a public health law.
Mike Pence lied by claiming the academic subject CRT is “state sponsored and state-sanction racism.”
White rage exists because a significant number of Americans cannot comprehend that African Americans, like Hispanic and Asian Americans, are equal under the law.
What is happening in Missouri – holding healthcare hostage to control women’s reproductive rights – is happening across the country in Republican led states.
Regardless of the origin of Gohmert’s wild conspiracy theory, it certainly sounded as if he was begging Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to launch an investigation.
For a majority of evangelicals faith is no longer about Christianity; faith means whatever Trump says it is.
When Congress passed legislation making “Juneteenth” a federal holiday it was good news to say the least. However, no-one in their right mind should believe for a second that it means racial inequity and disparity is finished as a systemic plague in American society. There is a school of thought known as “critical race theory”…
It is time for executing justice; not protecting corruption and treason.
Anyone with a pulse knows everything McConnell works for is power and not the good of the country.
Only a dyed-in-the-wool gun fanatic or an NRA lobbyist posing as a federal judge would even think to compare a weapon created for the battlefield to a Swiss Army knife
The Department of Justice must act and instead of waiting for another attack on America.
Republicans are aiding Trump in inciting the MAGA cult to further violence according to Justice Department officials and no small number of Federal Judges.
It doesn’t matter what era America’s fallen heroes lived and died in, they would not understand why a political party and its followers are embracing fascism the Founding Fathers spent no small amount of time and energy to prevent from ever happening.
Republicans could have prevented these fascist provocateurs and potential rebels shortly after the November election but they didn’t.
Heritage is panting to destroy democracy, but their long term goal is implementing a Christian theocracy – which is why they hired evangelical fanatic Mike Pence as a pubic policy advisor.
Republicans support Trump not because they are afraid of him, but because they support every bad thing he stands for if it means they get to hold on to power.
What McCarthy and all Republicans know for a fact is that any formal congressional commission will reveal their whole-hearted, and months-long. participation in the domestic terror attack against the United States government.
The USCCB position reveals them as a massive hypocritical outfit operated by patriarchal men who do not even follow their biblical Jesus Christ’s teachings on any level.
Department of Justice prosecutors argued in filings that Trump’s fascist rebels must be kept incarcerated due to the “persistent danger inspired by Trump.”
It is high time to call out Republicans loyal to a demented fascist for their anti- and un-American actions that no longer border on fascism because they have, as a movement, crossed that line.
None of these fascist measures are constitutional and yet it is doubtful the conservatives on the Supreme Court will lift a finger to restore the First Amendment rights of the people or protect their right to vote.
Republicans in Florida claim to support free speech and big business, but to help dirty Don Trump they are making an exception and lying like pigs in the process.
Americans can never be allowed to forget precisely what the events of January 6, 2021 constituted – a direct attack on the seat of government to subvert democracy.
It is particularly distressful that the majority of Americans have no taste for any religion dominating their lives, or flouting the laws of the land under a twisted interpretation of religious liberty – a term that is not in the U.S. Constitution.
How long will it be before some Republican state legislature passes legislation “granting civil immunity” to any white supremacist who shoots and kills protestors holding a sign they disagree with?
The sad truth is that Fox News viewers, and the Republicans’ base, are so inherently stupid they will believe it even while Democrats are doing everything for the people’s benefit.
America desperately needs major police reform, but it has to start with excising the racists and anti-government extremists with extreme prejudice and the racist politicians supporting them.
Political observers knew this was coming sooner rather than later. The so-called “America First Caucus” is pure Trump and its goal can be summed up in four words: “Make America White Again.”
Unlike every Republican in Congress and across the nation, at least Mr. Boehner is telling the truth about Trump being a monumental liar
Religious liberty, the freedom to worship as one sees fit without government interference, is all well and good, but now religious liberty means being exempt from most laws and regulations just by claiming religion.
They were fine with MLB’s exemption until that particular big business failed to toe the fascist line and support Georgia’s 2021 iteration of Jim Crow.
If Republicans weren’t corrupt, and if justice prevailed, both Giuliani and Trump will be prosecuted and sent directly to prison.
Corporations may be greedy, but they are not stupid, and they are not going to be bullied by the likes of McConnell.
He must be held accountable for mass “negligent” murder. After all, under the last Republican administration America invaded Iraq, deposed its leader Saddam Hussein, and oversaw his execution for killing his own citizens. Trump deserves nothing less.
The only reason Republicans are lying that raising taxes on corporations will kill jobs is because they hate the idea of helping regular Americans as much as they love cutting taxes to make corporations and billionaires richer.
Until now they most likely never expected any Republican or conservative organization to openly reject democracy leading one to wonder if “most Americans” will comprehend that there really is such an existential threat to the nation’s fragile democracy.
According to a conservative columnist President Biden’s infrastructure initiative must be stopped it in its tracks because it is an attack on the principles that make America free.
Republicans are once again pandering to extremist right-wing religious fanatics in a bigger way than normal, and as is always the case, they are targeting women and members of the LGBTQ community with extreme prejudice.
The six conservative Justices on the Supreme Court are just as guilty as Trump and deserve to be severely punished for deliberately aiding the virus’ spread unimpeded because they believe a tiny minority’s religious liberty trumps myriad American lives.
It is about voter suppression and it is, as President Biden said, “sick and un-American.” But it is also a direct result of Trump and his fascist attempt at not keeping, but seizing power at any cost
The one “normal” that never left is the NRA celebration at striking down a sensible gun law and implication that having a humane reaction to a preventable atrocity is nothing more than “emotional sensationalism.”
Although many Americans demand that justice, swift justice, be inflicted on criminals, no matter their crime, America’s justice system is purposely slow, methodical and eventually effective.
To claim not being allowed to steal taxpayer money intended to help struggling American taxpayers is unconstitutional is beyond comprehension – but so typically Republican.
After costing the GOP control of Congress and the White House, Trump is now costing the RNC campaign contributions and Republicans still embrace him as if he is a demigod.
This issue is absent any gray area. Republicans either oppose violence against women or they support it.
Grifting is not solely familial, but in Trump’s case, it always leads back to the biggest grifter in American history – Donald Trump.
Despite every Republican in Congress voting against President Biden’s COVID-19 relief package, some of them twice, they are claiming credit because the aid package enjoys broad support.
If passed and enacted, H.R.1 would allow Congress to create a commission to determine a “code of conduct” for justices on the Supreme Court.
The concept of voter equality is anathema to Republicans who would not control large areas of the country without voter suppression in all its variations.
Republicans in Congress have no regard for the American people, but they seem to harbor a particular hatred for their own constituents on par with their loving devotion to the ultra-wealthy and corporations.
Trump’s refusal to encourage his acolytes being vaccinated and secretly being vaccinated so his adherents don’t see him as the hypocrite he is, it is safe to say he is still aiding Vladimir Putin’s crusade to decimate America without firing a shot.
Republicans are willing to allow a loser to decimate their party because they not only lack any ethical standards, they are cowards of the first order.
Texas Governor Gregg Abbot flouts medical science warnings and opens up Texas because political power is more important than human life to a so-called pro-life Republican governor
They cannot violate the Constitution and deprive any other American’s equal protection of the law;
The current Republican-caused disaster began long ago and will likely never be resolved because the GOP will continue unabated putting the “interests of the wealthy elite and energy companies far above the welfare of the people of Texas.”
It is glaringly apparent that the majority of Republicans support the traitor’s attempted coup by inciting a deadly insurrection against the United States to overthrow the legal government.
Pundits and commentators alike generally portray Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell as an astute politician and highly-skilled Republican leader – a characterization he revels in. However, when he lambasted newly defrocked freshman Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene for her “looney lies” McConnell claimed were a “cancer on the GOP,” he was covering up his own malignant…
No matter how aggressive Republican state legislatures have been in their efforts to kill democracy by instituting voter suppression tactics over the past 16 years, their new machinations are on par with every fascist dictator in history. For several years Republicans have claimed that if every American is allowed to participate in the nation’s electoral…