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Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has remade the Florida state supreme court from a liberal majority to a hard right conservative, with the help of a “secretive panel” led by Leonard Leo.
Mitch McConnell’s former Kentucky senatorial opponent and first woman to fly a combat mission for the Marine Corp Amy McGrath blasted J.D. Vance and his like-minded colleagues, “These people are not serious about national security. They are not serious about the rule of law.”
In the charges filed in Manhattan, the judge referred to Trump as “the defendant†or “Mr. Trump,†but in the Florida federal charges, the judge referred to Trump as “former President Trump.â€
Republican elected officials are taking refuge in versions of ‘the dog ate my homework’ to avoid answering questions about former president Donald Trump putting the United States in danger.
A document from the Congressional Research Service just so happens to address most of the arguments Republicans are using to excuse ignoring the serious charges in the Trump indictment.
Let’s unpack the noise right now about how the second felony indictment of former president Donald J Trump has caused his support to go up.
A former Trump DHS Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism told ABC of the second Trump indictment, “This causes people to die.”
The 37 count indictment unsealed Friday lays out that Donald Trump took documents that could put at risk the national security of the United States, foreign relations, the safety of the U.S. military and human sources.
Republican Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) said Trump brought these charges upon himself and was given opportunities to avoid the charges that isn’t given to others.
The charges in the indictment against former president Trump include “willful retention of national defense information,” in violation of the Espionage Act.
Former president Donald Trump could end up with his criminal case assigned to a judge he nominated to the bench.
Steve Vladeck pointed out that given the way the additional districts would have been Democratic seats, the Court’s 2022 shadow docket might have wrongly given Republicans control of the House.
The Supreme Court preserved federal voting rights protections in Alabama that many thought would be further gutted by this conservative court.
Here 4 the Kids organized a sit-in of white women from around the country at the Colorado Capitol on Monday for the purpose of getting an Executive Order signed by Gov. Jared Polis that will ban guns and create a buy-back program.
Republican Representative Nancy Mace began her Tuesday morning post debt ceiling “deal” bemoaning the fact that Republicans had been “outsmarted” by President Biden, whom she denounced as someone who couldn’t find his own pants.
The Indiana doctor who provided a needed abortion to a 10-year-old rape victim has been reprimanded by the state medical board for discussing the case with the media.
Ron DeSantis’ administration officials are soliciting campaign cash from lobbyists who have business currently before the governor, and they’re doing it before the state budget is signed.
Espionage Act charges have been mentioned by a legal expert as prosecutors have gathered evidence that Trump sometimes showed classified documents to others and kept them in a place they were visible to others in his office.
Newt Gingrich praised Donald Trump for making the Republican Party the party of “working people” by speaking at a level 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade educations can understand.
Here are the best memes reacting to Ron DeSantis’ failure to launch on Twitter Spaces Wednesday evening.
Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis attempted to launch his official campaign on Elon Musk’s right-wing Twitter spaces to much fail, which prompted the front-runner Donald Trump to brag about his red button being bigger than DeSantis’.
In Pennsylvania, the 10th District Network hosted a ‘MAGA GOP: Stop CLOWNING Around Rally’ on the Capitol steps in Harrisburg, in order to call out the Republican economic hostage taking.
On the first anniversary of the Uvalde,Texas mass shooting at Robb Elementary School, Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (MA-5) condemned the inaction of the Republican caucus, saying this bloodshed is a choice.
Chief Justice John Roberts is operating under the idea that in a democracy, no one should be allowed to use their First Amendment to disagree with this court in any place where they might see or hear it.
Fox News used the Black father of a murdered child to attack a new Black mayor by tricking him into thinking the interview was about violence.
Jon Hamm cut a campaign ad for Lucas Kunce, who is running against expert runaway Josh Hawley in Missouri.
On Fox News, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) linked his investigation into President Joe Biden’s finances with his poll numbers against Trump and therefore, the upcoming election.
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission announced a stunning penalty on Monday for Facebook, ordering Facebook to delete illegally collected EU data from storage and fining them a “record” $1.3 billion in fines.
They’re at it again. South Carolina State Senator Sandy Senn is a Republican woman fighting yet another legislative attempt to “shackle women” along side with her “Sister Senators.”
Donald Trump reportedly got to name the conditions of his rally styled as a town hall on CNN, including who would host and moderate. Predictably, he is now insulting that person, Kaitlan Collins, as “not exactly Barbara Walters, or even close.”
CNN should come to Trump towns to talk to non-Trump voters, who have been threatened and harassed into silence, before they lecture Americans about “staying in your silo.”
In Texas, students pressured lawmakers to allow a vote on a bill to raise the age limit on semi-automatic rifles from 18 to 21 with large protests at San Antonio City Hall on Thursday.
Fox News was hit with another defamation suit, this one on behalf of Nina Jankowicz, who specializes in Russian disinformation.
The charging documents for Republican Representative George Santos tell the story of his run for office as a get rich quick scheme.
Chuck Schumer urged reform, pointing out that “litigants can now effectively choose which judge will hear their cases, undermining free and fair trials.”
The founder of a firm hired by the Trump campaign to find fraud in the 2020 election says every claim he investigated was false. He has spoken with federal prosecutors at their request.
Former Michigan House Speaker Rick Johnson pleaded guilty on Tuesday to accepting bribes from marijuana businesses in his position as Chair of the Michigan Medical Marijuana Licensing Board, with power over which businesses got in first.
The highly regarded Moody’s Analytics determined that the Republican debt ceiling plan would send the economy meaningfully closer to a recession.
There’s been a spate of “effective immediately” media separations in the last 24 hours: NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell was the first domino to fall, then came Tucker Carlson at Fox News, and then Don Lemon at CNN. All for the same issue.
Senator John Fetterman has had a rocky start due to health challenges, but he has also shown up in the important ways. He has pushed through to hold up his end of the bargain with voters to be the fighter they elected.
Justice Clarence Thomas appears to have violated the law as his secret funder billionaire Harlan Crow bought property from Clarence Thomas in 2014, which the justice failed to disclose.
In Ron DeSantis’ best world, things like this happen: Charges have been dropped against one of the two men who shot each other’s daughters in a road rage incident in Florida. The man who shot first is the one whose charges were dropped.
‘Threat strategy’: Donald Trump, Jr posted a photo of the Judge’s daughter shortly before his father was charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records and conspiracy.
Former President Donald Trump surrendered to authorities and was arrested on Tuesday, charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records and a conspiracy to hide negative information to undermine the 2016 election.
It’s arraignment day in New York for the former President so his supporters have shown up to spew anti-Semitism, wear ironic homemade flag overalls, and attack anti-Trump protesters.
The thing former President Donald Trump has feared for more than four decades has happened, and nothing will ever be the same again for Trump, his family, his organizations, and this country.
As President Biden departed the White House on Marine One Friday morning, reporters tried over and over again to get a quote from him on any aspect of former Trump’s indictment, but Biden held firm refusing to comment.
Donald Trump is trying to intimidate more than just the various prosecutors who might be readying indictments against him, but also the jurors and judges, according to a former Southern District of New York Criminal Division Deputy Chief.
In the Ways and Means hearing on Friday, Representative Greg Murphy (R-NC) told Ambassador Katherine Tai that she is “too nice” to do her job, since negotiators are usually “very, very tough… not nice people, like you” and he “feels sorry for her.”
Donald Trump’s big protest is a bust, with more reporters attending than supporters, by “probably 5:1,†according to NBC News’ senior reporter Ben Collins.
Glenn Youngkin, whom you have been wrongly told over and over again is a “moderate,” used a procedural move to block an attempt to prohibit law enforcement from obtaining the menstrual histories of girls and women in that state.
In 2015, then-President Obama imposed stronger regulations on trains carrying oil and toxic chemicals. In 2018, Trump got rid of them.
Donald Trump, Mr. “Tough on China,” was so soft that President Biden had to order an increase in vigilance against Chinese spy efforts.
Republicans are sputtering to explain why Trump didn’t know that at least three Chinese balloons transited the U.S. during the Trump administration.
FBI agents are investigating Rep. George Santos’ role in the alleged fraud of a disabled Navy veteran’s GoFundMe for his dying service dog.
Representative David Cicilline (D-RI) offered an amendment restricting “anyone who supported Insurrection†from leading the pledge lest they make a mockery of it.
If it is proven that Trump shared these classified documents with people or entities, he jeopardized our national security on purpose for his own self interest.
The state seeks to disbar Trump attorney John Eastman, who once clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas, for his work following the 2020 election.
Found: The stolen election Republicans keep going on about.
Result: 10,920 Pennsylvania Democrats cheated out of their votes.
Joe Biden: The President who actually made it trickle down, by doing the opposite of Reaganomics.
Former President Donald Trump is being sued for wrongful death by the estate of Officer Brian Sicknick.
You all knew this was going to be bad, but ceasing to function before they ever started? This is a new low for Republicans.
Someone in Republican leadership should be willing to stand up for an election worker who was forced to flee her own home due to violent threats from their party leader. Anyone? Anyone?
Hakeem Jeffries showed his Democratic Caucus the cover of the New York Daily News labeling George Santos and Kevin McCarthy “the liar and the loser” and said, “The thing speaks for itself.”
Matt Gaetz sent a letter questioning why Kevin McCarthy is allowed to occupy the Speaker’s office, as he is trying to get McCarthy evicted.
Sean Hannity had a brief moment in reality Tuesday night, in which he admitted that House Republicans are on the verge of becoming a total clown show. “It is day one of the 188 Congress (sic*), and House Republicans now are on the verge of becoming a total clown show if they’re not careful,” Sean…
Who do you suppose Republicans trust more than Kevin McCarthy?
As the House chamber patiently waited for Kevin McCarthy to be rejected in his bid for the Speaker’s gavel for a second time, Arizona Republican Rep. Paul Gosar was spotted talking to progressive hero Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).
After running against inflation for the 2022 midterms, Republicans’ priorities for the first few weeks do not include anything to reduce inflation.
Rudy Giuliani admitted to the Committee that in spite of his public claims that Dominion voting machines stole the election, “I do not think that the machines stole the election.”
A little story of justice, finally, as three men who are members of a Michigan militia were sentenced to a minimum of 7 to 12 years in prison for their involvement in the plot to kidnap Michigan’s Democratic Governor, Gretchen Whitmer.
The DC Bar’s Board on Professional Responsibility found Rudy Giuliani violated ethics rules by making false 2020 election claims and should be held liable for professional sanctions, according to a new report by CNN. This report by the attorney disciplinary committee is “preliminary and non-binding.” But it will move forward and is a “significant step…
Baseless accusations against Twitter’s former head of trust and safety Yoel Roth caused Roth to flee his home due to an escalation in threats against him after the release of the “Twitter Files.”
The Justice Department now has access to the tens of thousands of records seized during a lawful search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club and legal expert Norm Eisen says this means Trump is now back on the fast track to prosecution.
Special Counsel for the DOJ’s January 6th probe Jack Smith subpoenaed Trump communications from Arizona, Michigan, and Wisconsin officials – states where Republicans tried to steal the election with a “fake electors” scheme.
Donald Trump and two of his adult children allegedly participated in a tax fraud scheme, former Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg testified on Thursday.
Jen Psaki signaled that while Trump might see his announcement as a Get Out of Jail Free card, it is doubtful that the DoJ agrees.
Trump repeatedly told his White House Chief of Staff John Kelly that he wanted a number of his perceived political enemies to be investigated by the IRS.
Democrats just gained full control of the Michigan state legislature for the first time in 40 years and enshrined abortion rights in the state constitution.
What this moment is really about is the beginning of the end of allowing ourselves to be gaslit by sneering cynics with nothing at stake.
National security expert Juliette Kayyem warned on election day that baseless allegations of election fraud are a form of incitement.
A Putin-linked businessman bragged about meddling in our elections “Carefully, precisely, surgically.”
Nothing says pro-military like trying to toss out their votes. But that’s where the modern Republican Party in Wisconsin is at now.
As the hours count down to Tuesday’s midterm elections, election officials are working around the country to fight voter intimidation brought on by armed militia illegally staking out polling places.
Republican Michigan state judge Brian Zahra’s ex-wife says he drove her to get an abortion years ago, and she’s angry that he voted to block a measure to enshrine abortion rights in the state Constitution in September.
A Pennsylvania Democrat running for a state House seat called 911 after being assaulted at his home in what he says is the third time in two weeks he’s had to call the police.
Of the 443 people killed at the hands of extremists over that 10-year period, 333 (or 75%) were killed by right-wing extremists. The left-wing extremism you keep hearing about on TV and all over the Internet? 4%.
Here is what should be the final nail in the coffin of the sick Right-wing conspiracies about the savage Paul Pelosi attack: The break-in with a hammer was caught on video by the Capitol Police.
The brutal attack on Paul Pelosi was motivated by the lies Republicans and conservative media tell their base, according to what the suspect told police.
Clarence Thomas was so angry about being seen as someone who benefited unfairly from affirmative action that he began to hate the mechanism that saved him, and to seek – out of what seems like emotional pathology – to deny anyone else the same helping hand.
Speaker Pelosi sent a letter to her colleagues saying that her children, grandchildren and she are “heartbroken and traumatized by the life-threatening attack on our Pop.”
President Barack Obama has an inspiring message of hope for you all.
As Paul Pelosi is in surgery, it’s important to remember that Republican ads show the Republican shooting at Speaker Nancy Pelosi, President Joe Biden, and more.
At a time when “partisan divide” is said to be what ails us (it isn’t), candidates like former C.I.A. officer Evan McMullin tell a different story.
Exxon posted earnings of $19.66 billion in just three months. Good work if you can get it and aren’t bothered by a pesky conscience, patriotism or a care for global democracy.
Finally, someone in authority has called out the January 6th terrorists as the tyrants they are.
The “pro-life” party’s most in the news candidate is making news again on Wednesday, as yet another woman is set to come forward to accuse the Republican Senatorial candidate of taking her to a clinic for an abortion.
On Wednesday morning, two more big name Republicans, David L. Hobson and John M. Bridgeland, came forward to endorse Democrat Tim Ryan in his race for the U.S. Senate.
The world Oz, and really the party he is serving, envisions is one where local political leaders wield the ultimate control over women and girls.
Democrats and pro-democracy groups need to run ads based on these closing arguments and they need to start it now.
Neither Donald Trump nor Sarah Palin, nor for that matter Marjorie Taylor Greene or Lauren Boebert, want elected positions so they can govern. There is no interest in governing, therefore no need to know anything. What they want is power.
