Above: Armed demonstrators right-wing thugs, who identified themselves as Liberty Boys, pose for fellow demonstrators’ pictures outside the Oregon State Capitol on Jan. 17, 2021, in Salem, Oregon (AP Photo/Noah Berger), eleven days after the violent insurrection in the nation’s Capitol led by Proud Boys, Three Percenters and Oath Keepers militias on January 6, 2021. Armed right-wing thugs … Read more
Update to Judge Orders John Eastman to Turn Over His Documents To The January 6 Committee, Finds Trump Probably Broke The Law. CNN reports January 6 committee obtains emails that former Trump attorney John Eastman sought to keep secret: The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol has obtained … Read more
The Week reports, 63 Republicans vote against House resolution affirming support for NATO and its ‘democratic principles’: The House on Thursday evening passed a nonbinding resolution reaffirming its “unequivocal support for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) as an alliance founded on democratic principles,” and calling on President Biden “to use the voice and vote … Read more
Radley Balko writes at the Washington Post, QAnon goes mainstream: There’s a common thread between attacks against Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson as being soft on child predators, the manufactured controversy on the right over whether teachers can mention homosexuality to students, and the anti-trans laws sweeping Republican-controlled state legislatures: We’re witnessing the mainstreaming … Read more
Update to Governor Ducey Signs A Facially Unconstitutional Voter Suppression Bill. Jake Johnson reports at Salon, Democrat calls out Kyrsten Sinema for “directly enabling” new GOP voter purge law in Arizona: Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema faced fresh backlash from civil rights groups [last week] after the Republican governor of her home state of Arizona signed into … Read more