Above: h/t Vox.com, Call it authoritarianism. Paul Waldman of the Washington Post writes, Republicans have a reimagined view of state power — one without constraint: If you thought the antiabortion vigilante law Texas Republicans passed last year was the most appalling abuse of legislative power you’d ever seen, I have some bad news for you. … Read more
The New York Times reported last week, Judge Blocks Effort to Disqualify Cawthorn from Ballot as ‘Insurrectionist’: A judge on Friday blocked a novel electoral challenge that sought to disqualify Representative Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina from running for re-election by labeling him an insurrectionist, issuing an equally novel order that invoked a post-Civil War … Read more
The Republican Party aka the Sedition Party is engaged in an ongoing slow-motion insurrection against the U.S. government. The seditious insurrection on January 6, 2021 was not a one-off event. Now the Sedition Party is threatening political violence, acting out their civil war cosplay fantasies, to intimidate the Department of Justice into not investigating Donald … Read more
Former DOJ attorneys working as analysts on the cable channels have given up trying to convince themselves and the public that “Merrick the Mild” is actually conducting a parallel investigation to the January 6 Committee into the Coup Plotters who are responsible for the January 6, 2021 MAGA/QAnon violent seditious insurrection that sought to overthrow … Read more
Completing the trifecta of a bad week in court in last week, a federal judge once again rejected Donald Trump’s authoritarian claim of absolute immunity, and will allow three lawsuits to proceed against him for inciting a violent seditious insurrection on January 6, 2021, a violation of the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan Act, which bars violent … Read more