The New York Times reports on how Donald Trump tried to enlist every government agency in his Big Lie propaganda and self-coup. Is Attorney General Merrick Garland taking notes? Memos Show Roots of Trump’s Focus on Jan. 6 and Alternate Electors: Fifteen days after Election Day in 2020, James R. Troupis, a lawyer for the … Read more
Politico reports, Jan. 6 select committee subpoenas phone records of Arizona GOP chair The Jan. 6 select committee has subpoenaed the phone records of Arizona GOP Chair Kelli Ward and her husband, Michael Ward, who both signed documents falsely claiming to be among their state’s presidential electors in 2020. Video evidence for the January 6 … Read more
We know that Donald Trump is a nihilistic sociopath with a Narcissistic Personality Disorder. But this is just fucking crazy. Trump says congressional investigators should examine why Pence didn’t reject electoral college results: Former president Donald Trump on Tuesday advocated a new focus for congressional investigators: why then-Vice President Mike Pence did not take steps on … Read more
We need more good lawyering like this. “A group of lawyers is working to disqualify from the ballot a right-wing House Republican who cheered on the Jan. 6 rioters unless he can prove he is not an “insurrectionist,” disqualified by the Constitution from holding office, in a case with implications for other officeholders and potentially … Read more
Hey you guys at the Arizona Republic editorial page, clutching your pearls over the Arizona Democratic Party censuring Sen. Kyrsten Sinema for being a Vichy Democrat collaborator with the enemies of democracy in the Sedition Party to filibuster voting rights. Here’s something you really should be having a conniption fit over (unless you are all … Read more