All day on Wednesday, court observers were asking “why is the court silent?” on the Texas abortion law that the court allowed to go into effect that morning by remaining silent. This was a 6 week abortion ban that the court had routinely enjoined as an unconstitutional deprivation of a woman’s reproductive rights to an … Read more
In Florida, Bloomberg New reports, Florida’s DeSantis Nears Court Clash With Parents Over Mask Ban: Florida Governor Ron “DeathSantis” will learn next week if he’ll have to face a lawsuit by parents challenging his executive order banning mask mandates in schools. At a hearing on Friday, Judge John C. Cooper of Florida’s second judicial circuit … Read more
Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who called a special session to enact onerous new voter suppression laws based upon Trump’s Big Lie, was thwarted by Texas Democrats who fled to Washington, D.C. (Texodus) to plead their case with Democrats in Congress that they must pass the For The People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights … Read more
Multiple news outlets reported this week on a draft letter by former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Clark, a QAnon cultist Trump sycophant, that was a roadmap to Trump’s coup d’etat plot. It would have resulted in the worst constitutional crisis in American history if higher ups at the Department of Justice had not threatened a … Read more
The January 6 MAGA/QAnon seditious insurrection at the Capitol more particularly was a white Christian Nationalist seditious insurrection. Thomas Edsall of the New York Times wrote in January ‘The Capitol Insurrection Was as Christian Nationalist as It Gets.’ (excerpt): It’s impossible to understand the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol without addressing the movement that … Read more