Here is the video of Sheriff Hathaway in conversation with Judge Napolitano. It’s highly enlightening and deeply insightful. Well worth 20 minutes of your time. Presented without comment for now. I will likely update this post with my own reactions and insights in the next day or two. In the meantime, I rely on you … Read more
Today is Emmett Till’s eighty-second birthday. Unfortunately, because of the racists (and what we call white nationalists today) in 1955 Mississippi that kidnapped, tortured, and murdered him, he is not alive to celebrate it. Or attend with members of his family the White House Ceremony today where President Joe Biden, accompanied by Vice President Kamala … Read more
Hat tip to Jim Small at the Arizona Mirror for this Twitter thread from Max Kennerly, a trial lawyer, who has a good brief history of the Senate filibuster rule for our GQP blog trolls and Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema who clearly do not know this history. Senator Mark Kelly should also pay … Read more
The Washington Post reports, Seven Capitol Police officers sue Trump, right-wing groups over injuries from Jan. 6 insurrection: Seven U.S. Capitol Police officers on Thursday sued former president Donald Trump and more than a dozen alleged participants in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, saying the defendants are responsible for the officers being … Read more
The AP reports, Capitol rioters included highly trained ex-military and cops: As President Donald Trump’s supporters massed outside the Capitol last week and sang the national anthem, a line of men wearing olive-drab helmets and body armor trudged purposefully up the marble stairs in a single-file line, each man holding the jacket collar of the … Read more