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
Vox legal reporter Ian Millhiser gives a preview of the U.S. Supreme Court’s new term beginning on Monday. 7 big cases the Supreme Court will hear in its new term, explained: The new Supreme Court term will open on Monday under a cloud of uncertainty — and dread, if you’re a liberal. [O]ne such lawsuit … Read more