The Department of Justice is still defending the concept of the “Imperial presidency.” The more things change, the more they stay the same, apparently. It’s called “institutionalism.” Last week, the Justice Dept. asked a judge to toss lawsuit against Trump, Barr for the violent clearing of Lafayette Square. Now the DOJ argues it should substitute … Read more
JustSecurity.org is maintaining a “Litigation Tracker” for all of the criminal investigations and civil lawsuits pending against Donald Trump personally, and his criminal enterprise known as the Trump Organization. Litigation Tracker: Pending Criminal and Civil Cases Against Donald Trump (excerpt): On both the criminal and civil litigation fronts, former President Donald Trump faces a bevy … Read more
By now I think I have made myself abundantly clear that I think Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) is a naive fool who is putting the very survival of our American democracy at risk by appeasing a radicalized anti-democratic insurrectionist GQP with his version of Neville Chamberlain’s “peace in our time,” insisting that he can negotiate … Read more
Donald Trump’s MAGA red caps, his version of Italian “black shirts” and German “brown shirts” fascist militias, stormed the nation’s Capitol on January 6 in a violent seditious insurrection, a coup d’etat that failed to overthrow American democracy and replace it with GQP authoritarianism under the most corrupt and criminal president in American history, Donald … Read more
Permanent musical accompaniment, White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane (1967). The Arizona Democratic Party and other critics of the state Senate’s audit of Maricopa County election results reached a settlement on Wednesday in a lawsuit with top Republican legislators, guaranteeing certain measures for ballot security and voter privacy as well as access for observers and reporters … Read more