Editor’s Note 11/16/2022: Ward has not announced her intent to run again in 2023 (I think she would likely have the support to do so, since the AZGOP seems to love losers…) but Karrin Taylor-Robson called for her resignation following the AP call that Hobbs had defeated Lake. AZGOP has spent the last four years … Read more
The January 6 Committee subpoenaed the Coup Plot leader, Donald Trump, in October. He was to produce documents subpoenaed by the Committee by November 4. Trump’s lawyers requested more time, and the January 6 Committee extended the deadline one week, to November 11. “We have informed the former President’s counsel that he must begin producing … Read more
James McHenry (1753-1816) was a Maryland delegate to the Constitutional Convention. He kept a journal of the Constitutional convention. On the page where McHenry records the events of the last day of the convention, September 18, 1787, he wrote: “A lady asked Dr. Franklin, ‘Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy?’ … Read more
Jon Stewart once labeled Arizona the “Meth lab of Democracy,” but since the Trump era, Arizona has become the “Meth lab of anti-democracy” and election denialism, with a heavy dose of White Christian nationalism, QAnon conspiracy theorists, and the MAGA personality cult of Donald Trump. The Republican Party in Arizona has long since ceased to … Read more
The Department of Justice wants to pierce former White House Counsel Pat Cipollone and deputy White House Counsel Patrick Philbin’s claims to attorney-client privilege (and-or executive privilege) regarding their discussions with Trump for which they “had no valid claims of privilege that would permit [them] to refuse to answer questions relating to matters the committee … Read more