I posited the question the other day, “One has to wonder if this is not the actual goal of authoritarian Republicans — to destroy the rule of law, our constitutional government, and our long-cherished democratic institutions, norms and values — and replace it with a lawless authoritarian kleptocracy, like Russia.” We now know that the … Read more
Last week Sen. “Tehran Tom” Cotton (R-AR), who along with 46 of his Republican Senate colleagues back in 2015 violated the Logan Act when they penned a letter to Iran’s leaders trying to scuttle the P5+1 Iran Nuclear Dear Deal, predicted in a recent PBS interview that the US would easily win a war against Iran in … Read more
The Arizona Republic this week reported that Sen. Kyrsten Sinema to meet with Attorney General William Barr, but won’t say why or when. My first thought was good, maybe the two of them could sit down and actually read the Mueller Report together, since neither one of them has publicly attested to having read the … Read more
Josh Marshall succinctly frames the Trump lawyers’ argument: I want to point out the common argument the President’s personal lawyers (yesterday) and the White House Counsel’s office (in today’s letter) are now making. They argue that the Congress has no legitimate oversight role with respect to the executive branch at all, a stunning argument that … Read more
This will be long, but bear with me. Ken Vogel of the New York Times reported that vampire “Bat Boy,” Rudy Giuliani Plans Ukraine Trip to Push for Inquiries That Could Help Trump: Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump’s personal lawyer, is encouraging Ukraine to wade further into sensitive political issues in the United States, seeking … Read more