The judicial coup coming from this court is by no means over. Next term, the Supreme Court will hear a redistricting case that could make it far easier to concoct a legal pretense for overriding the popular vote in elections.
Common Dreams
The January 6 Committee has been asking witnesses connected to Trump whether they have been contacted by anyone attempting to impact testimony. Sure enough...
According to former assistant to Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Cassidy Hutchinson, Trump was incensed that security was not allowing armed people in to watch him deliver a lie-filled speech just before the violent insurrection.
Republicans respond to any example of their extremism with a grab bag of rehearsed misdirections—lying, denying, cherry-picking, gaslighting, what-abouting, culture-warring, or simply counterattacking Biden, Blackness, and wokeness.
Trump and his MAGA allies planned, promoted, and paid for a seditious conspiracy to overturn an election they lost, and Ron Johnson attempted to deliver it to D.C. on a silver platter.
The Texas GOP platform formalizes the false idea that Joe Biden is illegitimate, hatred of the LGBT+ community, white supremacy, paranoia of immigrants and the idea that Texas can ignore federal laws that it doesn't like.
A "perfect" compromise for Second Amendment jihadis, a pistol that has the same firepower as an AR-15. In other words, overkill in a more compact package.
The court's ruling held the Trump administration's 2020 interim registration of glyphosate to be unlawful because "EPA did not adequately consider whether glyphosate causes cancer and shirked its duties under the Endangered Species Act (ESA)."
Had Pence obeyed Trump, said retired federal judge J. Michael Luttig, "America would immediately have been plunged into what would have been tantamount to a revolution within a paralyzing constitutional crisis."
Video evidence shows a sitting member of congress (Rep. Loudermilk) giving a tour to soon-to-be insurrectionists taking pictures of insignificant hallways and passages. The same insurrectionists later say they’re going to “drag Pelosi out by her hair.”
The January 6th committee played testimony from Trump campaign officials including Gary Coby, former digital campaign director, admitting that there was no fund devoted to defending Trump's claim that he had won the election.
"Donald Trump was at the center of this conspiracy," said Rep. Bennie Thompson, the chair of the House panel investigating the Capitol attack. "January 6th was the culmination of an attempted coup."
Factoring in thousands of fraudulent signatures, five Michigan Republicans fell short of the necessary 15,000 signatures required to qualify to run for the office of governor.
We know how easily a government can be toppled into fascism and how close we came in 2020: if just five Republicans had not refused to go along with Trump we'd be in this fascist dystopia today.
The first public hearings of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol begin tomorrow. In prime time.
The transition would help Canada achieve its global climate commitments, create tens of thousands of new jobs and meet the growing demand for electricity.