I spent 15 hours on Tuesday in the Fulton County (Atlanta) Voter Protection “boiler room,” which is basically a group of lawyers handling problems coming from polling places. The Associated Press called it “chaos in Georgia.” It was beyond insane. Some people were in line for 8 hours. Here’s the short version from the viewpoint …
Here’s an excellent piece by Christy E. Lopez (A Georgetown Law professor and co-director of the school’s Innovative Policing Program) on what “defund the police” means. Not everyone has access to the Washington Post, so here’s a screenshot of the two main paragraphs: The problem is deeper than police: The entire criminal justice system needs …
Yesterday opened with the news that the job report was better than expected. Trump spent the morning crowing about it. Turns out the report was wrong. Trump knew, and lied. This is from Congressman Ted Lieu, who tells the truth: The Trump administration tells baldfaced lies, knowing they are lying, and knowing people will find …
Trump is sinking in the polls. Whether this is a temporary setback remains to be seen. (We only have five months until the election, so he doesn’t have much time to recover.) It seems to me that things started to go wrong for him over the weekend when the word went around Twitter that he …
So now Trump wants to distance himself from Monday’s St. John’s Church fiasco: Good luck with persuading anyone outside the Fox echo chamber that Trump didn’t know. As is clear from the timing of events, Trump owns it all. Every bit of violence since the George Floyd murder. Yup, even this: On Saturday, Trump said …
That Tweet was just too tempting. Here goes . . . “Law and Order” says the guy who won’t show anyone his taxes. “Law and order” says the guy whose “charity” was a shell company for “persistently illegal conduct” and “repeated and willful self-dealing transactions.” “Law and Order” says the guy who paid $2 Million …
J.J. asked: A: Trump will do anything he thinks he can get away with, which he believes will benefit him personally. Yesterday he learned what happens when his AG-Henchman Barr orders violence against Americans protesting peacefully. It didn’t go well for him. Evidently it all started because Trump was feeling humiliated when we learned he …
This week has been the most chaotic week of the Trump presidency—and that’s saying a lot. Professor Heather Cox Richardson puts out an excellent newsletter summarizing the day’s news from the perspective of a political historian. She said this last night: There are peaceful protesters and there are chaos agents. The truth about the chaos agents …
Trump did not like it when Twitter fact checked one of his tweets in which he gave false information about mail-in voting. He responded to being fact checked by issuing an Executive Order targeting social media platforms. To give you a taste, it includes this snippet: The Executive Order is more of what Trump has …
After reading this post, Walker asked: Spoiler: A surprising number of people prefer a “strongman” to rule-of-law democracy. Let’s start with a definition of liberal democracy. I like Lincoln’s definition: “A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and balances , and always changing with deliberate changes of popular opinion and sentiments is the only …
