I. D.C. v. the Insurrectionists D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine announced on Tuesday that he was filing a lawsuit against the insurrectionists to recover the costs of the damage they did when they stormed the capitol, including covering the medical bills for the 65 officers they injured. So in addition to jail time and legal …
The Saga of Mark Meadows (and lots of other stuff) Read More »
Roger Stone just became the latest Trump ally to refuse to cooperate with the House’s Jan. 6 investigation. Here’s what that means. I wrote this analysis for NBC. You can read it here on their website, or I cut and pasted it below. (It’s probably good to click onto their website. I think clicks help …
Trump election lie allies Stone, Eastman and Clark plead the Fifth. It won’t do much. Read More »
This blog post started as a video. You can see it here. This is about lies and simplifications. I’ll use the phrase “the left” to refer to the parts of the population opposed to right-wing extremism. Please forgive the shorthand. I could say, “Everyone to the left of right-wing extremism who wants to prevent another Trump-style …
I have heard the Build Back Better, American Rescue Act, and Bipartisan Infrastructure Deals talked about from a few angles. They’ve mostly been discussed in the media from the viewpoint of the grueling process of passing major legislation with razor-thin majorities. They’ve also been talked about as Democratic “wins” in the context of whether this …
The ideas I present here build on two previous blog posts, Why Democrats Should Not Fight Like Republicans and Criminal Punishment and the Threat of Right-Wing Extremism. You might want to start with those, but you don’t have to. This one stands alone. First, a definition of cynicism: Right-Wing cynicism Cynicism is a characteristic of …
Ordinarily, I like each of these blog posts to stand alone, but for this one, I urge you first to read, “Why Democrats Should Not Fight Like Republicans.” This one will build on that. There is a school of thought out there on social media that says that Republicans keep breaking laws because there have …
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For this Sunday, a three-part blog post Part I: I want to clarify something from last week’s video. Part II: Here is legal analysis I wrote for The Washington Post about the executive privilege question. In Part III, I answer some questions about the Bannon criminal referral. If you’re getting this on Sunday morning, you might …
This blog post started as a video. You can see it here. In the struggle to save democracy, there are some who insist that Democrats should “fight like Republicans.” This is sometimes framed as “Democrats are bringing a knife to a gunfight” or “you have to fight fire with fire” or “it’s time for hardball tactics.” …
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My latest NBC News Think piece came out this morning. Much of it duplicates what I wrote about last week, so if you read that, you can skip down to Parts II and III. Part I: More on Trump and Executive Privilege You can read my NBC piece here, or here: Last week, former President …
