US Supreme Court sets April 25 Trump criminal immunity argument
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Ken Block
RIP
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How is this not obstruction? Toss him right next to them.
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When youāre a preznit with SCROTUS-granted immunity, you can do whatever you want. You can grab the whole country by the whatever.
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Rep. Nancy Mace says voters have moved on from Jan. 6
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/10/nancy-mace-voters-jan-6
Yeah, No we havenāt.
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The people who erected the infamous gallows and noose on the west front of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, began their work in the predawn hours that day, according to newly released videos obtained by CBS News. A report by a GOP-led U.S. House subcommittee said the perpetrators remain unaccounted for by prosecutors.
Luckily, all the people constructing trebuchets were told to push off and move along.
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still hoping someone is able to figure out who planted the pipe bombsā¦
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https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/26/white-house-trump-2020-00149195
Assured failureā: Ex-White House lawyer provides new details of final days of Trumpās 2020 election gambit
Pat Philbin gave his first public testimony about the chaotic final days of the Trump presidency.
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John Eastman, architect of Trumpās 2020 election plot, should be disbarred, judge rules
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/27/john-eastman-disbarred-00149468
Gee, 'ya think?
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In an unusual step, U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth filed on the public docket the statement he prepared to sentence Taylor James Johnatakis to more than seven years in prison. Even more atypically, he said he would order his clerk to mail copies to 20 people who wrote letters supporting the defendant ā the first time he had done so in his 37-year career ā to explain his reasoning
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Iām not sure just how useful this assessment (an excerpt from a forthcoming book) is. For example, I think the writerās kept on the kid gloves here:
So when he watched Trump glide down a golden escalator to announce his campaign for president, in 2015, his first thought was, āThatās Hitler!ā By that he meant someone who intuitively understood the aesthetics of power, as in Nazi propaganda films. He saw in Trump someone who could viscerally connect with the general angst that Bannon was roiling and make himself a vessel for Americansā grievances and desires.
I wouldnāt cut him the slack. Heās happy about the next Hitler because he admires the last one.
And:
Bannon wasnāt messing around with basement kids anymore. The MAGA movement had matured. His audience now was grayer ā people in their 50s, 60s and beyond, a lot of empty nesters and retirees ā but with a similar need for connection, and perhaps even memories of a gentler time.
Iām not sure itās memories of a āgentler timeā so much as a time when bigotry and general insensitivity didnāt draw more than a side-eye, if that. āGentlerā for them, I guess.
Here 'tis anywayā¦
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A Delaware man who carried a Confederate flag into the Capitol will be let go one year into his three-year term. An Ohio man who overran police lines and became one of the first rioters to enter the Capitol will be set free six months into a 19-month term. And a man who entered the just-evacuated Senate chamber with a Trump flag as a cape was released after serving five months of a 14-month term.
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In the court filing Thursday, Ackerman admitted bragging that he stole a SWAT team officerās helmet, which he labeled a āwar trophy.ā The FBI said it had received a tip that included a photo of a U.S. Capitol Police helmet that included a āNew England 131ā sticker on it on Jan. 8, 2021, two days after the attack.
An FBI task force officer said āNew England131ā referred to the āNationalist Socialist Club 131ā and the āWhite Defense Forceā and described NSC-131 as āa neo-Nazi group with small, autonomous regional chapters in the United States and abroad, whose members see themselves as soldiers at war with a hostile, Jewish-controlled system that is deliberately plotting the extinction of the white race.ā
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