Senator Kevin Cramer, one of the senators whose statements objecting to the trial on jurisdictional grounds was cited by the appeals court, has endorsed Trump for reelection; however, despite not having read the decision on Tuesday, he echoed some of the arguments made by the judges. “Impeachments don’t prove anything,” Cramer told me on Tuesday. […]
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TNR Nabs MAGA Candidate for Plagiarizing Her Entire Campaign Website
The ruling was “masterful because it combined so many elements” like “constitutional text, judicial precedent, history, and just sheer logic and the party’s own concessions—Trump’s own concessions—just to make an absolutely cohesive whole opinion that just inexorably leads you to the conclusion that he is not immune,” Conway explained. And Trump’s February 12 turnaround is […]
Read MoreMAGA Senate Candidate Scrubs Entire Campaign Website After Plagiarism
The ruling was “masterful because it combined so many elements” like “constitutional text, judicial precedent, history, and just sheer logic and the party’s own concessions—Trump’s own concessions—just to make an absolutely cohesive whole opinion that just inexorably leads you to the conclusion that he is not immune,” Conway explained. And Trump’s February 12 turnaround is […]
Read MoreThe GOP’s Populist Rebrand Is a Sham
The industry aggressively lobbied against all reforms, including relatively minor ones like “efforts to ensure that engineers have special breathing equipment onboard to new rules that would require miles-long trains to be staffed with more than one person.” At the same time, the industry has pushed Congress to essentially preserve the status quo—to let rail […]
Read MoreHere’s Proof the Republicans Are Still Devoted Servants of Corporate America
The industry aggressively lobbied against all reforms, including relatively minor ones like “efforts to ensure that engineers have special breathing equipment onboard to new rules that would require miles-long trains to be staffed with more than one person.” At the same time, the industry has pushed Congress to essentially preserve the status quo—to let rail […]
Read MoreJ.D. Vance’s Ugly Rant About Trump’s Coup Portends a Dark MAGA Future
This week, Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio declared in an on-air rant that if he had been Donald Trump’s vice president in the run-up to Jan. 6, 2021, he would have told states to send Congress multiple slates of electors so lawmakers could “debate” the election’s supposed improprieties. That may sound like typical MAGA bluster, […]
Read MoreJ.D. Vance Goes Full Coup in Desperate Bid to Become Trump’s V.P.
“As [the National Archives and Records Administration] attempted to carry out its statutory responsibilities from 2021 into 2022, highly classified documents sat in a ballroom, bathroom, office space, and a basement storage room at a social club traversed by thousands of members, employees, and guests. NARA rightly involved other government agencies that had equities and […]
Read MoreRepublican Senator Says He’d Totally Do a Coup if He Gets the Chance
“As [the National Archives and Records Administration] attempted to carry out its statutory responsibilities from 2021 into 2022, highly classified documents sat in a ballroom, bathroom, office space, and a basement storage room at a social club traversed by thousands of members, employees, and guests. NARA rightly involved other government agencies that had equities and […]
Read MoreSenate Republicans Are on a Major Ukraine Collision Course
Meanwhile, GOP senators who support fully funding Biden’s Ukraine request increasingly find their voices drowned out in what has largely been a closed-door debate about foreign aid. “We can’t have people starving, or they won’t be able to maintain their operations,” Senator Mitt Romney, a retiring Utah Republican and former GOP nominee for president, said […]
Read MoreHow the Club for Growth Fell Out With Trump
As happened with many conservative and establishment groups, the Club for Growth made peace with Trump after his surprise election in 2016. And, as with many conservative and establishment groups, the Club for Growth was hoping to play Henry Higgins to the new president’s Eliza Doolittle. “David viewed his partnership with Trump as a way […]
Read MorePatrick Deneen’s Escape from Liberalism
This is an argument that has long been made by thinkers on the left. Deneen, however, reconfigures it by placing the evolution of the American political system amidst a semi-mystical battle between “the few” and “the many” that dates back to the dawn of time. In Deneen’s version the many are not masses seeking radical […]
Read MoreRepublican Senator Blocks Judicial Nominations Because… Trump?
But Johnson does owe a lot of money. Every year, he has listed a mortgage on which he owes hundreds of thousands of dollars and a personal loan on which he owes tens of thousands. In 2019, he opened up a home equity line of credit, also worth tens of thousands of dollars. It is, […]
Read MoreJ.D. Vance Doesn’t Care About Autoworkers
Incentives for EVs, Vance charges, are a front in Biden’s “war on American cars.” If anything, though, policies to exclude foreign components in the name of outcompeting China may be too strict, at least if the goal is to get more EVs on the road; since U.S. EV manufacturing capabilities are so far behind other countries’, […]
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