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Cheney in defiant floor speech: Trump on ‘crusade to undermine our democracy’ By Cristina Marcos TheHill May 12, 2021 Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) warned in a fiery floor speech on the eve of her expected ouster from House GOP leadership that the decision by many in her party to enable former President Trump’s falsehoods about his election loss risked undermining American democracy. Cheney, who currently serves as chair of the House Republican Conference, made clear in her Tuesday night floor speech that she isn’t backing down against the former president, despite the expected cost to her political ambitions…
Rep. Tlaib (D-MI) on Israel-Palestine tensions, Jan 6th commission MSNBC.com May 11, 2021 Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) comments on Israel-Palestine conflicts, the creation of a Jan 6th commission, and Michigan politics. Continue Reading…..
Israel Kills Hamas Commander Iyad Fathi Faik Sharir, IDF Says The Daily Wire May 11, 2021 Israel has killed a top Hamas commander in a strike against the terror group. “We just killed the commander of the Hamas anti-tank missile unit, Iyad Fathi Faik Sharir. He was in charge of carrying out anti-tank missile attacks on Israel. Our aircraft are currently striking additional terror targets in Gaza,” the Israel Defense Force tweeted Tuesday while carrying out attacks in the Gaza Strip. We just killed the commander of the Hamas anti-tank missile unit, Iyad Fathi Faik Sharir. He was…
Bad Briefing Begets Brutal Benchslap By David Lat Above the Law May 11, 2021 It seems that Judge Richard Cudahy of the Seventh Circuit has some competition for the greatest concurrence ever. Check out this one-sentence gem that Judge Laurence Silberman of the D.C. Circuit just filed in Aera Energy LLC v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC): SILBERMAN, Senior Circuit Judge, concurring: I wish FERC’s briefing was as clear as Judge Sentelle’s opinion. Continue Reading…..
Newsom wants to hand out cash before California recall election By Jeremy B. White Politico PRO May 11, 2021 California Gov. Gavin Newsom embarked on a cross-state road show Monday to trumpet the fruits of an astonishing $75.7 billion state surplus thanks to soaring capital gains during the pandemic. His first order of business: tell Californians he wants to give them cash and pay some of their utility bills and back rent. The stimulus play demonstrates how an unexpected windfall offers the Democratic governor a powerful tool to ward off a recall threat. Checks would arrive in voters’…
Biden sees Trump rematch as real possibility By Amie Parnes TheHill May 11, 2021 Joe Biden is increasingly thinking of his possible reelection and a rematch against former President Trump. “He knows it’s a very real possibility,” said one longtime adviser to Biden. In an interview with Axios that aired Sunday evening, White House chief of staff Ron Klain said Biden is anticipating the possibility of running against Trump again. “I wouldn’t want to estimate or underestimate Donald Trump as an opponent if he chooses to run,” Klain said. Continue Reading…..
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How Close Are We to Criminal Charges for Donald Trump? By Dahlia Lithwick Slate Magazine May 10, 2021 It’s 2021, but there’s still an awful lot of stuff from 2016 onward yet to be litigated. We know that, absent legal consequences, it could all just happen again—the criming and the pardons, the lying, the self-dealing—maybe in 2022, maybe in 2024. On a recent episode of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick spoke with Preet Bharara, who served as the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York until he was famously fired by Donald Trump in 2017. Bharara now hosts…
Bill Barr threatened to quit over Trump’s attempts to fire Chris Wray Business Insider May 10, 2021 Wray’s remarks about antifa, voter fraud, and Russian election interference often put him at odds with Trump, who publicly voiced frustration with his FBI director. Ahead of the 2020 election, Trump pressured Wray to address the potential of widespread voter fraud, though Wray disputed that it was a rampant issue. In September 2020, Wray said Russia was meddling in the election to “sow divisiveness” and “denigrate” presidential candidate Joe Biden, while Trump continued to downplay Russia’s efforts. Continue Reading…..
FBI director Chris Wray barely survived the Trump era. Now he’s working with Biden’s attorney general taking on domestic terrorism and probing Trump allies. By C. Ryan Barber Business Insider May 10, 2021 Then-Attorney General Bill Barr threatened to quit last spring when Trump tried to fire FBI Director Chris Wray, Insider has learned. Wray, a Republican, is now working for a Biden administration that has new DOJ priorities and personalities. Former DOJ officials see kindred spirits and shared backgrounds in Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland Continue Reading…..