Recovering lawyer with autogolpe derangement syndrome. Contributing columnist, @WashingtonPost. Aspiring to be an all-Corgi feed. Not on anyone's pardon list.
Gets my nod for Article of the Week @gtconway3d @RDEliason
If you didn’t check it out, worth a read this holiday weekend.
Opinion | Hutchinson testimony shatters Trump defense of no criminal intent - The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
I witnessed this in real time.
You can draw a bright line between establishment of FoxNews and erosion of trust in the institutions that make us a nation
"The disclosures have produced the clearest picture yet of an unprecedented attempt to subvert the traditional American democratic process, with a president who had lost at the ballot box planning to march with an armed crowd to the Capitol to block the transfer of power"
"Trump had every intention of joining a mob of supporters he knew to be armed and dangerous...
Any doubts about what was really going through his mind...seemed to have been eviscerated by recent testimony to the House committee,'' writes @peterbakernytnytimes.com/2022/07/03/us/po…
49 likely crimes.
All while serving as president, running for the presidency...or desperately trying to cling to power by trying to overturn the election.
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Willful blindness can be used to prove knowledge of a fact (as in, "I lost the election"), not criminal intent. But evidence of knowledge can also provide circumstantial evidence of intent. @gtconway3d and I discuss.
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EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Liz Cheney tells @JonKarl that it is possible that the Jan. 6 Committee will make a criminal referral against former Pres. Donald Trump.
“What kind of man knows that a mob is armed and sends the mob to attack the Capitol?” abcn.ws/3ydSJD1
Sure, there are risks to prosecuting a former president.
But there are bigger risks to treating presidents as above the law.
And there are even graver risks to treating a president as above the law when they engage in a criminal conspiracy to hold on to power illegitimately.
The select House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 siege of the U.S. Capitol may make a criminal referral against former President Donald Trump, the panel’s vice chair, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), said in an interview broadcast Sunday.
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Many Republican running for positions of control over elections are quite literally campaigning on a vow to break their oaths of office, by treating future losses as non-binding.
This insurrectionist drift has become something akin to a social movement:
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We need pro-democracy Republicans who honor certain baseline principles:
* Election losses are binding
* Voters deserve the truth about democratic outcomes
* Insurrectionism must be fundamentally renounced
This has gotten Liz Cheney excommunicated:
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Liz Cheney's final plea to Republicans to move beyond Trump's madness:
“If we embrace the lies of Donald Trump, we will find ourselves without the framework of our constitutional republic."
New piece on Cheney, the 1/6 hearings and what's truly at stake:
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EXCLUSIVE: Cassidy Hutchinson had “nothing to gain by stepping forward and telling the truth” before the Jan. 6 committee, @RepZoeLofgren says. #MTP
“Trump world has everything to lose by the truth, so they are doing their best to try and attack her.”
EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Liz Cheney tells @JonKarl that it is possible that the Jan. 6 Committee will make a criminal referral against former Pres. Donald Trump.
“What kind of man knows that a mob is armed and sends the mob to attack the Capitol?” abcn.ws/3IiJ9Du