Originally published at: A Slo-Mo Constitutional Clash Is Already Well Underway
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. Stonewalling At The Highest Level President Trump’s open defiance of the judicial branch isn’t happening with a thunderclap and banner headlines. It’s a slow, grinding, make-me-if-you-can refusal to recognize the legitimacy of the district court…
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Boy is this headline optimistic. Constitutional clash?
Really?
There can’t be a clash between . . . well, whatever and the Constitution if the Constitution no longer exists.
And from where I sit and what I see, the Constitution seems a dead letter. It is now whatever Trump says it is.
So unless he contradicts himself on some stupid social media post, what you have stated is now pretty much impossible.
There is no Constitution anymore.
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SLow roll into a dictatorship.
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The Harrisburg man who is charged with attempted homicide of Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family for setting three fires in the residence turned himself in to State Police on Sunday afternoon and admitted to “harboring a hatred” toward Shapiro, according to the criminal complaint filed Sunday.
Cody Balmer, 38, of Harrisburg, evaded police while on the property, breaking a window and throwing a Heineken bottle filled with gasoline into the piano room on a wing of the governor’s mansion in Harrisburg, according to the criminal complaint. He then went to the attached dining room, broke a window, entered the residence, and lit two more homemade “Molotov cocktails” before fleeing on foot.
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Balmer’s ex called police and said that Balmer had confessed to her and wanted her to call police to turn him in, according to the complaint. Balmer then appeared at State Police headquarters in Harrisburg on Sunday afternoon to turn himself in.
Balmer told investigators he hated Shapiro and that if he found him at the property early Sunday morning, he would have “beaten him with a hammer” he had brought with him to break into the residence, according to the complaint.
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More photos of the damage can be found here.
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The run towards authoritarianism is picking up speed.
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Another Supreme Court Constitutional issue.
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The Supreme Court case that seeks to make everyone’s health insurance worse, explained
On April 21, the Supreme Court will hear Kennedy v. Braidwood Management, the latest attempt to convince a judiciary dominated by Republicans to sabotage President Barack Obama’s signature legislative achievement.
Obamacare gives the Department of Health and Human Services, acting through an institution known as the US Preventive Services Task Force (PSTF), broad authority to require health insurers to cover a wide range of preventative health treatments — from cancer screenings, to medications that prevent the transmission of HIV, to eye ointments that prevent blindness-causing infections in infants.
The plaintiffs in this case, who are represented by former Trump lawyer and anti-abortion crusader Jonathan Mitchell, essentially seek to strip HHS of this authority, thus allowing insurers to deny care for a wide range of treatments they are required to cover by law.
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Whats the point of power if you can’t use it with contempt?
Trump is white trash who is only rich because he and his father defrauded the Federal Govt.
Absolute shit of the world.
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Well, this will all be fine, cooler heads will prevail.
I have zero evidence to base that on, and didn’t even finish typing it before I started laughing to myself.
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That request is particularly inappropriate given that such discovery could interfere with ongoing diplomatic discussions
That is an excuse that might be catnip for John Roberts.
Never mind that any black site or prison camp abroad is definitionally in a country with which the U.S. has “ongoing diplomatic discussions.” It takes a particular kind of gall to sell your own people into a foreign forced labor regime, and then pretend that the civilized discourse of diplomacy is what keeps you from preventing their eventual death in slavery.
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Guess I should schedule my colonoscopy sooner than I care to.
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Fascists are unrelenting and never stand down.
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“declaring that the detainees like Abrego Garcia ‘are now in the sole custody El Salvador,’ suggesting the United States can’t get them back if it tried.”
That doesn’t sound quite right. It’s more juvenile than that. Seems to me the Trumpies are saying “we don’t have to try. You can’t make us try.”
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Looking forward to the day she is on the other side of the cell bars.
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There is some especially scary information coming out about this -
Authorities said the suspect hopped over a nearly 7-foot-high (2.1-meter-high) iron security fence surrounding the property, eluded officers who became aware of the breach and forcibly entered the residence before setting it on fire. He used beer bottles filled with gasoline to make the Molotov cocktails, documents say,
Lt. Col. George Bivens said Balmer appeared to have carefully planned the attack. He was inside the residence for about a minute before he escaped, Bivens said.
Balmer turned himself in after confessing to his “ex-paramour,” the affidavit said.
This does not look good for the police assigned to guard duty.
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