Abbott is just putting on a show for the MAGA rubes. He’s a smart judge and AG who knows the following is total bullshit:
Clause 3 prohibits states from doing military stuff without Congressional authorization. It does not grant any other military authority to the states. Abbott’s desire to use the National Guard to do his border security cosplay is not “the supreme law of the land.” It’s not authorized at all, and damn sure not in any manner that contradicts federal law or law enforcement.
It won’t happen but I’d really like to see Abbott in custody pending arraignment on charges of obstructing and conspiring to obstruct federal officers.
LOL! Are they that afraid of her stupidity costing them a Senate seat? After all the American Sign Language sign for Kari Lake is this"
Interestin. My first question is - “Who released the recording…?” 
The Lake campaign.
That would certainly be my assumption. Boy, is she a team player, or wot!?! 
The article is clear that it was Lake that recorded it and released it.
So, I guess she’s not going to be getting much help from them. Poor, poor ignorant loser.
So, is a separate Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan package going to head to the Senate for a vote? Also, this lack of action on the border could backfire and I hope it does. They want to blame Biden for the border but refuse to do anything about it because of Trump? Cowards all of them.
Per Jake Sherman:
MCCONNELL told a closed meeting of Senate Republicans Wed that the politics of the border has flipped for Rs and cast doubt on linking Ukraine and border.
“When we started this, the border united us and Ukraine divided us.”
“The politics on this have changed,” McConnell then told his GOP colleagues.
This is ALL about Trump.
McConnell referred to Trump as “the nominee” and noted the former president wants to run his 2024 campaign centered on immigration. And the GOP leader said, “We don’t want to do anything to undermine him.”
“We’re in a quandary,” McConnell added.
Thanks for the confirmation!
Lake, when asked for a comment, replied:
“>burp< Next!”
Sounds like the donor class is getting tired of losers losing it for them.
Marcy Wheeler has some thoughts.
Been down a rabbit hole.
Am I right in understanding that Governors Abbot and DeSantis have declared that their states’ ~67 Electoral College votes will be sitting out this year’s election?
Folks: I’m suggesting that if Abbott believes he can secede from the Constitution, then TX’ votes won’t count.
Then the Arizona Democratic Party should send her a big bouquet of Saguaro blossoms.**
This sort of infighting (and dirty fighting) is just the thing to shatter an already-fractured AZ GOP. With any luck, they’ll still be going at it hammer and tongs when November rolls around.
** [ETA] No insult is meant to the saguaro blossom. It’s the state flower of Arizona.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 10730
PROVIDING ASSISTANCE FOR THE REMOVAL OF AN OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE WITHIN THE STATE OF ARKANSAS
WHEREAS on September 23, 1957, I issued Proclamation No.3204 reading in part as follows:
"WHEREAS certain persons in the state of Arkansas, individually and in unlawful assemblages, combinations, and conspiracies, have willfully obstructed the enforcement of orders of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas with respect to matters relating to enrollment and attendance at public schools, particularly at Central High School, located in Little Rock School District, Little Rock, Arkansas; and
"WHEREAS such willful obstruction of justice hinders the execution of the laws of that State and of the United States, and makes it impracticable to enforce such laws by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings; and
"WHEREAS such obstruction of justice constitutes a denial of the equal protection of the laws secured by the Constitution of the United States and impedes the course of justice under those laws:
“NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and Statutes of the United States, including Chapter 15 of Title 10 of the United States Code, particularly sections 332, 333 and 334 thereof, do command all persons engaged in such obstruction of justice to cease and desist therefrom, and to disperse forthwith;” and
WHEREAS the command contained in that Proclamation has not been obeyed and willful obstruction of enforcement of said court orders still exists and threatens to continue:
NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and Statutes of the United States, including Chapter 15 of Title 10, particularly sections 332, 333 and 334 thereof, and section 301 of Title 3 of the United States Code, It is hereby ordered as follows:
SECTION 1. I hereby authorize and direct the Secretary of Defense to order into the active military service of the United States as he may deem appropriate to carry out the purposes of this Order, any or all of the units of the National Guard of the United States and of the Air National Guard of the United States within the State of Arkansas to serve in the active military service of the United States for an indefinite period and until relieved by appropriate orders.
SEC. 2. The Secretary of Defense is authorized and directed to take all appropriate steps to enforce any orders of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas for the removal of obstruction of justice in the State of Arkansas with respect to matters relating to enrollment and attendance at public schools in the Little Rock School District, Little Rock, Arkansas. In carrying out the provisions of this section, the Secretary of Defense is authorized to use the units, and members thereof, ordered into the active military service of the United States pursuant to Section 1 of this Order.
SEC. 3. In furtherance of the enforcement of the aforementioned orders of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, the Secretary of Defense is authorized to use such of the armed forces of the United States as he may deem necessary.
SEC. 4. The Secretary of Defense is authorized to delegate to the Secretary of the Army or the Secretary of the Air Force, or both, any of the authority conferred upon him by this Order.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
THE WHITE HOUSE,
September 24, 1957
Excerpts from the Arizona Republic
Jeff DeWit, a former Arizona treasurer and Trump adviser, resigned as chair of the state GOP on Wednesday following the release of an audio recording in which he offered Kari Lake a lucrative job if she quits her U.S. Senate race.
In a written statement, DeWit said Lake’s team had threatened him with the potential release of a “new, more damaging recording” unless he resigned immediately.
“I am truly unsure of its contents, but considering our numerous past open conversations as friends, I have decided not to take the risk,” he wrote. He added that he hopes she stops attacking him so he can return to the business world, “a field I find much more logical and prefer over politics.”
DeWit said in his statement that while he said things he regrets, he now believes Lake set up him and was a “betrayal” of their friendship. The recording came from a private conversation they had a year ago while she worked for a company he owns. He doesn’t say in the statement which company, but in a 2022 financial disclosure, Lake reported working as a communication advisor for FeedMe, Inc, in 2021 in 2022. The company is an earlier iteration of Superfeed Technologies, a campaign-promoting app company for which DeWit serves as CEO.
“I believe she orchestrated this entire situation to have control over the state party, and it is obvious from the recording that she crafted her performance responses with the knowledge that she was recording it, intending to use this recording later to portray herself as a hero in her own story,” he wrote. “I question how effective a United States Senator can be when they cannot be trusted to engage in private and confidential conversations.”
He acknowledged that he did offer her to leave the Senate race and try again for governor in two years, “it was a suggestion made in good faith, believe it could benefit both her future prospects and the party’s overall strategy.”
DeWit took over the party following four years of leadership by former lawmaker Kelli Ward, a prominent Trump supporter who falsely claimed to be an elector for Trump after he lost the 2020 election. The state party moved to a new headquarters last year but nearly went broke as donors wary of racking up more election losses dried up.
The depressing thing is that all the MAGAts & Qs don’t know that their own folks are blocking anything Biden tries to do.
She’s very much the one who takes the ball and punctures it so no one can play with it, if she can’t have it.
Have you thought about tunneling under a synagogue?
More depressing is the that the Media Whores will follow exactly the same framing as the execrable Abbott.
