A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Indictments After Memorial Day? Another flurry of new reporting about the Mar-a-Lago documents investigation. First, the timing of indictments: Bloomberg: “Special Counsel Jack Smith…
I think they are finally going to nail him. Champagne is on ice. Not enough white guys in the Federal judiciary? They are no longer using dog whistles; now it’s bullhorns.
“Find me a single Republican legislator who would ever say aloud that THEY should wait to have their cancer treated until it was ‘imminently life threatening’” - Kellen Squire
Moore said the boy was shot after calling for help for his mother. During a confrontation with the father of one of her children, Nakala Murry handed her phone to the boy and told him to call police and his grandmother, the family’s attorney said.
When police arrived, they were told the man was unarmed and had run out a back door and that three children were home, Moore said.
Police ordered everyone in the house to show themselves with their hands up, Moore said. When the 11-year-old came out of a bedroom with his hands up, he was met by gunfire, the attorney said.
“He shot him immediately when his hands were up, and he’s coming around the corner,” Moore said.
In his statement to the court, Elmer compared himself to Alexsander Solginitzyn (sp). Yeah, right. Wake me when Elmer is exiled from this country and wins a Nobel Peace Prize.
From the JTA article on Daily Salinas’s book bans:
She said she had only read parts of the books. “They have to read for me because I’m not an expert,” she said. “I’m not a reader. I’m not a book person. I’m a mom involved in my children’s education.”
I dare say Mr. Rhodes, and I have never said this to anyone I have sentenced: You, sir, present an ongoing threat and a peril to this country, the republic and the very fabric of democracy.