Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday threatened the governor of Texas with legal action over a new order from the governor’s office prohibiting non-law enforcement officers from driving undocumented people anywhere.
Good for Garland. Abbott has been absolutely horrid, even more than usual, as he tries to cover his right flank. It’s a death match between him and DeSantis, but the people dying are the citizens of their states.
OT: I haven’t often seen Gym Jordan stumbling and mumbling his way through interviews as he does here. Usually, from him, it’s an auctioneer type rapid-fire hail of lies too numerous to even know how to respond. Watch this. He seems really nervous.
If he had just ignored that phone call(s?) from Trump that day, like that SoS from Arizona, he could have still been known as the guy who ignored sexual assault instead of the guy who ignored an insurrection. But I’ll remember him for both.
I just have this sense that our institutions, so badly damaged under Trump, are finally healing and fighting back. Hard.
From DoJ, most obviously, to our intelligence and the military. But also the FDA, CDC, and other agencies that serve to protect us, should be protecting us, but under Trump, were just protecting him often at our expense. I’m starting to feel better every day about the state of things, despite Manchin and Sinema.
Gym started out with both shoulders pinned while wrestling with his conscience.
Despite all their efforts at encouraging an effort… witnesses to the event could have sworn he was either enjoying being prone under another male, or frozen in fear.
He’s no genius, God knows, but I doubt anyone capable of clothing himself would fail to remember when, on that particular day, he talked to Trump. He looks up in the air like he’s never even thought about it and has to think hard to remember this unimportant and very common matter on that unimportant and very ordinary day. I am not repeat not buying that one. And then trying to pivot out of it? Oh, so smooth, Jordan, you’re good at this, we’ll have to keep an eye on a slick fella like you.
Exactly! He may speak frequently to Trump, but it’s not as if every day is Insurrection Day. It’s sort of like 9/11 in the sense you remember what you were doing on that day, especially if you were somehow involved in it, as it appears Jordan was.
Well, he can play it as coy as he likes, but hundreds have people have been tracked down already because the Capitol is a huge communications exchange for cell signals. If he made a call to Trump in the building it’s probably already known to investigators precisely when. And I’m willing to bet he knows it too.