Censure Aileen Cannon and then remove her from the bench.
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Once everyone agrees Donald Trump is not subject to our laws, all this drama becomes easier to understand and accept.
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How fast and loose Trump’s lawyers are playing under the protective eye of U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon.
Good one, David, protective eye indeed. A much nicer description than I would have used but it works well.
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David Barton has built an entire career out of misusing, misrepresenting, and outright falsifying history, the Bible, and current events and doing so to promote his Christian nationalist political agenda. He has been highly influential not only within Republican politics, where he has many fans among current and former GOP legislators, but also internationally. On top of that, Barton’s Christian nationalist pseudo-history is shaping both Christian and secular educational institutions across the country.
Barton, who has repeatedly misrepresented his academic credentials and personal history, had his book on Thomas Jefferson pulled by his own publisher in 2012 after it concluded that “basic truths just were not there.”
Undaunted, Barton has soldiered on, repeatedly declaring that Christians who share his far-right worldview are supposed to be choosing our elected leaders and ruling the world because everything must operate according to biblical principles.
Barton falsely insists that our Constitution and entire system of government are based on the Bible and thus asserts that everything from the minimum wage to the income tax to the teaching of evolution are unconstitutional because they supposedly violate Biblical teachings. Barton also believes that there should be literally no limits on the Second Amendment, meaning that average citizens are entitled to own tanks, fighter jets, and even nuclear weapons.
Predictably, Barton takes a far-right position on issues like abortion—going so far as to proclaim that life actually begins before conception—and on LGBTQ issues, asserting repeatedly that AIDS is God’s punishment for sin and therefore a cure will never be found.
David Barton is almost single-handedly responsible for creating the Christian nationalist myths that the far-right uses to justify its push to enact harmful public policies that weaken the separation of church and state, undermine women’s rights, and deny legal equality to LGBTQ Americans.
The fact that Rep. Mike Johnson, who is now Speaker of the House and second in line for the presidency, is an acolyte of Barton and his teachings ought to be alarming to all those who care about core American values like church-state separation and religious pluralism, not to mention teaching the truth about our founding and history
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Maybe you should acknowledge there are millions of women complicit and accepting of the plight and peril GOP male zealots place them in.
The only people that hate women more than Republican men are Republican women.
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After U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan reinstated her gag rule in the Jan. 6 case against former President Donald Trump in an order issued Sunday night, it seems like only a matter of time before he violates it.
Judge Chutkan’s order is a delightful read this morning.
This ought to be tattooed on Trump’s forehead:
… the right to a fair trial is not his alone, but belongs also to the government and the public.
Wordsmith’s in the crowd will enjoy her dissertation on the legal and dictionary meaning of words in the context of the concept of unconstitutional vagueness.
Pour a coffee and enjoy.
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The fact that the Orange Menace thinks that by banning him from threatening participants in his numerous lawsuits he is being prevented from effectively campaigning for Preznit clearly highlights that he has NO vision for the country’s future, NO platform (other than grievance about, and retribution for, past slights…real or imagined) and that the MAGAts have NO interest in anything resembling normal political discourse about ideas and debating ways to address the many challenges facing the country. Rather they survive solely on hate for the Dems and others (i.e., POC, furriners, Jews, the LGBTQIA, the trans, women, etc.)
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And this toddler is who some people want to give back access to nuclear codes.
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My immediate guess would have been: “within seconds of hearing about the reinstatement”, so yes, I agree, he has already violated it.
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I believe it’s become quite clear that G-D only puts in place leaders who are manifestly unfit; presumably those worthy of the jobs they’ve been given are supplied by Satan.
(e.g. Compare and contrast Trump, (the Vhosen One), vs. Obama).
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Polite, well-groomed, quiet, “conservative”-looking - not a bully or verbally outrageous about his grotesque beliefs. Much harder to superficially categorize than the rest of the MAGA crew. A brilliant choice.
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Slap him silly
It is my opinion (seriously now) that since trump is now an “ordinary citizen” he should be treated like one. I would think that since he has repeatedly violated this gag order and has learned nothing from fines other people pay for him thru his grifting… park his fat ass in jail. He has earned it. Praps then he may learn a few things he missed growing up..
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I’m going to assume that the first pix were of Puppy in the middle of a walkway? With the expression of “I’m busy here, walk around me”.
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She can pontificate all she wants, but until she brings the hammer down on Trump it’s all futile drivel.
You don’t want me to stop this car!! I will, you know!! OK, I’m pulling over!! Right now!! As soon as traffic slows!! You better be quiet!! That’s it, I’ve had enough!! You just wait until I tell your father about this!! He’ll deal with it, I’m sure…
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I wish this whole circus would just pack up and head off for some other solar system in another dimension…
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TFG doesn’t have lawyers anymore. They are “legal scholars”…
Read something over the weekend (maybe Emptywheel) that describes the gop as a protection racket for tfg. Sounds about right.
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So, a platform that will satisfy a sufficient plurality to thread the Electoral College needle. Why actually have policy positions when about 44% of the voters is all you need?
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He really does not seem to understand or comprehend that the trial is a matter of law and not public approval. His guilt or innocence is not subject to an election of the voters. He’s treating this as just another campaign issue on which he can raise money. Raising money is dependent on publicly targeting his opponents in the court of law, who he sees as being his political opponents. In his mind, breaking the law and politics are the same thing. That’s why he thinks he can say anything he wants, because everything is politics, and the law is only what he says it is.
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