Originally published at: Indiana Guv Vows to Help Trump Challenge His Own State’s GOPers Who Rejected Gerrymander - TPM – Talking Points Memo
Just moments after 21 Republican members of Indiana’s state Senate voted with Democrats to reject President Trump’s aggressive attempt to force the state to draw a new congressional map, one that would have dramatically reduced Indiana Democrats’ chances of holding seats in the U.S. House next year, Gov. Mike Braun went on Twitter to demonstrate…
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So Indiana did the right thing and their leader wants to punish them.
The Navy has the report on Kelly, which we are hoping they laugh at and file permanently in the round file.
Halligan will face Senate confirmation - spoiler alert - she will get it on party lines.
California can’t seem to ditch the NG that has done nothing since being called up.
Isn’t life grand?
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Good for the Indiana Senate! And this is another cut in the Drowsing Dotard’s personality-based power. Remember, all power is unitary. We need to keep racking up losses for him, even if small.
Remember, even a bull can be brought down by a big enough swarm of rats.
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I wouldn’t be quite so sure about this one. She is transparently unqualified and was put in to enact Trump’s desires without question. Her failure to secure an indictment on all the counts she was instructed to obtain, and her inability to get more than a bare majority of the grand jurors’ votes on the two counts she did obtain, do not speak well of her competence. And the chaos and resignations in the ED of VA will also come into play.
Trump’s hold on the party is slipping; just consider what happened today in Indiana, along with his other legal defeats. This may finally provide an opportunity for a handful of Senators to acquire a vertebra or two.
Of course, I’m not certain she’ll be rejected, but I do think it’s clear that, along with Alina Habba, whom he’ll put through a Senate confirmation eventually, Halligan faces some considerable headwinds. although one should never discount Republican Senate cowardice. Although she might get Fetterman’s vote.
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Trump has not yet, as of this writing, responded to the Indiana Senate’s rejection of his redistricting pressure campaign
Probably means he’s undergoing treatment, or just unconscious. Give it time.
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If she has the idiot’s support, she will be confirmed.
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Given the amazing display of incompetence in the court record from her conduct of the Comey and James indictments, at least the confirmation hearings will be entertaining… along the lines of the dragging Kristi Noem received this morning with audio and video accompaniment.
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“In the end, Trump’s intimidation tactics and blatant attempts to predetermine control of Congress were not enough to persuade the 21 Republicans to cave.”
He’s losing.
Everywhere.
Big time.
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The beating will continue until morale improves.
It looks to me like the rats may be abandoning ship. I am pleased.
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Indiana sucks. And I am stuck here until parents and in laws die. That’s when we’ll flee.
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Gov. Braun: “Ultimately, decisions like this carry political consequences. I will be working with the President to challenge these people who do not represent the best interests of Hoosiers.”
Indeed. Indiana Republicans who support Trump are the real hoosiers.
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Vote for her body not her brain.
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I don’t think so. I’m hoping that the Senators have now realized that kowtowing to DonOLD each and every time means that they’re putting themselves in the voters crosshairs. biggly.
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This evening Lisa Reuben gave a very clear explanation of why that won’t happen.
Even to be considered by the Judiciary Committee, Sen. Grassley will have to ignore the tradition of “blue slipping” that he has been strongly committed to in the past. If just one senator from a/the state where the prosecutor will serve submits a “blue slip,” that nominee is not considered by the Judiciary Committee, much less the whole Senate. Virginia has two Democratic senators (Kaine and Warner), either or both of whom would submit blue slips. As evidence that these senators’ motives were about Halligan’s lack of qualifications and not her politics, the senators would need only point to the fact that they did not submit blue slips when Trump nominated Eric Siebert to the same position; in fact, they affirmatively supported his nomination. Why? Because Siebert, a Republican whose father is Gov. Youngkin’s chief of staff (or some such) and whom Todd Blanche strongly supported, was actually well qualified for the job. Siebert is the U.S.D.A. who resigned before he could be fired for refusing to take Comey’s and James’ cases before a grand jury, and who was replaced by Halligan when Bondi appointed her the Acting U.S.D.A for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Halligan very publicly displayed how ridiculously unqualified for the job she is in her Keystone Kops attempt to obtain the Comey indictment and in her continuing to pretend she holds the position a judge has ruled she never legitimately held. Even if Grassley folded to Trump by having the Judiciary Committee take up her nomination, it’s hard to believe it would pass out of the committee much less get the votes needed for confirmation in the whole Senate. If just four Republicans voted against her, voted “present,” or abstained, her nomination would be cooked. (Make that five Republicans, just to be sure since who knows how Fetterman might vote.)
Why Trump is pushing Halligan’s nomination and making Senate Repubs miserable is beyond me, unless he’s just drunk with power and feels he needs control of the Eastern District of VA to effect the retributions he has in mind. Bondi should just make Halligan another Senior Advisor to the Attorney General for U.S. Attorneys, the way she’s made Habba one. Halligan and Habba could share an office!
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I guess, as always, stay tuned.
These aren’t normal times. Precedent takes a backseat.
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I’m all for a new alliance, Sane Citizens United. We need to continually push the emerging reality that republican lawmakers are now starting to see, that they have much more to fear from voters than they do from TCF and his base. Even some of those lawmakers who thought they’d ride the power wave are recognizing that it’s petering out to an incontinent dribble. His ‘sleepiness’ and clearly delusional economic analyses, along with his recent, significant judicial losses and his lawless abuse of the military are turning off and simultaneously motivating previously apathetic voters in what’s beginning to look like a groundswell. The more he loses the bigger those losses will become
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Sure hope Lisa Rubin’s take pans out. (An aside, she was a student in my brother’s high school US History class.)
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Indiana Guv Vows to Help Trump Challenge His Own State’s GOPers Who Rejected Gerrymander
all I can say is WTF? The state’s senate acted. The silly ass governor can’t veto a bill that never arrives at his desk.
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Tomorrow’s obituary? Dear Zeus make it be true.
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