A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo.
Apparently not content with hurling accusations of being pro-pedophilia, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) found a new angle with which to smear Supreme Court pick Ketanji Brown Jackson.
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I promised whatever I could find on Wisconsin election news from yesterday’s Spring primary.
The first story is a good one! ETA: Looks like this was big enough to make the Morning Memo!!!
Poll worker Pamela Gantz’s victory over fraudulent elector Kelly Ruh for De Pere Alder, 570 votes to 452, is a win in a small election that sends a big message: If you try to undermine Wisconsin’s democracy, you will be held accountable. (This was De Pere City Council district 2, which is near Green Bay, WI).
The local school board election results:
The guy with 2573 votes is the guy I mentioned earlier that was anti-CRT and the rest of the Right Wing talking points. He did not gain a seat on the board, but he did come pretty close.
The mayor of the larger part of our area (the city of Hudson) was re-elected, as well. Don’t know that this was good for the city. He’s had some issues in the past, but had an enormous campaign on social media with all these accolades from local residents about the great job he’s doing. I don’t live in the city, but I do know that some fresh ideas were needed – he only won by about 400 votes.
I wouldn’t say the turnout was overwhelming. Looking like maybe fewer than 4,000 voters turned out. There’s about 15,000 people in our area.
That is effective messaging. Why? Because we have no answer. All we do is express outrage and disappointment.
Judge Jackson, in his opening statement at Nuremburg:
For these defendants, however, we have set up an International Tribunal and have undertaken the burden of participating in a complicated effort to give them fair and dispassionate hearings. That is the best-known protection to any man with a defense worthy of being heard.
**If these men are the first war leaders of a defeated nation to be prosecuted in the name of the law, they are also the first to be given a chance to plead for their lives in the name of the law. **
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Despite the fact that public opinion already condemns their acts, we agree that here they must be given a presumption of innocence, and we accept the burden of proving criminal acts and the responsibility of these defendants for their commission.
I heard Judge Jackson is harboring trans Ukrainian pedophile Nazi abortion doctors in her basement RIGHT NOW!!1111!!!
Nazis are conservatives as is Cotton.
Judge Jackson is a liberal.
What am I missing?
ConserVatives neeD to leaD the de-NazificaTION of the LibTard party anD theIR desIRE to seX groOM miNORS into PEDOphilia and MAKE GEnder grOOM boYs to BE woMEN. And THE PREBORN CLEansing holocausT whICH judge JACKSON wiLL force DOWN our THROATs liTERALLY riPPING american’s fabric.
Wow
Their dizzying story: The activist and another fellow activist at a D.C. clinic approached a truck driver from a medical waste company and asked him about two boxes he was loading into the truck. The activists told the trucker that the boxes contained fetuses and asked if they could take one of those boxes. The trucker gave them a box, which they later opened and discovered 115 fetuses. They gave 110 of them a “proper burial” and kept five fetuses they believed to be fully developed, and those were the fetuses found in the activist’s home.
What is their fetish with fetuses??? Does a fetus somehow substitute for their security blanket?
I would be happier if there could be a mass campaign of cable subscribers that would pressure these cable companies and streaming services to stop putting ALL news channels on basic cable. If I want to watch them, I will pay the $ 5 a month extra, or whatever. But right now, there’s no reason for anyone to have to unwillingly pay for partisan news on either side of the fence. The news services are not reliant on viewership, since they all get payments from the services. That’s gotta stop.
Republican projection?
John Adams, our second president, defended the British soldiers who committed the Boston Massacre.
ETA. I don’t know what was involved in Cotton’s legal practice but I’ll bet he did some work for a few sleazy white collar types. Maybe even trump.
This is so glorious to see! Crackhead Mike getting a very special envelope from a process server…
Tehran Tom says what? Did Judge Jackson write any letters to that effect?
And got them acquitted.
Not so. None of them would be profitable without the carriage fees – probably no cable network would – but Fox News made the deliberate decision more than a decade ago to make sure that it could get by solely on its carriage fees, because it realized that its content was killing its ad revenue. Everyone else (except OANN, which is going bye-bye) needs the ad revenue to be profitable.
In what cemetery were these fetuses buried? I’m sure the abortion clinic would be eager to sue both the medical waste disposal company and their driver into oblivion for violating all sorts of waste disposal protocols.
And, as I recall, was successful in that defense.
Adams firstly secured the acquittal of Captain Preston on the grounds that the men under his command had fired without orders. In the following trial of Preston’s men in November 1770, Adams pleaded that the soldiers had acted in self-defence and asked the jury to consider themselves in the shoes of the soldiers and whether any reasonable man would not have concluded that they were in danger of their lives when surrounded by a hostile crowd chanting, ‘Kill them!, Kill them!’ The arguments of Adams led to six of the soldiers being found not guilty whilst Montgomery and one other received the lesser verdict of manslaughter.
Defending the Enemy: John Adams and the Boston Massacre of 1770 (amdigital.co.uk)
John also said:
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
I can just imagine an updated version of Judgement at Nuremberg where Justice Jackson is the defense attorney and ol Cottonmouth is in the dock with his fellow Nazis.
