Trump unveiled “utopian ideas for the future” in a campaign video released on Friday, March 4, 2023, coinciding with his speaking appearance at a Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) gathering. The Hill reported (here) those ideas include building “freedom cities” o[...]
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Trumper gets 9 years for bomb plot
A judged locked up Ian Benjamin Rogers (photo, left), 46, of Sacramento, California, for 9 years for plotting to bomb the Democratic Party headquarters in downtown Sacramento “as revenge for what they falsely believed was a stolen election,” the Sacramento Bee reported on Wednesday, Marc[...]
Trump warns pink-haired teachers are coming for your kids
Republicans have a new target: Public schools. They’re turning K-12 education into a culture war battleground. While Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis gets the most attention for his book banning, criminalizing the teaching of black history, and efforts to impose conservative ideology on his state[...]
January 20th, 2023 - 1:43 am § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Trump and lawyer hit with sanctions for frivolous lawsuit
A federal judge in Florida sanctioned Trump and one of his attorneys, Alina Habba (photo, left), for a frivolous lawsuit against Hillary Clinton and others, Politico reported on Thursday, January 19, 2023 (read story here). The order (read it here) by Judge Donald Middlebrooks, a Bill Clinton appoin[...]
Classified docs: Biden vs. Trump
A CNN op-ed (here) says: “Classified documents were found in an office at Biden’s former think tank and a garage at his Wilmington, Delaware, home, leading Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint a special counsel to investigate, just as he has for Trump. “’Republicans will try t[...]
Trump’s Supreme Court is a hanging court
The Supreme Court is no longer a place you can go to stop the execution of an innocent person, or of someone whose sentencing was influenced by racial bias. Since 2019, when Trump put his first two appointees on the court, the new conservative court majority hasn’t accepted a single death pena[...]
Biden vs. Trump classified documents (chart)
Biden’s defenders can argue all they want that his possession of classified documents at his private office and residence, which were immediately handed over to the government, isn’t the same as Trump’s willful attempts to retain a much larger cache of classified documents. But the[...]
Trump can rage all he wants, but he doesn’t get to decide if he’s prosecuted
Today’s news the Jan. 6 committee will recommend prosecuting Trump is a big deal, because everyone needs to be together on it. It’s unmistakably moving in that direction. Months ago Merrick Garland, attorney general, pointedly said no one is beyond the reach of the law. Then he hired a s[...]
Why Congress shouldn’t ban Trump under the 14th Amendment
Dozens of House Democrats introduced a bill that would disqualify Donald Trump from future public office under the 14th Amendment’s insurrection clause (see story here). It probably won’t make it through the House, and if it does, it’ll surely die in the Senate, although for wrong [...]
December 14th, 2022 - 4:03 pm § in Law and Courts, News Media
Trump launches another frivolous libel lawsuit
Let’s start with this, because that’s also where it ends. “Trump has long used the courts to go after his opponents and to get attention for his own claims. It’s a pattern that goes back decades before his presidency<” The Hill reported on Wednesday, December 14, 2022 (r[...]