Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is a lawyer, so he should know legal outcomes depend on the facts of each case, and no two cases are exactly alike. This is basic stuff they teach to law students. Last weekend, Graham went on Fox News to say, to an already-inflamed audience that shouldn’t be hearing[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Reugnants’
GOP senators were briefed on Jan. 4 about plans to overturn election
The House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection has learned that GOP senators were briefed 2 days earlier on White House plans to overturn the election by declaring a national emergency, the Guardian reported on Saturday, December 11, 2021 (story here). That information is in a PowerPoi[...]
FDA vaccine approval makes no difference to GOP governor
Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order “banning any governmental entity in the state from requiring a COVID-19 vaccine, regardless of its approval status” almost immediately after the FDA “granted full approval” to Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine,” The Hil[...]
Trump lawyer’s libel defense: “I tell such big whoppers no reasonable person would believe me”
Sidney Powell, a Trump campaign lawyer, is being sued by a voting machine company for defamation. After Trump lost, Powell (photo, left) claimed Dominion Voting systems’s voting machines stole the election for Biden. The election wasn’t stolen, there’s no evidence backing up her cl[...]
February 24th, 2021 - 12:50 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Postmaster’s apology is ludicrous
“Postmaster Louis DeJoy offered a public apology before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Wednesday for recent mail delivery delays during the peak holiday season,” The Hill reported on Wednesday, February 24, 2021. Read story here. That’s nonsense. Those delays were inte[...]
How to not get re-elected
Tim Boyd, ex-mayor of Colorado City, Texas, apparently believes a working electricity grid is “socialism.” By popular demand, he vacated the mayor’s after blasting his “lazy” constituents with the breath of cold air below (story here). He’s reportedly in hiding; I[...]
Can politics return to normalcy?
“Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell spoke out against ‘loony lies and conspiracy theories’ this week, calling them a ‘cancer for the Republican Party,’ while praising Rep. Liz Cheney, a GOP leader who voted to impeach Trump. … “McConnell [...]
February 6th, 2021 - 12:54 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Senator’s wife wants charges for protest at their home
The wife of Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) “has filed a criminal complaint against the organizer of a protest which took place outside the couple’s Virginia home” (photo, left), the Daily Mail reported on Saturday, February 6, 2021. Read story here. The Daily Mail says video of the protes[...]
Voting machine company sues conspiracy peddlers
“A voting technology company swept up in baseless conspiracy theories about the 2020 election filed a monster $2.7 billion lawsuit on Thursday against Fox News, some of the network’s star hosts, and pro-Trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, alleging the parties worked in c[...]
Pennsylvania’s 3 known voting fraud cases involve Trump supporters
Following the contentious 2020 presidential election, a total of 3 Pennsylvania residents have been charged by authorities with voting fraud. Bruce Bartman, 70, used his dead mother’s driver’s license to obtain an absentee ballot and voted in her name. He used his late mother-in-law̵[...]