“The new immunity doctrine they created on his behalf is perverse as both an expedient exercise of political corruption and a standing incentive for unscrupulous presidents to violate the law.”

BDdelong.bsky.socialOct 4, 2024 2:35pm

< braddelong.substack.com/p/most-of-us... > Brian Buetler’s analysis of Jack Smith’s prosecution shows that Smith offers not just a criminal case against Donald Trump but a vivid portrait of a neofascist presidency gone rogue—a neofascist movement protected by the corrupt Republican Supreme... 1/

Most of Us Do Not Recognize How Hard the Corrupt Supreme Court Republican Majority, the "New York Times", & so Many Others Are Working to Elect Donald Trump

Yes, and grave moral fault attaches to them all...

“(I’m particularly interested in the tactical decision to call the Brooks Brothers Riot, “a violent effort to stop the vote count in Florida after the 2000 presidential election,” in a filing that aims to persuade Roberts, Kavanaugh & Coney Barrett.)” www.emptywheel.net/2024/10/04/h...

How Jack Smith Wants to Prove Trump's Crimes - emptywheel

Jack Smith might have a tougher time getting SCOTUS to let him rely on Eric Herschmann's testimony than on Mike Pence's.

On how easy it is to manipulate the MSM. kurtbardella.substack.com/p/how-legacy...

How Legacy Media Got Played by Republicans in Congress & Steve Bannon

It started more than a decade ago...

A former Trump aide says, on the record, that he refused to provide wildfire aid to California "because of the state’s Democratic leanings." Trump relented only after aides showed him how many Republican voters there were in Orange County. www.politico.com/news/2024/10...

www.nytimes.com/2024/10/03/n...

Photos Show New York Congressman in Blackface as Michael Jackson

Representative Mike Lawler, a Republican locked in a tight race for re-election, dressed as the pop star for Halloween as a college student in 2006.

Published one month after the election

John Roberts' Sordid Legacy: 14 Pages of Mean Tweets www.emptywheel.net/2024/10/03/j...

John Roberts' Sordid Legacy: 14 Pages of Mean Tweets - emptywheel

John Roberts' newfangled presidential immunity is so sordid, he forced prosecutors to spend 14 pages explaining why Trump's attacks on fellow Republicans are not official acts of the President of the ...

The Jan 6 committee presented overwhelming evidence of Trump’s criminality. Everything since has been a series of criminal cherries on top. Yet the criminal is still at large.

“With these lies, the defendant created the tinderbox that he purposely ignited on January 6.”

WSJ: Musk funded Stephen Miller's superPAC, which ran some of the nastiest, most vile and vicious anti-immigrant and anti-trans ads in 2022 "more than $50 million of Musk’s money funded a series of advertising campaigns by a group called Citizens for Sanity" www.wsj.com/politics/pol...