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Donald Trump had the media all atwitter on Saturday. He “truthed” (on his Truth Social) that Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg will arrest him today. But Trump was trying to intimidate the prosecutor. You know, the way he intimidated special prosecutor Robert Mueller. And that was no different from him blurting out that the FBI was… Read more.
Alex Murdaugh is on trial for murdering his wife and son. O.J. Simpson was on trial for murdering his ex-wife and her friend. The fateful parallels are uncanny. And they became even more so when Murdaugh’s jury took a field trip to the crime scene, just like Simpson’s jury did. The Alex Murdaugh murder trial… Read more.
Prosecutors said Thursday they would charge Alec Baldwin and two crew members in the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on a film set in New Mexico, a stunning development that could lead to prison time for the internationally famous, Emmy-winning actor. (The Washington Post, January 19, 2023) Prosecutors Charging Alec Baldwin Are Seeking Fame… Read more.
Lanez found guilty Tory Lanez’s shooting of Megan Thee Stallion took Black-on-Black crime to a new level. It was a Black man shooting a Black woman. And that is dismaying enough. But it also reinforced all kinds of racial stereotypes. That’s because their celebrity shed a klieg light on those stereotypes. And I’m referring to the shooting as much as… Read more.
Justice Alito Cracks a Racist Joke You do see a lot of Black children in Ku Klux Klan outfits, right?’ Alito then joked. ‘All the time.’ — The Recount (@therecount) December 5, 2022 Frankly, there are too many things wrong with this joke to list. But, notably, Justice Samuel Alito told it during oral arguments at the… Read more.
Ginni Thomas is complicit Last March, the Washington Post published text messages between Virginia (Ginni) Thomas, wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, and Mark Meadows, President Donald Trump’s chief of staff. Those messages revealed she was involved up to her neck in the MAGA plot to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. So any suggestion that her husband wasn’t complicit defies common… Read more.
Justice Clarence Thomas upstaged his conservative colleagues on the Supreme Court with his concurring opinion when they overruled Roe v. Wade (1973) last month. They defied common sense to argue that the rationale they were using to do so only applied to abortion. Read more.
Conservatives on the US Supreme Court have the whole world fretting today about what they’re up to. Because, frankly, they seem hell-bent on turning America into a Taliban-style paradise … or Gilead. They insist their job is just to apply their interpretation of what the Founding Fathers originally intended when they wrote the Constitution to… Read more.
One ruling (on abortion rights) to bear them, One ruling (on voting rights) to ban them, One ruling (on gun rights) to kill them; and in the chaos (appellate lawsuits) deny them. In the throes of the Roberts Court where even justices lie. The Supreme Court’s infamous ruling that the Second Amendment grants Americans the… Read more.
Mike Pence’s most trusted staffers and advisers have voluntarily testified before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection. And reports are that they all did so with not just his blessing but his exhortation. Yet Pence himself has not testified. And all indications are that he has no intention of doing so … voluntarily.… Read more.
