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'Incredibly disturbing': Judges are pushing back on Republicans' Jan. 6 rhetoric

Reacting to claims from Donald Trump that he is seriously thinking about blanket pardoning all of the Jan. 6 insurrectionists on the same day that he is sworn in next January, federal judges are increasingly becoming more vocal about the threat he presents to the rule of law. The report notes that U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia …

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1 week, 3 days ago

'Alternate reality': NYT experiment immerses reporter in far-right media

Raw Story

One common explanation for the outcome of the 2024 presidential election is that the far-right's vast social media ecosystem was able to reach more Americans than traditional media, influencing a decisive number of voters in key battleground states. In a Friday article, journalist Stuart A. Thompson — who covers right-wing media — dove head-first into Rumble, which is a preferred …

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1 week, 4 days ago

‘Sorry to embarrass you, Donald’: Ex-GOP lawmaker hits back as Trump threatens jail time

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Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger says he’s not intimidated by Donald Trump’s threats to jail him as a member of the House Select Committee that investigated the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. “You know, fine, whatever, if you got to make up charges I was in the legislative branch, we were investigating – as per the request from Congress – to do …

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1 week, 5 days ago

The terrifying implications of pardoning insurrectionists who killed and maimed

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This past weekend, in his Meet The Press interview with Kristen Welker, Donald Trump reaffirmed his intention to pardon the people who attacked our Capitol, killing five civilians and three police officers and sending more than 140 cops to the hospital. Similarly, five years and one week before Trump applauded the “Jews will not replace us” Nazis who rallied in …

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1 week, 6 days ago

'Rudy Giuliani and Paul Manafort?' Trump shocks with pledge to 'build monuments' to heroes

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Donald Trump's latest out-of-nowhere promise for his second term as president raised eyebrows and prompted laughter. DJT" It's not clear what prompted the comment, but lawmakers from both parties vowed to fight back if he carried through on his campaign pledge to restore Confederate monuments, including the names of military bases, and social media users seemed to interpret his Truth …

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2 weeks, 1 day ago

'Tremendous backlash': MSNBC host predicts Trump will infuriate many supporters on day one

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Reacting to comments Donald Trump made in an interview with NBC's Kristen Welker over the weekend, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough warned the president-elect he will infuriate a wide swath of Americans who voted for him if he pardons all of the January 6 rioters on his first day in office. Speaking with Welker, an animated Trump said of the imprisoned …

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2 weeks, 1 day ago

Trump Plans To Pardon Jan. 6 Rioters As Soon As He Returns To Office

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LOADING ERROR LOADING Donald Trump confirmed his plans to pardon supporters who were involved in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, during a Sunday interview on “Meet the Press.” In what were his most definitive comments on potential legal relief for the pro-Trump rioters, the president-elect told host Kristen Welker that pardoning the insurrectionists was at …

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Trump risks 'significant blowback' with decision on pardons for Jan. 6 rioters

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Donald Trump has pledged to pardon the Jan. 6 insurrectionists, but he faces "significant blowback" no matter how he chooses to approach the matter. Or does he abuse the pardon power to grant clemency to insurrectionists?” Micki Witthoeft, the mother of slain rioter Ashli Babbitt, is a leader in a national movement of MAGA activists pushing for the release of …

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Trump risks 'significant blowback' with decision on pardons for Jan. 6 rioters

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Donald Trump has pledged to pardon the Jan. 6 insurrectionists, but he faces "significant blowback" no matter how he chooses to approach the matter. Or does he abuse the pardon power to grant clemency to insurrectionists?” Micki Witthoeft, the mother of slain rioter Ashli Babbitt, is a leader in a national movement of MAGA activists pushing for the release of …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Mini Poop Statues Appear At D.C.’s Mysterious Turd Monument ‘Honoring’ Trump

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LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON — It’s been two weeks since a mysterious satirical poop monument appeared by the U.S. Capitol, “honoring” former President Donald Trump and the people behind the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection with a massive turd. A second D.C. monument appeared last week as a “tribute” to Trump for referring to his supporters in the violent 2017 white …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Golden statue erected in swing state mocks Trump by honoring 'lifetime of sexual assault'

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Another monument has been erected mocking former President Donald Trump — this time in a key battleground state — following a series of activism art installations throughout the United States. The third "monument" appeared Wednesday in Philadelphia and is a golden statue of Trump standing behind a statue of a partially nude woman. Read also: How Donald Trump turned America …

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2 months ago

'Megalomaniac' Trump’s 'warped and narcissistic world' slammed by WaPo columnist

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Donald Trump’s appearance at the Economic Club of Chicago this week where he told a crowd “a peaceful transfer of power” occurred in 2021 provoked a Washington Post columnist to ponder: is the former president “deceptive or delusional?” The truth, Colbert King wrote in a column published Friday in the Post, is that the insurrection that paralyzed the U.S. Capitol …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

After losing the 2020 election, Trump ‘resorted to crimes,’ special counsel alleges in court filing

LA Times

Insurrectionists loyal to President Trump try to breach a police barrier on Jan. 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol. Prosecutors say Trump disregarded those assurances and “dozens of court decisions that unanimously rejected his and his allies’ legal claims.” In one key moment detailed in the filing, prosecutors say a lawyer who represented the former president during his first impeachment …

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3 months ago

Hillary Clinton slams Trump with new accusation over Jan. 6 riot

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During an appearance on. MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Thursday, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described how she and her family watched the Jan 6. riot on TV and wondered where Donald Trump was as the insurrectionists stormed the Capitol. Recalling the day, she told the hosts, "I came back in to my house, I didn't have any knowledge of …

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3 months, 1 week ago

'Stunning': Republican floored that Trump aligned himself with J6 rioters over officers

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Republican Voters Against Trump president and longtime GOP pollster Sarah Longwell confessed that a key moment in the Tuesday debate was "stunning." Read Also: If Harris deprives Trump of this one thing — he's got nothing "However, the thing that I heard that Kamala was doing throughout the debate, that I found so encouraging, was she was actively reaching out …

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3 months, 4 weeks ago

Trump’s golf club Jan 6 gala: Who will attend, tickets, guest speaker, what to know

Hindustan Times

Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, is set to host a high-profile Jan. 6 awards gala on September 5. According to LJ Fino, a producer of the hit song “Justice For All” by Jan. 6 detainees and an event organizer, Rudy Giuliani, a former attorney for Trump, is confirmed to attend the gala. Trump is listed as an “invited …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Donald Trump wants more political violence — the Supreme Court just handed MAGA one excuse

Salon

Donald Trump was the luckiest man alive last Thursday. This echoes Trump's increasingly rabid defense of the insurrectionists on the campaign trail, where he often calls them "hostages" and "political prisoners" and holds ceremonies honoring those who are imprisoned. Every time Trump or his surrogates calls for a "rally" to intimidate public officials, conspiracy theories fly around MAGA social media, …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Chief Justice Roberts put on notice for 'disregarding' the law to throw Trump a 'lifeline'

Raw Story

Chief Justice John Roberts went so far out of his way to throw Donald Trump a "lifeline" that he ended up ignoring the plain language of a law, a former prosecutor said. Glenn Kirschner, a former federal prosecutor who frequently appears on MSNBC as a legal expert, called out Roberts for a recent decision in which Kirschner says the Supreme …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Presidential Debate: Biden was bad? Wait until you hear what the Supreme Court is doing.

Slate

While most everyone was reacting to Thursday’s presidential debate, we had our eyes trained on the Supreme Court. The unelected robed leaders then laid a finishing blow in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, overturning the decades-long guidance of the long-standing Chevron doctrine and upending the ways in which government agencies can regulate the things they regulate, like: clean air, water, …

5 months, 3 weeks ago

'Huge and Ominous': Experts decry Supreme Court's Jan. 6 ruling as MAGA celebrates

Raw Story

A Supreme Court ruling that makes it more difficult to prosecute rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was met with outrage on the left and cheers of celebration from the MAGA right Friday morning. "The Supreme Court's decision is an affirmation of the rule of law and a reminder that Congress-not out of control prosecutors-writes the …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Supreme Court Limits Charges Against Jan. 6 Rioters

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING The Supreme Court has made it harder for the government to charge participants in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection with obstructing an official proceeding. In a 6-3 ruling authored by Chief Justice John Roberts, the court declared that the government had an obligation to prove that a defendant “impaired the availability or integrity for use in an …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Supreme Court throws out obstruction charges lodged against hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters

LA Times

The Supreme Court on Friday rejected the most severe charges lodged against more than 300 of the violent insurrectionists who broke into the U.S. Capitol three years ago. In a 6-3 decision, the court’s conservative majority said the rioters may not be prosecuted under a financial recordkeeping law that criminalized destroying evidence and obstructing an official proceeding. Justice Department prosecutors …

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6 months, 1 week ago

The Supreme Court’s June Opinion Dump Will Be Devastating and Unprecedented

Slate

This is part of Opinionpalooza, Slate’s coverage of the major decisions from the Supreme Court this June. The lower courts reached a near-unanimous consensus that the Justice Department used this law appropriately; the Supreme Court’s intervention was totally unwarranted and may signal broader hostility toward accountability for the insurrectionists. Of course, thanks to the Supreme Court, it’s not even clear …

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7 months, 1 week ago

'Showing support for insurrectionists': CNN panel trashes Sam Alito for upside-down flag

Raw Story

The New York Times reported on Thursday that an upside-down American flag was seen flying at Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's house after President Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 election, and a CNN panel on Friday bashed him for a total lack of professionalism. In the wake of Biden's victory, many Trump supporters flew American flags upside down to …

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'Incredibly disturbing': Judges are pushing back on Republicans' Jan. 6 rhetoric

'Alternate reality': NYT experiment immerses reporter in far-right media

‘Sorry to embarrass you, Donald’: Ex-GOP lawmaker hits back as Trump threatens jail time

The terrifying implications of pardoning insurrectionists who killed and maimed

'Rudy Giuliani and Paul Manafort?' Trump shocks with pledge to 'build monuments' to heroes

'Tremendous backlash': MSNBC host predicts Trump will infuriate many supporters on day one

Trump Plans To Pardon Jan. 6 Rioters As Soon As He Returns To Office

Trump risks 'significant blowback' with decision on pardons for Jan. 6 rioters

Trump risks 'significant blowback' with decision on pardons for Jan. 6 rioters

Mini Poop Statues Appear At D.C.’s Mysterious Turd Monument ‘Honoring’ Trump

Golden statue erected in swing state mocks Trump by honoring 'lifetime of sexual assault'

'Megalomaniac' Trump’s 'warped and narcissistic world' slammed by WaPo columnist

After losing the 2020 election, Trump ‘resorted to crimes,’ special counsel alleges in court filing

Hillary Clinton slams Trump with new accusation over Jan. 6 riot

'Stunning': Republican floored that Trump aligned himself with J6 rioters over officers

Trump’s golf club Jan 6 gala: Who will attend, tickets, guest speaker, what to know

Donald Trump wants more political violence — the Supreme Court just handed MAGA one excuse

Chief Justice Roberts put on notice for 'disregarding' the law to throw Trump a 'lifeline'

Presidential Debate: Biden was bad? Wait until you hear what the Supreme Court is doing.

'Huge and Ominous': Experts decry Supreme Court's Jan. 6 ruling as MAGA celebrates

Supreme Court Limits Charges Against Jan. 6 Rioters

Supreme Court throws out obstruction charges lodged against hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters

The Supreme Court’s June Opinion Dump Will Be Devastating and Unprecedented

'Showing support for insurrectionists': CNN panel trashes Sam Alito for upside-down flag