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GREAT essay by the inimitable Dahlia Lithwick about how rightwing activist, extremists in the legal community and, unfortunately, now dominating the US SCOTUS have twisted the "originalist" notion of interpreting and "enforcing" the Constitution beyond reasonable recognition. How...

They've been backing themselves into a political corner so long they're up on their toenails now and teetering on total collapse. Look no further than the fact that the Trump "base" is calling the shots in every way at this point...from the hypocritical "evangelicals" to the brow...

I wasn't cranky until I read your post. Your just a born agitator aren't you? :D Just pushing back again on your attempt to normalize the statement "How many people do you know that don't trust the government anymore?" There is ONE PARTY causing that statement to enter the discourse, and ...

The military at Kent State, that being the National Guard had no business on campus that day. The National Guard does a number of good in local communities. Who in the hell feels comfortable with soldiers with M1 rifles shoulder to shoulder in a defensive line. That is not what they train to do. Th...

THE DOJ IG BACKLOG ON BILL BARR’S BEHAVIOR When Bill Barr lied to Kaitlan Collins about being pressured on specific investigations like the Hunter Biden one last week, he offered up the Roger Stone sentencing as a purported counterexample. BARR: No. He did not directly pressure me. Yes, as I say, h...

The conclusions Cranky reaches are clearly NOT being discussed on NBC. That just isn't true even a little bit. WHAT about this jumbled word salad makes ANYone think it has any validity whatsoever?? Thanks for the early morning FLP belly laugh. Your side is already chipping away at the founding fathe...

The Last Thing This Supreme Court Could Do to Shock Us ...and yet, this story is, somehow, VERY SHOCKING! For three long years, Supreme Court watchers mollified themselves (and others) with vague promises that when the rubber hit the road, even the ultraconservative Federalist Society justices of t...

Read the WAPO piece SC posted in the 2024 thread...which explores the underlying reasons so many people seem ready to return an obvious insurrectionist to the White House. YES, it has A LOT to do with White Supremacy and White Christian Nationalist ideology. It also talks about why the wealthy are c...

From the TRULY scary NYT piece that Seacoaster posted above... ...the right-wing justices seemed impervious to the urgency of the matter before them. “I’m not focused on the here and now of this case,” Justice Brett Kavanaugh said. “I’m very concerned about the future.” But the here and now of this ...

Biden: the chameleon, liar, pandering man, that other nations should respect... :roll: https://x.com/RNCResearch/status/1784687909590720769 We depparetly need a 6th grader as POTUS, it would be an upgrade. What a bunch of horse hockey. Biden is an establishment Dem, no question...not MY first choic...

That couldn't be more wrong Cranky. From "just announce an investigation" in Ukraine, to the reliance on proven lies in the Biden "bribery" fiasco, to the entire Hunter Biden affair, to the constant stream of LIES concerning the Southern Border, all the republicons and Donald J. ...

A Supreme Court Justice Gave Us Alarming New Evidence That He’s Living in MAGA World The Supreme Court heard arguments Thursday in Trump v. United States , a challenge to special counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of Donald Trump for election subversion related to Jan. 6. The former president argues t...

THE PHONE CONTACTS BETWEEN THE “TOTAL MORON” AND THE PAC HEAD

The "total moron" in this case being Boris Epshteyn, an "advisor" to Trump in the Stolen Documents case...

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Another re-purposed thread for JUST issues in and around the Mar-A-Lardo Stolen Documents court case...where there was recently a LARGE dump of documents into the public record by "judge" Cannon... Mark Meadows Proffer in the Stolen Documents case... I continue to dig through the document ...

Repurposing one of the several "Russian Collusion" threads to devote to the current Alvin Bragg NY AG Trial of Donald J. Trump...

Trump’s a Fraud When It Comes to Law and Order and ‘Backing the Blue’ ...many of Trump’s actions as president—and many that he promises to make should he win the election in November—directly contradict his manufactured pro-cop image. His initial budget in 2017 sought dramatic cuts in funding for c...

Details are important, and so is the timeline. As PMM explains - AGAIN - in the "Barr Framed Biden" post you've already read... ...in January 2020, Bill Barr ordered Scott Brady to conduct a side review of the dirt Rudy Giuliani collected from Russian spies and others. Via still unexplaine...

With Republicans Like These, Who Needs Russian Propaganda?



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:roll: Hunter's plea deal blew up because of the Judge in DE, despite Weiss attempting to slip it by. Barr had nothing to do with it. Au Contraire, Old Saltine. This, from someone who understands this issue WAY more clearly than you do: MARYELLEN NOREIKA NEVER ANSWERED MARK SCARSI’S QUESTION As I l...

WAPO GIVES BILL BARR PLATFORM TO ATTACK JOE BIDEN WITHOUT MENTIONING BARR’S ROLE IN FRAMING BIDEN Bill Barr’s decision to set up a side channel to funnel dirt collected by Donald Trump’s lawyer on Trump’s opponent’s son to prosecutors already investigating Hunter Biden led directly to Joe Biden bei...