MEMO TO ATTORNEY GENERAL GARLAND:
If one federal judge after another can conclude that it was former President Trump and his inner circle who "stoked the flames of fear" that led to the Jan. 6 violence, where are you and a grand jury?
https://t.co/e4W0zUpWzm via @politico
Dear Merrick Garland,
First we were told DOJ can't prosecute a sitting President.
A year later it looks like DOJ won't prosecute a former President.
You have Trump on TAPE breaking a Federal law (52 U.S.C. 20511) and nothing is happening to him.
Why?
If Abbott felt any sense of duty to the people he’s supposed to serve, we never would’ve lost 74000 lives to Covid & we could’ve gotten Texans back to work much sooner.
We need leadership that looks out for Texans, follows the science, and guarantees basic government competency.
Just get rid of the filibuster. The Democrats got rid of it for judicial nominations. The Republicans got rid of it for Supreme Court nominations. It’s not in the Constitution. There’s no compelling case for it. Quit playing games with it. Just get rid of it altogether.
JUST IN: U.S. President Joe Biden announces air travellers into that country will need to provide negative COVID-19 test a day before flying in, regardless of nationality/vax status. Previously air travellers needed to provide negative test taken three days before departure.
Schumer is too weak to be leader in these times. I have said this all along and been right. He is willing to cost us our chance to take steps to secure and save our democracy so he won't be primaried. The clock is ticking away!
Extremely damning. If Trump's former chief of staff Mark Meadows isn't lying, then Trump was guilty of depraved indifference to human life and of an attempt to gravely injure and potentially assassinate the Democratic candidate for the presidency.
Justice Sotomayor on "forcing women who are poor" to proceed with unwanted pregnancies:
"Now the state is saying to these women, we can choose not only to physically complicate your existence, put you at medical risk, make you poorer by the choice, because we believe what?"
SC Justice Sonia Sotomayor may have done more to help future voter turnout than anyone in history:
“Will this institution survive the stench that this creates in the public perception that the Constitution and its reading are just political acts? I don’t see how it is possible.”
New via Guardian US: Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have been condemned by anti-corruption watchdogs for accepting a flood of money from Republican and corporate donors.
Memo to reporters: at every turn, ask Susan Collins if she will vote for filibuster reform to codify Roe v Wade in legislation. If she says no, report her alleged support for legislation for what it is: smoke and mirrors.
Democrats in Georgia have flipped 48 SEATS in local races across the state this cycle!
The media won’t talk about this story, so retweet this far and wide!
Today, the Supreme Court considered a case that could ultimately overturn Roe.
A “conservative” court would uphold precedent. But a “partisan” court may not — and this may be the most partisan court in history.
We must protect a woman’s right to choose.
As the Supreme Court hears arguments on a dangerous anti-abortion law, we cannot sit idly by as states try to end Roe v. Wade and move us backward.
I'm calling on New York state to set up a fund that will allow individuals to travel to our state to access abortion services.