Executive Director, Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights. Co-author, Breaching the Mainstream. Old school anti-fascist. Hockey fan. he/him.
It was not a Million MAGA on the streets of DC today, but it would be catastrophic to not take what happened today seriously. This is a beginning, not the end. We're witnessing the initial coalescing of a wide range of far-right forces into mass opposition.
AZ Attorney General Kris Mayes’ will take the "fake electors" case back to a grand jury after the AZ Supreme Court denied her request to review a judge’s decision that sent the case back to square one.
https://t.co/DctaGlb9oe
🚨BREAKING: A lawyer active in lawsuits seeking to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory, and later represented the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of killing George Floyd, is the latest attorney to be hired by DOJ’s Voting Section. https://t.co/eJlU2JZObc
"Musk, again, has been interfering in our politics in the last few days, trying to whip up division," @Keir_Starmer
Here's our story about how @elonmusk and far-right American influencers have been exploiting the murder of #HenryNowak
https://t.co/02keeOmtJq
NEWS: A @lawfare report finds that *97* Jan. 6ers who received clemency for their role in the attack were arrested, charged, or convicted of subsequent crimes—a number much higher than previously reported.
Incredible work from Katherine Pompilio:
https://t.co/AJMPxwb1al
NEW: The DOJ has moved to appeal a federal judge’s ruling that barred it from demanding access to Arizona’s voter registration database, per @JimSmall via @ArizonaMirror. Read: https://t.co/xsEbeertys
I have a new piece out on @boltsmag covering how @UniondelBarrio & other organizers in San Diego are still patrolling immigrant neighborhoods to watch for ICE. Following what they've seen out of Minneapolis, organizers have had to adapt their strategies.
https://t.co/8ijkjRNtOS
In a new court filing, the Southern Poverty Law Center says DOJ inappropriately sent a draft grand jury indictment of SPLC to reporters, with even the prosecutor in the case unaware of what was going on. https://t.co/Ij4WbXV2ut
Influential figures, including Nick Fuentes, have been accused of “hijacking” the murder of Henry Nowak to push a racist agenda. https://t.co/4FfsdaVIVt
The man who headed Trump's invasions of US cities joined the US and European far-right in Portugal to preach "remigration"—a plan to expel all minorities and immigrants. https://t.co/8YMXCvPQcX
Sotomayor, joined by Kagan and Jackson, issues a 17-page dissent to the 4-page order:
"[J]ust as Alabama doubled down on racial discrimination, the Court today doubles down on chaos."
BREAKING: In an unsigned, per curiam opinion on the shadow docket, the SCOTUS conservatives allow Alabama to use a congressional map held repeatedly by a lower court to have been enacted with discriminatory intent.