@mattyglesias One's term is up in January, another in March 2028, and a third reaches retirement age in 2029. If Democrats will next year only one will remain.
NEW: For the first time in modern history, the Pentagon offered no Good Friday services for Catholics.
While Catholics don't celebrate Mass on Good Friday, they do venerate the cross of Jesus Christ and receive the Eucharist.
Earlier this year, Pete Hegseth invited his pastor to speak at the Pentagon. That pastor has called for banning public expressions of Catholicism in the United States.
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It is impossible for states to “disobey” an executive order. An executive order is a vehicle by which a president directs executive-branch officials how to administer existing law.
Trump cannot “mandate” how states administer their absentee-ballot laws. Insofar as the EO will threaten to withhold federal funds, Trump will need a statutory basis for imposing that condition. (And if he has one, why hasn’t he acted before now?)
Republicans should not, in fact, “nationalize the voting.”
If you were worried about election integrity before, this would make things infinitely worse.
Decentralized elections are one of the greatest protections against large-scale fraud and abuse.
@chad_mizelle The oath that every USA attorney takes (mine in 1994) is based ENTIRELY upon loyalty to the **Constitution**.
Loyalty, instead, to a person, party or alternative ideology = betrayal of oath.
The focus here on loyalty to a person (no mention of the Constitution!) is un-American.
If support for incumbent the president is now a condition of enforcing federal law, Congress should defund DOJ. DOJ should only exist if it’s nonpartisan. Too dangerous to liberty otherwise. If AG Garland’s office had posted this, MAGA & GOP would be calling for impeachment.
"Decline is a choice," said Charles Krauthammer. Some of us thought that this decline, this choice, would come from the anti-American Left. But just as dangerous, if not more: the nationalist-populist Right, waving the American flag all the while ...
"As Francisco Franco’s reputation grows on the far right, a new history of his regime reminds us of its unrelenting violence.": https://t.co/nJhv7wJMAl
QAnon knows nothing about anything so they imagine USAID as some Soros backed slush fund that deals in trafficking guns and drugs instead of an effort to feed starving people in Africa.
Bannon has veered from "I have a secret plan to make Trump president for all eternity" to "I'm probably going to prison when Democrats take the House" in two weeks.