Josh Orton

The Trump admin is quietly deleting info about the Capitol attack from the DOJ website as it prepares to give funds to J6ers. This week, DOJ deleted a press release about one man with an ongoing child solicitation case who came to the Capitol with bear spray. Before and after:

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Having gutted the Voting Rights Act, our corrupt, far-right Supreme Court is busy remaking Congress in their image. Your weekly reminder: there's a compelling case for the impeachment and removal of at least two justices.

Trump’s attacks on our free and fair elections won’t stop.

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Today, without explanation, three Democratic senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance a South Carolina Trump judicial nominee who refused to acknowledge that Joe Biden won the 2020 election or that the Capitol was attacked on January 6th, 2021. This nominee, along with the 37 Trump judges already confirmed, disqualified herself by submitting to a political litmus test from Trump to prove loyalty. Yet in a midterm election year, just as Democrats are finding their voice standing up to Donald Trump, Senators Durbin, Whitehouse, and Coons yet again voted to enable Trump’s continued attacks on the rule of law. Put simply, there is no moral, political, or historical reason to vote for any judicial nominee who enables a president’s lies about his attempts to overthrow an elected government. Donald Trump is a wannabe-authoritarian abusing our legal system to punish his perceived political enemies. Just this week, Todd Blanche brought a second bogus charge against James Comey, this time in the Eastern District of North Carolina. Trump’s vengeance is not limited by geography, rationality, or law, and it’s impossible to believe that a judge unwilling to admit Trump lost in 2020 could provide a fair trial to, for example, an American facing a lawless political prosecution. In a time of crisis, these three senators have chosen a delusion of normalcy over their obligation to their country, their constituents, their party, and the Constitution.

🚨 HOT MIC: Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) was caught asking staff during questioning of Trump judicial nominees: “What would be wrong if they said Biden won?” Multiple people in the room heard it. GOP staffers were reportedly panicking, according to sources familiar.

Justice Kagan: "I dissent. The Voting Rights Act is—or, now more accurately, was—'one of the most consequential, efficacious, and amply justified exercises of federal legislative power in our Nation's history.' It was born of the literal blood of Union soldiers and civil rights marchers. It ushered in awe-inspiring change, bringing this Nation closer to fulfilling the ideals of democracy and racial equality. And it has been repeatedly, and overwhelmingly, reauthorized by the people's representatives in Congress. Only they have the right to say it is no longer needed—not the Members of this Court. I dissent, then, from this latest chapter in the majority's now-completed demolition of the Voting Rights Act."