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Why Trump’s re-election campaign is the fourth phase of his attempted coup against the United States

Why Trump’s re-election campaign is the fourth phase of his attempted coup against the United States

Posted by | Sep 21, 2023

Trump’s attempted coup against the United States continues. We are now in phase three. Phase one was his refusal to concede the loss of the 2020 election and his big lie that the election was “stolen” from him, without any basis in fact. Trump’s actions in phase one were not illegal, but they were immoral. They violated the norms that every president before Trump had dutifully followed. Phase two was his plot to overturn the result of the 2020 election. Phase two was hatched even before election day. On 31 October 2020, Trump’s confidant Steve Bannon told associates that...

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Electoral crimes: How Trump’s indictments reveal a political conspiracy to end American democracy

Electoral crimes: How Trump’s indictments reveal a political conspiracy to end American democracy

Posted by | Sep 21, 2023

While it may be satisfying to call Trump and his enablers “fascists,” there is a deeper truth here, with which America must come to terms: the Trump/MAGA faction of the GOP has declared war on democracy itself. Funded by rightwing billionaires who, themselves, view democracy as an inconvenient pain-in-the-ass and, when Democrats talk about them “paying their fair share,” an actual threat, these MAGA Republicans have also joined forces with wealthy international elements dedicated to ending democracy all around the world. They are supported by a media machine itself largely created by rightwing billionaires — Murdoch’s Fox “News,” over...

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Power of Rhetoric: Why Trump’s claim of a “right to lie” to the public is core to his criminal defense

Power of Rhetoric: Why Trump’s claim of a “right to lie” to the public is core to his criminal defense

Posted by | Sep 20, 2023

Barack Obama, mindful of the urgent power of a president’s words, liked to say he was guarded with his language because anything he said could send troops marching or markets tumbling. His successor, Donald Trump, showed no such restraint. Now Trump is facing dozens of criminal charges in four separate indictments, two ofthem anchored in the Republican’s lie that he did not lose the 2020 presidential election to Democrat Joe Biden. And Trump’s propensity for falsehoods and his right to utter them are at the core of his legal defense. Though the U.S. presidency is vested with many overt...

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Extremist ideology: Why the Republican party is in crisis and trying to take the country down with them

Extremist ideology: Why the Republican party is in crisis and trying to take the country down with them

Posted by | Sep 19, 2023

Headlines on September 18 stated that “Congress” was in crisis. But that construction obscures the true story: the Republicans are in crisis, and they are taking the country down with them. The most immediate issue is that funding for the government ends on September 30. The Senate, controlled by Democrats, is moving forward on a strongly bipartisan basis with 12 appropriations bills that reflect the deal President Biden hammered out with Speaker Kevin McCarthy in May to get House Republicans to agree not to default on the United States debt. That deal, the Washington Post editorial board pointed out,...

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Unlawful charade: Member of secret panel studying removal of Justice Protasiewicz supported her rival

Unlawful charade: Member of secret panel studying removal of Justice Protasiewicz supported her rival

Posted by | Sep 19, 2023

One of the former Wisconsin Supreme Court justices tapped to investigate impeaching newly elected Justice Janet Protasiewicz for taking Democratic Party money accepted donations from the state Republican Party when he was on the court. The former justice, Republican David Prosser, gave $500 to the conservative candidate who lost to Judge Protasiewicz, did not recuse from cases involving a law he helped pass as a lawmaker, and was investigated after a physical altercation with a liberal justice. Prosser is one of three former justices tapped by the Republican Assembly speaker to investigate the criteria for taking the unprecedented step...

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How a conservative Supreme Court turned back decades of Civil Rights precedents in a single year

How a conservative Supreme Court turned back decades of Civil Rights precedents in a single year

Posted by | Sep 19, 2023

Overturning Roe v. Wade and eliminating affirmative action in higher education had been leading goals of the conservative legal movement for decades. In a span of 370 days, a Supreme Court reshaped by three justices nominated by President Donald Trump made both a reality. Last June, the court ended nationwide protections for abortion rights. This past week, the court’s conservative majority decided that race-conscious admissions programs at the oldest private and public colleges in the country, Harvard and the University of North Carolina, were unlawful. Precedents that had stood since the 1970s were overturned, explicitly in the case of...

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