He’s not the nominee yet. He’s endorsed by the MN Republican party, but the primary isn’t until August.
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It’s hard to find good reporting on Fox News’ 24-hour-cycle lying, but my lawyer aunt watches all the channels.
Apparently Fox News has been lying all day about the Trump hush money trial - for example, saying jurors don’t need to agree on what crime is committed, saying that they don’t require a unanimous decision to convict Trump, etc. etc. Basically implying in every way that the legal system is stacked against Trump and that the judge is blatantly, illegally cheating in one of the most famous court trials of our lifetimes.
Here’s one article. Trump is accused of the crime of falsifying business records and his doing so is tied to the intent to commit three more alleged crimes. If a juror believes that Trump did the crime with the intent of furthering another one of the alleged crimes, they are to vote accordingly.
So Fox News gets to this lie:
What this judge is telling this jury in this kind of make-it-up-as-you-go-along New York state prosecution of federal law is that when they get to the end of the rainbow and we get to the elements of the offense, the jury doesn’t have to be in agreement on what it is exactly that Trump did or what he was trying to commit or conceal when he allegedly falsified his business record.”
The jury would, hypothetically, be in agreement that Trump illegally falsified business records. They would agree that he did it with the intent of committing other crimes. They could believe that it was tied to all three crimes, or fewer crimes. Either way, they would be in agreement that he falsified business records.
Fox is great at burying their lies in a lot of other words containing some truth. When called out, they can just say you’re nitpicking words to fit a narrative.
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From Heather Cox Richardson’s most recent “Letter from an American”
Basically women can make decisions about decorating but not about their own bodies.
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The Louisiana legislature just passed a bill along party lines requiring posting the ten commandments in every classroom of schools that are state funded. This includes universities.
Talk about a waste of money if the governor signs it: spend a bunch of money posting these signs, then spend a bunch of money in legal costs defending posting them, and almost certainly see courts rule this unconstitutional under the establishment clause.
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Also, if he doesn’t recuse himself, that case has nowhere else higher to go to complain about his non-recusal. So, tough shit, America.
Actually, I do believe he can be impeached and removed upon conviction.
While that is possible, pretty sure it is improbable given the red state’s weight in the senate and their unwillingness to remove “one of their own.”
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Sure Alito “could” be impeached, but it would require 2/3rds vote of the Senate to “convict” him which is pretty improbable over the next decade at least.
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I certainly don’t think he would be impeached or convicted on this event, it is incorrect to say there is nowhere else higher to go.
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Yeah sure in theory you could appeal to Congress as a “check and balance” but in reality that’s not going to happen.
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More a function of who we put there than how it works.
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Well, there is who “we” put in there, and who “they” put in there.
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we is US.
Well, the R’s did want to check and balance Mayorkas, but I also think that was a misuse of impeachment.
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Wasn’t their argument basically “He did the job he was instructed to do by his boss”?
But they twisted it more like “He’s actively encouraging an invasion of our southern border by hardened criminals”.
I didn’t really try to formulate a coherent view of wth they were doing other than political theatre.
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