Election deniers had their cars vandalized and then complained the cops didn’t help them
This is excellent:
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Good riddance.
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Well, this means some acting AG will wreak havok for a month and a half.
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Maybe? but the guy taking over isn’t known to be a complete Trump toadie so unknown.
Barr worked for Kirkland & Ellis, as did Jeff Rosen (who will be acting AG), Brett Kavanaugh; Robert Bork; Ken Starr; John R. Bolton, Alexander Acosta, and Alex Azar all worked for that law firm.
I think Barr’s firing precedes Trump’s final legal spasms that even Barr wouldn’t tolerate. If I’m right, this is not a benign event.
Among Kirkland & Ellis people and their clients (The BP Deepwater Horizon spill, Bain Capital, Jeffrey Epstein), Barr’s reputation is sterling.
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The mental gymnastics here are astounding.
Oh, and the Pence lawsuit I mentioned in the above post was dismissed.
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Joe Manchin has become the single most important senator, if not politician, in the country.
Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t the big deal here not that the dems have a baby majority but that the speaker isn’t the turtle.
Joe Manchin is the single most important senator when dems need a simple majority. To do anything big like M4A for instance, requires 60, which dems don’t have.
The most important senator I think right now is whoever ends up replacing the turtle. Now things can actually be brought to a vote. Does Manchin really matter when it comes to, for instance, confirming judges?
I guess I simply don’t know enough about senate procedure to know when 50 is all it takes, and when it requires 60.
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True, but in order to do anything really ambitious, the Democrats would need to nuke the Senate filibuster. If they do that, then everything becomes a simple majority vote.
The Democrats would need Manchin to sign off on nuking the filibuster, but even if that happens, his individual power actually increases because he then becomes the most conservative (little c) member of the Democratic caucus. In a 50/50 split senate, the Democrats can’t afford to lose even one vote, and they’re highly unlikely to get any Republican votes, unless Romney, Murkowski, or Collins decide to vote with the Dems, something I don’t see happening.
Yea it’s super important, Dem’s wouldn’t be able to bring bills to the floor at all if Mitch was the majority leader. Judges would be at the mercy of Mitch, appointment that need to go thru the senate. It’s a huge deal that they have 50. It doesn’t get them everything but it gives them like 60-70% more power than they would have had if they just had the house and the presidency.
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Lots of updates today.
Pelosi and Schumer call for Trump’s impeachment.
Shopify and PayPal have removed all Trump-related accounts.
William Barr condemns Trump’s actions.
Trump is banned from Facebook.
EDIT: I just went to Twitter and I saw this.
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Betsy DeVos has resigned. Holy shit.
And these other people too, I guess.
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These people spent years wrecking the United States, and even their departure is at the time where it hurts the country most, because they should have done what was best for it and invoked the 25th Amendment.
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