SCOTUS took the Trump immunity case yesterday. Chris Hayes gave a very fine hair-on-fire rant on their ruling, and brought in Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O’Donnell for two blocks of his show All In. They agreed that this is judicial cowardice and collusion in delay. This will turn out to be an amazing issue in the rest of the election campaign, all up and down the ballots in every significant state.
Lawrence says that his hair isn’t even warm, because the real decision will be up to the voters.
One may also observe that this is judicial suicide.
‘The fix is in’: Coup trial delay reveals Supreme Court ‘in cahoots’ with Trump
No one needs to wonder anymore whether this right-wing court will—audaciously, flagrantly, in front of the whole nation—use their power to run the clock out so that Donald Trump faces no legal accountability.
says Chris Hayes on the Supreme Court taking up the Trump immunity case, further delaying his Jan. 6 trial.
Live arguments on April 22, decision maybe in early July, trial date ???
This is B.S.—you were doing this as a dilatory tactic to help your political friend.
says Rachel Maddow on the Supreme Court agreeing to hear the Trump immunity argument, delaying his coup trial.
And for you to say that this is something that the Court needs to decide because it's something that's unclear in the law is just flagrant, flagrant bullpucky.
We Make Good News
We have the money. We have all of the issues. We have the organization. We have the messages, many of which we thank them for, because we can just play recordings of them. And we have the votes.
Non lessi illegitimi te carborundum.
When you don’t negotiate with political terrorists in advance, but show your strength by organizing, they are terrified. They get the screaming meemies. And whatever they scream about loudest, we calmly do more of.
We passed Medicaid expansion for all, and President Obama signed the bill. Then SCOTUS said
No, we aren’t, and you can’t make us.
But now ever more states WANT to do it.
...that out to the voters. And it’s a cycle.”
This is not “coverage of migrant crime on Fox”. This is lies, damned lies, and lying, made-up, pretend statistics.
We need more talk about the Supreme Court's despicable move on presidential immunity
by Meteor Blades, Daily Kos Staff Emeritus (Timothy Lange)
I am surprised that there haven’t been more diaries like BayAreaKen’s about the Supreme Court choosing to review the lower court ruling that the arguments favoring absolute presidential immunity made by the former White House occupant’s lawyers were quite the pile of malarkey. Nonsense on their face.
OK, I’m in. Also,
There will be much more today.
Rabidly Repellent Republicans Rushing to Ruin→Bad News for Them
#trumpisbroke was trending while I was writing this.
The Supreme Court agreed to decide whether former President Donald Trump can claim presidential immunity over criminal election interference charges. MSNBC’s Ari Melber is joined by former RNC Chair Michael Steele and The Nation correspondent Elie Mystal, who says SCOTUS is “trying to make Trump win.” (Check out The Beat's playlist, Connect with Ari Melber)
The Supreme Court rejected Rep. Greene’s bid to overturn the hefty fines she incurred for repeatedly refusing to wear a mask on the House floor during the pandemic. “That’s right—Marjorie Taylor Greene took her Covid conspiracies all the way to the highest court in the land,” says Jen Psaki.
The GOP is risking angering veterans to hurt poor mothers
New Republican demands over funding for WIC and SNAP could derail efforts to prevent a partial shutdown.
Katy Tur speaks with former White House Director of Communications and Co-host of the MSNBC podcast 'How To Win 2024', Jennifer Palmieri, on reproductive rights as a key 2024 campaign issue.
Steve Kornacki: Why Trump wins independents in polls while struggling with them in primaries
Survey data, election results and demographics shine a light on the particular type of independent turning out to vote against Trump in the GOP primaries.
A look at general election polling reveals a completely different story among independent voters — and a dive into all the other data we have on the 2024 presidential race shows why Trump’s poor independent numbers in the primary and better performance in general election polls are completely consistent with each other. The short answer: These are two very different groups of voters.
The answer that reconciles those figures, or at least a big part of them, with the general election polling is that many of these Haley votes are likely coming from people who already cast ballots against Trump in 2016 and 2020 — and who are committed to doing so again in 2024.
Tennessee Republicans Have a Devious New Plan to Kick Out Democrats
Tennessee Republicans tried to kick out Democratic representatives once before, with the Tennessee Three. Now, they have a plan to make sure it’ll stick the next time around.
The Tennessee House of Representatives has passed a bill prohibiting local governments from reappointing lawmakers who were expelled for “disorderly behavior,” a clear jab at two Democratic representatives in particular.
House Bill 2716 passed the Republican-dominated chamber Monday by a vote of 69-22. The measure, which now moves to the Republican-controlled Senate, states that if a local legislature needs to elect a successor for a vacant seat in the state General Assembly,
and the vacancy was created due to the expulsion of a member for disorderly behavior, then the local legislative body shall not elect the expelled legislator to be the successor to fill the vacant seat.
‘Donald Trump is a juggernaut of justice’: The most bizarre things said at CPAC 2024
‘They hate Christianity ... if you pull the Constitution out on you know, they run like it’s a crucifix,’ Alabama senator says of political opponents
Mike Johnson’s religion-heavy speech falls flat: ‘I’m not at church’
Republicans bemoan House speaker’s ‘sermon’ at presentation on how to maintain congressional majority
Mr Johnson is understood to have exasperated colleagues by veering off on a tangent about dwindling church membership in the United States, suggesting that citizens often look to the government for leadership when their spiritual needs are not being met and advised his fellow Republicans that they should seek to capitalise on that desire for direction and guidance.
One source cited by Politico suggested his inspirational message had fallen flat in the room and that the presentation had been “horrible”.
“I’m not at church,” the attendee complained. “I think what he was trying to do, but failed on the execution of it, was try to bring us together.
If you think you understand Rand Paul and Putin propaganda, that is evidence that you do not.
Science! Animals! Weirdness!
Unholy Rackett plays Giorgio Mainerio's Caro Ortolano (1578)
A rackett is a bassoon folded into a short tube. For some reason that I do not know PDQ Bach never wrote anything for one.
Funny or Fuggedaboudit
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Republicans use plane safety hearing to rant about Taylor Swift and ‘illegal foreign nationals’
One Republican congressman said Boeing was hiding its decline behind ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’.
Texas Republican Troy Nehls said that older Canadian pilots were using the same runways as American pilots, and bizarrely claimed that “Taylor Swift, flying to the Super Bowl in her supersonic jet” was among them.
Committee chairman Garrett Graves noted after Mr Nehl’s time expired that he did not believe Swift was in possession of a supersonic jet.
Close-Out Counter Music
P. D. Q. Bach's argh-inspiring ''Missa hilarious'' for bargain counter tenor, basso blotto, chorus, and orchestra S. N₂O.
- Bargain counter tenor John Ferrante
- Basso blotto Harris Poor
- Duh Brooklyn Boys Chorus
- Ransom Wilson & Diva Goodfriend-Koven (tape recorders, hand flutes, corrugahorn, nose flutes)
- Early Anderson (trombonus interruptus)
- The New York Pick-Up Ensemble
Conducted by Prof. Peter Schickele, legendary head of the Department of Musical Pathology at the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople.
Illustration from the lower right corner of The Garden of Earthly Delights, oil on oak, by Hieronymus Bosch