Order including alvin bragg and his own family. That ruling came in an order last night following a filing from alvin Braggs Office and in the wake of repeated attacks and ongoing ones by trump on the judges daughter. The kind of stuff so completely nonsensical and baseless and Out Of Bounds that most normal criminal defendants would not contemplate launching attacks like this. But donald trump is no ordinary criminal defendant, is he. Next expresident. With just two weeks to go before he goes on trial. He was intent on turning the proceedings into a circus. To benefit him politically, because he knows that winning the white house may be his only way out of his now many legal trev ails. The judge dismisses the claim that hes exercising his First Amendment right to free speech when he charges the judges daughter, and that is judge talk for a lie. This pattern after tacking Family Members of presiding jurists and attorneys assigned to his cases serves no legitimate purpose. It merely inj
call sort of special interest things they have been concertedly devoted to. there s like, making sure there are as many guns as possible on american streets, with no restrictions if at all possible. i mean, when the republicans got full control of the government in january 2017 when they got the house and senate and trump in the white house, one of the very first things they did, one of the very first acts of that republican congress in their first days in control was that they repealed restrictions on gun ownership specifically for people who had officially been adjudicated to be mentally ill. i mean, that s devotion to the cause. if the first thing you do with power is move to make more guns available to people who are formally certified to be crazy, you might have a gun problem. so yes, they have worked on their guns thing for sure. they have also worked intently on removing as many protections as possible for the environment,
and there has been nothing that the political right and the republican party has worked harder or more concertedly to take away. and that concerted effort by them over nearly 50 years now has brought us to now. this case tomorrow. this is the case they have teed up. this is what they have been working on. this is the court they have teed up with republican supreme court nominations. this is the thing they have wanted more than any other identifiable individual outcome in policy in nearly five decades. tomorrow is the day they think they re finally going to ban abortion in the united states. and let the government decide whether or not women bring pregnancies to term, let the government decide when women have children, let the government decide what you can do even if your doctor tells you that baby won t survive, even if your pregnancy was the result of a rape, even if your pregnancy was the result of incest, even
i was born the same year as roe v. wade. i was born in 1973. this has been the arc of american politics over the course of my natural life. and if for that time period you want to play my favorite game, which is watch what they do, not what they say, judge them on their behavior, not on their rhetoric, well, what we have actually seen the political right work on in this country in the past 40, 50 years is a pretty narrow list. and a pretty consistent list. there are some sort of what i call sort of special interest things they have been concertedly devoted to. there s like, making sure there are as many guns as possible on american streets, with no restrictions if at all possible. i mean, when the republicans got full control of the government in january 2017 when they got the house and senate and trump in the white house, one of the very first things they did, one of the very first acts of that republican congress in their first days in control was that they repealed restrictions on
importance for the political right and for the republican party. and whatever else abortion means in the world, it s key to the self-determination of women. if, when, and with whom a woman has a child, her being the decision maker when it comes to what she s going to do if she finds herself pregnant, there just is no more determinative thing in terms of a woman s ability to write the story of her own life, to set her own course on this earth. and there has been nothing that the political right and the republican party has worked harder or more concertedly to take away. and that concerted effort by them over nearly 50 years now has brought us to now. this case tomorrow. this is the case they have teed up. this is what they have been working on. this is the court they have teed up with republican supreme court nominations. this is the thing they have