How To Punish Trump For Sedition Even If Impeachment Fails February 01 | 2021
Trying to persuade Republican senators to convict former President Donald Trump in an impeachment trial is like trying to sell tickets for a trip on the Titanic after it sank. There is no more Titanic, and you wouldn t want to be on it anyway. They can t remove Trump from office now, and they wouldn t if they could.
Even Republican senators who are still suffering panic attacks about the Capitol violence must wonder if there is any point to impeaching the president who lit a fire under the mob.
Why vote to evict a president who is already gone? Why spend precious time debating the misdeeds of someone whom the American people have disowned? Why give Trump more time and attention?
In a legal brief submitted this week, one of the sources cited by former President Donald Trump s impeachment lawyers is a 2001 article by Brian C. Kalt, a University of Michigan law professor. According to a Twitter thread by Kalt, they have taken his arguments out of context "badly."
The GOP s latest culture war is focused squarely on the nation s transgender community, specifically transgender youth. It isn t a new war, simply a new front in an old war that can be traced back to the famed bathroom bills from some years ago that spread across dozens of states. Those bills were introduced in tandem with former President Donald Trump s targeted federal government-led attacks that included the overturning of anti-discrimination statutes protecting trans people and an outright transgender ban in the U.S. military.
Now, in the wake of Trump s humiliating electoral loss, Republicans have accelerated the state-level attacks to a breathtaking level. In just the first three months of 2021, GOP-led state legislatures introduced more bills aimed at transgender people, especially youth, than they did over the entire previous year. There are now more than 80 bills introduced this year alone that, according to Alphonso David, president of the Human Rights Campaign, are not
As U.S. lawmakers on Thursday prepared to take to the floor of the House of Representatives to tell their stories of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez blasted Republicans who cast aspersions upon her experiences on that deadly day.
Respect The Military â But Demilitarize Our Democracy
Reprinted with permission from TomDispatch
Last month s insurrection at the Capitol revealed the dismal failure of the Capitol Police and the Department of Defense to use their expertise and resources to thwart a clear and present danger to our democracy. As the government reform group Public Citizen tweeted, If you re spending $740,000,000,000 annually on defense but fascists dressed for the renaissance fair can still storm the Capitol as they please, maybe it s time to rethink national security?
At a time of acute concern about the health of our democracy, any such rethinking must, among other things, focus on strengthening the authority of civilians and civilian institutions over the military in an American world where almost the only subject the two parties in Congress can agree on is putting up ever more money for the Pentagon. This means so many in our political system need to wean themselves from the co