white house meeting in december of 2020. flynn along with a crew of trump s lawyers like rudy giuliani and sidney powell, presented an avalanche of baseless claims of election fraud, while the white house lawyers debunked all of them. at that meeting, sydney powell presented trump with a draft executive order that would have directed the military to seize our nation s voting machines. a lot of that plan would have also made sydney powell herself a special counsel, and could have imposed martial law, and require a re-run of the election. obviously, that didn t, and thankfully, in the happening. the mutinous ideas pitched in that oval office meeting did not exist in a vacuum. they were part of a desperate effort by trump s outside legal team to upend the results of the 2020 election. those lawyers would ultimately file and lose more than 60 lawsuits, pushing bogus instances of election fraud. so, it makes sense that the wall street journal today is reporting that special counse
reporting to special counsel jack smith will square off in front of a three-judge pam of the court of appeals for the d.c. circuit. at issue whether trump has immunity for conduct he undertook as president or cannot otherwise face prosecution because it would represent double jeopardy. that s the legal issue. but what s most important here is the timing. trial court judge has determined she can t move forward until this issue is resolved. she entered an order on december 13 saying trump s appeal automatically stays any further proceedings that would otherwise move the case toward trial. but that stay could be lifted after the outcome of tuesday s argument. for sure, the losing side is going to appeal to the supreme court after perhaps first asking for the first court of the appellate court to hear the matter on bond. the losing party has 90 days to ask for supreme court review. as i detailed before, smith is eager to get trump tried before the election. trump, on the other ha
he appeared in a video released this morning saying, we still are in a fight for the soul of the nation. he spoke about the need to, in his, words defender mobocracy. he repeatedly spoke with the need to stand up for what he termed personal freedom. this time, not just against the extremism of former president who hopes to retake the white house, but republican party, the president believes is enabled by him. and has been the work of my first term to fight for it democracy. this shouldn t be a red and blue issue. to protect our, rights to make sure that everyone in this country is treated equally, and everyone is given a fair shot at making it. but around the country, maga extremists are those bench rock freedoms, cutting social security that you paid for your entire life, while cutting taxes for the very wealthy. dictating what health care decisions women can make. banning books, telling people who they can love. all making it more difficult for you to be able to vot
country hadn t heard of so we zephyr, but as the montana legislation was in session that year, she was paying close attention to the bills that were introduced, and she was fervently tweeting about them. zephyr is a trans woman. she was enraged by something called s b to 80, a piece of legislation which would ve made it difficult for transgender people to update their birth certificate. she commented on twitter, quote, having my birth certificate updated, and having it remove my that name, meaning the name that a transgender was given at birth, but no longer goes by, is one of the greatest joys i ve experienced. moments later, the bill passed the state senate by the slimmest of margins with a vote of 26 to 24. zephyr took note and wrote, quote, it would only take one person to have protected my community from discrimination. if that doesn t make it clear that we need trans representation and government, i don t know what will. ten minutes later, she tweeted again, quote, i am