the republican party s presidential front runner was convicted by a jury of his peers on 34 felony counts. that is the reality. the republican party must now grapple with that. if they were into reality. that is an issue. but what makes this all even more difficult for the gop is that trump s conviction has zero to do with president biden. trump was convicted in the case brought by a new york city prosecutor who does not report president biden. trump is facing another 10 criminal charges from another local prosecutor in georgia who does not report to president biden. even the two federal cases were brought by an independent special counsel who neither takes orders from coordinates with president biden. so donald trump has reacted the way he traditionally does when reality does not fit his preferred narrative. he lies about it. he claims that president biden is the one who is really pulling the strings. these are all biden cases. this is using the justice department to go af
when will they do that? the right, they never want to assume something until it is done. that is the game and they are very cautious, because the goal is to win. once the case was taken up it was like okay, this is go time and then there was a question of will the strategy be to ask for a full overturn as the first argument or will it be to uphold the mississippi law itself and then asked to overturn as the second? it was the mississippi attorney general s office that decided no, we are going to go for the whole thing, which shows the radicalization of this movement. this is not the same religious right, the same antiabortion movement of 30 years ago. the southern evangelicals weren t even sure they were against the decision initially, right? no, they supported it.