soon. we are out of preseason and we want to know how to prevent that from happening. i think that the argument if you are prosecuting a case dan knows 100 times more about this than i do. you can build a paper case. sometimes it matters more there are some cases that are paper cases. they want to produce all of the paper they can. it has been a big 24 hours for that if the courts continue to rule the way they are ruling on the question of executive privilege. but on the question of making people understand i think it is a false binary. i don t think it s about tiling. i don t mind they haven t done them yet. they can do them next year. hearings is not the point. hearings might be point but are they going to be buried in the middle of the day on cable? are they going to be on primetime? is the whole thing going to involve a media communication strategy that works on every level on the digital level, on the television level, on print
had overseen the last election. the democratic majority of three black women was gone. so was the black election supervisor. now a faction of three white republicans control the board. the spalding board s new chairman has endorsed former president donald trump s false stolen election claims on social media. the report continues, noting the trend was taking place in other counties as well. quote, the panel in spalding, a rural patch south of atlanta, is one of six county boards that republicans have quietly reorganized in recent months through similar county-specific state legislation. the changes expanded the party s power over choosing members of local election boards ahead of the crucial midterm congressional elections in november 2022. these changes all follow the passage of sb-202, which allows the republican-controlled state election board to assume control of county boards if it determines that they re underperforming. the state board has already
what kinds of relief can be provided here. even if we do get an initial injunction that stops it from going into effect right now it will be overturned when this case is almost certainly appealed to the fifth circuit. i want the read more from justice sotomayor s dissent. it feels like another one we will be read asking talking about for a very long time. let me start here. this is a brazen challenge to our federal structure. it echos the philosophy of john c. calhoun, a rural issent defender of the slave holding south who insists the states have the right to or nullify any federal law with which they disagreed. the supreme court s interpretations of the constitution are not the constitution itself. they are, after all, called opinions. the nation fought a civil war over that proposition. melissa? well, the previous to which justice sotomayor is referring,
permits and were talking to government functionaries about how to set up the basic details of how these rallies came together and led to the attack on january 6th. the witness list for next week includes some of the bigger names in donald trump s orbit, like bill stepien, his former campaign manager. folks who can help connect what donald trump was doing in the leadup not to january 6th, but to election day, and at a time immediately afterwards when the streaming for what became january 6th started to come together. so we are seeing all of those pieces get linked. i can tell you with regards to eugene robinson s column i said similar things to the committee. at some point they have got to talk about what they are finding it cannot just come in leaks if they want people to trust their finding. the answer i have gotten back time and time again is that those public hearings, the public reveal will come at a time of their choosing. liz cheney is talk approximating doing weeks of hearings w
oversight of potential white house law enforcement are not legitimate purposes. in other words, in response to this attack on political order we should do nothing meaningful to protect our system against another one? all of this amid the looming threat of an attempt to steal the next election. it s leading for calls for the select committee to be more visible, broadcast its findings even as the investigation is firing on all cylinders. eugene robinson rights, investigate the house select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection at capitol will fail us if it quietly goes about its work. it needs to be louder. the way to investigate a crime with an eye toward prosecution, and january 6th was definitely a