
Some links to Q-related items today…
Continue reading Trump secretly flies to Texas for the coming storm — set your Q decoders to Red5!
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Tonight is a busy night in Covid Relief Legislative Theater, so I’ll try to briefly summarize because it’s a bit confusing. Continue reading McConnell adds Section 230 repeal as a poison pill to kill $2,000 checks
Today Clare Bronfman was sentenced to 6.75 years in prison, which was more time than the prosecution was seeking. She was handcuffed in court and taken away. Continue reading Clare Bronfman, who funded Nxivm’s attacks on enemies, gets 6.75 years in prison
In April, the Daily Mail described Paul Barresi as a “notorious private investigator” who had been hired by Amber Heard to dig up dirt on her ex-husband Johnny Depp. According to that story, Heard’s request backfired when Barresi not only couldn’t find anyone with a bad word to say about the Pirates of the Caribbean actor, but then he also went public with it.
As a matter of judicial politics, Chief Justice John Roberts played the Presidential financial records cases masterfully, writing two 7-2 opinions that had the full buy-in of the court’s liberal wing. He easily disposed of the President’s preposterous claims as to the executive office’s inviolability, sparing the court the indignity of endorsing Trump’s shit show. Yet, by remanding with further instructions to the lower courts, he provided the President with the likely means to run out the clock between now and November. Roberts is having a very Marbury v Madison term, issuing opinions that simultaneously giveth and taketh away, while reasserting the court’s place in the Constitutional scheme. Continue reading Understanding the clever politics of Chief Justice Roberts on Trump’s tax records
I mentioned the other day how the Queens County Surrogate Court is the wrong place to ask that a book not be published. Today Robert Trump evidently found the right place — the Dutchess County Supreme Court — to get his injunction against Mary Trump’s forthcoming tell-all about the Trump family. Continue reading How Walter Sobchak would react to the judge’s order holding up Mary Trump’s book
A few places have already reported on Florida’s firing in late May of Rebekah Jones (@GeoRebekah), a scientist at the Florida Department of Health and the architect of Florida’s online COVID-19 dashboard. But her story needs amplification because it’s indicative of the data manipulation that’s happening in red states everywhere, and it all adds up to a gross, and possibly even criminal abuse of power — less for her firing than the reasons for it and what they’ve done since she left. |
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