WILL THE SUPREME COURT GIVE THE PRESIDENT MORE IMMUNITY THAN A ROMAN EMPEROR?
Two Centuries of Ancient Legal Scholarship Applied the Same Laws to Leaders as Everyone Else
zocalopublicsquare.org/2024/05

Trump says he will only accept 2024 election results ‘if everything’s honest’
OFFS--here we go again with the sore loser
🙄🤬🗳️🇺🇸🗳️🤬🙄

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/05/02/pol

Stay alert, Grand Canyon State...
Don't be conned: Arizona's 1864 abortion ban was not actually repealed
There was no emergency clause in the bill, so the 1864 law won't go off the books until 90 days after the Legislature adjourns

azcentral.com/story/opinion/op

Arizona Lawmakers Secure Votes to Repeal 1864 Abortion Law
Two Republican state senators broke with their party, appearing to ensure final passage of the repeal. If it passes, Gov. Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, is expected to sign it.
nytimes.com/2024/05/01/us/ariz

Trump fails to rule out possibility of post-election violence
"if Trump, driven by his ridiculous and evidence-free assumptions, decides that he doesn’t believe the election was “fair,” he’s not prepared to rule out the possibility of political violence"
msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/m

Trump Is Now Raging at His Own Lawyer—and Wrecking a Big MAGA Fantasy
Over on Fox News, even Trump’s naps are a power move. The reality is different—and no one knows it more than Trump himself
newrepublic.com/article/181138

Trump to swing through 2 battleground states for 1st time since start of criminal hush money trial
"Former President Donald Trump is back on the campaign trail, hitting two battleground states Wednesday after severe weather and his legal calendar have prevented him from holding his traditional campaign stops for weeks"
Yeah...and all the golfing Donald did had nothing to do with it. Fuck you, @abcnews
abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-

How Far Trump Would Go
2nd term "backed by a slew of policy shops staffed by loyalists who have drawn up detailed plans in service of his agenda...would concentrate the powers of the state in the hands of a man whose appetite for power appears all but insatiable"

time.com/6972021/donald-trump-

Why Trump's abortion problem is suddenly back with a vengeance
"if Republican officials in red states start monitoring women’s pregnancies and prosecuting women, Trump has no interest in intervening. He’d simply allow those GOP officials to do as they pleased, regardless of the real-world consequences for the women affected by the far-right agenda"
msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/m

Bill Barr doesn’t mind a little autocracy if your politics are right
Collins asked whether it was “worse than subverting the peaceful transfer of power.”
“Did he succeed?” Barr replied.
The answer is “yes,” of course: Power was transferred, but the process was not peaceful. But, hey, at least no one suggested that cutting back on natural gas stoves would have potential health and environmental benefits.
...OFFS:
tinyurl.com/y5535stk

Callyson boosted

11. Clarence Thomas received gifts from wealthy benefactors with business before the court including:

— 38 vacations and counting
— 34 flights by private jet or helicopter
— A dozen VIP passes to sporting events
- Hundreds of thousands to Ginni
- A luxury RV
- Harlan Crow bought her house & now let's Clarence's mother live rent free
- Paying his family tuition
- Free car tires

Corrupt Clarence is out of the news because of donald's indictments, but don't lose sight of his massive corruption.

#scotus #fbi #doj #public #corruption

The Last Thing This Supreme Court Could Do to Shock Us
There will be no more self-soothing after this
"the court has now signaled that nothing he did was all that serious and that the danger he may pose is not worth reining in. The real threats they see are the ones Trump himself shouts...witch hunts and partisan Biden prosecutors. These men have picked their team"
🤬⚖️🤬
slate.com/news-and-politics/20

Trump's 'moods' are straining his staff's ability to get him to campaign
"having a hard time coping with all of the restrictions visited upon him as he attends the hush money trial..."The phrase around here is ‘the process is the punishment.'”
Poor Donald:
rawstory.com/trumps-moods/

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