called on the U.S. military to remove

What the fuck?? That is not how we do things in this country.

Which is why Stan Woodward, the AAG, has been flying all over the country lately, signing his name alone to a bunch of filings.

He can’t recruit anyone else to do it with him.

I’m not sure what argument the government’s attorney could make about this in court.

The argument is that all these upcoming Congressional investigations will infringe on the minions’ 1A right to freely associate with Donald Trump.

he received a letter from a U.S. attorney informing him he’s being investigated for conducting a congressional inquiry.

I don’t know how you can spin any 1A claim into a criminal investigation. That’s not how that works. Criminal investigations are only conducted by the government. The first amendment is only a protection from government interference.

Also, did the federal prosecution of John Gotti infringe on his right to associate with la Cosa nostra? Noooo.

And, of course, there’s the speech and debate clause that you mentioned.

In case you forgot, Chris Van Hollen went to the foreign torture prison to assist his constituent.

That required at least some personal bravery.

As far as I know, the Kennedy Center’s donation problems didn’t really start until after a judge told him they couldn’t put Donald Trump’s name on the building.

This is aimed at some opinions that Kavanaugh wrote that suggest that maybe Kavanaugh won’t second guess any “national security” rationale for this arch, no matter how flimsy it is.

Kavanaugh is often what passes for a swingy vote on the court nowadays.

The leader’s main job is fundraising. And recruiting candidates who can win. Jeffries has been very effective at both.

He’s got committee chairs / ranking members to handle specific issues.

I hereby sentence him to APA Lawsuit.

It’s not just a rebrand. It’s an attempt to invoke National Security Concerns ™ in the arch lawsuit. And then they’ll say the the judicial branch should not scrutinize the National Security determinations of the Executive branch.

Making Attorneys Get Attorneys.

I think the whole strategy is to win the provisional ballot fight and get the secretary of state to trigger a recount on the main ballots and hope that recount goes really well for them and shutdown any further recounting after that and then somehow keep the provisionals from ever being counted.

I think it’s a lot of hopium.

Provisional ballots are created when a voter shows up at the poll, but there’s some kind of problem with their registration that prevents them from voting. On election day the provisional ballots are tossed in a metaphorical pile labelled “in case of close race, open me.”

In most elections, the margin of victory is high enough that no one needs to open the provisional ballots or check their eligibility.

But in this race, it is close enough, so they now need to check whether each individual provisional vote is really eligible to vote or not. This is called “chase and cure,” and it usually involves tracking down and talking to the voters and others (the chase) and getting whatever documentation is missing to establish the eligibility (the cure).

The Republican party doesn’t want these ballots to be cured or counted, because they expect the votes inside to skew heavily Democratic. So they will oppose. Partly because they caused a bunch of the provisional ballots by kicking people off the rolls wrongly.

However, I think this is a pretty good position for Colom, if he has an 1,800 lead or so, and he expects any added votes to skew to him.

She’s in the same seat that was held by Strom Thurmond and John C. Calhoun. That’s just wild to think about.

And thanks to the Permian Basin, the oil and gas industry in Texas is a very, very large chunk of the United States’ entire production. And the US is a big petro state exporter.

They didn’t get control of the state senate, but they did win lieutenant governor, who is the President of the senate and has a lot of power to set the floor agenda.

It’s show your hoohaw to a doctor or submit a DNA test result.

The Washington state “genital exam” measure for girls sports passed.

They also voted down the gerrymandered map that the supreme court had to shut down three times.

Specifically, standing that the plaintiff here, an immigrant rights group, has to be suffering or has to be about to suffer, some kind of real, articulatable harm.

So the group’s argument is probably, “the group of people we represent are being harmed by these bullshit allegations.”. And the DOJ’s argument is probably like, “the group is not the people they represent. If people on the list are harmed, then they need to file their own lawsuits.”

It’s dumb. DOJ has been doing these dumbass, legalistic arguments for the last 22 months.