Evening Roundup, April 21
Where is Congress?, Catholics should dump Trump!, constitutional skids for Project 2025, The Movement, cartoons, The Pod, and more!
Spotlight
‘Cause You Gotta Have Faith
Legal Debrief
Trump, McConnell, Roberts. That’s Not Rule of Law. It’s Rule by Law
By Alex Aronson
The constitutional skids for Project 2025 have been greased by a Trumpian federal judiciary that is carrying out its own autocratic revolution
Media Center
How Will the War with Iran End?
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We’re now 7 weeks into Trump’s war with Iran. And despite Trump’s claims the Strait of Hormuz is now in American hands and an American victory is near, behind closed doors, Trump seems more focused on delaying a resolution and blaming it on Iran.
The incompetence & corruption of TACO Trump & Co is staggering. Trump & Co corruption knows no bounds & the world's dictators & billionaire developers know it. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/us/politics/syrian-billionaires-needed-a-favor-in-washington-they-invoked-the-trump-name.html?smid=url-share
Meanwhile Trump's war of choice which he claimed we won in the 1st hour has inflicted the kind of damage that takes years to repair.
Resist MAGA gangster grifter authoritarianism! Vote Sane. #VoteBlue! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZdkRiTs_4w
I’ve read there are fringe Roman Catholic groups that support 47 and his defiance of Pope Leo.
The Jesuit magazine America boasted that Roman Catholics were courted by 47 and helped him win. What did that courting look like in a hierarchal faith tradition that demands obedience? Did right-wing clerics direct parishioners in their voting?
On the west coast, Sen Noel Frame reported “The Department of Justice is effectively teaming up with Washington’s Catholic bishops to overturn the state’s mandatory reporting law, in one of the most aggressive federal moves to back organized religion in recent memory.”
If I’m not RC but my grandchildren are and their church does good work. I hope that ongoing boundary blurring by fringe RC clergy doesn’t jeopardize their tax-exempt status.
https://www.noelframe.com/news/trump-and-the-catholic-church-fight-a-law-requiring-clergy-to-report-child-abuse#:~:text=Trump%20and%20the%20Catholic%20Church,for%20State%20Senate%20%2D%2036th%20LD.
Https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2024/11/06/catholic-vote-trump-reaction-249204/