Evening Roundup, January 16
Featuring Jennifer Rubin and Stacey Young, Tim Dickinson, Steve Vladeck, Erwin Chemerinsky, David Litt, Jonathan Alter, Jamie Schler, The Pet of the Week, & The Contrarian Podcast
DOJ Attorneys Call It Quits as Civil Rights Erode
[VIDEO] The Department of Justice is suffering from a wave of resignations. Departing attorneys and legal counsel are, reportedly, done with the bogus lawsuits and abuse of our country’s civil rights laws. To make matters worse, the DOJ is pushing for an investigation...
What Is ICE Hiding in Minneapolis?
The killing of Renee Good at the hands of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer has focused the nation’s attention on ICE violence. In a new survey, 76 percent of voters said they have watched the footage of her homicide. Seeing the federal killing of a citizen activist is the first time many Americans have felt skin in the game of Trump’s mass…
Can Trump Actually Use the Insurrection Act?
In typical Trump fashion, it only took him one day to walk back his threat of invoking the Insurrection Act against the people of Minnesota. However, he did leave room for himself to use it in the future saying, “but if I needed it, I’d use it.” The last time a President invoked the Insurrection Act...
Will the Supreme Court Allow Trump to Use the Insurrection Act?
President Donald Trump invocation of the Insurrection Act of 1807 to send military troops to Minnesota, as he has threatened to do, would be unwise and illegal, but it is uncertain whether the Supreme Court would stop him from doing so.
This Year’s Primaries Aren’t About Left Vs. Center
“I had a supporter offer to redo my headshot,” Ryan Crosswell tells me. “I don’t know what she meant by that.”
We're Living Through History (And It Sucks)
[VIDEO] Human perception of time does not lend itself well to analyzing the historic significance of any contemporary moment. As we are experiencing it, we are unable to determine which event will be the next tipping point in America’s narrative. No one understands this enigma better than historian Jonathan Alter.
Orange, Pear, and Date Salad and Moroccan-Inspired Marinated Orange Slices
“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”―Percy Bysshe Shelley
The historic inflection point we now live in
After seeing footage of the horrendous events unfolding in Minnesota that most of us will remember for a very long time — like the image of the bloody airbag deployed in Renee Macklin Good’s car, the stuffed animals in her glove compartment, images of an ICE agent with the iPhone in one hand and gun in the other — will this become one of those moments…
Still thinking that there must be some pretty horrific stuff in those Trumpstein files to go to all this disruption and distraction......
The novel "Stranger in a Strange Land" there is a term that fits this moment: this is a cusp. This is a point of instability from which alternatives diverge.