Midday today, the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol announced a hearing “to present recently obtained evidence and receive witness testimony.” This is a surprise, and it was not until late tonight that reporters confirmed with their sources that the witness will be Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to former president Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows. Hutchinson was the person who revealed that congress members had asked for pardons.
What a closer. “If Trump is prosecuted as the leader of an attempted coup, a coup that may have included some of those who voted for Trump’s three Supreme Court nominees, what does that do to their positions on the court?”
Yes indeed. If this plot started in September, what does this say about a justice confirmed in late October?
And what of the role of Ginni and Justice Clarence Thomas?
And why did Kennedy really resign, clearing the way for Kavanaugh? There’s some parallel context here with Nixon investigating several justices to try to force out liberals. Trump (and his minions) was certainly capable of this.
Please, people, PLEASE refrain from the linguistic habit of using the phrase "have enjoyed the right," specifically the right to choose abortion. There is NOTHING to enjoy related to an experience of dread, despair, fear, frustration, regret, self-blame, anguish, distress, and physical pain--for those who did not die from the procedure.
They were in the middle of that conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 election when the senate voted in Amy Coney Barrett. At least 4 of the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee acted with malice on behalf of the Trump WH - Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Josh Hawley,, and Lindsey Graham. Chuck Grassley may have played a part too, though the evidence so far is inclusive. If she had any sense of duty, she would have pulled out of the process when the plan to “reclaim the election” began to go off the rails. She couldn’t care less about the rigging of democracy; she grabbed that SCOTUS seat and began doing the bidding of her masters.
Wow! Thank you Heather for another immense amount of crucial information. Tomorrow’s hearing should be interesting. And your last paragraph is a bomb waiting to explode.
Perhaps the Republicans are correct in there assertions of voter fraud in the 2020 election; theirs.
Knowingly colluding to pass false lists of electors to an election official, such as the vice-president, amounts to election fraud and conspiracy to commit election fraud. We can add sedition and conspiracy to commit sedition by sworn public officials to the list of charges.
Requesting presidential pardons is direct evidence of guilt; a kind of un-coerced confession, it seems to me.
I'd care to support our Dr. HCR's references to Ruth Ben-Ghiat. I've been following her writing for some time now. She writes on Substack too. Highly educational stuff regarding authoritarians. She's not posted anywhere near as long as Heather has, but her stuff is spot on and her credentials are solid. * Ruth Ben-Ghiat's Substack section is named "Lucid".
I would have to quote your entire letter as an example of the lies and deceit of the repubs, their election corruption and the hearings. So I’ll just make this suggestion: instead of metal detectors as repubs line up to enter government buildings and hearings, just have them walk through lie detector machines. Easy and fast.
"Thomas wants to make it easier to sue media outlets because, he wrote, the “New York Times and its progeny have allowed media organizations and interest groups ‘to cast false aspersions on public figures with near impunity."
Like: Fox News making up lies about how inflation is caused by Biden and not Exxon Mobil's historically high profit margins?
Or, Sean Hannity feeding his minions lies about a stolen election?
I welcome Clarence Thomas' aspirations to reign in the media through lawsuits.
The day he "rules" on that new set of "laws", I will be happy to organize a lawsuit against THE most insidious, traitorous, and dangerous lies factory in America:
Fox "News".
I do quite laugh out loud when I write "News" next to Fox.
I have this dream of Trump, the Trumpscum in the White House, the traitors in the House and Senate, and the five illegitimate traitors on the Supreme Court, all being "perp walked" out of those buildings, all charged with Sedition, the Republican party destroyed by being now known as the Party of Treason.
And yeah, I'm not holding my breath, since I have no desire to turn blue and die.
I'm trying to imagine what it'll look like to have a certain percentage of our elected officials legislating from behind bars with their illegitimate Federalist Society judiciary right next door.
I've gotten so cynical. Friday's Dobb decision feels like one of tr**p's bombs to distract. In this case, from the J6 hearings. So tomorrow's hearing kind of feels like the committee is holding the hearing to refocus public opinion.
I'm so furious at SCOTUS. I have typed & deleted more comments this weekend....
Thank you, HCR for clarifying Clarence Thomas for me a little bit. Why: He’s now the bull in the SCOTUS China shop. After being invisibly awful for years. Tomorrow…J6, will pay particular attention to what the committee presents and how Liz Cheney frames it for Republicans. ❤️🤍💙
What a closer. “If Trump is prosecuted as the leader of an attempted coup, a coup that may have included some of those who voted for Trump’s three Supreme Court nominees, what does that do to their positions on the court?”
Yes indeed. If this plot started in September, what does this say about a justice confirmed in late October?
And what of the role of Ginni and Justice Clarence Thomas?
And why did Kennedy really resign, clearing the way for Kavanaugh? There’s some parallel context here with Nixon investigating several justices to try to force out liberals. Trump (and his minions) was certainly capable of this.
This onion has many layers yet to peel.
Please, people, PLEASE refrain from the linguistic habit of using the phrase "have enjoyed the right," specifically the right to choose abortion. There is NOTHING to enjoy related to an experience of dread, despair, fear, frustration, regret, self-blame, anguish, distress, and physical pain--for those who did not die from the procedure.
Clarence Thomas is more frightening than any character ever penned by Stephen King.
They were in the middle of that conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 election when the senate voted in Amy Coney Barrett. At least 4 of the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee acted with malice on behalf of the Trump WH - Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Josh Hawley,, and Lindsey Graham. Chuck Grassley may have played a part too, though the evidence so far is inclusive. If she had any sense of duty, she would have pulled out of the process when the plan to “reclaim the election” began to go off the rails. She couldn’t care less about the rigging of democracy; she grabbed that SCOTUS seat and began doing the bidding of her masters.
Does Supreme Court Justice Thomas want to revisit with other laws of historical and cultural character the laws that made miscegenation illegal?
Wow! Thank you Heather for another immense amount of crucial information. Tomorrow’s hearing should be interesting. And your last paragraph is a bomb waiting to explode.
Perhaps the Republicans are correct in there assertions of voter fraud in the 2020 election; theirs.
Knowingly colluding to pass false lists of electors to an election official, such as the vice-president, amounts to election fraud and conspiracy to commit election fraud. We can add sedition and conspiracy to commit sedition by sworn public officials to the list of charges.
Requesting presidential pardons is direct evidence of guilt; a kind of un-coerced confession, it seems to me.
I'd care to support our Dr. HCR's references to Ruth Ben-Ghiat. I've been following her writing for some time now. She writes on Substack too. Highly educational stuff regarding authoritarians. She's not posted anywhere near as long as Heather has, but her stuff is spot on and her credentials are solid. * Ruth Ben-Ghiat's Substack section is named "Lucid".
I would have to quote your entire letter as an example of the lies and deceit of the repubs, their election corruption and the hearings. So I’ll just make this suggestion: instead of metal detectors as repubs line up to enter government buildings and hearings, just have them walk through lie detector machines. Easy and fast.
"Thomas wants to make it easier to sue media outlets because, he wrote, the “New York Times and its progeny have allowed media organizations and interest groups ‘to cast false aspersions on public figures with near impunity."
Like: Fox News making up lies about how inflation is caused by Biden and not Exxon Mobil's historically high profit margins?
Or, Sean Hannity feeding his minions lies about a stolen election?
I welcome Clarence Thomas' aspirations to reign in the media through lawsuits.
The day he "rules" on that new set of "laws", I will be happy to organize a lawsuit against THE most insidious, traitorous, and dangerous lies factory in America:
Fox "News".
I do quite laugh out loud when I write "News" next to Fox.
Fox Lies is FAR more accurate.
I say all three of Trump’s nominees should be thrown off the court.
I have this dream of Trump, the Trumpscum in the White House, the traitors in the House and Senate, and the five illegitimate traitors on the Supreme Court, all being "perp walked" out of those buildings, all charged with Sedition, the Republican party destroyed by being now known as the Party of Treason.
And yeah, I'm not holding my breath, since I have no desire to turn blue and die.
I'm trying to imagine what it'll look like to have a certain percentage of our elected officials legislating from behind bars with their illegitimate Federalist Society judiciary right next door.
I've gotten so cynical. Friday's Dobb decision feels like one of tr**p's bombs to distract. In this case, from the J6 hearings. So tomorrow's hearing kind of feels like the committee is holding the hearing to refocus public opinion.
I'm so furious at SCOTUS. I have typed & deleted more comments this weekend....
Thank you, HCR for clarifying Clarence Thomas for me a little bit. Why: He’s now the bull in the SCOTUS China shop. After being invisibly awful for years. Tomorrow…J6, will pay particular attention to what the committee presents and how Liz Cheney frames it for Republicans. ❤️🤍💙