Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
A good start, but they have to hold hearings.
Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, Majority Whip and Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, responds to Alito's letter in a Twitter thread.
link:
x.com/SenatorDurbi...
I'm going to record an audio version of this and stand outside Dick Durbin's house blaring it on a boombox until he finally decides to hold a goddamn hearing.
Read this, share this, write your representatives and senators to demand they back this.
Right, this is the perfect issue for the top Democrats on the Judiciary Committee to take the lead.
Nadler would go for it, but Durbin is the one with a majority who could actually call hearings.
I can't remember anything specific, but I was there from the 1990 race (when he ran the racist "Hands" ad) up to the summer of 1994 when Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich were on the rise, so there were *plenty* of opportunities to complain.
Call them and pierce that echo chamber. Rattle the cage with some opposition.
I used to have Jesse Helms as my senator and holy shit did I love giving his office calls.
Just be direct:
"I'm a constituent and I want to urge the senator/representative to back Rep. Raskin's plan to force the recusals of Justice Alito and Thomas."
Again, if they want to say no, make them say no, over and over again.
Doing nothing just makes people on the sidelines think everything's fine.
I say this as someone who used to be represented by Jesse Helms.
Read this, share this, write your representatives and senators to demand they back this.
Gift link: Jamie Raskin.
www.nytimes.com/2024/05/29/o...
Opinion | Jamie Raskin: How to Force Justices Alito and Thomas to Recuse Themselves in the Jan. 6 Cases
Can they really decide for themselves whether they can be impartial?
www.nytimes.com
Title it “Red Flags” and it practically writes itself
Between Trump’s literal groping of the American flag, the Alito’s’ assortment of insurrection flags, the MAGA obsession with Trump flags, the “thin blue line” flag for police, and the long-standing obsession with the Confederate flag, we really need an in-depth study of the right’s obsession.
Between Trump’s literal groping of the American flag, the Alito’s’ assortment of insurrection flags, the MAGA obsession with Trump flags, the “thin blue line” flag for police, and the long-standing obsession with the Confederate flag, we really need an in-depth study of the right’s obsession.
(shitty 2003 standup comic)
“Yo! Women be flying flags, y’all.”
Trump thinks a judge whose daughter donated $25 to a Denocratic candidate ought to recuse in his case, but he believes a SCOTUS justice whose wife cheered on the 1/6 coup (Alito) or even helped push it (Thomas) can be impartial in 1/6 trials.
OK, sure.
Sam Alito is one week away from making a televised address in which he sits in an armchair, stroking a white cat, and announcing his plans to destroy the earth's core.
BREAKING: Justice Sam Alito refuses to recuse himself from Jan. 6 cases or Trump cases in letter to Congress.
"My wife is fond of flying flags. I am not," he writes.
Background at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/sam-alito-...
Is that a green screen when they're going door to door asking for votes?
Honestly? Spielberg.
Though I'd take David Fincher or Kathryn Bigelow.
is there anyone who you'd like to see make a movie about Reagan?
Manipulating one group of police into potentially murdering another policeman, or as the right calls it, "backing the blue"
The mother of Michael Fanone was swatted yesterday, hours after Fanone called Trump "an authoritarian" with "a violence fetish" in a Biden campaign press conference at the Manhattan courthouse where Trump is on trial.
Someone also sent out a fake manifesto claiming Fanone had murdered his mother.
Mother of Jan. 6 officer Michael Fanone swatted after he called Trump 'authoritarian'
Fanone was abducted by the mob on Jan. 6 and nearly killed when a MAGA-hatted rioter who believed Donald Trump's lies about the 2020 election drove a stun gun into his neck.
www.nbcnews.com
I suffered through the trailer and now you should too.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=njLP...
The cast of the new Reagan movie is something else.
Not sure what's my favorite, but casting Robert Davi as Leonid Brezhnev is certainly a choice. I bet he plays him as a Fedora Guy.
