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DL Open Thread: Saturday, January 23, 2021

Trump Tried To Engineer Coup At DOJ In Order To Flip Georgia.  This stuff is so much more enjoyable now that he’s out of office.  This just has to be–criminal, doesn’t it?:

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department’s top leaders listened in stunned silence this month: One of their peers, they were told, had devised a plan with President Donald J. Trump to oust Jeffrey A. Rosen as acting attorney general and wield the department’s power to force Georgia state lawmakers to overturn its presidential election results.

The unassuming lawyer who worked on the plan, Jeffrey Clark, had been devising ways to cast doubt on the election results and to bolster Mr. Trump’s continuing legal battles and the pressure on Georgia politicians. Because Mr. Rosen had refused the president’s entreaties to carry out those plans, Mr. Trump was about to decide whether to fire Mr. Rosen and replace him with Mr. Clark.

The department officials, convened on a conference call, then asked each other: What will you do if Mr. Rosen is dismissed?

The answer was unanimous. They would resign.

I hope his lawyers get paid in advance.  Let’s also not forget that Atlanta-based DOJ attorney who resigned ‘due to unforeseen circumstances’.

How Trump Helped To Fund The ‘Stop The Steal’ Rally Using His Shell Corporations. Great work from Open Secrets.  Gee, I wonder how many of these corporations are ‘incorporated’ in Delaware. More than a few, I’d bet.  If anyone reading this works in Kathleen Jennings’ office, you might want to pass this along.

‘Don’t Let The Door Hit You Where The Good Lord Split You’.  Trump fires WH usher as he exits WH, leaving nobody to greet the Bidens.

Enough Trump stuff already!

D’s Will Have To Go It Alone On Stimulus Relief.  This is why comity is impossible–unless you want to water everything down:

President Biden’s pitch for bipartisan unity to defeat the coronavirus and resurrect the economy is crashing into a partisan buzz saw on Capitol Hill, where Republicans and Democrats can’t agree on ground rules for running the Senate — let alone pass a $1.9 trillion stimulus bill.

Biden’s relief package is being declared dead on arrival by senior Senate Republicans, some of whom say there has been little, if any, outreach from the Biden team to get their support. Liberals are demanding the president abandon attempts to make a bipartisan deal altogether and instead ram the massive legislation through without GOP votes. And outside groups are turning up the pressure for Biden and the Democrats who control Congress to enact economic relief quickly, even if it means cutting Republicans out of the deal.

In the face of these competing pressures, Biden may discover he can get a big covid-19 stimulus bill or a bipartisan deal — but not both. The path Biden chooses with his first major piece of legislation could set the tone for the remainder of his first term in office, revealing whether he can make good on his promise to unify Congress and the country.

Everything in the goddam package is popular with the American people.  It’s only DOA if the D’s allow it to die.  Nuke the filibuster, pass some real good stuff, help the country and boost your chances in 2022.  It’s all right there.

Schumer’s Under Pressure.  Good.

Hammerin’ Hank Aaron Dies.  One of the greatest ballplayers of all time, and a huge civil rights icon.  Here is the moment he broke Babe Ruth’s home run record.  Vin Scully with the perfect call, and the historical context:

BTW, there has been a movement to rename the Atlanta Braves as the Atlanta Hammers.  What better time to do it?

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