DL Open Thread: Friday, June 11, 2021

Danny Short Has A Sad.  From Matt Bittle’s Twitter.  There’s so much dissembling goodness here, but I’ll go with:

While the proposed amendment had some support from our Caucus during the 150th General Assembly, in the time since then many of our members reexamined it and began expressing significant reservations.

First, ‘some support’ was all but three R‘s. Every other R rep voted for the bill.  Either they were all duped the first time, or something happened since then to cause ‘significant reservations’. Gee, I wonder what that could have been.  Short goes on to express concern that he can’t trust the D’s.  He’s clearly got the untrustworthy element backwards.  Not one single R representative is a serious legislator.  They proved it again yesterday.

Trump’s DOJ Secretly Subpoenaed Records Of House Intel Committee Members.  Neither of whom were Devin Nunes:

The Justice Department in 2018 secretly subpoenaed Apple for the data of two Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee, as well as the data of their current and former staffers and family members, in an aggressive push by the Trump administration to determine who was leaking classified information to the news media, according to a committee official and one of the affected lawmakers.

The department sought data on two lawmakers from California who were prominent critics of President Donald Trump — Rep. Adam B. Schiff, then the panel’s ranking Democrat and now its chairman, and Rep. Eric Swalwell — the committee official and Swalwell said Thursday night. The committee official, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity because the matter remains politically sensitive, said that Apple in May had notified at least 12 people connected to the panel of subpoenas for their data, and that one minor was among them.

Democrats swiftly condemned the moves, news of which followed three recent disclosures to national media organizations that the Trump Justice Department had secretly sought reporters’ phone and email records in an effort to identify the sources of leaks.