DL Open Thread: Friday, Dec. 23, 2022

Jan. 6 Panel To Congress: Bar Trump From Running Again:

The committee’s recommendations largely deal with how best to hold Trump and his allies accountable for the Jan. 6 attack, reflecting the report’s broader focus on the former president’s conduct. The report notes that the 14th Amendment allows barring people from office who “engaged in an insurrection” or gave “aid and comfort to the enemies of the Constitution.”

Was disappointed that this got dropped from the report:

The committee’s investigation into social media was ultimately cut from the final report, according to people familiar with the investigation. The cut was a major blow to staffers who spent months scrutinizing the critical role social media played in spreading lies that fomented the Jan. 6 attack.

Ultimately, though, the Committee’s conclusion was that one man, Trump, was responsible for Jan. 6.  And so he was.

Outgoing Arizona Governor To Tear Down His Illegal Wall Of Boxcars.  He should, but of course, won’t, be forced to pay the costs out of his own pocket. Taxpayers will:

Arizona has agreed to remove containers that Ducey illegally dumped in the Yuma sector fairly quickly—by Jan. 4. Miles of containers illegally dumped in the Coronado National Forest will also come down, but no date has been set for that yet. “Discussions between Arizona and the Forest Service for accomplishing this task will begin within one week,” the document said. Opponents of the illegal stunt celebrated the news.

“Governor Ducey has wasted countless millions of taxpayer dollars building his damaging and illegal shipping container wall,” Russ McSpadden of the Center for Biological Diversity said in a statement reported by The New York Times. While that report says that Ducey’s office cites construction costs of at least $82 million, some reports have said its cost taxpayers as much as $100 million. “Nevertheless, we’re very pleased to see him agree to remove his political stunt.”

It’s also a victory for activists and protestors:

It’s also a major victory for the demonstrators who had physically blocked further dumping, frustrated by the lack of federal action against the Republican governor. They’d even been preparing to continue their blockading through Christmas. “While Ducey’s administration sought to install nearly 2,800 cargo containers across a 10-mile stretch of the border in Cochise County, spending around $95 million for the project, protestors were able to stall contractors to just 3 miles,” Tucson Sentinel reported.

Did I mention ‘Boxcars’?:

28 Rethugs Vote Against Protecting Child Victims Of Sexual Abuse.  W-wait, aren’t Democrats ‘groomers’?  Why would they vote to protect groomers?  These 28 are the weirdest of the weird.

Bomb Cyclone Hits US.  It may ‘only’ be the latest in a line of ‘storms of the (fill in the blank)’, but it’s dangerous, and will disrupt the holidays.

$50 Mill Rehoboth Streetscape Project Only Short By About–$49 Mill.  Maybe Speaker Pete could take lessons from Val & Nicole in corrupt funding of dubious projects.

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