The big Delaware story today is a legislative story. So, you’ll just have to wait until I write my Post-Game/Pre-Game Show. But those of you who know, know. Yes, snark will be employed.
Mamdani Cleans Up In NYC Primaries. He decided to expend some political capital, and it paid off:
Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his allies swept a series of congressional primaries in New York City on Tuesday in a remarkable show of strength for the insurgent left that sent shock waves through the Democratic Party.
Mr. Mamdani’s candidates toppled a pair of incumbents backed by the city’s political establishment, including major labor unions and the House Democratic leader. Another candidate backed by the mayor won an open House seat, and a handful of democratic socialist challengers he supported were winning down the ballot.
For months, Mr. Mamdani threw himself and his energized political organization into the three marquee congressional contests, campaigning late into the night in the race’s final days and calling the election a referendum on the direction of the party.
All the winning candidates share Mr. Mamdani’s progressive economic platform, and they each ran campaigns that focused intently on ending American support for Israel, a sign of how far public opinion has shifted on the issue, even in New York.
One of former Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s flunkies exhumed the same tired trope that so-called centrists have trumpeted for years:
“Republicans will very quickly seek to elevate, as they always do, the most radical voices in the Democratic Party,” said Howard Wolfson, a former head of the House Democrats’ campaign arm and a top adviser to Michael R. Bloomberg. “And after tonight, they will have more radical Democrats to choose from.”
‘Oh, no, they’ll say bad things about us! We have to elect centrists who stand for nothing!’
Democrats are tired of the same old weak sauce that centrist Democrats have been foisting on them for decades. That’s the message New Yorkers rejected.
In other positive primary night news, Total Wines magnate David Trone once again pissed away millions of his fortune–and lost in a bid to reclaim his former House seat.
Todd Blanche And The 101 Judges. The judges, along with various attorneys’ organizations, have filed an Ethics Complaint against the Acting AG:
Chat, is it good when 101 former federal and state judges file a bar complaint against you? Because that’s what just happened to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, right in the middle of his big push to be confirmed by the Senate.
The complaint, filed with the New York State Bar, requests an investigation into Blanche’s staggering number of possible ethics violations. Racking up so much bad behavior that you get slapped with a 73-page complaint is truly impressive.
This thing has sections. It has subsections. It has sub-subsections. But, broadly, here’s what Blanche is in trouble for.
First and foremost is the whole fake Internal Revenue Service lawsuit leading to a slush fund for treasonists. The complaint alleges that Blanche’s collusion with President Donald Trump on this violated Blanche’s obligation, as head of the Justice Department, to defend the IRS against Trump’s lawsuit.
Blanche’s next problem is his love of vindictive prosecutions. Turns out that using your prosecutorial power to go after whoever Trump wants to torment is a wee bit of an ethical problem.
Here again, Blanche’s own combination of laziness and malice trips him up. The complaint notes that Blanche already admitted that he was singling out former FBI Director James Comey—and no one else—for prosecution over a picture of “86 47” written in the sand.
And then, of course, there’s the fact that the indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia got tossed thanks to Blanche’s open and obvious vindictive behavior.
Finally, there’s the Epstein Files.
Remember when the deadline to release the files hit in December 2025 and Blanche just blithely declared that the DOJ was not going to follow the law? Then the DOJ secretly removed, redacted, and replaced files with no audit trail or explanation.
Oh, and he also said that the DOJ was only going to release half of the files because he determined they were not responsive.
But somehow, while Blanche was showing such tender care with his redactions, the complaint points out that he managed to completely fuck up the most important ones.
Blanche oversaw the release of “nearly 100 individual survivors whose lives have been turned upside down,” which the complaint notes was described as “the single most egregious violation of victim privacy in one day in United States history.”
That’s all they’ve got? (The answer is no, but you get the point–they’ve got a lot.)
Now They Vote To Stop Trump’s War. It’s, of course, symbolic. Says more about GOP fears for November than anything:
The Senate on Tuesday delivered a largely symbolic rebuke to Trump’s war in Iran, adopting the House-passed Iran war powers resolution in a 50-48 vote. This was a concurrent resolution meaning it is non-binding and does not have the force of law. Concurrent resolutions also do not require the president’s signature.
Though symbolic, now both GOP-controlled chambers have officially weighed in on the issue, voting to halt the war in Iran — just a few days after Trump declared the war supposedly “nearly” over. Democrats, and a few Republicans, in both chambers have been voting in favor of similar resolutions since Trump first launched his military operation in Iran. The measure garnered enough GOP support to finally pass the House in early June.
Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Susan Collins (R-ME), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Rand Paul (R-KY) all joined Democrats, voting in favor of the war powers resolution. Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) was the sole Democrat who opposed it.
The two GOP absences — Sens. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Dave McCormick (R-PA) — surely helped Dems in successfully passing the resolution.
Not sure McConnell is coming back. Sad.
A ‘Mysterious Delaware Nonprofit’. Courtesy, of course, of our roll as the ‘leader in corporate law’:
Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe has spent months telling voters that the state constitution is under threat from “out-of-state special interests” using ballot initiatives to bypass the Republican-controlled legislature and enact major policy changes. The measures have included legalizing recreational marijuana, expanding Medicaid and restoring abortion rights.
That argument is at the center of Kehoe’s support for Amendment 4, a measure in the Aug. 4 primary that would make it harder for Missourians to amend their constitution through citizen-led ballot initiatives.
“Our constitution shouldn’t be the victim of out-of-state special interests who spend millions to deceive voters and pass out-of-touch policies,” Kehoe said in a video posted to the social media site X.
But when it comes to a different constitutional amendment central to his own agenda, Kehoe is benefiting from financial support provided by a Delaware nonprofit that does not disclose the identities of its donors.
Kehoe has slated Amendment 5, which would put Missouri on a path toward eliminating the state income tax, on the ballot for the August election, along with Amendment 4.
A political action committee supporting Amendment 5, Missouri Promise PAC, has received $1.9 million from a nonprofit with almost the same name — Missouri Promise Inc. — that was incorporated late last year in Delaware. Neither the nonprofit nor the PAC discloses the identities or locations of the donors financing the campaign.
Hey, we have to balance the books somehow. This is one way we do it–a complete and deliberate lack of transparency.
What do you want to talk about?
