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Don’t get excited about the Bannon Indictment
Bannon’s case is assigned to Judge Carl J. Nichols, a Trump appointee. He clerked for Clarence Thomas
As Scott Lemieux notes at LGM. It it is entirely predictable that Judge Nichols will invent some broad new form of executive privilege that applies retroactively, contemporaneously, and prospectively to anyone who has ever had a conversation with Donald Trump.
Nichols has been a member of the Federalist Societysince 2003.
Americans walking away from humiliating, low pay jobs in record numbers
When owners and vulture capital firms treat workers like disposable cogs, while hoarding all the profits for 30 years, something’s gotta give. A record-high 4.4 million people, or 3% of workers, quit their job in September, according to the Labor Department’s latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey released Friday. And there’s reason to believe […]
Song of the Day 11/12: The Jam, “All Around the World”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona Before TV fragmented so you never have to watch something that’s not exactly what you want, you had to take what they gave you. On music shows in music-mad, trend-crazy Britain, you could count on seeing hot new bands pretty much every week. But they sometimes had to jostle for […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, Nov. 12, 2021
Who said it?: “…“the Black wogs and coons and Arabs and f—ing Jamaicans don’t belong here.” Answer at bottom of column. Manchin Is A Republican. Period. Sabotaging The Democratic Senate Caucus from within. Might as well admit it and move on. He will. Phil Gramm redux: “We spend so much time being polite in the […]
Fox News’ Gutfeld praises Rittenhouse for killing protesters and doing “what the government should have done”
Rittenhouse is going to walk. I think we all know that. The reality we have to confront is that this is not an isolated event. The right is organized and has a robust, well organized revolutionary infrastructure. GREG GUTFELD (HOST): People say that Rittenhouse never should have gone to Kenosha. The dead guys shouldn’t have […]
Song of the Day 11/11: The Royal Guardsmen, “Snoopy vs. the Red Baron”
In France, Armistice Day is still a big deal — a natural reaction, I suppose, considering most of the fighting in what was dubbed a “world” war was done on French soil. Nov. 11 is a national holiday, and it doesn’t get moved near a weekend. A minute of silence is still observed at 11:11, […]
Who is the “Democratic Base” voter that the Democratic Party continues to abuse?
Somebody asked if I could succinctly describe democratic base voters. I did, but they didn’t like the answer, so they took a powder. Good riddance. That’s fine but it is important to define terms so for everyone knows what I am talking about when I correctly observe that “the Democratic Party has spent the last 27 years abusing, berating and doing everything it can to drive the enthusiasm OUT of its base voters.“. So here is some “politics 101” for anybody who needs it.
First of all, “base voter” whether Democratic or Republican isn’t a demographic. Base voters don’t live in a certain zip code. Political scientist define base voters as voters who have a high degree of political participation and a strong connection to the espoused values of a political party. Therefor they are more likely to 1) show up on Election Day and 2) vote the “straight ticket.” Political scientist further describe “base voters” as being more interested in strengthen a party’s…
DL Open Thread: Thursday, November 11, 2021
“Should We Burn The Books–Or Just Ban Them?“. Not isolated. Organized efforts. Democracy, or what passes for it, dies in darkness: Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin (R) had attacked McAuliffe for, as governor, vetoing a bill to allow parents to opt their children out of reading assignments they deem to be explicit. The impetus was a famous […]
“INFLATION PANIC!” is corporate pushback against rising worker power
The inflation freakout is all about class conflict. In fact, it may be the fundamental class conflict: that between creditors and debtors, a fight that’s been going on since the foundation of the United States.
That’s because inflation is often good for most of us, but it’s terrible for the kinds of people who own corporate news outlets….
Song of the Day 11/10: Jarvis Cocker (as Tip-Top), “Aline”
I’m not a Wes Anderson buff, so I don’t know if the hubbub surrounding “The French Dispatch” accompanies all his films. Or if every time he gets a guy to sing a period piece as a period singer he talks the guy into recording an entire LP in character as a “companion piece” to the […]
Trump White House records can be given to Capitol attack panel, judge rules
The House panel should immediately release the documents to the full house and the public. Congress is the people’s house. Executive privilege arguments are bullshit. The people don’t owe that specious argument one minute’s consideration.
A federal judge in Washington has ruled that hundreds of pages of White House records from the Trump administration can be turned over to the House committee investigating the deadly 6 January attack on the Capitol, defying objections from Donald Trump.
The decision, handed down late on Tuesday by the US district judge Tanya Chutkan, clears the way for the National Archives to start transmitting the records requested by Congress as early as Friday, though attorneys for Trump immediately vowed to appeal the ruling.
General Assembly Retains Former Delaware Supreme Court Justice To Consider McGuiness Case
Yes, we were spared the Alphonse-Gaston back-and-forth that had inexplicably taken hold in Leg Hall over L’Affaire(s) McGuiness: House and Senate leadership announced jointly they’ve retained former Supreme Court Justice Randy J. Holland for guidance on the General Assembly’s powers under Article III of the Delaware Constitution. The never-before-used provision, created in 1897, permits the […]
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