That state judge was bailed out on her own recognizance within a few hours of being arrested, which had to require the federal court system her case landed in to move extra quickly, so I think they’re calling the bluff and dodging punches alright

Of course, it’s a fucking disgrace that nobody with the legal authority to do so is throwing any punches back or doing enough to help the people who don’t have the social status judges do dodge the punches this administration is throwing at them, but I think at least judges are going to try to protect each other and the power of the judiciary in general

There was a different AP/NORC poll (arc) released the same day that showed this basic dynamic but with the partisan ratios even more out of whack

not a homogeneous group.

21% of

Almost as stupid as Gavin Newsom saying deportations were a distraction from tariffs and Dems shouldn’t talk about them because Republicans were strong on that issue

Biden’s DOJ: People will respect us for being non-partisan

People: See, if Trump did any real crimes he’d be in prison but he’s not because Biden’s DOJ was just playing politics

Off the top of my head - she said she’s more than “just an AOC,” said Rashida Tlaib was supporting terrorism when Tlaib asked the Biden administration to stop funding Israel, said multiple times in interviews that the Green New Deal could never pass because it had controversial ideas like universal healthcare, said multiple times in interviews in 2020 during the height of the George Floyd protests that she would never ever support defunding the police, and on and on. She constantly signal boosts Republican talking points about progressive lawmakers and progressive policy ideas to tear them down and only then turns around and says “Hey Michigan, if you don’t want to deal with a Republican party that went completely insane around 2020* I guess you’re stuck with me!”

*I forget the exact details, but MAGAts purged their party’s leadership for some “say the quiet parts through megaphones” types and then there was some sort of scandal with their finances, so MIGOP has been a barely functional shell of itself for a few years now

Nah, this headline gets it right by ignoring Slotkin’s transparent spin

Slotkin voted for the Laken Reilly act and hasn’t ever said shit about the CIA being held accountable for torturing people, so she doesn’t want to “fucking retake the flag” in any way that isn’t just a new reign of terror for brown people

The negging about the word “oligarchy” (which she was happy to use against wealthy Russian assholes who support Putin up until very recently) is continuing a very long tradition of her being against whatever AOC is doing at the moment. She can’t come right out and say “I don’t like her policies” because those are popular and that would be political suicide, so she’s just focusing on AOC’s rhetoric and playing to Republican talking points about progressives being the out of touch ones.

Slotkin is a toxic divisive piece of shit who’s bad on policy, bad on politics, and drags the whole Democratic party’s image down whenever she wants to advance her own career.

What the fuck was that picture Van Hollen sent out? Like, if you only saw the photo of Garcia talking with Van Hollen at that table you would think he’s totally fine and just on a vacation down there. Where was Garcia’s prison uniform, the cell he was staying in, his cellmates, the armed guards escorting him, the shackles etc., any kind of stuff that might tell us how his day to day life has actually been down there? Letting the guards clean up what they’ve been doing to him, stick him in civilian clothes, and bring him to a fancy hotel to meet with Van Hollen was all propaganda bullshit and this senator signal boosted it.

I’m really grateful he went down there and got this meeting, but posting that misleading picture was dumb.

Several Republican senators have signed onto the Trade Review Act, a bipartisan bill sponsored by Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington

Way to work with Republicans on the one issue they give a shit about while doing fuck all for human rights you fucking collaborationist scum

John Sauer, who was confirmed as the U.S. solicitor general last week, told the justices that U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis had “ordered unprecedented relief: dictating to the United States

That’s what a court order is

that it must not only negotiate with a foreign country

The one you negotiated with already to imprison your deportees for money

to return an enemy

If anyone’s an enemy here it’s you

alien on foreign soil,

Where you put him

but also succeed by 11:59 p.m. tonight.”

Then maybe you should stop wasting time and get to work on that

Trump ignoring the law doesn’t surprise me, but the lack of willingness to enforce anything from every other part of government still does blow my mind a little bit

Like, as someone who’s got a little bit of a fascination with criminal justice stuff, I can’t even remember how many times I’ve seen prosecutors and judges just hammer people and organizations with pre-trial detentions, freezing accounts and asset seizures, bringing in irrelevant but prejudicial evidence, compelling testimony from people by threatening them with prosecution, and just a million other coercive means of forcing guilty pleas or verdicts when they want to, but none of them are willing to do any of those things to this guy no matter how many times he just shits all over them and it’s just wild to me still

I don’t expect any politician to speak against an issue that a majority of the public supports

This is way too simplistic and totally misunderstands the power of political leaders in democratic societies to shape public opinion. Like, the only real explanation for why public opinion on migration tanked is because Democratic lawmakers realized after 2020 that talking about ICE and CBP’s deeply institutionalized problems made Biden look bad instead of Trump, so they stopped sticking up against them when more border problems inevitably came out and started blaming those on the migrants instead and the opinions of Democratic party voters followed.

then we have the Republicans trying to ban abortion. I guess we’ll see how that works out for them

Reproductive healthcare is more restricted than it’s ever been in my lifetime and there’s no indication that we’ll be overturning the court rulings that made that happen anytime soon. Also, all these political campaigns are sucking up all the donor dollars that reproductive healthcare funds still really need.

Makes sense when neither of the two major parties is willing to speak against it. If Harris made opposition to draconian treatment of migrants a consistent part of her campaign those numbers could change, but Democratic politicians only try to lead on issues their donors care about and just weather-vane themselves into Republican-lite irrelevance on everything else.

Last month, several Democratic groups circulated a memo warning that Trump is peeling off support among those constituencies. The memo concluded that underinvestments in digital communications with those groups was a major problem.

But it turns out that a good deal of this angst was directed at Future Forward in particular. Democrats familiar with internal party communications say that the PAC—which is widely viewed as a conduit for powerful White House adviser Anita Dunn to exercise influence over party messaging and resources—is operating from too traditional a mindset. The PAC, they say, favors ads on broadcast television aimed at broad audiences—when reaching young and nonwhite voters requires a more targeted digital approach because their media sources have grown so fractured.

Switching to Harris really starting to feel like throwing a new coat of paint on a car with a rusted out frame

when its not important

It would be grounds for his impeachment if we had a sane government

Everyone should keep being reminded of this every time Brett makes a ruling. America’s judicial system is illegitimate until he’s dealt with.

He has fewer Republicans endorsing him than Kamala does

Does anyone seriously think Biden is ever going to propose any of those ideas to offset this?

The fact that Biden called for this exact same thing and Manchin was ok endorsing him but has to make a big scene when a non-white woman calls for doing the same thing basically tells you everything you need to know about Manchin

I don’t care what his followers think, why can’t we find a prosecutor who gives a shit?