Ruth Marcus
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WaPost associate editor/columnist. Author Supreme Ambition: Brett Kavanaugh and the Conservative Takeover.
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This Jewish space laser thing makes no sense to me. Because, as every Jewish mother knows, you could put an eye out with that.
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Dear John Bolton, your aide, Fiona Hill, said she is testifying because “I believe that those who have information that the Congress deems relevant have a legal and moral obligation to provide it.” Do you disagree? Why will you not fulfill your legal and moral obligation?
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So for those who thought Bill Barr was an institutionalist, consider: he wants to name a US Atty for SDNY with no—zero—prosecutorial experience
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Based on Sondland testimony, House is fully entitled to hear from, at a minimum: Pompeo, Bolton,Mulvaney. Oh, and Vice President Pence.
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"Nowhere else does this Court recognize a right to end a human life." Mississippi Solicitor General Scott Stewart in Dobbs oral argument today. I guess the death penalty...doesn't count?
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Just a reminder, Lindsey Graham in October: “If you could show me that Trump actually was engaging in a quid pro quo, outside the phone call, that would be very disturbing"
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Everyone who works for Trump: quit now. Save your souls. Save your honor. Save your reputation. Russia attacked our democracy. He doesn’t care, won’t defend our country.
Our relationship with Russia has NEVER been worse thanks to many years of U.S. foolishness and stupidity and now, the Rigged Witch Hunt!
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The president attacks government prosecutors . He attacks federal judges. Now he is attacking a juror—a juror!—for doing her public duty. This is beyond the pale. Attorney General Barr??
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Something terrible, something dangerous — and, yes, something unconstitutional — is happening in Portland. It must be stopped.
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Did you ever think you'd live to see the day that George Will called for Democrats to take over both houses of Congress? Me neither.
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The Chief Justice doesn’t get it. The fault isn’t with the public that doubts the court’s legitimacy. It’s with the court acting in illegitimate ways
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Hello, Justice Department, hello, AG Barr, let me do a little legal research for you: "Any system of prior restraints of expression comes to this Court bearing a heavy presumption against its constitutional validity." New York Times v. United States.
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Is there no one—not a single person—with a political appointment in this administration who has the soul, the decency, the moral backbone to quit over family separation? Not one?
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I have not always agreed with John McCain, but the prospect of losing this American hero & patriot is made all the more difficult by the twin realities of being left with this president and a GOP that, with few and pale exceptions, lacks McCain’s moral courage to speak out.
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The Washington Post editorial board, of which I am a part, has not opposed a Supreme Coirt nominee for 30 years, since Robert Bork. Not Clarence Thomas, not Samuel Alito or Neil Gorsuch. But we are calling in senators to vote against Brett Kavanaugh
From The Post Editorial Board:
Enough has been learned about Brett M. Kavanaugh's partisan instincts that we believe senators must vote “no.”
We do not say so lightly. We have not opposed a Supreme Court nominee, liberal or conservative, since 1987.
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Susan Collins today: "I actually don't” think Justice Gorsuch would overrule Roe. “someone who devotes that much time to writing a book on precedent, I think, understands how important a principle that is in our judicial system."
Gorsuch Tuesday: vote to overrule 41-year old case
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So proud to publish this piece by a true American patriot.
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because of space limits, every word in a column is precious. But I devoted a big chunk of this one to naming names.
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Having presided over and contributed to the deaths of one in every thousand Americans, Trump is bemoaning that snobby fashion magazines never gave his wife a cover. To which just one thing to say: I really don’t care, do you?
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This is quite remarkable. Trump's former principle deputy DNI argues that he shouldn't have post-presidential access to intelligence information. It's too big a national security risk.
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Trump: "I'm going to let Obamacare fail."
U.S. Constitution: "He shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed"
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What a presidential president would tweet. Not about himself but about others.
Today we honor the Americans who sacrificed everything to secure the blessings of liberty. Family and friends to some, heroes to all - who lived, fought and died for the safety and future of a great and good nation. God bless them and grant them perpetual peace.
#MemorialDay
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We have become so inured to this type of unhinged, unpatriotic tweet that we risk forgetting how bizarre it is for a POTUS to say this
Why Isn't the Senate Intel Committee looking into the Fake News Networks in OUR country to see why so much of our news is just made up-FAKE!
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It is bad enough for Trump to misuse his clemency power to protect Stone--and himself. But this blast at Mueller and prosecutors--"These charges were the product of recklessness borne of frustration and malice"--is beyond even the Trumpian pale. (Or not.)
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I could not believe that a White House Press Secretary would decline the repeated invitation to distance herself in any way from the notion that reporters are not the enemy of the people. Even this press secretary. Astonished. Appalled. Depressed.
I walked out of the end of that briefing because I am totally saddened by what just happened. Sarah Sanders was repeatedly given a chance to say the press is not the enemy and she wouldn't do it. Shameful.
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Today, listening to “take her out” tape, preparing to hear POTUS defense, recognizing likelihood that the Senate will shirk its constitutional duty, thinking back to what I was braced for day after election and how much worse things turned out, both from Trump and his enablers
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Somewhere Pat Cippolone sits head in hands, laughing mirthlessly.
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U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson on Stone, at his sentencing: "He was not prosecuted, as some have complained, for standing up for the president. He was prosecuted for covering up for the president."
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Stewing: Why wasn't Justice Gorsuch wearing a mask? Other justices were, reporters are required to, along with attorneys (when they're not arguing). Is that why Justice Sotomayor participated remotely? We all owe one another a duty of care and respect. Even justices.
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Josh Hawley's anti-constitutional stunt to force a vote on certifying Biden's election at least will requiring his Republican colleagues to decide — and put on the record —whether their loyalty is to President Trump or to the Constitution. My latest.
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Imagine being a young lawyer at the Justice Department and hearing your attorney general denounce liberal like this. So much for saving the reputation of the department.
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I don’t think we’ve talked enough about the possibilities of civil litigation against Trump by those injured in the insurrection, and the accompanying potential for discovery.
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In Madison, Wis. By now I should know better but: I get in elevator. It stops on lower floor. Man steps in, unmasked. Sign in elevator says masks required. Me, getting out: “you know, it would be really nice if you wore a mask.” Man: “I don’t care what you think.” America 2021.
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None of what the House managers are portraying, in horrifying detail, none of it would have happened but for Trump. But for his refusal to accept the clear and certified results of the election. But for his summoning the mob. He is the causation.
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Not a syllable from any of Trump’s children, last night or tonight, about their father as a father, or a human being. What a contrast with Biden family.
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GOP senators: Imagine that you don't subpoena Bolton. Then he tells all in his book--and maybe it is devastating to Trump. Your explanation will be...?
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@realDonaldTrump
Since you asked:
-$675k not $700
-not from HRC, from Terry McAuliffe PAC
-not to Andy McCabe, to his wife's campaign
-McCabe was not acting head of FBI until you fired Comey
-donation was reported. Not illegal.
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I prayed for our country when Trump was elected in 2016. If it happens again, I would despair.
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Question: did Barack Obama say anything about his successor that President Bush does not also believe? I don’t think so. The President’s Club takes care of its own, but not this president.
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Opinion | What’s happening in Portland shows Trump is ignoring the Constitution — and attacking America - The Washington Post
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Opinion | Trump’s problem in Tulsa wasn’t just empty seats. It was empty rhetoric.
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Everything, everything about this is wrong and sickening. And unsurprising. But even this far into this administration, we have to summon the outrage.
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on MSNBC right now,
@gtconway3d
makes my point even more forcefully: "If you were going to make up a set of facts as bad as it could get, this would be it."
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We need Jeffrey Clark. Under oath.
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Ok, we’ve had a pardon and a naturalization ceremony. What next, a tour of the White House Situation Room?
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I have some news:
Good Thursday afternoon. BOOK ALERT: RUTH MARCUS, Washington Post deputy editorial page editor, is writing a book about Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation. The book is being published by Simon & Schuster.
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4 big tells about the weakness of president’s case, all on display today: mentions of 1) “basement bunker” 2) Mueller report and cost of same 3) Schiff “made up” account of Trump-Z convo 4) alleged of due process in not letting Trump lawyers x-exam in House Intel
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Forget 18 minutes. This gap is seven hours!
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Roger Stone: "I don't think a failure of memory constitutes a perjury." One person's failure to remember a meeting with a Russian peddling dirt on a political opponent might--might--be a failure of memory. Two such failures (Stone + Caputo) looks more like a conspiracy .
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For the record, in the interests of fairness, it was a bad idea for Pam Karlan to bring in Barron Trump. We should leave children out of these debates, period, unless they are adults and relevant in some way.
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The stain is real. It is indelible. The closer you are to the policy the bigger it is, but everyone is tainted. And no one will forget. Not voters. Not future employers. Not the people you will meet. No one. If you work in the Trump administration, this is you.
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Not to be too alarmist, but what happens next time, if the loyalists installed by Trump or his successor are less willing to stand up for the rule of law
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Sign of the dangerous times: every living former defense secretary, all 10, warn Trump, not by name, against misusing military and argue for importance of peaceful transition of power. Imagine how alarmed they must be to have done this.
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Two things to say about the space laser 1) put that thing down 2) we can get one when it’s perfected
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I mean, we weren’t even allowed to have those sparkler things on July 4.
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This is a President we’re talking about. Not a two year old.
“What’s the downside of humoring him for this little bit of time? He went golfing this weekend... He’s tweeting about filing some lawsuits; those lawsuits will fail; then he’ll tweet some more about how the election was stolen; then he’ll leave.”
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This is not normal, not acceptable, important to call out.
Today is the last day of August. There is no White House press briefing scheduled.
@PressSec
held just five briefings this month: 8/1, 8/2, 8/14, 8/15, 8/22.
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Tell me again about how this isn’t worth the tone and distraction and the risk of increasing partisanship? Not. This was important to do, no matter the end result. People Ned to see and hear what Trump’s mob did.
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Federal judges won’t let me buy them lunch. Clarence Thomas was happy to have a GOP donor pick up the tuition bill for the grand -nephew he was “raising as a son”
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How can Republican senators who aren't Mitt Romney (and a few others, with meeker statements), wake up and live with themselves this morning, in light of Trump's clear efforts to subvert the undeniable will of the voters. In your hearts, senators, you know he's wrong.
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What is the impact & message of your continued presence? Are you mitigating Trump’s excesses, or enabling/covering for them? Jon Huntsman? Gina Haspell? Dan Coats? Gulp, James Mattis? How explain your continued service, to yourself now or down the road, to your children?
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I believe I just heard the president's counsel (Pat Cipollone) say that it's time in this country that we stop assuming that everybody has horrible motives. This from the administration of witch hunt and lock her up and lyin' shifty Schiff? Spare me.
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For those who thought Bill Barr was competent, consider: he ousted a Republican US Atty who contributed to Trump and ended up with a registered Democrat who has constrobited to HRC, Obama, Biden
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I know this sounds extreme. It doesn’t feel like my usual approach to things. But extreme times, extreme measures. Maybe mass resignations of the (alleged) grownups would rouse a supine Congress, alarm even some Trump voters
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If Trump is correct about wiretaps, signals big trouble for him--a FISA warrant, federal judge finding probable cause for surveillance.
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Angry Brett Kavanaugh is not a good look, doesn't seem like a very smart approach to me.
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.
@RuthMarcus
of the
@washingtonpost
joins
@NBCNews
and
@MSNBC
as a Contributor. Watch Ruth’s first appearance in her new role on
@MSNBC
’s
@mitchellreports
at 12pET!
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If only there was someone who had relevant testimony on this very question. First-hand testimony, in fact...
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"Of all the amazing things that Republican senators have said in defense of their impending votes, it is that a president who has been unwilling to or incapable of learning lessons will somehow have learned" a lesson by being . . . not punished by them."
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Democrats shouldn’t let Republicans off the impeachment hook so early
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Think about it. You are a Republican who loves your country. Or you are a foreign policy or intelligence professional. What do you do in the face of Trump’s craven capitulation to an adversary. It is a hard choice but one that Trump is making easier/forcing, every day.
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On the topic of
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Trump, lacking empathy to the end, “We got hit, nobody blames us for that.” Ask the families of the 400,000 dead Americans that Bidenand Harris mourned last night. Good riddance indeed, as
@gtconway3d
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More Judge Jackson: The truth still exists. The truth still matters. Roger Stone's insistence that it doesn't, his belligerence, his pride in his own lies are a threat to our most fundamental institutions, to the very foundation of our democracy."
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Trump should have an UN-presidential library, housing his archives and using as caution for future generations of a presidency gone dangerously wrong. The children in cages room, the insurrection room, enemies of the people room, cozying up to dictators room
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If you don't have the facts, argue the law. If you don't have the law, argue the facts. If you've got nothing...argue Everett Dirksen, record players and needles, and "our senators."
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And also, Trump's OWN JUSTICE DEPARTMENT thought Stone should be sent to prison. From the revised sentencing memo: Stone “committed serious offenses and deserves a sentence of incarceration that is sufficient, but not greater than necessary."
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The essence of a corrupt presidency
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People, this is not normal.Presidents don't issue pardons on Friday nights, before sentencing, without DOJ process. They don't issue trans..
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Perhaps this is a desperate effort to find a silver lining in yesterday's shameful spectacle, but maybe Trump has done us a service by so fully and flagrantly disqualifying himself from public life. To the extent that previously silent and complicit R's..
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Don’t know why Washington politicians don’t change libel laws? Let me help you out here. It’s called the First Amendment.
Isn’t it a shame that someone can write an article or book, totally make up stories and form a picture of a person that is literally the exact opposite of the fact, and get away with it without retribution or cost. Don’t know why Washington politicians don’t change libel laws?
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My adapted Watergate question: What is happening at the Justice Department and how will we know it?
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Why won’t the doctors and WH say when Trump’s last negative test was. We got all his vital signs. This isn’t a privacy issue. But it looks increasingly like a coverup.
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A measure of low expectations but 57 votes to convict is higher than I expected.
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This is wrong. This is crazy. This is the antithesis of democracy. Really, will the win be worth the deaths that seem certain to ensue from this recklessness?
Polls open in minutes. Here’s a look at the line in Waukesha, the city’s only polling location
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They won't care; they did it for performative reasons, to curry favor w/ Trump & troops. Still, people should know. None of these signers--including all top Republicans in the House, with the notable exception of Liz Cheney--have standing to call themselves conservatives.
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"This is one of those days we wish we had more than four Pinocchios."
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Cassidy Hutchinson is an America heroine. My latest
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Went downtown to get my hair cut. Wanted to go tomorrrow but it was too dangerous for salon to open. This is the scene on the block. Election Day in America and something very wrong.
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I’m so nervous about this election I’m just going to make batches of soup and freeze them to keep my mind off the polls. Cooking therapy.
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We lost our beloved Tank last night. There is so much tragedy in the world that dwarfs our loss, but we are heartbroken. This is the column I wrote when he joined our family, 11-1/2 joy-filled years ago.
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And while you’re wracking your brains (throw the witness tampering allegations in there, btw), consider the outrageous inappropriateness of the president VOUCHING for Manafort and against THE UNITED STATES (in the form of DOJ) WHILE the jury deliberates.
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Question for
@realDonaldTrump
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@seanspicer
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Jill McCabe finally gets to have her say. You will want to read it
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I'm sorry, has Castor said anything relevant to his client's defense? Because ineffective assistance of counsel doesn't get you anywhere in an impeachment trial.
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If voters knew then what we know now about Trump & Co.: campaign contacts w/ Russia (Manafort offer to brief oligarch; dangling of dirt on HRC), “I love it” Trump Tower meeting, Moscow Trump Tower negotiations mid-campaign, now Saudi offer of help—Trump would be unelectable.
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Um, lock her up? Trying to remember where I first heard that...
“The new phenomenon of ‘headhunting’ prosecutors and AGs—who try to take down their political opponents using the law as a weapon—is a threat to the very foundation of our liberty. That’s what is done in third world countries.” — Trump in a written statement from Palm Beach.
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Barack Obama's keynote speech in 2004 was so powerful because it spoke to our hopes about what is best about America.. Michelle Obama's speech tonight was so powerful because it spoke to the undeniably grim reality of America under Trump. He cannot be the president we need.
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"This is not normal." We knew that--but how powerful it is to hear it from a federal judge.
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Guess the speaker. Hint: he is on the Supreme Court.
"I think it is important for judges not to have agendas or to have strong ideology or ideological views."
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