#republican official

[alwaysbewoke]

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Barely a day after former President Donald Trump was indicted for the third time, some Senate Republicans are already trying to undermine the credibility of the federal judge who was randomly assigned to preside over his trial.

Here’s a detail they’re hoping you won’t notice: They unanimously voted to confirm her.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), speaking on his podcast on Wednesday, accused U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan of being “relentlessly hostile” to Trump and claimed that she has “a reputation for being far-left, even by D.C. District Court standards.”

But Cruz voted to put Chutkan into her seat on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in June 2014. So did every other Senate Republican when she was unanimously confirmed, 95-0.

That includes Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who nonsensically claimed Wednesday that “any conviction in D.C. against Donald Trump is not legitimate.”

“The judge in this case hates Trump,” Graham said in a Fox News interview. “You can convict Trump of kidnapping Lindbergh’s baby in D.C. You need to have a change of venue. We need a new judge. And we need to win in 2024 to stop this crazy crap.”

Aides to Cruz and Graham did not respond to requests for comment on how the senators square their votes to confirm Chutkan with their criticisms of her ability to be a fair judge.

Tuesday’s federal indictment of Trump accuses him of serious crimes related to the 2020 presidential election and the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection: conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.

Chutkan, a Jamaica-born former assistant public defender and an appointee of former President Barack Obama, has already been overseeing cases related to the Jan. 6 attack. She’s handed out some of the most aggressive sentences yet to rioters who took part in the violence that day. Of the 11 cases that have come before her, she imposed tougher sentences than those sought by the Justice Department seven times and matched what the Justice Department was seeking four times, according to an Associated Press review.

In all 11 cases, Chutkan sentenced the defendants to prison time.

This is what is likely driving the GOP attacks on Chutkan: They know she’s not likely to go easy on Trump now.

Beyond trying to discredit the judge, some Republicans, like Graham, are parroting Trump’s absurd demand for a change of venue. The former president has called for moving his case to the “more diverse” and “politically unbiased nearby State of West Virginia!” (Virginia and Maryland are much closer to D.C., for what it’s worth.)

Not a single Republican raised concerns about Chutkan during her nomination hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee in February 2014. In fact, only one GOP member of the committee even showed up to the hearing: Sen. John Cornyn (Texas), who was only there to rave about a separate Texas judicial nominee on the schedule. He left before Chutkan was up.

Cruz and Graham were both members of the committee at the time.

Neither attended Chutkan’s hearing.

[jackredfieldwasmyjacob]

watching the princess' constitution pledge and it's all so fucking absurd. why are we still a monarchy in the year of our lord 2023 it just does not make sense.

[socialjusticeinamerica]

🖕

[sky-is-the-limit]

On the phone with my aunt today:

A: so it's settled then, this year you'll come visit us in New York!

Me: yeah, uh, can we also, idk, maybe visit another state?

A: oh? Which one? I was thinking Hawa-

Me: Texas.

A: That's.. unexpected! Why Texas?

Me:

A:

Me: the landscape? Is cool?

A, audibly concerned: you wanna see the desert?

Me: Sure...😀

[compacflt]

The poor SECDEF being referenced in Ice's postcard as an unfunny man and then in the Slider POV where Ice and Mav talk to SECDEF and have some sort of inside joke where they laugh about them. I love all these small inside references that feel like Easter eggs. How do you keep track of them when you're writing? Not sure if it will be in the 120k words of extra scenes (which I'm so grateful for, like I'd be fine with even just scraps) but being a fly on the wall while Ice interacts with the SECDEF be like sounds hilarious. Ironic that Ice thinks that he'd sit out in his retirement until he becomes SECNAV and then possibly SECDEF in "Debriefing" and that Ice has become the sort of unfunny man that lost his acerbic wit but regained it by the end in Slider's POV. Anywho I'm kind of in love with your writing and these characters and will sorely miss them when you're done posting these extras. Thank you for writing this fic and the extras and the WIP Wednesdays and everything. I know you've got other writing projects and wishing you the best, and can't wait until the 120k words drop this weekend. :)

to be clear the secdef ice says is unfunny/the secdef ice & mav laugh about at his retirement party are these two fucking guys

im very hesitant to label anyone war criminals even for Funny Reasons because words do mean things., but when it comes to Bob gates i do get all twitchy and hair-triggery

i think ice being secdef after being secnav is unlikely at best & impossible at worst but the thought of him stepping up to do it during bidens second term & then having to deal with. like. china invading taiwan is unbearably funny to me so it’s not out of the question in my fic universe because it would be good for the bit. first openly gay secretary of defense and he sends the US to open all-out conventional war with China,

[nonasuch]

so. my cousin’s next door neighbor the former trump administration official, whom he hates, has put up an inflatable ghost halloween decoration in accidental pride flag colors.

does anyone have suggestions for appropriately spooky + gay music for my cousin to blast and annoy his neighbor with

[nando161mando]

Republican Officials Openly Insult Women Nearly Killed by Abortion Bans (Slate)

[shirkers2018dirsanditan]

Jesus Christ himself could run against greg abbott and abbott would still win. enough of this analysis of texas state elections that pretends like we have a democracy in this state

[tomorrowusa]

Lawrence O’Donnell describes the vile hate messages Trump supporters are sending to judges and prosecutors involved in cases where Trump is a defendant.

Yes, these are disturbed people – not unlike Trump himself. Their threats of violence need to be taken seriously.

If you happen to see or overhear such threats against ANY public officials, report them to the FBI. If filming those people would be too conspicuous, use an audio recording app such as Apple's Voice Memos to capture evidence of violent threats.

The FBI site for reporting crimes has a number of categories. A threat against public officials would probably be covered by Other FBI Crimes.

Electronic Tip Form | FBI

And yes, they are still seeking information on the pro-Trump terrorists who attacked the US Capitol on 06 January 2021. Many have been apprehended and are serving hard time. But some are still at large.

We can't leave it to the next person to protect democracy and the rule of law.

[lycan-subscribe]

listen i understand wanting to believe that the system we’ve grown up with and been spoonfed to believe is The Most Democratic Way isn’t a huge sham and that there’s still some semblance of change that can occur when operating within it, because it’s hard to reckon with the fact that everything you’ve been told is a lie, but desperately clinging to the idea of one party being better than another isn’t helping anybody. democrats have proven time and time again that they will at the very least turn a blind eye towards fascism if not actively encourage it. vote if you must but please understand that real, palpable change comes from direct action, organization, and communication, not from what color happens to be holding office at the time

[sleepii-moth]

i have literally no idea why i see people saying "ill support trump when he runs in 2024" bitch how is he gonna run??? he was impeached twice??? he STOLE GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS??? HE WAS ARRESTED??????????

[qqueenofhades]

So to recap, Trump has called African countries shitholes, called "Mexicans" criminals and rapists, instituted a Muslim ban, and has dined with a white supremacist among many, many, many other things? Cool, cool. (screams internally) You weren't kidding when you said Trump was elected as part of white America's Obama backlash. Yikes.

[todayisafridaynight]

So were like Ichi and Nanba childhood friends?

no not at all: i'll explain it in the best and most brief way

nanba meets ichiban after ichiban's unconscious body is dumped outside of the homeless camp nanba resides at. they become acquainted after nanba saves ichiban from a near-fatal gunshot wound to his chest

[stupidcowboykid]

to all the americans on here: VOTE IN THE MIDTERMS. VOTE IN THE FUCKING MIDTERMS.

midterms elect CONGRESSIONAL, STATE, and LOCAL politicians. you know those abortion ban trigger laws-- the laws that will restrict abortion access in individual states?? those assholes? those are made by your STATE FUCKING POLITICIANS.

vote in the midterms. the president is the tip of the goddamn iceberg.

[roosterbox]

Watching American politics right now got me like