So basically an adversary could attack any blue state and Trump wont care because he doesn't see himself as the President of the "United States" Without a doubt the most worst president we've ever had. Anti-republic, anti-democratic, anti-constitutional just devoid of basic dignity

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Trump: "We heard in Minnesota there was a cyberattack and they blame it on Iran. I don't think so. I blame it on Minnesota because they're grossly incompetent. Iran's got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota."

"The most effective way to prevent armed federal agents from interfering with elections is to build public consensus that doing so would be an unacceptable breach of the United States’ most basic principles."

Preventing Voter Intimidation by Federal Agents at the Polls

Any deployment that intimidates voters or interferes with elections would be illegal. Should one occur, officials and civil society are prepared to challenge illegal acts so that voting can proceed un...

brennancenter.org

Trump asks the robed legal wizards on high to let him deny mail ballots to voters.

Trump DOJ asks Supreme Court to greenlight anti-mail voting order before midterms

Read more here.

democracydocket.com

The most alarming news tonight wasn't anything Trump said. It was the Wall Street Journal's reporting that White House officials are actively pressuring the IRS to open specific audits into people or companies in violation of federal law.

Exclusive | Top Treasury Tax Official Ousted After Clashes With White House Over IRS Audits

Kenneth Kies warned that political officials risked breaching a law that limits who can influence tax enforcement.

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I think we can see the playbook for this year's midterms.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

Tuberville: "We probably have four or five senators that didn't legally win. They shouldn't be up here."

Monitizing insider trading

Truth Social will sell Wall Street quicker access to posts | CNN Business

Truth Social will sell Wall Street firms quicker access to market-moving posts from President Donald Trump, the company said on Thursday.

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ICYMI: The FBI has explored using AI to assess the validity of signatures on tens of thousands of mail-in ballot envelopes seized from Fulton County, Ga., the latest in the Trump administration’s unprecedented reinvestigation of the 2020 vote. @jeremykohler.bsky.social @dougbockclark.bsky.social

FBI Has Looked at Using Questionable AI Tech to Review Signatures on Seized Mail-In Ballots

As part of President Trump’s continued push to discredit the results of the 2020 election, his administration has considered using AI technology to scrutinize tens of thousands of ballots seized in Fu...

propublica.org

Great piece from @jimsaksa.com about what may be next for the U.S. Election Assistance Commission after Trump fired its leadership last night.

Trump fired the entire Election Administration Commission. Now what?

“It's a bit of a tantrum by the president,” said Cisco Aguilar, Nevada's secretary of state. "His ego is bruised.”

democracydocket.com

Judge Ray said the personal info the DOJ sought was unusable for any criminal investigation and would chill poll worker participation in future elections.

Trump-appointed judge rejects DOJ’s demands for personal info of 2020 Georgia election workers

The judge said the department's bid to force the county to divulge election workers’ names and home addresses was “staggering.”

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Jacob Knutson@jaknutson.bsky.social · 4w ago

A very curious footnote in Judge Ray's rejection of the DOJ's subpoena for the personal info of 2020 Georgia election workers.

A very curious footnote in Judge Ray's rejection of the DOJ's subpoena for the personal info of 2020 Georgia election workers.

"That may ultimately prove to be the campaign’s most significant impact: to inure the American public to the idea that the U.S. can fire missiles, without presenting evidence, at anyone it claims has a drug connection—a rationale that may soon be used on a much greater scale elsewhere in the region"

The Results Are In On Trump’s Boat Strikes Campaign

They haven’t stopped the drugs, but that may not be the point.

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Supreme Court Upholds Temporal Gerrymander That Would Cost Democrats 1932 Election https://theonion.com/supreme-court-upholds-temporal-gerrymander-that-would-cost-democrats-1932-election/

Wait, so did Roberts announce that like the janitor, Eustice Pam Salito, was retiring or some shit?

Mediagazer@mediagazer.com · last mo.

NPR's Nina Totenberg misheard a statement about retirements and told editor Krishnadev Calamur that Alito was retiring; Calamur then posted a prewritten story (Kelly McBride/NPR) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

You have to study the opinion carefully, but the Supreme Court yesterday in Cook held that the @cpsc.gov social-media staff has "for cause" removal protections.

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission@cpsc.gov · last mo.

CPSC is here to protect your children even if they are annoying and/or have bad vibes.

I will once again remind folks that a very sizable chunk of what looks like Congress not doing anything to push back against the president is in fact a consequence of the Court disabling/destroying all the ways Congress has tried to push back.

I don’t have much to say about Slaughter, and honestly I think we do too much justice to the Roberts Court by treating its opinions like serious judicial reasoning. But I will say that it’s striking how openly the court treats congressional oversight as somehow antithetical to democratic government

The flurry of rulings against the president this week indicates that — at least for now — the courts are holding firm against the Trump administration’s multi-pronged campaign to suppress the vote ahead of the November midterm elections.

The courts walloped Trump's anti-voting agenda this week

This week’s rulings struck at a central tactic of Trump's disenfranchisement strategy: Attempting to federalize the creation and maintenance of state voter registration rolls — and therefore control w...

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It's kind of wild that the Trump retribution agenda's biggest success so far is prosecuting a Republican who was one of Trump's own advisers.

In other words, “Look at all the crazy shit we’re getting away with right now.”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

JD Vance: "I think Nixon's historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and deservedly so. I joked that if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12 hours news story. The idea that it took down a presidency is crazy."

“Conservative figures with close ties to the president may be using their connections to push the Trump administration to take drastic measures to interfere in November’s elections,” @mattdcohen.bsky.social writes

Far-right stokes fears of ‘nightmare’ Democratic midterm sweep to push for election takeover

Recent comments raise concerns that conservative figures with close ties to the president may be using their connections to push the Trump administration to take drastic measures to interfere in Novem...

democracydocket.com

BREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.

Compare Alito's description of Trump's racist statements (on the left) to Justice Kagan's anthology of Trump's racist statements (on the right). These are passages from this morning's opinions in Mullin v. Doe.

Steiner’s admission conflicted with a separate rule the Postal Service adopted under his watch last year. That rule explicitly said USPS “does not administer elections, establish the rules or deadlines that govern elections, or determine whether or how election jurisdictions utilize the mail.”

Postmaster general says USPS won't deliver mail ballots if states don’t give Trump admin voter rolls

“You are going to make a decision that people cannot vote by mail. That’s unacceptable," one senator told the postmaster general.

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literally watergate

Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · last mo.

Just when you think it can’t get more weird….. Fencing going up around Reflecting Pool

Great redistricting look-back (eulogy?) by @jenrice.bsky.social that everyone should read. “Partisan redistricting is here to stay. Protections against racial gerrymanders are gone. And the law appears to explicitly work for Republicans and against Democrats,” she writes.

Scorched earth: How Trump’s gerrymanders and the Supreme Court burned redistricting to the ground

Over the past year, conservatives have radically transformed redistricting into virtually unrecognizable terrain perhaps most closely resembling a burn scar — the term for the scorched land left behin...

democracydocket.com

The president is openly boasting about using the Justice Department to influence election outcomes. "Had I not made that call, Steve Hilton would right now be watching the election from home," he said.

'Do me a favor': Trump says he directed DOJ to investigate California elections

He said he ordered the probes after early results showed his preferred candidate trailing in the state’s recent gubernatorial primary.

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Exactly one month after a judge dismissed the Trump DOJ's human smuggling charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia as a vindictive prosecution, the department says it will appeal to the Sixth Circuit.

Notice of Appeal - Final Judgment – #314 in United States v. Abrego Garcia (M.D. Tenn., 3:25-cr-00115) – CourtListener.com

Notice of Appeal - Final Judgment

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The DOJ's losses today, as seen by DD's photo selections:

Beginning to understand how he bankrupted multiple casinos.