Jan 6 Planned, Self Doc Crime, Secret Service Served, Abortion

  • In Letters from an American, historian Heather Cox Richardson considers new and developing evidence that the conspiracy to overthrow the peaceful transition was earlier, more explicit, more widespread, and involved people you would have expected to insulate themselves from grimy, incriminating details.
     
  • John Eastman is the lawyer who provided the legal sounding mumbo jumbo that served as the background for Donald Trump’s attempt to subvert the results of the election.
     
    The Department of Justice wants to know the details of the plot. They got a warrant and took his cell phone.
     
    The Palmer Report tells us about Mr. Eastman’s court filing to keep them from peeking at the evidence.
     
    Spoiler alert: He lost and DOJ will be looking.
     
  • How often do criminals video tape their detailed plans for robbing a neighborhood bank? Here’s a moral equivalent.
     
    Frances Langum joins us with an amazed Rachel Maddow, watching Trumper extremists planning the Jan 6 insurrection, including their plans for Pence. On! VIDEO!
     
  • In Hackwhackers we find yet another video made a few days before the 2020 election. This one has close Trump associate Steve Bannon preview the plan.
     
    So yes, there was a detailed plan. And yes, it is captured on video. The plan:
     
    If Trump is losing on election night, he will declare victory anyway and claim election fraud.
     
  • The Jan 6 Committee wants communication records from the Secret Service. The records will help determine which of several contradictory accounts of the insurrection are true. Somebody may be lying and the records can show who can be trusted. The Committee goes through channels and gets a runaround. It’s one delay after another.
     
    Finally, the Secret Service runs out of road blocks. So they will comply. But first, they must conduct a device upgrade. We do want communication technology to be up-to-date, right?
     
    And a good portion of the requested records accidentally gets erased.
     
    Oops.
     
    Tommy Christopher says the matter is not closed. The oopsing of the now missing records is now the subject of its own section of the investigation. And maybe, just maybe, the records can be recovered from deletion.
     
    Oops.
     
  • Had to happen, I suppose: A 72 page conservative report of the 2020 election, including an analysis of conspiracy theories.
     
    At The Moderate Voice, retired U.S. Air Force Officer Dorian de Wind reads through the report. Eight prominent conservatives; retired judges, former Senators, legal experts, other officials; look into 187 allegations of fraud and other irregularities. They determine that each and every one is false. The 2020 election was lost, not stolen. The conspiracy theories are bogus.
     
    How about that!
     
  • Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger has the numbers. A growing majority of Americans are swayed by the Jan 6 hearings. Trump done it!!
     
  • Max’s Dad reviews a few of the things we have learned about witness tampering, Dick Nixon, Bannon, Uvalde, GOP intelligence, Musk v Trump, and a MAGA world in which the rape of a 10 year old girl is not really rape.
     
  • We have already reviewed the Supreme Court decision on who decides whether a woman will get an abortion.
     
    The Supreme Court says the 9th Amendment, the one that protects rights not mentioned in the Constitution, no longer means what it says.
     
    M. Bouffant at Web of Evil reviews the new conservative reality. When a 10 year old is raped, it is intolerable to force her to keep the pregnancy until she gives birth to the rapist’s baby. So, when it does happen, define the absurdity away with a more humane absurdity. In that singular case, an abortion is not an abortion.
     
  • Julian Sanchez reflects on the rape of a 10 year old and how political exploitation will affect the future:

  • Iron Knee at Political Irony brings a real incident illustrating the legal absurdity of declaring a fetus to be a person.
     
    I suppose, with the same logic, we can order a chicken dinner from the menu and find ourselves paying full price for a hardboiled egg.
     
  • In Happiness Between Tails, da-AL encounters folks who simply don’t care either way about abortion rights because it does not involve them. In introducing an excellent personal account by legal expert Pam Lazos, da-AL wonders how “people justify take, take, taking, and never lifting a finger”.
     
  • Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit listens as a prominent Republican teaches us that demonic possession is a sexually transmitted disease.

A few tweets I thought worthy:

And I’m allowed a few of my own:

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One thought on “Jan 6 Planned, Self Doc Crime, Secret Service Served, Abortion”

  1. someone ought to needlepoint & frame your wise words on individual rights — thanks as always for including my site here — wishing you a good week

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