Rep. Lofgren (D-CA): 'It can't be in our system that a president who tried to overturn the government to stay in power will not be tried before the next election. This is really outrageous.'

Rep. Lofgren (more) to MSNBC: 'He has indicated an intention to be dictator on day one. He said that he intends to.. terminate parts of the constitution. He doesn't intend to live under the rule of law. He is a grave threat to the constitutional order. It looks like his partners…

Someone has likely pointed this out, but it’s important to note:

The appeals court took its time on the immunity ruling *specifcially* to narrow the case so SCOTUS would only need to rule on the issue at hand.

SCOTUS ignored that. They wanted a reason to do this.

David Pecker says he signed a cooperation letter with the Manhattan DA's office — something not previously known.

The agreement was signed Oct. 25 2019, well before current District Attorney Alvin Bragg was elected in 2021.

Trump spent Wednesday playing golf at his Bedminster club, sources told CNN. Wednesday's the only weekday court isn't in for his NY criminal trial. Trump has lamented that trial has kept him off campaign trail: “Im not in GA or FL or NC campaigning like I should be' he said Mon.

'Vaccines alone, the researchers find, accounted for 40 percent of the decline in infant mortality. The paper... estimates that in the 50 years since 1974, vaccines prevented 154 million deaths.'

cc: Vox

I am in shock that a lawyer stood in the U.S Supreme Court and said that a president could assassinate his political opponent and it would be immune as 'an official act.'

I am in despair that several Justices seemed to think this answer made perfect sense.

Charmed as ever by the libertarian capacity to be extremely and loudly correct on about four issues.

As covered in Katherine Stewart's 2012 book The Good News Club, this sort of Christian supremacist right invasion of America's public schools has been underway for years. thehumanist.com/magazine/may-j…

Umm. David Pecker testifies that he had a joint call with Hope Hicks and Sarah Huckabee Sanders — taxpayer funded WH officials, at the time — about whether Karen McDougal’s contract should be extended. 'Both of them said that they thought it was a good idea,' Pecker said.

‘Inside a Modern Murder-for-Hire Ring in NYC’

Bitcoin, Telegram, and Instagram. All were used in a recent murder-for-hire and extortion plot in New York City.

New piece with the ⁦404 Media⁩ folks. courtwatch.news/p/inside-a-mod…

As leaders in the Texas GOP vow to stamp out antisemitism by jailing campus protesters, a reminder of this headline by Robert Downen:

“Texas GOP executive committee rejects proposed ban on associating with Nazi sympathizers and Holocaust deniers” texastribune.org/2023/12/02/tex…

INBOX: California AG has filed 11 felony charges against a Los Angeles prosecutor accused of 'unauthorized use' of information from police officer files.

Update on this case: Reardon is set to change his plea to guilty in early June.

President Ilham Aliyev has spent recent months sweeping his country of organized opposition.

Five journalists from AbzasMedia arrested in the sweep remain in jail. Here's our look into how they ended up behind bars:

occrp.org/en/investigati…

NEW from Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project: We recently showed how an alleged cell of the ’Ndrangheta became entangled with Canadian banks. Now, we show how accused ’Ndrangheta members find security in Canada, and why authorities struggle to prosecute organized crime cases occrp.org/en/investigati…

I've seen no credible reporting of actual antisemitic incidents at the UT Austin protest. What I can tell you is that I've reported on numerous neo-Nazi events and Greg Abbott never once tried to put any of them in jail.