In last week’s blog post I discussed elected officials’ belief that their status elevates them above responding to subpoenas and complying with the law or being investigated after it appears they haven’t. I call it constitutional elitism — their official attempts to evade subpoenas, quash search warrants, or hide their…

Stalin controlled the narrative. Of course the next chapter in Ron DeSantis’s authoritarian playbook includes the need to control information and silence speech that criticizes or contradicts his singular viewpoint. This latest chapter, Florida’s anti-political blogging bill, Is Just as Crazy as It Sounds. The last portion of this post…

“It is sadly Shakespearean when a man who courageously helped preserve and defend the Constitution allows personal ambition and fake legalism to lure him into a legacy-destroying fall.” Laurence H. Tribe & Dennis Aftergut, Mike Pence wags the dog: His attempt to avoid testifying is constitutional nonsense Many elected officials…

On November 12, 2020, Fox reporter Jacqui Heinrich ‘fact checked’ a Trump tweet that mentioned Dominion voting machines and specifically referenced Sean Hannity’s and Lou Dobbs’ broadcasts that evening discussing Dominion. In a group text thread, Heinrich pointed out that “top election officials” said “[t]here is no evidence that any…

After the cleverest and among the most hopeful State of the Union addresses in my memory, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, newly elected Governor of Arkansas, gave the GOP ‘response.’ The “failed Biden administration” has apparently been hijacked by a radical left agenda which gave us skyrocketing inflation and indoctrinates children to…

This week the House voted on strict party lines, 218–211 with one member voting “present,” to remove Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minn) from the Foreign Affairs Committee. Representative Omar’s removal was the GOP’s retaliation for the Democrats’ removal of Marjorie Taylor Green (R-Ga) and Paul Gosar (R-Az) from House committee assignments…

This week’s bombshell report in The New York Times, How Barr’s Quest to Find Flaws in the Russia Inquiry Unraveled, reminds us, yet again, of the destruction William P. Barr wrought on the rule of law by politicizing the Trump Department of Justice and, from the DOJ’s highest roost, weaponizing…

It’s been six years since Trump’s American Carnage speech. His open support for white supremacy, rightwing domestic terror, and violence against political detractors began well before then. Gaining momentum under his bully pulpit, however, Trump ’s willingness to use violence to project power over his perceived enemies accelerated during his…

It was my turn to drive. My former wife and I were headed west through Kansas on our way home. I’d just completed a summer internship in Washington D.C., with a very conservative U.S. congressman which, at the time, was my own political orientation. My first time in a voting…