Republican Hypocrisy category archive
“I Know You Are but What Am I” 0
David discusses the “cartoonish level” of projection in the Trumposphere.
Honoring the Troops, the Republican Way 0
Sam talks with Digby about Republican attempts to smear Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman.
Read Digby’s article.
The Rule of Lawless 0
The Las Vegas Sun’s Brian Greenspun opines. A snippet:
A judge asked President Trump’s lawyer whether he was suggesting that Trump could actually shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and, because he is the president, actually get away with murder. To which the lawyer answered, “yes.” As long as he was our president!
(snip)
And he was deadly serious.
Land Grab 0
James Conaway explores the reasons behind the Trump administration’s decision to relocate senior Bureau of Land Management officials to Grand Junction, Colorado. The administration’s rationale argues that the officials need to be closer to the land that they manage. Conaway is skeptical.
A snippet:
Originalist Sin 0
At Above the Law, Tyler Broker explains that self-avowed Supreme Court “originalists” aren’t. A snippet:
Instead, what has dominated the Court’s most consequential opinions are modern-based (politically conservative) value judgments that can stand in direct conflict with the lawful original intent of Congress.
Follow the link for the exhibits in his case.
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
Carl Hiaasen imagines an alternate universe.
The Rule of Lawless 0
At Above the Law, Stacy Zaretsky reports on a letter of the law.
And in other news of the lawless . . . .
In Translation 0
UNC Law Professor Joseph Kennedy translates from the Latin. A snippet:
All the News that Fits 0
Fellow Travelers 0
At the Las Vegas Sun, Peter Wehner tries to understand why Republicans, who once styled themselves as the party of rectitude, so willingly defend and support Donald Trump, for whom rectitude is a unknown concept. Here’s a bit; follow the link th read the rest.
When the accommodation involves compromising one’s sense of integrity, the tensions are reduced when others join in the effort. This creates a powerful sense of cohesion, harmony and groupthink. The greater the compromise, the more fierce the justification for it — and the greater the need to denounce those who call them out for their compromise.
