From MSNBC: An Idaho man who was among 31 others arrested in downtown Coeur d’Alene for conspiracy to riot during a Pride event is a cadet in the Idaho National Guard.

This represents a valid fear that many Americans share, i.e., that, in the case of a civil war where armed Trump supporters rise up, some of our law enforcement personnel will take their side.

This first became a concern when we looked at the 800+ January 6th insurrectionists who have been arrested thus far and realized to our horror that a significant number of them were cops or soldiers.  These people made a conscious decision to put their support for a wanna-be fascist above the oath they took to defend our country and its constitution.

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Does he understand that all these Republicans who are testifying against him are doing so under oath? What do you think his attorneys are going to tell him when he says he wants to go on camera and rack up a few dozen counts of perjury?

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MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell says “we are living through what feels like the end of the Supreme Court as we know it” while detailing the new Washington Post report that Virginia Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, was in contact with Trump-linked attorney John Eastman who was behind the plot to get Mike Pence to overturn the 2020 election on January 6.

So much for the judicial branch.

The executive features a former president and an uncountable number of his staff that are headed to prison for treason, or some array of other felonies.

Yet it’s the legislative that is probably the branch with the largest number of soon-to-be felons.  Think of all the representatives and senators who promoted the Big Lie, and influenced people in the battleground states to submit their own fake electors.

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Darrell C. Scott is an American pastor, radio station owner/host, and a former advisor to then-president Donald Trump.

Now, does a conservative radio pastor need to know a great deal about law?

Of course not, but I thought this was funny nonetheless.

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It’s hard to believe that Kyle Rittenhouse, who shot and killed two unarmed protesters, has found an attorney who is willing to file a defamation suit against Facebook. (more…)

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As Gandhi said, “I like your Christ, but I really don’t like your Christians; they’re nothing like Christ.”

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Sydney Powell and Rudy Giuliani are the two most visible attorneys who were involved in promoting the Big Lie, and they’ve both been disbarred in their respective states.

Of course, they have far bigger problems, as they face a tsunami of civil litigation and criminal prosecutions.  It’s not going to be easy practicing law from a federal prison.

 

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Great cartoon.

Again, my kudos to the Justice Department for (what appears to be) their cleverly executed tactic of letting the House Select Committee conduct their televised hearings on the insurrection.

Now, the common American has the information he needs to understand what happened here.

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Re: the meme here, a reader notes: unfortunately this concept has been disregarded for the last couple of years.
Obviously, science “happens” when people with the appropriate background and training call into question today’s beliefs and offer new hypotheses for testing. The results of these experiments are peer-reviewed, and, if they stand up, they are published as “what science now believes on xyz subject.”
Unfortunately, what we have now are car salespeople, plumbers, real estate agents, grocery store clerks, and baseball coaches who say they’re “questioning science.” That’s actually not what they’re doing at all; they’re really simply parroting someone’s disinformation campaign.
This is counter-productive; it does absolutely nothing to forward scientific inquiry, while harming our society’s capacity to deal with lethally dangerous conditions.
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Here’s  just one more reason that Trump is going down: people are starting to “put two and two together.”

No matter how stupid you are, you know that lying under oath has serious criminal consequences.  And then you ask yourself why no one who believes Trump is innocent is willing to  make a sworn statement to that effect.

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