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Another spasm of political violence
Vance Luther Boelter, 57, was captured late Sunday Sunday at Minnesota and charged in the assassination of the former president of the State Chamber, Melissa Hortman (D) and her husband, Mark, and the attempted assassination of the State senator John Hoffman (D) and his wife, Yvette.
One of the debilitating aspects of all violence is how definitive and definitive it is and how anemic it feels. Capture and try the alleged culprit are the next necessary steps, but nothing is done what has been done. Nothing is doing things correctly.
The story of who is Boelter and the way he did what he did is unsatisfactory, regardless of the number of special details discovered and settling together. Assemble the motive, political ideology and catalysts that have pushed it to unspeakable violence try to serve our desire for meaning by establishing a cause and an effect. Maybe it will be. Maybe this is not the case.
By putting aside for the moment the details of Minnesota, what we know is that violence and violent rhetoric generates more violence. While political violence was a recurring characteristic of American political life, which marks the Trump era and makes so different, it is that the President of the United States has plunged with an almost joyful fascination in threats, themes, impulses and violent impulses. Trump mythologizes violence.
For a decade now, Trump has brought his supporters with ever more sumptuous violence – threats and smear, mass deportations, severe reprisals against enemies, an attack on the Capitol. Episodic violence serves as totems for their tribalism. Over time, you need ever -increasing spectacles of violence to feed it hunger. The next performative violence must exceed what has preceded.
It is not clear where it ends. But it’s not over yet.
The main deportation developments of the weekend
- Under political pressure, the Trump administration suddenly moved its development of the actions to apply the agricultural industries, the hotel and restaurants, reports the NYT.
- The Trump administration plans to add 36 countries to its travel ban list, but countries can avoid being added to the list of them agree to accept nationals of the Third Country Expelled from the United States, according to an internal note examined by WAPO.
- In a disarticulated position on social networks, President Trump ordered federal immigration officials to prioritize the expulsions of cities managed by Democrats:
Could be accompanied?
The Los Angeles Marines were photographed by Reuters in what was the first known detention of a civilian as part of its deployment in support of mass deportations. The man was quickly released.
Good reading
Inae Oh on “delicate, beautiful, tiny” fascism of Kristi Noem
Photos: No Kings demonstrations
Icymi: a collection of photos of the anti-top events gathered with TPM players and professional photographers.
The new Doj Trump: continue and publish
Reuters: “The American Ministry of Justice has ordered federal prosecutors to prioritize the criminal proceedings of demonstrators who destroy property or assault, and to ensure that all the cases they bring are published, according to an internal email seen by Reuters.”
Inside the “rubber room” of Trump Doj
We have known for a few months that certain lawyers of the Ministry of Career justice perceived as insufficiently faithful to the President have been recorded for unemployed work on sanctuary cities. Now CBS News is part of what has been nicknamed the “rubber room”.
The judge blocks key parties in Trump EO elections
In a new preliminary injunction, the American district judge Denise J. Casper du Massachusetts blocked two key elements of the decree of President Trump on the elections: (i) allowing the federal government to demand proof of citizenship to register to vote; and (ii) apply against the states a period of the day of the poll to count the postal bulletins. No other judge had yet blocked the provision of the ballots. The two arrangements will remain blocked while the dispute takes place.
More big lawyers’ firm fires
Seven partners of Willkie Farr & Gallagher, one of the law firms who concluded an agreement with President Trump, left to join the law firm Cooley, who represented Jenner & Block in his successful challenge of Trump’s executive decree who targeted him.
About the Trump parade …
Hunter Walker of TPM offers his report of the strong man’s military parade from President Trump to DC.
For the prospect of a planner of experienced major events, this Doug Landry thread is a fun game through images and planning of the parade.
Corruption edition: cryptocurrency
President Trump has won about $ 57 million in his participation in his cryptocurrency company backed by the World Liberty Financial Financial Family last yearAccording to a new financial disclosure form, while the company was still in its infancy and had not yet dropped after its inauguration.
Day quote
“They knew that they lost positions from the start and did not really hope to win in court, but rather to intimidate companies in the regulations, as many companies have done. Now, they have accumulated the four losses before the district courts, it is not surprising that they are not attractive, because I do not think that they never thought that they are serious positions. ” –Cornell W. Bradley Wendel’s law professor, on President Trump’s strategy to target large law firms with decrees and not to attribute his losses before the lower courts
A deep dive on Amy CONEY BARRETT
Two nuggets of the examination well reported by the NYT of the emerging role of judge Amy Conet Barrett at the Supreme Court:
- “Shortly after judge Barrett arrived at the Court, she … Chief judge John G. Roberts Jr. assigned her to write a majority opinion – among her first – allowing the seizure of state property in a pipeline case, according to several people aware of the process. But she then changed her mind and made the opposite position, a daring decision that was likely to irritate chief justice. ”
- “This spring, on Stephen K. Bannon’s podcast, [right-wing legal activist Mike Davis] destroy [Barrett] In as coarse terms, even laughing at the size of his family, as judge Neil Mr. Gorsuch, for whom Mr. Davis had formerly been committed, called him to express his disapproval of his comments, according to people aware of the exchange. »»
For your radar …
The Senate Republicans move to replace the provision of the GOP chamber “Big, Beau Bill” which would make more difficult for judges to enforce the contempt for the violations of the courts with a provision which … would make more expensive to continue the federal government.
Only the best people
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., says that one of his new people appointed to the vaccine panel he dismissed is a professor of the University of George Washington – but the school says that he does not work.
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