The first time President Obama met with his US Attorneys, he told us, “I appointed you but you don’t serve me. You serve the American people. And I expect you to act with independence & integrity.” None of us ever forgot that.
Abortion, which is lifesaving in cases of miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, etc, will now be illegal in many states & even criminal in some & women will die as a result of this decision. So don't tell me you're pro-life.
Brett Kavanaugh cutting off his wife Ashley so she couldn’t answer a question put to her about whether there should be an FBI investigation was everything I needed to know about his attitude towards women.
JD Vance thinks it's just unmarried cat ladies? I'm a typical boring married mom of 4. I'm the white woman who never voted for Trump & I have thousands of sisters across the country who are getting angrier every day as they belittle us. It's not just a "honeymoon."
#YesWeKam
🚨 U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers announced the largest fentanyl seizure in agency history.
A U.S. citizen was caught smuggling 4 million fentanyl pills weighing over 1,000 pounds in his pickup truck at a port of entry.
I'm only 2 1/2 paragraphs in to Trump's letter and it's clear to me that our President is unwell, unfit and very uninformed about our government & our legal system. And that fills me with a profound sadness that we're at this point. It's time to fix this. Past time.
A party that takes away abortion rights but refuses to provide support for pregnant women who need help with medical care including birth expenses, housing, food, child care & schooling, employment, etc, is most definitely not pro-life.
Imagine going down in history as the president who openly considered whether he needed to pardon himself and his kids before leaving office to avoid going to prison.
It's very disturbing that a party that is willing to let women suffer & die to ensure fetuses are carried to term won't protect actual living children by restricting gun ownership in sensible ways.
As people obsess over Trump's oxygen levels & release date, don't forget he owes $420 million to unknown entities that will come due while he's in office if reelected, continues to flirt with white supremacist allies & has permitted 200,000 Americans to die on his watch.
Kerstin Emhoff, Doug Emhoff's ex-wife, on Republican attacks on
@KamalaHarris
for not having children of her own. “These are baseless attacks. For over 10 years, since Cole and Ella were teenagers, Kamala has been a co-parent with Doug and I." (1/2)
If women can't travel to receive care, or for any other reason they choose to, then we are truly relegated to second class citizenship. This is what the future will look like for yourself, your daughters, your loved ones, if Trump and Vance win.
BREAKING: In a stunning leak, JD Vance has called for a federal response to stop women from traveling from red states to blue states to receive reproductive healthcare. Retweet so all Americans hear this devastating leak.
I’m on an airplane that’s boarding. A woman walking past me leaned down & quietly said thank you & smiled. I can’t tell you all how much the many kindnesses like that these past few years mean to me. It’s an honor to be involved & I appreciate all of you.
Every time I see stories like this I’m reminded that I shut down my tiny Etsy business selling hand-dyed yarn while I was US Atty so there wouldn’t be even the appearance of impropriety.
I never thought I’d live in a country where I’d have to seriously worry about the President pervasively cheating to steal an election or refusing to participate in a smooth transition of power if he lost.
If you're the person Trump paid to take the SAT for him, I know a lot of lawyers who'd be willing to represent you pro bono if there's a non-disclosure agreement or anything like that that keeps you from coming forward.
Here's how a real judge handles Trump, making clear he's just like any other defendant-
Trump lawyer: We’re talking about the presidency of the United States.
Judge Chutkan: I’m not talking about the presidency, I’m talking about a four count indictment.
Trump is arguing Hunter Biden’s Burisma work warranted a criminal investigation. Which means all the deals, trademarks & loans Ivanka, the Kushners, Don jr & Eric have received during his presidency should get the same.
I don't want to have to read Michael Cohen's sad, tawdry book that details how low our country has been taken by Donald Trump, but I do want
@Maddow
to read the whole book to me.
Trying to figure out how Black people singing to protest the Senate’s failure to pass voting rights laws got arrested yesterday while Jan 6 insurrectionists walked freely out of the building after they violently overran it.
1/One of my very smart friends pointed out last night that Joe Biden has gutted so many of Trump’s “arguments." They are gone in one fell swoop: President Biden’s age, Hunter Biden, the whole “Biden crime family” corruption allegations. All out the door.
Neera Tanden is being forced to pay the price for all the women of color who stood up, spoke truth to power & beat Trump. I have no doubt she’ll land on her feet & do great things. But it’s wrong & we should speak up & stand with her.
Cipollone isn't a hero & Pence isn't a hero. If they were we would know all the details, & would have known them during the 2nd impeachment, about the 12/21 meeting where sitting members of Congress who are currently running for re-election, got together to subvert the election.
It's time for the Republican party to go to the president & tell him he must concede & publicly agree to a peaceful transfer of power. Four years in, we are talking about the bare minimum the party can do to retain even a semblance of legitimacy. This is it.
I can’t even count how many times Trump has tweeted & re-tweeted this morning. He’s really worried about the Supreme Court argument & the possibility his taxes may finally be released. Anyone with this much to hide doesn’t belong in the office.
History will look back on the Trump presidency & wonder how Americans fell for him, why they tolerated him & his crimes for so long & how slowly they shook it off, even when it was clear it was over. It will seem inexplicable.
My Grandad didn’t fight in WWII, along with his four brothers, 2 of whom didn’t make it home, so a sore loser with autocratic aspirations could try to overthrow the results of a democratic election.
Free speech is one thing, but this is over the line. As a prosecutor, I'd be sorely tempted to make a motion to revoke Trump's pre-trial bond & put him in custody. Let him explain it to the judge.
Trump has shown more outrage in the last few days about Americans voting by mail during a pandemic than he has ever shown about Russian efforts to interfere with our elections.
I honest to God still can't believe that this is coming from the president of the United States. Removed or not, this is what a failed presidency looks like.
Our case against lyin’, cheatin’, liddle’ Adam “Shifty” Schiff, Cryin’ Chuck Schumer, Nervous Nancy Pelosi, their leader, dumb as a rock AOC, & the entire Radical Left, Do Nothing Democrat Party, starts today at 10:00 A.M. on
@FoxNews
,
@OANN
or Fake News
@CNN
or Fake News MSDNC!
Something that's hard to convey to people who don't walk in their shoes: there are a lot of women walking around today who aren't just sad. They're frightened. They're terrified.
I encourage everyone who chooses to be negative & question my work at the
@WhiteHouse
to take time and contribute something good & productive in their own communities.
#BeBest
Alabama doctor says this about her Covid patients, some of whom are dying: “One of the last things they do before they’re intubated is beg me for the vaccine. I hold their hand and tell them that I’m sorry, but it’s too late.”
I look forward to hearing Judge Barrett explain the hypocrisy that will permit her to accept the nomination after arguing Merrick Garland could not be confirmed to SCOTUS 8 months before the 2016 election because his views were too different from Justice Scalia’s.
🚨 WATCH THIS VIDEO:
Judge Amy Coney Barrett asserts that it’s wrong to fill a SCOTUS vacancy during a presidential election year and when it will “dramatically flip the balance of power.”
Just turned on Trump’s Rose Garden spiel in time to hear him claim people should vote for him because he’s the law & order President & Biden isn’t. This, 4 days after commuting the sentence of Roger Stone, who lied about Russian interference in our election to protect Trump.
Tomorrow we find out if SCOTUS will require that Trump's taxes be turned over to Congress and/or Manhattan DA Cy Vance. It's sort of a big moment for our country.
I know from experience how the Secret Service interacts with people who make threats against POTUS, even ones they can't carry out. This, from a former President, is totally out of bounds. It's time to stop letting Trump break the rules. Long past time.
I took this picture this morning after I finished reading the Cohen information & plea agreement because I wanted to make sure I could always remember the moment when it became clear Mueller was preparing to lay down a royal flush.
I'm not up for listening to Ted Cruz lecture Merrick Garland about politicization and weaponization of the Justice Department by the Obama administration.
Here's the thing: Trump was an elected president, there to serve the country for 4 years. Once gone, he had no more right to gov't property than any other citizen. He is acting like a king exercising royal prerogatives when in fact, he's just a law breaker.
Kanye West has more than 3 million followers. He threatened to go "death con 3" on Jewish people. I don't hear his GOP supporters coming out to condemn this. Instead, Jewish people are being told to get over it because he isn't serious.
This case fills me with such a pervasive sadness. That a president would do what Trump did and that his party would continue to support him should be unthinkable.
This is exactly what they have in store for women. Belittle us. Ridicule us. Reduce us to second class citizenship. A candidate for VP who says this should be removed, but it's precisely what Trump thinks too.
So, I'm up at 4am trying to help my kid, whose college foreign study program has just been canceled (they've been given a week to leave the country) change a flight & get home & all I can think is, but her emails...
Biden has it right. If we lose the House & the Senate in November, Republicans will pass a nationwide ban on abortion. That means Democrats must fight for every seat.
If you & your son shoot & kill a man jogging down the street, you’re a danger to the community & should be arrested pending charges. If the murder is motivated by racism & state authorities won’t do their job, DOJ has the jurisdiction to indict & arrest.
This is an interesting point & reminder that
@AOC
's generation doesn't remember a more moderate Republican party that people my age remember. Because her views aren't clouded by memories of a party that no longer exists, they may be more accurate.
I'm glad Pence did what he did at the end, but it's important to remember he & others we're hearing from permitted Trump to do great damage to this country for far too long. Pence should never be a viable candidate again.
If Alito gets a majority for his opinion in current form, the dissents are going to be very powerful. Saying women shouldn’t have rights today b/c it wasn’t custom & history in this country for men to grant them to them may not turn be the compelling argument he thinks it is.
The Democratic Party has called for more accountability from Congresswoman Maxine Waters in the last 24 hours than the GOP has demanded from Trump in 2+ years of hate, bigotry, slurs, bullying & even suggestions of violence.
I have four children. Their father is a judge. Their mother was a federal prosecutor. None of them could have “represented” themselves at the age of 5 in an asylum proceeding. This is a stain on our history & our commitment to justice & the rule of law.
We should honor the life of RBG, American hero, by refusing to give in, refusing to back down, fighting for the civil rights of all people & demanding our leaders honor the the rule of law. This is our fight now. May her memory be for a blessing.
Still blown away that when Mike Flynn, a retired General, was asked if he believed in the peaceful transition of power, instead of saying yes, he asserted his 5th amendment right to avoid giving an answer that would incriminate him.
Prof Karlan wasn’t mocking Barron, she was explaining a legal point with an example. But coming from a woman who runs a Be Best campaign while her husband separates thousands of children from their parents with no plans to reunite them, this is just a sham argument.
A minor child deserves privacy and should be kept out of politics. Pamela Karlan, you should be ashamed of your very angry and obviously biased public pandering, and using a child to do it.
Tonight’s election in Ohio 12 serves as a reminder that we are not a parliamentary system of government, so votes for the Green Party made by people who believe the Democratic Party is not progressive enough are in effect votes for the Republican candidate.
Actually, it is. You see, the federal bribery statute, 18 USC 201, defines bribery to include attempted bribery. It's enough to "seek" a bribe - you don't actually have to pull your illegal scheme off.