That's so messed up. You think the people running that prison system feel that a criminal like Trump should be treated that way? I don't. He hasn't spent a single day being bars, and even when he does he sure as hell won't be treated like that. He'll be protected, coddled, and given the white gloves prison experience. In fact, I have no doubt he wouldn't even serve a third of his term.
REPUBLICANS WHEN A BOOK IN A SCHOOL LIBRARY TALKS ABOUT THINGS THEY DON'T LIKE ? The irony being that none of them read, let alone have ever willingly entered a library.
The problem with JD Vance and so many other Republicans is that they will defend and support Trump, no matter what he says or does. The few who had the courage and integrity to speak out about Jan 6th are now the ones those spineless power hungry cowards try to paint as the enemy, and the traitors. JD, the guy who wondered whether Trump was “America’s Hitler” and in 2017 said the then-president was a “moral disaster.” In public, he agreed Trump was a “total fraud” who didn’t care about regular people and called him “reprehensible.” Liz Chaney is right when she says this....
Missouri high court allows abortion measure to stay on fall ballot If approved by voters, the constitutional amendment would allow abortion until fetal viability. The state currently bans the procedure in nearly all cases. Just several hours before ballots were to be finalized, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled Tuesday afternoon that a measure to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution is specific enough to present to voters in November. The decision came after a short but politically fraught morning hearing before all seven judges — four of them women, five of them appointees of Republican governors. Only days earlier, a lower-court judge had ruled the ballot measure invalid because it does not identify which laws it would repeal. “By a majority vote of this Court, the circuit court’s judgment is reversed,” Chief Justice Mary R. Russell wrote. The outcome means that Missouri will remain among more than half a dozen states with measures to protect abortion rights on their ballots this fall, including in presidential battleground states such as Arizona and Florida. Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, every ballot measure that has sought to preserve or expand abortion access has passed in red and blue states alike. Measures that have sought to restrict access have failed, including in conservative Kansas. Abortion has been illegal in Missouri since a trigger law took effect after Roe fell; the only exceptions are to save the life and health of the mother. Amendment 3 would permit the procedure until fetal viability at about 24 weeks, the point in a pregnancy when a fetus can survive outside the womb. A flurry of legal maneuvering had taken place since Friday’s lower-court ruling. Though supporters were granted a stay to keep Amendment 3 on the ballot until the Missouri Supreme Court heard arguments, Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft abruptly decertified the measure Monday, despite the deadline for such action already having passed. In a brief, he called the measure “deficient.” Proponents immediately asked the state’s high court to hold Ashcroft — son of former U.S. attorney general John Ashcroft and an unsuccessful gubernatorial candidate in last month’s Republican primary — in contempt. They had already successfully sued him over how he summarized the measure for voters, with a different circuit judge criticizing his wording as “unfair, insufficient, inaccurate and misleading.” “This court has authority over this process right now. The public has been told — as they should have been — that you are going to decide whether this measure is on the ballot or not,” Chuck Hatfield, an attorney for the ballot initiative campaign, told the court Tuesday, calling Ashcroft’s decertification of the measure “open contempt for your authority. It’s open contempt for the rule of law.” Missourians for Constitutional Freedom, the campaign pushing the abortion measure, describe it as amending the state constitution to preserve “the right to make and carry out decisions about all matters relating to reproductive health care.” Opponents contend its language will mislead voters. “There is no way to know if the proponents of this radical amendment would have gathered enough signatures to place this on the ballot if the truth about the staggering scope of laws Amendment 3 invalidates had been disclosed,” they said in a statement last week. In court Tuesday, an attorney for the conservative Thomas More Society made the same point. Laws that govern how ballot measures are worded “require [voters] to be fully informed,” Mary Catherine Martin said. “The average voter reading this would have no way of knowing that it has a limiting effect” on state lawmakers regulating abortion. The judges asked a few clarifying questions Tuesday but did not indicate how they might rule. The hearing was over in less than an hour. Their decision reversed the ruling by Cole County Circuit Judge Christopher Limbaugh. Limbaugh — a cousin of the late conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh and an appointee of Gov. Mike Parson (R), for whom he served as general counsel — said the text of the initiative petition failed to list what existing laws would be repealed if it passed, as required by law. The Supreme Court “decided to ignore laws that protect voters in order to satisfy pro-abortion activists who intentionally omitted critical information from the initiative petition,” Martin responded Tuesday afternoon. “We implore Missourians to research and study the text and effects of Amendment 3 before going to the voting booth.” A spokesman for Ashcroft’s office said the measure was already restored to the ballot — as reflected on the department’s website. “I am disappointed in today’s court ruling,” Ashcroft said in a statement. “I would encourage every Missourian, before they vote, to read the actual text of this amendment.” The ballot measure’s backers were celebrating what they called “a victory for both direct democracy and reproductive freedom in Missouri.” “This fight was not just about this amendment,” said Rachel Sweet, campaign manager for Missourians for Constitutional Freedom. “It was about defending the integrity of the initiative petition process and ensuring that Missourians can shape their future directly.” Antiabortion groups outside Missouri have also filed legal challenges seeking to remove abortion measures from other states’ ballots this fall. Many of those cases have already made their way through courts, but some are still pending. Nebraska’s Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in a case challenging the validity of an abortion ballot measure, with opponents calling it unclear and citing the state’s single-subject rule. A South Dakota ballot measure survived a legal challenge to appear on the ballot, though a trial over its validity is scheduled for the end of September. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/09/10/missouri-abortion-amendment-november-ballot-court/
The 11th commandment is dead. Supporting this sad, deranged sociopath criminal and his sycophants is just bad optics at this point. Jettison the wackjobs, crooks and the rest of the chaff and reboot your party, GOP. You can do better. There are independents out there waiting for sanity.
The turning point was when the GOP figure out they could win an election without winning the popular vote. Palin was the jump the shark moment for the Republican party.
When they lost the election? Didn't they realize they could win the election without the popular vote in 2000? There are 5 elections in US history in which the winner didn't win the popular vote. Only 2 since 1900, and they were 2000 and 2016.
