@whstancil not only that, he’s getting extra loud about Santos being a fraud. Like it it will make people look the other way.

@harrylitman *2021?

@whstancil Been waiting for ya!

@emptywheel I’m still stuck on the fact that Smith is just now issuing subpoenas that one would think should have been issued 2 years ago. Nothing in the cnn piece really dispels the idea that Garland has been moving much too slowly. I certainly hope to be proved wrong.

@GoldenRuleLover @harrylitman That’s sort of what I was thinking. Not that they shouldn’t refer criminal matters to DOJ, but it’s DOJ’s job to do it in the first place. A referral should be for things they might have overlooked. This is the obvious stuff and for the legislature to be initiating a criminal matter is not how it is supposed to work.

@Aphrodite @Teri_Kanefield Yes, completely. Sinema may be in the process of that transition. Horrible in any case. Which is why I find it odd that anyone would think there is an authoritarian threat “from the left.” No one I can think of is espousing an authoritarian takeover to promote liberal causes. At best, some are trying to implement structural changes to safeguard democratic representation.

@Aphrodite @Teri_Kanefield Sinema is certainly not on the left now, if she ever was, and while I’m disappointed with her trajectory, even she does not appear to be an authoritarian in a normal sense of the word. Just a massive sell out.

@Atrios On the other hand, my biggest get-off-my-lawn trigger is the QR code menu.