Yup.

And as Chapter 6 of The Shadow Docket documents, the Court's approach in 2020 election cases was the latter.

Tl;dr: On top of the Trump Organization tax crime, Trump's personal tax shenanigans are two orders of magnitude larger than Hunter Biden's alleged shenanigans that House Republicans spent a year said weren't investigated aggressively enough.

Something like 8 of the people who helped Trump attack the Capitol have been sentenced as terrorists, Doug. Some of the same people he's promising to pardon.

🔥Trump falsified an annual disclosure that the Trump Hotel was losing money so he could hide a loan modification from money laundering Deutsche Bank that saved Trump and his struggling company tens of millions of dollars. cnbc.com/2021/10/08/tru…

'We've also gotten abortion out of the federal government and back to the states, the way everybody and all legal scholars always said it should be' -- multiple lies in this statement from Trump

As an ER doc and health care advocate I couldn’t care less about Senator Katie Boyd Britt's cringe performance in this video that many are roasting. It is the substance of the bill she is pushing that makes me truly cringe. Here’s why: 🧵1/7

This is the heart of the Georgian people speaking. They reject Putin-Russia’s darkness and instead embrace freedom, independence and liberty. Tbilisi is alive and they clearly say no to the Russian law.

Trump’s surprise guest today, Lawrence Taylor, a perfect Trump surrogate.

“Former NY Giants linebacker had a highly publicized struggle w/drug addiction and had multiple legal run-ins bf he was arrested and charged in the rape of a 16-year-old girl.”

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Speaking of Macron.

Liz Cheney Gov. Doug Burgum A Picture worth 5000 Taliban

Folks, he is not going to leave office, ever. Know this before you decide not to vote for Biden. It will be worse than you can imagine and a national security disaster. The aim is to destroy America, to the benefit of autocrats around the world.

From John Harwood: “2024 presents a different issue: Should reporters also be neutral about the fate of American democracy?”

Same Q here in TN. Be truthful, not neutral. zeteo.com/p/as-a-veteran…

There have been separate articles on each of these speeches, and while each mentions the others, the common thread isn’t stated.

These Justices, internally, appear to be fostering a growing contempt toward the public and, publicly, promoting resentment/hate toward their critics.

Scientists say that auroras are the result of disturbances in the Earth's magnetosphere caused by the solar wind. But X-user @covidistheflu1488 isn’t so sure.

Does anyone have a database of the many Republicans caught voting illegally?

Georgia Republicans boot vice chairman after court ruling he voted illegally - NINE TIMES

Judge found Brian K. Pritchard voted nine times while serving a felony sentence
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Katie Phang

Clarence Thomas has the chutzpah to whine about “mean” people in Washington

When he & his wife Ginni spend their lives starting coups and taking away peoples civil rights

But he will never retire

Because-if he does-billionaire Harlan Crow will stop funding his lavish lifestyle

Josh Marshall It's worse than that. The two Kahanist parties led by Smotrich and Ben-Gvir have effective vetoes on IL policies. IL has an effective veto on US policy. Law of transitivity means 2 Kahanist parties in IL have veto on US policy. Until now. Biden is apparently fed up. Past time.

Lost in the political chatter. By putting coalition strategy ahead of clear mil strategy, BN made war far more destructive/deadly & far less successful than cld have been.

IDF chief said to fume at PM for failing to decide on strategy for post-Hamas Gaza timesofisrael.com/liveblog-may-1…

There's some irony that the old Abba Eban saw about Palestinians never missing an opportunity to miss an opportunity now applies to Bibi. He had a window to marshal world opinion to his side, get Arab leaders to back a PA-led Gaza w/U.S. support and he's pissing it away.