The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump's appointments have a general approach of letting states handle problems as they see fit.

This time they are asking a state to intervene to stop protests against the justices stemming from the overturning of Roe- v. Wade which returned control of abortion back to the states.


U.S. Supreme Court asks Maryland to bar protests at justices' homes

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"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court’s top security officer has asked Maryland Governor Larry Hogan to enforce laws barring picketing outside the Maryland homes of high court justices, saying protests and “threatening activity” have increased.

Supreme Court Marshal Gail Curley made the request in a July 1 letter to Hogan, noting that Maryland law prohibits people from intentionally assembling “in a manner that disrupts a person’s right to tranquility in the person’s home.”"

 

It’s okay until it happens to “them”….
Maybe the gun laws will change if their kids become victims. Im not wishing that on anyone, I’m just saying!

 

fixed

 

Classic!

 

Trump: Maybe This is a Good Time to Tell People I’m Running Again

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"The Jan. 6 committee’s public hearings have led to a slew of bad headlines for Donald Trump. Most recently, former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson’s explosive testimony detailed the former president’s alleged attempt to seize the wheel from his security detail to attend the insurrection, as well as a lunch-throwing meltdown over the Justice Department’s failure to find election-altering fraud in the 2020 election. And now, Trump apparently thinks the best way to distract from the narrative of his undemocratic attempt to remain president is to make an earlier-than-expected announcement of his intention to run for the third time. The former president “has accelerated his planning in recent weeks just as a pair of investigations”—by the House select committee, and within the Justice Department—“have intensified and congressional testimony has revealed new details” about his attempt to overturn his 2020 election loss, the New York Times reported Friday. Trump “recently surprised some advisers by saying he might declare his candidacy on social media without warning even his own team,” according to the Times, “and aides are scrambling to build out basic campaign infrastructure in time for an announcement as early as this month.” The possibility of a summer announcement was bolstered by subsequent CNN and CBS reports. “Every day is different. We get told he’s going to announce imminently, and by the afternoon that has changed,” one source told CNN."

 

Yeah... But Trump want's to be president for life. So, no rules apply.


Problem is the little red hat people are fine with this...

 

Trump says he can run for two more terms.

He said at a rally that the first term didn't count because the Russia investigation ruined his term.

 

Supreme Court to Hear Case on State Legislatures’ Power Over Elections

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"WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced on Thursday that it would hear a case that could radically reshape how federal elections are conducted by giving state legislatures independent power, not subject to review by state courts, to set election rules in conflict with state constitutions.

The case has the potential to affect many aspects of the 2024 election, including by giving the justices power to influence the presidential race if disputes arise over how state courts interpret state election laws.

In taking up the case, the court could upend nearly every facet of the American electoral process, allowing state legislatures to set new rules, regulations and districts on federal elections with few checks against overreach, and potentially create a chaotic system with differing rules and voting eligibility for presidential elections.

“The Supreme Court’s decision will be enormously significant for presidential elections, congressional elections and congressional district districting,” said J. Michael Luttig, a former federal appeals court judge. “And therefore, for American democracy.”

Protections against partisan gerrymandering established through the state courts could essentially vanish. The ability to challenge new voting laws at the state level could be reduced. And the theory underpinning the case could open the door to state legislatures sending their own slates of electors."

 

Republicans see no use for this anymore...

 

Partisan composition of state legislatures

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The partisan composition of state legislatures refers to which political party holds the majority of seats in the State Senate and State House. Altogether, there are 1,972 state senators and 5,411 state representatives.

The breakdown of chamber control after the November 2021 election is as follows:

• 36 chambers
• 62 chambers[1]
• One chamber with power sharing between the parties

The breakdown of chamber control prior to the November 2021 election was as follows:

• 37 chambers
• 61 chambers[1]
• One chamber with power sharing between the parties

 

To borrow a phrase from Trump's PR people, 'stay tuned!'


'Stay tuned' for new evidence against Trump in July hearings

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"WASHINGTON (AP) — More evidence is emerging in the House's Jan. 6 investigation that lends support to recent testimony that President Donald Trump wanted to join an angry mob that marched to the Capitol where they rioted, a committee member said Sunday.

“There will be way more information and stay tuned,” said Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill.

The committee has been intensifying its yearlong investigation into the attack on Jan. 6, 2021, and Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., the committee's vice chair, is making clear that criminal referrals to the Justice Department, including against Trump, could follow.

At least two more hearings are scheduled this month that aim to show how Trump illegally directed a violent mob toward the Capitol on Jan. 6, and then failed to take quick action to stop the attack once it began.

The committee also has been reviewing new documentary film footage of Trump’s final months in office, including interviews with Trump and members of his family."

 

Trump's 'future prospects are fading fast' as voters look for alternatives: report (msn.com)

 

Stand by, and stand back.

 

Trump doesn't want to stay tuned.

As a distraction, he continues to make announcements that he might make an announcement that he might run in 2024 because now might be a good time to announce it.

 

Well, certainly isn’t a big surprise then

 

New Insights Into Trump’s State of Mind on Jan. 6 Chip Away at Doubts

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"But when added together, the various disclosures have produced the clearest picture yet of an unprecedented attempt to subvert the traditional American democratic process, with a sitting president who had lost at the ballot box planning to march with an armed crowd to the Capitol to block the transfer of power, brushing aside manifold concerns about the potential for violence along the way.

“The innocent explanations for Trump’s conduct seem virtually impossible to credit following the testimony we have seen,” said Joshua Matz, who served as a lawyer for House Democrats during both of Mr. Trump’s impeachment trials in the Senate. “At the very least, they powerfully shift the burden to Trump and his defenders to offer evidence that he did not act with a corrupt, criminal state of mind.”

And so nearly two and a half centuries after the 13 American colonies declared independence from an unelected king, the nation is left weighing a somber new view of the fragility of its democracy — and the question of what, if anything, could and should be done about it."

 

New Insights Into Trump’s State of Mind on Jan. 6 Chip Away at Doubts

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"Solomon L. Wisenberg, a former deputy independent counsel under Ken Starr, called her account “the smoking gun” making a case “for his criminal culpability on seditious conspiracy charges.” Mick Mulvaney, who served as Mr. Trump’s third White House chief of staff, said he had been defending him, but learning that Mr. Trump knew some in the crowd were armed and still encouraged it to go to the Capitol “certainly changes my mind,” he told Fox News.

David French, a conservative critic of Mr. Trump, had been skeptical the committee would produce sufficient evidence. “But Hutchinson’s sworn testimony closes a gap in the criminal case against Trump,” he wrote on The Dispatch, a conservative website. Two law professors, Alan Z. Rozenshtein of the University of Minnesota and Jed Handelsman Shugerman of Fordham University, likewise opposed prosecution until seeing Ms. Hutchinson, writing on the Lawfare blog that she changed their minds because she provided “proof of intent.”"

 

New Insights Into Trump’s State of Mind on Jan. 6 Chip Away at Doubts

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“He learned from Dad, Norman Vincent Peale and especially Roy Cohn that you can get away with almost anything if you never back down and insist long enough and loud enough that you’re right, and he held onto that right up to the final ride” back to the White House, said Gwenda Blair, his biographer, referring in turn to Fred Trump; the author of “The Power of Positive Thinking”; and the chief counsel in the Army-McCarthy hearings, who became a mentor to Mr. Trump. For Mr. Trump, “he was being completely consistent with the way he has acted his entire life.”