What the hell happened in politics this week? Esquire's legendary blogger Charlie P. Pierce has answers |
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Now, it seems, we've reached the point in our drama at which the gun placed on the table in act 1 finally goes off in act 3, blowing a hole through the Constitution big enough for the president to walk through. From The New York Times: "A federal judge said on Monday that the White House had defied his order to release billions of dollars in federal grants, marking the first time a judge has expressly declared that the Trump administration is disobeying a judicial mandate." Your move, Chief Justice Roberts. |
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It was a red-letter day for trading favors around the Oval Office on Tuesday, a red letter delivered, of course, in a plain brown envelope. First, out of pure spite and corporate avarice, the president effectively shuttered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, guaranteeing that credit-card hustlers and loan-company sharpers can run amok among the populace again. |
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Being our semi-regular weekly survey of what's goin' down in the several states where, as we know, the real work of governmentin' gets done and where nobody wants to marry your sister. We begin in Idaho, where, against all possible odds, they elected a legislature even more wing-nutty than the previous one was. Now that legislature wants public school kids to learn all about the massacring and raping and pillars of fire in the good book. |
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The House Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene presiding, held its first public hearing on Wednesday. By now, things being what they are, most congressional hearings are empty farces, the partisan divisions clearly drawn and defended almost without question. Witness the confirmation hearings of the various Trump nominees. Even the most controversial ones felt comfortable barbering the truth in the most obvious ways. |
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Almost from the moment the shots rang out in Dallas, the FBI has been stumbling over itself. Now we discover that its vetting and releasing of documents under the 1992 Assassination Records Collection Act has been of a piece with the moment in 1963 when Dallas FBI agent James Hosty flushed a threatening note from Lee Harvey Oswald down the john. |
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