- Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: Republicans shrug off laundry list of scandals, advance Emil Bove’s judicial nomination
Bove is arguably the single-most controversial circuit court nominee in modern American history. Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee didn’t care.
- Josh Kovensky @ Talking Points Memo: Emil Bove Represents One Future of the Federal Judiciary
The Senate is poised to confirm Bove on Thursday to a seat on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. It’s a victory for Bove’s ambition, but also for Trump’s. Appellate courts are usually pretty rarified — full of academics, former district court judges, and high-flying attorneys in private practice. Cynics may argue that it’s no accident that the level of abstraction increases in direct proportion to judges’ ability to interpret and thereby create new law, but the Bove appointment is something else entirely: part of an attempt to mold the judiciary towards loyalty to Trump personally.
- Matt Ford @ The New Republic: The Supreme Court Says Laws Aren’t Real
To cover the Supreme Court these days is to catalogue its lawlessness. The conservative justices’ latest decision in McMahon v. New York allows the president to effectively demolish the Department of Education—a Cabinet-level department that was created by Congress, given duties and responsibilities by Congress, and funded by Congress to carry them out.
- Charisma Madarang @ Rolling Stone: Trump DOJ Fires Attorney Who Prosecuted Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell
Maurene Comey was also a prosecutor on the trial of disgraced mogul Sean Combs.
- Charlie Nash @ Mediaite: Alex Jones Says Trump Is ‘Destroying MAGA in Real Time’ Because He’s ‘Implicated’ in Epstein Files
Infowars founder Alex Jones accused President Donald Trump of “destroying MAGA in real time” on Wednesday as Trump continued to lash out at supporters for demanding the release of files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
- Media Matters: Fox host Rachel Campos-Duffy: “Are we a nation of immigrants? Or are we a nation of settlers? ... We are the latter.”
"I think the question is, are we a nation of immigrants? Or are we a nation of settlers? And I would argue with you, Will, that we are the latter."
