"By pushing to excise Liz Cheney, Kevin McCarthy is helping to make the 2022 midterms another referendum on that {orange} loser." –@amandacarpenter https://t.co/g3FF5lwmin
— Tim Miller (@Timodc) May 4, 2021
To be clear: The GOP is rejecting Liz Cheney because she (a) accepts the outcome of the election and (b) is anti-insurrection. That’s a remarkable indictment of the party’s core rot. https://t.co/fE0SVdtNew
— Garrett M. Graff (@vermontgmg) May 4, 2021
Liz Cheney made a capital mistake. You should never assume that your back is covered by someone who has no spine. https://t.co/3CME0PILQD
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) May 4, 2021
Let me get this fucking straight – @HouseGOP are trying to get Liz Cheney to resign before Matt Gaetz?!
— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) May 4, 2021
So the logic is it is better to sleep with underage girls than come out against trump?!
This is TRASH! All of it!
Let’s be clear: Kevin McCarthy is throwing Liz Cheney overboard because Donald Trump told him to. This has zero to do with his caucus.
— John Aravosis 🇺🇸🇬🇷🏳️🌈 (@aravosis) May 4, 2021
Watch closely what happens to Liz Cheney. If prospering in GOP leadership depends on continuing to perpetuate the Big Lie and refusing to accept Biden legitimately won the election, then they remain an active danger to democracy and a tool of coming political violence.
— Steven Beschloss (@StevenBeschloss) May 4, 2021
Every person of conscience draws a line beyond which they will not go: Liz Cheney refuses to lie. As one of my Republican Senate colleagues said to me following my impeachment vote: “I wouldn’t want to be a member of a group that punished someone for following their conscience.”
— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) May 4, 2021
BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the Department of Justice to turn over a memo cited by then-Attorney General Bill Barr as his reasoning not to charge President Trump with obstruction of justice https://t.co/DKmlvtRP28
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) May 4, 2021
In ruling for @CREWcrew in a FOIA case seeking an OLC memo related to whether Trump could be indicted for obstructing the Mueller investigation, Judge Amy Berman Jackson says the (Trump) DOJ lied to her by saying it was predecisional when the decision had already been made. /1 pic.twitter.com/e5ZOW5uwdb
— Charlie Savage (@charlie_savage) May 4, 2021
NEW: DOJ just turned over to @BuzzFeedNews and I and CNN nearly 300 pages of the supplemental material attached to the FBI 302s from the Mueller probe. @a_cormier_ and I are going through the records now but here's a sample pic.twitter.com/K1JkYvLN45
— Jason Leopold (@JasonLeopold) May 3, 2021
“Not only was the Attorney General being disingenuous then, but DOJ has been disingenuous to this Court.”
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) May 4, 2021
More on Judge Amy Berman Jackson’s ruling on Barr’s handling of the Mueller report from @joshgerstein https://t.co/yLuAhoyyap
Just a reminder that Trump used the DOJ for his own agenda and purposely placed loyalists in important positions to protect him at all costs. https://t.co/ZSzjG2pUHu
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) May 2, 2021
Rudy Giuliani's advisers want the Trump campaign to pay for his legal bills with the $250 million it raised in the weeks after the election. Giuliani is facing an escalating federal investigation and defamation suits. https://t.co/V2itNVmJCV
— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 4, 2021
Will Trump be allowed back on Facebook? Meet the 19 people who will announce his fate tomorrow.
— POLITICO (@politico) May 4, 2021
https://t.co/n7Wdpwta11
Donald Trump still doesn't have a Twitter account, and it's unclear if he'll regain access to Facebook tomorrow. But he's setting up a website that will essentially allow his followers to easily share his thoughts on social media. https://t.co/Kus1yyfSl4
— Chris Megerian (@ChrisMegerian) May 4, 2021
Guess who has a new blog and is STILL grifting away like a nineteenth century snake oil salesman? pic.twitter.com/XtxWSBIo5m
— John O’Brennan (@JohnOBrennan2) May 4, 2021
After Arizona, Some Trump Dead-Enders Hope To Pull Off Yet Another ‘Audit’ Of Georgia’s Election https://t.co/jKlHt0RpB8
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 4, 2021
Florida Republicans rushed to curb mail voting after Trump's attacks on the practice. Now some fear it could lower GOP turnout.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 4, 2021
"Donald Trump attempted to ruin a perfectly safe and trusted method of voting."https://t.co/BB5y4F9mmg
This @ThePlumLineGS piece calls out the GOP game. Cornyn and Rs pretend to want an immigration deal to delay and then obstruct a breakthrough. Cornyn has pulled this move so many times he's infamous for it. Fortunately, Dems have a Plan B: reconciliation. https://t.co/9CmrddMVig
— Frank Sharry (@FrankSharry) May 4, 2021
There are people with strong personal incentives to hope that you forget how they incited a violent attack on our nation’s capitol.
— Former Congresswoman Val Demings (@RepValDemings) May 4, 2021
It’s up to us to have enough love for our constitution and our republic to remember and hold them accountable. https://t.co/EW4QJx4Xfb
David, in Guatemala, has not seen his son in person in over three years, since they and about 5,500 other families were separated at the southwest U.S. border under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy. His son, Adelso, 15, is in Florida. https://t.co/hF7cgmwL3l pic.twitter.com/sV9uMHF9jB
— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 4, 2021
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SAME SHIT, DIFFERENT DAY
Boris Johnson wrongly cleared over Covid contracts, say MPs https://t.co/Zevy4XvIYF
— Jo Maugham (@JolyonMaugham) May 4, 2021
A pity the donors couldn’t also have paid for Arcuri. https://t.co/pMhKzCavnG
— Tim Walker (@ThatTimWalker) May 4, 2021
Nicola Sturgeon – Boris Johnson's new Royal Yacht idea is ludicrous… the only reason Johnson is talking about this is to try to distract attention away from the sleaze that's swirling around him & his government, & everyone should see through it#BBCLeadersDebate pic.twitter.com/9meFMAWh01
— Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 (@Haggis_UK) May 4, 2021
London! What can I offer you in the election that no one else can? THIS. #VoteBinface pic.twitter.com/BOoBPFhqz8
— Count Binface (@CountBinface) May 4, 2021
It's almost as if the UK is already drifting into some form of post-British politics where the fate and concerns of "Red Wall" or "cosmopolitan urban" voters in England is discussed as if it is disconnected from the choices of voters in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
— Alexander Clarkson (@APHClarkson) May 4, 2021
France threatens to cut off power to Jersey in post-Brexit fishing row https://t.co/KdRuuq1PFU
— The Guardian (@guardian) May 4, 2021
It shouldn't take a "gentle nudge" from the US Secretary of State for this government to prioritise stability in Northern Ireland over implementing its dangerously hard Brexit vision.https://t.co/qUpQLKiq16
— Best for Britain (@BestForBritain) May 4, 2021
BREAK: DUP officers have decided that the vote to elect a leader and deputy leader will take place on Friday 14th May at 11am.
— David Blevins (@skydavidblevins) May 4, 2021
Fintan O’Toole: Earth calling Edwin Poots – we have a problem https://t.co/sFUeP13ugi via @IrishTimes
— Fintan O'Toole (@fotoole) May 4, 2021
Nigel Dodds is DUP royalty – his departure marks a significant change. Some key people behind the revolt were clear this wasn’t just about removing Arlene Foster as leader, it was about “regime change.”
— Peter A Smith (@PeterAdamSmith) May 4, 2021
They still have eyes on deposing a few other senior figures in the party. https://t.co/x5eoFbK9rE
These dangerously subversive postcards in the Stormont giftshop with their questionable 'scientific' claims may not survive a new DUP leadership…. pic.twitter.com/C3tEEbjNUn
— Matthew O'Toole (@MatthewOToole2) May 4, 2021
The Overnight Note 