by jpitney | Jul 6, 2021 | Civility, Democracy, Elections, Insurrection
Benjy Sarlin at NBC: There’s no legal avenue for Trump to reverse the 2020 results. But a half-dozen scholars who study democracy and election laws told NBC News they are increasingly worried that 2024 could be a repeat of 2020, only with a party further remade in the...
by jpitney | Jul 3, 2021 | Autism, Crime, Insurrection, Journalism
Alex Mann at The Capital Gazette: A neurologist testified Friday afternoon that the man who murdered five Capital Gazette employees has autism spectrum disorder, one of the diagnoses his defense attorneys are basing his insanity claims on. The gunman who fatally shot...
by jpitney | Jun 10, 2021 | Congress, Insurrection
Two Senate Committees — Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs and Rules & Administration — issued a joint report on security failures on January 6. Major findings: The federal Intelligence Community—led by FBI and DHS—did not issue a threat...
by jpitney | May 31, 2021 | Civil War, Insurrection, Military
Frederick Douglass, “The Unknown Loyal Dead,” Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, on Decoration Day, May 30, 1871 — a speech that has new meaning in light of the January 6 insurrection. We are sometimes asked, in the name of patriotism, to forget...
by jpitney | May 12, 2021 | Insurrection
by jpitney | May 11, 2021 | Insurrection
Dan Rather at Steady: The Big Lie must be the context for everything that is taking place in Washington, and political stories across the country. It is not old news. January 6 is not old news. This denial of reality is the animating principle driving the Republican...
