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Barely a day after former President Donald Trump was indicted for the third time, some Senate Republicans are already trying to undermine the credibility of the federal judge who was randomly assigned to preside over his trial.
Here’s a detail they’re hoping you won’t notice: They unanimously voted to confirm her.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), speaking on his podcast on Wednesday, accused U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan of being “relentlessly hostile” to Trump and claimed that she has “a reputation for being far-left, even by D.C. District Court standards.”
But Cruz voted to put Chutkan into her seat on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in June 2014. So did every other Senate Republican when she was unanimously confirmed, 95-0.
That includes Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who nonsensically claimed Wednesday that “any conviction in D.C. against Donald Trump is not legitimate.”
“The judge in this case hates Trump,” Graham said in a Fox News interview. “You can convict Trump of kidnapping Lindbergh’s baby in D.C. You need to have a change of venue. We need a new judge. And we need to win in 2024 to stop this crazy crap.”
Aides to Cruz and Graham did not respond to requests for comment on how the senators square their votes to confirm Chutkan with their criticisms of her ability to be a fair judge.
Tuesday’s federal indictment of Trump accuses him of serious crimes related to the 2020 presidential election and the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection: conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.
Chutkan, a Jamaica-born former assistant public defender and an appointee of former President Barack Obama, has already been overseeing cases related to the Jan. 6 attack. She’s handed out some of the most aggressive sentences yet to rioters who took part in the violence that day. Of the 11 cases that have come before her, she imposed tougher sentences than those sought by the Justice Department seven times and matched what the Justice Department was seeking four times, according to an Associated Press review.
In all 11 cases, Chutkan sentenced the defendants to prison time.
This is what is likely driving the GOP attacks on Chutkan: They know she’s not likely to go easy on Trump now.
Beyond trying to discredit the judge, some Republicans, like Graham, are parroting Trump’s absurd demand for a change of venue. The former president has called for moving his case to the “more diverse” and “politically unbiased nearby State of West Virginia!” (Virginia and Maryland are much closer to D.C., for what it’s worth.)
Not a single Republican raised concerns about Chutkan during her nomination hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee in February 2014. In fact, only one GOP member of the committee even showed up to the hearing: Sen. John Cornyn (Texas), who was only there to rave about a separate Texas judicial nominee on the schedule. He left before Chutkan was up.
Cruz and Graham were both members of the committee at the time.
Neither attended Chutkan’s hearing.
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decolonize-the-left · 3 months
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In the winter of 1990, when the Congressional legislation to turn a proposed Americans with Disabilities Act into law stalled in the House Committee on Public Works and Transportation, hundreds of concerned disability rights activists and others from the affected community descended on Washington, D.C. There, they joined with local activists at the White House and at the U.S. Capitol Building to protest the efforts within government to stall and stop the Act from passing.
The most memorable moment in the winter’s activism happened on March 12, 1990, when dozens of these protestors at the Capitol abandoned their mobility aids and began to climb, crawl, and edge up the steps to the top of the west Capitol entrance on the National Mall. Some climbing on their own and some climbing with help from friends and family, they were cheered on by allies, onlookers, and the press. This direct action, which forced Congress to see them, is known to history as the Capitol Crawl.
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"Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins got on all fours to begin the ascent. Just 8 years old at the time with cerebral palsy, the climb up the stairs took almost an hour. But she was determined.
"As a matter of fact, I said, 'I'll take all night if I have to,'" Keelan-Chaffins told ABC News about that day."
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tintin-official · 1 year
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i live in aotearoa/nz and we just rallied together so hard that we made a visiting fashy terf cancel her tour and run all the way back to england
get souped idiot
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hussyknee · 2 years
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If you fucking dare equate protestors who took over the Presidential Secretariat simply by finally outnumbering the cops, without any property damage let alone injury, after weeks and months of being absolutely brutalized by army and police for protesting completely peacefully, I hope you fall into a sewer and have to swim upstream with your mouths open.
The only violence has come from cops and military. They shot two people today, and injured 40 more. One died. Two journalists have just been assaulted on live TV, one of them a 23 year old kid who is in a bad way. There has been no property damage, or assaults on anyone.
Even before, the protests were kept 100% peaceful even when we were attacked repeatedly with tear gas, water canons, rubber bullets and even live rounds, beaten and bashed on the head with batons and dragged off and arrested. Right up until the PM literally sent bus loads of goons into the heart of the country's protest camp and destroyed it. Only then did people finally lose it and burn down all the government MPs homes and offices.
Even then innocents were not harmed and the houses were completely sacked and evacuated first. Not saying it were good or right, but it's was a shatteringly human response to over 18 months of starving, tormenting and bankrupting us, and kidnapping and terrorising anyone who protested. Far, far longer for marginalized communities. But the international media and US social media just grabbed the footage of the riots and fires and made us out to be rabid, violent beasts who had been storming buildings and terrorizing politicians and state forces.
This is the callous, racist, unthinking violence you whites and Westerners do to us. Especially USAmericans. You don't understand how much damage a stray reblog or retweet can do just by virtue of you being USAmerican and sitting on the world's largest information hegemony. Our government steals our rights and lives and you strip us of our dignity and agency and the right to tell our own stories.
We are not you. We are our own people. Let us tell our own stories in our own voices, and stop inferring and assuming shit without knowing jackshit about what's going on on the ground.
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Does this look like the Capitol riot to you?
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uncahier · 4 months
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Me, as I scroll thru friends’ Insta stories:
-hey, you’re at the Doja Cat concert!
-your dog is cute
-your menorah is cute
-hey, you’re also at the Doja Cat concert!
-hahah funny meme
-is every gay man I know at the Doja Cat concert???
-your cookies are cute
-ok, it’s a video of a pro-Palestine protest and it’s set to… that fucking Hunger Games song???
I noped out and closed that app so quick
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knowledgetosorrow · 2 months
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This whole "federalize the Texas national guard" business reminds me of when Rep. David Simpson had a bill in the Texas state house to prevent the DHS from installing body scanners and TSA gropers in Texas airports, and the DOD threatened to establish a no-fly zone over Texas, so the governor caved.
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renee-writer · 5 months
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Watch "Hamas Activists STORM US Capitol! Fight Cops, Deface Building, Tear Up Offices, Threaten Reps. JAIL!" on YouTube
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bikerlovertexas · 1 month
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briarpatch-kids · 1 year
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Sometimes I forget that not everyone knows how bonkers Idaho politics are. It's still very much the Wild West out here, except even the Wild West had safer gun laws.
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commiepinkofag · 10 months
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Teachers with Pride Still Have to Hide
Gay schoolteachers wearing masks at parade, June 28, 1986
In this image, Seattle schoolteachers participating in the Gay Freedom Day parade through the Capitol Hill neighborhood hold a banner reading "Teachers with Pride Still Have to Hide," and wear masks to protest the discrimination they have felt. An estimated 10,000 people participated in the event, which is part of Seattle's annual Gay Pride Week.
[ 📷 Jennifer Werner-Jones / Seattle Post-Intelligencer ]
oh, how times have changed!
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shakespearefreak · 2 years
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🇺🇸 Happy Fourth of July from Makena! 🇺🇸
Makena and I went to a pro-choice rally at the Capitol today! She’d like to remind everyone that one of the most patriotic things an American Girl can do this (or any) Fourth of July is protest unjust legislation, especially decisions that disproportionately impact the LGBT+ community, AFAB individuals, and POC.
The sky was gloomy, and rain threatened even as I took this photo, but our hearts were high and hopeful, and together we rose above the storm. 
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also like, this isn’t AOC’s first protest rodeo, lol. if I am a frequently-criticized public figure and my options are Cops Forcibly Escort Me Without Handcuffs or Cops Forcibly Escort Me WITH Handcuffs…I’m probably choosing the option that doesn’t involve handcuffs! not saying this in a “AOC is my lord and savior, she’s a revolutionary who can do no wrong, etc.” way, just like a “let’s use our brains” way.
LITERALLY. Like I hate how often I'm on here having to defend her because I'm worried I sound like a weird stannie but this is so stupid!!
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saywhat-politics · 2 years
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Fox News host Ainsley Earnhardt said the morning after the latest hearing investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection that Congress should also probe the riots that broke out during protests for racial justice across the country during the summer of 2020.
“There’s never an excuse for a riot, but remember the summer of 2020 when there were all those riots?” Earnhardt asked on Friday on “Fox and Friends.” “Where are the hearings for all those riots? For people burning buildings and burning businesses. You can’t pick and choose which riot is the good one and which is the bad one. They’re all bad.”
During Thursday night’s prime-time hearing on the events of Jan. 6, the last scheduled for July, several members of former President Trump’s inner circle at the time described the feelings and activities inside the White House during the Capitol attack, particularly Trump’s failure to act.
The testimony and exhibits painted a picture of Trump resisting telling the rioters to go home and his stubborn refusal to say publicly that the election was over.
“Everyone in that room, they’re all against Trump,” Earnhardt said. “They’re all anti-Trumpers. Every single one voted to impeach him.”
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drdougdouglass · 2 years
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Activist Bill Christeson in the back holding "Failed Coup" sign.
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