So, I know I’m not paying as close attention to everything as I normally do, but I have a few questions:
• Did anyone see Trump on Thursday?
• Did we figure out why Pence canceled Friday’s trip?
• Where’s Barr?
• Is Christie still in the hospital? What’s his status?
This from @peterbakernyt and @maggieNYT is an unbelievable, completely believable must-read. It also reads more like everything that I researched about Garfield and Cleveland and Wilson’s illnesses than any modern-era situation (except maybe Reagan). nytimes.com/2020/10/08/us/…
Seriously. The lengths to which the White House over time has gone to lie or at least withhold information about the president’s health is remarkable. There’s no reason to think Trump’s administration would be better, and lots of evidence they’d be worse. buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisg…
It really feels like the McConnell comments this week, from the ones about avoiding the White House to the Axios sinking ship story, were a go-ahead sign to Republicans up and down the ballot to do what they need to do to (try and) save themselves.
Of course, in some races (though fewer by the day, it seems), that’s going to mean doubling-down on Trump. But it does feel like they’re moving to the triage stage.
To be clear, I think McConnell believes they’re going to lose the Senate, too, but, yeah, there’s been an unwillingness to face the reality of where Trump’s at that’s actually made Republicans’ attempts to hold onto lower seats more difficult. That ... might ... be shifting?
Kim Davis has her case rejected by #SCOTUS. Thomas, joined by Alito, writes a statement concurring in cert denial but explicitly calling for the Court to revisit Obergefell, at least as to its interplay with religious liberty claims.
In another rejected appeal, Sotomayor writes in Raminder Kaur’s case our of Maryland, noting the special responsibility of prosecutors beyond convictions to “serve[] the ends of justice.”