Brexit and Impeachment, Now and Forever?
Yes, Rupert, you’re worth $20 billion. But you’re still just worthless riffraff.Prensa Internacional via ZUMA It seems likely—or at least possible—that Brexit and acquittal will happen on the same day. Tomorrow Britain will no longer be part of the EU and Donald Trump will be officially innocent of crimes that he clearly committed. This seems…
Watching TV in Des Moines Right Now Is a Special Kind of Hell
Screenshots from campaign ads There’s this Tom Steyer ad that’s been annoying the hell out of me ever since I got to Iowa. It starts off simply enough. Steyer is sitting in a dinner, wearing that tie he always wears, and talking about how he’ll take on Trump. “When he calls himself a billionaire businessman…
Jay Sekulow’s Radio Show Is Covering Jay Sekulow’s Impeachment Lawyering
Mother Jones illustration; Getty, Mark Wilson/Getty President Donald Trump prefers to get his legal representation from TV lawyers. All of his personal attorneys—Rudy Giuliani, Alan Dershowitz, Joseph diGenova and his wife Victoria Toensing—have been regular talking heads on Fox News and in conservative media. But none of them can compete with what attorney Jay Sekulow…
Warren vs. Sanders: Inside the Progressive Debate Over the Student Debt Crisis
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Last April, the socialist magazine Jacobin had a message for its favorite presidential candidate: “As President, Bernie Sanders Should Cancel All Student Debt.” The secretary of Education, the magazine argued, could wipe out most of the $1.6 trillion in outstanding college loans “with the stroke of a pen.” As his reward,…
John Bolton Just Announced His Support of the Witnesses Who Testified in House Impeachment Hearings
Ron Sachs/CNP/Zuma While the Senate was winding up the question and answer phase of President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, and the night before the Senate vote on whether to allow witnesses, former national security adviser John Bolton announced his support for the witnesses who already testified before the House. “All of them acted in the…
Lamar Alexander, Who Had Suggested He Might Vote for Witnesses, Just Caved to Trump
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Zuma After two days of questions concluded in the Senate impeachment trial late Thursday night, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) announced that he would vote against having witnesses appear before the Senate in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. In the lead-up to Friday’s pivotal vote, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has urged…