Republicans are absolutely going for the dark, theocratic future

America First Legal (AFL), a right-wing group whose team includes several former Trump administration officials, is urging theSupreme Courtto do even more to shatter what’s left of the wall between church and state.

On Tuesday, June 28, the group issued astatementessentially calling for a total overhaul of theFirst Amendment’s establishment clause, a key provision separating church and state.The statement arrived one day after the Supreme Court cracked part of the clause’s foundation with itsruling in Kennedy v. Bremerton. In that case, the court’s far-right majority ruled that public school officials in Bremerton, Washington, violated the First Amendment rights of high school football coach Joseph Kennedy when they fired him following a controversy stemming from his ritual of praying at the 50-yard line during football games. The 6-3 decision effectively overruled a 1971…

Where the womb is as safe as the classroom

Armed and Dangerous!

Trump knowingly rallied an armed, violent crowd and sent them to attack the Capitol as Congress certified the electoral votes that would remove him from office and replace him with Joe Biden. Game, set, and match.

Trump knew they were armed, he demanded that the Secret Service take away the magnetometers (metal detectors) from the entrances to his speech because his mob couldn’t get in unless they disarmed. “I don’t care if they have weapons, they aren’t here to hurt me. Take the effing mags away… Let them in. Let my people in. They can march to the Capitol after the rally is over.” He wanted the optics of a packed rally and was upset that the crowd wouldn’t look big.

Pat Cippollone told her to limit Trump’s movements: “We’re going to get charged with every crime imaginable if we go up to the Capitol.” – this…

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