The Malignant Fascist has had a very bad day:
Trump strikes out again on Letitia James indictment
A grand jury declined for a second time in a week to re-indict New York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday in another major blow to the Justice Department’s efforts to prosecute the president’s political opponents.
The repeated failures amounted to a stunning rebuke of prosecutors’ bid to resurrect a criminal case President Donald Trump pressured them to bring, and hinted at a growing public leeriness of the administration’s retribution campaign.
A grand jury rejection is an unusual circumstance in any case, but is especially stinging for a Justice Department that has been steadfast in its determination to seek revenge against Trump foes like James and former FBI Director James Comey. On separate occasions, citizens have heard the government’s evidence against James and have come away underwhelmed, unwilling to rubber-stamp what prosecutors have attempted to portray as a clear-cut criminal case.
A judge threw out the original indictments against James and Comey in November, ruling that the prosecutor who presented to the grand jury, Lindsey Halligan, was illegally appointed U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia...
The revenge and retribution tour is on its last breath.
Indiana rejects Trump's redistricting pressure, again
President Donald Trump’s furious effort to force Indiana Republicans to adopt a new congressional map designed to eliminate the state’s only two House seats held by Democrats failed on Thursday after enough Republican state senators voted against it. The final vote was 19-31.
Trump’s failure in Indiana is a huge loss for his bid to rig the House by forcing GOP-run states to engage in unprecedented mid-cycle gerrymandering to eliminate as many Democratic-held seats as possible ahead of the 2026 midterms. Democrats have fought Republicans to a draw after California matched Texas by redrawing the lines of five House seats and likely blocked a Missouri map that eliminated one Democratic seat.
No state had faced as much pressure to enact a new mid-cycle congressional map to erase seats currently held by Democrats than Indiana. Trump pressured lawmakers with promises of backing primary challenges if they bucked him. Vice President JD Vance made multiple trips to the state capitol to cajole GOP lawmakers. The increasing pressure also led to a spat of serious violent threats against the GOP lawmakers who did not support redistricting.
The pressure from the White House and the violent threats escalated after the Indiana Senate adjourned the first special session on redistricting called by Gov. Mike Braun, a Republican, in November. At the time, Senate President Pro Tem Rodric Bray, a Republican, declared that his party did not have the votes to pass the map....
We won't repeat the threats the Malignant Fascist and his fascist supporters made to fellow Republicans. They're of a kind with the MF's threats and slurs against others who stand in his way.
Trump's union-busting temporarily foiled
Several Republicans joined their Democratic colleagues in voting Thursday to block President Donald Trump from stripping federal workers of their union rights, a rare bipartisan rebuke of the White House by the Republican-controlled House.
The measure, put forth by Reps. Jared Golden (D-Maine) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), would undo an executive order Trump signed earlier this year nullifying collective bargaining agreements covering up to 1 million workers. It passed, 231 to 195, with 20 Republicans in support.
The legislation is unlikely to go anywhere in the GOP-controlled Senate, but its success in the House shows some moderate Republicans don’t support Trump’s unprecedented union-busting at federal agencies...
The MAGAt Republican party/ cult is cracking up. One special election after another where Democrats have won / greatly overperformed might be affecting some of the saner members of the coalition of clowns that it's in their self- preservation interests to occasionally buck the MF.
They can run, but they can't hide from the coming blue wave.
(Photo: "Grrrr... Trump mad!" /David Becker, Reuters)
