Tag Archives: GOP

Christian Nationalist NC Lt Gov Paid For An Abortion

Axios reports: North Carolina’s Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson “paid” for the abortion of his “unborn child in 1989,” according to his personal Facebook comments from 2012. Robinson has surged to the front of the list of prospective GOP candidates for governor in 2024, while repeatedly emphasizing his opposition to abortion as a speaker at anti-abortion rallies and other political …

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100+ GOP House Reps To Host Anti-Cheney Fundraiser

Politico reports: First House Republicans kicked Rep. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) out of party leadership. Now they’re trying to kick her out of Congress entirely. More than 100 House Republicans have signed on to host a fundraiser for Harriet Hageman, who is waging a primary challenge to Cheney in Wyoming. According to details about the event obtained by POLITICO, the …

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SC Death Row Men Seek Delay Over Firing Squad Law

The Associated Press reports: Lawyers for two men on South Carolina’s death row have asked the state’s Supreme Court to hold off on setting execution dates while they challenge a new law allowing executions by firing squad. The Monday request by attorneys for Brad Keith Sigmon and Freddie Eugene Owens comes after the state Corrections Department said last week that …

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QAnon/GOP Texas Candidate: God Will Punish You For Stealing The Seat I Was Appointed To By Jesus [VIDEO]

“God chose me for a reason. I didn’t lose. I won. Now you’ve just gone and made me more dangerous. I went into the lion’s den and those hyenas thought they were gonna eat me up, but guess what? They fed me, they fed me good. “I now know your strategies. I know what you think. I know what you’re …

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Graham Again Storms Out After Abusive Questioning

Bloomberg News reports: Republican Senator Lindsey Graham accused Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson of being lenient in sentencing defendants in child pornography cases and for a second day used the Judiciary Committee’s confirmation hearing to air complaints about the treatment of past GOP judicial nominees. In one of the sharpest exchanges yet during the hearings, Graham on Wednesday raised …

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SCOTUS Spox Won’t Say If Thomas Still Hospitalized

The Associated Press reports: The Supreme Court declined to say Wednesday whether 73-year-old Justice Clarence Thomas remains in the hospital, though he had been expected to be released by Tuesday evening. The court said Sunday that Thomas had been admitted to Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington on Friday after experiencing “flu-like symptoms.” On Wednesday, court spokeswoman Patricia McCabe said she …

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SCOTUS Sides With GOP On Wisconsin Redistricting

The New York Times reports: The Supreme Court sided with Wisconsin’s Republican-led Legislature on Wednesday in a dispute over competing voting maps for the state’s legislative districts. The justices’ unsigned order reversed a ruling from the Wisconsin Supreme Court that had selected the map drawn by Gov. Tony Evers over other proposals, and it sent the case back to the …

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Mo Brooks Unloads On Trump After Dis-Endorsement: You Asked Me To Illegally Reinstate You To White House

Via press release from GOP Rep. Mo Brooks: It’s disappointing that, just like in 2017, President Trump lets Mitch McConnell manipulate him again. Every single negative TV ad against our campaign has come from McConnell and his allies. I wish President Trump wouldn’t fall for McConnell’s ploys, but, once again, he has. I have not changed. I am the only …

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Palin Seeks To Disqualify Judge In NY Times Lawsuit

Reuters reports: Sarah Palin called on the judge who oversaw her unsuccessful defamation case against the New York Times to disqualify himself, and said his series of errors tainted the outcome and required a new trial. In a late Tuesday night filing in federal court in Manhattan, lawyers for the former Republican vice presidential candidate and Alaska governor said U.S. …

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Associated Press Confirms Manafort/Dubai Report

The Associated Press reports: Former Trump adviser Paul Manafort was removed from a plane at Miami International Airport before it took off for Dubai because he carried a revoked passport, officials said Wednesday. Miami-Dade Police Detective Alvaro Zabaleta confirmed that Manafort was removed from the Emirates Airline flight without incident Sunday night but directed further questions to U.S. Customs and …

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TN Republicans Subpoenaed In FBI Corruption Probe

Nashville’s CBS News affiliate reports: Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton has been subpoenaed to appear before a federal grand jury as part of an ongoing FBI investigation into Capitol Hill corruption. Legislative sources said they believe that as many as 10-12 other House Republicans were also served Tuesday with grand jury subpoenas. This dramatic development follows the recent guilty plea …

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Romney Rips Baseless GOP Attacks On Ketanji Jackson

Mediaite reports: Speaking to the Washington Post, the Utah senator took a shot at the Republican senators who went after Jackson. “It struck me that it was off course, meaning the attacks were off course that came from some,” Romney told the Post. “And there is no ‘there’ there.” Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) has been widely condemned for saying Jackson …

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Trump Withdraws Endorsement Of “Woke” Mo Brooks

From the world’s most famous liar: Mo Brooks of Alabama made a horrible mistake recently when he went “woke” and stated, referring to the 2020 Presidential Election Scam, “Put that behind you, put that behind you,” despite the fact that the Election was rife with fraud and irregularities. If we forget, the Radical Left Democrats will continue to Cheat and …

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Meadows’ Wife May Have Filed Three False Voter Forms

The Washington Post reports: The New Yorker first reported that Mark and Debra Meadows submitted voter registration forms that listed as their home a mobile home with a rusted metal roof that sold for $105,000 in 2021, even though they had never lived there. North Carolina officials announced last week that Mark Meadows is under investigation for potential voter fraud. …

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Republican Utah Governor Vetoes Anti-Trans Sports Bill

The Salt Lake Tribune reports: Utah legislative leaders on Tuesday announced their plan to meet this Friday for an override session minutes after Gov. Spencer Cox vetoed a bill that would prevent transgender girls from participating in school sports that match their gender identities. In a letter addressed to Senate President Stuart Adams and House Speaker Brad Wilson, Cox defended …

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GOP Senator: SCOTUS Wrong On Interracial Marriage

The Indianapolis Star reports: Sen. Mike Braun said during a media call Tuesday that the U.S. Supreme Court was wrong to legalize interracial marriage decades ago. That decision should have been left to individual states, as he sees it. Braun was asked about the landmark Loving v. Virginia court case after he explained he thought abortion rights questions should have …

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MTG Blames Ukraine For “Poking The Bear” [VIDEO]

“I’ll even blame people like Lindsey Graham who is begging for war every single night on the television. These are the people that gave the Ukrainian people the false hope. “You see Ukraine kept just poking the bear and poking the bear, which is Russia. And Russia invaded. And the truth is, and this is a hard truth to accept, …

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Graham Storms Out Of SCOTUS Hearing [VIDEO]

Mediaite reports: Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) stomped away from Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing after getting in a heated clash with Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Dick Durbin (D-IL) over Guantanamo Bay. The judge explained she was “standing up for the constitutional value of representation” with her work, and as this topic came up during questions from Graham, he …

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2024 GOP Convention Finalists: Milwaukee, Nashville

The Hill reports: Top leaders from Milwaukee and Nashville are in Washington on Tuesday making their final pitches to members of the Republican National Committee in hopes of hosting the 2024 national convention. The teams leading both cities’ bids will be at RNC headquarters today to make presentations to the party’s site selection committee, a top Republican with knowledge of …

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GOP Indiana Governor Vetoes Anti-Trans Sports Bill

The Washington Post reports: Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb, a Republican, struck down a bill on Monday that would have banned transgender girls from competing in female sports at school — making him an outlier in a party that has passed similar laws in nearly a dozen states. In a letter addressing his decision, Holcomb wrote that the bill “leaves too …

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