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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 …

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 …

“It’s time for him to go. He’s a war criminal. I wish somebody had taken Hitler out in the 30. Vladimir Putin is not a legitimate leader, he is a war criminal. “He needs to be dealt with by the Russian people. I’m not asking to invade Russia to take them out. I’m not asking to send American ground forces …

Axios reports: On Jan. 6, an enraged Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) telephoned White House counsel Pat Cipollone and told him that if President Trump didn’t act more aggressively to denounce the mob “we’ll be asking you for the 25th Amendment” to remove Trump from office. In an in-person interview with the authors that afternoon, after they all evacuated from the …

NBC News reports: Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on Friday defended calling for Russians to assassinate President Vladimir Putin, saying it would be the quickest way to end the war in Ukraine. Graham said he hopes someone in Russia will understand that Putin is “destroying Russia and you need to take this guy out by any means possible.” Russian officials pounced …

The Hill reports: Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) on Thursday called for “somebody in Russia” to take out Russian President Vladimir Putin amid the invasion of Ukraine. “Is there a Brutus in Russia? Is there a more successful Colonel Stauffenberg in the Russian military?” Graham posted on Twitter, referring to the assassin of Roman dictator Julius Caesar and the attempted …

The Hill reports: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Wednesday defended his stance against offering pardons to Jan. 6, 2021, defendants a day after former President Trump called him a “RINO,” an acronym that means “Republican In Name Only.” “I stand with the police officers who protect our streets, federal courthouses, and the United States Capitol against rioters. They deserve our …

Mediaite reports: “On Saturday at the rally, you talked about the potential – if it’s appropriate – of pardoning some of the January sixers,” said Newsmax host Rob Schmitt. “Lindsey Graham said a couple days later, he thinks that’s inappropriate. What do you think?” Trump hit back at Graham, who has been among his most ardent supporters. “Well, Lindsey Graham’s …

“Lindsey Graham has done nothing about J6. He doesn’t care about our justice system being completely violated by Democrats in their political war against Republicans and President Trump. “I guess Lindsey Graham doesn’t care about being presumed innocent until proven guilty. Americans are being treated worst than Islamic terrorists at Gitmo and Lindsey Graham doesn’t care. “He doesn’t care about …

The Hill reports: “If I run and I win, we will treat those people from Jan. 6 fairly,” Trump told the crowd. “We will treat them fairly, and if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons because they are being treated so unfairly.” “No, I don’t want to send any signal that it was OK to defile the Capitol,” …

Politico reports: Sen. Lindsey Graham on Sunday broke with several of his Republican colleagues by seemingly expressing support for President Joe Biden’s pledge to nominate the first-ever Black woman to the Supreme Court. In an interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Graham (R-S.C.) — a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee — also appeared to endorse J. Michelle Childs, a …

Mediaite reports: Former Trump campaign manager and adviser, Steve Bannon, accused Lindsey Graham (R-SC) of being one of the five “traitors” to MAGA world that are secretly supporting President Joe Biden. Bannon was referring to the five Republican senators that Biden said during his press conference Wednesday “told me that they agree with whatever I’m talking about for them to …

“Here’s the question: can Sen. McConnell effectively work with the leader of the Republican Party, Donald Trump? “I’m not going to vote for anybody that can’t have a working relationship with President Trump, to be a team, to come up with an America first agenda, to show the difference between us and liberal Democrats, prosecute the case for Trump policies. …

Mediaite reports: Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) wasted no time ripping Joe Biden for his speech remembering Jan. 6, accusing the president of “brazen politicization.” Graham disagreed with the tenor of Biden’s speech, which he blasted in a tweet that somehow invoked the Taliban. This, of course, is very different from what Graham said a year ago [clip below] on the …

Axios reports: Before Donald Trump canceled his planned Jan. 6 press conference, several key allies — including hardline Fox News host Laura Ingraham and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) — made clear they thought it was a bad idea to invite the national media to Mar-a-Lago to mark the deadly riot. Why it matters: Trump would have inevitably used his press …

“He was a partisan guy. He changed the rules of the Senate for judges. I think that set in motion Trump getting three Supreme Court picks. But I want his family and friends to know that they’re in my prayers. He was a good man. He fought hard for his causes. And he will be missed, but I’m excited about …

“What we just learned from this very long Washington Post rebuttal to our documentary series is that on January 6, Lindsey Graham was running around the Capitol ordering the Capitol police to murder the protestors. “Shoot American citizens for the crime of trespassing? Really? This is the conservative position? Unarmed protestors show up, look, they shouldn’t have been there. We’ve …

The Washington Post reports: President Donald Trump had just returned to the White House from his rally at the Ellipse on Jan. 6 when he retired to his private dining room just off the Oval Office, flipped on the massive flat-screen television and took in the show. At the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, thousands of his supporters were wearing …

“You know what pisses the border patrol off is they’re having to process these people. That means they can’t be out there getting drug dealers and terrorists coming across the border. “They’re spending all their time acting as hotel clerks for well-off Brazilians who are scamming and playing a game. When we went through the processing station, these were upscale …

“The border patrol is doing the best they can but they told me that the likelihood of a terrorist attack coming from our Southern Border grows by the day. “And what you see in Texas is moving to Arizona. A 1300 percent increase in illegal crossings in the Yuma Sector in the last few months. “Why? We changed the Remain …