F*ck this executive privilege bullsh*t Cipollone's been claiming, because there's no such privilege legally attached to his efforts to dissuade the boss from engaging in what turned out to be an attempted coup d'état. That's treason. The House J6 Select Committee needs to subpoena his a$$ ASAP.

As for Meadows, I always thought he was a clown when he was in Congress. After today, I've downgraded my opinion of him to a f*ckin' buffoon who'd otherwise really have no business even serving on a municipal parks commission, never mind in Congress and the White House.

What in the hell was Meadows thinking? He's nearly 40 years older than Ms. Hurchinson, and yet she's the one who was advising him against doing what he did and to get his sh*t together. There's truly no fool like an old fool. I hope he has a good criminal defense counsel, because he's likely going to need one.

Stephen Colbert was right. These committee hearings have confirmed that Trump and his goons are not only exactly what we had always suspected they were, they're proving to be even worse than we could have ever possibly imagined.

They discussed this last night on Rachel.  They were in the presidential SUV.  The same one he rode around in like the Pope when he had COVID.  Which does have a layout that would make such an attack possible.

The United States has never formally extinguished the Muscogee (Creek) Nation's title to the land that was formerly pre-1907 Indian Territory, because there is a binding Treaty of 1866 between the Muscogee Nation (our country's 4th largest tribe by enrollment) and the United States, which was ratified by the U.S. Senate that same year and guaranteed Muscogee lands in perpetuity. And as you know, the provisions of any Senate-ratified treaty have the force and effect of federal law. To amend or repeal all or any portion of it requires both an act of Congress and an act of the Muscogeee National Council.

That was the legal underpinning for the earlier ruling that the State of Oklahoma had no legal jurisdiction to arrest and detain a Muscogee tribal member for a murder of another tribal member that occurred on Muscogee land. He had been tried, convicted and incarcerated for that murder by the state. The SCOTUS ruling voided his conviction, but state authorities then released the defendant to the custody of tribal authorities because they had an outstanding warrant for his arrest for the same crime. He was then tried and convicted in tribal court.

Conversely, by the terms of that same treaty, and as you noted, Muscogee law enforcement have no legal jurisdiction over a non-Indian who commits an offense on tribal lands, even if the victim / complainant is a tribal member. That person can only be legally arrested by state or federal authorities, although there was (is?) a narrow exception when the state authorities formally request tribal law enforcement to act as their agents in effecting such an arrest on tribal land. Then the detainee must be promptly turned over by tribal police to state authorities.

I had to study the Muscogee structure of governance when I was working for the Hawaii legislature, and officials were looking at various models for a possible reconstituted and sovereign Native Hawaiian nation. The issue of legal jurisdiction has always been complicated and thorny in federal-tribal relations, especially since it's not one size fits all. Each major tribe has its own treaty with the U.S., so provisions can vary. Anyway, it's rather fascinating stuff.

The ruling left in place the basic holding of the 2020 decision, McGirt v. Oklahoma, which said that Native Americans who commit crimes on the reservations, which include much of the city of Tulsa, cannot be prosecuted by state or local law enforcement and must instead face justice in tribal or federal courts

That seems kind of unworkable.  To me.  Maybe I am just unfamiliar with the scope and abilities of tribal courts and law enforcement but it seems odd to me a crime committed in the city of Tulsa can't be prosecuted by Tulsa law enforcement.

Just saying.

Major health system stops, then resumes Plan B amid Missouri's abortion ban

Saint Luke's Health System, which operates 17 hospitals, pharmacies and urgent care clinics in the Kansas City area, announced on Wednesday afternoon that it will resume providing emergency contraceptives following comments from the Missouri Attorney General's Office and Missouri Gov. Mike Parson clarifying that the new abortion ban does not affect Plan B or similar products.

Leaders Denounce Supreme Court Ruling
June 26, 2022 at 5:05 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 227 Comments

"Several female world leaders denounced the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade as a setback in the global push for gender equality," the New York Times reports.

"The United States is one of the few countries to restrict access to abortion in the past two decades, while dozens of other countries have expanded access

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Now Antiabortion Lawmakers Want More
June 26, 2022 at 1:23 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 78 Comments

"On the heels of their greatest victory, antiabortion activists are eager to capitalize on their momentum by enshrining constitutional abortion bans, pushing Congress to pass a national prohibition, blocking abortion pills, and limiting people's ability to get abortions across state lines," the Washington Post reports.

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Candidate Says Roe Verdict `Victory for White Life'
June 26, 2022 at 1:17 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 73 Comments

Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) told a crowd at a rally held alongside former president Donald Trump that the supreme court's decision to overturn Roe v Wade was a "victory for white life," The Guardian reports.

Miller is running for reelection in the state's newly redrawn 15th Congressional District against Rep. Rodney Davis (R-IL) with Donald Trump's endorsement.
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Trump `Keeps Shi-ting All Over' End of Roe v. Wade
June 26, 2022 at 1:26 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 157 Comments

Donald Trump "is anxious about what the end of Roe, and the flood of extreme Republican state-level anti-abortion laws it will unleash, will mean for the GOP's electoral prospects -- and for his own," Rolling Stone reports.

Said one source who spoke to Trump: "He keeps shit-ing all over his greatest accomplishment. When you speak to him, it's the response of someone fearing the backlash and fearing the politics of what happens when conservatives actually get what they want."

The source added: "I do not think he's enjoying the moment as much as many of his supporters are, to be honest with you."

It's the activists.  They are on a sugar high.  They will turn this election into all Roe all the time.  They think because they won it's a winning issue.

They don't quite understand the inherent problem with minority rule.

Each day the Dems should force a vote on legislation in the House and the Senate that benefits women and children such as

Expanded advance monthly child tax credit payments
Increases in WIC Program
Free child care
High quality, free preschool for all 3 and 4 year olds.
Ensure better child care wages
Free meals year around
Free healthcare, dental and vision care
Free college or trade school

I'm fairly sure that these votes would prove without a doubt that the Republicans have no interest in supporting children once they are born.

Gorsuch (majority) based his ruling on the Coach losing his job because he knelt after games to offer quiet prayers of thanks.  Sotomayor (minority) had a substantially different factual take which seems obviously  correct when reading the Court record.

For starters,  It is arguable that the Coach lost his job for the stated reason.  He was suspended with pay, warned in writing.repeatedly, and his annual, renewable contract was not renewed citing several offenses to the employment agreement.

And, it is much less arguable that the coach was denied his quiet prayer opportunity.  Indeed, the prayer became a religious event on the 50 yard line, and the high school players attendance.evolved along with peer pressure and fear of falling out of favor with the coach.. The quiet prayer was almost, grooming.

The dissent felt it necessary to track the extensive record before addressing  what  it called the Court's misguided decision because it elevated the religious rights of a school official, the coach, who voluntarily accepted public employment and the limits that public employment entails, over those of his students, who are required to attend school and who this Court has long recognized are particularly vulnerable and deserving of protection.

Justice Sotomayor concludes "....the Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses are equally integrated... the first serves as a promise from our government, while the second erects a backstop that disables our government from breaking it and starting us down the path to the past, when the right to free exercise was intensely abridged."

"Today, the dissent continues, the Court once again weakens the backstop. It elevates one individual's interest in personal religious exercise , in the exact time and place of that individual's choosing , over society's interest in protecting the separation of Church and State eroding the protections for religious liberty for all."

Many people from legal experts to court watchers to journalists to ordinary Americans on social media are criticizing Justice Neil Gorsuch for his majority opinion in a decision siding with a former high school football coach. That coach sued after the school district ordered him to stop praying after every game at the 50-yard line. Justice Gorsuch's opinion, as many are noticing, appears to be based on facts that are false. Several are accusing Gorsuch of just plain lying.

Maxwell, in a prepared statement, told the victims she recognized their pain. But she stopped short of accepting responsibility for it.
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Nathan said she chose a prison term longer than what she believed the guidelines called for because it was "important to note [Maxwell's] lack of acceptance of responsibility."

Not my first Harley but it's been a while.