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Congress, Bacon and the Big Lie
Why are members of the Sedition Caucus rewarded with millions in earmarks for their districts?
Ours is a government of laws, not of men, John Adams once said. Well, is it? That is the question presented by January 6th, 2021, which federal judge David Carter ruled on Monday was “a coup in search of a legal theory” to justify itself. Judge Carter was deciding whether Chapman University could be compelled to hand over to Congress emails sent by its law school dean John Eastman, who was advising President Trump on how to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s election, not whether Trump himself had broken the law. But that question required that he explore the possible criminality of Trump’s actions and in doing so, the judge produced a legal analysis of the case being built by the January 6th Select Committee, and he didn’t mince words: “[t]he Court finds that it is more likely than not that President Trump and Dr. Eastman dishonestly conspired to obstruct the Joint Session of Congress on January 6, 2021.”
This news came on top of revelations about text messages sent by Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, pressing him throughout the fall of 2020 to reject the election results. Recently, Justice Thomas was the only member of the…
