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The Summer of Rage?
Congress, the Supreme Court and the streets are on a collision course.
I have a bad feeling about June. Here’s what’s on the political calendar:
The January 6th Select Committee will be holding six televised hearings, starting Thursday June 9th at 8pm, assuming the leaked information that the Guardian reported is accurate. The bipartisan committee’s findings are likely to be explosive, as they are expected to show that Trump and his MAGA allies planned, promoted and paid for a criminal conspiracy to overturn an election they lost.
It’s rare for us to hear Democrats calling out Republicans so directly — most of the time they seem to hold back in the hopes that they can convince a few supposed “moderates” to join them on legislation (as is happening now in the Senate over gun regulation) — but from all indications these hearings are going to be intense. As well they should be: a criminal conspiracy to overturn a democratic election is about the worst political crime our country has ever faced, and the hearings are bound to raise already-high partisan tempers around the country.
While the January 6th hearings play out in Congress and on the airwaves, the streets of DC are also going to be filling with angry protestors all month.
