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Former Rep. David Jolly (R-FL) unleashed on his former colleagues in the U.s. House of Representatives he claims are wasting time with nebulous hearings instead of focusing on the needs of their constituents.
At issue are Republican demands that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg come in to answer questions about the Trump grand jury. Grand jury investigations are secret, so Bragg couldn't provide any information if he wanted to or not. Congress doesn't have any jurisdiction over Bragg's office. Still, Bragg said in a statement that he would be happy to testify before Congress on any "legitimate legislative inquiry."
MRepublicans this week are playing out a strategy where they visit prisoners in the D.C. jail as they await trial for their roles in the Jan. 6 insurrection. GOP members have argued that the conditions for the prisoners are unacceptable. However, the D.C. jail has been cited as unacceptable for everyone in it — not just alleged insurrectionists. One judge even went so far as to say that the J6 defendants were actually being treated better than other inmates there.
Meanwhile, ahead of the jail visit, Republicans met with the mother of Ashli Babbitt, who died as she tried to enter the outer office of the House Speaker.
This evening on MSNBC, Dr. Jason Johnson called it inappropriate for lawmakers to try and use Babbitt's mother for their own political purposes.
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"Ashli Babbitt lost her life trying to penetrate the House of Representatives, and police acted within their due course to prevent that," said David Jolly, who was also on MSNBC this evening. "Her mother is a grieving mother. We can give her some license. But understand what Republicans are doing to the mother of Ashli Babbitt, as well as others — they are providing an audience they did not provide to the parents of Parkland victims. Think about that in terms of how that looks for the priorities of today's Republican Party."
Johnson brought up the House GOP Twitter accounts and the inflammatory language they're using to attack Bragg.
"Look, I've seen a Twitter handle occasionally become unhinged," said Johnson. "It's happening more and more since Elon Musk took over. But I can't remember the last time that I saw a federal government congressional committee Twitter handle be turned into basically a slam book."
He noted that the tweets that are being sent out are ultimately going to end up being part of an investigation down the road.
"If there are any questions about your partisanship or ethics? This could be evidence," said Johnson.
"First of all, the House is no longer a serious institution under Republican control," Jolly attacked. "The committee is not a serious committee under Jim Jordan's chairmanship. This is absolutely part of their interference with an active investigation and prosecutorial grand jury decision. We learned from The New York Times, it was a month ago, that Trump's attorneys asked Jim Jordan to please interfere in the Bragg matter. Now we're seeing that others, under the blessing of Kevin McCarthy, say, 'okay, Mr. President, we're going to interfere.'"
Jolly said that it begs the question of what else Trump has asked the Republicans in the House to interfere with since leaving office.
Jolly went on to encourage Democrats to keep playing it the way they have been, remaining quiet about the ordeal and let it play out, allowing Republicans to self-destruct.
"What they do is laser-focus on the republican malfeasance and their abdication of the actual integrity and responsibility of the House of Representatives. nail them to the wall on that," said Jolly "And I would suggest this comes to outside groups, as well. Because the White House is doing the right thing, they're focusing on doing the work of the American people, House Democrats are, as well. But there must be scrutiny and consequences for what House Republicans are doing under Kevin McCarthy, Jim Jordan, James Comer, and all the other circus participants we get to witness on a daily basis."
See the exchange below or at the link here.
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A Wisconsin man pleaded guilty to federal charges for intimidating and interfering with Black residents because of their race and because they were exercising their right to fair housing, the Department of Justice said Thursday in a news release.
William McDonald, 45, of West Allis, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty to one felony and one misdemeanor.
McDonald faces a maximum sentence of up to 11 years in prison. He’s scheduled to be sentenced June 29.
McDonald confessed to vandalizing a Black woman’s vehicle parked outside her apartment by slashing her tires and smashing her windshield and leaving a note on her car laced with racial slurs threatening to slash her throat and demanding she move out of West Allis in March, 2021. A week later he slashed two of her car tires and left another note filled with racial slurs with the warning that she move out of the neighborhood or suffer violence.
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In April 2022 after a Black woman moved into his apartment complex with and her two minor children, McDonald vandalized the family’s front door with racial graffiti and left a note calling her family a racial slur and demanding the woman leave the building.
“No one should feel unsafe in their home or be subjected to harmful and derogatory threats because of the color of their skin,” Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke said.
“The Justice Department will continue to protect the housing rights of all individuals and vigorously prosecute those who use racially-charged threats to drive people from their homes.”
The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division was involved in prosecuting the case.
“The conduct at issue in this case strikes at the very core of the civil rights guaranteed to every American citizen under federal law,” U.S. Attorney Gregory J. Haanstad said.
“I commend the courage of those targeted by Mr. McDonald for coming forward. The U.S. Attorney’s Office remains committed to working with all of our federal, state, and local partners to hold individuals who violate the civil rights of others fully accountable under federal law.”
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In a letter to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), the Senate Ethics Committee rebuked him for a repeated violation of Senate rules.
Specifically, the letter noted, Graham has on multiple occasions conducted interviews soliciting campaign funds from inside the Senate office complex, which is against ethics regulations.
"The Committee initiated its inquiry after receiving a complaint alleging that you solicited campaign contributions in support of Georgia senatorial candidate Herschel Walker during a media interview conducted in the Russell Senate Office Building on November 30, 2022," said the letter. "The complaint included a link to a video clip of the interview, which the Committee has reviewed as well as the information you provided to the Committee regarding this matter." Subsequent probing found "five separate times" in which Graham did this, which the letter calls a "repeat violation of Senate standard of conduct."
Despite issuing the "Public Letter of Admonition," the Ethics Committee, which is evenly split between Democrats and Republicans under Senate rules, declined to issue any disciplinary sanctions, citing "mitigating factors" to conclude Graham's conduct was "inadvertent, technical, or otherwise of a de minimis nature."
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This decision is par for the course; a recent exclusive Raw Story investigation found that out of the last 1,523 ethics complaints against senators, the senators on the Ethics Committee issued disciplinary sanctions against their colleagues exactly zero times — even in the 204 cases where there was enough evidence to launch a "preliminary investigation."
Walker, a former NFL star turned Trump-backed candidate for Senate in Georgia, saw his campaign derailed by scandal, including allegations he paid for abortions for women he impregnated, and of violent behavior toward his family and former partners.
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