Month: February 2021

Political Wire: “Charlie Sykes reviews Nikki Haley’s political judgement so far this year as she positions herself for a presidential run: She’s broken with Trump over his handling of the Capitol riot. She walked that back, declaring “Give the man a break!” She broke with Trump again, telling Tim Alberta that “He went down a path he shouldn’t have, and…

NY Times: “But in a sign of the Trumpian times of denial and dispute in the G.O.P., nearly half of the party’s top officials keep trying to reverse the results and get a primary. The refusal of these Republicans to admit they have lost, or to agree on a set of nominating rules, has fractured…

The State: “A federal judge temporarily blocked South Carolina’s new “fetal heartbeat” abortion ban Friday, a day after Gov. Henry McMaster signed the state’s restrictive new abortion bill into law in front of a crowd of enthusiastic supporters at the State House. South Carolina’s new law — passed by Republican majorities in the S.C. House and Senate…

Slate: “What is Haley’s strategy for balancing her party’s competing interests going to be? Well, don’t ask her! Or do, but be prepared to get a different answer every time. As Alberta notes, the prospective candidate took three positions on Trump’s effort to overturn the election during a six-week period in which he was following…

WaPo: “The story behind the Eshelman donation — detailed in previously unreported court filings and exclusive interviews with those involved — provides new insights into the frenetic days after the election, when baseless claims led donors to give hundreds of millions of dollars to reverse President Biden’s victory. Trump’s campaign and the Republican Party collected…

The News & Observer: “In an emergency vote Monday night, North Carolina’s Republican Party voted unanimously to censure U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, just two days after the retiring Republican cast a “guilty” vote in former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial. Burr, 65, is in his third term in the U.S. Senate and served five…

The Post and Courier: “Fresh off a successful 2020 campaign with an expanded majority, Republicans in the South Carolina Statehouse are eyeing changes to the state’s election agency that could give their party more influence over the process in the future. A fast-moving bill sponsored by S.C. House Speaker Jay Lucas, R-Hartsville, would give an…

News & Observer: “North Carolina Republicans are moving to censure U.S. Sen. Richard Burr for his guilty vote Saturday in the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump. Burr was one of seven Republicans to vote to convict Trump of inciting an insurrection on Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol. The vote was 57-43, but it…

The Advocate: “To review, we know there was a calculated campaign to lie about the election; numerous lawsuits advertised as alleging fraud; pressure on state officials; a rally in Washington during the certification process; and direction from President Trump to march toward the Capitol where the mob broke in. His rhetoric and actions were clearly…

Jacobin: “After Birth of a Nation, it was no longer acceptable in American films to feature the heroic Ku Klux Klan riding to the rescue of nobly suffering Southern whites, but filmmakers found it easy enough to substitute a heroic Southern vigilante whose violent acts are justified by his suffering under the barbarism of invading Northerners….