Starting with the blatant declaration that Biden's election was a "fraud," the document embraces the far fringes of GOP thinking including the following: declaration that life begins at fertilization, declaration that all LGBTQ people "abnormal", elimination of all federal welfare, elimination of the federal income tax (repeal 16th Amendment), elimination of property taxes, removal of popular vote for senators (repeal 17th Amendment), repeal of birth citizenship (alter 14th Amendment), return to school prayer and "Judeo-Christian" origins, elimination of nearly all gun controls, opposition to any environmental legislation that "obstructs legitimate business interests", repeal of minimum wage, elimination mandatory sick/maternity leave, weaken labor unions with national "right to work" act, weaken teaching of evolution & climate change by classifying them as "theories subject to change."
I was a Jan. 6 juror. What I learned surprised me. Trump’s pardons of virtually all of the Jan. 6 rioters left me dejected. Am I safe? When the jury summons for federal criminal court arrived in my mailbox in November 2023, I knew I had to answer it. And not just because I had been deferring and deferring and now I was all out of deferments. I had to answer this one because in my gut I knew it wasn’t going to be just any old criminal case. I remember saying to my partner, “I bet you anything it’s a January 6 case.” Make sense of the latest news and debates with our daily newsletter At that point, it had been more than two years since a violent mob attacked the U.S. Capitol in the city that has been my home for 16 years. But criminal cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection were still making their way through the federal court in D.C. at a pretty steady clip. At the time my summons arrived, roughly 1,200 Jan. 6 cases had already been adjudicated, and there were still many mor...
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