Illiberalism
Gilead
Donald Trump
Coup attempt
Fig. 1. Donald Trump booking photograph by Fulton County (Georgia) Sheriff’s Office, August 24, 2023, via New York, August 25, 2023,[1] public domain.
This would certainly put a crimp on Donald Trump’s style:
New York Attorney General Letitia James asked a civil judge on Tuesday to impose sanctions against Donald Trump and his attorneys, saying they improperly relied on already rejected arguments in seeking the dismissal of a $250 million lawsuit against the former president.[2]
Tom Jackman and Spencer S. Hsu, “Ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio sentenced to 22 years for Jan. 6,” Washington Post, September 5, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/09/05/proud-boys-sentencing-enrique-tarrio-jan-6-seditious-conspiracy/
Shayna Jacobs, “New York attorney general again seeks sanctions for Trump in civil case,” Washington Post, September 5, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/09/05/trump-sanctions-james-new-york/
Maegan Vazquez, “Could the 14th Amendment keep Trump off the ballot in 2024?” Washington Post, September 5, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/05/trump-14th-amendment-ballot/
Competitive authoritarian regime project
Fig. 2. President Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Clarence Mitchell during signing ceremony of the voting rights act. Yoichi Okamoto, August 6, 1965, via Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
A panel of three federal judges rejected Alabama’s latest version of its congressional map Tuesday, saying the state’s Republican-led legislature did not follow a court order backed by the U.S. Supreme Court to comply with the Voting Rights Act when it last redrew districts in July.[3]
I don’t understand how Alabama expects to get away with this.
Maegan Vazquez, “Alabama congressional map struck down again for diluting Black voting power,” Washington Post, September 5, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/05/alabama-congressional-map/
- [1]Margaret Hartmann and Nia Prater, “All the Mug Shots of Donald Trump and His Alleged Co-Conspirators,” New York, August 25, 2023, https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-mug-shot-gallery.html↩
- [2]Shayna Jacobs, “New York attorney general again seeks sanctions for Trump in civil case,” Washington Post, September 5, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/09/05/trump-sanctions-james-new-york/↩
- [3]Maegan Vazquez, “Alabama congressional map struck down again for diluting Black voting power,” Washington Post, September 5, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/05/alabama-congressional-map/↩