- Via TNR: Trump’s Campaign Is Drowning in Rage.
- Via LGM: The persistence of the idea that the default American belongs to a political party that has won the popular vote once since 1988 was weird. I post for the headline, at a minimum. This is something I have written about many times and yet it is still stunning to think about. The GOP won the popular in 1988 and again in 2004. They have not had majority support in the country as measured by that vote in every other election (1992. 1996, 2000, 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020). Their claim to be representative of “real Americans” in a way that Democrats are not is empirically problematic.
- Via The Daily Beast: J.D. Vance Told His Son to ‘Shut The Hell Up’ About Pokemon While Talking to Trump.
- Via the NYT: Defense Secretary Revokes Plea Deal for Accused Sept. 11 Plotters. Quite frankly, closure seems desirable and I don’t think it is going to get much better than this.
- Via the NYT: Trump Remarks on Harris Evoke a Haunting and Unsettling History.
- Via Reuters: Trump loses appeal of gag order in hush money criminal case.
- Via WaPo: $10M cash withdrawal drove secret probe into whether Trump took money from Egypt.
- Alexandra Petri: Tim Walz unleashes hell on Earth.
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Setting aside the question of whether the plea deal with the 9/11 conspirators was a good thing or a bad thing, isn’t the elephant in the room the fact that this case is still open in 2024? When were the defendants apprehended? When were charges first filed?
Is the real headline “Defense Secretary realizes that indefinite imprisonment without trial is probably the best outcome he can get for 9/11 conspirators”?
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@DrDaveT: As I’ve noted before, the mills of the American legal system grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly slowly. In the case of Trump it’s that the system grants all the due process the defendant can afford. In the case of the Guantanamo detainees, it seems to just be dysfunction. To a great extent, legacy of the Bush admin making up legal rationales as they went along and torturing the defendants.
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Defense Secretary Revokes Plea Deal for Accused Sept. 11 Plotters.
Quite frankly, closure seems desirable and I don’t think it is going to get much better than this.
Well, no one in power is going to admit that the only closure that they want is to have these people quietly buried in unmarked graves. Not a solution I want, but I understand why it appeals to “management.”
@gVOR10:
To a great extent, legacy of the Bush admin making up legal rationales as they went along and torturing the defendants.
Exactly this. In my experience, if you poke someone with a stick enough times, they’re eventually going to rip it out of your hand and beat you to death with it.
After these people have been detained/tortured in Gitmo for more than a decade, they’re going to be about as safe to American interests (or, for that matter, any civilian around them) as a grenade with the pin pulled.
