‘At the Republican National Convention, trump made a brief, scripted, obviously disingenuous call for “unity,” and much of the media treated it as a major “pivot” to a more moderate, inclusive candidate. This anticipated pivot has been a joke for eight years, but the media keeps falling for it.

Yet on Friday, trump made a statement of his Fascist, authoritarian intent if elected, saying that if he gets into office, his supporters “won’t have to vote anymore,” and the media mostly yawned. Whether it’s because they just think this is “trump being trump,” or you have to take what he says “seriously but not literally,” or if you call him on it he’ll just backtrack, this didn’t get a tiny fraction of the attention it deserves….

While he’s never actually made even a modicum of a “pivot” to moderation, he has, in fact, led an insurrection in an attempt to stay in office despite losing an election. Since then, he and his team have been systematically laying the legal and logistical groundwork to ensure that the strategies that failed in 2021 will succeed in 2029. There is every reason to believe that he is deadly serious and that if he gets into the White House, no fair election will ever get him or his MAGA cultists out…’ (Boing Boing)

‘In a reversal from the president’s longstanding resistance to changes to the high court, Biden said on Wednesday that Supreme Court reform would be among his top priorities for the remainder of his term in office. Biden announced Sunday that he would not seek re-election after mounting pressure from Democratic Party officials who asked him to step aside after his widely panned debate performance in June.

The president is expected to propose setting term limits for justices on the Supreme Court, which would require a constitutional amendment, and establishing an enforceable code of ethics, which could be enacted by Congress, Politico reported.

Biden is also likely to voice support for a constitutional amendment that would limit immunity for presidents and certain other officeholders after the court ruled in July that presidents cannot be prosecuted for “official acts” during their time in office. The court’s ruling stemmed from a case concerning former president trump….’ (Fox News)