{"id":56602,"date":"2025-04-17T06:00:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T13:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=56602"},"modified":"2025-04-16T19:13:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T02:13:13","slug":"open-thread-april-17-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/04\/17\/open-thread-april-17-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread April 17 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, Senator Van Hollen (D-MD) was in my prayers all day.\u00a0 He is in El Salvador to do everything he can to bring back his constituent, Kilmar Abrego Garcia. I have two D Senators, but I doubt whether either of them would do anything like that. They are hung up on “collegiality.” Senator Van Hollen did inspire me to send a single-sentence email to both my Senators, though: “So – what are you going to do when he starts disappearing people who are legally residing in Colorado?” I do hope the Senator is safe himself – that is far from guaranteed. Speaking as a white person, I wish we could bring back Ellis Island, or something like it and screen immigrants, not for tuberculosis, but for white supremacy. Not by asking them whether they are a white supremacist, but with a psych screen. Elon would never have made it through that. Just in case anyone thinks I am overreacting (I know, not likely), here’s a link with thought. Also yesterday, Judge Boasberg issued a ruling that there is cause to hold the Trump** Regime in criminal contempt, and gave them a week to come clean (turn over all information he has requested.) HuffPost has the story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This all along is what has worried and frightened me the most. And here we are. I may be wrong, but I don’t think Marcie at Wonkette<\/a> is a lawyer, so I’m also posting the same story as explained by Joyce Vance, who is a lawyer, and not just a lawyer, a former DOJ prosecutor.<\/p>\n

Nobody says it better or clearer than Joyce Vance<\/a>. She doesn’t sugar coat it, and I certainly don’t want to either. And I am about out of words of my own at this point.<\/p>\n

May as well add Heather Cox Richardson<\/a> to the chorus. I really do not think there is any way to over-report this.<\/p>\n

John Pavlovitz<\/a> weighs in also. I think this can be called a righteous rant.<\/p>\n

Had I found this in time, I would have used it Tuesday. But it wasn’t posted until late enough Tuesday that I had already scheduled Wednesday.Here it is now.
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