The Absurd GOP

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Prosecutors in the Comey case argued that they would require extra time due to the case's complexity. Apparently, their strategy is to drag out the dog and pony show before its inevitable failure.

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There's an interesting wrinkle in the Comey case being that the lie he ostensibly told Congress was his affirmation of prior testimony he made in 2017. There's an argument to be made that his affirming his prior testimony by saying he stood by it was not in itself a lie, even if that 2017 testimony was untruthful. It's not clear that saying he stood by his former testimony is itself a false statement, and the statute of limitation for the prior 2017 statement had already expired.

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In other news, a Texas board governing GOP affairs will be meeting to test a new rule that they passed in 2024. The new rule renders anyone censured by the board from participating in the party's primaries for two years. So the board is planning a full-day meeting to look at censuring ten Republicans for being insufficiently conservative in their legislative activities in the prior session, thus rendering them ineligible for the next primary. Republicans are endlessly inventive of finding newer and better ways to warp the process and render absurd and unjust results.