Ruth Marcus Leading the judge to consider the pros and cons of imprisoning a criminal who is also the de facto Republican candidate: “I sentence you to 60 days in jail and six months community service. … If elected president, the sentence you will serve will be carried out at the end of your term,” Ruth-as-Martin declares.
Harsh? Maybe, but Trump should hope that Marchand feels more like Judge Ruth than like a judge. Jen Rubin“Voters must ultimately reject fascism at the ballot box,” Jen wrote. “But for now, Marchan must exercise her discretion to sentence Trump to at least one year in prison.” Given Trump’s offensive rhetoric against nearly everyone involved in the trial, she said, a minimum one-year sentence is the only way to protect justice “threatened by this criminal and his actions.”
Gene RobinsonJean, meanwhile, makes an even bolder suggestion: Trump should effectively sentence himself by dropping out of the race. To be sure, it’s wishful thinking, given that the unashamed defendant knows his best chance at legal security is to return to the Oval Office. But, as Jean points out, we also live in a world in which “chin-stroking pundits and lamenting Democrats are advising President Biden to step aside for the apparently unforgivable sin of living to 81.”
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Anne Lamott: She’s just like us! Well, not exactly like us. She’s a much more insightful observer of life than the average person, but do I experience the usual levels of terrible vulnerability in the face of the crazy patchwork that is the American health care system.
In her latest book, she writes about the feeling of being put on hold again after waiting so long while trying to make an appointment, only to barge into a doctor’s office, demand to speak to a person, and be pointed to a phone on the wall.
“That reminds me: On airplanes, they always say that when the lights go out, the guiding lights are on. What are the guiding lights when life goes wrong?” Anne asks. Well, maybe there’s an essay like this one.
From the editorial: Anna Goldfarb She talks about the beauty of friendship and why we get so wrapped up in our phones that we neglect the benefits of friendship. Her advice is to tell your friends you love them, tell them why, and “find ways to spend time together in person doing things that you both care about.”
In this striking and melancholic photo essay, Editorial Committee See how China’s crackdown led to the cancellation of a Tiananmen Square memorial in a Hong Kong park. Before: Thousands of people gathered to commemorate the student-led protests and the deadly government crackdown that followed. After: A carnival organised by pro-China groups drew a much smaller crowd.
- Dana Milbank Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, appeared at a congressional hearing this week. do not have There is no doubt that Trump funded the lab that created COVID-19, met secretly with the CIA to quash rumors of a lab leak, made a fortune off the pandemic or committed the Bond movie villain acts that House Republicans have accused him of.
- In excerpts from a new oral history of D-Day, the historian writes: Garrett Graff It captures why the events of that day, which marks its 80th anniversary on Thursday, were actually about the weather.
- In her Prompt newsletter, Alexi McCammond talk Ted Johnson and Perry Bacon On whether Biden’s rose bloom has come to an end with black voters.
It’s a goodbye. It’s a haiku. It’s… “goodbye.”
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