Impeaching a judge for holding the legislature's gerrymandered map violates Utah law would confirm that the constitution, the rule of law, voting rights, and the courts are mere obstacles to overcome for Republicans in reaching their goal of holding onto power and using that power never to let go.

He only does best. Does America’s authoritarian need a high body count to secure his place among the world’s best dictators? The best ones have high numbers. He’s on his way to join their ranks but has some work to do.

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The shooting death of Afa Ah Loo during the June 14 “No Kings” rally in SLC was preventable had the Utah Legislature refused to allow AR-15 style assault rifles at emotionally-charged events such as political rallies with thousands of protesters and counter-protesters in attendance.

Disgraceful.

Trump is transforming the White House’s neoclassical architecture into a style inspired by the Magpie Syndrome. A helpless Congress watches from their home districts. And Utah’s red legislature is determined to choose which voters get to elect the state’s eunuchs to serve in Trump’s royal court.

The Telegram group chat portends a future Republican Party reveling in racism, antisemitism, misogyny, violence, white supremacy and nationalism, the decimation of human and civil rights, and extrajudicial killings.

I am sorry to break the news, but that future Republican Party is now. It’s here.

They stand before cameras with straight faces — except the speaker who presents with the smug smirk of pious certitude he was born with — and lie vociferously with talking points spoon fed them by White House propagandists and with as much staged conviction as their soulless eyes can muster.

Utah’s congressional delegation profess the Constitution was divinely inspired and god’s plan was for people to have free will. They choose to erase their god’s handiwork, turning the Constitution into a shell where power isn’t in the people but in a tyrant to whom they have pledged their loyalty.

The recent executive orders and speeches to the generals were unabashed incitements to political violence against Americans to suppress lawful dissent in his campaign to accumulate power.

He expects military top brass to devote loyalty to him over their sworn oaths to the Constitution. Will they?

Trump declared negative coverage of him is now illegal with no 1st Amendment protection: “When 97 percent of the stories are bad about a person, it’s no longer free speech.”

Some might say the media’s reporting of Trump, according to his own assessment, was nearly perfect — off by only 3 percent.

Dear Gov. Cox:

Your description of the assassination fairly characterizes DJT's murder of “the American experiment,” his “attack on our ideals” which “cuts to the very foundation of who we are, of who we have been, and who we could be in better times.”

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The message it sends to the international community is that the United States is not a country that can be trusted, is not a country of laws, does not honor or respect its treaties and alliances, does not respect constitutional due process, and has zero regard for human or civil rights.

The U.S. senate knowingly placed world-class agencies dedicated to life-saving research in the hands of a wildly dangerous conspiracy theorist, a medical charlatan, a fraud who used his family name and dynasty to make millions off quackery, threatening the lives, health, and safety of Americans.