It used to be the week after Labor Day was known as “Back to School” time when students (and their parents) anxiously await the start of a new school year, but in 2023, Republicans have turned it into “Back to Court” season as their legal travails continue.
Having failed to convince a federal judge that his insubordination was demanded by Donald Trump, former White House economic advisor, and Fox host Peter Navarro heads to a DC court on Tuesday on his contempt of Congress for failing to honor a subpoena from the now-defunct House Select Committee investigating the Republican-led January 6th domestic terrorist attack on Congress. Navarro had claimed that he ignored the subpoena after Trump claimed executive privilege, although Trump filed no such claim with the court.
With his co-conspirators receiving some of the longest sentences for the coup attempt to date for their seditious conspiracy to undermine the Constitution, former Proud Boy leader Enrique Tarrio faces sentencing on Wednesday afternoon in Washington, DC. While his compadre Elmer Stewart Rhodes, the Oath Keepers cyclopic leader, and one of his Proud Boy buddies were both sentenced to 18 years, Tarrio appears in line for a longer sentence, unless it gets reduced for his previous “prolific” cooperation with federal authorities.
Wednesday is also the deadline when the Fulton County, Georgia 19 must all enter their pleas and stand for arraignment in the massive racketeering case brought by District Attorney Fani Willis for the Trump gang’s attempt to throw out the ballots of Fulton County voters. Twelve of the 19, including headliners Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Kenneth Chesebro, Sidney Powell, and Jenna Ellis, have already pleaded not guilty and waived their right to a court hearing.
And finally, deep in the heart of Texas, a little Republican-on-Republican impeachment action as Lone Star conservatives turn on corrupt adulterer Ken Paxton, the GOP Texas Attorney General who will finally face some measure of responsibility for using his office to benefit his friends, political donors, and his penis: besides his official corruption, he’s also charged with using his office to facilitate an extra-marital affair. Given that Republicans have, in recent years, allowed other officeholders like Trump and George Santos to stay in office amid a flurry of similar accusations, Paxton must have really screwed the pooch for Texas Republicans to want him out of office.