Saying Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbot overstepped his authority, the US Department of Justice sued Texas over its recently passed SB4, a law that broadens state and local law enforcement officers’ and courts’ authority to enforce immigration law, Reuters reports.

The Texas version of Arizona’s overturned “show us your papers” law gives allows state, county and local law enforcement the ability to detain and question people they suspect of being undocumented migrants, and it empowers some state and local courts with the authority to adjudicate cases involving people who are in the country illegally, with the authority to order deportations, threaten to turn the individual over to federal authorities, or in some cases, imprison someone for up to 20 years.  Constitutionally, the federal government handles international migration.

Republican Daniel Cameron, the GOP’s losing candidate in the last Kentucky gubernatorial election, proudly announced that he is going to lead a conservative anti-woke coalition called 1792 Exchange, NBC News reports.  The anti-woke coalition says that Cameron, Kentucky’s first African-American Attorney General, is the perfect fit to be the face of a group fighting wokeness.

Nathan Estruth, the 1792 Exchange founder who is not an African-American, said in a press release, “I simply cannot imagine a more capable and qualified chief executive to help us safeguard free exercise, free speech, and free enterprise.” Paul Fitzpatrick, the President of the 1792 Exchange who is also not an African-American commented, “We just getting started.”  The group did not comment on other candidates it considered for the position that apparently did not exist before hiring Cameron.

Tapper: I’m sure border patrol agents want funding for the next month

Johnson: No actually they don’t

Tapper: They don’t want the $14 billion?

Johnson: No pic.twitter.com/NZ6g7QVJV2

— DNC War Room (@DNCWarRoom) January 3, 2024

The Orange Caesar hath cast his die with the nine black-robed conjurers in the stone palace for a proclamation on his quest to cross the Rubicon and rule with awful bloody vengeance.

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday tossed disgraced former President Trump’s bid for a full bench review of his bullshit “presidential immunity” claim to dodge the damages-only trial he’s facing in rape victim EJ Carroll’s long-running federal defamation lawsuit against him, set to kick off on January 15th if the Supreme Court doesn’t halt it, Politico’s Kyle Cheney reports.

A brief recap in case this is all confusing as shit: Last May a federal trial jury found in favor of Carroll’s claim that Trump had defamed and sexually abused her – with the judge later also finding that Trump had committed rape. The trial took place in federal court but was tried under New York State law, so for all intents and purposes it was still a state-level civil case. This upcoming one, to be tried in front of the same judge, Lewis Kaplan, is strictly a federal one hence the federal appeals process. It’s also damages-only, as Kaplan in September ruled that all of Carroll’s claims had been proven factually, so the jury will be seated for the sole purpose of determining damages.

…if the Supreme Court denies Trump certiorari. Which they probably will.

Asked Wednesday by Fox News anchor Martha McSomething to confirm or deny the New York Times’s Maggie Haberman’s recent reporting indicating that fat former President Trump is concerned that the US Supreme Court will ultimately fuck him over and let states disqualify him under the 14th Amendment, temporary Melania Trump and sort of lawyer Alina Habba violated attorney client privilege and told Martha McWhatever that Donald is indeed worried the justices, his appointees included, will try “so hard to look neutral” and thus “make the wrong call.”

Police officials in Denver on Tuesday confirmed that the crazy asshole who shot his way into the building housing the Colorado Supreme Court the previous night – an incident which certain shitty politics websites like The Hill pretty much outright falsely implied in their headlines was connected to recent threats against the court for disqualifying fat former President Trump from the 2024 ballot – was just that, a crazy asshole drug addict who was armed while driving from Arizona on his way to see his ex-wife and kids uninvited, the Denver Post reports, with quotes from the man’s ex-wife.

Tori Schumacher told the Post that her ex, 44 year-old Brandon Olsen, has “no affiliation politically whatsoever,” and that “We’re just really sad this has happened to Brandon and that he hasn’t gotten the mental health help that he clearly needs. We’re hoping for the best for him… He’s a really loving, good guy, just had a mental breakdown. Drugs will do that to you.” So does MAGA, but we digress.

Horry County, South Carolina court records obtained by Palmetto State site FITS News (which still has ‘Murdaughs‘ as the left-most item on its top navigation bar), show that state Republican Party political director Braylee Estep, 22, was cuffed late Tuesday on charges of third degree assault and battery by mob, with unconfirmed reports indicating the arrest was connected to a brawl that happened last month at her mom Michele Stalvey Estep’s bar in the town of Conway.

“Her mom got into a fight – Braylee and another bar worker defended her mom – police were called and statements were taken,” a source told FITS. It’s not clear if the charges were definitely directly connected to the fight or maybe some retaliatory attack afterward, though FITS says Estep drove to the Conway Police Department and turned herself in before being bonded out Wednesday.

Woohoo! You overcame her sorceries! https://t.co/3boMjMh6vy pic.twitter.com/NT9TeBW4ks

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) January 3, 2024

Alright! Sound of Freedom sold about $5 million in more tickets domestically in 2023 than Taylor Swift’s concert film! Take that, you evil sorceress! Fuck yeah!

Tee-hee-hee… Congresswoman Lauren Boebert grabbed Johnson’s endorsement for her run in Colorado’s 4th District and she switched from the… Pfffft… Hee-hee-hee, the Messenger reports.

The chairman of the Travis County, Texas GOP on Wednesday broke the news to “election integrity” fanboys that they’re scrapping their plan to hand-count all ballots in the March 5th primary, saying the party has the money and manpower to do it for the mail-in ballots only, KXAN reports.

“WHAT?! What the hell is this? This stern and icy robot lady is suddenly going to act like a journalist here? THIS IS FUCKING FOX NEWS! Why is she actually challenging me on this? Somebody press her pause button! I don’t like this anymore!” said Nikki “Nimrata” Haley’s brain on Wednesday as she faced the unpleasant visage of Fox’s Harris Faulkner interrupting Haley’s damage control schtick.

Raw Story fucking sucks, particularly with their staple of “take”-based reporting like “Deeply flawed’ MAGA complaints about Trump disqualification shredded by law professor” and “‘Not so fast’: Watergate prosecutor warns Supreme Court is going to hand Trump a shock,” headlines that might as well say “Hey libtards! Here’s some smart guy on MSNBC saying what you want to hear!”

Having qualified doing more or less exactly the same thing, we want to flag this piece by the Daily Beast’s very solid legal correspondent Jose Pagliery, titled “Jack Smith Keeps Telegraphing Some Seriously Scandalous Trump Crimes.” Pagliery tiptoes into and around how Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s filings keep bringing up certain crimes like treason and bribery as examples of situations – such as ordering “the FBI Director to plant incriminating evidence on a political enemy,” ordering “the National Guard to murder his most prominent critics,” selling “nuclear secrets to a foreign adversary,” etc – in which Trump should not be entitled to immunity.

So specific is Smith in these filings that Pagliery and other observers can’t help but sense might be hinting at more shit that actually happened, certain episodes that Smith has evidence and testimony supporting but for whatever reasons like time, bandwidth, evidentiary, and/or manpower limitations he hasn’t tried to develop additional cases against the fat orange fuck… at this point.

Big if true, and bigger still if it ends up meaning anything in the middle term of this year before the election is anybody’s guess. There’s no doubt Smith knows of much more than has already been alleged and there’s no doubt the trial will prove very ugly for Donald. Already just last month Smith revealed he has text messages indicating a previously unreported instance of Trump trying to start a riot at the TCF center in Detroit as votes were being counted on November 4th, 2020, which is pretty damning and could’ve been charged separately unto itself. The only real question is how much further down the iceberg is Smith going to go with the evidence at the trial?

A Newark, New Jersey imam was critically wounded in a shooting outside of a mosque near the corner of Camden Street and South Orange Avenue, WCBS reports with very little further detail. In fact it’s in their tweet and not the article itself where the words “imam” and “mosque” appear.

The four-year anniversary of the explosive end of Iranian General Qassem Soleiman, head of the Revolutionary Guard’s elite Quds force, was commemorated Wednesday with more explosions at his gravesite, with at least 73 of his fans exploded too, the AP reports citing Iranian state media.

No group has claimed responsibility yet for the terror attack on the ceremony honoring the terrorist vaporized by an American drone in Baghdad on orders of disgraced former President Trump – who at the time needed a “win” while facing his first impeachment trial in the US Senate.

Wow! It took a while House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, who fat former President Trump absolutely screwed during the Speakership race in October by trashing him on Truth Social with “I have many wonderful friends wanting to be Speaker of the House, and some are truly great Warriors. RINO Tom Emmer, who I do not know well, is not one of them. He never respected the Power of a Trump Endorsement, or the breadth and scope of MAGA – MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” just actually completely owned Trump with a stinging reply to that undorsement, per the Washington Examiner.

“Democrats have made clear they will use every tool in their arsenal to try and keep Joe Biden and his failed policies in power. We cannot let them. It’s time for Republicans to unite behind our party’s clear front-runner, which is why I am proud to endorse Donald J Trump for president,” Emmer said in a statement showing Americans what he’s made of after Trump disrespected him! Go Tom!

Biden sports apparent sunburn upon return from Caribbean vacation https://t.co/mSSAW66SDo

— The Messenger (@TheMessenger) January 3, 2024

Both Punchbowl and Politico Playbook Wednesday morning editions are dedicated to earning their respective outlets’ access chits with House Republicans by heralding their impeachment efforts once again. This time it’s aimed at Homeland Security Secretary Alex Mayorkas, with Punchbowl especially dedicated to carrying Homeland Security Chair Mark Green’s Kool-Aid.

Said Green in a statement: “Our investigation made clear that this crisis finds its foundation in Secretary Mayorkas’ decision-making and refusal to enforce the laws passed by Congress, and that his failure to fulfill his oath of office demands accountability. The bipartisan House vote in November to refer articles of impeachment to my Committee only served to highlight the importance of our taking up the impeachment process – which is what we will begin doing next Wednesday.”

President Joe Biden will mark the third anniversary of the January 6th insurrection with a speech warning of the dangers of MAGA fascism at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania on Saturday, CNN reports.

“The president will make the case directly that democracy and freedom, two powerful ideas that united the 13 colonies and that generations throughout our nation’s history have fought and died for a stone’s throw from where he’ll be Saturday, remains central to the fight we’re in today,” said Biden Deputy Campaign Manager Quentin Fulks in a statement, adding that the president plans another speech Monday at the Charlotte, South Carolina Black church where a MAGA white supremacist gunman slaughtered nine parishioners at a prayer meeting in 2015. “Whether it is White supremacists descending on a historic American city of Charlottesville, the assault on our nation’s capital on January 6, or a White supremacist murdering churchgoers at Mother Emanuel nearly nine years ago, America is worried about the rise in political violence and determined to stand against it.”

Vice President Kamala Harris will separately travel to South Carolina on Saturday to speak at the 7th Episcopal District AME Church Women’s Missionary Society annual retreat in Myrtle Beach.

Disgraced former President Trump’s lawyers early Wednesday filed their final appeal brief to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals in his bullshit “presidential immunity” case, twice citing the insanely stupid and largely debunked “Summary of Election Fraud in the 2020 Presidential Election in the Swing States” PDF the fat bastard posted on Truth Social just hours earlier on Tuesday.

“The government’s brief (at 3) omits the vigorous disputes and questions about the actual outcome of the 2020 Presidential election—disputes that date back to November 2020, continue to this day in our nation’s political discourse, and are based on extensive information about widespread fraud and irregularities in the 2020 election, See, [links to Trump’s Truth Social posts] (published analysis reporting that ‘investigations across the country have uncovered an avalanche of irregularities, unlawful activity, manipulation of election records, destruction of evidence, and fraud’ in the 2020 election),” the literally wrote in a federal appellate case without fear of sanction from the judges.