What Caught My Eye forFebruary 5 - 11 (#3)

Let me say it plainly: when career prosecutors who’ve stuck around through a year of this administration’s chaos decide this is the moment to quit, it tells you something important about just how far outside normal law enforcement practice this has gone.

This is part of a pattern. Trump has been letting us know exactly who he is and what his administration is all about for a long time now.

MAGA supporters make excuses for his conduct, but when someone shows you who they are, believe them. Maybe they’ll get it now.

It would be nice if they would get it, but it’s the racism is a feature of MAGA, not a bug.

A good dive into the other evils of Epstein. He seemed to have been very much into the “anti-woke” crowd and wanted to continue to make sure that there would be no accountability for anyone.

This gets at the fundamental problem. When you have a small number of judges with lifetime appointments, whose ideological leanings are known quantities, those individual judges become enormously powerful. A single justice retiring or dying at the wrong time can reshape American law for a generation. That’s insane. No single person should have that kind of power over the constitutional rights of 330 million people.

Think of how 6 people were able to so easily eat away at the rights we have fought so hard for over the last hundred-plus years.

This is the core principle: No single Supreme Court justice should ever be important enough to matter.