Trump overrode his own agencies to deny four Democratic disaster requests - POLITICO

The emails and documents, which haven’t previously been reported, shed new light on Trump’s decisions to reject an overwhelming number of requests for disaster aid from Democratic-led states, even as he has approved nearly 90 percent of requests from states that are governed by members of his own party. The revelations also offer a fuller picture of Trump’s tenure over the most partisan distribution of FEMA aid since the agency was created in 1979...

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/29/fema-democratic-disaster-requests-trump-01013938

Trump launches America’s 250th birthday celebrations with partisan attack

In a speech at Mount Rushmore, the US president claimed a resurgent ‘communist menace’ posed a severe threat to the country…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/04/trump-launches-americas-250th-birthday-celebrations-with-partisan-attack 

 

Hakeem Jeffries warns GOP that partisan spending bills risk government shut down

"The appropriations process has to be less bipartisan," Vought told reporters last week at a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor. 

That advice confronts a central dilemma: While Republicans have the power to push partisan bills through the House, where legislation needs only a simple majority, they'll have a much tougher time in the Senate, where the minority Democrats have the power of the filibuster. That means any spending bill will need 60 votes to pass through the upper chamber, necessitating the bipartisan buy-in Vought renounced…

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5412199-jeffries-gop-partisan-spending-bills-shutdown/ 

 

‘Partisan politics’: how efforts to overturn the Johnson amendment could upend campaign finance

"I think it'll have as big, or a bigger impact than Citizens United," said Andrew Seidel, a constitutional attorney and expert on Christian nationalism. "I don't think people are fully prepared for a country in which churches can accept tax deductible donations in the billions of dollars and then turn around and use that money for partisan politics."… 

In the short run, overhauling the provision could, Seidel said, allow churches to function effectively as Super Pacs, accepting tax-deductible donations from politically-motivated donors and channeling them into political causes. Such a scenario could, Seidel cautions, force churches to subject themselves to the same financial disclosures that Super Pacs face. 

The church could be the subject of litigation, but then again, who's going to be running the IRS? Who's going to be enforcing that?" said Seidel. "It'll be the Trump administration."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/14/johnson-amendment-campaign-finance

Trump Whistleblower EXPOSES HURRICANE STUNT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdb0rzu7Vpc

As GOP demands Biden/Hur audio, James Comer gives away the game

In other words, the White House's counsel's office accused Comer and his colleagues of wanting to use Biden's interview "for partisan political purposes," after which Comer put in writing that he's focused on using the audio recording to target "swing voters."…

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/gop-demands-bidenhur-audio-james-comer-gives-away-game-rcna152752

Opinion | I was a Republican Partisan. It Altered the Way I Saw the World. - The New York Times

If you are a true partisan, you essentially become an unpaid lawyer for your side. Every "good" fact that bolsters your argument is magnified. Every "bad" fact is minimized or rationalized. When partisanship reaches its worst point, every positive claim about your side is automatically believed, and every negative allegation is automatically disbelieved. In fact, allegations of wrongdoing directed at your side are treated as acts of aggression — proof that "they" are trying to destroy "us." 

You see this reality most plainly in the daily Republican theatrics surrounding Trump's criminal indictments. Rather than wrestle seriously with the profoundly troubling claims against him, they treat the criminal cases as proof of Democratic perfidy. They believe every claim against Hunter and Joe Biden and not a single claim against Trump. 

The result is a kind of divorce from reality...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/opinion/republican-partisan-world-view.html

Justice Breyer: You Don’t Want A Judge To Be Influenced By Popular Opinion

Stephen asks Retired Justice Stephen Breyer to comment on the influence of politics and public opinion on the rulings made by the U.S. Supreme Court, a topic that Breyer covers in his latest book, “Reading The Constitution,” which is available everywhere now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6H8jgBg2Bc

GOP Senator: Conservatives Might Scuttle Ukraine Deal to Stick It to Biden

" There are some that are saying, 'Hey, we don't want Biden to actually get credit for doing anything on the border," Sen. James Lankford…

https://www.businessinsider.com/gop-senator-conservatives-might-scuttle-bipartisan-immigration-ukraine-deal-2024-1

On border policies, GOP’s Nehls says the quiet part loud (again)

"Let me tell you, I'm not willing to do too damn much right now to help a Democrat and to help Joe Biden's approval rating," Republican Rep. Troy Nehls of Texas said. "I will not help the Democrats try to improve this man's dismal approval ratings. I'm not going to do it." 

It's a striking perspective. To hear the GOP congressman tell it, if Congress works out a bipartisan deal on a major issue, and President Joe Biden signed it into law, it might provide a political boost to the incumbent Democrat in an election year. So, as Nehls explained, it's preferable to reject a policy agreement — even one that includes Republican priorities — and deny the White House a win...

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/border-policies-gops-nehls-says-quiet-part-loud-rcna132223

Conservatives target liberal state Supreme Court justices | PBS NewsHour

As political fights across the country become more contentious, key decisions over issues like gerrymandering are finding their way to state Supreme Courts. That's turned once-overlooked questions about who sits on the bench into all-out political battles of their own, including in Wisconsin and North Carolina. Zac Schultz of PBS Wisconsin and Colin Campbell of WUNC join Geoff Bennett to discuss...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/conservatives-target-liberal-state-supreme-court-justices

Opinion | Partisan Politics Put a Huge Win for Public Health at Risk - The New York Times

Bipartisan support continued through three reauthorizations of the program. That ended this year, when Republicans took over the House with a slim majority that was beholden to the MAGA wing of the party, which has been looking for opportunities to damage any Biden administration priorities. PEPFAR became a target when the Heritage Foundation released a falsehood-ridden report in May saying the administration was using it as a "vehicle to promote its domestic radical social agenda overseas," specifically abortion and L.G.B.T.Q. issues.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/01/opinion/pepfar-abortion-republicans.html

Opinion | The Politics of Delusion Have Taken Hold - The New York Times

A separate paper published last year, "Christian Nationalism and Political Violence: Victimhood, Racial Identity, Conspiracy and Support for the Capitol Attacks," by Miles T. Armaly, David T. Buckley and Adam M. Enders, showed that support for political violence correlated with a combination of white identity, belief in extreme religions and conspiracy thinking. 

"Perceived victimhood, reinforcing racial and religious identities and support for conspiratorial information," they wrote, "are positively related to each other and support for the Capitol riot."…

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/31/opinion/politics-partisanship-delusion.html

No One Should Be That Shocked by What’s Happening in Tennessee - POLITICO

The place has been defined by partisan vitriol, pique, scandal, racism and Olympic-level pettiness for years...

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/04/08/tennessee-descent-statehouse-mag-00091090

The Supreme Court is playing partisan games with its “shadow docket” in Arizona v. Mayorkas - Vox

So, to summarize, one judge, a Republican, has determined that the Republican Party's preferred immigration policy must remain in effect. His opinion is poorly reasoned and at odds both with a federal statute and with binding Supreme Court precedents. 

Meanwhile, a second judge, a Democratic appointee, has determined that the Republican Party's preferred immigration policy is illegal. The CDC — the only institution that actually has the statutory authority to determine when the Title 42 program should be terminated — decided that this program must end in May. But CDC's April order has been trapped in limbo for months due to the Republican judge's erroneous decision. And it is now likely to be trapped in limbo for much longer while the Supreme Court ponders a minor procedural question about when parties seeking to intervene in a lawsuit must do so. 

All of this is happening, moreover, against the backdrop of a Supreme Court that took only days to determine that a Republican administration's policies must be put into effect right away, but that often sits on cases blocking Democratic policies for months — even when the justices ultimately determine that the lower court's order blocking the Democratic policy was wrong...

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/12/29/23530842/supreme-court-arizona-mayorkas-title-42-mexican-border-immigration

The Fox News response to the Pelosi attack, in 40 short seconds - The Washington Post

To suggest that the attack was a function of division is to equate an apparent attempted murder with mere political opposition. This isn't a guy standing outside Pelosi's house with a bullhorn, calling her names. This is — according to early reports — a guy inside her house striking her husband with a hammer. To credit this to "division," even based on the more-limited information available to DeAngelis at the moment, is to suggest that this is a natural endpoint of political disagreement...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/28/fox-news-response-pelosi-attack-40-short-seconds/

Opinion | Forget ‘polarization.’ The problem is right-wing extremism. - The Washington Post

It's not polarization when one party recognizes the results of a democratic election and the other does not. That's radicalization of the GOP. Nor is it polarization when the GOP reverts to positions it has not held for decades (e.g., banning abortion nationwide, ending the protected status of entitlements) while the Democratic Party accommodates its most conservative members as it crafts popular legislation (e.g., paring back proposals to allow the government to negotiate prices for pharmaceutical drugs). 

Consider also the parties' different treatment of abortion. Republicans are furiously scrubbing from their websites their extreme positions in favor of forcing women to give birth. Meanwhile, Democrats are loudly touting their support for Roe v. Wade, which more than 60 percent of the public favors. One party is trying to conceal its extremism; the other is advertising its mainstream views...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/28/polarization-right-wing-extremism-maga-republicans/

New evidence emerges of Team Trump politicizing the Justice Dept.

The former U.S. attorney has apparently described an almost cartoonishly corrupted process in which officials tried to hide relevant references to the then-president in court filings, targeted the White House's perceived political rivals, and sought prosecutions of Democrats for purely partisan goals...

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/new-evidence-emerges-team-trump-politicizing-justice-dept-rcna46924

Opinion | Thanks, Kevin McCarthy, for making the Jan. 6 hearings worthwhile - The Washington Post

…In a perverse way, the country owes a debt to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.). He made this refreshing presentation possible. In an astonishingly foolish decision, McCarthy withdrew all his appointees to the committee after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) rejected two of his five nominees. She refused to seat Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Jim Banks (R-Ind.) because they actively spread disinformation about 2020 — and because Jordan was closely involved in Trump's efforts to challenge the election…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/19/thanks-kevin-mccarthy-for-making-jan-6-hearings-worthwhile/

Opinion | The most dangerous conservative judges aren’t on the Supreme Court - The Washington Post

…These lower-level judges have effectively become a Republican super-legislature, blunting the policies of Democratic mayors, governors and presidents while largely upholding the moves of Republican officials…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/21/most-dangerous-conservative-judges-arent-supreme-court/