It just occurred to me. Why should this classified documents case be complicated? The government deemed the documents classified. Trump took them. What difference does it make what was in those documents (legally)? Why does the defense need to go over all those documents? What? They plan on claiming the documents weren’t classified? The government - that Trump ran for four years - said they were. And he had no right to take them anyway! Aargh!

I don’t want to hear how “well-respected” this or that lawyer representing Trump is. Uh, duh. Remember Barr and Durham? They were “well-respected” too.

Most classified documents cases take a long time. Add in the special circumstances of a former President defendant, and there’s no way Jack Smith’s prosecution goes to trial before the election.

Okay, people, show biz writers and Hollywood actors are on strike. Only one thing to do now with your spare time - read books! And (shameless self-promotion), I just happen to have written some you might enjoy.

Good for you, Rory! McIlroy said he’d retire before being forced to play for LIV golf.

First the writers, and now the actors are going on strike. Yikes! There won’t be anything new to watch while I sit in my air-conditioned living room procrastinating over writing another chapter of my WIP.

Just finished the Suits series on Netflix. They should have not gone for the additional year after Mike left. Lost most of its energy. Could’ve wrapped things up with Harvey and Donna and Lewis and Sheila that year. It was like they were making stuff up just to continue.

Good morning, CoSoers! Stay cool!

Sen. Schumer should start scheduling confirmation hearings for individual military officers due for promotion, beginning, of course with the highest ranking officers. All day and all night, through weekends and vacations, to get around Tuberville’s hold on mass confirmations. The Senate would have no time to do anything else, forcing McConnell to do something about this jerk from Alabama.

In the states banning abortion after six weeks, it seems the only recourse for women will be to get pregnancy tests every week! Ovulation and missed periods are not precise enough events to be counted on. Contraceptives are not 100% foolproof. Of course, abstaining from sex - which has been suggested by anti-abortion legislators - would also work.

Would Trump’s lawyers have made the same case to delay - indefinitely! - the documents trial if he were polling down in the Nikki Haley range? Of course they would. In other words, just declare you’re running for president, and you can’t be prosecuted for federal crimes. Ah, but there’s a state (Georgia) case that Trump would have no power over, even if he wins the election. Sorry, Donald. The wheels of Justice grind ever so slowly, but they’re finally coming for you.

@LadyZurk The Freedom Caucus has never cared for McCarthy, and MTG aligned herself with him. And I guess her set-to with Boebert recently was the last straw.

MTG is now too liberal for the Freedom Caucus in the House. Scary.

When’s the latest Biden can drop out of the race to give other candidates a chance? I think it’s soon.

I had my first-ever positive experience at the DMV today. I was outta there under ten minutes with what I needed. That’s never happened to me before.

Let’s face it. I’ve said this before: the only candidate Biden can beat is Trump, like the only candidate Trump could’ve beaten in 2016 was Hillary.

Biden is too old, right? If Trump gets elected, he’ll be the second-oldest president ever. So why isn’t he too old?