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      'Distressing': Republicans Eyeing 2024 Race Support Plot to Purge Federal Workers

      "Schedule F would burn down the civil service system," warned one public policy professor. "It would be a government of the lawless leading the incompetent."

      Jessica Corbett
      Aug 03, 2022

      Multiple potential candidates for the GOP's 2024 presidential primary race support former President Donald Trump's plot to make it easier to purge civil servants deemed disloyal to their prospective administrations, Axiosrevealed Wednesday.

      "These impartial civil servants... deserve protection from political interference from a president who would place preserving his power above following the law."

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      Video footage shows Sen. Josh Hawley fleeing the right-wing mob on January 6

      Major Missouri Newspaper Calls Josh Hawley a 'Laughingstock' for Fleeing Jan. 6 Mob

      "Once he realized his own safety was in real danger," reads an editorial by The Kansas City Star, "he hotfooted it away from 'his' people. Where's that fist in the air now?"

      Common Dreams Staff
      Jul 24, 2022

      Missouri's second-largest newspaper by circulation derided home-state Sen. Josh Hawley in a scathing editorial on Saturday, calling him a "laughingstock" and a "coward" after the House panel investigating the January 6 Capitol attack showed previously unseen security footage of the GOP lawmaker fleeing the violent right-wing insurrectionists that he helped embolden.

      "Hawley has become one of the defining figures of that day," notes The Kansas City Star's editorial board. "A famous photo captured by Francis Chung shows him raising a fist in solidarity with the crowds that would soon break through doors, loot offices, and assault law enforcement."

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      50+ Groups Decry GOP Senators' 'Insidious' Attacks on Ketanji Brown Jackson

      In a letter, the groups assert Republican lawmakers' aspersions on the U.S. Supreme Court nominee "grossly mischaracterize her work and threaten the ideals of our democracy."

      Brett Wilkins
      Apr 01, 2022

      More than 50 civil society organizations on Friday accused Republican senators of engaging in "baseless and harmful attacks" on U.S. Supreme Court nominee Kentanji Brown Jackson during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings last week.

      "The work of public defenders and criminal defense lawyers is critical."

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