Out on the Weekend

(Permanent Musical Accompaniment to the Last Post of the Week from—and a happy 80th to—the Blog’s Favourite Living Canadian)

It looks like the Republicans in the Senate—except for Lindsey Graham, who has no soul—are running away from Majority Leader John Thune’s attempt to pay them to file nuisance suits against the federal government over former special counsel Jack Smith’s probe. From Politico:

Of the eight known Senate Republicans whose phone records were subpoenaed as part of Smith’s probe into Trump’s 2020 election interference, only one so far—Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina—has announced definitive plans to take advantage of the new legislative language that would allow senators to sue the federal government for $500,000 or more if they discover thei

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