Retired appeals court judge Michael Luttig, an informal advisor to former vice president Mike Pence, testified before Congress for the Jan. 6 Select Committee hearings calling former president Donald Trump “a clear and present danger.” Photos courtesy of C-SPAN
By Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor
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key elements of what Trump was actually trying to do — nothing short of using violence to subvert the orderly transition of power. They’ve shown that the timing of actions by indicted members of the Proud Boys and the Oathkeepers revealed that the violence was pre-planned, not the result of an innocent demonstration “getting out of hand.” But what they haven’t done is counter the threat Luttig highlighted. The twin lies were demolished in the very first hearing. Trump insiders provided clear evidence that Trump certainly knew his claims of having won the election were bogus — and thus he had criminal intent in
trying to hold onto power. Former attorney general William Barr called claims of software manipulation “complete nonsense” and “crazy stuff.” “You can’t live in a world where the incumbent administration stays in power based on its view, unsupported by specific evidence, that there was fraud in the election,” Barr said. And Ivanka Trump followed his lead. “I respect Attorney General Barr, so I accepted what he was saying,” she said in a taped deposition.
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Angels Gate Cultural Center, 40 Years as Art Aerie Atop San Pedro By Greggory Moore, Curtain Call Columnist
As one of the international cities, you can find just about anything in Los Angeles. But San Pedro ain’t LA, not really: it’s a port town more than 20 miles down the road with only one library and a population that barely cracks California’s top 100. But take a winding drive up Gaffey Street and you come across Angels Gate Cultural Center, a rustic 7-acre campus that features programming to facilitate everything from painting, ceramics and printmaking to welding, ukulele and kyudo. (Yeah, I had to look up that last one, too: it’s the Japanese martial art of archery.) On June 25, Angels Gate celebrated its big four-oh with 40th Anniversary Gathering of Angels, an exhibition featuring work by over 60 current and alumni artists of the Angels Gate Studio Artist program. But if you’ve never heard of Angels Gate, you’re not
alone. “There’s not a lot of press about Angels Gate,” says Amy Eriksen, AGCC’s executive director for the last 11 years. “It has been like this little hidden place. Nobody knows it’s here. […] Until about 15 years ago, this place was run by like two or three staff — and their goal was to have a gallery that was open, have some community classes, and to take care of the studio artists that were here. So I don’t think press was their first priority — or their fifth […] And not every artist comes here for the community. So I think it was never a high priority to tell other people about it.” Nor has keeping a record of Angels Gate’s history been job one. A lot of what Eriksen tells me about Angels Gate’s early days comes to her as “lore.” The story [See AGCC, p. 16]
Amy Eriksen, executive director of Angels Gate Cultural Center. Photo by Raphael Richardson
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“Donald Trump and his allies and supporters are a clear and present danger to American democracy,” said retired appeals court judge Michael Luttig — an icon of the conservative legal establishment. “That’s not because of what happened on Jan. 6,” but because they’ve pledged they’d do it again in 2024, he testified in the third hearing of the January 6 Select Committee, on June 16. The January 6 hearings have accomplished two main things so far: First, they’ve demolished former president Donald Trump’s twin big lies about the stolen election and the J6 insurrection he mounted. Second, they’ve begun to expose
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