They weren't "infamous". They were heroes for protecting their lives and home from a mob. The truly "infamous" person is the political hack prosecuting attorney Kim Gardner who brought criminal charges against them.
But the liberals on the court always rule in favor of their liberal ideology regardless of the law and the Constitution and the mainstream news media never complains about their biased rulings.
Actually, that is a totally insane statement, since the Democrats of the slavery era are all dead, how could they possibly be the present day Republicans?
What the liberal progressive writer for the L.A. Times meant to say is that the far left extremists in the Democratic Party have put the the Democratic Party in a corner.
You mean the phone call that the White House made public in a transcript? The transcript which proved that Vindman had lied about the content of the phone conversation in his testimony to the impeachment committee.