Bill Cosby is a free man after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned the conviction that sent him to jail roughly three years ago to serve 3-10 years for sexual assault. The opinion (below) correctly found that the trial judge and prosecutors denied Cosby a fair trial and due process in 2018. The question now is whether Cosby might seek damages for his conviction and incarceration.
In their 79-page opinion, the judges found that a “non-prosecution agreement” reached with Cosby should have barred the prosecution. In the earlier agreement, the prosecutor, Bruce Castor Jr., agreed not to charge Cosby in return for his civil deposition. He proceeded to incriminate himself in what the Court said was a bait-and-switch. The later prosecutor then just ignored the nonprosecution agreement. The trial was also undermined by the decision of the trial court to allow women to testify as witnesses on uncharged alleged crimes against Cosby.
Two things are clear here. The first is that the prosecutors most certainly did violate Bill Cosby's constitutional rights. The second remains that Bill Cosby was 100% guilty of the crimes he committed. The degree that one might feel sorry for the man would be limited by the latter, regardless of how egregious the former was.
But it is important to note that the manner in which Cosby was prosecuted was egregious. The prosecutor basically made a decision to either provide a false agreement with Cosby, or otherwise decided to break the agreement after hearing all of the confessions. Either way, this prosecutor most certainly did violate Cosby's right and not by accident.
I think the bigger question her is not whether or not Cosby can sue for wrongful conviction, but whether there are consequences that should bestow the prosecutor in question. I don't believe that anyone would "welcome" Cosby suing for wrongfully being prosecuted for crimes he obviously committed. But I think that the prosecutor in question needs to be held accountable for the murky methods used in this particular situation.
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This is a case where Cosby was saved by the law. It doesn't appear right but it is.
And we should be a country where the rule of law is followed and applied equally.
Of course that is not true anymore.
The prosecutor violated Bill's rights.
The guilty get to go free.
Jim Crow era has returned.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld voting restrictions in Arizona and signaled that challenges to new state laws making it harder to vote would face a hostile reception from a majority of the justices.
The vote was 6 to 3, with the court’s three liberal members in dissent.
The decision was the court’s first consideration of how a crucial part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 applies to voting restrictions that have a disproportionate impact on members of minority groups, and it was issued as disputes over voting rights have taken center stage in American politics.
As Republican-controlled state legislatures increasingly seek to impose restrictive new voting rules, Democrats and civil rights groups have turned to the courts to argue that Republicans are trying to suppress the vote, thwart the will of the majority and deny equal access to minority voters. The decision suggested that Supreme Court would not be inclined to strike down many of the measures.
The larger message of the ruling was that the Voting Rights Act of 1965, hobbled after the Supreme Court in 2013 effectively struck down its central provision, retains only limited power to combat voting restrictions said to disproportionately affect minority voters’ access to the polls.
The 2013 decision, Shelby County v. Holder, concerned the law’s Section 5, which required prior federal approval of changes to voting procedures in parts of the country with a history of racial and other discrimination. But Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.’s majority opinion said the law’s Section 2 would remain in place to protect voting rights by allowing litigation after the fact.
While Section 5 was available, Section 2 was used mostly in redistricting cases, where the question was whether voting maps had unlawfully diluted minority voting power. Its role in testing restrictions on the denial of the right to vote itself has been subject to much less attention.
The new case, Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, No. 19-1257, concerned two kinds of voting restrictions in Arizona. One required election officials to discard ballots cast at the wrong precinct. The other made it a crime for campaign workers, community activists and most other people to collect ballots for delivery to polling places, a practice critics call “ballot harvesting.” The law made exceptions for family members, caregivers and election officials.
The larger battle in the case was not whether the particular challenged restrictions should survive. The Biden administration, for instance, told the justices in an unusual letter that the Arizona measures did not violate Section 2. But the letter disavowed the Trump administration’s interpretation of Section 2, which would have limited its availability to test the lawfulness of all sorts of voting restrictions.
Section 2 bars any voting procedure that “results in a denial or abridgment of the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race.” That happens, the provision goes on, when, “based on the totality of circumstances,” racial minorities “have less opportunity than other members of the electorate to participate in the political process and to elect representatives of their choice.”
Similarly, he wrote, the ban on ballot collectors had an outsize effect on minority voters, who use ballot collection services far more than white voters because they are more likely to be poor, older, homebound or disabled; to lack reliable transportation, child care and mail service; and to need help understanding voting rules.
Judge Fletcher added that “there is no evidence of any fraud in the long history of third-party ballot collection in Arizona.”
In dissent, four judges wrote that the state’s restrictions were commonplace, supported by common sense and applied neutrally to all voters.
Lawmakers were entitled to try to prevent potential fraud, Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain wrote. “Given its interest in addressing its valid concerns of voter fraud,” he wrote, “Arizona was free to enact prophylactic measures even though no evidence of actual voter fraud was before the legislature.”
The appeals court stayed its ruling, and the restrictions were in place for the election last November.
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Pelosi names Republican Cheney to select committee investigating Jan. 6 attack on Capitol by pro-Trump mob
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) listens to a question about her creation of a select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, during a news conference on June 30, 2021. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced Thursday that Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) will chair the select committee that will probe the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, and Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) will serve as a member.
Cheney has been outspoken in her criticism of former president Donald Trump and was one of 10 Republicans who voted to impeach him for “incitement of insurrection.”
The House on Wednesday approved legislation establishing the 13-member committee, with all but two Republicans — Cheney and Rep. Adam Kinzinger (Ill.) — opposing the measure.
The move to form the committee comes more than one month after Senate Republicans blocked an effort to create an independent, bipartisan commission.
WSJ
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court upheld Arizona voting regulations against a Democratic challenge, overturning an appeals court ruling that found the state’s restrictions discriminated against minority voters.
The court, in a 6-3 opinion by Justice Samuel Alito that divided the court along ideological lines, ruled Arizona was on solid legal ground in enforcing rules that prohibit third parties from collecting mail-in ballots and disallow votes cast in the wrong precinct.
Democrats argued there were historical and societal reasons why the measures discriminated against the state’s Native American, Latino and Black voters.
You're an idiot. Jim Crow has nothing to do with it. It's not the least bit racial...like most things. As usual, the San Francisco appeals court was overturned. Yet again.
Drama Queer 4F-Alky
"Jim Crow era has returned"
Nope
See you are drinking Jim Bean.
https://www.msnbc.com/hallie-jackson/watch/supreme-court-upholds-restrictive-arizona-voting-law-115823685945
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The whackjobs believe that the current civil rights act is going to make a white person is guilty because of the color of their skin color. The presumption of innocence until proven guilty is a fundamental right.
These loony toons believe the CRT makes you guilty of being white.
https://amgreatness.com/2021/06/30/presumed-guilty-the-plot-of-the-new-civics/
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) had a simple reaction to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) threat to strip any Republicans of their committee assignments if appointed by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol: “Who gives a shit?”
Roger doesn't know, how much he doesn't know about Macro and Micro Economics.
I do.
cd
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced the Democrats and sole Republican, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), who she’s chosen to serve on the select committee investigating the Capitol insurrection, with Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) serving as the committee’s chairman, the Washington Post reports.
Pelosi’s other picks: Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA)
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA),
Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-CA),
Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-FL),
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD),
and Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA).
Pelosi said that she hopes Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) doesn’t slow walk appointing Republicans to the committee. But if he does or refuses to seat members, Pelosi hints she won’t wait to get started.
Liz Cheney: “I’m honored to serve on the January 6th select committee. Our oath to the Constitution must be above partisan politics.“
I don't agree with her on almost everything except that she is an American citizen who has not been gaslighted by Trump like the truthers.
They may subpoena the former President Trump.
Even if he is never convicted of crimes, but we may find out how deeply he was involved in the Insurrection.
Julie Kelly
Another video showing the moment—around 1pm—DC, USCP cops start throwing explosive devices at peaceful protesters on January 6:
VIDEO: https://twitter.com/SteveDeaceShow/status/1409967318260662277
Steve Deace
Just spitballing, but looks like a way to incite an ornery crowd.
Hope Liz looks carefully at this, gets Nancy under oath, investigates the murder of the protester and releases the 14,000 hours of video they are sitting on
And not some compilation video from news outlets that actively either receive money or benefit from Communist China like the Washington Post, New York Times or CNN
There's a reason confidence in the MSM is plummeting and they are the main reason.
On topic I agree with you Scott.
He is a serial rapist.
I knew a guy who got away with sexually abusing a neighbor girl for years.
She is a survivor. We have been friends for almost our entire lives. I babysat her and her sister and brother.
He never went to prison. Mainly because he was a police officer.
Clarence Page.
A national panic mostly from conservatives over critical race theory — erupting perhaps in a state legislature, university or school board meeting near you — triggers spirited counterpunches from its left-progressive defenders.
But are they defending CRT, I have to ask, or merely attacking its opponents?
I’m talking about myself, among others. Since the mid-1990s I occasionally have discussed and debated its pluses and minuses with lawyers, professors who know what CRT really is. Before it became a straw man for conservatives, activists, pundits and politicians to knock down, it was a pretty narrow field of intellectual study for law school students and professionals.
But in the wake of the social justice movements kicked up by George Floyd’s murder, it has provided something to the political right that their efforts to demonize President Joe Biden have not: A vague yet menacing issue that they can use to scare white folks in particular into voting Republican — and, they hope, help the Grand Old Party retake control of Congress.
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“This is the Tea Party to the 10th power,” Donald Trump’s former adviser Steve Bannon told Politico in an interview. “And a lot of these people aren’t Trump voters.”
CRT, in short, is an academic framework for looking at racism as systems, not an individual flaw. Contrary to the panic about a need to ban it from public schools, it actually is taught almost entirely in law schools. As one scholar is said to have told a parent who suspected it was being taught to her child, “Congratulations! I didn’t know your child was already in law school.”
But is it enough, I have to ask myself, that I push back against this tide with something so humble as facts?
With that, I wonder whether I am sounding like the sort of CRT critic that Damon Linker, senior correspondent for The Week and author of books on the intersection of faith and politics, described in an essay headlined, “The left is anti-anti-Critical Race Theory.”
Many of the left’s most intelligent writers, he argues, are reacting to the anti-CRT movement with loud opposition to its conservative opponents without bringing up their own reservations about the excesses of the pro-CRT movement.
The “anti-anti-CRT,” as he somewhat awkwardly calls them, are making a mistake as big as “the folly” of Republicans who became “anti-anti-Trump in order to avoid calling out the obscenity of the man himself.”
He makes a good point. I am a strong enough believer in the Constitution to appreciate how, despite what some have called its “birth defect” of slavery, its text also contains the mechanism through the amendment process for its improvement.
And there are intelligent ways to improve the document as well as self-defeating ways. CRT scholars tend to call attention to those historical flaws to undermine other American values that I would just as soon leave alone.
For example, leading CRT scholars such as Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic in their book, “Must We Defend Nazis? Why the First Amendment Should Not Protect Hate Speech and White Supremacy,” argue for curtailment of “dangerous” speech. I don’t have to be a legal scholar to believe that’s a very dangerous idea.
But I also know, after listening to the alarm of parents and others, that I’ve been missing the deeper message in their protests: A lot of white people, in particular, have grown weary and resentful of being called racist and having the history and mainstream culture of their country attacked and demeaned.
They need to hear straightforward answers such as the one Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, forcefully delivered after Republican congressmen in a budget hearing accused the Army of forcing studies in “white rage” and “critical race theory” at West Point military academy.
“I do think it’s important, actually, for those of us in uniform to be open-minded and to be widely read. And the United States Military Academy is a university, and it is important that we train and we understand.
“And I want to understand white rage. I’m white, and I want to understand it. What is it that caused thousands of people to assault this building and try to overturn the Constitution of the United States of America. What caused that? I want to find that out.”
Indeed, like good managers across the nation, Milley recognizes that, in order to develop leaders and accomplish their missions, leaders in the military need to understand not only the enemy but the diversity of the people whom they have been chosen to lead.
(E-mail Clarence Page at cpage@chicagotribune.com.)
This is the most important thing we have to do!
“I do think it’s important, actually, for those of us in uniform to be open-minded and to be widely read!"
Even if you read about Marxism, it doesn't mean that you will become a communist!
I have read books on both sides since I was a nerd kid.
I'm not a socialist or a fascist.
Education gives students the ability to think objectively about politics or science!
What the fuck is wrong with you alky ?
You brought up Liz Cheney I responded and then you cowardly run and hide and post lengthy spam that has no relevance whatsoever to what you just posted. I may have to add a rogeramicksfuckingdaddy and start dumping spam like you as I do to the POS "pastor".
This is a response to your post on Liz Cheney
Hope Liz looks carefully at this, gets Nancy under oath, investigates the murder of the protester and releases the 14,000 hours of video they are sitting on
And not some compilation video from news outlets that actively either receive money or benefit from Communist China like the Washington Post, New York Times or CNN
There's a reason confidence in the MSM is plummeting and they are the main reason.
VIDEO: https://twitter.com/SteveDeaceShow/status/1409967318260662277
You aren't required to answer but if you think it important enough to pontificate on at least let it sit for a while so others can reply.
I know you must still be hurting from being destroyed on your lack of construction knowledge despite working in it for 40 years but grow up.
Being The President is a very difficult task. This has to be the most emotionally difficult task.
Biden reprises role as consoler-in-chief during South Florida visit
By Kevin Liptak, CNN
Updated 12:17 PM ET, Thu July 1, 2021
(CNN)President Joe Biden, whose empathy amid loss is his chief political characteristic, traveled Thursday to console families in Florida who are enduring the excruciating search for loved ones inside a seaside condo that suddenly collapsed a week ago.
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They have ceased the search for survivors because the other building may collapse too.
You don't understand anything about anything because you're a fucking joke.
I ignore you because you are a worthless troll squad asshole
ROFLMFAO !!!
Tim Young
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/1409936310442287107
Sure Chris Wallace, Republicans defunded the police... not the Democrats who literally painted the message on their streets....
those lying democrats
Emerald Robinson
https://twitter.com/EmeraldRobinson/status/1409884193753112585
What @jonkarl thought he was doing in his Atlantic article: rehabilitating Bill Barr with the Left.
What @jonkarl was actually doing: telling the Right that Barr & Mitch McConnell worked together to elect Joe Biden.
Deep State enablers
vince langman
https://twitter.com/LangmanVince/status/1410551111782748160
Hunter Biden had child porn on his laptop and the DOJ covered it up
The same DOJ is going to arrest a 80 year old man for parking tickets because he worked for President Trump
These are evil times
partisan democrats in power positions
John Hayward
https://twitter.com/Doc_0/status/1410263433937928196
The only thing anyone needs to know about the Chinese Communist Party on its "100th birthday" is that it would not survive a single free and fair election, and every member of the Party knows it.
CNN running any more specials celebrating this ???
So a few days after Biden's press secretary says he's not going, it's leaked that Harris is, and then Joe is hustled down to Miami
ROFLMFAO !!!
the war is on
I know you must still be hurting from being destroyed on your lack of construction knowledge despite working in it for 40 years but grow up.
roger wept
Blogger Roger Amick will celebrate July 1st as The New Independence Day.
This July 1 marks the centennial of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Most other communist parties have fallen from grace since the demise of the former Soviet Union, but the CCP has survived to become one of the most dominant political parties in the world, controlling the second-largest economy and the fates of 1.4 billion people. The party owes its longevity to two seemingly contradictory characteristics: laser-like focus, accompanied by tremendous flexibility
rogeramicksfuckingdaddyJuly 1, 2021 at 11:45 AM caught him in the act!
John Hayward
https://twitter.com/Doc_0/status/1410263433937928196
The only thing anyone needs to know about the Chinese Communist Party on its "100th birthday" is that it would not survive a single free and fair election, and every member of the Party knows it.
CNN running any more specials celebrating this
CNN running any more specials celebrating this ???
See!! Propagandists Roger Amick
Roger AmickJuly 1, 2021 at 11:30 AM
Being The President is a very difficult task. This has to be the most emotionally difficult task.
Biden reprises role as consoler-in-chief during South Florida visit
By Kevin Liptak, CNN
Updated 12:17 PM ET, Thu July 1, 2021
(CNN)President Joe Biden, whose empathy amid loss is his chief political characteristic, traveled Thursday to console families in Florida who are enduring the excruciating search for loved ones inside a seaside condo that suddenly collapsed a week ago.
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Take arms on August 15th
The pillow man will swear in President Trump for life
Vernon Jones For Governor
VIDEO of CNN GETTING DESTROYED:
https://mobile.twitter.com/RepVernonJones/status/1410608361427509266
REAL journalism is dead in America.
If the liberal media thinks they can bully me, intimidate me, or silence me, they have another thing coming. I'm not a resident on their plantation.
CNN is an arm of the democrat party
and they both will die together
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ROFLMFAO !!!
The Democrats have a difficult task.
The Conservative majority in the Supreme Court has basically repealed the voting rights legislation since 2013.
Arizona's ballot collection law was spurred by a widely shared video purportedly showing voter fraud that a judge later concluded showed no illegal activity at all.
The Arizona legal battle concerned a specific provision called Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act that bans voting policies or practices that result in racial discrimination. Section 2 has been the main tool used to show that voting curbs discriminate against minorities since the Supreme Court in 2013 struck down the part of the law that determined which states with a history of racial discrimination needed federal approval to change voting laws.
Biden said the ruling "makes clearer than ever that additional laws are needed to safeguard that beating heart of our democracy." U.S. Senate Republicans on June 23 blocked Democratic-backed legislation that would broadly expand voting rights and establish uniform national voting standards to offset the wave of new Republican-led state voting restrictions.
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I don't know if new legislation could restore voting rights.
The originalist philosophy endangers voting rights. When the country was founded, women could not vote. The same thing applied to the slaves.
A difficult task would be to enlarge the Supreme Court members like FDR almost did.
Getting legislation, that is specially designed to get the Conservative majority in the Supreme Court, is impossible right now.
Getting rid of the electoral college system would keep the minority from leading the country.
If the January 6th Insurrection July 4th would not be called Independent Day.
January 6th would be Independent Day.
Georgia Secretary of State Seeking Election Takeover of Fulton County: ‘Enough Is Enough’
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said he is pursuing taking over Fulton County’s elections operations, claiming the Atlanta-area county has habitually failed to count votes.
“I think people are saying, enough is enough,” Raffensperger told Just the News on Wednesday, adding: “I’m tired of it, but so is everyone else who lives in the other 158 counties” in Georgia.
Raffensperger, a Republican who was frequently criticized by former President Donald Trump after the 2020 election, added that he will invoke Georgia’s recent election integrity law that allows Georgia’s Elections Board to take over elections operations in localities that have issues with counting ballots.
The law, SB 202, was passed and signed into law earlier this year. The Department of Justice last week announced it would be filing a civil rights lawsuit against the measure.
When asked during the podcast about whether he would recommend the Elections Board to take over Fulton County by using the law, “Yes is the answer to your question,” Raffensperger responded.
“With SB 202, habitually failing counties can—actually the state election board can come in and replace the election director and really take over the governance of that,” he added, noting that he sought the ouster of a top Fulton County elections official but the county declined to do so.
During the podcast interview, Raffensperger cited a report released by an elections monitor, Carter Jones, in June that detailed alleged irregularities at a Fulton County vote-counting center in November.
“What [Jones] said was it’s all this mismanagement,” the secretary of state said, adding that county “mismanagement” and “dysfunction” erodes the public’s trust in the election system and “really lends itself to conspiracy theories.”
“So it needs to be fixed. It’s our largest county,” he said.
The Epoch Times has contacted Fulton County for comment.
His announcement comes in the midst of an investigation into Fulton County election forms regarding ballots’ chain of custody that allegedly went missing.
Amid claims that Fulton County can’t “produce all ballot drop box transfer documents,” Raffensperger said in a June 14 statement that his office is investigating. “Other counties that failed to follow Georgia rules and regulations regarding drop boxes” are also being reviewed, he added.
A spokesperson for Fulton County at the time appeared to dismiss the reports, telling The Epoch Times that officials “followed procedures for the collection of absentee ballots from Fulton County drop boxes.”
“We maintain a large quantity of documents and researching our files from last year to produce the ballot transfer forms. We have been in communication with the Secretary of State’s office to update them of our progress on this matter,” the spokesperson said.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/georgia-secretary-of-state-seeking-election-takeover-of-fulton-county-enough-is-enough_3882773.html
Section 5 applied to the 13 states of the old Confederacy and was only met to be temporary. Even the Warren court recognized the questionable constitutionality of section 5. (violates equal protection of the 14th amendment) but like all liberal courts the end result of social engineering was more important than the principle.They did foresee future courts overthrowing section 5 when it was no longer needed however and that's what happen.
The 2013 decision, Shelby County v. Holder, concerned the law’s Section 5, which required prior federal approval of changes to voting procedures in parts of the country with a history of racial and other discrimination. But Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.’s majority opinion said the law’s Section 2 would remain in place to protect voting rights by allowing litigation after the fact.
George Floyd's Brother: 'All Lives Matter'
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George Floyd's Brother: 'All Lives Matter'
Philonise Floyd (AP)
By Charles Kim | Saturday, 26 June 2021 07:02 PM
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“Not just black lives matter, but all lives matter,” Philonise Floyd, the brother of George Floyd who was murdered by former Minneapolis, Minnesota, police officer Derek Chauvin last year, said following Chauvin’s sentencing of 22.5 years Friday. “We need to stand up and fight. We can’t get comfortable, because when you get comfortable, people forget about you.”
Floyd said the color of one’s skin should not matter, and that everyone wants to live and work together in the world.
“You have good police officers, and you have bad ones,” he said. “You shouldn’t have to sort them out.”
He said everyone should be the same, even though he grew up in a predominantly Black community and the majority of Minnesota is white.
“Everyone should want to make a difference and when they come to Minnesota, they shouldn’t have to think about (what happened to) George Floyd,” he said. “They should be thinking about how great Minnesota is.”
Floyd’s murder went viral with a video taken by a witness showing Chauvin kneeling on his neck while he was face down on the pavement for more than nine minutes.
Floyd was last heard saying he could not breathe and calling out to his mother before going limp, and then was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Floyd’s murder touched off riots throughout the country and propelled the Black Lives Matter movement to prominence.
Chauvin was convicted by a jury of second-degree murder in April.
Despite that organization claiming that saying, “all lives matter,” minimized Floyd and other Black victims who died at the hands of police, it was not the first time his brother uttered those words.
“Anyone with a heart, they know that that is wrong. You do not do that to a human being. You don’t do that to an animal," Philonise Floyd said while testifying in front of Congress in June 2020. "All lives matter, Black lives matter."
In the 2020 presidential campaign, then Democratic candidate Pete Buttigieg promised to stop using the “all lives matter” phrase after he was criticized by the organization.
"At that time, I was talking about a lot of issues around racial reconciliation in our community. What I did not understand at that time, was that phrase, just early into mid-2015, was coming to be viewed as a sort of counter-slogan to Black Lives Matter," Buttigieg said in April 2019 after giving a speech about racial injustice. "And so, this statement that seems very anodyne and something that nobody could be against, actually wound up being used to devalue what the Black Lives Matter movement was telling us."
https://www.newsmax.com/us/floyd-minneapolis-crime-chauvin/2021/06/26/id/1026547/
alky style
ROFLMFAO !!!
This all but torpedos Garlands politically inspired lawsuit against the state of Georgia.
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court upheld Arizona voting regulations against a Democratic challenge, overturning an appeals court ruling that found the state’s restrictions discriminated against minority voters.
The court, in a 6-3 opinion by Justice Samuel Alito that divided the court along ideological lines, ruled Arizona was on solid legal ground in enforcing rules that prohibit third parties from collecting mail-in ballots and disallow votes cast in the wrong precinct.
WASHINGTON — The Trump Organization’s chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, is expected to plead not guilty Thursday to tax charges in a Manhattan court after a grand jury indicted him and former President Donald Trump's company in a case over its business dealings.
Weisselberg "will fight these charges in court," his attorney, Mary Mulligan.
Right now it looks like tax evasion, but the investigation is not anywhere near done.
He has been charged with grand larceny of 1.5 million dollars. Could carry up to 15 years or probation.
It's not over yet today.
Weisselberg, ‘Soldier’ for Trump, Faces Charges and Test of His Loyalty.
The Trump Organization executive is coming under increasing pressure to turn on the family.
Like I said before is he going to bargain for a reduction and testify if they eventually indict Trump.
The voting Right legislation is dead.
It's complete reversal of the voting rights era.
The decision, a test of what remains of the Voting Rights Act, suggested that challenges to many new measures making it harder to vote may not be successful.
Young Republicans Don’t Oppose Teaching About Racism
July 1, 2021 at 2:05 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 22 Comments
Nearly half
of college Republicans support public schools teaching about institutional racism —
and six in 10 don’t think state legislatures should be able to stop it, according to a new Generation Lab/Axios poll.
The Trump lawyer said that it is just political agenda, in an unprecedented situation since the country was founded.
Typical example of political bullshit.
I bet young Republicans are also in favor or not trying to suppress voting by blacks.
Charges Unveiled Against Trump Organization
July 1, 2021 at 2:51 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
New York prosecutors unveiled an indictment charging the Trump Organization’s finance chief Allen Weisselberg with grand larceny and the company with fraud, the Wall Street Journal reports.
The New York Times described the charges as part of “a 15-year-long tax fraud scheme.”
Nearly half of college Republicans support public schools teaching about institutional racism — and six in 10 don't think state legislatures should be able to stop it —according to a new Generation Lab/Axios poll.
Why it matters: The findings suggest that younger, educated Republicans think much differently about racism and academic freedom than GOP-led state legislatures seeking to censor the teaching of critical race theory.
By the numbers: 93% of college students overall — including 73% of college Republicans — say their high school's curriculum was flawed for focusing insufficiently, rather than too much, on the impact of racism on U.S. history.
82% of college students overall say public schools should teach "that patterns of racism are ingrained in law and other institutions" — including 97% of Democrats, 74% of independents and 46% of Republicans.77% of college students overall say that state legislatures should not be able to limit how public schools or universities teach history.
Between the lines: 41% of respondents said they don't really understand the term "critical race theory."
85% said they first heard about it within the last year and for 30%, this survey was their first time hearing of it.Critical race theory holds that racism was ingrained into the country's foundation and has manifested throughout society's institutions.In the early months of the Biden administration, the topic has bubbled up in the culture wars, and 26 states have introduced bills "or taken other steps that would restrict teaching critical race theory or limit how teachers can discuss racism and sexism,"
James thanks if the younger Republicans decide that they can't support Trump style politicans?
Would they vote Democratic one time?
Why it matters: The findings suggest that younger, educated Republicans think much differently about racism and academic freedom than GOP-led state legislatures seeking to censor the teaching of critical race theory.
What is the sentence for grand larceny in New York?
Law § 155.40. This grand larceny charge carries a sentence of up to 15 years in prison. While there is no minimum mandatory sentence for first time offenders and probation is an option, predicate offenders face a minimum sentence of 3 to 6 years in prison.
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predicate offenders face a minimum sentence of 3 to 6 years in prison.
Proving Predicate intent is difficult task
H1
And the US Senate Sister Bill.
"Roger AmickJuly 1, 2021 at 1:42 PM
"The voting Right legislation is dead"
Thanks to real Constitutionalist.
Bidenomics sucks
Water, yes water , prices are rising around the US.
So here's the big tax fraud scheme: The CFO, most likely paid around a million dollars per year, schemed to receive $1.7M in tax benefits over 16 years. That's about 100k per year in a billion dollar Corp. In addition, a family member lived in a company owned apartment and paid rent! $1000/month. Oh the horror!
This is so absurdly weak and phoney. Obviously political.
And one other thing, the corporate taxes were most likely audited by some external CPA firm. James and Vance will be sorry they went here.
😂 "water inequality "😂
The Trump Organization’s chief financial officer Allen Weiselberg, the former president’s trusted lieutenant for nearly half a century, pleaded not guilty to scheme conspiracy, grand larceny, criminal tax fraud, and falsifying business records, charges found in his 25-page indictment unsealed on Thursday.
“Beginning from at least 2005 to on or about June 30, 2021, [Weisselberg, his co-defendants] and others devised and operated a scheme to defraud federal, New York State, and New York City tax authorities,” the passage of the indictment summarizing the 15-year tax scheme begins. “One of the largest individual beneficiaries of the defendants’ scheme was Allen Weisselberg. During the operation of the scheme, the defendants arranged for Weisselberg to receive in direct employee compensation from the Trump Organization in the approximate amount of $1.76 million.”
Weisselberg reportedly pleaded not guilty to all of the charges at his arraignment.
“Additionally, Weisselberg concealed for years the fact that he was a residentof New York City who was required to pay New York City income taxes,” the indictment continues. “During the period of the scheme, Weisselberg thereby evaded approximately $556,385 in federal taxes, approximately $106,568 in state taxes, and approximately $238,159 in New York City taxes, and he falsely claimed and received approximately $94,902 in federal tax refunds and approximately $38,222 in state tax refunds, to which he was not entitled.”
Charging two Trump Organization-related entities along with Weisselberg, prosecutors also make reference to an “unindicted co-conspirator 1″—suggesting the offices of Manhattan District attorney Cyrus Vance and New York Attorney General Letitia James may not yet be done. The attorney general confirmed as much in a statement.
“Today is an important marker in the ongoing criminal investigation of the Trump Organization and its CFO, Allen Weisselberg,” James wrote. “In the indictment, we allege, among other things, financial wrongdoing whereby the Trump Organization engaged in a scheme with Mr. Weisselberg to avoid paying taxes on certain compensation. This investigation will continue, and we will follow the facts and the law wherever they may lead.”
“unindicted co-conspirator 1″ may eventually be the former President Trump.
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/trump-organization-cfo-allen-weisselberg-pleads-not-guilty-to-grand-larceny-fraud-and-other-charges-in-alleged-15-year-tax-scheme/
Lawyers not computer geek Scott Johnson.
James, I predict that the next tirade will be about TDS.
Wanna bet?????
Polling was done about Polosi's Capital barb wire fence and 63% of Americans don't like it.
Now it is coming down.
James/Roger
No need , you prove our case.
“During the period of the scheme, Weisselberg thereby evaded approximately $556,385 in federal taxes, approximately $106,568 in state taxes, and approximately $238,159 in New York City taxes, and he falsely claimed and received approximately $94,902 in federal tax refunds and approximately $38,222 in state tax refunds, to which he was not entitled.”
Trump is still at risk!!
Charging two Trump Organization-related entities along with Weisselberg, prosecutors also make reference to an “unindicted co-conspirator 1″—suggesting the offices of Manhattan District attorney Cyrus Vance and New York Attorney General Letitia James may not yet be done.
This is all?
"556,385 in federal taxes, approximately $106,568 in state taxes, and approximately $238,159 in New York City taxes, and he falsely claimed and received approximately $94,902 in federal tax refunds and approximately $38,222 in state tax refunds, to which he was not entitled.”
You have to be joking, where is the rest of the case?
Bidenomics, looks like 500,000 + workers reoccupied their abandoned jobs and unemployment dropped to 5.5 %.
Few if any "new" jobs were actually created or "saved".
“Not just black lives matter, but all lives matter,” Philonise Floyd, the brother of George Floyd who was murdered by former Minneapolis, Minnesota, police officer Derek Chauvin last year, said following Chauvin’s sentencing of 22.5 years Friday. “We need to stand up and fight. We can’t get comfortable, because when you get comfortable, people forget about you.”
Floyd said the color of one’s skin should not matter, and that everyone wants to live and work together in the world.
“You have good police officers, and you have bad ones,” he said. “You shouldn’t have to sort them out.”
He said everyone should be the same, even though he grew up in a predominantly Black community and the majority of Minnesota is white.
“Everyone should want to make a difference and when they come to Minnesota, they shouldn’t have to think about (what happened to) George Floyd,” he said. “They should be thinking about how great Minnesota is.”
Can't see anyone disagreeing with this
Tom Cotton
https://mobile.twitter.com/TomCottonAR/status/1410222643681300480
The media has changed quickly from "defunding the police is good" to "actually, Republicans want to defund the police."
Preposterous.
Republicans Back the Blue.
and democrats lie
it's in their DNA
Ronna McDaniel
https://twitter.com/GOPChairwoman/status/1410385163629047808
New York City admits to counting over 100,000 “test ballots," retracting vote totals over a week after primary election day.
Yet Biden’s DOJ is suing Georgia?
small error that probably wouldn't have been found except the law and order democrat challenged the results
Kind of like Trump
and a "recount" wouldn't have found it...
thebradfordfile
https://twitter.com/thebradfordfile/status/1410405349388173313
If you think Bill Cosby has a lot of victims, wait until you hear about Hillary Clinton.
James/Roger have told this lie.
"The media has changed quickly from "defunding the police is good" to "actually, Republicans want to defund the police" JamesNewLeaf's Fucking Daddy
This is true.
The Trump lawyer said that it is just political agenda, in an unprecedented situation since the country was founded.
These are common company perks and not one other company has been charged. Selective political prosecution is grounds for dismissal of the charges.
Affirmative Action vP Harris bitch slapped by the USSC.
"(CNN)The Supreme Court on Thursday invalidated a California rule that requires charitable organizations to disclose the names of contributors in a case that could impact the future of "dark money" politics."
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Former President Donald Trump said that he has made up his mind on whether he will run for president again in 2024, but didn’t say if he would nor not.
Trump was asked about the prospect of running for president by Fox News’s Sean Hannity during an event on Wednesday night.
“You’re not going to answer, but I have to ask. Where are you in the process—or—let me ask you this, without giving the answer—what the answer is—have you made up your mind?” Hannity asked the former president.
Trump only said, “Yes.”
Cheers and applause from the crowd then ensued.
Insider Paper
https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1410357385965686785
JUST IN New York city election officials held an apparently illegal, secret meeting to discuss the botched vote count that threw the Democratic mayoral primary into chaos (NY Post)
Democrats: "We would never rig an election!"
Also Democrats: "We just met this week to rig an election!"
Roger/James continue to prove our case.
Exactly. This is weak as hell. Everyone rlse gets a irs letter saying you owe x amount. I myself got one earlier this year.
I got one 3 years ago because I was paying all of my Son's college costs.
In year two , I did not include his rent, yet , I drew the money from his trust for it. A simple letter and an amended return and all was forgiven.
The KU kputz is wrong again.
The S&P 500 rose on Thursday and hit another record high as Wall Street kicked off the second half of 2021 on a positive note.
The benchmark index rose 0.4% and was on track for its sixth-straight record close. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was higher by about 100 points, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite ticked up about 0.1%.
The rise for stocks was widespread, with energy stocks leading the way as West Texas Intermediate crude rose above $75 per barrel. Shares of Chevron rose 1.4%, making the stock one of the best performers in the Dow.
Apparel company Nike was another winner, rising more than 2%. However, shares of Walgreen Boots Alliance fell more than 6% despite releasing a better-than-expected earnings report, weighing on the 30-stock average.
A stretch of strong economic news continued on Thursday as weekly initial jobless claims came in at 364,000, setting a pandemic-era low. Economists polled by Dow Jones are expecting initial claims for unemployment totaled 390,000 last week, after totaling 415,000 for the week ended June 19.
Additionally, the Institute for Supply Management’s June manufacturing index showed an expansion that was roughly in line with expectations, and the Congressional Budget Office hiked its estimates for economic growth.
Those data points build on a first half of the year that saw the U.S. economy recover rapidly as vaccines became widespread and businesses reopened, helping the S&P 500 rise by more than 14% and the Dow and Nasdaq also posting double-digit percentage gains.
“Better news on Covid, vaccinations, re-openings, economic growth, and earnings fueled the advance. Nearly equal gains were achieved in both quarters by a rotation in leadership allowing broad participation,” said Jim Paulsen, Leuthold Group chief investment strategist.
The small cap Russell 2000 rose more than 17% in the first six months of the year amid a strong rotation into value stocks as the economy reopens from the Covid-19 pandemic. However, smaller companies and value stocks appeared to lose momentum in recent weeks while Big Tech stocks regained their footing.
Brent Schutte, chief investment strategist at Northwestern Mutual, said that he expected that reversal to prove temporary as the economic recovery continues.
“I think the inflation fears have kind of weighed in and had investors thinking that we may be further along in the cycle than I think we actually are. ... I still think you have enough economic momentum that growth is going to stay strong, perhaps at a plateau, for the next year, which for me means you still want to be invested in things where earnings growth is more cyclical in nature,” Schutte said.
Similarly, Paulsen said that the path of inflation and economic growth should determine market leadership in the second half.
“If inflation fears do calm further and bond yields remain lower for longer, expect growth and technology stocks to continue leading the stock market higher. However, should strong economic growth aggravate inflationary worries and again force bond yields higher, correction fears may intensify, and leadership should be centered among cyclical stock sectors, smaller cap stocks and even international stocks,” Paulsen said.
The most anticipated piece of economic news this week is Friday’s monthly jobs report. Economists expect 683,000 jobs were added in June, according to a Dow Jones survey.
Thursday’s moves come after Wall Street wrapped a strong first six months of the year in the previous session.
Strong first halves for the stock market historically bode well for the remainder of the year. Whenever there has been a double-digit gain in the first half, the Dow and S&P 500 have never ended that year with an annual decline, according to Refinitiv data going back to 1950.
When the S&P 500 is up more than 12.5% to start the year, the second half has a median gain of 9.7%, according to LPL Financial data going back to the 1950s.
S&P 500 hits sixth-straight record, Dow adds 100 points as Wall Street kicks off the second half
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/30/stock-futures-are-flat-as-sp-500-sits-at-record-wall-street-gets-set-to-kick-off-second-half-of-2021.html?__source=androidappshare
alky wrong again
Laptop shows Joe Biden attended meetings between Hunter and his Mexican business partners
At some point the Biden White House will have to confront evidence of the president’s involvement in his son Hunter’s shady overseas business dealings.
Joe Biden insists he never knew a thing about Hunter’s lucrative deals in countries where he wielded influence as vice president.
But evidence abounds on Hunter’s abandoned laptop of Joe’s involvement.
For instance, Joe invited Hunter’s foreign associates to breakfast meetings at his vice presidential residence and to his office in the White House, the laptop shows. He took his son on Air Force Two to countries where Hunter was doing deals, and on at least one occasion, included one of Hunter’s business partners on the trip.
Among more than 100 events scheduled in Hunter’s diary at the VP’s residence at the Naval Observatory in Washington, DC, there are meetings which appear to overlap with Hunter’s business interests.
“Breakfast with Dad — NavObs” is one such meeting recorded for 8:30 a.m. on Nov. 19, 2015. Five photographs date-stamped on that day and taken at 10:03 a.m. and 10:04 a.m. appear on the laptop, showing Joe posing with four of Hunter’s business associates, including Mexican billionaires Carlos Slim and Miguel Alemán Velasco.
One photo also features Velasco’s son Miguel Aleman Magnani, the founder of budget airline Interjet, at whose Acapulco mansion Hunter and wife Kathleen had stayed that March. Jeff Cooper, a longtime Biden family benefactor, who ran one of the largest asbestos litigation firms in the country, Illinois-based SimmonsCooper, also appears along with Hunter.
The photos were taken in the living room of the VP’s residence, which was painted at the time in a daffodil yellow chosen by Jill Biden and featured distinctive paintings by Vermont artist Wolf Kahn on loan from Addison/Ripley Fine Art in Georgetown, which are visible on the wall behind the men. Two floral chairs and a pink-toned silk rug in the photos match the décor of the living room at the time. In the background of one photo, a piano and family photographs can be seen in front of a bay window.
Then-Vice President (center) meets with Mexican billionaires Carlos Slim (left) and Miguel Aleman Velasco (right).
Then-Vice President Joe Biden (center) meets with Mexican billionaires Carlos Slim (left) and Miguel Aleman Velasco.
Slim was in town that day, as Politico noted the next day: “SPOTTED: Carlos Slim in the lobby yesterday morning of the Georgetown Four Seasons.”
Cooper and Hunter had been working on energy deals in Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America. A 2013 email from Cooper demonstrates their high expectations of the association with the Aleman dynasty.
“Miguel wants us to go to Mexico City,” he wrote to Hunter on Feb. 26. “This is setting up to be flippin gigantic brother.”
At the time, President Enrique Peña Nieto was reforming Mexico’s energy market to allow private capital investment in state-owned oil and gas monopoly Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex).
Cooper’s association with the Bidens began in 2005 when he started filing multimillion-dollar lawsuits in Delaware in association with Joe’s late son Beau Biden’s firm Bifferato, Gentilotti & Biden. He would make a lot of money from the $30 billion asbestos compensation business, helped by Joe, as leader of the powerful Judiciary Committee, blocking asbestos litigation reform when a bill reached the Senate floor, as Paul Sperry from Real Clear Investigations has reported.
When Joe became vice president, Cooper put Hunter on the board of his venture capital firm Eudora Global, and gave him shares in the business, which netted Hunter around $80,000 a year, documents on the laptop show. In 2015, Hunter also received a “one-time payment” of $300,000 from Eudora.
SimmonsCooper also put up $1 million in investment capital for Hunter and his uncle Jim Biden’s abortive attempt to run a hedge fund in 2009. When the venture ended, the Bidens returned the money.
Cooper joined the VP’s entourage on Air Force Two to Mexico in 2016, when he and Hunter were trying to negotiate an ill-fated petroleum deal with Aleman Magnani.
At 6 p.m. on Feb. 24, 2016, about an hour after “wheels up” from Joint Base Andrews on the five-hour flight to Mexico City, Hunter wrote a plaintive email to Aleman Magnani using Air Force Two’s secure, high-speed satellite communications channel. He blind-copied Cooper.
Hunter Biden was quite fond of using then-Vice President Joe Biden as leverage in his numerous suspicious foreign business ventures.
Hunter Biden sent emails using Air Force Two’s secure communications channel.
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“We are arriving late tonight on Air Force 2 to Mx City. I’m attending meeting w/ President N [Peña Nieto] and dad. Would love to see you but you never respond. I am really upset by it . . . I want you at the plane when the VP lands with your Mom and Dad and you completely ignore me.
“I’ve looked at what your family has done and want to follow in that tradition . . . We have been talking about business deals for 7 years. And I really appreciate you letting me stay at your resort villa . . . but I have brought every single person you have ever asked me to bring to the F’ing White House and the Vice President’s house and the inauguration and then you go completely silent . . . You make me feel like I’ve done something to offend you.” Hunter had been useful to Aleman Magnani, apart from three tickets to the Obama-Biden inauguration ball in 2013 and meetings with his dad.
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Crucially for a Mexican airline owner wanting to spread his wings, Hunter also set up two meetings for Aleman Magnani with Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx, on March 17, 2014, and Jan. 23, 2015, and a separate meeting with the administrator of the Federal Aviation Authority, emails on the laptop show.
When Cooper asked if he would go to the first Foxx meeting, Hunter replied: “No, but I am calling Sec. Foxx to let him know we are buddies.”
Before the second meeting, Hunter emailed Foxx’s director of scheduling and advance, Laura De Castro: “Miguel Aleman (Interjet Chairman) is a close family friend but I have no business with the company.”
Burisma, the corrupt Ukrainian energy company that was paying Hunter $83,333 to sit on its board, also got involved in his Mexican ventures.
In a 2014 email, Cooper wrote to Hunter: “I met with Miguel [Aleman Magnani] last night. He has set up mtgs with the Secty of Energy and the CEO of Pemex for Jan 12. Is there any chance that anyone from Burisma could attend?”
Hunter later asked Aleman Magnani to intervene with the Mexican government to “smooth out” a visa problem for Burisma’s owner, Nikolai Zlochevskyi. Aleman Magnani does not appear to have assisted.
Hunter Biden allegedly tried to broker a deal between the Ukrainian Burisma company and gas monopoly Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex).
Hunter Biden allegedly tried to broker a deal between the Ukrainian Burisma company and gas monopoly Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex).
Getty Images for World Food Program USA
As a result, Zlochevskyi could not fly to Mexico to finalize a deal Cooper had brokered with Pemex, thus jeopardizing one of Hunter’s most profitable side hustles.
“Going to have to do some serious back pedaling with Burisma,” Hunter emailed Cooper on Feb. 16, 2015. “Most likely jeopardizes my board position.”
“I am shocked Miguel didn’t come through at crunch time,” replied Cooper. “. . . they clearly value the relationship with your family AND they know they could sustain serious damage here by making enemies with you . . . Maybe a call from you or your dad to his dad? Maybe that shakes things loose. Whaddya think?”
No reply can be found on the laptop, but Hunter knows that his arrival with his dad on Air Force Two the following year will demonstrate his clout to prospective Mexican business partners.
Nothing “shakes things lose” abroad quite so profitably as jetting in on the White House bird.
Laptop shows Joe Biden attended meetings between Hunter and his Mexican business partners
https://nypost.com/2021/06/30/laptop-shows-joe-biden-was-with-hunter-and-his-mexican-biz-meetings/
Joe lied
Needs to be removed from office
"Roger AmickJuly 1, 2021 at 3:08 PM
S&P 500 hits sixth-straight record, Dow adds 100 points as Wall Street kicks off the second half"
AND blacks with the same income as white have less net worth and little in equities.
Why is this Roger?
Truckers and farmers are paying 86 cents per gallon for Diesel .
Bidenomics sucks
Witch Hunt, 2021: Trump Org CFO Cuffed, Perp Walked.
Weisselberg Pleads Not Guilty
Tax Crimes Charges Brought by Manhattan DA
Roger AmickJuly 1, 2021 at 3:06 PM
The KU kputz is wrong again."
Do tell, exactly what you believe I have wrong?
Emerald Robinson
https://twitter.com/EmeraldRobinson/status/1410694004749090819
Can't wait for AG Merrick Garland to launch a DOJ investigation of New York City's Democratic primary for mayor. Secret meetings! Fake ballots! Delayed counting! The works!
Our Republic is at stake !!!
Democracy dies in darkness !!!
Election integrity is a must
Stop the Steal !!!
Going to pick 4 cups of Fresh home grow Basil for the wife, she in making Pesto . Mmmmmm
Eleven years after Years After Citizens United, the Supreme Court decisions have made it impossible to determine who is paying for anything political.
RYAN COOPER
JULY 1, 2021
The Supreme Court took a big step towards oligarchy on Thursday with Americans for Prosperity Foundation vs. Bonta, a 6-3 decision that invalidated a California law requiring charities to report their major donors to the state government. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion, with Justice Sonia Sotomayor in dissent with the other two liberals.
The important impact of this decision is not what it will do in California so much as the precedent it sets. It almost certainly lays the groundwork for further challenges to political donor disclosure requirements in all circumstances. Previous conservative rulings opened a floodgate of bribery and corruption in politics, and now the court will prevent the American people from being able to find out who is buying the government.
Previously, the court had supported this kind of disclosure requirement. In 2010, Citizens United vs. FEC abolished limits on independent political spending by corporations and political committees, but still upheld disclosure requirements for super PACs. The decision created a tsunami of political bribery and corruption and, when combined with several other rulings that made it nearly impossible to prosecute politicians for corruption (like former Republican governor of Virginia Bob McDonnell), means that today rich people and corporations can buy legislators "over the counter like so many pounds of cheese."
There is just one remaining inconvenience for oligarchs who are rigging the political system: people can sort of find out about it. The First Amendment is the excuse Roberts settled on to remove this burdensome obligation.
He didn't want to be called a RINO
BS, Roger...
The only reason that Democrats wanted donor lists was to go harass and attempt to "cancel" those who funded things they disagreed with. Donations are perfectly legal in America. To call them "bribes" is stupid.
Have you ever donated to anything?
Should I demand that your donation was a "bribe"?
Some might say you are an idiot. But I will let others say that.
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