Just to show how depraved and cynical the left truly is, even if they did manage to codify voter fraud into law, it never passes Constitutional muster, and they know this. They also know that they would get away with it in the mid-terms because there simply would not be enough time for the courts to hear the case.
Stewart Rhodes — founder and leader of the extremist group Oath Keepers, whose members are accused of being key players in the Jan. 6 attack on Congress — has been indicted and arrested, people familiar with the matter said Thursday. The 56-year-old, who was at the Capitol that day but has said he did not enter the building, is the most high-profile person charged in the investigation so far. He is charged with seditious conspiracy, along with 10 other Oath Keepers members or associates, said the people familiar with the investigation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing probe. Rhodes was arrested Thursday, after a federal grand jury leveled new charges focusing on what prosecutors say is a core group of Oath Keepers adherents who allegedly planned for and participated in obstructing Congress on the day lawmakers certified President Biden’s 2020 election victory. Charges are expected to be unsealed later Thursday. In interviews with The Washington Post over the past year, Rhodes — a former Army paratrooper and Yale Law graduate who has become one of the most visible figures of the far-right anti-government movement — has repeatedly denied wrongdoing. He said he was communicating with members of his group in an effort to “keep them out of trouble,” and emphasized that Oath Keepers associates who did go in “went totally off mission.” An earlier indictment charged 19 of the extremist group’s alleged adherents with conspiracy and aiding and abetting the obstruction of Congress. Two of those individuals have pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with investigators. The rest have pleaded not guilty and are preparing for trials later this year.
Joe Manchin Lays Out Filibuster Changes He Supports Paul Blumenthal Tue, January 11, 2022, 2:00 PM·3
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) outlined changes to the Senate’s filibuster rules that he would support, but remained steadfast in his opposition to getting rid of the filibuster entirely in comments to congressional reporters on Tuesday.
Manchin’s comments come as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) reiterated his commitment to hold another vote as early as Wednesday on federal voting rights legislation supported by all 50 members of the Senate Democratic Caucus before pushing for filibuster changes if Republicans again block consideration of the legislation.
With nearly all Republicans opposed to both the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, Democrats would need to change the filibuster rules to enact both bills. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.) and Manchin remain the only two Democratic senators openly opposed to eliminating the filibuster in order to pass voting rights legislation that they support.
Manchin told PBS NewsHour reporter Lisa DesJardins on Tuesday that he supports a raft of rules changes to make the Senate “work better.” These include getting rid of the filibuster to begin debate on legislation, also known as the motion to proceed, changing the threshold to end a filibuster from 60 votes to three-fifths present and requiring a talking filibuster with senators limited to two speeches each.
“I’m not for breaking the filibuster, but I am for making the place work better by changing the rules,” Manchin said.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is one of two Democratic senators openly opposed to eliminating the filibuster to pass voting rights legislation.
These changes would not necessarily allow for legislation like the voter rights bills currently blocked by GOP filibusters to pass, but filibuster reform and voting rights advocates are still encouraged by Manchin’s willingness to publicly back some kind of change.
“It is very encouraging to hear Sen. Manchin state so clearly that the filibuster is being abused and that the rules need to be updated and reformed,” Eli Zupnick, communications director for the filibuster reform coalition Fix Our Senate, said in an email. “Now we’re hopeful that he’ll keep working with Leader Schumer and others to get this done in a way that ends Sen. McConnell’s obstruction and allows popular legislation to get a full debate and then an up-or-down vote.”
Manchin remains in negotiations on potential filibuster reforms with Sens. Angus King (Maine), Jon Tester (Mont.) and Tim Kaine (Va.). The changes under discussion have included a filibuster carve-out for voting rights bills and some form of a “talking” filibuster. Based on comments by Manchin and Tester, the “talking filibuster” option appears to be the more favored change.
“Anytime there’s a carve-out, you eat the whole turkey,” Manchin said when asked about his opinion of a filibuster carve-out for voting rights.
Tester told reporters on Monday that he is “not crazy” about a carve-out and instead favors the return of some form of “talking filibuster.”
Still, Senate Democrats need Manchin’s and Sinema’s support to change the rules without Republican support, something Manchin said he still does not back at the moment.
Schumer promises that he will push for rules changes before the Jan. 17 Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday and after holding a test vote on voting rights legislation this week. Whether or not Manchin and Sinema, or other Democrats, vote for or against filibuster rules changes may ultimately be resolved in a vote on the floor of the Senate.
By Mike DeBonis January 13 at 10:09 AM PST Democrats’ hopes of finally pushing through voting rights legislation after months of Republican opposition appeared to be fatally wounded Thursday after Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) announced she would not support changing Senate rules that have long allowed a minority of senators to block legislation. Sinema’s position, outlined in a midday floor speech, echoed her previous public statements where she defended the filibuster, the Senate’s 60-vote supermajority rule, as a tool to facilitate bipartisan cooperation and guard against wild swings in federal policy. But the circumstances in which she reiterated it — as Senate Democratic leaders prepared to launch a decisive floor debate and less than an hour before President Biden was scheduled to arrive on Capitol Hill to deliver a final, forceful appeal for action — put an exclamation point on her party’s long and fruitless effort to counter restrictive Republican-passed state voting laws. “While I continue to support these bills, I will not support separate actions that worsen the underlying disease of division infecting our country,” Sinema said. She later added: “We must address the disease itself, the disease of division, to protect our democracy, and it cannot be achieved by one party alone. It cannot be achieved solely by the federal government. The response requires something greater and, yes, more difficult than what the Senate is discussing today.”
Oath Keepers Leader [AND OTHERS] Are Charged With SEDITION
Yes, Ch. SEDITION!
January 13, 2022 at 1:38 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 9 Comments
“Stewart Rhodes, the leader and founder of the far-right Oath Keepers militia, was arrested on Thursday and charged with seditious conspiracy for organizing a wide-ranging plot to storm the Capitol last Jan. 6 and disrupt the certification of Joe Biden’s electoral victory,” the New York Times reports.
Washington Post: “He is charged with seditious conspiracy, along with 10 other Oath Keepers members or associates.”
Thanks for correcting. Now explain how getting rid of voter ID "makes elections even more accurate and less susceptible to tampering and/or fraud claims."
If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2384
Brandon Shitpants is cratering in the polls, and suddenly the ante is being raise on the severity of the charges being lodged.
According to a recent poll, the most pressing concern of a majority of Americans is no longer our economy, or the virus, but the danger of having our democracy destroyed.
Conspiracy to commit sedition would be one way to attempt that.
Americans Split On Who Will Protect Right To Vote January 13, 2022 at 2:02 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 57 Comments
A new Quinnipiac poll finds Americans are split on which party in Congress is more likely to protect their right to vote with 45% saying the Democratic Party, 43% saying the Republican Party and 12% not offering an opinion. ________
Initial claims for state unemployment benefits increased 23,000 to a seasonally adjusted 230,000 for the week ended Jan. 8, the Labor Department said. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast 200,000 applications for the latest week.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the Biden administration's rule requiring larger businesses to ensure that workers receive the Covid vaccine or wear masks and get tested on a weekly basis.
But the court said a separate mandate requiring vaccinations for an estimated 20 million health care workers can be enforced.
But at least four Oath Keepers who were at the Capitol that day and are cooperating with the government have sworn in court papers that the group intended to breach the building with the goal of obstructing the final certification of the Electoral College vote.
Mr. Rhodes has also attracted the attention of the House select committee investigating Jan. 6, which issued him a subpoena in November. In a letter at the time, House investigators noted that Mr. Rhodes had taken part in several events intended to question the integrity of the 2020 presidential election throughout that fall and winter.
Surpreme Court Blocks Biden’s Vaccine Mandate For Big Businesses, but not for Health Facilities January 13, 2022 at 2:30 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 22 Comments
The Supreme Court blocked President Biden’s vaccine-or-test rule for large U.S. businesses, but allowed the vaccine mandate to stand for most federally-funded health care facilities, the AP reports.
New York Times: “The vote in the employer mandate case was 6 to 3, with liberal justices in dissent. The vote in the health care case was 5 to 4, with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh joining the liberal justices to form a majority.”
Stewart Rhodes, the leader and founder of the far-right Oath Keepers militia, was arrested on Thursday and charged with seditious conspiracy for organizing a wide-ranging plot to storm the Capitol last Jan. 6 and disrupt the certification of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s electoral victory, federal law enforcement officials said.
The arrest of Mr. Rhodes was a major step forward in the sprawling investigation of the Capitol attack and the case marked the first time that prosecutors had filed charges of sedition. According to his lawyer, Jonathon Moseley, Mr. Rhodes was arrested at shortly before 1 p.m.
In a letter at the time, House investigators noted that Mr. Rhodes had taken part in several events intended to question the integrity of the 2020 presidential election throughout that fall and winter.
Well it's high time we suspend his First Amendment rights post haste.
How dare he question the state!
“Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.”
- Benito Mussolini
What is the basic premise of fascism?
Fascism is a form of government in which most of the country's power is held by one ruler. ... Under fascism, the economy and other parts of society are heavily and closely controlled by the government, usually by using a form of authoritarian corporatism.
Orwell is laughing his fucking balls off right now.
In a letter at the time, House investigators noted that Mr. Rhodes had taken part in several events intended to question the integrity of the 2020 presidential election throughout that fall and winter.
intended to question the integrity of the 2020 presidential election
In a letter at the time, House investigators noted that Mr. Rhodes had taken part in several events intended to question the integrity of the 2020 presidential election throughout that fall and winter.
This is now a crime -
question the integrity of the 2020 presidential election
The Brandon regime is now making it a crime to question the integrity of our elections.
The last time sedition charges were brought in modern times, it was shot down by an adult judge who waived everything and provided an acquittal from the bench. I have no faith that the DC judges will be as mature, but even if these people are convicted of this (which no doubt a DC jury would do with or without evidence because they are all liberal Democrats who put politics ahead of the law)...
any sort of conviction will ultimately get overturned... at least if precedent and common sense takes hold.
But the more they charge people with crimes for being "at" the rally and extend out into these ridiculous charges, the more the American public is going to see it for what it is. A complete charade of hypocrisy by angry partisan liberals trying to protect their dear failing leader!
Want to "really" understand how Biden gets to 35% approval?
Let the games begin': Legal experts say new sedition charges prove a coup and insurrection on Jan. 6
Sarah K. Burris
January 13, 2022
In a major move Thursday, the Justice Department charged a member of the Oath Keepers and 10 others with seditious conspiracy. While many activists have called the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol an example of a "coup" or sedition, this is the first time that the DOJ has officially acknowledged that the incident is legally an attack on the U.S. government.
It is a conspiracy because more than one person was coordinating together, as Los Angeles Times legal affairs columnist Harry Litman explained.
Treason compared with sedition and insurrection are very different, as Jeff Nilsson explained in the Saturday Evening Post.
"While sedition is organized incitement to rebellion or civil disorder against the state’s authority, insurrection involves actual acts of violence against the state or its officers," he wrote a few weeks after the Jan. 6 attack. "Sedition and insurrection are quite distinct from treason, which is a violation of a citizen’s allegiance to the U.S. by betrayal or aiding the country’s enemies."
"A fully armed, trained, and organized force prepared to overturn the government by force to help Donald Trump," is the specific phrase the indictment says. It's something Above The Law's Bradley Moss called
Speaking to MSNBC, former federal prosecutor Joyce White Vance explained that none of these charges would have been brought if they didn't have all of the details.
Additional legal experts like Marcy Wheeler noted Oath Keeper Stewart Rhodes led many other members of the militia to believe that an Insurrection Act would be declared after Jan. 6.
NBC News White House Correspondent Josh Lederman also noted that he doesn't foresee Rhodes trying to make a plea deal. It may not be an option on the table if the Justice Department isn't interested and especially if Rhodes has information on anyone at the White House or a member of Congress.
Wheeler encouraged the other 10 Oath Keepers to flip against Rhodes as soon as they can.
statute (§2384):"If two or more persons ...conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the US, ...or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the US.."
Stewart Rhodes, the founder and leader of the Oath Keepers extremist group, has been indicted and charged with seditious conspiracy in the sprawling investigation into the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
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“Rhodes and certain co-conspirators, to include selected regional leaders, planned to stop the lawful transfer of presidential power by January 20, 2021, which included multiple ways to deploy force,” the grand jury alleged in a 48-page indictment, unsealed on Thursday. “They coordinated travel across the country to enter Washington, D.C., equipped themselves with a variety of weapons, donned combat and tactical gear, and were prepared to answer Rhodes’s call to take up arms at Rhodes’s direction.”
Seditious conspiracy, which is codified at 18 U.S.C. § 2384, is defined as (more context here and here):
If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
Previous indictments of Oath Keepers members described an elaborate plot to store a cache of weapons just outside of Washington, D.C., where a so-called “Quick Reaction Force” allegedly stood ready to deploy by boat over the Potomac River at former President Donald Trump’s direction.
The indictment shows Rhodes signing off on the so-called “QRF.”
“We WILL have a QRF, this situation calls for it,” Rhodes commanded in an encrypted message, according to prosecutors.
Prosecutors allege that Rhodes started hatching his conspiracy by sending a message to an “invitation-only, end-to-end encrypted group chat” on Nov. 5, 2020, two days after Election Day.
Giving the chat room the name “Leadership intel sharing secured,” Rhodes urged his followers to refuse to accept Trump’s defeat and said: “We aren’t getting through this without a civil war. Too late for that. Prepare your mind, body, spirit.”
When Trump’s loss was widely projected on Nov. 7, Rhodes continued: “[W]e must now do what the people of Serbia did when [Slobodan] Milosevic stole their election. Refuse to accept it and march en-mass on the nation’s Capitol.” The Serbian autocrat died before he could be tried on 66 counts of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
Like Trump, Milosevic peddled false claims of election fraud.
Prosecutors say that Rhodes sent a link to a Bitchute.com video titled “STEP BY STEP PROCEDURE, HOW WE WON WHEN MILOSEVIC STOLE OUR ELECTIONS,” sending his fellow militia members the
“I am in direct context with the Serbian author of that video. His videos are excellent. Here is his written advice to us:
“- Peaceful protests, good, well played round 1
– A complete civil disobedience, they are not your representatives. They are FOREIGN puppet government.
– Connect with the local police and start organize by neighborhoods to stay safe (we didn’t need this step)
– We swarmed the streets and started confronting the opponents. I know, not nice, but it must be done if the institutions stop to exist
– Millions gathered in our capital. There were no barricades strong enough to stop them, nor the police determined enough to stop them
– Police and Military aligned with the people after few hours of fistfight
– We stormed the Parliament
– And burned down fake state Television!
WE WON!”
On Nov. 10, 2020, Rhodes alleged published a plan of action under the headline “WHAT WE THE PEOPLE MUST DO” on the Oath Keepers website in a “Call to Action!”
Rhodes’s bloodthirsty messages continued the next month with a message to an invitation-only Signal chat for Oath Keepers in a room titled “Dec. 12 DC Security/Leadership,” whose participants included Roger Stone’s reported security guards Joshua James and Roberto Minuta, prosecutors say.
In the chat, Rhodes said if then-President Elect Biden were to assume the presidency, “It will be a bloody and desperate fight. We are going to have a fight. That can’t be avoided.”
Now part of an 11-person conspiracy case, Rhodes faces up to 20 years imprisonment if convicted of that seditious conspiracy count. Seven other alleged Oath Keepers members are being prosecuted separately, and another is being prosecuted individually.
The Coming Coup: How Republicans Are Laying the Groundwork to Steal Future ElectionsDemocrats are nearly out of time to stop them.
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A week before the ninth anniversary of her son’s murder, Rep. Lucy McBath (D-Ga.) discovered that Republicans had radically redrawn her district to oust her from Congress.
A political novice, McBath had become a leading gun control advocate after her 17-year-old son, Jordan Davis, was shot by a white man in 2012 in an altercation over the volume of rap music he was playing. She went on to stage one of the biggest electoral upsets in Georgia’s recent history when, in 2018, she became the first Black person to represent the state’s 6th District, Newt Gingrich’s home turf for 20 years. Her victory exemplified Democratic inroads in formerly red states like Georgia and the new power being exercised by communities of color in the rapidly diversifying South. But those gains are quickly being erased by the GOP through a toxic combination of gerrymandering, voter suppression, and election subversion that together pose a mortal threat to free and fair elections.
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Georgia is a microcosm of the extreme tactics Republicans are using across the country to entrench power in advance of the midterms. What can appear as a series of seemingly disconnected state-level skirmishes is in fact part of an insidious national strategy that goes far beyond previous efforts to suppress and undermine Democratic influence. Fueled by the Big Lie, this effort picks up where last year’s insurrection left off by putting in place the pieces to steal future elections by systematically taking over every aspect of the voting process.
Over the course of 2021, 19 states passed 34 laws making it harder to vote—the greatest rollback of voting access since the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Those changes include more than a dozen GOP-controlled states passing new provisions to interfere with impartial election administration, while Trump and his allies aggressively recruit “Stop the Steal”–inspired candidates to take over key election positions like secretary of state offices and local election boards in major battleground states.
“What we’re seeing is a multifaceted, multilevel attack on American democracy,” says Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, chair of the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State.
McBath’s district is a striking case in point: Under a new redistricting map crafted by Georgia Republicans, her diverse suburban Atlanta seat—where moderate white voters joined an influx of Black, Latino, and Asian American residents to elect her—would now stretch all the way to the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, with Republicans adding three deeply red and predominantly white counties—Forsyth, Dawson, and Cherokee—where Donald Trump won 70 percent of the vote. (Forsyth is infamous for forcing its more than 1,000 Black residents to leave after a Black man was lynched in 1912.) Her district would go from one that favored Biden by 11 points to one that Trump would have won by 15, one of the most drastic transformations of any district in the country.
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Just to show how depraved and cynical the left truly is, even if they did manage to codify voter fraud into law, it never passes Constitutional muster, and they know this. They also know that they would get away with it in the mid-terms because there simply would not be enough time for the courts to hear the case.
Democrats are THAT evil.
Bidenomics
#2 yellow corn, this is the feed corn feed to every animal on the farm and low income Americans buy it to eat too.
Biden = 2021 = $5.75
Trump = 2020 = $3.63
2022 current price = $ 6 01 (spot).
"...to federalize elections..."
Rightwing propaganda.
More correct would be, "to make elections even more accurate and less susceptible to tampering and/or fraud claims."
That effects prices of meat across the board going forward.
Producer Price Index showed Inflation is still rising.
How do we need to describe this news?
Disappointing
unExpected?
Stewart Rhodes — founder and leader of the extremist group Oath Keepers, whose members are accused of being key players in the Jan. 6 attack on Congress — has been indicted and arrested, people familiar with the matter said Thursday.
The 56-year-old, who was at the Capitol that day but has said he did not enter the building, is the most high-profile person charged in the investigation so far. He is charged with seditious conspiracy, along with 10 other Oath Keepers members or associates, said the people familiar with the investigation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing probe.
Rhodes was arrested Thursday, after a federal grand jury leveled new charges focusing on what prosecutors say is a core group of Oath Keepers adherents who allegedly planned for and participated in obstructing Congress on the day lawmakers certified President Biden’s 2020 election victory.
Charges are expected to be unsealed later Thursday.
In interviews with The Washington Post over the past year, Rhodes — a former Army paratrooper and Yale Law graduate who has become one of the most visible figures of the far-right anti-government movement — has repeatedly denied wrongdoing.
He said he was communicating with members of his group in an effort to “keep them out of trouble,” and emphasized that Oath Keepers associates who did go in “went totally off mission.”
An earlier indictment charged 19 of the extremist group’s alleged adherents with conspiracy and aiding and abetting the obstruction of Congress. Two of those individuals have pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with investigators. The rest have pleaded not guilty and are preparing for trials later this year.
Producer Price Index up 9.7 percent.
Bidenomics complete fail.
Joe Manchin Lays Out Filibuster Changes He Supports
Paul Blumenthal
Tue, January 11, 2022, 2:00 PM·3
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) outlined changes to the Senate’s filibuster rules that he would support, but remained steadfast in his opposition to getting rid of the filibuster entirely in comments to congressional reporters on Tuesday.
Manchin’s comments come as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) reiterated his commitment to hold another vote as early as Wednesday on federal voting rights legislation supported by all 50 members of the Senate Democratic Caucus before pushing for filibuster changes if Republicans again block consideration of the legislation.
With nearly all Republicans opposed to both the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, Democrats would need to change the filibuster rules to enact both bills. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.) and Manchin remain the only two Democratic senators openly opposed to eliminating the filibuster in order to pass voting rights legislation that they support.
Manchin told PBS NewsHour reporter Lisa DesJardins on Tuesday that he supports a raft of rules changes to make the Senate “work better.” These include getting rid of the filibuster to begin debate on legislation, also known as the motion to proceed, changing the threshold to end a filibuster from 60 votes to three-fifths present and requiring a talking filibuster with senators limited to two speeches each.
“I’m not for breaking the filibuster, but I am for making the place work better by changing the rules,” Manchin said.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is one of two Democratic senators openly opposed to eliminating the filibuster to pass voting rights legislation.
These changes would not necessarily allow for legislation like the voter rights bills currently blocked by GOP filibusters to pass, but filibuster reform and voting rights advocates are still encouraged by Manchin’s willingness to publicly back some kind of change.
“It is very encouraging to hear Sen. Manchin state so clearly that the filibuster is being abused and that the rules need to be updated and reformed,” Eli Zupnick, communications director for the filibuster reform coalition Fix Our Senate, said in an email. “Now we’re hopeful that he’ll keep working with Leader Schumer and others to get this done in a way that ends Sen. McConnell’s obstruction and allows popular legislation to get a full debate and then an up-or-down vote.”
Manchin remains in negotiations on potential filibuster reforms with Sens. Angus King (Maine), Jon Tester (Mont.) and Tim Kaine (Va.). The changes under discussion have included a filibuster carve-out for voting rights bills and some form of a “talking” filibuster. Based on comments by Manchin and Tester, the “talking filibuster” option appears to be the more favored change.
“Anytime there’s a carve-out, you eat the whole turkey,” Manchin said when asked about his opinion of a filibuster carve-out for voting rights.
Tester told reporters on Monday that he is “not crazy” about a carve-out and instead favors the return of some form of “talking filibuster.”
Still, Senate Democrats need Manchin’s and Sinema’s support to change the rules without Republican support, something Manchin said he still does not back at the moment.
Schumer promises that he will push for rules changes before the Jan. 17 Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday and after holding a test vote on voting rights legislation this week. Whether or not Manchin and Sinema, or other Democrats, vote for or against filibuster rules changes may ultimately be resolved in a vote on the floor of the Senate.
Bidenomics strong growth in this area.
Initial jobless claims (regular state program) Jan. 8, ^230,000^ up
By Mike DeBonis
January 13 at 10:09 AM PST
Democrats’ hopes of finally pushing through voting rights legislation after months of Republican opposition appeared to be fatally wounded Thursday after Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) announced she would not support changing Senate rules that have long allowed a minority of senators to block legislation.
Sinema’s position, outlined in a midday floor speech, echoed her previous public statements where she defended the filibuster, the Senate’s 60-vote supermajority rule, as a tool to facilitate bipartisan cooperation and guard against wild swings in federal policy.
But the circumstances in which she reiterated it — as Senate Democratic leaders prepared to launch a decisive floor debate and less than an hour before President Biden was scheduled to arrive on Capitol Hill to deliver a final, forceful appeal for action — put an exclamation point on her party’s long and fruitless effort to counter restrictive Republican-passed state voting laws.
“While I continue to support these bills, I will not support separate actions that worsen the underlying disease of division infecting our country,” Sinema said.
She later added: “We must address the disease itself, the disease of division, to protect our democracy, and it cannot be achieved by one party alone. It cannot be achieved solely by the federal government. The response requires something greater and, yes, more difficult than what the Senate is discussing today.”
The slow motion coup is still ongoing
Oath Keepers Leader [AND OTHERS] Are Charged With SEDITION
Yes, Ch. SEDITION!
January 13, 2022 at 1:38 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 9 Comments
“Stewart Rhodes, the leader and founder of the far-right Oath Keepers militia, was arrested on Thursday and charged with seditious conspiracy for organizing a wide-ranging plot to storm the Capitol last Jan. 6 and disrupt the certification of Joe Biden’s electoral victory,” the New York Times reports.
Washington Post:
“He is charged with seditious conspiracy, along with 10 other Oath Keepers members or associates.”
Honest, decent, truth telling Reverend said...
"...to federalize elections..."
Rightwing propaganda.
More correct would be, "to make elections even more accurate and less susceptible to tampering and/or fraud claims."
How does getting rid of voter ID accomplish this or is this just another in your constant string of lies ?
“He is charged with seditious conspiracy, along with 10 other Oath Keepers members or associates.”
Ch will be SO upset.
Ever since I registered many years ago here in IL, I have neved had to identify myself to vote except with my signature.
Why should laws be passed otherwise? Just to discriminate against minorities?
So seditious conspiracy and not sedition.
Thanks for correcting.
Now explain how getting rid of voter ID "makes elections even more accurate and less susceptible to tampering and/or fraud claims."
I don't think you are telling the truth.
ROFLMFAO!!!
Here, read the actual charges.
These are the actual legal papers.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1462481/download?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery
__________
Technically, you could only be charged with sedition if you actually succeeded in causing sedition to happen.
So attempting to bring about sedition is the best loser Trump and his loser followers can be charged with.
CNBC finally gets it.
The Three Socialist Stooges of CHT don't get it.
Biuld Back Broke
"PERSONAL FINANCE
"Despite higher wages, inflation gave the average worker a 2.4% pay cut last year"
Sen Senima basically just told Schumer I do not support blowing up the filibuster and don't fuckin ask me again.
"Technically, you could only be charged with sedition if you actually succeeded in causing sedition to happen."
So when you said
"Oath Keepers Leader [AND OTHERS] Are Charged With SEDITION
Yes, Ch. SEDITION"
So you were technically lying
Again.
Thanks
Hilarious -
18 U.S. Code § 2384 - Seditious conspiracy
U.S. Code
If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2384
Brandon Shitpants is cratering in the polls, and suddenly the ante is being raise on the severity of the charges being lodged.
LMAO.
According to a recent poll, the most pressing concern of a majority of Americans is no longer our economy, or the virus, but the danger of having our democracy destroyed.
Conspiracy to commit sedition would be one way to attempt that.
How does getting rid of voter ID accomplish this or is this just another in your constant string of lies ?
All he does is lie
I never lie.
So you were technically lying
Again.
Thanks
It's pathological
Americans Split On Who Will Protect Right To Vote
January 13, 2022 at 2:02 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 57 Comments
A new Quinnipiac poll finds Americans are split on which party in Congress is more likely to protect their right to vote with 45% saying the Democratic Party, 43% saying the Republican Party and 12% not offering an opinion.
________
That 12% will break to the Dems. :-)
UNEXPECTEDLY!!!
Initial claims for state unemployment benefits increased 23,000 to a seasonally adjusted 230,000 for the week ended Jan. 8, the Labor Department said. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast 200,000 applications for the latest week.
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/jobless-claims-unexpectedly-rise/
The Biden team, once called the "A Team" of Economics by James, are getting an "F" grade.
This is a lie.
"I never lie" James
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the Biden administration's rule requiring larger businesses to ensure that workers receive the Covid vaccine or wear masks and get tested on a weekly basis.
But the court said a separate mandate requiring vaccinations for an estimated 20 million health care workers can be enforced.
Scott thinks that they are traitors to Trump!
But at least four Oath Keepers who were at the Capitol that day and are cooperating with the government have sworn in court papers that the group intended to breach the building with the goal of obstructing the final certification of the Electoral College vote.
Mr. Rhodes has also attracted the attention of the House select committee investigating Jan. 6, which issued him a subpoena in November. In a letter at the time, House investigators noted that Mr. Rhodes had taken part in several events intended to question the integrity of the 2020 presidential election throughout that fall and winter.
But the court said a separate mandate requiring vaccinations for an estimated 20 million health care workers can be enforced.
So...
20 million Americans will be fully vaxxed when they contract Covid ANYWAY.
LMAO!
Fucking Brandon. Always on top of the meaningless shit.
Surpreme Court Blocks Biden’s Vaccine Mandate For Big Businesses, but not for Health Facilities
January 13, 2022 at 2:30 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 22 Comments
The Supreme Court blocked President Biden’s vaccine-or-test rule for large U.S. businesses, but allowed the vaccine mandate to stand for most federally-funded health care facilities, the AP reports.
New York Times:
“The vote in the employer mandate case was 6 to 3, with liberal justices in dissent. The vote in the health care case was 5 to 4, with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh joining the liberal justices to form a majority.”
Stewart Rhodes, the leader and founder of the far-right Oath Keepers militia, was arrested on Thursday and charged with seditious conspiracy for organizing a wide-ranging plot to storm the Capitol last Jan. 6 and disrupt the certification of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s electoral victory, federal law enforcement officials said.
The arrest of Mr. Rhodes was a major step forward in the sprawling investigation of the Capitol attack and the case marked the first time that prosecutors had filed charges of sedition. According to his lawyer, Jonathon Moseley, Mr. Rhodes was arrested at shortly before 1 p.m.
In a letter at the time, House investigators noted that Mr. Rhodes had taken part in several events intended to question the integrity of the 2020 presidential election throughout that fall and winter.
Well it's high time we suspend his First Amendment rights post haste.
How dare he question the state!
“Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.”
- Benito Mussolini
What is the basic premise of fascism?
Fascism is a form of government in which most of the country's power is held by one ruler. ... Under fascism, the economy and other parts of society are heavily and closely controlled by the government, usually by using a form of authoritarian corporatism.
Orwell is laughing his fucking balls off right now.
force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States,
force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, sedition
CNBC finally gets it.
The Three Socialist Stooges of CHT don't get it.
Biuld Back Broke
"PERSONAL FINANCE
"Despite higher wages, inflation gave the average worker a 2.4% pay cut last year"
This is a chilling milestone.
The Brandon regime is now making it a crime to question the integrity of our elections.
Can the Biden Economic team stop executing the poor?
In a letter at the time, House investigators noted that Mr. Rhodes had taken part in several events intended to question the integrity of the 2020 presidential election throughout that fall and winter.
intended to question the integrity of the 2020 presidential election
This is now a crime.
Let that sink in.
In a letter at the time, House investigators noted that Mr. Rhodes had taken part in several events intended to question the integrity of the 2020 presidential election throughout that fall and winter.
This is now a crime -
question the integrity of the 2020 presidential election
Let that sink in.
USSC. Bitch slapped Bradon.
"Supreme Court blocks Biden OSHA vaccine mandate"
But the court said a separate mandate requiring vaccinations for an estimated 20 million health care workers can be enforced.
So we are going to get treatment from nursing school dropouts who are willing to get jabbed???
Brilliant
The Brandon regime is now making it a crime to question the integrity of our elections.
The last time sedition charges were brought in modern times, it was shot down by an adult judge who waived everything and provided an acquittal from the bench. I have no faith that the DC judges will be as mature, but even if these people are convicted of this (which no doubt a DC jury would do with or without evidence because they are all liberal Democrats who put politics ahead of the law)...
any sort of conviction will ultimately get overturned... at least if precedent and common sense takes hold.
But the more they charge people with crimes for being "at" the rally and extend out into these ridiculous charges, the more the American public is going to see it for what it is. A complete charade of hypocrisy by angry partisan liberals trying to protect their dear failing leader!
Want to "really" understand how Biden gets to 35% approval?
This is how!
You dumb fuck. I posted the actual statute an hour ago.
https://www.rawstory.com/oath-keepers-sedition-indictment-legal/
Let the games begin': Legal experts say new sedition charges prove a coup and insurrection on Jan. 6
Sarah K. Burris
January 13, 2022
In a major move Thursday, the Justice Department charged a member of the Oath Keepers and 10 others with seditious conspiracy. While many activists have called the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol an example of a "coup" or sedition, this is the first time that the DOJ has officially acknowledged that the incident is legally an attack on the U.S. government.
It is a conspiracy because more than one person was coordinating together, as Los Angeles Times legal affairs columnist Harry Litman explained.
Treason compared with sedition and insurrection are very different, as Jeff Nilsson explained in the Saturday Evening Post.
"While sedition is organized incitement to rebellion or civil disorder against the state’s authority, insurrection involves actual acts of violence against the state or its officers," he wrote a few weeks after the Jan. 6 attack. "Sedition and insurrection are quite distinct from treason, which is a violation of a citizen’s allegiance to the U.S. by betrayal or aiding the country’s enemies."
"A fully armed, trained, and organized force prepared to overturn the government by force to help Donald Trump," is the specific phrase the indictment says. It's something Above The Law's Bradley Moss called
Speaking to MSNBC, former federal prosecutor Joyce White Vance explained that none of these charges would have been brought if they didn't have all of the details.
Additional legal experts like Marcy Wheeler noted Oath Keeper Stewart Rhodes led many other members of the militia to believe that an Insurrection Act would be declared after Jan. 6.
NBC News White House Correspondent Josh Lederman also noted that he doesn't foresee Rhodes trying to make a plea deal. It may not be an option on the table if the Justice Department isn't interested and especially if Rhodes has information on anyone at the White House or a member of Congress.
Wheeler encouraged the other 10 Oath Keepers to flip against Rhodes as soon as they can.
statute (§2384):"If two or more persons ...conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the US, ...or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the US.."
Law and Crime website
Stewart Rhodes, the founder and leader of the Oath Keepers extremist group, has been indicted and charged with seditious conspiracy in the sprawling investigation into the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
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“Rhodes and certain co-conspirators, to include selected regional leaders, planned to stop the lawful transfer of presidential power by January 20, 2021, which included multiple ways to deploy force,” the grand jury alleged in a 48-page indictment, unsealed on Thursday. “They coordinated travel across the country to enter Washington, D.C., equipped themselves with a variety of weapons, donned combat and tactical gear, and were prepared to answer Rhodes’s call to take up arms at Rhodes’s direction.”
Seditious conspiracy, which is codified at 18 U.S.C. § 2384, is defined as (more context here and here):
If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
Previous indictments of Oath Keepers members described an elaborate plot to store a cache of weapons just outside of Washington, D.C., where a so-called “Quick Reaction Force” allegedly stood ready to deploy by boat over the Potomac River at former President Donald Trump’s direction.
The indictment shows Rhodes signing off on the so-called “QRF.”
“We WILL have a QRF, this situation calls for it,” Rhodes commanded in an encrypted message, according to prosecutors.
Prosecutors allege that Rhodes started hatching his conspiracy by sending a message to an “invitation-only, end-to-end encrypted group chat” on Nov. 5, 2020, two days after Election Day.
Giving the chat room the name “Leadership intel sharing secured,” Rhodes urged his followers to refuse to accept Trump’s defeat and said: “We aren’t getting through this without a civil war. Too late for that. Prepare your mind, body, spirit.”
When Trump’s loss was widely projected on Nov. 7, Rhodes continued: “[W]e must now do what the people of Serbia did when [Slobodan] Milosevic stole their election. Refuse to accept it and march en-mass on the nation’s Capitol.” The Serbian autocrat died before he could be tried on 66 counts of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
Like Trump, Milosevic peddled false claims of election fraud.
Prosecutors say that Rhodes sent a link to a Bitchute.com video titled “STEP BY STEP PROCEDURE, HOW WE WON WHEN MILOSEVIC STOLE OUR ELECTIONS,” sending his fellow militia members the
“I am in direct context with the Serbian author of that video. His videos are excellent. Here is his written advice to us:
“- Peaceful protests, good, well played round 1
– A complete civil disobedience, they are not your representatives. They are FOREIGN puppet government.
– Connect with the local police and start organize by neighborhoods to stay safe (we didn’t need this step)
– We swarmed the streets and started confronting the opponents. I know, not nice, but it must be done if the institutions stop to exist
– Millions gathered in our capital. There were no barricades strong enough to stop them, nor the police determined enough to stop them
– Police and Military aligned with the people after few hours of fistfight
– We stormed the Parliament
– And burned down fake state Television!
WE WON!”
On Nov. 10, 2020, Rhodes alleged published a plan of action under the headline “WHAT WE THE PEOPLE MUST DO” on the Oath Keepers website in a “Call to Action!”
Rhodes’s bloodthirsty messages continued the next month with a message to an invitation-only Signal chat for Oath Keepers in a room titled “Dec. 12 DC Security/Leadership,” whose participants included Roger Stone’s reported security guards Joshua James and Roberto Minuta, prosecutors say.
In the chat, Rhodes said if then-President Elect Biden were to assume the presidency, “It will be a bloody and desperate fight. We are going to have a fight. That can’t be avoided.”
Now part of an 11-person conspiracy case, Rhodes faces up to 20 years imprisonment if convicted of that seditious conspiracy count. Seven other alleged Oath Keepers members are being prosecuted separately, and another is being prosecuted individually.
This is a developing story.
The lawyers on MSNBC said that charges like this take time.
You can read the indictment without downloading it.
https://lawandcrime.com/u-s-capitol-breach/oath-keepers-founder-and-leader-stewart-rhodes-indicted-in-first-seditious-conspiracy-case-in-jan-6-siege/?utm_source=mostpopular
They might eventually indict Trump
You really got him this time alky!!!11!
Beginning of the end with those bombshell walls closing in!!!
LOL.
The Coming Coup: How Republicans Are Laying the Groundwork to Steal Future ElectionsDemocrats are nearly out of time to stop them.
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A week before the ninth anniversary of her son’s murder, Rep. Lucy McBath (D-Ga.) discovered that Republicans had radically redrawn her district to oust her from Congress.
A political novice, McBath had become a leading gun control advocate after her 17-year-old son, Jordan Davis, was shot by a white man in 2012 in an altercation over the volume of rap music he was playing. She went on to stage one of the biggest electoral upsets in Georgia’s recent history when, in 2018, she became the first Black person to represent the state’s 6th District, Newt Gingrich’s home turf for 20 years. Her victory exemplified Democratic inroads in formerly red states like Georgia and the new power being exercised by communities of color in the rapidly diversifying South. But those gains are quickly being erased by the GOP through a toxic combination of gerrymandering, voter suppression, and election subversion that together pose a mortal threat to free and fair elections.
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Georgia is a microcosm of the extreme tactics Republicans are using across the country to entrench power in advance of the midterms. What can appear as a series of seemingly disconnected state-level skirmishes is in fact part of an insidious national strategy that goes far beyond previous efforts to suppress and undermine Democratic influence. Fueled by the Big Lie, this effort picks up where last year’s insurrection left off by putting in place the pieces to steal future elections by systematically taking over every aspect of the voting process.
Over the course of 2021, 19 states passed 34 laws making it harder to vote—the greatest rollback of voting access since the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Those changes include more than a dozen GOP-controlled states passing new provisions to interfere with impartial election administration, while Trump and his allies aggressively recruit “Stop the Steal”–inspired candidates to take over key election positions like secretary of state offices and local election boards in major battleground states.
“What we’re seeing is a multifaceted, multilevel attack on American democracy,” says Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, chair of the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State.
McBath’s district is a striking case in point: Under a new redistricting map crafted by Georgia Republicans, her diverse suburban Atlanta seat—where moderate white voters joined an influx of Black, Latino, and Asian American residents to elect her—would now stretch all the way to the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, with Republicans adding three deeply red and predominantly white counties—Forsyth, Dawson, and Cherokee—where Donald Trump won 70 percent of the vote. (Forsyth is infamous for forcing its more than 1,000 Black residents to leave after a Black man was lynched in 1912.) Her district would go from one that favored Biden by 11 points to one that Trump would have won by 15, one of the most drastic transformations of any district in the country.
The lawyers on MSNBC
Now that is a knee slapper Roger!
I found a list of actual legal analysts from MSNBC...
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