Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-Fla.), a member of the January 6th Select Committee, discusses the "credible and courageous" testimony by Cassidy Hutchinson on Tuesday. The testimony "gave color" to existing witness testimony, Murphy said.
So let's ignore the fact that Hutchinson has no actual memories of much of anything she testified to. The memories in this case are from others. She is repeating stories.
Jan 6 Committee Released Video of President Trump grabbing the steering wheel. pic.twitter.com/pmuSv6LuM6
— Terrence K. Williams (@w_terrence) June 30, 2022
Now Ornato was said to be "shocked" when he heard various parts of Hutchinson's testimony and along with the Secret Service agents in question would like to go on record to get the story straight. At this point, I doubt there is much to gain from this and I wouldn't be surprised if we never do hear any rebuttal.
But here is the reality:
Only the Ornato and the Secret Service agents have an actual memory of these events. Because Hutchinson was not actually there, she cannot possibly have her own memories. So this isn't a question of whose memory is better, but of who is in a position to actually say what happened. Hutchinson is in no such position to know (much less testify to her knowledge), regardless of whether she has a photographic memory or a bad one.
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Those agents are 20 year guys who served both dem and republican presidents. They're far from Trump buddies.
The Supreme Court agreed on Thursday to hear a North Carolina gerrymandering case that could hand state legislatures the sole power on how to conduct elections, a proposition that led one voting rights scholar to warn it is “extremely dangerous.”
The case, Moore v. Harper, challenges a decision by the North Carolina Supreme Court invalidating the maps of the state’s GOP-dominated General Assembly for partisan gerrymandering. Legislators, led by Rep. Tim Moore (R), argued that their branch of government has the power of conducting “Times, Places and Manner of holding elections” under the U.S. Constitution, a notion commonly known as the independent state legislature theory. The challengers’ case posits that this power trumps that of the courts to decide that their actions violate state constitutions or results in unfair maps.
That was a theory openly pushed by pro-Trump attorneys like John Eastman in seeking to overturn President Joe Biden’s victories in key states like Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, and Pennsylvania. Indeed, Eastman’s six-page plan to overturn Donald Trump’s defeat, sometimes described as the “coup memo,” started with that proposition.
“Article II, § 1, cl. 2 of the U.S. Constitution assigns to the legislatures of the states the plenary power to determine the manner for choosing presidential electors,” the memo began.
James A. Gardner, a professor and election law scholar at the University at Buffalo School of Law, told Law&Crime that proponents of the independent state legislature theory go even further than that—vesting state legislatures with the “exclusive” power.
“It is thus an unchecked institution,” Gardner noted.
Moore, the speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives and lead plaintiff in the case the Supreme Court agreed to hear, amplified Trump’s false election fraud claims. On Nov. 12, Moore tweeted out photographs of his trip to Pennsylvania for the so-called “ballot count oversight and elections integrity effort,” posing next to signs reading “STOP THE STEAL” and “Fraud Squad Welcome!”
In 2020, at least four justices on the Supreme Court’s right flank appeared to embrace the independent state legislature theory: Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, in a pair of statements on the emergency docket.
Election law expert Rick Hasen, a professor at the University of California at Irvine, wrote in a blog post that the case “could provide a path to election subversion.”
“This extreme position would essentially neuter the development of any laws protecting voters more broadly than the federal constitution based on voting rights provisions in state constitutions,” Hasen said.
Joshua Douglas, an election law professor at University of Kentucky, told Law&Crime that Moore v. Harper is an “extremely dangerous case in that it could take away state constitutional limits on state legislatures when they enact restrictive voting rules.”
“Already, U.S. Supreme Court interpretation of the right to vote is unduly narrow,” Douglas wrote in an email. “Advocates have rightly gone to state courts, seeking to use the broader protection of voting in state constitutions to protect voters. This doctrine would gut that state-level protection by saying that state legislatures are essentially free actors when enacting election rules for federal elections.”
Gardner, the University at Buffalo School of Law professor, put it more bluntly.
“It could mean that there are now four votes in support of the independent state legislature doctrine,” Gardner told Law&Crime. “More broadly, it is an opportunity for a court that has now openly abandoned its commitment to liberal democracy to improve the odds that the Republican Party, a minoritarian, illiberal, and authoritarian party, to seize power.”
The case will be heard when the court’s term begins in October.
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A reporter who has written a book on the Secret Service shredded the credibility of a former agent who has pushed back against Cassidy Hutchinson's bombshell testimony.
The former White House aide testified that Tony Ornato, who moved from the Secret Service to deputy chief of staff, told her that Donald Trump became irate when his security detail would not take him to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and lunged for the steering wheel of his armored SUV and physically attacked his lead agent, and Washington Post reporter Carol Leonnig poured cold water on his denials.
"This is a person who worked as President Trump's security detail leader, and the boss liked him so much he installed him in a political White House job," Leonnig told MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "That broke every Secret Service tradition in the book because he stayed as a Secret Service employee, but Trump essentially had him directing the Secret Service to make sure that all of its campaigns events, all of his photo ops, everything that he wanted to do to get re-elected went off without a hitch."
"That included paid rallies that caused COVID surges and included the forcible clearing of peaceful protesters from Lafayette Square," Leonnig continued. "Tony was the secret hand behind all of that, and that is what Trump wanted. Trump White House staffers and Secret Service agents have told me repeatedly, he's a Trump acolyte. He will defend the president to the end, and he remains in contact with Trumpworld, so I want to stress that also Tony Ornato has indicated that this story Cassidy Hutchinson told didn't happen. Well, Tony Ornato said a lot of things didn't happen. He tried to say to the press and to me indirectly that the clearing of Lafayette Square was not done for President Trump's photo op, that's not true. He was at the center of that, so I take the points because they're saying in their experience, things that we reported, Tony tried to deny."
"The Secret Service often tries to deny things that are unflattering, and then when the rubber hits the road, we learn there is a little bit more to it," Leonnig added. "I want to give everyone the benefit of the doubt, and if Tony Ornato testified under oath that he exaggerated this story and it didn't happen in the limo, forgive me, in the Suburban on Jan. 6, as she relayed, then that is important and we should take that seriously."
https://www.rawstory.com/tony-ornato/
Discrediting every single bad news thing about Trump happens every day here
LOL.
A complete hack from the DNC steno pool has "discredited" a Secret Service Agent - someone charged with taking a bullet for the President if necessary.
LMAO @ the alky.
THWAP!!!
The Jan. 6 committee has continued to insist that they found Hutchinson’s testimony credible and invited those who would dispute her to come forward and give sworn testimony. And former co-workers in the White House came to Hutchinson’s defense, saying that she would have been in close proximity to the president and privy to the kind of information she testified about.
Separately, Eric Herschmann, a former Trump White House lawyer who has provided damning testimony about Trump’s plot to overturn the election, is now saying that he wrote a handwritten note as the violence unfolded at the Capitol — not Hutchinson, as she testified.
“Anyone who entered the Capitol without proper authority should leave immediately,” read the note, which was written on chief of staff Mark Meadows’ stationery and intended for Trump to release as rioters stormed the Capitol.
“The handwritten note that Cassidy Hutchinson testified was written by her was in fact written by Eric Herschmann on January 6, 2021,” a Herschmann spokesperson said. “All sources with direct knowledge and law enforcement have and will confirm that it was written by Mr. Herschmann.”
Hutchinson, who had served as a top aide to Meadows, testified publicly that she was sure she had written the note and that it featured her handwriting.
A Jan. 6 committee spokesman said the panel "found Ms. Hutchinson’s account of this matter credible.“
“While we understand that she and Mr. Herschmann may have differing recollections of who wrote the note, what’s ultimately important is that both White House officials believed that the president should have immediately instructed his supporters to leave the Capitol building," the spokesman said. "The note memorialized this. But Mr. Trump did not take that action at the time.”
Taken together, the pair of discrepancies have chipped at Hutchinson’s credibility as Trump disparaged her in a series of posts on his social media platform, Truth Social.
Before Herschmann’s statement, Trump also criticized the handwriting on the note as “that of a Whacko.”
SO IS TRUMP CALLING HERSCHMANN A WHACKO [now that Herschmann is claiming to have written it?]
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I should think handwriting experts could solve this... it's a very hastily dashed off looking note.
lol
Reverend...
That fact that what people are talking about is who is lying and who is not is exactly the sort of situation that this commission should be avoiding.
As pointed out Hutchinson was a 23 year aid to Meadows. She was providing hearsay testimony that the Jan 6th commission has now admitted that they never vetted.
I seriously doubt this is what they expected to come out of this "surprise" hearing.
That being said, the testimony was supposedly intriguing to those few who watched... but such is the game when there is no cross examination or any actual rules other than a one sided manner to create a narrative.
So realistically the cross examination and rebuttal won't come until after the hearing... in this case she was a witness who looked great on direct and then the story falls apart on cross....
More to the point, if 70% or 80% of what she stated was true... it seems extremely short-sighted and stupid of the committee to have her testify to the other stuff that wasn't (especially if they had not vetted anything).
This was sloppy...
and it will only really resonate with people like you and Roger long term...
The committee has invited anyone who wants to dispute anything she said to come forward and give sworn testimony under oath, as she did.
WASHINGTON, June 30 (Reuters) - The congressional panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack may make a criminal referral to the Justice Department recommending that anybody who tried to influence testimony be prosecuted, Representative Liz Cheney said in an interview broadcast on Thursday.
The witness-tampering issue emerged during the Jan. 6 select committee's sixth hearing on Tuesday, when Cheney revealed that some witnesses reported receiving veiled threats from allies of former President Donald Trump to do "the right thing."
The committee has invited anyone who wants to dispute anything she said to come forward and give sworn testimony under oath, as she did.
Well there you have it.
The Secret Service is willing to testify and the committee is inviting anyone...
One question, Reverend.
Who actually controls that?
Because James and I are rational.
WASHINGTON, June 30 (Reuters) - The congressional panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack may make a criminal referral to the Justice Department recommending that anybody who tried to influence testimony be prosecuted, Representative Liz Cheney said in an interview broadcast on Thursday.
The witness-tampering issue emerged during the Jan. 6 select committee's sixth hearing on Tuesday, when Cheney revealed that some witnesses reported receiving veiled threats from allies of former President Donald Trump to do "the right thing."
Well, if a secret service person offers to come forward and is denied that opportunity, don't you think he and others would start screaming about it?
lol
As in YOU INVITED ME AND THEN PREVENTED ME!!!!
As in YOU INVITED ME AND THEN PREVENTED ME!!!!
What hearing and date and which specific agents are scheduled, Reverend?
After all, that is controlled 100% by the committee. The potential witnesses have no actual control over this.
Plus... these witnesses have already testified and could be compelled by subpoena to testify again. This is 100% on the committee... if we do not see them scheduled in an upcoming hearing then we know who to blame.
It won't be the potential already cooperating witnesses.
I mean seriously Reverend...
How gullible are you?
You believe these hearings are like open mic karaoke or something?
The Jan. 6 committee has continued to insist that they found Hutchinson’s testimony credible and invited those who would dispute her to come forward and give sworn testimony.
Open invitation.
Who's wanting to and being denied...?
List them here.
Who specifically from the committee invited whom and to what hearing.
Please list them here.
🤡 Kegan.
If the current rate of emissions continues, children born this year could live to see parts of the Eastern seaboard swallowed by the ocean," Kagan wrote in her dissent.
Emmett Till's family calls for justice after finding an unserved arrest warrant in his case
By Sara Sidner, Tina Burnside and Dakin Andone, CNN
Updated 1 hour ago Jun 30, 2022
(CNN) - Family members of Emmett Till, the Black 14-year-old whose murder in the Jim Crow South spurred the civil rights movement in America, say they have unearthed an unserved arrest warrant for the White woman who accused him of making advances toward her, sparking the events that led to his death nearly 70 years ago.
"I cried. We cried. We hugged," Deborah Watts, Till's cousin, told CNN of the moment she said members of the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation found the warrant in a dusty, dank box in a county courthouse in Greenwood, Mississippi. "Unbelievable. We held each other. Justice has to be served."
The warrant was discovered last week by a five-member search group led by members of Till's family, including Deborah Watts and her daughter Terri. An image of the warrant, provided to CNN by the foundation, charged J.W. Milam, Roy Bryant and Bryant's then-wife -- identified in the document as Mrs. Roy Bryant -- with kidnapping and orders their arrests. The warrant is dated August 29, 1955, and signed by the Leflore County Clerk.
The two men were acquitted of Till's murder soon after by an all-White jury, though they later admitted to the killing in an interview with Look magazine. Milam died in 1980 and Bryant died in 1994, but his widow -- now Carolyn Bryant Donham -- is still alive, and Emmett Till's family hopes the warrant will lead to her arrest and, ultimately, justice.
"Justice has to be served," Watts told CNN, adding, "Emmett led us to it. I know that in my heart."
The image of the warrant shows the current Leflore County clerk certified the document as authentic on June 21.
The discovery of the warrant was first reported by the New York Amsterdam News, one of the nation's oldest African American publications.
According to The New York Times, an affidavit attached to the warrant said the three "did willfully, unlawfully and feloniously and without lawful authority, forcibly seize and confine and kidnap" Emmett Till, though it misspelled his last name. A note on the back of the warrant says Donham was not arrested because she could not be located at the time, the Times reported, citing filmmaker Keith A. Beauchamp, who was part of the team that discovered the warrant.
Neither Donham nor the Leflore County Clerk's Office have responded to CNN's requests for comment.
Professor claimed Donham recanted testimony that Emmett Till grabbed her
While Emmett Till's killing remains a touchstone moment in the United States' long struggle with racial injustice and inequality, to this day, no one has been held criminally responsible.
The 14-year-old boy from Chicago was visiting family in Mississippi when he had his fateful encounter with then-20-year-old Carolyn Bryant. Accounts from that day differ, but witnesses alleged Till whistled at the woman at the market she owned with her husband in Money, Mississippi.
Roy Bryant and Milam later took Till from his bed, ordered him into the back of a pickup truck and beat him before shooting him in the head and tossing his body into the Tallahatchie River.
But they were both acquitted of murder following a trial in which Carolyn Bryant testified that Till grabbed and verbally threatened her. The jury deliberated for barely an hour.
In 2007, a Mississippi grand jury declined to indict Donham on charges. And according to archived FBI documents, Milam and Roy Bryant were arrested on a kidnapping charge in 1955, but a grand jury failed to indict them.
"The original court, District Attorney, and investigative records related to the 1955 investigation have been apparently lost," the FBI said in a 2006 report.
Donham testified in 1955 that Emmett Till grabbed her hand, her waist, and propositioned her, saying he had been with "White women before." But years later, when professor Timothy Tyson raised that trial testimony in a 2008 interview with Donham, he claimed she told him, "That part's not true."
The prospect that the woman at the center of the Till case had recanted her testimony -- which the US Justice Department said in a memo would contradict statements she made during the state trial in 1955 and later to the FBI -- sparked calls for authorities to investigate the case anew.
The DOJ, which had already re-examined and closed the case in 2007, reopened the probe into Till's killing in 2018. But the case was closed in December after DOJ's Civil Rights Division concluded it could not prove Donham had lied. When questioned directly, Donham adamantly denied to investigators that she had recanted her testimony.
Till's death captured attention far beyond Mississippi, after a photo of his mutilated body was published in Jet Magazine and spread around the world. His mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, had demanded he have an open-casket funeral so the entire world could see her son's injuries and the results of racial terrorism -- a decision that helped fuel the civil rights movement.
More interesting revelations for Roger and the Reverend to chew on...
Hutchinson had previously testified before the committee and like Ornato, Engle and the other agents...
She did not mention much of what she testified to this week?
Hmmm... apparently one of those uncovering of hidden memory things?
Oh either that... or after she was not allowed to stay on with the Trump team down in Florida she retained a new attorney?
One or the other...
So far as I know -- not being on the committee -- here's a complete list of those who have responded to the open invitation thus far:
Zero.
lol
If the current rate of emissions continues, children born this year could live to see parts of the Eastern seaboard swallowed by the ocean," Kagan wrote in her dissent.
Well then like every other citizen of the United States, Kagan should lobby her Representatives to pass some emission laws, rather than rely on agencies that should not have that power.
Our military planners continue to prepare for naval bases and other military installations to be swamped by seawater, BEFORE children born this year get all that old.
the open invitationb
Okay...
can you tell us what day the open invitation is for?
Perhaps I will go testify myself just for the fun of it...
Joe biden did this
👉Poll: 85 Percent of Americans Believe Nation Headed in ‘Wrong Direction’👈
He should be impeached.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in a dissenting opinion Thursday suggested that Covid-19 vaccines were developed using the cells of “aborted children.”
The conservative justice’s statement came in a dissenting opinion on a case in which the Supreme Court declined to hear a religious liberty challenge to New York’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate from 16 health care workers. The state requires that all health care workers show proof of vaccination.
“They object on religious grounds to all available COVID–19 vaccines because they were developed using cell lines derived from aborted children,” Thomas said of the petitioners.
None of the Covid-19 vaccines in the United States contain the cells of aborted fetuses. Cells obtained from elective abortions decades ago were used in testing during the Covid vaccine development process, a practice that is common in vaccine testing — including for the rubella and chickenpox vaccinations.
A group of doctors, nurses and other health care workers brought the case, suing the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York in an objection to the state’s vaccine mandate on religious grounds. The district court issued a preliminary injunction, but the Court of Appeals reversed it and the Supreme Court ultimately declined to hear the challenge on Thursday.
The Court instead left in place the lower court ruling rejecting petitioners’ claim that New York’s mandate violates the First Amendment right against religious discrimination. All 16 health care workers were either fired, resigned, lost hospital admitting privileges or decided to receive the vaccine.
I think you better get legal councel before doing that.
Conservative Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch joined Thomas in his dissenting opinion. And some Thomas defenders noted that he was simply reciting the allegations made by those refusing to get the vaccine.
Thomas argues in the opinion that the court should have granted a petition to open for full deliberation the question of whether a mandate like New York’s can ever be neutral or generally applicable if it doesn’t exempt religious conduct but does permit secular conduct — such as medical exemptions.
The state allows a narrow medical exemption for those who are highly allergic to the Covid-19 vaccine.
“Because I would address this issue now in the ordinary course, before the next crisis forces us again to decide complex legal issues in an emergency posture, I respectfully dissent,” Thomas writes.
counsel
I think you better get legal councel before doing that.
You stated it was an open invitation.
Which day and where do we go?
Since it's an open invitation...
Or perhaps you want to reconsider the idea that a Congressional hearing actually just provides "open invitations"?
The day after the election Meadows sent Bill Barr information implying fraud.
https://share.newsbreak.com/1d93li2q
WASHINGTON —
Former President Trump’s White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows questioned the results of the 2020 election just one day after it took place, texting Atty. Gen. William P. Barr on Nov. 4 about looking into a fraud allegation, according to records released by the Justice Department.
The communications show how quickly Meadows moved to find evidence of fraud after it was evident Trump would lose the election, an effort that the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection said in recent hearings was central to the former president’s plan to stay in power.
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The late-night exchange began with a text message from Meadows to Barr.
“I don’t know how valid or who would be the best person to investigate but I thought you should be made aware of this. Tom Fitton tweeted it out and it is likely to get some attention,” Meadows wrote to Barr at 10:44 p.m. Fitton is president of Judicial Watch, a right-wing activist organization whose allegations of voter fraud have been frequently cited by Trump.
The text was accompanied by a link to a tweet sent by far-right provocateur James O’Keefe, which has since been deleted but can be found online, alleging that postal workers in Michigan were being ordered to backdate mail-in ballots so it would appear they arrived by election day.
Former President Trump’s White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows questioned the results of the 2020 election just one day after it took place, texting Atty. Gen. William P. Barr on Nov. 4 about looking into a fraud allegation, according to records released by the Justice Department.
OMG...
The gall of that man!
Questioning the legitimacy of an election!
Did he accuse Biden of coordinating with a Foreign leader to steal the election through a massive conspiracy setting off two years of partisan worthless investigations?
You really are that he has lost the election and the rest of the world including high level people who are very conservative 🙄
Meadows did not return requests for comment.
The texts from Meadows continued, particularly after Barr made the unorthodox decision to issue a memo telling federal prosecutors that they were allowed to investigate “specific allegations” of voter fraud before the presidential election results were certified. The memo warned that “specious, speculative, fanciful or far-fetched claims should not be a basis for initiating federal inquiries.”
The memo ran counter to the Justice Department’s decades-old non-interference policy, which prohibited investigations into allegations of fraud or other overt investigative steps until after the certification of election results so as not to affect the outcome.
Meadows texted Barr again on Nov. 10, sending him a .pdf file labeled “Carone_Affidavit” that Barr would, in turn, forward to Levi with no instructions. In a separate message Meadows wrote, “Referenced FBI in affidavit.”
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-06-30/meadows-brought-fraud-allegation-to-barr-day-after-2020-election
How does Biden Recover?
Roger, WTF.
Off your meds?
"You really are that he has lost..."
Joe biden did this
👉Poll: 85 Percent of Americans Believe Nation Headed in ‘Wrong Direction’👈
More proof of Indy said..
The Russian investigation is irrelevant.
You really don't believe in the foundation of our Country. It is to choose our leaders and have a peaceful transfer of power.
The court system has decided that zero allegations were valid. Over 60 times.
But you only believe in the judicial branch when you agree with them.
You really don't believe in the foundation of our Country. It is to choose our leaders and have a peaceful transfer of power.
And you considered the FBI/SpecialCounsel using what they knew to be fake information to wage a two year investigation designed to undermine of a duly elected President...
not to be an issue?
That is what makes you a partisan hack.
Climate change is real but you don't believe science.
Monthly and all-time records have been shattered in at least a half-dozen countries, from Europe to Asia, during the past week. None of these events have been typical for June, either.
Driving the news: Japan, Italy, Norway, Iran and Finland are a few of the latest nations to see heat records fall like dominoes in an extraordinary month.
Why it matters: Studies show that as the climate warms, the frequency of heat waves dramatically increases, as do the severity and longevity of such events.
Research into the contributors to individual heat waves, such as last year's deadly June Pacific Northwest event, has determined that some would have been "virtually impossible" without added amounts of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.Extreme heat is deadly, ranking as the top weather-related killer in the U.S. in a typical year. It can also stress power grids, especially in countries suffering drought as well as struggling with a global energy crunch in the wake of Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
State of play: Rome tied its all-time hottest temperature record and set a June milestone on Tuesday, with a reading of 105.4°F. Florence and Naples also set monthly records this week, according to weather historian Maximiliano Herrera.
Italy is also enduring a severe drought, prompting water conservation measures in some areas. As in the U.S. Southwest, the drought may be allowing temperatures to spike even higher than they typically would.
The big picture: The Northern Hemisphere is seeing record heat in multiple places simultaneously during an atypical month for it. Most all-time heat records date to July or August.
With a heat dome in place over parts of Europe and low pressure to the west, ultra-hot air from Africa has been pulled north-northeast, all the way to the Arctic.
WASHINGTON —
More than 13 million Americans tuned in to watch bombshell testimony from a former White House aide this week, making the Jan. 6 committee’s latest hearing its second-most-viewed thus far.
The Tuesday afternoon hearing, which the committee announced just a day ahead of time, featured 25-year-old Cassidy Hutchinson, who served as an aide to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. Her dramatic testimony attracted 13,231,000 viewers across all major networks, including ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and MSNBC, according to numbers from Nielsen, a ratings firm. This total topped the previous four hearings, which won audiences of about 10 milion to 11 million people. The first Jan. 6 hearing, on June 9, drew about 20 million viewers, but it aired in prime time.
Peaceful demonstration. You think he's a hero
https://lawandcrime.com/u-s-capitol-breach/powerhouse-patriot-who-held-capitol-rotunda-door-open-for-jan-6-rioters-pleads-guilty-to-felonies/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/30/kinzinger-boebert-church-state-christian-taliban
Dementia by Trump un real
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1542546750619123716?s=20&t=PI9fPqNWLMEEp3y8mFLNZQ
More than 13 million Americans tuned in to watch bombshell testimony from a former White House aide this week, making the Jan. 6 committee’s latest hearing its second-most-viewed thus far.
Well that means...
320 million Americans did not tune in!
Or one in twenty five Americans?
Is that what they are bragging about?
And how many of those 13 million aren’t kooky assed old loons, with nothing else to do?
And how many of those 13 million aren’t kooky assed old loons, with nothing else to do?
I heard 12 million live in nursing homes!
Cold you do realize those 13m are whom will be ballot harvested. Old dementia patients in psyche wards that the Donks will conveniently “their” ballots to the polls
He never should have been confirmed.
In a sharply worded dissent, Justice Clarence Thomas expressed support Thursday for a debunked claim that all Covid vaccines are made with cells from “aborted children.”
His dissent came in a decision by the Supreme Court to not take up a legal challenge by New York health care workers who opposed the state’s vaccine mandate on religious grounds.
Thomas, citing the plaintiffs, wrote that the health care workers “object” to the state’s vaccine mandate “on religious grounds to all available COVID–19 vaccines because they were developed using cell lines derived from aborted children.”
Pfizer and Moderna used fetal cell lines early in their Covid vaccine development to test the efficacy of their formulas, as other vaccines have in the past. The fetal tissue used in these processes came from elective abortions that happened decades ago. But the cells have since replicated many times, so none of the original tissue is involved in the making of modern vaccines.
Blogger Coldheartedtruth Teller said...
He never should have been confirmed.
I’ll bet he doesn’t need a biology degree to know what a woman is
In explosive testimony Tuesday, the 25-year-old former White House aide testified in stark terms about former President Donald Trump's furious last-ditch bid to keep power in the final days of his presidency, riveting television viewers across the country and infuriating much of the political movement she once served.
But those who know Hutchinson said the testimony didn't come as a surprise.
“She was a member of the Trump administration and she is a Republican, but she puts people first,” said Garrett Robinson, who interned with Hutchinson in 2017 and later became her friend. “If there was any way she could have stopped any violence from occurring on Jan. 6, she would have done something.”
She put the country ahead of her politics
I see the poll has Biden doing 9 things worse than the biggest threat to America since the Civil War
Guess that Civil War thing must not have been such a big deal
Good job dems
ROFLMFAO !!!
And I see Roger is still locked up
And denying it
Insane
Bidenomics has failed Americans.
Alky to recieve a $1,050 " Inflation relief " check from California government.
Anonymous said...
Bidenomics has failed Americans.
Alky to recieve a $1,050 " Inflation relief " check from California government.
Oh goody, they’re raiding CalPers again?
If so thank Trump for this SCOTUS
Let’em sink
'More than a dozen' Trump allies offered free legal services by key political action committee: report
Matthew Chapman
June 30, 2022
On Thursday, The New York Times reported that "more than a dozen" of former President Donald Trump's allies are being offered a free ride on legal fees by a key political action committee associated with the former president, as the January 6 Committee's investigation continues to probe the events of the Capitol attack.
"The arrangement drew new scrutiny this week after Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide in his White House, made an explosive appearance before the House panel, providing damning new details about Mr. Trump’s actions and statements on the day of the deadly riot," reported Luke Broadwater, Maggie Haberman, Annie Karni, and Alan Feuer. "She did so after firing a lawyer who had been recommended to her by two of Mr. Trump’s former aides and paid for by his political action committee, and hiring new counsel. Under the representation of the new lawyer, Jody Hunt, Ms. Hutchinson sat for a fourth interview with the committee in which she divulged more revelations and agreed to come forward publicly to testify to them."
According to the report, it is unclear whether firing the Trump-recommended counsel cleared the way for Hutchinson to testify — although some members of the committee are suspicious that that is what happened.
"According to financial disclosures, in May alone, Mr. Trump’s 'Save America' political action committee paid about $200,000 to law firms," said the report. "That including $75,000 to JPRowley Law, which represents Cleta Mitchell, a pro-Trump lawyer who has filed suit to try to block the committee’s subpoena, and $50,000 to Silverman, Thompson, Slutkin & White, which has represented Stephen K. Bannon, a close ally of the former president who refused to meet with the panel and has been charged with criminal contempt."
"It was not immediately clear whether those payments were for covering legal fees connected to the Jan. 6 inquiry, but people familiar with the matter said the PAC has paid for the representation of several former officials and aides in the investigation, including some high-profile ones such as Stephen Miller, who served as a senior adviser to Mr. Trump," the report noted.
Hutchinson gave bombshell testimony in a surprise interview earlier this week, including that Trump knew the rioters were armed and demanded they be allowed to march to the Capitol anyway because "they're not here to hurt me," and that the former president got into a physical altercation with a Secret Service agent after being told he couldn't visit the scene of the riot. Another Trump official, Tony Ornato, has denied this sequence of events, although other officials have accused him of a track record of dishonesty.
Trump will pay for their lawyers.
A Republic, or a Juristocracy?
More significant than the immediate consequences of recent Supreme Court decisions may be the Court’s effect on how Americans understand their country.
John O. McGinnis
June 29, 2022
It’s hard to overestimate the importance of the newly constituted Supreme Court for American civic life. Of course, the immediate focus has been on the significant and discrete decisions it has rendered, such as overturning Roe v. Wade, protecting the right to carry a gun outside the home, and vindicating the right of a high school football coach to pray after a game. But of equal importance in the long term is the Court’s reasoning. Through its opinions, the Court can change the way people think about law—and thus the way they think about an American republic constituted by law.
In a notable essay, University of Chicago political theorist Ralph Lerner captures this essential function of the Court. The Court is, in his terms, “a republican schoolmaster,” bringing to life the enduring text of our fundamental law and applying it to a new age. As Lerner notes, Alexis de Tocqueville saw the Court early in its tenure as “the educator, molder, or guardian of those manners, morals, and beliefs that sustain republican government.” The Court thus has an educational task—bringing each generation back to consider anew the foundations of the American republic.
The Roberts Court faces a tough task because it must speak to the American people through channels in which most messengers and interpreters—the press and the academic world—are radically hostile to its messages. Indeed, their hostility is magnified by the recognition that Court is now the one institution historically dedicated to reason that progressives do not control. Progressives may have an easier time accepting that elections may sometimes go against them: politics can be dismissed as an arena of base interests and manipulation. But when an institution dedicated to reasoned deliberation and interpretation is not aligned with the progressive program, it creates a serious threat to progressive hegemony over social thought. The Court’s opportunity to contest that hegemony and restore the fixed foundations of our republic thus provides the crucial social context of its opinions this term.
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The Trump legacy is the creation of a Juristocracy.
The tougher test will come in November. The baseless claim that the 2020 election was stolen doesn’t appeal to independents, whose votes in key states are often decisive. A December 2021 UMass poll found independents were 49% less likely to vote for a candidate who “refused to say that Joe Biden was legitimately elected president,” compared with 24% who were more likely. Thirty-eight percent of independents said they were less likely to vote for someone who “questioned the legitimacy of the results” of the 2020 election, compared with 23% who were more likely.
A big enough red tide could sweep some of these nominees into office. But if Republicans who don’t rail about election fraud consistently run better than those who do, it would suggest that emphasizing the “big steal” may not be such a great argument for 2024.
For any GOP candidate, there’s no easy way to escape weighing in on whether 2020 was stolen. Democrats will force Republicans running for other offices to declare their position on these outlandish and corrosive claims. GOP hopefuls better begin preparing responses now. They should consider starting with the truth.
Karl Rove
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-2024-test-runs-secretary-state-election-fraud-midterm-deperno-finchem-marchant-11656535780?mod=opinion_trending_now_opn_pos4
Not sure what a juristocracy is, but pretty sure packing the court would be that on steroids
Her testimony still being called explosive is absurd. It's been debunked and refuted from every angle
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