Impeach Merrick Garland - these are the consequences of his politicization of law enforcement
Dozens if not hundreds of non-violent protesters have been, are being, and will continued to be sentenced to jail time... even as the majority of Americans have come to believe nonviolent participants should be pardoned.
Donald Trump made a purposeful choice to violate his oath of office. Every American must consider this: can a president who is willing to make the choices Donald Trump made during the violence of January 6 ever be trusted with any position of authority in our great nation again?
Far more important than your increasingly irrational outbursts.
The Electoral Count Act, unveiled by a bipartisan group of senators on Wednesday, intends to reform the Electoral Count Act of 1887 by making sure that the sitting vice president doesn’t have the power to overturn a presidential election and make it harder for lawmakers to object the Electoral College vote.
The proposed legislation came in response to the Jan 6, 2021, attack at the Capitol, where a mob of pro-Trump supporters stormed the Capitol building in an effort to stop the certification of President Biden’s Electoral College victory. Former President Trump had pressured his vice president, Mike Pence, to overturn results in certain states in order to hand Trump a win, but Pence said it was not within his authority.
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The purpose of the act is to reiterate the vice president’s ceremonious role in Congress’s counting of Electoral College votes after a presidential election.
Cardin, one of the co-sponsors of the proposed legislation, added that the Capitol insurrection played a role in the creation of the Electoral Count Act, saying that lawmakers want to make sure that something like this never happens again.
“So the laws that are in effect before the election are what used in order to, who certifies the electors, and how that process moves forward,” Cardin told Brown. “So clearly, these most recent hearings, point out what happened on Jan. 6, we want to make sure that never happens again, and one of the things we can do is clarify our election laws.”
If this passes the former President or any other President would be able to stage an insurrection
What Could Save Democrats From a Midterm Blowout? July 24, 2022 at 1:13 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 98 Comments
Charlie Cook: “Yet there might be one silver lining for Democrats on the distant horizon. Should former President Trump decide, against the advice of nearly every Republican strategist alive, to announce his candidacy before the midterm elections in November, he might energize Democratic voters enough to minimize their losses at the margins. I am not sure it would save one or both majorities, but it certainly has the potential to have a greater impact than abortion, guns, and Jan. 6 combined.”
“As unpopular as Biden is currently, he still bests Trump in most head-to-head matchups. In fact, Trump is arguably the one Republican that Biden might have a decent chance of beating if he ultimately decides to run for reelection.”
Kinzinger Says Crimes Go All the Way to Donald Trump July 24, 2022 at 10:58 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 29 Comments
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) said that former President Donald Trump committed crimes related to last year’s Capitol riot and should ideally be charged by the Justice Department, ABC News reports.
Said Kinzinger: “I certainly hope they’re moving forward. I certainly think there’s evidence of crimes, and I think it goes all the way up to Donald Trump.”
Extra Bonus Quote of the Day July 24, 2022 at 12:20 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 41 Comments
“I’m fighting hard, no matter what happens on August 16th, I’m going to wake up on August 17th and continue to fight hard to ensure Donald Trump is never anywhere close to the Oval Office ever again.” — Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), quoted by Axios, saying that protecting American democracy is a higher priority than maintaining a seat in the House.
Bonus Quote of the Day July 24, 2022 at 12:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 34 Comments “In order to solve the climate crisis, we’re going to have to pay attention to the democracy crisis.” — Former Vice President Al Gore, on NBC News.
AMEN! MOST AMERICANS KNOW GOP TACTICS HAVE PUT US IN TROUBLE WITH THE CLIMATE.
Trump Says He Liked Being Called ‘Your Excellency’ July 24, 2022 at 11:58 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 95 Comments
Former President Donald Trump told loyalists he “kinda liked that” when the head of the Taliban called him “Your Excellency,” the Daily Beast reports.
“He seemed to be referring to details of a phone call with Abdul Ghani Baradar, who served as the Taliban’s chief negotiator during a peace deal signed in 2020 that ultimately led to the group’s retaking of Afghanistan last year.”
AND MORE Liz Cheney Hasn’t Decided on Presidential Bid July 24, 2022 at 11:28 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 77 Comments
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WI) told CNN that she hasn’t decided whether she will run for president in 2024.
Said Cheney: “At this point, I haven’t made a decision on 2024… I’ll make a decision on 2024 down the road.”
She added: “But I do think as we look towards the next presidential election, as I said, you know, I believe that our nation stands on the edge of an abyss and I do believe that we all have to really think very seriously about the dangers we face and the threats we face and we have to elect serious candidates.”
Gaetz Tells Protesters ‘Nobody Wants to Impregnate You’ July 24, 2022 at 11:22 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 158 Comments
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) told a crowd of young people at a conference that women protesting abortion access are less likely to get pregnant because they aren’t attractive, USA Today reports.
Said Gaetz: “Why is it that the women with the least likelihood of getting pregnant are the ones most worried about having abortions? Nobody wants to impregnate you if you look like a thumb.”
Gaetz went on to say that “these people are odious on the inside and out. They’re like 5’2, 350 pounds and they’re like ‘give me my abortions or I’ll get up and march and protest’ and I’m thinking: ‘March? You look like you got ankles weaker than the legal reasoning behind Roe vs Wade.’ A few of them need to get up and march. They need to get up and march for like an hour a day, swing those arms, get the blood pumping, maybe mix in a salad.”
Trump and DeSantis Fight for the Heart of the GOP July 24, 2022 at 10:46 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 65 Comments
Politico: “A growing legion of conservatives see DeSantis as what’s next in the party. Yet Trump’s popularity was clear on Saturday night when he spoke to thousands of young conservatives in Tampa and suggested he’s running for president.”
Said Trump: “If I announced I was not going to run for office, the persecution of Donald Trump would immediately stop. But that’s what they want me to do. And you know what? There’s no chance I do that…”
GOOD!
Quote of the Day July 24, 2022 at 10:37 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 13 Comments
“I sure as hell hope they have a criminal investigation at this point into Donald Trump.”
— Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA), on NBC News.
Most Iowans Support Legal Abortion July 24, 2022 at 10:34 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 42 Comments
A new Des Moines Register poll finds a majority of Iowans — 60% — say abortion should be legal in most or all cases.
The 60% support for legal abortion is a new high-water mark in the Iowa Poll.
Far more important than your IED Johnson outbreaks.
A bipartisan group of senators led by Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., proposed two measures on Wednesday that would significantly reform flawed 19th-century laws that still govern U.S. presidential elections. Changes must be made to the Presidential Election Day Act of 1845 and the Electoral Count Act of 1887, into which the 1845 Act was incorporated.
The proposed bills open the door for the Senate to address the grave problems in these laws — problems alarmingly dramatized by Trump’s attempted presidential coup. It is increasingly clear that loopholes in the 1845 Act and problems in the Electoral Count Act were at the heart of Trump’s effort to steal the 2020 election.
The Collins-Manchin proposal needs to be carefully vetted to ensure it will prevent future presidential coup attempts. It will also need 10 Republican senators to oppose a filibuster and no opposition from Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell to get through the Senate.
They promised the January 6 hearings would “blow the roof off the house”, presenting America with the truth about Donald Trump’s attack on democracy culminating in the US Capitol insurrection. In the end, the roof of the House, where the summer season of hearings reached their finale on Thursday night, remained intact, though mightily shaken.
January 6 panel: shining a light on American democracy’s nose dive
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It will take time for historians to assess whether the eight public sessions were comparable to the 1973 Watergate hearings, as Jamie Raskin, a Democratic member of the January 6 committee, predicted. Yet it’s already clear that after 19 hours and 11 minutes of testimony, filmed depositions, documentary evidence and raw footage of the Capitol attack the hearings have generated a mountain of words and images that will linger long in the collective memory.
You are doubtless familiar with the old adage that, “The wheels of justice may grind slow, but they grind exceedingly fine.” As we watch your Justice Department’s ongoing investigation of the criminal conspiracy that was the Trump White House, many of us can readily vouch for the first half of the axiom. Justice has, indeed, proven slow. Whether the result will be “exceedingly fine” is the thing we have trouble with.
Eighteen months after Trump’s army stormed the U.S. Capitol in a deadly riot, many of those who served as foot soldiers and cannon fodder have had their day in court. But the leader of the pack and his henchmen are still walking around free. Many observers are eager to see that rectified — and have not been reticent in saying so.
In a press conference Wednesday, you seemed fed up with carping about the perceived timidity and inertia of your department and you. “A central tenet of the rule of law,” you said, “is that we do not do our investigations in public.” You added that, “We have to hold accountable every person who is criminally responsible for trying to overturn a legitimate election . . . in a way filled with integrity and professionalism.”
People are impatient, yes. They demand accountability, yes. But the other factor at play is simply that it’s been a very tough time for the aforementioned rule of law.
One is reminded of an old trope from Western movies: The angry mob descends on the jailhouse with torches and rope, ready to drag out some prisoner and do street justice. But the sheriff stands them off, tells them to leave the prisoner’s fate to the law.
Clichéd as that scene is, it captures an important truth. Fealty to the rule of law is not a native instinct. To the contrary, the native instinct is to demand instant satisfaction if somebody has done you wrong. But the rule of law asks us to exchange torches and rope for a set of rules to be administered on our behalf by the government. Thus do human beings carve civil societies from wildernesses of social primitivism.
But what if some of us begin to feel like we’re the only suckers still following those rules while others are running roughshod over them, profiting in the process and paying no price for their transgressions? That, sir, is the story of the last seven years, a story told in Robert Mueller’s refusal to refer a criminal president for criminal prosecution, told in obstruction and witness tampering, in incitements of violence and actual violence, in acts of extortion, treason and insurrection unparalleled in American history, most of it done openly and, in fact, brazenly.
The rule of law has seldom seemed more impotent or ineffectual, nor made its believers look more like chumps. Which should concern you, because the one thing that rule requires, the one thing without which it cannot function, is the people’s faith, something the last seven years have made difficult in the extreme.
That is the unspoken, but no less urgent, need of the moment, Mr. Attorney General, the reason your investigation cannot be thorough — or fast — enough. What you are hearing in your critics is not just impatience or a demand for accountability, but a need to see one of the foundation principles of society vindicated before it’s too late to matter. It has been a rough seven years, sir.
Brit Hume drags Jan. 6 Committee ‘Republicans’ for deliberately IGNORING Pentagon memo proving Trump absolutely wanted to AVOID violence
Liz Cheney’s Kangaroo Court, sorry, January 6th Committee hearings, has proven nothing more than Democrats (and sadly, two Republicans) will stop at nothing to hang the rioting at the Capitol on Trump. They sit back and pretend hearsay and gossip are actual evidence, dramatically play to the cameras with their fancy ABC director, and act like they’re doing us all a favor PROTECTING MUH DEMOCRACY or some other happy horse crap.
The reality is, that this is ultimately Nancy Pelosi’s show, and the players are doing exactly what they’re supposed to.
Even the Republicans.
From Just the News:
In it [Penatgon memo], the IG recounts a fateful meeting on Jan. 3, 2021 in the White House when then-acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller and Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, met with Trump on national security matters.
The complete passage — hardly mentioned by Democrats at the hearings or the news media covering them — is worth absorbing in its entirety.
“Mr. Miller and GEN Milley met with the President at the White House at 5:30 p.m.,” the IG reported. “The primary topic they discussed was unrelated to the scheduled rally. GEN Milley told us that at the end of the meeting, the President told Mr. Miller that there would be a large number of protestors on January 6, 2021, and Mr. Miller should ensure sufficient National Guard or Soldiers would be there to make sure it was a safe event. Gen Milley told us that Mr. Miller responded, ‘We’ve got a plan and we’ve got it covered.'”
Developing: Luke Robinson, AKA #GingerGun, Was Only Protester Filmed with a Gun on Jan. 6, The FBI Later Removed Him from their Most Wanted List — Was Also Accused of Wearing an Earpiece
In January Micajah confronted Luke Phillip Robinson aka. “Ginger Gun” in Arizona. Robinson was at the Jan 6 protests. He had a firearm and was wearing an earpiece. The FBI later removed him from their most-wanted list.
Odd the only people calling for entering the Capitol on Jan 5th (the day before) and the only person with a firearm outside on jan 6th were REMOVED from the FBI wanted lists
surely the Jan 6th committee have gotten to the bottom of this
in their witch hunt
and Kangaroo Court proceedings
As was said the Jan 6th committee is much worse than what happened on Jan 6th
History teaches that it is possible to bring down an American demagogue by putting his wickedness on display for all to see.
In 1954, I watched the Army-McCarthy hearings. The Wisconsin senator Joe McCarthy – whose communist witch hunt was ending careers and debasing much of the US government – had charged the US army with lax security at a top-secret army facility. The army hired Boston lawyer Joseph Welch to make its case.
At a session on 9 June 1954, after McCarthy accused one of Welch’s young staff attorneys of being a communist, Welch responded in words that led to McCarthy’s undoing: “Until this moment, senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness.”
When McCarthy tried to continue his attack, Welch angrily interrupted, “Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?”
Almost overnight, McCarthy’s immense national popularity evaporated. Censured by his Senate colleagues, ostracized by his party and ignored by the press, McCarthy died three years later, 48 years old and a broken man.
Now, the January 6 committee has produced history’s most detailed account of an American president’s cruel and seditious pursuit of power.
Will it be enough to stop Trump’s ongoing attempted coup? That depends on whether Americans heed the committee’s implicit plea to ensure that American democracy endures.
This article was amended on 24 July 2022. McCarthy was a senator for Wisconsin, not Minnesota.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Jan. 6 committee said Sunday it will interview more former Cabinet secretaries and is prepared to subpoena conservative activist Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, who's married to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, as part of its investigation of the Capitol riot and Donald Trump's role.
Lawmakers said they are deepening their inquiry after a series of eight hearings in June and July culminating in a prime-time session Thursday, with plans to interview additional witnesses and reconvening in September to resume laying out their findings to the public.
“We anticipate talking to additional members of the president’s Cabinet,” said Rep. Liz Cheney, the committee's vice chair. “We anticipate talking to additional members of his campaign. Certainly, we’re very focused as well on the Secret Service.”
Cheney, R-Wyo., did not identify the Trump administration officials who might come forward, but the committee has previously made clear its interest in speaking with those believed to have considered invoking a constitutional process in the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office after the riot on Jan. 6, 2021, when hundreds of Trump’s supporters violently stormed the Capitol and interrupted the certification of Joe Biden’s election.
“The floodgates have opened,” said Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va., regarding the next phase of its investigation.
Committee members also hope to learn more about Ginni Thomas’ own effort to keep Trump in office and the potential conflicts of interest for Clarence Thomas as a result on Jan. 6 cases that have come before the Supreme Court. The committee sent a letter to Ginni Thomas last month seeking an interview and hopes she will comply, Cheney said.
Thomas communicated with people in Trump’s orbit ahead of the 2021 attack and also on the day of the insurrection.
“We certainly hope that she will agree to come in voluntarily,” Cheney said. “But the committee is fully prepared to contemplate a subpoena if she does not.”
Cheney also said that while the committee hasn’t decided whether to make a criminal referral regarding Trump to the Justice Department, “that’s absolutely something we’re looking at.”
Added Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill.: “I certainly think there’s evidence of crimes and I think it goes all the way up to Donald Trump.”
While a possible Trump prosecution is a matter for the department, the committee has used its hearing to try to make a case about his political viability as he mulls running in 2024. Some of the most damning testimony aired by the committee has come from Trump’s own top Republican advisers, military leaders and confidants, who admitted to a loss of confidence in his judgment and dedication to the rule of law in the days leading up to and after the Jan. 6 attack.
The committee also wants to get to the bottom of missing Secret Service texts from Jan. 5-6, 2021, that could have shed further light on Trump’s actions during the insurrection, particularly after earlier testimony about his confrontation with security as he tried to join supporters at the Capitol.
Lawmakers also are interested in hearing from Steve Bannon, a Trump ally who was found guilty last week on criminal contempt of Congress charges for refusing to comply with the House committee’s subpoena.
Cheney spoke on CNN's “State of the Union” and “Fox News Sunday,” Kinzinger appeared on ABC's “This Week,” and Luria was on NBC's “Meet the Press."
Trump will face charges in Georgia and eventually from the Attorney General Merrick Garland after the November election day
And who is going to save the COUNTRY from Dementia Joe
Fuck you Alky, went foraging with my son today, found 2 lbs of chanterelles then went to a wonderful, low down messican restaurant, an $11.00 burrito 2 years ago was $17 and my son’s 2 taco were $15.50 with 2 drinks each what used to be mid $40s was $77 before tip.
Fuck you I don’t care about 01/06. I get outside and live in the real world, people don’t cut my nanners for me
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Donald Trump made a purposeful choice to violate his oath of office.
Every American must consider this: can a president who is willing to make the choices Donald Trump made during the violence of January 6 ever be trusted with any position of authority in our great nation again?
Only in the minds of gaslighted people.
Why would people who really believed and still believe in what they did commit suicide no matter how strongly they are persecuted?
Far more important than your increasingly irrational outbursts.
The Electoral Count Act, unveiled by a bipartisan group of senators on Wednesday, intends to reform the Electoral Count Act of 1887 by making sure that the sitting vice president doesn’t have the power to overturn a presidential election and make it harder for lawmakers to object the Electoral College vote.
The proposed legislation came in response to the Jan 6, 2021, attack at the Capitol, where a mob of pro-Trump supporters stormed the Capitol building in an effort to stop the certification of President Biden’s Electoral College victory. Former President Trump had pressured his vice president, Mike Pence, to overturn results in certain states in order to hand Trump a win, but Pence said it was not within his authority.
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The purpose of the act is to reiterate the vice president’s ceremonious role in Congress’s counting of Electoral College votes after a presidential election.
Cardin, one of the co-sponsors of the proposed legislation, added that the Capitol insurrection played a role in the creation of the Electoral Count Act, saying that lawmakers want to make sure that something like this never happens again.
“So the laws that are in effect before the election are what used in order to, who certifies the electors, and how that process moves forward,” Cardin told Brown. “So clearly, these most recent hearings, point out what happened on Jan. 6, we want to make sure that never happens again, and one of the things we can do is clarify our election laws.”
If this passes the former President or any other President would be able to stage an insurrection
You really have become a fascist person.
You really believe that they have the same problem with legal discrimination like during the 60s.
The first amendment doesn't apply to violence and shouting fire in a movie theater.
They were armed.
MORE SUNDAY REALITIES
What Could Save Democrats From a Midterm Blowout?
July 24, 2022 at 1:13 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 98 Comments
Charlie Cook: “Yet there might be one silver lining for Democrats on the distant horizon. Should former President Trump decide, against the advice of nearly every Republican strategist alive, to announce his candidacy before the midterm elections in November, he might energize Democratic voters enough to minimize their losses at the margins. I am not sure it would save one or both majorities, but it certainly has the potential to have a greater impact than abortion, guns, and Jan. 6 combined.”
“As unpopular as Biden is currently, he still bests Trump in most head-to-head matchups. In fact, Trump is arguably the one Republican that Biden might have a decent chance of beating if he ultimately decides to run for reelection.”
Kinzinger Says Crimes Go All the Way to Donald Trump
July 24, 2022 at 10:58 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 29 Comments
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) said that former President Donald Trump committed crimes related to last year’s Capitol riot and should ideally be charged by the Justice Department, ABC News reports.
Said Kinzinger: “I certainly hope they’re moving forward. I certainly think there’s evidence of crimes, and I think it goes all the way up to Donald Trump.”
Extra Bonus Quote of the Day
July 24, 2022 at 12:20 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 41 Comments
“I’m fighting hard, no matter what happens on August 16th, I’m going to wake up on August 17th and continue to fight hard to ensure Donald Trump is never anywhere close to the Oval Office ever again.”
— Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), quoted by Axios, saying that protecting American democracy is a higher priority than maintaining a seat in the House.
Bonus Quote of the Day
July 24, 2022 at 12:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 34 Comments
“In order to solve the climate crisis, we’re going to have to pay attention to the democracy crisis.”
— Former Vice President Al Gore, on NBC News.
AMEN! MOST AMERICANS KNOW GOP TACTICS HAVE PUT US IN TROUBLE WITH THE CLIMATE.
Trump Says He Liked Being Called ‘Your Excellency’
July 24, 2022 at 11:58 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 95 Comments
Former President Donald Trump told loyalists he “kinda liked that” when the head of the Taliban called him “Your Excellency,” the Daily Beast reports.
“He seemed to be referring to details of a phone call with Abdul Ghani Baradar, who served as the Taliban’s chief negotiator during a peace deal signed in 2020 that ultimately led to the group’s retaking of Afghanistan last year.”
Mein Fürher is another way of sahing that.
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Liz Cheney Hasn’t Decided on Presidential Bid
July 24, 2022 at 11:28 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 77 Comments
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WI) told CNN that she hasn’t decided whether she will run for president in 2024.
Said Cheney: “At this point, I haven’t made a decision on 2024… I’ll make a decision on 2024 down the road.”
She added: “But I do think as we look towards the next presidential election, as I said, you know, I believe that our nation stands on the edge of an abyss and I do believe that we all have to really think very seriously about the dangers we face and the threats we face and we have to elect serious candidates.”
Gaetz Tells Protesters ‘Nobody Wants to Impregnate You’
July 24, 2022 at 11:22 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 158 Comments
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) told a crowd of young people at a conference that women protesting abortion access are less likely to get pregnant because they aren’t attractive, USA Today reports.
Said Gaetz: “Why is it that the women with the least likelihood of getting pregnant are the ones most worried about having abortions? Nobody wants to impregnate you if you look like a thumb.”
Gaetz went on to say that “these people are odious on the inside and out. They’re like 5’2, 350 pounds and they’re like ‘give me my abortions or I’ll get up and march and protest’ and I’m thinking: ‘March? You look like you got ankles weaker than the legal reasoning behind Roe vs Wade.’ A few of them need to get up and march. They need to get up and march for like an hour a day, swing those arms, get the blood pumping, maybe mix in a salad.”
Trump and DeSantis Fight for the Heart of the GOP
July 24, 2022 at 10:46 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 65 Comments
Politico: “A growing legion of conservatives see DeSantis as what’s next in the party. Yet Trump’s popularity was clear on Saturday night when he spoke to thousands of young conservatives in Tampa and suggested he’s running for president.”
Said Trump: “If I announced I was not going to run for office, the persecution of Donald Trump would immediately stop. But that’s what they want me to do. And you know what? There’s no chance I do that…”
GOOD!
Quote of the Day
July 24, 2022 at 10:37 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 13 Comments
“I sure as hell hope they have a criminal investigation at this point into Donald Trump.”
— Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA), on NBC News.
Most Iowans Support Legal Abortion
July 24, 2022 at 10:34 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 42 Comments
A new Des Moines Register poll finds a majority of Iowans — 60% — say abortion should be legal in most or all cases.
The 60% support for legal abortion is a new high-water mark in the Iowa Poll.
Far more important than your IED Johnson outbreaks.
A bipartisan group of senators led by Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., proposed two measures on Wednesday that would significantly reform flawed 19th-century laws that still govern U.S. presidential elections. Changes must be made to the Presidential Election Day Act of 1845 and the Electoral Count Act of 1887, into which the 1845 Act was incorporated.
The proposed bills open the door for the Senate to address the grave problems in these laws — problems alarmingly dramatized by Trump’s attempted presidential coup. It is increasingly clear that loopholes in the 1845 Act and problems in the Electoral Count Act were at the heart of Trump’s effort to steal the 2020 election.
The Collins-Manchin proposal needs to be carefully vetted to ensure it will prevent future presidential coup attempts. It will also need 10 Republican senators to oppose a filibuster and no opposition from Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell to get through the Senate.
McConnell will support it
James let's not argue with him about anything but continue to post the truth and nothing but the truth.
It is impossible to argue with a deranged person.
They promised the January 6 hearings would “blow the roof off the house”, presenting America with the truth about Donald Trump’s attack on democracy culminating in the US Capitol insurrection. In the end, the roof of the House, where the summer season of hearings reached their finale on Thursday night, remained intact, though mightily shaken.
January 6 panel: shining a light on American democracy’s nose dive
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It will take time for historians to assess whether the eight public sessions were comparable to the 1973 Watergate hearings, as Jamie Raskin, a Democratic member of the January 6 committee, predicted. Yet it’s already clear that after 19 hours and 11 minutes of testimony, filmed depositions, documentary evidence and raw footage of the Capitol attack the hearings have generated a mountain of words and images that will linger long in the collective memory.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/23/january-6-hearings-us-democracy-roadmap-autocracy
DisHonest, indecent, untruthful and ignorant Rev. said...
Why would people who really believed and still believe in what they did commit suicide no matter how strongly they are persecuted?
Suicides of Jews were common when Nazi's took over European countries
As well as with captives in their prison camps
I guess that meant the Nazi's were in the right
according to the "pastor"
or so he infers
what a POS
Garland needs to step up!
You are doubtless familiar with the old adage that, “The wheels of justice may grind slow, but they grind exceedingly fine.” As we watch your Justice Department’s ongoing investigation of the criminal conspiracy that was the Trump White House, many of us can readily vouch for the first half of the axiom. Justice has, indeed, proven slow. Whether the result will be “exceedingly fine” is the thing we have trouble with.
Eighteen months after Trump’s army stormed the U.S. Capitol in a deadly riot, many of those who served as foot soldiers and cannon fodder have had their day in court. But the leader of the pack and his henchmen are still walking around free. Many observers are eager to see that rectified — and have not been reticent in saying so.
In a press conference Wednesday, you seemed fed up with carping about the perceived timidity and inertia of your department and you. “A central tenet of the rule of law,” you said, “is that we do not do our investigations in public.” You added that, “We have to hold accountable every person who is criminally responsible for trying to overturn a legitimate election . . . in a way filled with integrity and professionalism.”
* spamming POS
In other words: Back off and let us do our jobs. Your pique is arguably understandable. But there is something here you may not be grasping.
People are impatient, yes. They demand accountability, yes. But the other factor at play is simply that it’s been a very tough time for the aforementioned rule of law.
One is reminded of an old trope from Western movies: The angry mob descends on the jailhouse with torches and rope, ready to drag out some prisoner and do street justice. But the sheriff stands them off, tells them to leave the prisoner’s fate to the law.
Clichéd as that scene is, it captures an important truth. Fealty to the rule of law is not a native instinct. To the contrary, the native instinct is to demand instant satisfaction if somebody has done you wrong. But the rule of law asks us to exchange torches and rope for a set of rules to be administered on our behalf by the government. Thus do human beings carve civil societies from wildernesses of social primitivism.
But what if some of us begin to feel like we’re the only suckers still following those rules while others are running roughshod over them, profiting in the process and paying no price for their transgressions? That, sir, is the story of the last seven years, a story told in Robert Mueller’s refusal to refer a criminal president for criminal prosecution, told in obstruction and witness tampering, in incitements of violence and actual violence, in acts of extortion, treason and insurrection unparalleled in American history, most of it done openly and, in fact, brazenly.
The rule of law has seldom seemed more impotent or ineffectual, nor made its believers look more like chumps. Which should concern you, because the one thing that rule requires, the one thing without which it cannot function, is the people’s faith, something the last seven years have made difficult in the extreme.
That is the unspoken, but no less urgent, need of the moment, Mr. Attorney General, the reason your investigation cannot be thorough — or fast — enough. What you are hearing in your critics is not just impatience or a demand for accountability, but a need to see one of the foundation principles of society vindicated before it’s too late to matter. It has been a rough seven years, sir.
The rule of law could use a win.
Victims of rape and abuse also will commit suicide.
According to the Reverend they must have had it coming.
Brit Hume drags Jan. 6 Committee ‘Republicans’ for deliberately IGNORING Pentagon memo proving Trump absolutely wanted to AVOID violence
Liz Cheney’s Kangaroo Court, sorry, January 6th Committee hearings, has proven nothing more than Democrats (and sadly, two Republicans) will stop at nothing to hang the rioting at the Capitol on Trump. They sit back and pretend hearsay and gossip are actual evidence, dramatically play to the cameras with their fancy ABC director, and act like they’re doing us all a favor PROTECTING MUH DEMOCRACY or some other happy horse crap.
The reality is, that this is ultimately Nancy Pelosi’s show, and the players are doing exactly what they’re supposed to.
Even the Republicans.
From Just the News:
In it [Penatgon memo], the IG recounts a fateful meeting on Jan. 3, 2021 in the White House when then-acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller and Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, met with Trump on national security matters.
The complete passage — hardly mentioned by Democrats at the hearings or the news media covering them — is worth absorbing in its entirety.
“Mr. Miller and GEN Milley met with the President at the White House at 5:30 p.m.,” the IG reported. “The primary topic they discussed was unrelated to the scheduled rally. GEN Milley told us that at the end of the meeting, the President told Mr. Miller that there would be a large number of protestors on January 6, 2021, and Mr. Miller should ensure sufficient National Guard or Soldiers would be there to make sure it was a safe event. Gen Milley told us that Mr. Miller responded, ‘We’ve got a plan and we’ve got it covered.'”
You’d THINK they would bring this up, right?
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https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/07/24/brit-hume-drags-jan-6-committee-republicans-for-deliberately-ignoring-pentagon-memo-proving-trump-absolutely-wanted-to-avoid-violence/
there is going to be Hell to pay
C.H. Truth said...
Victims of rape and abuse also will commit suicide.
According to the Reverend they must have had it coming.
He keeps descending just when I think he can't go any lower
Developing: Luke Robinson, AKA #GingerGun, Was Only Protester Filmed with a Gun on Jan. 6, The FBI Later Removed Him from their Most Wanted List — Was Also Accused of Wearing an Earpiece
In January Micajah confronted Luke Phillip Robinson aka. “Ginger Gun” in Arizona. Robinson was at the Jan 6 protests. He had a firearm and was wearing an earpiece. The FBI later removed him from their most-wanted list.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/developing-phillip-anderson-aka-gingergun-protester-filmed-gun-jan-6-fbi-later-removed-wanted-list-now-believe-also-wearing-earpiece/
Odd the only people calling for entering the Capitol on Jan 5th (the day before) and the only person with a firearm outside on jan 6th were REMOVED from the FBI wanted lists
surely the Jan 6th committee have gotten to the bottom of this
in their witch hunt
and Kangaroo Court proceedings
As was said the Jan 6th committee is much worse than what happened on Jan 6th
kind of like Mueller with Trump/Russian collusion
stinks
History teaches that it is possible to bring down an American demagogue by putting his wickedness on display for all to see.
In 1954, I watched the Army-McCarthy hearings. The Wisconsin senator Joe McCarthy – whose communist witch hunt was ending careers and debasing much of the US government – had charged the US army with lax security at a top-secret army facility. The army hired Boston lawyer Joseph Welch to make its case.
At a session on 9 June 1954, after McCarthy accused one of Welch’s young staff attorneys of being a communist, Welch responded in words that led to McCarthy’s undoing: “Until this moment, senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness.”
When McCarthy tried to continue his attack, Welch angrily interrupted, “Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?”
Almost overnight, McCarthy’s immense national popularity evaporated. Censured by his Senate colleagues, ostracized by his party and ignored by the press, McCarthy died three years later, 48 years old and a broken man.
Now, the January 6 committee has produced history’s most detailed account of an American president’s cruel and seditious pursuit of power.
Will it be enough to stop Trump’s ongoing attempted coup? That depends on whether Americans heed the committee’s implicit plea to ensure that American democracy endures.
This article was amended on 24 July 2022. McCarthy was a senator for Wisconsin, not Minnesota.
Robert Reich
Two of the police officers have committed suicide because of Trump’s unwillingness to stop them from trying to hang Mike Pence 😢
You are gone forever
Two of the police officers have committed suicide because of Trump’s unwillingness to stop them from trying to hang Mike Pence 😢
Trump and DeSantis fight for the heart of the GOP in Florida
A growing legion of conservatives see Ron DeSantis as what’s next in the party.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Jan. 6 committee said Sunday it will interview more former Cabinet secretaries and is prepared to subpoena conservative activist Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, who's married to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, as part of its investigation of the Capitol riot and Donald Trump's role.
Lawmakers said they are deepening their inquiry after a series of eight hearings in June and July culminating in a prime-time session Thursday, with plans to interview additional witnesses and reconvening in September to resume laying out their findings to the public.
“We anticipate talking to additional members of the president’s Cabinet,” said Rep. Liz Cheney, the committee's vice chair. “We anticipate talking to additional members of his campaign. Certainly, we’re very focused as well on the Secret Service.”
Cheney, R-Wyo., did not identify the Trump administration officials who might come forward, but the committee has previously made clear its interest in speaking with those believed to have considered invoking a constitutional process in the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office after the riot on Jan. 6, 2021, when hundreds of Trump’s supporters violently stormed the Capitol and interrupted the certification of Joe Biden’s election.
“The floodgates have opened,” said Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va., regarding the next phase of its investigation.
Committee members also hope to learn more about Ginni Thomas’ own effort to keep Trump in office and the potential conflicts of interest for Clarence Thomas as a result on Jan. 6 cases that have come before the Supreme Court. The committee sent a letter to Ginni Thomas last month seeking an interview and hopes she will comply, Cheney said.
Thomas communicated with people in Trump’s orbit ahead of the 2021 attack and also on the day of the insurrection.
“We certainly hope that she will agree to come in voluntarily,” Cheney said. “But the committee is fully prepared to contemplate a subpoena if she does not.”
Cheney also said that while the committee hasn’t decided whether to make a criminal referral regarding Trump to the Justice Department, “that’s absolutely something we’re looking at.”
Added Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill.: “I certainly think there’s evidence of crimes and I think it goes all the way up to Donald Trump.”
While a possible Trump prosecution is a matter for the department, the committee has used its hearing to try to make a case about his political viability as he mulls running in 2024. Some of the most damning testimony aired by the committee has come from Trump’s own top Republican advisers, military leaders and confidants, who admitted to a loss of confidence in his judgment and dedication to the rule of law in the days leading up to and after the Jan. 6 attack.
The committee also wants to get to the bottom of missing Secret Service texts from Jan. 5-6, 2021, that could have shed further light on Trump’s actions during the insurrection, particularly after earlier testimony about his confrontation with security as he tried to join supporters at the Capitol.
Lawmakers also are interested in hearing from Steve Bannon, a Trump ally who was found guilty last week on criminal contempt of Congress charges for refusing to comply with the House committee’s subpoena.
Cheney spoke on CNN's “State of the Union” and “Fox News Sunday,” Kinzinger appeared on ABC's “This Week,” and Luria was on NBC's “Meet the Press."
Trump will face charges in Georgia and eventually from the Attorney General Merrick Garland after the November election day
https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-steve-bannon-us-supreme-court-government-and-politics-subpoenas-a0d0f5ee45ee62c24c9950389c2930ee
Has anyone seen anything Like Built Back Better?
I have seen a 🔥 Dumpster Fire of a Presidency.
James got the January 6th whatever thingy right , it is a "persecuted".
Webster:
persecuted
subject (someone) to hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of their race or political or religious beliefs.
"his followers were persecuted by the authorities"
In the US 🇺🇸 legal system prior to Joe Failure we had a system of "prosecution".
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2022/07/why-pence-opposing-trump-arizona/670624/?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
Pence is trying to save the Republican Party from Trump
And who is going to save the COUNTRY from Dementia Joe
Fuck you Alky, went foraging with my son today, found 2 lbs of chanterelles then went to a wonderful, low down messican restaurant, an $11.00 burrito 2 years ago was $17 and my son’s 2 taco were $15.50 with 2 drinks each what used to be mid $40s was $77 before tip.
Fuck you I don’t care about 01/06. I get outside and live in the real world, people don’t cut my nanners for me
FUCK YOU locked down old man.
went foraging with my son today, found 2 lbs of chanterelles then went to a wonderful, low down
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! Still can't put food on the table shorty.....lolololol!!!!!! Fuck you and your nannners!!!!!
Well I spent time with my children this weekend, which was the main goal
Did rotten crotch pay a visit to your old crippled diabetic ass?
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
And fatty 2 lbs of chanterelles would bring in more than your bookkeeping ass could in a month
LOL
Living Green , well done.
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anonymousJuly 24, 2022 at 4:59 PM
went foraging with my son today, found 2 lbs of chanterelles .
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