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USSC refuses to block release of Trump docs to House.
That stalling tactic fizzled pretty quick.
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain
I think we all know what those documents will show.
Sadly, it won't matter.
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain
Hang tight. Fox will report it once Trump makes a statement. They need to know how he wants to spin this first.
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain
Google works. It is international news so you can find it most anywhere.
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain
Neil Gorsuch
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
NPR is standing by reporting from its legal affairs correspondent, Nina Totenberg, alleging that Justice Neil Gorsuch refused a request from Chief Justice John Roberts that the he don a mask on the bench — a request that Totenberg implied was made by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who is diabetic.
All three justices disputed Totenberg’s story on Wednesday.
First, Justices Sotomayor and Gorsuch issued a joint statement stating that “reporting that Justice Sotomayor asked Justice Gorsuch to wear a mask surprised us. It is false. While we may sometimes disagree about the law, we are warm colleagues and friends.”
Then, Chief Justice Roberts issued a separate statement insisting that he “did not request Justice Gorsuch or any other Justice to wear a mask on the bench.”
Nevertheless, Totenberg wrote the following in a piece published on Wednesday evening:
“On Wednesday, Sotomayor and Gorsuch issued a statement saying that she did not ask him to wear a mask. NPR’s report did not say that she did. Then, the chief justice issued a statement saying he ‘did not request Justice Gorsuch or any other justice to wear a mask on the bench.’ The NPR report said the chief justice’s ask to the justices had come ‘in some form.'”
“NPR stands by its reporting,” added Totenberg.
Yet Roberts’s statement would seem to leave little room for any form of an ask. Totenberg’s original report read as follows:
“… Sotomayor did not feel safe in close proximity to people who were unmasked. Chief Justice John Roberts, understanding that, in some form asked the other justices to mask up. They all did. Except Gorsuch, who, as it happens, sits next to Sotomayor on the bench.”
I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
- Justice Brett Kavanaugh
I am still on break. I am going to try to stay on break until next year, maybe giving Kelly and Abrams some money.
JM
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| January 19, 2022 09:00 PM
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Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked two election bills authored by Democrats that would have rolled back red-state voter integrity laws and increased federal oversight of elections.
The move by Republicans to filibuster the 700-page legislation triggered a plan by Democrats to vote on a change in the rules that would modify the 60-vote threshold and instead require lawmakers to engage in a nonstop speech in order to prevent final passage of the legislation.
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“This is a moral moment in America,” Sen Raphael Warnock, a Georgia Democrat and advocate of the voting overhaul bills whose reelection bid in November may depend on blocking new Peach State voter integrity laws.
Democrats framed the legislation as critical for preserving equal access to the polls, while Republicans argued that the two bills, which were combined into one measure, would federalize elections, encourage voter fraud, and favor Democratic victories.
Republicans pointed out that many of the red states' changes Democrats complain about leave in place far more permissive voting rules than those in some blue states.
Georgia allows 17 days of early voting, compared to nine days in New York, home of Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. President Joe Biden’s home state of Delaware did not allow any days for early voting in the last election.
“If this is Jim Crow 2.0, then I have bad news because the Democratic leader’s home state of New York and the president’s home state of Delaware were engaged in what I guess you would call 'Jim Crow 3.0.'”
Democrats pivoted to efforts to overhaul election and campaign laws after they failed to pass Biden’s $1.75 trillion Build Back Better legislation. The move also followed efforts by nearly three dozen states to reform election laws in order to improve voter integrity. Changes included the reversals of new regulations imposed under the pandemic, such as the widespread use of ballot boxes and mail-in voting. The new laws also added voter ID requirements.
The changes, Democrats said, would make it harder for people to vote.
Democrats argued that more access to voting provided under their legislation would ensure more equality.
Minority communities have faced long lines to vote, which could easily discourage participation.
“We know in many parts of America [that] black voters have to wait twice as long in line than white voters to cast their ballot,” Sen. Tom Carper, a Delaware Democrat, said. “This is not just morally wrong — it’s an assault on who we are as a people.”
I guess no one believed that black people wait in line for 9 hours to vote, like Sen. Booker (Sparticus) claimed.
I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
- Justice Brett Kavanaugh
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