Mike Pence. Today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSj9vnIZPSg
They will never be able to navigate an incline again.
You know that every step he was thinking, “don’t slip, don’t slip, don’t slip,” but it was too late because we got into their heads.
Thanks to Kary for the heads up.
You can live-stream the House Judiciary Committee hearing at NPR. Click right here.
Aaron Zelinsky, who has worked at the department since 2014, planned to tell the committee that top leadership of the Justice Department leaned on the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Washington, D.C., to go easy on Trump’s friend Roger Stone.
The other witness is John W. Elias, who has worked as a career lawyer at the Justice Department for presidents of both political parties.
Elias described what he calls alleged abuse of power by the department in service of the administration’s political ends — acts serious enough to prompt the lawyer to report them to the inspector general and now, to Congress.
Hey, you’ve got time to watch. It ain’t like you’re going to Europe or anything.
Okay, Trump appointed members of the US Appeals Court have ordered federal district court Judge Emmet Sullivan to dismiss the case against Mike Flynn.
It was a surprise ruling and the dissenting judge on a 2 – 1 decision was not taking this stuff with a pleasant smile.
″ This appears to be the first time that we have issued a writ of mandamus to compel a district court to rule in a particular manner on a motion without first giving the lower court a reasonable opportunity to issue its own ruling,” Wilkins wrote.
It also appears to be “the first time any court has held that a district court must grant “leave of court” pursuant to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 48(a) without even holding a hearing on the merits of the motion;
Oh yeah, let’s just make up law as we go along. We can call it the Mike Flynn Exception.
I haven’t heard yet if Judge Sullivan is gonna take this without a fight.
Trump got his money’s worth this morning, using one of his judges on the DC Court to overrule district court judge Emmet Sullivan, ordering him to immediately drop the charges against Michael Flynn to which he had twice pleaded guilty. The order was written by Neomi Rao, a Trump appointee and protege of none other than Clarence Thomas. Rao was joined by Karen Henderson, an HW appointee. Robert Wilkins, an Obama appointee, disagreed.
The judicial branch of our government is now completely corrupted, caught in the iron grip of Trump criminality.
A Wall Street financial advisory firm has revised its predictions for the November election.
Financial advisory firm Signum Global Advisors is telling clients that it now believes the U.S. Senate is going to flip blue as presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden continues to surge past President Donald Trump in the polls.
The head of the firm tells his investors that “Biden and a Democratic-led Congress will likely lead to higher corporate taxes, including for tech, pharmaceutical and energy companies.”
Damn it to hell – let that be true.
If we take the White House and the Senate, no more of this pussy footing around making little tweaks here and there, acting scared of our own shadow. It is way past time for some major economic changes in this country. Social change will follow economic change, not the other way around. We get health care. We get a living minimum wage. We get a New Deal.
But, most of all, we get people who will provide leadership, not the self-serving, whiny, kool-aid crap we’re getting now. Make America Honorable Again.
If Democrats take the White House and the Senate, we have two years to clean up this mess.
Senate Republicans sent John Cornyn out to troll Kamala Harris while she explained that the Republican bill is an effort to derail actual police reform.
At the end, Senator Harris says 15 kind words, and then stands there, nicely smiling, while Cornyn bleeds out of the Senate floor. A warning to Republicans: Don’t send a fork to a knife fight, Boys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhkIZ_rVIa0
Thanks to G Foresight for the heads up.