Texas megachurch pastor Robert Morris, who Donald Trump once named as a spiritual adviser to his administration, announced he was stepping down from Gateway Church amid allegations he molested a 12-year-old girl in the 1980s....
Samuel Alito was again absent from the Supreme Court on Friday after skipping out on Thursday. No information has yet been provided by the court for Alito’s mysterious absence, which comes as the court is issuing decisions before the end of its term and leaves nothing but questions on his whereabouts....
Not to speak for the other person but I feel the same way. His win in 2016 was a fluke.
It won’t be a fluke, this time. Republicans in Red states have spent the last couple years ramming through laws making it harder to vote. And they will certainly be claiming massive fraud again, sans evidence, and tying up certification in their states for as long as possible giving SCOTUS the chance to step in like they did in Florida 2000 when SCOTUS handed the states votes to Bush.
Even so, three justices—Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Clarence Thomas—have spent two years campaigning for the independent-state-legislature doctrine in judicial statements and dissents. None of those writings carried the force of law, but together they served as invitations for a plaintiff to bring them a case suitable to their purpose. A fourth justice, Brett Kavanaugh, wrote a concurrence in which he invited the North Carolina Republicans in the Moore case to return to the Supreme Court after losing an emergency motion. Where John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett stand on the doctrine is unclear.
You can be certain that there will be lawsuits filed within hours of the election claiming fraud and that the legislatures in those states can name their own electors. I wouldn’t even be surprised to see right wing terrorists attacking polling stations, disguised as AFTIFA of course, in order to give the legislatures ammo to support those efforts.
This could be the ugliest election in the history of this nation. The forces of evil are doing all they can to hand Trump another term.
Her… now former … husband was 22 when he hit on her, a 16 year old, working at McDonalds. That is how they met.
Hey, I think it’s important that we stick to facts here. Particularly when the facts are so very… I’m not sure what the term is. Let’s just say that the facts are very Boebert.
First of all, he was 24 at the time and she was 17, and it wasn’t a McDonalds, it was a bowling alley. Most importantly, I’m not sure it counts as ‘hitting on her’ when he took his dick out and flashed her and two other girls. He did time for it too, a whopping four days plus two years probation. It was after he got out that they got together. I guess it was a nice dick.
It’s Texas. He was probably shooting at a liberal. It’s de facto legal there. The Governor just pardoned a convicted murderer. This Uber driver had posted on line and in text messages that he wanted to kill racial justice protesters, then drove to a protest. He then found an armed protester (again, it’s Texas so of course there was one there), and got in an argument with him. Eventually, he got tired of waiting for the protester to point a gun at him so he could claim self defense and just shot the protester to death anyway. He was convicted and sentenced to jail. Abbott however, decided that that was unfair. He said, and this is a quote, “Texas has one of the strongest ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws of self-defense that cannot be nullified by a jury or a progressive District Attorney.”
So you see, in Texas, shooting at people, even killing them, isn’t apparently against the law if the people you are shooting at are liberals.
“I LOVE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, PRIVATE SCHOOLS, AND MANY OTHER PLACES, FOR THAT MATTER. READ IT — HOW CAN WE, AS A NATION, GO WRONG??? THIS MAY BE, IN FACT, THE FIRST MAJOR STEP IN THE REVIVAL OF RELIGION, WHICH IS DESPERATELY NEEDED, IN OUR COUNTRY. BRING BACK TTC!!! MAGA2024,” Trump wrote in the early...
If she did it, the judgement would immediately be appealed and she would get her pee pee slapped hard and the judgement would be overturned. Maybe, if the gods are good, she’ll be removed from the case. It seems unlikely that she will take that chance though since she can cause more delay by staying where she it, but who knows, she doesn’t seem to be the sharpest crayon in the box so maybe she will do it.
The whole point of this is just to delay until the election when Trump, should he be reelected, can undermine the whole thing. It’s clear that the attorney general can appoint a special council when an investigation by DoJ directly could present a conflict of interest. Making a bad ruling here might work for her though. Having the ruling appealed would certainly delay things at least a few weeks or a month and that could take us to the end of July before it was overturned and/or sent back down to her court.
If the appeals court does finally decide to give her the boot, it would take quite a while to get a new judge appointed and a new trial underway. There would be no chance of a decision before the election and that is the whole goal. Plus, then she’d probably be free to go on the right wing talk circuit and make piles of money while still supporting Trump.
Trump’s energy in the meeting was also noticeably subdued, according to two people who were in the room. At no time during his remarks was there any noticeable applause for Trump, two attendees told CNBC.
This was in contrast to Trump’s meeting earlier in the day with House Republicans on Capitol Hill. Attendees at that meeting told CNBC that the former president was animated and engaged and that Trump received several rounds of applause in separate meetings Thursday with both House and Senate Republicans.
Guess the Adderall wore off and they didn’t want to give him any more so near bed time.
Not a law-talker type here, but essentially, when the legislature creates an agency like the FDA, it delegates powers to them to make rulings on certain matters but does not specifically legislate every decision that agency has to make. It says that the FDA can make rulings about drug safety, but it doesn’t say explicitly what drugs the FDA can make decisions about.
In this particular case, the FDA has said that a drug, mifepristone, is safe and doctors can prescribe it to patients. The law suit claimed that the FDA overstepped it’s authority because the legislature never explicitly gave the FDA the power to do that. This is a flawed argument because SCOTUS already decided, in the linked case above, that it was inappropriate for the court to substitute its own interpretation of a rule on an issue like this where the legislature gave an agency an implicit power to make such a decision as long as the agency’s decision is reasonable.
That is the Chevron Deference. It means that the courts should defer to agency rulings when those rulings are reasonable even if the power to make the ruling is only implicitly granted to the agency.
I may not be dead on the mark here, but I think I’m fairly close. If not, I’m sure some real law-talker type will be along to correct me.
That’s a given, as far as I’m concerned. When someone tells me they think sexual orientation is a choice, I ask them, “When did you decide to be straight? Because if you chose to be straight, then you must have felt some attraction to the opposite sex. If not, then there was never a choice to be made.”
If it applied to President, it would include Trump, unless I’m reading it wrong. Trump just turned 78, he will turn 81 in 2027, the year prior to the end of the term for which he’d be running.
A federal judge on Tuesday struck down a 2023 Florida law that blocked gender-affirming care for transgender minors and severely restricted such treatment for adults, calling the statute unconstitutional....
Yes, probably. But a larger military means more money piped into the military budget, even in peacetime, if there ever is such a thing again. And a larger budget means more money funneled into the military industrial teat for the GOP and their donors to suckle off of.
“Students don’t lose their free speech rights the moment they walk into a school building,” Cortman added. “The government cannot silence any speaker just because it disapproves of what they say.”
More time wasting from the Republicans. They’ve already got the transcripts. They just want the audio so they can look for sound bites to take out of context.
If there is a file that lists of all the people compromised by Epstein that could be released, you can bet there would be at least a few major Dem players on it along with the names we know, or at least strongly suspect are on it. Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans nor any party in any other nation wants that information released.
Why would billionaires support Trump? It’s not as if they’ve done badly under President Biden. Stock prices — which Trump predicted would crash if he lost in 2020 — have soared. High interest rates, which are a burden on many Americans, are if anything a net positive for wealthy people with money to invest. And I doubt...
Power is surely a factor, but I think money is still a major driving force. When a person gets to a certain level of wealth, they seem to develop a mental illness. It’s like an addiction that compels them to constantly try to get more. There is no level of wealth that is enough to satisfy them.
So the clown that brought his loaded gun to airport, and who got cited for tailgating, speeding, driving with a suspended license, when he rear-ended a Florida State trooper is now an honorary county sheriff and is excited to serve in this powerless role that requires him to do nothing. I wonder how much he bribed the sheriff’s office for that trinket?
“You can help prevent ozone pollution by sharing a ride, walking, riding a bicycle, taking your lunch to work, avoiding drive through lanes, conserving energy and keeping your vehicle properly tuned.”
Oh, and stop rolling coal you dumb fucking rednecks!
Plus, riding your bike while the air quality is at “concerning” levels just doesn’t seem like the ideal solution. You screw up your lungs to make a teaspoon of a difference while every factory in the area keeps churning out buckets of pollution.
Four months ago, after weeks of intense negotiation between my staff and Democrats and Republicans, we came to a clear — clear bipartisan deal that was the strongest border security agreement in decades. But then Republicans in Congress — not all, but — walked away from it. Why? Because Donald Trump told them to. He told...
The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies. When I was a boy I was taught to think of Englishmen as the five-meal people. They ate more frequently than the poor but sober Italians. Jews are rich and help each other through a secret web of mutual assistance. However, the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. - Umberto Eco, https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fascism, 1995
They are doing the same thing with Biden. Watch out! The Biden is getting away with massive crimes and using the deep state to take over the country, but at the same time, Biden is a doddering old fool who is too senile to accomplish anything.
The Biden Administration’s robust and durable track record on jobs and unemployment is breaking records, putting up some of the best results we’ve seen in half a century.
Since the trough of the COVID-19 recession in the second quarter of 2020, overall prices in the NFC [non-financial corporate] sector have risen at an annualized rate of 6.1%—a pronounced acceleration over the 1.8% price growth that characterized the pre-pandemic business cycle of 2007–2019. Strikingly, over half of this increase (53.9%) can be attributed to fatter profit margins, with labor costs contributing less than 8% of this increase. This is not normal. From 1979 to 2019, profits only contributed about 11% to price growth and labor costs over 60%
Corporations are making record profits while they jack up prices on everything, but sure, blame Biden.
Damn, I’d never heard the Aladdin thing before. I really didn’t believe that I could think less of this clown, but there you go. Making fun of a little kid at a music recital. There’s just no evil too petty for these people to indulge in.
We’re called Proud Boys because I went to one of my kids’ music recitals and some ponce got up there and while everyone’s playing the piano and the violin and doing stuff they tried, he gets up and he goes, “Proud of your boy, I’ll make you proud of your boy.” It’s some song from “Aladdin.” And I was looking around for the dad because I thought there’s no way this dad is proud of his boy, and of course, he was the child of a single mom…duh! His mother told him, yes sing a song, that’s a talent, and there was no dad to say no you’re not, play the piano for christ’s sakes.
As ProPublica previously reported, in 2019, Thomas flew to Indonesia on Crow’s private jet for an extended island cruise on Crow’s superyacht. If Thomas had chartered the plane and the yacht himself, it could have cost more than half a million dollars.
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Thomas received undisclosed vacations from Crow and other wealthy benefactors virtually every year for more than two decades.
There’s no way he could afford to pay back all that value without taking a lot more bribes gifts.
The CEO [Devin Nunes] asked the Nasdaq to "fulsomely cooperate with any and all congressional or other investigations into these firms
Fulsomely? Really? He wants them to cooperate in a way that expresses a lot of admiration or praise for someone, often too much, in a way that does not sound sincere?
Some people simply cannot open their mouths without actually proving how stupid they really are. It’s remarkable how often such people are drawn to Trump’s orbit too.
They are going through proper channels. What he is doing is signing an Executive Order allowing him to close those channels when the border is overwhelmed. This is a complicated situation and I don’t think this is generally a good move. I would rather see more resources put towards processing immigrants so that the border doesn’t get overwhelmed in the first place.
Honestly, I think that this is a purely political maneuver to make the Republicans look like fools, not that they need help with that. They have constantly been screeching about the border crisis and invasions, and such nonsense, then they bowed to their orange lord and tanked the bipartisan immigration bill in the house. I suspect that Biden is taking this step so that every time they squeal about the border, he can point out that while they do nothing but block solutions, he is actually doing something. Just signing the order is enough. He never even has to implement it.
The message to Colorado Republicans was headlined with an image reading “God Hates Flags,” a nod to the anti-gay slur on the picket signs of the infamous Westboro Baptist Church.
So the article acknowledges that the GOP is clearly hinting that they agree with the loons at Westboro Baptist but fails to draw the obvious conclusion. If they are starting with God Hates Flags and ending with Burn Pride Flags, this is clearly a call for violence against LGBTQ+ people. If you know any LGBTQ+ folk in the area, keep an eye on them. Some red-hat loons will potentially respond to this not so subtle call to action.
Republicans continually have their head up their ass and can’t figure out how to actually use the power that the people gave us
Exactly what power did the American people give the republicans? They have a slight majority in the House of Representatives. That’s it. They are in the minority in the Senate and they don’t control the White House. If they did manage to impeach Biden in the House, it’s not like the Senate would vote to convict. And honestly, the only reason the Republicans have the slim majority in the House that they do is because of the absurd levels of gerrymandering they’ve pulled off in red states. Frankly, if it weren’t for all the gerrymandering, I’m pretty sure the Dems would have control of the House too.
So again, what power did the American people give the Republicans?
…and criminally falsified business records to claim those payments were legitimate business expanses. Everyone keeps forgetting the crime part of his crimes regarding his convictions.
Even if they do have 90% of the guns, they still only own about 30% of the trigger fingers. A guy with a garage full of guns can only shoot one at a time.
House Republican Lauren Boebert is polling 14 points behind potential Democratic rival Ike McCorkle in a hypothetic matchup for Colorado’s 4th Congressional District according to a survey conducted on behalf of his campaign....
Testing the boundaries?! No, he is blatantly violating corruption laws. He is asking for a quid pro quo, you do this for me and I’ll do that for you.
John Roberts, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the USA defined corruption as “a contribution to a particular candidate in exchange for his agreeing to do a particular act within his official duties.”
Don’t just follow state legislature races, vote in them! And local level elections as well. Vote in every election at every level. The reason the Republicans have the power that they do right now is because they have focused on taking over state legislatures for the last 20+ years with the intent of gaining control of the redistricting process in every state they can. They have been horrifyingly successful.
In 2009, Republicans controlled both chambers in just 14 state legislatures. Six years later, they had total control in more than double that number. And that’s not even the full, bad story for Democrats. Look at their numbers. In 2009, Democrats had full control in 27 state legislatures; by 2015 that number was down to 11, the lowest ebb for total Democratic control since, at least, 1978.
With control of those maps, the Republicans have all but election proofed their control in many states. In Ohio, for example, Trump won with 54% of the vote but the Republicans won 79% of the Senate seats in 2022. In Wisconsin, a Democrat won the Governor’s mansion with 51.2% of the vote but Republicans still took 65% of the state senate legislature.
In Arizona, the Republican legislature is trying to make themselves the sole authority in appointing presidential electors. This could allow them to claim fraud in the next election and tie the results up in court with the same lies they used in 2020. Then, when the deadline for for certification comes up, they could declare their own slate of electors to send to DC rather than the slate that the voters chose.
For the last couple cycles, the Republicans, particularly the more extreme branches, have been focused on local level races trying to take over school boards, city councils, and elected law enforcement positions. We as a society cannot let that happen. These people only seek to line their own pockets and accumulate power for themselves and their allies.
Vote in every election as if your life, or at least your livelihood, depends on it. Because someday it just may.
Trump’s Spiritual Adviser Resigns Amid Allegations He Molested 12-Year-Old (www.thedailybeast.com)
Texas megachurch pastor Robert Morris, who Donald Trump once named as a spiritual adviser to his administration, announced he was stepping down from Gateway Church amid allegations he molested a 12-year-old girl in the 1980s....
Samuel Alito’s Mysterious Absence From Supreme Court Raises Questions (newrepublic.com)
Samuel Alito was again absent from the Supreme Court on Friday after skipping out on Thursday. No information has yet been provided by the court for Alito’s mysterious absence, which comes as the court is issuing decisions before the end of its term and leaves nothing but questions on his whereabouts....
Introducing Disrespectability Politics (medium.com)
Trump's Not 'Bluffing': Inside the MAGA Efforts To Make a Second Term Even More Extreme (www.rollingstone.com)
"We need morals back": Lauren Boebert preaches Ten Commandments on Bannon podcast (www.salon.com)
The Supreme Court just proved that its gun rulings have been a disaster (www.motherjones.com)
Accused adulterer Trump who paid to keep Stormy Daniels affair secret professes ‘love’ for the Ten Commandments (www.independent.co.uk)
“I LOVE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, PRIVATE SCHOOLS, AND MANY OTHER PLACES, FOR THAT MATTER. READ IT — HOW CAN WE, AS A NATION, GO WRONG??? THIS MAY BE, IN FACT, THE FIRST MAJOR STEP IN THE REVIVAL OF RELIGION, WHICH IS DESPERATELY NEEDED, IN OUR COUNTRY. BRING BACK TTC!!! MAGA2024,” Trump wrote in the early...
Aileen Cannon to entertain Trump’s claim the special counsel is unlawful in Friday hearing | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)
“Judge Aileen Cannon will begin three days of hearings that could determine the future of the charges against the former president....
Pharma Exec Will Testify About Ozempic's Absurd Price Tag After Pressure From Bernie Sanders (gizmodo.com)
CEOs at Trump meeting: Ex-president ‘meandering’ and ‘doesn't know what he's talking about’ (www.cnbc.com)
Supreme Court rejects challenge to abortion pill mifepristone (www.cnn.com)
North Carolina's GOP opposes embryo destruction. That could threaten IVF (www.motherjones.com)
Largest Protestant denomination votes to oppose IVF (www.politico.com)
Well-Known Anti-Gay “Conversion” Therapist Comes Out As Gay (mavenroundtable.io)
North Dakota voters pass measure to impose age limits on congressional candidates (www.nbcnews.com)
CNN calls out Fox’s very different reactions to Hunter Biden and Trump convictions (www.independent.co.uk)
Martha-Ann Alito Fantasizes About Flag Designs to Piss Off Her Neighbors (www.jezebel.com)
A Florida law blocking treatment for transgender children is thrown out by a federal judge (apnews.com)
A federal judge on Tuesday struck down a 2023 Florida law that blocked gender-affirming care for transgender minors and severely restricted such treatment for adults, calling the statute unconstitutional....
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Trump advisers propose mandatory military service (wapo.st)
Some in the former president’s camp say it’s time more young adults put “some skin in the game.”...
Massachusetts school can in fact ban 'there are only two genders' T-shirt, federal appeals court rules (www.advocate.com)
House Republicans eye Garland contempt vote over refusal to turn over Biden special counsel interview audio - ABC News (abcnews.go.com)
He can line up behind Kevin McCarthy, Jim Jordan, Scott Perry, Andy Biggs and Mo Brooks .
Fox News Edited Out trump Saying He Might Keep Epstein Files Sealed (www.huffpost.com)
Freedom’s Just Another Word for Not Paying Taxes (www.nytimes.com)
Why would billionaires support Trump? It’s not as if they’ve done badly under President Biden. Stock prices — which Trump predicted would crash if he lost in 2020 — have soared. High interest rates, which are a burden on many Americans, are if anything a net positive for wealthy people with money to invest. And I doubt...
Madison Cawthorn Named Honorary Sheriff’s Deputy in Florida (www.thedailybeast.com)
Drop in violent crime is ‘no accident,’ Biden says (thehill.com)
Texas asks people to avoid using their cars (www.newsweek.com)
Remarks by President Biden on Securing Our Border (www.whitehouse.gov)
Four months ago, after weeks of intense negotiation between my staff and Democrats and Republicans, we came to a clear — clear bipartisan deal that was the strongest border security agreement in decades. But then Republicans in Congress — not all, but — walked away from it. Why? Because Donald Trump told them to. He told...
Record-Breaking Accomplishments On Jobs And Unemployment Under Biden (www.forbes.com)
The Biden Administration’s robust and durable track record on jobs and unemployment is breaking records, putting up some of the best results we’ve seen in half a century.
The Proud Boys are back: How the far-right group is rebuilding to rally behind Trump (www.reuters.com)
Justice Clarence Thomas Acknowledges He Should Have Disclosed Free Trips From Billionaire Donor (www.propublica.org)
Trump Complains Not a Single Juror Smiled at Him (www.thedailybeast.com)
Trump Media asks Nasdaq to cooperate with investigations into trading of its shares (www.reuters.com)
Everything related to this man fails to adhere to the laws of physics / reality.
Israel Secretly Targets U.S. Lawmakers With Influence Campaign on Gaza War [Sheera Frenkel | Jun 05 24 | NYTimes] (www.nytimes.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/16206828...
Democrats decry Biden executive order turning away some asylum seekers | US-Mexico border (www.theguardian.com)
Colorado Republican Party issues call to burn all Pride flags (www.9news.com)
‘Head Up Their Ass!’ Marjorie Taylor Greene Melts Down Over ‘Feckless, Useless Republican Party’ (www.mediaite.com)
House candidate faced domestic violence charges in 2002 - New Jersey Globe (newjerseyglobe.com)
One in 10 Republicans less likely to vote for Trump after guilty verdict, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds (www.reuters.com)
Newsmax Host Ominously Warns ‘You People in Your Cities’ Who Are ‘Pushing the Party That Owns 90% of the Guns’ (www.mediaite.com)
Newsmax host Carl Higbie went on a tirade on Friday after former President Donald Trump was convicted by a Manhattan jury the day before....
Live Updates: Trump Lashes Out After Conviction in Misleading Speech (www.nytimes.com)
Washington Post Coverage as well
Lauren Boebert 14 points behind Democrat opponent in Colorado poll (www.newsweek.com)
House Republican Lauren Boebert is polling 14 points behind potential Democratic rival Ike McCorkle in a hypothetic matchup for Colorado’s 4th Congressional District according to a survey conducted on behalf of his campaign....
Breaking: Trump Verdict Livethread
Jury HAS reached a verdict. 11 hours, 43 minutes....
Proposed Texas GOP platform calls for the Bible in schools, electoral changes that would lock Democrats out of statewide office (www.texastribune.org)
Trump makes sweeping promises to donors on audacious fundraising tour |By tying donation requests to pledges of tax cuts and other policies, Trump is testing the boundaries of federal campaign finance (wapo.st)
It’s called soliciting bribes. And really really damaging to have our government run in this kind of transactional impact.
Following Abortion Ballot Measure Efforts? You Should Follow State Legislature Races Too (www.jezebel.com)