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What really bothers me is the departure from the established norms for interviewing a prospective conservative Supreme Court Justice outlined in the Malleus Maleficarum. There is a right way and a wrong way to do this. They should at least honor tradition.
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NYT playing a dangerous game:
“President Trump participated in dubious tax schemes during the 1990s, including instances of outright fraud, that greatly increased the fortune he received from his parents, an investigation by The New York Times has found.”
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Good thing I don't believe everything that shows up on the internet as "truth".
If I even believe half my head would probably explode like happens in the movies.
Entertainment value is all this stuff is good for, at least until the next season of "Game Of Thrones" is available.
If I even believe half my head would probably explode like happens in the movies.
Entertainment value is all this stuff is good for, at least until the next season of "Game Of Thrones" is available.
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https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/40...mpression=true
By John Solomon
By John Solomon
Opinion ContributorCongressional investigators have confirmed that a top FBI official met with Democratic Party lawyers to talk about allegations of Donald Trump-Russia collusion weeks before the 2016 election, and before the bureau secured a search warrant targeting Trump's campaign.Former FBI general counsel James Baker met during the 2016 season with at least one attorney from Perkins Coie, the Democratic National Committee's private law firm.That's the firm used by the DNC and Hillary Clinton's campaign to secretly pay research firmFusion GPS and Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence operative, to compile a dossier of uncorroborated raw intelligence alleging Trump and Moscow were colluding to hijack the presidential election.The dossier, though mostly unverified, was then used by the FBI as the main evidence seeking a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant targeting the Trump campaign in the final days of the campaign.The revelation was confirmed both in contemporaneous evidence and testimony secured by a joint investigation by Republicans on the House Judiciary and Government Oversight committees, my source tells me.It means the FBI had good reason to suspect the dossier was connected to the DNC's main law firm and was the product of a Democratic opposition-research effort to defeat Trump - yet failed to disclose that information to the FISA court in October 2016, when the bureau applied for a FISA warrant to surveil Trump campaign adviser Carter Page."This is a bombshell that unequivocally shows the real collusion was between the FBI and Donald Trump's opposition - the DNC, Hillary and a Trump-hating British intel officer - to hijack the election, rather than some conspiracy between Putin and Trump," a knowledgeable source told me.Baker was interviewed by lawmakers behind closed doors on Wednesday. Sources declined to divulge his testimony, other than to say it confirmed other evidence about the contact between the Perkins Coie law firm and the FBI.The sources also said Baker's interview broke new ground both about the FBI's use of news media in 2016 and 2017 to further the Trump case and about Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's conversations in spring 2017 regarding possible use of a body wire to record Trump."The interview was one of the most productive we had and it opened up many new investigative leads," one source said.Another said Baker could not answer some questions about FBI media contacts, citing an ongoing investigation by the Justice Department inspector general into alleged illegal leaks, during and after the election, about the Trump collusion probe and other matters.These revelations illustrate anew how much the FBI and Justice Department have withheld from the public about their collaboration and collusion with clearly partisan elements of the Clinton campaign and the DNC, Fusion and Steele, that were trying to defeat Trump.The growing body of evidence that the FBI used mostly politically-motivated, unverified intelligence from an opponent to justify spying on the GOP nominee's campaign - just weeks before Election Day - has prompted a growing number of Republicans to ask President Trump to declassify the rest of the FBI's main documents in the Russia collusion case.House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), House Freedom Caucus leaders Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), veteran investigator Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) and many others have urged the president to act on declassification even as FBI and Justice Department have tried to persuade the president to keep documents secret.Ryan has said he believes the declassification will uncover potential FBI abuses of the FISA process. Jordan said he believes there is strong evidence the bureau misled the FISA court. Nunes has said the FBI intentionally hid exculpatory evidence from the judges.And Meadows told The Hill's new morning television show, Rising, on Wednesday that there is evidence the FBI had sources secretly record members of the Trump campaign."There's a strong suggestion that confidential human sources actually taped members within the Trump campaign," Meadows told Hill.TV hosts Krystal Ball and Ned Ryun.
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Originally Posted by Pretty much every living human on earth
Kavanaughqplxtsgrbl!
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Because THAT is how you play this game. "Look behind you! A three-headed monkey!"
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I suspect that whatever his personal views before the Senate "Job Interview" process, Brett Kavanaugh probably has some strongly negative feelings towards the Democrats that will color his Supreme Court judgements in the future presuming he gets confirmed.
In Oklahoma terms;
The Democrats shot themselves in the foot by Tarring & Feathering Kavanaugh and it will have a ripple effect for the next 30 years.
In Oklahoma terms;
The Democrats shot themselves in the foot by Tarring & Feathering Kavanaugh and it will have a ripple effect for the next 30 years.
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Turn the Supreme Court into computer generated rulings and you will get unbiased decisions, or at least as unbiased as the programmers writing the program logic loop.
Barring that, nothing in the court system from top to bottom will ever be immune from politics.
Laws are written by politically biased politicians.
Those same politically biased laws are haphazardly enforced by Law Enforcement which also has their own political bias added to the mix.
Trials happen and people are found innocent or guilty based on those same biased laws and biased law enforcement and the bias of the individual jurors.
Judges who have their own ingrained bias oversee the legal process.
It is a mess but, flawed as it may be, it is arguably the best system in the modern world.
Some days that is the best we can hope for.
Barring that, nothing in the court system from top to bottom will ever be immune from politics.
Laws are written by politically biased politicians.
Those same politically biased laws are haphazardly enforced by Law Enforcement which also has their own political bias added to the mix.
Trials happen and people are found innocent or guilty based on those same biased laws and biased law enforcement and the bias of the individual jurors.
Judges who have their own ingrained bias oversee the legal process.
It is a mess but, flawed as it may be, it is arguably the best system in the modern world.
Some days that is the best we can hope for.
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gop...lee-other-dems
A Democratic congressional intern was arrested Wednesday and accused of posting the personal information of at least one Republican senator during last week's hearing about sexual assault claims against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, authorities said.
U.S. Capitol Police said 27-year-old Jackson Cosko was charged with making public restricted personal information, witness tampering, threats in interstate communication, unauthorized access of a government computer, identity theft, second-degree burglary and unlawful entry. Police added that the investigation was continuing and more charges could be filed.
Senior congressional sources tell Fox News that Cosko most recently worked as an unpaid intern for Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas. He previously worked with Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., and former Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer of California. He also worked or interned with the office of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, as well as with at least one other unnamed lawmaker. A LinkedIn page with Cosko's name on it describes him as a "Democratic Political Professional & Cybersecurity Graduate Student."
U.S. Capitol Police said 27-year-old Jackson Cosko was charged with making public restricted personal information, witness tampering, threats in interstate communication, unauthorized access of a government computer, identity theft, second-degree burglary and unlawful entry. Police added that the investigation was continuing and more charges could be filed.
Senior congressional sources tell Fox News that Cosko most recently worked as an unpaid intern for Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas. He previously worked with Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., and former Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer of California. He also worked or interned with the office of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, as well as with at least one other unnamed lawmaker. A LinkedIn page with Cosko's name on it describes him as a "Democratic Political Professional & Cybersecurity Graduate Student."