The Zenger Society: A Forum For Free Speech (Page 334) MJ59: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/12/09/texas-supreme-court-election-lawsuit/ Texas can’t block votes cast in other states. Absurdly, it’s trying. The Supreme Court is sure to reject this latest attempt to overturn the election. The litigation is legally incoherent, factually untethered and based on theories of remedy that fundamentally misunderstand the electoral process. At the core, it is an uninspired retread of the many state-level claims that already have imploded since Nov. 3. Texas has simply delivered these defective claims in an even worse package. Among the more novel flaws afflicting this lawsuit is that Texas should not have filed it. Texas does not have standing in federal court to vindicate the voting rights of other states’ voters — much less standing to undercut the rights of those voters. Independently, Texas officials should not have filed these claims directly in the Supreme Court. Filing directly is improper because other courts have been available to hear claims of this nature — and, indeed, other courts have heard and repeatedly rejected them. (Edited by MJ59) MJ59: Hmmmm more charming trumpets: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/12/09/idaho-coronavirus-protest-homes/ Minutes into a public health district’s virtual meeting to vote on a local mask mandate in Idaho on Tuesday evening, Ada County Commissioner Diana Lachiondo tearfully excused herself after getting a phone call that anti-mask protesters had surrounded her home. “My 12-year-old son is home by himself right now, and there are protesters banging outside the door,” she told the Central District Health’s Board of Health, which serves four counties in the state’s most populous region. “I’m going to go home and make sure he’s okay.” A visibly upset Lachiondo then disconnected from the video call, leaving her colleagues at the meeting stunned. They soon learned that protesters had gathered outside the Central District Health office and one other board member’s residence as well, targeting the public officials who were meeting virtually from their homes and private offices as a precaution amid the worsening pandemic. (Post deleted by Account Closed ) (Post deleted by Account Closed ) (Post deleted by Account Closed )  KeithJ: Beaver that old picture of you looks like some one i knew in high school a year behind my grade ,,he was a funny guy always made you laugh . MJ59: (ORDER LIST: 592 U.S.) FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2020 ORDER IN PENDING CASE 155, ORIG. TEXAS V. PENNSYLVANIA, ET AL. The State of Texas’s motion for leave to file a bill of complaint is denied for lack of standing under Article III of the Constitution. Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another State conducts its elections. All other pending motions are dismissed as moot.Statement of Justice Alito, with whom Justice Thomas joins: In my view, we do not have discretion to deny the filing of a bill of complaint in a case that falls within our original jurisdiction. See Arizona v. California, 589 U. S. ___ (Feb. 24, 2020) (Thomas, J., dissenting). I would therefore grant the motion to file the bill of complaint but would not grant other relief, and I express no view on any other issue MJ59: Hmmmmm people in the americans for trump chatrooms seem upset??? Why would they not want a victory for democracy?  MJ59: S.V. Dáte: Trump is Corrupt Updated: Nov 25 Editor's Note: S.V. Dáte is a senior White House correspondent for HuffPost and the author of The Useful Idiot, an examination into Donald Trump's corruption of the Republican party and his failed management of the coronavirus pandemic. Dáte earned national attention and acclaim in August for asking Donald Trump if he regretted lying so much to the American people, a question the president refused to answer. On Saturday, Dáte wrote a "brief dissertation on Trump's corruption," over 9 tweets on his Twitter account. MaxNewsToday has assembled these tweets and reprinted them as one easy-to-read editorial as a public service to the nation. His tweetstorm has been edited for clarity. A BRIEF DISSERTION ON TRUMP’S CORRUPTION One place where journalism clearly has failed us during the past four years is in describing Trump’s personal corruption. We’re trained to be cautious with pejorative words, so we didn’t want to use it. Trump took advantage of that. When a lobbyist or CEO who wants something from the federal government books a hotel room or has a meal or buys a drink at Trump International Hotel in D.C., knowing full well that some of that money is going to wind up in Trump’s pocket, THAT IS CORRUPTION. When Trump continues to accept money from lobbyists and CEOs who want something from the federal government, THAT IS CORRUPTION. When Trump insists on frequenting his own properties when he travels, knowing that federal employees must stay with him and that some of that money winds up in his own pocket, THAT IS CORRUPTION. Mind you, that’s not just my opinion. That is literally the dictionary definition of corruption. If a county or state or any other federal official had done these things, that person could be prosecuted and imprisoned. Do people honestly not understand this? Trump is immune from prosecution because he is president. But what he is doing is just straight-up illegal in just about every jurisdiction in this country. And, yet, when this is covered at all, it is couched with “critics say there is a conflict of interest….” NO. A conflict of interest would be if the friend of a brother-in-law were profiting. This is open-and-shut corruption. Period. I sometimes wonder if Trump really were to shoot someone on 5th Avenue, what the coverage would be. “The president appears to have shot someone on the street. Critics suggest this was an overreach of executive power.” This timidity with the English language extended to other areas. Perfect example: Russian “meddling” in the 2016 election. NO. They didn’t play some harmless pranks. They actively worked to get Donald Trump elected. KeithJ: Not to mention his letting the Genovese mafia over charge him for concrete and labor ect ect so they could hand him money under the table so he could hand it back to them washed the dirty money for them. yeah a honest good guy aye .
MJ59: Seems they're getting mighty sick of dumpster: 18 min ago Michigan congressman announces decision to leave GOP: "This party has to stand up for democracy first" From CNN's Jake Tapper In an exclusive interview, Rep. Paul Mitchell, Republican of Michigan, told CNN that his disgust and disappointment with President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the election have led him to request that the Clerk of the House change his party affiliation to "independent," and to notify GOP leaders in a letter that he is withdrawing his "engagement and association with the Republican Party at both the national and state level." "I supported the administration policies 95, 96% of the time the last two terms. I've been actual in the national state party. But this party has to stand up for democracy first, for our constitutional first and not political considerations. It's not about a candidate. It's not simply for raw political power and that is what I feel is going on and I've had enough," Mitchell told CNN's Jake Tapper. Mitchell, who is retiring at the end of this session of Congress, says he fears that the House GOP leadership's participation in the outgoing President's conspiracy theories and attempts to disenfranchise millions of American voters to overturn President-elect Joe Biden's victory could cause "long-term harm to our democracy." "This election simply confirms to me that it's all about power first, and that frankly is disgusting and demoralizing," Mitchell said. Mitchell added that he believed that the Texas lawsuit was "ridiculous" and he didn't "believe the brief was appropriate or valid." "It's just blatantly an effort to say ‘we will do anything we can to overturn the election that we lost.’ I say in my letter, I've told you, Jake, anybody who gets into politics has to be willing to accept winning and losing with some level of grace and maturity. I've done both. Losing is brutal. It’s personal. It hurts. If you're not willing to accept that, you should not be in political leadership. You should not be," Mitchell said. Read Mitchell's full letter http://www.cnn.com/2020/12/14/politics/read-paul-mitchell-republican-party-letter/index.html | Politics Chat Room 85 People Chatting Similar Conversations |
