Posts on Friday, December 11, 2020
The Supreme Court moved today to dismiss a case brought forth by the state of Texas to delay selection of electors in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Georgia.(Snip)While this is a huge “downer” for many Trump supporters, the fight is far from over.(Snip)If they could have demonstrated direct voter fraud to change the results of the election itself, they have had a better chance.(Snip)The case before the Wisconsin Supreme Court tomorrow has real legs. Lin Wood has his case docketed. Sidney Powell and the Trump campaign all have cases working their way up the ladder. Until January 20th comes or President Trump concedes, the battle continues.
President Trump on Friday signed an order giving federal workers a paid day off work on Christmas Eve.The news was a welcome surprise for workers who expected at most a half day.Trump’s order says, “All executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government shall be closed and their employees excused from duty on Thursday, December 24, 2020, the day before Christmas Day.”Former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton only gave half days when Christmas fell on a Friday, as it does this year.Obama allowed a half day in 2015 and 2009, GovExec reported. Clinton also allowed a half day
Someone leaked a zoom call that Joe Biden had with “civil rights leaders”–i.e., grifters like Al Sharpton–on Tuesday. It is interesting in several respects. Here, Biden urges his audience to lie low in talking about the police until the Georgia Senate elections have been decided on January 5, since “That’s how they beat the living hell out of us across the country, saying that we’re talking about defunding the police.” Yes, and it worked, because numerous Democratic Party leaders have said that when they say “Defund the police,” they mean “Defund the police.” Biden’s caution may not be surprising, but his explicit tying of the deception to January 5
In what is hoped to be the beginning of the end of America's COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday night authorized the first vaccine to prevent the disease.
The vaccine, developed by Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech, appears to be extremely safe and highly effective.
It was developed faster than any previously approved vaccine in the United States – not by compromising safety or accepting a mediocre vaccine as some feared – but by spending billions of taxpayer dollars and taking advantage of recent scientific advances.
The U.S. Supreme Court has issued a ruling in Texas’ lawsuit challenging election procedures in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin. The lawsuit divided the nation, with roughly half the states supporting and opposing the lawsuit, respectively. The Court just denied Texas’ request to file a Bill of Complaint. Justices Alito and Thomas would have granted it, but denied any additional relief.(Snip)“Standing” is required to sue because the federal courts can only hear actual cases and controversies, not hypothetical cases.
Republican Party of Texas Chairman Allen West suggested states should secede from the union after the Supreme Court refused to hear a case President Donald Trump wanted to use to overturn the presidential election. 'This decision establishes a precedent that says states can violate the US constitution and not be held accountable,' West said. 'Perhaps law-abiding states should bond together and form a Union of states that will abide by the constitution,' he added. His comments were quickly read as a push for secession, what southern states did in the lead-up to the Civil War, in a dispute over slavery.
WASHINGTON — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is one of several contenders under consideration by President-elect Joe Biden for the role of attorney general, a person with knowledge of the search process said Friday. The other three contenders at the moment include former Alabama Sen. Doug Jones, federal appeals court judge Merrick Garland and former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, said the person, who cautioned that no decision had been reached and no announcement was expected imminently. The person was not authorized to discuss the search process by name and spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press. The Associated
Republican Sen. Ben Sasse commended the Supreme Court for refusing to take a Texas case that President Donald Trump wanted to use to overturn the results of the presidential election.The Nebraska senator also mocked the president and his legal team's conspiracy theories used on Trump supporters to call into question the winner. 'Since Election Night, a lot of people have been confusing voters by spinning Kenyan Birther-type "Chavez rigged the election from the grave" conspiracy theories, but every American who cares about the rule of law should take comfort that the Supreme Court - including all three of President Trump's picks - closed the book on this nonsense,'
MADISON, WIS. — The conservative-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear arguments over the weekend on President Donald Trump’s state lawsuit seeking to disqualify more than 221,000 ballots and overturn his loss to Democrat Joe Biden in the battleground state.
The court’s decision to take the case, and to hear arguments on Saturday, came hours after a lower court judge ruled against Trump and said there was nothing illegal about the election or subsequent recount in the state’s two largest counties. The highly unusual Saturday arguments will come exactly 48 hours before Monday’s scheduled Electoral College vote.
New York City’s iconic 21 Club restaurant is closing down after 90 years of good food and even better celebrity intrigue.The historic restaurant, located on West 52nd Street in Midtown, has told its 148 employees that it has stopped business indefinitely, and that they’ll all be fired in early March, according to a tweet from a CNBC reporter posted Friday.The eatery opened in 1930 and is “one of America’s most famous speakeasies from the Prohibition Era,” a description from the its Facebook page says.The restaurant held 10 private dining rooms, including a Prohibition-era wine cellar,
WASHINGTON — Voters cast their ballots for president more than a month ago, but the votes that officially matter will be cast Monday. That’s when the Electoral College meets.
The Constitution gives the electors the power to choose the president, and when all the votes are counted Monday, President-elect Joe Biden is expected to have 306 electoral votes, more than the 270 needed to elect a president, to 232 votes for President Donald Trump.
The spotlight on the process is even greater this year because Trump has refused to concede the election
Briskly rejecting a long-shot but high-stakes case, the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday tossed out the Texas lawsuit that had become a vehicle for Republicans across the country to contest President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.
In a few brief sentences, the high court said it would not consider the case for procedural reasons, because Texas lacked standing to bring it.
Texas this week sued to challenge the election results in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin on the basis that those states implemented pandemic-related changes to election procedures that, Texas claimed, were illegal and cast into question the election results.
The coronavirus is accelerating a significant tech exodus out of California, with Oracle (ORCL) announcing Friday that it has moved its headquarters from Redwood City to Austin, Texas. The move came just days after Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk announced he’d be moving from Los Angeles to Austin. Other tech giants that have recently left California include Silicon Valley pioneer Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) and newly public software giant Palantir (PLTR).
The coronavirus pandemic and the new work from home reality for many tech workers have been a catalyst for many business leaders to leave the world’s most populous state, which might not be worth the sky-high real estate prices and taxes.
Oracle Corp. said it has moved its headquarters to Texas, from its home state of California to give employees more flexibility on where they do their jobs. The move to Austin from Redwood City “means that many of our employees can choose their office location as well as continue to work from home part time or all of the time,” Oracle said Friday in a regulatory filing. The company will continue “to support” its other U.S. office locations in Santa Monica, California, Seattle, Denver, Orlando and Burlington, Massachusetts, according to the filing.
Conservative commentator, business leader and former presidential candidate Herman Cain would have turned 75 on Sunday. He became one of the many casualties in America and the world’s ongoing battle against the COVID-19, dying of complications from the virus in July. The Georgia native was born on Dec. 13, 1945, just months after the end of World War II. Cain’s parents — Luther (a barber, janitor and chauffeur) and Lenora (a domestic worker) — had two big dreams for their family: to buy a house and to see their two sons graduate from college.
Metropolitan Nashville Police arrested a 21-year-old suspect in connection with the murder of Caitlyn Kaufman, a hospital nurse who was found shot dead in her car on a Tennessee interstate last week. MNPD tweeted that Devaunte L. Hill, a 21-year-old East Nashville resident, is being charged with criminal homicide in connection with Kaufman's killing. He was arrested by a SWAT team early Friday morning. "Hill was brought into police headquarters where he was interviewed by Homicide unit detectives Chris Dickerson and Jefferson Hughes
A small liberal arts college in Pennsylvania is offering a seminar that questions whether the idea of American progress since its founding to the present date is a myth. Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania offers a seminar as an option in its First-Year Seminars course requirement titled, “Is American Progress a Myth?” The seminar is taught by assistant professor of history Say Burgin. The syllabus for the course states: The history of the United States is often taught – and learned – as though the country evolved over time to become among the most just, fair and equitable nations in the world. But what if the US hasn’t
WILMINGTON, Del. — President-elect Joe Biden on Friday introduced five top picks for his new administration, drawing on leading names from the Obama White House while also tapping an Ohio congresswoman and a congressional committee veteran. Appearing at the afternoon event were Biden's choice for director of White House Domestic Policy Council, Susan Rice, who served as President Barack Obama’s national security adviser and U.N. ambassador; and Denis McDonough, Obama’s White House chief of staff, now nominated as veterans affairs secretary. Also attending will be Biden's selection for agriculture secretary, Tom Vilsack, who held the same post for Obama; Ohio Rep.
So now that it is overwhelmingly evident the New York Post’s initial Hunter and Jim Biden story wasn’t based on hacked material, wasn’t Russian misinformation, is clearly something people deserved to know before voting, and that big tech and America’s corporate media tried to make sure that didn’t happen – and that once again rather than alter their behavior or ask for forgiveness, they’re going to instead attempt to gaslight you about all of it – I have a number of questions.
First, when did Joe Biden first learn that his repeated claims the stories about his son and his brother were Fake News – or in his phrasing, debunked, smears
Why They Hate Trump
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Simply put, they hate Trump because he represents ordinary Americans — those who are not part of the political and corporate elite, who lack the advantages and connections of the Deep State, who are not media, academics, or celebs. President Trump puts ordinary Americans first, and it drives the elite nuts.
The elite have spent so many years enjoying their advantages, including the psychological advantage of despising ordinary people, that they panicked when someone tried to take it all away from them. They can't go on living without that warm, reassuring sense of superiority.
Contempt for average Americans was palpable in Hillary Clinton,
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has files from the laptop computer belonging to Seth Rich, a Democratic National Committee (DNC) employee who was killed in 2016, according to a new email.
The bureau also has tens of thousands of documents mentioning Rich.
The FBI “has completed the initial search identifying approximately 50 cross-reference serials, with attachments totaling over 20,000 pages, in which Seth Rich is mentioned,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrea Parker wrote in the message to attorney Ty Clevenger, (snip)“FBI has also located leads that indicate additional potential records that require further searching,” Parker added.
Former Trump administration official Ric Grenell reportedly received death threats from two students that want Grenell removed from his visiting scholar role at Carnegie Mellon University. Two female students reportedly discussed their plan to kill Grenell in a since-deleted conversion on social media.According to a report by the Washington Examiner, law enforcement officials are investigating a death threat against Richard Grenell, the former Acting Director of National Intelligence under President Trump.In a comment, a spokesperson for Carnegie Mellon said that authorities are investigating
The Arizona Republican Party, led by chairwoman Dr. Kelli Ward, announced on Friday it is appealing its election integrity case, taking it to the U.S. Supreme Court after the Arizona Supreme Court dismissed the case.“Our case is going to the Supreme Court of the United States,” Ward announced on Friday, expressing hope that it will be expedited and noting that, if accepted, they will only be the third 2020 presidential election case accepted by the highest court in the land:(Tweet/Video)
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson’s refusal to rule out a challenge of Electoral College results in Congress led to widespread Democratic criticism on Thursday, with an incoming state representative from Madison calling the Republican “delusional scum.”Speaking to reporters in Washington on Wednesday, Johnson, R-Oshkosh, did not rule out challenging the results of the Electoral College when Congress meets on Jan. 6 to formally certify the vote. Johnson also announced that the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which he chairs, would be holding a hearing next week on “irregularities” in the 2020 election.
Friday morning filed a "reply brief" with the Supreme Court as it asks the tribunal to hear its lawsuit that aims to essentially nullify the presidential elections in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia and Wisconsin -- putting the ball in the justices' court to issue an order in the case. The "briefing stage" of Supreme Court litigation consists of the first party, in this instance, Texas, asking the court to hear the case. Then opposition briefs are filed by those on the other side of the case. Then the first party is allowed to file a "reply brief," which Texas did Friday morning. "Defendant States do not seriously address grave issues of
‘March for Trump’ to take place in
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Tens of thousands of President Trump’s supporters are set to descend on Washington, D.C. this weekend to demand transparency and protect election integrity. One America News will have a crew on the ground Saturday, December 12 and will provide live coverage of the event. For more information on the event visit trumpmarch.com.One America’s Jack Posobiec spoke with an organizer for the ‘March for Trump’ tour and has more on what to expect. (Video) For more information on the event visit trumpmarch.com.
HOUSTON -The Texas lawsuit asking the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate President-elect Joe Biden’s victory has quickly become a conservative litmus test, as 106 members of Congress and multiple state attorneys general signed onto the case even as some have predicted it will fail. The Ohio members of Congress who have signed on are Republicans Jim Jordan, Bill Johnson, Bob Gibbs, Bob Latta and Brad Wenstrup. “The president has every right to insist his legal challenges be heard,” Johnson said in a statement. “Some of the voting irregularities in several swing states involve Constitutional issues…in my opinion.
COLUMBUS -- Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost on Thursday filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to accept the case of Texas vs. Pennsylvania and rule on the Constitution’s Electors Clause.(Snip) “Free and fair elections start with clear rules that don’t change right before the election,” Yost said.. “It is not unreasonable to wonder--and many millions of Americans do--whether those hastily implemented changes exposed the election systems to vulnerabilities. “If there is anything more American than representative government, it is a firm conviction that the rules ought not be changed after the game has begun," Yost said.
There’s a reason they’re using that word. “Overturned” is, in its very nature, a violent and often unwanted action.(Snip)First and foremost, this is gaslighting. They know that tens of millions of Americans do not believe the election was fair or that the results are finalized, but they want us to believe that we’re the crazy ones for not denouncing thousands of sworn affidavits.(Snip)Do not let the left dictate the narrative. They want us to use terms like “overturn” because it insinuates sinister intent. But our true goal is for the righteous and lawful results of the election to come to light, and that would be a Trump landslide.
The home of Bergen County Sheriff Anthony Cureton was vandalized Tuesday night after someone spray painted the words “Free them all” in black paint on his garage door, authorities said. Detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office were investigating the incident after they were notified about it Wednesday morning, according to a statement from the office. The vandalism happened sometime after 9 p.m. Tuesday at Cureton’s Englewood home, the office said. The perpetrator or perpetrators also splattered red paint across the garage door, officials said.(Snip) Activists have reportedly been holding rallies outside the jail in solidarity with the hunger-striking inmates,
A St. Louis judge, citing “improper fundraising emails” has removed Soros-backed Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner from a gun case involving two residents who protected their property from Black Lives Matter protesters last summer.
The couple. Mark and Patricia McCloskey, were indicted on one count each of unlawful use of a weapon for pointing guns at protestors on June 28 when a crowd marched down Portland Place, a private street in the Central West End. They were also charged with tampering with physical evidence, a felony.
We can say with a reasonable degree of certainty that Ms. Gardner is not the brightest bulb
Indoor dining in New York City will come to a halt on Monday, Governor Andrew Cuomo said, as COVID-19 hospitalizations fail to stabilize and the infection rate rises. The governor acknowledged indoor dining is not at the top of a list of settings driving the rise in new cases led by household gatherings, but said rising hospitalizations and New York City's high density were worrying factors.
"You put the CDC caution on indoor dining together with the rate of transmission and the density and the crowding, that is a bad situation,"
The PoonFang Dossier
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Attn: Xi Jinping, General Secretary, Communist Party of China (PRC)
From: Fang Fang, Ministry of State Security (MSS)
Party Comrades, the American website Axios has published an extensive essay on our espionage operations in the United States. According to the essay, “a Chinese national named Fang Fang or Christine Fang, targeted up-and-coming local politicians in the Bay Area and across the country who had the potential to make it big on the national stage.” Since American media have picked up on the story, I want to set the record straight.
(Snip)Swalwell has been silent about the sexual relations we indulged, so let me clarify. The man holds a vast conceit of himself,
Democratic New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy's COVID-19 restrictions have now resulted in more than $1.2 million in fines to a gym for defying the lockdowns in recent months. “Governor Murphy has thrown everything he possibly could to shut us down. He has arrested my partner and I, given us over 60 citations, some of them criminal. He fines us $15,497.76 per day for every day we’re in operation. Our fines are totaling over $1.2 million, but every single day, Frank and I open our gym,” Atilis Gym co-owner Ian Smith told “America’s Newsroom” Thursday. The Atilis Gym owners have had
Color revolution tactics that have been used against foreign leaders are now being used by President Donald Trump’s opponents to oust him, a former special forces officer has warned.
“A color revolution is a tactic to affect regime change,” the officer, who asked to remain anonymous, told The Epoch Times. “What I see happening is a Marxist insurgency that’s using a color revolution to affect regime change.”
The 2019 Transition Integrity Project, according to the officer, is an indicator that the events of this year’s presidential election were “transparently orchestrated” by “Marxist elements within the Democratic Party and their Marxist allies in foreign governments.”
“It may not have fallen out just as they
Just how huge a precedent will the recent Supreme Court decision in Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn turn out to be? We can take one measure from a California court late yesterday in Father Trevor Burfitt v Gavin Newsom. In a stinging rebuke to Gov. Newsom, Judge Gregory Pulskamp imposed an injunction against enforcement of California’s planned COVID-19 restrictions. Using Brooklyn as a guide, Pulskamp ripped California’s arbitrary decision to shut down houses of worship while allowing commercial businesses to remain open. Any such limitation on an explicit and textual constitutional right requires a strict scrutiny standard, Pulskamp ruled and cited Brooklyn for support. But Pulskamp wonders
Former President Barack Obama won his first election by throwing all of his opponents off the ballot based on technicalities. In his first race for office—seeking an Illinois state Senate seat in 1996—Obama used the election rules to eliminate his Democratic competition.
Obama employed Chicago's rules to invalidate voting petition signatures. He ultimately disqualified all four Democratic primary rivals and three minor candidates, Wall Street Journal reported.The action denied each of them a place on the ballot. His move cleared the way for Obama to run unopposed
New data offers a sobering look at how school closures during the pandemic have affected child welfare reporting.
After school buildings closed last school year, the Washington state agency that investigates child abuse and neglect received 87% fewer calls from concerned teachers, counselors and other mandatory school reporters on average per week through June. This school year, reports are down 59%.
The new data from the Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) confirms what many educators, families and officials feared: Fewer eyes on children during the pandemic has resulted in fewer reported instances of neglect and abuse.
Attorney General William Barr knew about two contemporaneous federal investigations into Hunter Biden for months — and worked to keep them from the public ahead of the election, according to a new report. The nation’s top law enforcement official avoided providing information about the probes to Republicans in Congress without explanation, a person familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal.
CNN’s Brian Stelter does indeed resemble a potato, but it’s what comes out of his mouth that will make a grown man go cross-eyed in disbelief. The supposed media reporter is obsessed with Fox News, and you’ll be less than shocked to learn that his take on the Hunter Biden affair isn’t that the media failed to cover and eventually covered up what was a huge story. It’s that those dastardly Fox News devils are covering it now.
Also, hat tip to Kurt Schlicter for the potato reference. The royalty check is on the way.
Four years ago, Nebraska filed a motion in the Supreme Court seeking permission to file a complaint against Colorado over issues involving Colorado’s passage of legislation that legalized the recreational use of marijuana in contravention of federal law. Nebraska alleged that its interests as a state were harmed by that legislation.
The Supreme Court denied the motion.
Justice Clarence Thomas dissented from the denial, and he was joined in his dissent by Justice Samuel Alito.
Chief Justice Roberts, and Justices Scalia, Kennedy, Breyer, Ginsburg, Kagan, and Sotomayor were together in denying the motion.
Justices Scalia, Kennedy, and Ginsburg are no longer on the Court.
Ever nonchalant, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she does not have "any concern" about her fellow Bay Area leftist colleague Eric Swalwell, having been the target of a Chinese intelligence honeytrap operation from 2011 to 2015. Swalwell sits on the House Committee on Intelligence, which has access to some of America's biggest secrets as well as oversight over the entire CIA. Swalwell, who has supposedly been accused of no wrongdoing (we will know for sure if we learn exactly what was in the FBI's defensive briefing to him), had at best been a naive dupe or else an outright collaborator who got away with it
In the world of Democrat politics, there are no coincidences. With that principle in mind, it’s possible to understand why Democrat media outlets are suddenly reporting about Hunter Biden’s corruption, a story that spills over onto his father. The first is to get ahead of potential breaking news about Hunter's imminent arrest. The second theory is the one Monica Showalter advanced: The leftists used Biden to attain the White House (or so they believe) and are now ready to get rid of him. Having a criminal son may be just what the Obama/Harris camp needs
This is just an observation (because I'm not looking forward to gulag life), but I think the only thing keeping Trump voters from burning the whole corrupt system down right now is that nobody knows whom or what to attack. That should be a pretty sobering consideration for an establishment class that thinks it just stole the 2020 presidential election fair and square. If there were a ship out in the harbor loaded up with all the Democrats' fraudulent ballots from the election, there's no doubt in my mind that a hundred million Americans would dress up as members of the Washington Football Club and sink that ship
There is a very large, rich, and influential class of Americans who owe their wealth and standing to China, having mightily prospered through business ties to the Middle Kingdom. Every educated person in China understands the way such ties linking a wealthy elite beholden to foreign interests can be used to bring down even the mightiest of nations.
The word “comprador”, referring to the Chinese businessmen that allied themselves with Western imperialists, becoming wealthy, and, in the view of the Chinese Communist Party betraying the nation, is a curse word among Communists.
Groucho Marx once famously quipped, “If you’ve heard this story before, don’t stop me, because I’d like to hear it again.”
Reverend Raphael Warnock—senior pastor at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta (where MLK Jr. and Sr. served as co-pastors) and Democratic candidate for Senate—seems to have adopted Groucho’s joke as a personal mantra: like Yasser Arafat, Ilhan Omar, Linda Sarsour, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, The New York Times, and many others before him, Warnock has attempted to rewrite history, claiming that Jesus of Nazareth was “Palestinian.”
Pennsylvanians' holiday cheer will have to be served at home for the rest of the month. Gov. Tom Wolf on Thursday announced a series of restrictions to slow the spread of COVID-19 across the commonwealth, including shutting down indoor dining and on-site alcohol consumption. "This virus continues to rage in Pennsylvania and over the past several weeks, it's become clear that we need to take further mitigation actions to protect Pennsylvanians and stop the spread of COVID-19," Wolf said. "We all hoped to not come to this." Restrictions will go in place Saturday at 12:01 a.m. and be lifted at 8 a.m. on Jan. 4.
President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris have been selected to be Time magazine’s "Person of the Year," continuing a 93-year tradition.The news organization announced its pick on Thursday evening after teasing four finalists earlier that day. The other finalists included President Trump, the movement for racial justice, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and front-line healthcare workers.Biden being picked as "Person of the Year" continues a two-decade tradition of highlighting victors of presidential elections.
I met economist and professor Walter Williams when I interviewed him while hosting a local TV show in Cleveland. We discussed a number of topics but focused on race-based preferences, aka affirmative action. Williams adamantly opposed it, still an unpopular position to take, but especially back then and especially for a Black person. He calmly explained how affirmative action causes a mismatch between a student and his or her ability to succeed on a campus more competitive than would have been the case but for the race-based preferential admission. Without racial preferences, I said, schools like Harvard might have few or no Blacks. To this Williams said, “So?”
It’s now clear that the Hunter Biden story was real, with Hunter himself acknowledging a federal probe into his taxes — one that reportedly began in 2018. Really, it was always clear. Yet, when The New York Post broke the details, virtually the entire journalistic establishment and left-wing punditsphere defamed the newspaper, claiming it was passing on Russian “disinformation” or partisan fabrications.The political media quickly began pumping out process stories about the alleged discord in The Post’s newsroom and about the problems with the reporting.
On Thursday, 15 Republican legislators in Michigan filed a motion in support of Attorney General Ken Paxton’s (R-Texas) lawsuit challening the 2020 presidential election results in four key swing states, including Michigan. The legislators joined the Amistad Project of the Thomas More Society in supporting the Texas lawsuit, which asks the Supreme Court to remand the election results to swing-state legislatures for review and potential reversal.
“The state legislature serves as an ‘insurance policy’ against election officials who abuse or misuse their power,” State Rep. Daire Rendon, one of the legislators who signed on to the brief, said in a statement. “And our election officials failed in their primary duty.
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On Tuesday morning, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton revealed that the state of Texas filed a massive lawsuit against Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin for exploiting “the COVID-19 pandemic to justify ignoring federal and state election laws and unlawfully enacting last-minute changes, thus skewing the results of the 2020 General Election.”
In the couple days following the announcement, dozens of other states have joined Texas in their lawsuit. On Thursday, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives joined the case as well. "PA Speaker of the House, Bryan Cutler was joined by PA House majority leader, Kerry Benninghoff in filing an amici
On Monday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit directly with the Supreme Court alleging that Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin ignored statutes enacted by their legislatures in violation of the Constitution’s Electors clause. The lawsuit further accuses these states of violating the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection clause by using more favorable criteria in determining the validity of votes cast in Democratic districts, citing the Court’s 2000 ruling in Bush v. Gore, which prohibited differential standards for ballot tabulation. Despite being written off as a publicity stunt by the defendants, the Court has docketed the case and gave them until Thursday, December 10, at 3 p.m. to file responses.
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Christine Fang, or Fang Fang, a suspected spy whose reported mission was to network with and befriend up-and-coming American officials on behalf of China, remained Facebook “friends” with a number of her lesser targets for years after her cover was blown and she left the country in 2015.
Among her most high-profile targets was Rep. Eric Swalwell, who cut ties with her after the FBI briefed him on her activities, also in 2015. But his father and brother were among dozens of people who remained on her Facebook friends list until this week.
Arthur Schwartz, a close ally of Donald Trump Jr. tweeted some juicy material on Thursday morning, claiming he sat in on a phone call between former Hunter Biden business partner Tony Bobulinski and New York Times reporter Kenneth Vogel, who he said was focused on "discrediting the Biden-China docs & emails." Schwartz tweeted: (Tweets) That's not entirely true, but a look at Vogel's work in the week leading up to Election Day absolutely was focused on discrediting the Hunter Biden-Joe Biden connections in China. On October 26, the Times published a fact-check article by Vogel, Jim Rutenberg, and Maggie Haberman titled "Bidens and a China Deal: What We Actually Know."
Joe Biden has not even been certified as the winner of the 2020 election yet, but is already reportedly crafting new measures for gun control. And it should come as no surprise that he is not even planning legislation to send to America’s representatives but rather is planning to take steps through executive action. As usual, Democrats just can’t wait to take rights away from law abiding citizens. The Washington Examiner reports:Joe Biden plans to move quickly against guns, adding the issue to his list of first executive orders, according to his top policy aide. Stef Feldman, the national policy director of Biden’s presidential campaign, included the
A diamond given to Hunter Biden by a since-vanished Chinese energy tycoon is part of the ongoing tax fraud probe and a potentially broader probe into President-elect Joe Biden’s son, according to a report Thursday.Investigators have examined the gift of the 2.8-carat gem Hunter got from CEFE China Energy founder Ye Jianming in 2017, CNN reported, citing a source briefed on the matter.It’s unclear whether the diamond — which has been estimated to be worth as much as $80,000 — remains a focus of the tax probe that Hunter and his father’s transition team
Thousands expected to attend pro-Trump rallies in DC this weekend Police said they will close several streets in Washington, D.C., on Saturday in anticipation of rallies in support of President Trump as he challenges the results of the 2020 election won by President-elect Joe Biden.
Organizers, led by the pro-Trump group Women for America First, said in a permit application with the National Park Service that they expect about 5,000 people to attend, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday. The permit indicates the first rally will take place at 9 a.m. at the Capitol, with a larger gathering planned for Freedom Plaza around noon, according to the newspaper.
More than half the House Republican caucus signed on to a friend of the court brief in support of a Texas lawsuit that aims to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Rep. Mike Johnson, an ally of President Donald Trump, garnered the signatures of 105 other GOP lawmakers including the House's No. 2 Republican leader, Rep. Steve Scalise. The group, not surprisingly, contains other top Trump advocates includings Reps. Matt Gaetz, Jim Jordan, Dan Crenshaw, Greg Gianforte, Louie Gohmert, Debbie Lesko, Elise Stefanik and outgoing Rep. Steve King. (Photos/List)
MSNBC host Al Sharpton said on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the 17 state attorneys general and Republican lawmakers who support his lawsuit to contest the presidential election results of four battleground states were involved in “a clear racist attempt to disenfranchise black voters.”Anchor Joy Reid said, “This is nothing short to me of white nationalism in action in our political system. It’s anti-democracy.”She added, “They are only going after cities where the prominent black voters and saying that is where the fraud is. It’s a direct war against Black voters.”Sharpton said, “you’re absolutely right.