Sheldon Whitehouse exposes right-wing conspiracy to rig the courts+ attempts by DOJ to pervert public information flow via punitive fines
The epitome of this idiot behavior is in the above. Denial of Public access to information kills the public
A. First of all, we will go into the DNA of the situation. In a word, the Federalist society is involved in a scheme to rig the courts of the USA with people who wish to suppress public information access and to do it with high level propaganda and emotional button pushing
B. Barrett is , among other things, as a would be supreme court justice the epitome of this effort in her desire to completely silence the distribution of information and analysis of Climatic science
C. While Conservation is indeed debatable, in the sense of its public options, the real issue is one of suppression of PUBLIC access to information for the benefit of a corrupt Oligarchy
D. This is in tandem with the DOJ trying to make access to public information as to Mrs. Trump not accessible to the Public, via that attempt to punitively fine an author for public distribution of background on Melania Trump.
E. Meanwhile, Q/'Anon is infiltrating networks which normally support information flow, as seen in the Q'Anon influenced mail carrier who was busted for stealing/ diverting mail he was supposed to be delivering
In a world, A to E bespeak of an all out attempt to destroy public information for inaccessible Oligarchs who fear public discussion of their own benefits and at time outright looting of Civic Society
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/watch-sheldon-whitehouse-masterfully-exposes-right-wing-conspiracy-to-rig-the-courts/
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WATCH: Sheldon Whitehouse masterfully exposes right-wing conspiracy to rig the courts
Published 14 hours ago on October 13, 2020
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and Amy Coney Barrett (MSNBC)
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) laid out a vast right-wing conspiracy to stack the courts to benefit a handful of billionaires.
The Rhode Island Democrat showed how the deeply conservative Federalist Society, Judicial Crisis Network and Donors Trust spent hundreds of millions of dollars to rig the courts — and the election map — in favor of Republicans and their corporate sponsors.
“It’s a $250 million dark money operation, [and] $250 million is a lot of money to spend if you aren’t getting anything for it,” Whitehouse said. “So that raises the question: What are they getting for it?”
Whitehouse pointed out that conservatives had lost on the Affordable Care Act, same-sex marriage and abortions, but he said those losses could be reversed by tipping the courts to the right.
“That’s where the contest is,” Whitehouse said. “That’s where the Republican Party platform tells us to look, at how they want judges to rule to reverse Roe, to reverse the Obamacare cases and to reverse Obergefell and take away gay marriage. That is their stated objective and plan. Why not take them at their word?”
Whitehouse also noticed a certain dynamic in dozens of cases brought before the Roberts Court that Amy Coney Barrett would join as a sixth conservative, if confirmed.
“There’s another piece of it, and that is not what’s ahead of us but what’s behind us,” he said. “What’s behind us is now 80 cases, Mr. Chairman, 80 cases under Chief Justice [John] Roberts that have these characteristics. One, they were decided 5-4 by a bare majority. Two, the 5-4 majority was partisan in the sense that not one democratic appointee joined the five. I refer to that group as the Roberts five. It changes a little bit as with Justice [Antonin] Scalia’s death, for instance, but there’s been a steady Roberts five that has delivered now 80 of these decisions.”
“The last characteristic of them is that there’s an identifiable Republican donor interest in those cases, and in every single case that donor interest won,” Whitehouse said. “It was an 80-0, 5-4 partisan rout, ransacking, and it’s important to look at where those cases went because they’re not about big public issues like getting rid of the Affordable Care Act, undoing Roe v. Wade and undoing same-sex marriage.”
Those cases all gave Republicans and their wealthy donors the power to preserve minority rule over a less-conservative majority, Whitehouse said.
“In all these areas where it’s about political power for big special interests and people who want to fund campaigns and people who want to get their way through politics without actually showing up, doing it behind Donors Trust and other groups, doing it through these schemes, over and over and over again, you see the same thing — 80 decisions, Judge Barrett, 80 decisions, and 80-0 sweep.”
“I don’t think you’ve tried cases but some cases,” Whitehouse added, “the issue is bias and discrimination, and if you are making a bias case, as a trial lawyer — Lindsey Graham is a hell of a good trial lawyer, if he wanted to make a bias case, [and] Dick Durbin is a hell of a good trial lawyer — if they wanted to show an 80-0 pattern, A., that’s admissible and, B., I’d love to make that argument to the jury. I’d be really hard-pressed to be the lawyer saying, ‘No, 80-0 is just a bunch of flukes, all 5-4, all partisan, all this way.’ So something is not right around the court, and dark money has a lot to do with it. Special interests have a lot to do with it. Donors Trust and whoever is hiding behind Donors Trust has a lot to do with it.”
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Also see this, outright pandering on the part of the Senate GOP to snooker the Public with dog and pony shows when a Pandemic is poised to kill up to several million Americans.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/amy-coney-barrett-watches-in-stunned-silence-as-kamala-harris-blasts-senate-republicans/
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Amy Coney Barrett watches in stunned silence as Kamala Harris blasts Senate Republicans
Published 10 hours ago on October 13, 2020
By Bob Brigham
Judge Amy Coney Barrett and Se. Kamala Harris (screengrabs).
The Democratic Party nominee for vice president did not use her prosecutorial question skills during the beginning of her time questioning Judge Amy Coney Barrett during her confirmation hearings on Tuesday.
Instead, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) lectured Republicans for choosing to prioritize Barrett’s confirmation over a coronavirus stimulus bill.
“I want to take a moment to talk with the American people about where we are,” and how we got there. “And how we got here.”
Harris also put her remarks on the Affordable Care Act in the context of COVID-19, blasting Republicans for seeking to overturn Obamacare during a pandemic.
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Also, information blockage is being attempted on the part of the DOJ to benefit the Trump family, who is at the Apex of a new class of unworthy Oligarch's who are determined to steal from the public troth forever
https://www.axios.com/doj-sues-former-melania-trump-aide-tell-all-book-163dfdaa-2277-4e33-8a72-8996375959f7.html
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DOJ sues former Melania Trump aide over tell-all book
First lady Melania Trump. Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images
The Department of Justice on Tuesday sued a former aide to first lady Melania Trump, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, saying she violated a nondisclosure agreement when she published her tell-all book "Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady," Politico reports.
The big picture: This is not the first time the DOJ has sued in response to a revealing book about the Trump administration. The department filed suit against former national security advisor John Bolton in June to prevent the release of his memoir "The Room Where it Happened."
- The latest lawsuit "reignited fears among some outside legal experts that the Justice Department was training its resources at the White House's perceived enemies," Politico writes.
The DOJ alleges Winston Wolkoff, who served as senior adviser to the first lady from January 2017 to August 2017, signed an agreement that "included no termination date."
- Lawyers for the former aide told The Daily Beast in September that she has not been bound to the agreement for more than two years. They called the DOJ's allegations "unfounded and meritless."
What they're saying: The book discusses "personnel decisions in the Office of the First Lady, work on the First Lady’s 'Be Best' initiative, and engagement in conversations with the President of the United States," DOJ lawyers say.
- "These topics fall squarely within the category of materials that, under the terms of the Agreement, Ms. Wolkoff expressly agreed not to divulge without obtaining written authorization."
- "The United States seeks to hold Ms. Wolkoff to her contractual and fiduciary obligations and to ensure that she is not unjustly enriched by her breach of the duties she freely assumed when she served as an advisor to the First Lady."
- The DOJ asked the court to redirect any profits from the book to the federal government.
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This is in tandem, with Barrett using her legal expertise to attack Climatic science. While Public action on the choices of Climatic science is indeed debatable, the GOP, in the service of Oligarchs wishes that there be NO discussion, because a discussion would threaten the benefits accorded to the Oligarch's
https://www.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2020/10/icymi-amy-coney-barrett-refuses-accept-climate-science
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ICYMI: Amy Coney Barrett Refuses to Accept Climate Science
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Contact:
Cindy Carr, [email protected]
During the second day of Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearing for the Supreme Court, Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) asked her if she has “opinions on climate change.” Barrett responded by saying she’s “not a scientist” and that she does not have “firm views on it.”
The climate crisis is one of the most pressing issues of our time, and 97% of scientists have reached consensus on its cause. Experts predict that the unprecedented hurricanes, droughts, and wildfires that have ravaged the United States have cost billions of dollars in damage this year alone. The Supreme Court is responsible for bedrock environmental laws like the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act, and the Court is already slated to hear at least one case on the climate crisis in the next term.
In response, the Sierra Club’s Democracy Program Director Courtney Hight said, “Any nominee who wants to be seriously considered for a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land must - at a bare minimum - acknowledge and accept that climate change is real. It’s science, plain and simple.”
About the Sierra Club
The Sierra Club is America’s largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization, with more than 3.5 million members and supporters. In addition to protecting every person's right to get outdoors and access the healing power of nature, the Sierra Club works to promote clean energy, safeguard the health of our communities, protect wildlife, and preserve our remaining wild places through grassroots activism, public education, lobbying, and legal action. For more information, visit www.sierraclub.org.
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Also now the Q'Anon mail carrier story: Q'Anon is being hot housed for the benefit of supporting Oligarch attempts to destroy information supplying networks
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/qanon-letter-carrier-raided-by-federal-agents-who-found-undelivered-mail-in-trash-bags-report/
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QAnon letter carrier raided by federal agents — who found undelivered mail in trash bags: report
Published 9 hours ago on October 13, 2020
Trash bags containing undelivered mail (Image via KDKA).
On Tuesday, the Pittsburgh City Paper reported that a local letter carrier raided by special agents for hoarding mail in trash bags is affiliated with the QAnon conspiracy theory movement.
“Yesterday, the Baldwin home of Sean Troesch was raided by special agents from the United States Postal Service, who confiscated eight large garbage bags of suspected undelivered mail, according to KDKA,” reported Ryan Deto. “KDKA also reported that the post office said this latest haul didn’t contain any discarded mail-in ballots, but neighbors told the station trash bags ‘have been put outside Troesch’s house almost every Sunday night for Monday morning pickup.'”
“According to screenshots of a Facebook page apparently belonging to Troesch, the mail carrier has been trafficking in conspiracy theories related to QAnon for at least the last several months,” said the report. “QAnon is a baseless pro-Trump conspiracy theory that falsely believes elites and Democrats are running an underground child prostitution ring and eating babies. Belief in this conspiracy theory has been growing over the years, and many QAnon supporters have been seen at Trump rallies.”
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The president has repeatedly claimed with no basis that mail-in ballots are fraudulent and need to be challenged.
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FTR
The epitome of this idiot behavior is in the above. Denial of Public access to information kills the public
A. First of all, we will go into the DNA of the situation. In a word, the Federalist society is involved in a scheme to rig the courts of the USA with people who wish to suppress public information access and to do it with high level propaganda and emotional button pushing
B. Barrett is , among other things, as a would be supreme court justice the epitome of this effort in her desire to completely silence the distribution of information and analysis of Climatic science
C. While Conservation is indeed debatable, in the sense of its public options, the real issue is one of suppression of PUBLIC access to information for the benefit of a corrupt Oligarchy
D. This is in tandem with the DOJ trying to make access to public information as to Mrs. Trump not accessible to the Public, via that attempt to punitively fine an author for public distribution of background on Melania Trump.
E. Meanwhile, Q/'Anon is infiltrating networks which normally support information flow, as seen in the Q'Anon influenced mail carrier who was busted for stealing/ diverting mail he was supposed to be delivering
In a world, A to E bespeak of an all out attempt to destroy public information for inaccessible Oligarchs who fear public discussion of their own benefits and at time outright looting of Civic Society
End it now, America. Take back the night. The Oligarch predators which to enslave the WORLD for their benefits. Not yours, or Humanity. With devastation in its wake world wide for a tyranny more despotic than Nazi Germany
Andrew Beckwith, PhD