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Yay judge!
She can’t reply at all if she is in jail
I think it’s that and she must also have a new email address so she can’t go the old “forgot my password” route.
After thinking about Santos not running again, I don’t think that’s a good thing. I think his constituents were appalled at all of his lying and criminal activity so I think it may have been an easy win for the Democrats unless he was primaried.
Now the Republicans can put up someone else.
I feel that New York is gradually turning reddish, or at least purple. NYC is probably still blue but the suburbs are red IMO. If the Democrats lose the Hispanic vote, even NYC may turn purplish.
Santos won't run for re-election in 2024
Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) announced on Thursday that he will no longer run for re-election in 2024, dropping out of the race shortly after the House Ethics Committee released a scathing report detailing “substantial evidence” that the embattled Congressman “violated federal crimes.”
Santos, while revealing that he will not seek another term in Congress, did not say he plans to resign in the wake of the Ethics panel’s report.
“I will continue on my mission to serve my constituents up until I am allowed. I will however NOT be seeking re-election for a second term in 2024 as my family deserves better than to be under the gun from the press all the time,” Santos wrote on X.
DEVELOPING
Exactly! They gave her a 3 year sentence too!
This is crazy! If they are aware that she cannot login using her old credentials and they can't help her, why don't they just let her have a new account?
I seem to remember something about Peg and her password. When she hadn't posted in awhile I asked one of the admins if they could email her and I was told that her email address was no longer valid. The admin also mentioned that she was having trouble accessing her account and may have forgotten her password. They said she would have to contact them with a new email address.
It sounded a bit screwy to me.
Peg is in jail?
HAPPENING NOW: Trump’s attorney in Colorado 14th amendment case says the far right’s relationship with Trump is like “unrequited” love, like a “stalker and his victim,” like John Hinckley Jr. vs Jodi Foster and like Jim Carrey’s character in ‘Dumb and Dumber’ vs his love interest
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) November 16, 2023
Just jokin’ with ya!
This is worth watching. Every word. pic.twitter.com/3lywxqPPP8
— Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 (@NickKnudsenUS) November 15, 2023
Yes it’s on currently. One of the contestants is my best friend’s mother’s sister in law’s brother’s son.
LOL!
Will New York Have A New Congressional Map For 2024?
By Paige Anderholm
November 15, 2023
WASHINGTON, D.C. — New York’s highest court will hold oral argument today in a redistricting lawsuit to determine if the state’s Independent Redistricting Commission (IRC) must reconvene to draw a new congressional map.
This is the latest action in a lawsuit filed on behalf of voters arguing that the IRC failed to complete its mandatory redistricting duties when the commission deadlocked in January 2022, leading the Legislature, and not the IRC, to pass a congressional map.
New York’s redistricting process is in the national spotlight as it could impact which party controls the U.S. House of Representatives in 2025. The state’s 26 districts are currently held by 15 Democrats and 11 Republicans.
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The rules of the IRC dictate that if the Legislature votes down two map proposals, the Legislature then draws the maps.
In 2014, New York residents approved a constitutional amendment to establish a 10-member independent redistricting commission by a resounding 15-point margin. The amendment outlined that the commission would be composed of four Democratic legislative appointees, four Republican legislative appointees and two members without a party affiliation who draw the state’s Senate, Assembly and congressional maps. Prior to the IRC’s creation, the New York Legislature was responsible for map drawing.
The IRC’s voting rules are based on party control of the Legislature; with Democrats in the majority of both chambers, the maps for the 2020 redistricting cycle needed seven commission votes and the Legislature’s approval.
In April 2021, after the release of 2020 census data, the commission could not reach a consensus on new maps so it presented two different plans to the Legislature — one by Democratic members of the IRC and one by Republican members of the IRC — and the Legislature rejected both.
Rather than risk having the Democratic-controlled Legislature draw the maps if lawmakers rejected a second plan, Republicans on the IRC stalled and refused to meet, according to the petitioners who brought the lawsuit.
The IRC never presented a second set of maps to the Legislature and this deadlock on the commission led to the Legislature intervening to enact new maps.
The Legislature-drawn congressional and state Senate maps were struck down in state court and replaced with new maps for the 2022 elections. The state Assembly map was allowed to remain in place. However, a separate lawsuit eventually resulted in a new IRC-drawn map this April.
The petitioners in the lawsuit argue that the IRC’s failure to submit a second set of congressional and legislative maps to the New York Legislature “not only stymied the constitutional procedure enacted by New York voters, but also resulted in a map that does not properly reflect the substantive redistricting criteria contained in the Redistricting Amendments.”
The petitioners asked a state trial court to issue a writ of mandamus (a court order compelling a specific action) directing the IRC and its members to fulfill the commission’s constitutional duty by submitting new map proposals that could be adopted immediately after the 2022 elections. The trial court dismissed the case in September 2022 and the petitioners appealed the court’s dismissal of the lawsuit to a state appellate court, which allowed the case to continue.
“It is undisputed that the IRC failed to perform this duty.”
In July of this year, the appellate court agreed with the petitioners, ruling that the IRC must redraw the state’s congressional map and submit the map to the Legislature. The July 13 order states that “[t]he IRC had an indisputable duty under the NY Constitution to submit a second set of maps upon the rejection of its first set…The language of NY Constitution…makes clear that this duty is mandatory, not discretionary. It is undisputed that the IRC failed to perform this duty.”
The appellate court further concluded that democracy relies on the IRC completing its mandatory duty, ruling, “The right to participate in the democratic process is the most essential right in our system of governance.”
The order also called attention to the anti-democratic whims that can overtake the redistricting process: “The procedures governing the redistricting process, all too easily abused by those who would seek to minimize the voters’ voice and entrench themselves in the seats of power, must be guarded as jealously as the right to vote itself; in granting this petition, we return the matter to its constitutional design. Accordingly, we direct the IRC to commence its duties forthwith.”
After the appellate court ordered the IRC to reconvene, Republican intervenors and members of the IRC filed notices of appeal. As a result, the decision requiring the IRC to reconvene was automatically paused. The petitioners asked New York’s highest court to void the automatic pause but the court declined to do so.
While this decision does not prevent the IRC from reconvening on its own volition, the IRC is not currently required by the court to do so. Given its prior conduct, it is reasonable to assume that the commission will not reconvene on its own volition.
With the case now before the state’s highest court, today’s oral argument will determine if the IRC must reconvene and draw a new congressional map ahead of next year’s elections.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/will-new-york-have-a-new-congressional-map-for-2024/
We are horrified but his base thinks it’s great!
I was listening to George Conway on Charlie Syke’s podcast and this was the first time I heard anyone say that if Trump became President ALL cases could be thrown out, including Georgia.
NEW: Fani Willis expects the Fulton County Racketeering trial to take place in late 2024, finishing in early 2025. This could inform the timing of the Florida criminal trial. Cannon would have to go before or after. https://t.co/TWeSPkJ9Qm
— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) November 14, 2023
Holy shit. Univision, the nation's largest Spanish-language network, has decided to cancel ad-buys by the Biden campaign in Nevada, Arizona, Pennsylvania, & Florida after Trump met with their executives last week. Our media continues to fail us. This is how our democracy dies.
— Victor Shi (@Victorshi2020) November 14, 2023
Do you watch Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test?
More sparks fly
Methinks the Comer doth protest too much https://t.co/GsZrcdmTpp
— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) November 14, 2023
More video here: Am I the only one that loves it that someone finally fires back at a politician during a hearing?
https://www.meidastouch.com/news/republican-senator-mullin-tries-to-physically-fight-union-leader-during-hearing
Women are too emotional to hold public office. https://t.co/67nKiiZIY5
— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) November 14, 2023
Republicans are out of control!
GOP senator challenges Teamsters president to fight during hearing
BY ALEXANDER BOLTON - 11/14/23 12:36 PM ET
WASHINGTON, DC –
Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R), a former mixed martial arts fighter, nearly came to blows with the president of the Teamsters at a Senate hearing on Tuesday, forcing Chair Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to step in to stop a brawl from breaking out in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee room.
Mullin challenged International Brotherhood of Teamsters general president Sean O’Brien to a fight on the spot after the senator read aloud O’Brien’s tweets calling him out as a “clown” and a “fraud.”
“Sir, this is a time, this is a place. You want to run your mouth, we can be two consenting adults, we can finish it here,” Mullin said from the hearing room dais.
“OK, that’s fine. Perfect,” O’Brien shot back.
“You want to do it now?” Mullin asked. “Stand your butt up then.”
“You stand your butt up,” O’Brien retorted, prompting Mullin, who is 46 years old, to stand up from his chair as if he was preparing to spring into the middle of the hearing room to trade blows with the Teamster.
At that point, Sanders tried to take control of the hearing to stop an impromptu cage match from breaking out.
“Hold it. No, no, no, sit down. Sit down! You’re a United State senator, sit down,” Sanders yelled while banging the gavel to restore order in the room.
“This is a hearing. God knows the American people have enough contempt for Congress, let’s not —” Sanders fumed before being cut off by more bellicose crosstalk between Mullin and O’Brien.
Then Mullin tried to challenge the Teamsters official to a real cage match with the proceeds going to charity but Sanders gabbed the mic to interrupt his Republican colleague.
“Excuse me, hold it. Sen. Mullin, I have the mic. If you have questions on any economic issues, anything that was said, go for it. We’re not here to talk about physical abuse,” Sanders said.
The purpose of the hearing, which was called for by Sanders, was show how unions are improving the lives of working families.
Mullin argued that he was trying to expose O’Brien as a “thug” after he and the Teamsters leader tweeted at him after another contentious Health, Education and Labor Committee hearing in March, when O’Brien called Mullin, who a former plumbing company owner, a “greedy CEO” and Mullin told the union official to “shut his mouth.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4309080-gop-senator-teamsters-president-nearly-brawl-in-senate-hearing/
That looks like it would be yummy.
Feeling any better today?
Tim is the best!
LOL!
I don’t remember their names which probably means I am not as interested.
I did like Caleb but he is gone now.
Promise?
I’m not a lawyer, but saying you believe a judge is in your pocket seems like a big deal. Like grounds for recusal. More so than any of the rulings she’s made. Am I off base here? https://t.co/O1QSNWqKE6
— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) November 13, 2023
Another Trump found dead in an apartment
https://apple.news/AcK3ZQ2QfRmSaFWWpkRdRvQ
Scary stuff
Steve Bannon on the finale of Showtime’s ‘The Circus’: “President Trump is a moderate in our movement. You are going to pine in future years that you wished Donald Trump was around.”
— Grace Chong 🇺🇸 (@gc22gc) November 13, 2023
Watch Full Interview with co-host John Heilemann and guest host Tim Miller @Timodc: pic.twitter.com/RD3ovGFm7e
Authorities are investigating an agent-involved shooting after possibly three individuals attempted to break into a government car outside the Georgetown home of Pres. Biden’s granddaughter, Naomi Biden, according to sources familiar with the situation. https://t.co/fu5uQ5oj2O
— ABC News (@ABC) November 13, 2023
If this is even remotely possible, Elyse Stefanik must be very upset.
Trump’s spokesman @TheStevenCheung on Tim Scott earlier this week:
— Vaughn Hillyard (@VaughnHillyard) November 13, 2023
“I think it's too early to talk about VP...they have a history of having a very good relationship with each other…President Trump has—he hasn't said a negative word about Tim Scott, so I'll leave it at that.” pic.twitter.com/Vs3jzsOgAW
SNL is back tonight
Oh shit. https://t.co/rl4RYmXDJ8
— Angry Staffer 🌻 (@Angry_Staffer) November 11, 2023
The latest version of Mean Girls in Jr High.
New: Marjorie Taylor Greene is on a “payback mission” against Lauren Boebert. She is now going around to Republican lawmakers and telling them that Boebert is a “whore.”
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) November 10, 2023
She is also calling Trump and trashing Boebert to him.https://t.co/ZM3kIlfT62 pic.twitter.com/k3a8NUVR3l
I thought Jag’s speech was awful and Matt’s was good but their speeches didn’t make a difference. The jury had made their decision before either of them spoke.
I had no problem with the Cirie/Jared connection. This isn’t the first time Big Brother has done that. As far as an advantage, it didn’t help them at all.
The real surprise was that no one (except for Izzy) figured it out.
Bowie Jane could have won it all but she decided to go all in with Jag. That was her downfall.
I actually thought Jag would screw over Matt and take Bowie Jean to the final.
New book details chaos when Trump aide tried to start Afghanistan withdrawal
ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl on Trump's "body guy."
ByAlexandra Hutzler
November 10, 2023, 6:18 AM
In his final days in the White House, President Donald Trump tried to launch a U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan -- only he wasn't exactly the person giving the orders, according to a new book by ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl.
In "Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party," excerpts of which were released in Vanity Fair on Friday, Karl reports that aide Johnny McEntee, known as Trump's "body guy," led a chaotic attempt to reshape the U.S. military posture abroad.
The incident was first reported on by Jonathan Swan of Axios, but Karl provides significant new details.
McEntee, after serving as Trump's "body guy" (or "body man" as some say) -- the staffer responsible for traveling with the president and carrying his bags -- became, at age 30, the director of the Presidential Personnel Office, primarily responsible for overseeing the hiring and firing of executive branch employees, including ensuring staffers were loyal to Trump's political vision.
But after the 2020 election, Karl writes, McEntee took on a greater role -- one that saw him involved in Trump's ousting of Defense Secretary Mark Esper -- replacing him with Christopher Miller -- and the recruiting of Miller's senior adviser Douglas Macgregor.
From there, Karl reports, McEntee wrote a list for what Trump should do in the final days of his presidency -- a list that included withdrawing U.S. forces from Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Africa.
"Three days after Macgregor arrived at the Pentagon, he called McEntee and told him he couldn't accomplish any of the items on their handwritten to-do list without a signed order from the president," Karl writes in the excerpts released by Vanity Fair.
The House Jan. 6 committee’s investigation unearthed the extraordinary story of what happened next, Karl writes, but it wasn't included in the committee's final report. The panel had taken the sworn testimony of the key players, including McEntee and Macgregor, as well as national security adviser Robert O’Brien and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley.
Macgregor advised McEntee the priority should be the Afghanistan withdrawal and that it should be put in a presidential directive. But when McEntee couldn't figure out how to draft such a document, Macgregor told him and his assistant "to open a cabinet, find an old presidential decision memorandum, and copy it," Karl writes.
"Easy enough," Karl reports. McEntee and his assistant "wrote up the order, had the president sign it, and sent it over to Kash Patel, the new acting defense secretary's chief of staff."
But the document caused widespread confusion among top officials.
Miller met with Milley and others to discuss next steps, but Milley quickly questioned who had given Trump such military advice. When no one could say where it came from, he and Miller went to the White House for answers, Karl writes.
When Milley asked O'Brien, Trump's national security adviser, where the document came from, O'Brien said he'd never seen it before. Also at that meeting was Vice President Mike Pence's national security adviser Keith Kellogg, who looked at the order and told the room: "This doesn't look right," according to the excerpts.
"'You're telling me that thing is forged?' Milley responded in disbelief, Karl writes. 'That's a forged piece of paper directing a military operation by the president of the United States? That's forged, Keith?'" Milley said, according to the excerpts.
The group eventually asked Trump directly, who confirmed he'd signed it. O'Brien then told Trump it "would be very bad," Karl writes, and advised him not to follow through with the directive.
"As soon as he realized an Afghanistan withdrawal would require more work than having McEntee scribble up a note, he dropped it entirely," Karl reports.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/new-book-details-chaos-trump-aide-start-afghanistan/story?id=104765470