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-Lurid Crime Tales-
WHAT THE HELL? Report Claims Durham Is Dropping the Spygate Investigation
[PJ] It appears that the bureaucracy is more afraid of the Democrats than the people, as a report emerges claiming the Justice Department is dropping the investigation into Spygate, nearly two years after it began.

The Federalist’s Sean Davis reports that the investigation into a treacherous spying operation on Donald Trump’s campaign and presidency is being dropped.

Related: Red State - Source: Durham Investigation Closing Down Without Indictments, Scared of Biden Blowback
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/16/2020 01:31 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why am I not surprised? Seems no one is doing their job!
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 11/16/2020 2:01 Comments || Top||

#2  They think Biden is incoming, so they are dropping all of it so as to not be out of favor or to be retaliated against. They are, after all, career bureaucrats and the deep swamp inside the DOJ have done their damage to the institutions, especially Holder and his internal perversion of the DOJ and FBI.
Posted by: Theager Borgia1057 || 11/16/2020 2:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Barr and Durham drop investigation, shred the collected evidence and documents, submit a two page, culminating, report. Second page filled with Durham team signature blocks.

Supreme Court backs election fraud accusations. Giuliana and Powell team prevail. Orange Man retains office. Crooked Hillary, Obama, Brennan, and Intelligence Community achieve reset.

Hunter Biden and kamala Harris seen sharing hookah pipe in private cabana, COMO Parrot Cay, Turks and Caicos.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/16/2020 2:13 Comments || Top||

#4  All we can hope for is that someone has guts enough to leak ALL the incriminating evidence. Send it to Wikileaks and the other usual suspects.
Posted by: Theager Borgia1057 || 11/16/2020 2:20 Comments || Top||

#5  Hell, send it to Snowden.
Posted by: Theager Borgia1057 || 11/16/2020 2:20 Comments || Top||

#6  Durham knows which side of his bread slice has butter on it?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/16/2020 3:04 Comments || Top||

#7  A source familiar with Durham’s ongoing investigation of the bogus Russian collusion operation tells @FDRLST: “Durham isn’t doing anything. Dropping his investigations. He’s worried about blowback from Biden. What an absolute disgrace.”

A single, unnamed but knowledgeable source? How often have those turned out to be some low level clerk who works at the building across the way in a different department altogether?
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/16/2020 3:19 Comments || Top||

#8  Beginning to wonder who had more guts, if not honor, Barr/Durham or Snowden.
Posted by: Clem || 11/16/2020 7:10 Comments || Top||

#9  We knew this was coming. All kabuki theater.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/16/2020 8:35 Comments || Top||

#10  /\ Yes, but still a very difficult pill to swallow.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/16/2020 8:52 Comments || Top||

#11 
Posted by: Clem || 11/16/2020 9:01 Comments || Top||

#12  Modern day investigations are to protect the accused leftists; not bring them to justice. No need to list the many examples just review the Rantburg archives.
Posted by: Airandee || 11/16/2020 9:15 Comments || Top||

#13  Rigged elections.

Media blackouts on news of the elites' corruption.

Shock troops roaming the streets, threatening violence for wrongthink and wrong votes.

Intel services spying on us, lying to our Star Chamber court, altering evidence and fabricating evidence for endless state persecution via show trial-style perversions of our Constitutional processes.

What is to be done?
Posted by: Voldemort Glolutle4757 || 11/16/2020 9:41 Comments || Top||

#14  If I were Barr I'd wait for Biden to be President and give an order in writing to drop the investigation. Otherwise press on.

And investigations can be re-opened.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/16/2020 11:40 Comments || Top||

#15  I fear a likely Biden Coup will succeed my friends. If it does in the new state you must assess the power and connections of those you might anger and injure. The aristocracy is all Norman now and the few AngloSaxon patricians who remain visible must have allies inside the emerging royalty. Absent a patron for protection you risk career and wealth even being seen as an enemy of the state. All that Land of the Free Home of the Brave nonsense now just soothes the rubes in the tax farm. Duty, Honor, Courage, like integrity and honesty are just meaningless to the new aristocracy. And if you are wnite and male, prepare to face public humiliation from the new first class citizens of color.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 11/16/2020 12:11 Comments || Top||

#16  Of course should this dismal forecast come to be there are ways to participate in opposing this but not a discussion for this place.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 11/16/2020 12:15 Comments || Top||

#17  When the ones in power do not respect the law, then there is no law for anyone. We’ll just leave it at that for now.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 11/16/2020 12:52 Comments || Top||

#18  $$$ paid but big. Everything has a price
Posted by: Angeater Omick2705 || 11/16/2020 13:34 Comments || Top||

#19  https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/sean-davis-update-john-durham-spygate-investigation-remains-at-full-speed-ahead/
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/16/2020 16:14 Comments || Top||

#20  Hopefully they will at least publish a report with documented annexes before any expected Biden Justice Department whitewashes everything. It isn't what I want, but.... *Sigh*
Posted by: magpie || 11/16/2020 17:58 Comments || Top||

#21  I do not believe this. It is propaganda.
Posted by: Eternal Optimist, armed || 11/16/2020 21:08 Comments || Top||


Dominion Engineer Told Antifa He’d ‘Made Sure’ Trump Wouldn’t Win
[GatewayPundit] Vice President of U.S. Engineering Eric Coomer shared anti-Trump posts online: Dominion’s top engineer told Antifa he’d ‘made f**king sure’ Trump wouldn’t win.

Dominion Voting Systems’ Vice President of U.S. Engineering Eric Coomer allegedly spoke with Antifa members on conference calls and reportedly assured the other participants by saying:

“Don’t worry about the election, Trump’s not gonna win. I made f**king sure of that!”

Dominion Voting Systems is one of the largest voting technology companies in the United States.

It provides voting machines and tabulators to many local governments.

More than 30 states use these voting machines to scan ballots in US elections and tabulate votes.

Eric Coomer’s profile as director at Dominion Voting Systems was recently scrubbed from their website

Coomer joined Dominion as VP of engineering in 2010, according to the GWP.

His bio says he graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics.

Eric Coomer was later promoted to Voting Systems Officer of Strategy and Security although Coomer has since been removed from the Dominion page of directors.

In a stunning interview conducted by Michelle Malkin, FEC (Faith Education Commerce) United founder Joe Oltman reveals how he infiltrated Antifa.
Video can be seen at the link.
While working undercover, Oltman says that he was involved in a conversation with Antifa members when he discovered “Eric from Dominion” was allegedly part of the chat during the week of September 27, 2020.

Oltman explained that “Eric” was telling the Antifa members they needed to “keep up the pressure.”

When Oltman asked, “Who’s Eric?” someone answered, “Eric, he’s the Dominion guy.”

Oltman said that as the conversation continued, someone asked, “What are we gonna do if F**king Trump wins?”

Oltman paraphrased how Eric (the Dominion guy) responded: “Don’t worry about the election, Trump’s not gonna win. I made f**king sure of that!”

After Oltman, who runs a data company, finished the call, he started to investigate “Eric from Dominion,” in Denver, CO, and came upon Eric Coomer.

Oltman admitted that it didn’t make sense that Eric Coomer would be the Antifa member on the call and that at the time, he knew nothing about Dominion Voting Systems.

It wasn’t until after he started hearing about Dominion Voting Systems in the news following the election that he remembered the remarks made by “Eric from Dominion” on the Antifa chat.

Related: Eric Coomer: Dominion Voting Systems VP Pulled Into Election Fraud Theories
Posted by: 3dc || 11/16/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [19 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  So what are we going to DO about it? Jaw-Jaw has gotten us a doddering decrepit dementia patient as President, and a socialist in the wings as VP, and a stolen election that is about to be repeated in Georgia to steal the senate.
Posted by: Theager Borgia1057 || 11/16/2020 2:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Long past time to start hanging traitors again.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/16/2020 11:41 Comments || Top||

#3  Seen on MeWe:

A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I spent a lot of time in Hong Kong and mainland China during the days when you could buy a knockoff Rolex, IWC or Piaget at the markets in Shanghai for 5 bucks and a REALLY, REALLY good knockoff for $20. On any street corner, you could buy pirated DVD's of movies that had not even been released in the US for 30 cents a copy.

In those days, I heard this joke over and over - With a billion people, how many licenses of Microsoft Windows are there in China? Answer: One - all the others are illegal copies.

Then I got to thinking about the lying media, the prevaricating Democrats, the weak-kneed members of the GOP and the concept that this election was won and lost by fraud.

The media wants - no, they NEED - people to believe that election and vote fraud must be a vast conspiracy, requiring thousands of people wearing green eye shades, locked in smoke filled back rooms, cranking out fraudulent ballots for Biden with their Sharpies to be counted by other thousands of people wearing green eye shades, locked in smoke filled back rooms...and that all these people are controlled by a George Soros-like Dr. Evil figure who possesses sharks with frickin' laser beams on their heads.

But that's wrong.

Completely and totally wrong.

Catastrophically wrong.

The fact is that in an age when one hacker can skim millions from bank accounts undetected, steal trillions of passwords and personal data, or conduct a ransomware attack that can shut down an entire hospital system or the operations of a city, such a "grand conspiracy" could consist of one person. All you need is a true believer, one convinced of the righteousness of their cause, changing a few lines of code in a software package that then gets distributed and installed in a myriad of electronic voting and counting machines, and do so as they cover their tracks.

All it takes is a hacker army of one committed zealot with superior coding skills.

If the Mossad can get the Stuxnet virus into an Iranian nuclear facility, just how hard do you think it would be for Frankie the coder to slip a few lines into commercially available software?
If that doesn't make you want to go back to pencils, voting in person and hand counting ballots, you might be a Democrat.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/16/2020 12:08 Comments || Top||

#4  i doubt that coder's name was Frankie. Probably something along the lines of Vijay
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 11/16/2020 12:39 Comments || Top||

#5  just how hard do you think it would be for Frankie the coder to slip a few lines into commercially available software?

Super easy, barely an inconvenience - if the company is in on the scam. Even if they are not, you only need one or two co-conspirators (code conspirators?) to pull it off.

Something I don't understand is why the “weighted race feature” even exists in a machine that isn't crooked.
The ability to shift votes from one candidate to another is called a “weighted race feature” and this feature is written into all four of the major elections software companies that are used across America, Smith said. It’s not limited to Dominion.

As I understand, this "feature" has existed forever, at least since Diebold was a thing. I am beyond puzzled trying to think of a legitimate use for it.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/16/2020 13:29 Comments || Top||

#6  Giving additional weight to a preferred candidate?

Too simple.
Posted by: Bobby || 11/16/2020 13:54 Comments || Top||

#7  The same people are going to make your electronic cash secure.
Posted by: magpie || 11/16/2020 18:00 Comments || Top||

#8  If that doesn't make you want to go back to pencils, voting in person and hand counting ballots, you might be Canadian. AFAICT, that is exactly how Canadian balloting is done, with a few exceptions.
Posted by: Knuckles Fluper5134 || 11/16/2020 19:03 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Smartmatic Voting Machine's Chairman of the Board Peter Neffenger Named to Joe Biden's ‘Transition Team'
[GatewayPundit] Peter Neffenger is a former Coast Guard Commander who served as Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration from July 2015 to January 20, 2017.

Peter Neffenger is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of Smartmatic, a multinational company that specializes in building and implementing electronic voting systems.

Last week Neffenger was named a member of Joe Biden’s "Transition Team."

This is well documented and is even posted on Wikipedia.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 11/16/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Knows too much?
Posted by: gorb || 11/16/2020 1:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Last week Neffenger was named a member of Joe Biden’s "Transition Team."

TSA position a convenient cover for action. Neffenger team will closely monitor Plug's 'Smartmatic' cranial implant and uploads. John Brennan to receive daily brief of vitals and implant updates.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/16/2020 2:42 Comments || Top||


VIDEO: Milwaukee Health Department Shuts Down ‘Count the Vote' Rally
Should have brought some Black Lives matter and Fuck the Police Health Department signs and rioted
[Breitbart] The Milwaukee Health Department shut down a pro-Trump rally Saturday at Serb Hall after the roughly 1,000 attendees did not comply with its social distancing rules.

"A violation of the city’s public health guidelines amid the COVID-19 pandemic [Chinese coronavirus], the health department showed up. When officials asked the group to sit down, they stood up and chanted ’USA,'" Fox 35 reported.

Video footage showed Serb Hall’s general manager Nicholas Alioto telling the crowd to take their seats.

"The City of Milwaukee is here. I’m not going to lose our license. I will stop the rally if you don’t sit down. Sit down," he said.

However, Alioto told WISN the incident "highlights to us that this was inappropriate for the city to put us in a position where we have to enforce their laws, this is not what we're trained to do."

Once the sound equipment was taken up and the tables and chairs put away, the group moved the rally to the intersection of 51st and Oklahoma, according to the Fox 35 report.

"The health department did come to my office with my board president here after the rally, told us we were going to receive three citations, for $500 each," Alioto said.
Posted by: Marilyn Hapsburg2880 || 11/16/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They dont shut down BLAMTIFA I noticed...
Posted by: Theager Borgia1057 || 11/16/2020 2:18 Comments || Top||

#2  And our free speech is all but gone now.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 11/16/2020 9:04 Comments || Top||

#3  The Perps.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 11/16/2020 13:33 Comments || Top||


Joe Biden Promises to Raise Annual U.S. Refugee Target by 800%
[Breitbart] Joe Biden told the Jesuit Refugee Service this week that he plans to drastically increase the annual number of refugees taken in by the United States by over 800 percent of current figures.

While the Trump administration established a ceiling of 15,000 refugees for the current fiscal year, Biden said Thursday that he will raise that number to 125,000, Religion News Service (RNS) reported.
Posted by: Marilyn Hapsburg2880 || 11/16/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  More cities like Milwaukee on the way to being transformed into "Little Somalia" third world shitholes, where votes (and therefore political offices) are routinely bought and sold.
Posted by: Theager Borgia1057 || 11/16/2020 2:15 Comments || Top||

#2 

YEP!!!

So using Liberal Socialist-Democrat Concept Math.

An 800% increase will reduce demands on limited resources such as food, gas, power, jobs and etc...?

NOT.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/16/2020 6:39 Comments || Top||

#3  the only target refugees should have on them are red dots
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 11/16/2020 7:41 Comments || Top||

#4  the refugee target is only that, a target

even in the Obama years, the average number of refugees admitted was about 70k

also, the major Somali influx to MN was during the Clinton Administration

even with the Senate majority R and only a small D majority in the House there is a lot of damage that Biden can do

- banning fracking on Fed land, make getting fracking permits difficult or impossible, making pipeline permits difficult or impossible

- imposing idiotic rules for colleges and even high schools regarding bathrooms for transexuals and evidentiary rules for sexual assault and discipline quotas at high schools

the list, unfortunately, goes on and on



Posted by: Lord Garth || 11/16/2020 9:14 Comments || Top||

#5  If we can't secede formally then we need to build our own parallel society from the ground up, beginning with the schools.

We should aim to have 50% of this nation's children in private, charter or home school situations where they can get a rigorous education that teaches them to love their heritage as free descendants of western civilization.
Posted by: Dino Lover of the French8833 || 11/16/2020 9:58 Comments || Top||

#6  Most of those refugees will go to Texas to make damn sure that state turns blue in the next election.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/16/2020 11:35 Comments || Top||

#7  They are dumping these "refugees" into areas with out supporting employment...so that drives welfare up plus causes over crowding of apartment complexes etc.
Posted by: crazyhorse || 11/16/2020 13:39 Comments || Top||

#8  #4 Biden won't abolish fracking because Chine needs this gas & oil.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/16/2020 14:36 Comments || Top||

#9  Pretty much every minority group shifted towards the GOP/Trump this election. Not entirely but the movement was visible to all.

So what minority group would he be hoping for? Chinese perhaps? Good solid communist party members that will vote as they are told.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/16/2020 15:16 Comments || Top||

#10  Most of those refugees will go to Texas to make damn sure that state turns blue in the next election.

They won't stay there unless they become productive members of society. The welfare shoppers will beeline for the blue states as soon as the refugee support funds dry up.
Posted by: Marilyn Hapsburg2880 || 11/16/2020 16:08 Comments || Top||


President-elect Joe Biden wants to “restore the soul of America.”
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/16/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sole of my foot, you lying shit for brains little Mr TenPercent-pimp

Posted by: Spanky Elmeregum9529 || 11/16/2020 1:32 Comments || Top||

#2  What #1 said.
Posted by: Mad Eye Angonter1301 || 11/16/2020 8:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Restore the corruption, money laundering, and control is what he means.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 11/16/2020 9:05 Comments || Top||

#4  America lost its soul in the 1960s. Reagan tried to raise it, but it's been "good night, nurse" since then.
Posted by: Clem || 11/16/2020 9:08 Comments || Top||

#5  Soul? Show us your own soul, you disgusting lying POS.

Tell us what's happening with Treasury's money-laundering investigation into his $3.5 million payout from a Russian bandit. Tell us about your Chinese Communist spy business partner, and your family's other CCP partner who just signed a sanctions-busting $10 billion deal with Rosneft in Moscow. Tell us about the other felonious Biden business partner who's in prison now. Tell us about your brother Jimmy the Iraq War Profiteer.

Release your son's crackpipe & whoring & live-pr0n videotapes.

Then we can "have that conversation" - as your whoring cackling VP choice likes to say - about what's in your and your idiot son's festering souls.
Posted by: Bigfoot Pheatch9531 || 11/16/2020 9:34 Comments || Top||

#6  Not president elect.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/16/2020 10:22 Comments || Top||

#7  Biden is so f'ed up, I don't think even Mephisto would want to deal with him.
Posted by: Clem || 11/16/2020 10:31 Comments || Top||

#8  Not one word about the attacks this weekend.
He lies about unity, he wants submission.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/16/2020 15:17 Comments || Top||

#9  Not so fast, there, Sleepy:

Letter from Congress Verifying that Joe Biden is NOT President-Elect [Full Text]
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 11/16/2020 19:24 Comments || Top||


If Joe Biden enacts mask mandates, lockdowns, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem won't enforce them

[Argus Leader] President-elect Joe Biden has floated a nationwide lockdown and mask mandate in response to surging coronavirus cases across the country.

But even if he follows through and orders all Americans to stay at home and cover their faces when in public, don't expect to see those mandates enforced in South Dakota.

The office of Gov. Kristi Noem said in a statement to the Argus Leader Friday that the first-term governor, who's risen to stardom in the Republican party for her hands-off approach to managing the pandemic, has no intention of using state resources to enforce any federal COVID-19 orders.

Biden, who's poised to be seated as the 46th president of the United States in January, has been critical of President Donald Trump's handling of the pandemic, and has said he favors a national mask mandate. Michael Osterholm, one of Biden's advisors on health matters, has also said publicly that nationwide lockdown lasting four to six weeks could help mitigate the spread of COVID-19, which is attributed with killing more than 240,000 Americans.

Noem reiterated her position on lockdowns Thursday on social media when she said they don't effectively stop the spread of COVID-19 but have negative effects on businesses and the overall economy.

"We already know that lockdowns don't stop the spread of the virus. However, they destroy small businesses and jobs, and they make it difficult for families to put food on the table," she wrote.

As of Friday, 62,327 South Dakotans have been diagnosed with COVID-19 since the pandemic began, and 568 have died from the virus or virus-related conditions.

Noem op-ed from October here
Posted by: Clem || 11/16/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  More like this one, not more "Nikki" Haleys...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/16/2020 7:07 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 11/16/2020 19:22 Comments || Top||


Trump Campaign, Georgia GOP Cry Foul As State Begins 'Fake Recount' With Not Enough Monitors
[AMGREATNESS] The statewide recount of ballots cast in Georgia in the 2020 election began in earnest Friday morning, and the Trump Campaign and Georgia GOP are already crying foul due to the nontransparent process.When Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger announced that there would be a hand recount in Georgia, he indicated that a full audit would take place "to ensure that every legal vote is counted, and that any voter fraud is identified."

Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the Tea Patriots said in a statement Friday that the actual process his office was directing "falls far short of that goal."

She complained on Twitter that the state was not allowing enough monitors to observe the process, slamming it as "a fake recount."

"As it stands now, neither campaign will be satisfied with the current process," Martin said. "More importantly, Georgia voters will not have confidence in our electoral process without a transparent, open process that is done right and counts every legal vote."

"Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is doing a tremendous disservice to the people of Georgia by conducting what can only be described as a ’fraudit’ which fails to provide a complete examination of the election system, the voter rolls, and the eligibility of those who voted," said Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning in a statement today.



Posted by: Fred || 11/16/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You have the state houses, and the Gov - so DO SOMETHING about it! Emergency session. The US Constitution explicity empowered the State Lgislations to set the standards. If nothing else, meet NOW so as to prevent a repeat of this mess in December-January for the runoff in both senate seats.
Posted by: Theager Borgia1057 || 11/16/2020 2:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Specifics? Well, here's one.

An election observer shared a short video of the proceedings in Cobb County, where poll watchers were being kept far away from the counting.


I used to live in Cobb County; it's Fulton County I am more worried about.
Posted by: Bobby || 11/16/2020 7:33 Comments || Top||

#3  So, how do you keep poll watchers away from the counting? So many things just don't add up.
Posted by: Clem || 11/16/2020 8:59 Comments || Top||

#4  I'd move to GA to vote, but I'm afraid I wouldn't be welcome....
Posted by: Bill Sherman || 11/16/2020 10:55 Comments || Top||

#5  (electoral) War is hell
Posted by: Helmuth, Speaking for Uncle Billy Sherman || 11/16/2020 11:05 Comments || Top||

#6  Ref #4: Your record speaks for itself Bill. You may be just the type of citizen we are looking for. Rural properties in the Northern counties are readily available as are vets and reasonably priced farriers and feed stores. Veteran discounts are available.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/16/2020 11:26 Comments || Top||


California judge rules Gov. Gavin Newsom overstepped authority with mail ballot order
[FOXNEWS] A Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, judge has ruled that Gov. Gavin Newsom overstepped his authority when he issued an executive order requiring vote-by-mail ballots sent to all registered voters, according to reports.

Sutter County Superior Court Judge Sarah Heckman ruled Friday that Newsom did not have the authority to amend or change existing election law — even during a pandemic.

The ruling put a permanent injunction on Newsom, prohibiting him from changing existing law under the California Emergency Services Act (CESA), according to KCRA.

The ruling does not affect the results of the 2020 general election.

Newsom issued the order on June 3, just before the state Legislature passed a similar law. Two assemblymen, James Gallagher, R-Yuba City, and Kevin Kiley, R-Rocklin, sued Newsom, arguing that it was the Legislature’s role — not the governor’s — to change law.

"I think that is a very dangerous thing," Kiley said in his October testimony, according to Newsweek. "And he's made good on his word, and he's been issuing order after order after order."

The governor’s lawyer unsuccessfully argued that the June order was rendered moot by the Legislature's passage of a similar bill.

"Executive Order N-67-20 issued by the Governor on June 3, 2020 is void as an unconstitutional exercise of legislative power and shall be of no further force or effect," Heckman's ruling said.

"The California Emergency Services Act (CA Government Code §8550 et seq.) does not authorize or empower the Governor of the State of California to amend statutory law or make new statutory law, which is exclusively a legislative function not delegated to the Governor under the CESA."

Heckman worried that Newsom's action could set a precedent that would allow governors to abuse the CESA to "amend statutory law or create new statutory law even during a state of emergency."
Posted by: Fred || 11/16/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So, NOW they say something after it is far too late to do anything.
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#2  Bad timing, to be sure, but so far, no one has claimed ultramarine-blue CA might've turned Red.
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Democratic Socialists endorse 6 candidates in bid to run NYC Council
For those who said NYC couldn't get any worse...
[NYPOST] Rep. Alexandria Boom Boom Ocasio-Cortez
Dem Congressgirl from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details. She was the inventor of the Green New Deal, though she doesn't talk about it much anymore...
’s squad could be expanding into the City Council.The Democratic Socialists of America on Saturday endorsed six candidates for Council seats in a bid to "take over" the city.

The biggest name of the six is former public defender and Queens District Attorney candidate Tiffany Caban, who nearly upset then-Borough President Melinda Katz in the Democratic primary.

Caban and others endorsed by the NYC-DSA had to answer a detailed questionnaire covering the group’s platform, which was shared with The Post.

The platform includes efforts to defund the police, curb or eliminate "broken windows" and community policing, decriminalizing sex work and reduce the number of jails, prisons and inmates, an effort they’re labeling "decarceration."

The group also seeks to raise city income taxes on the wealthy; limit charter schools; allow illegal immigrants colonists the right to vote; scrapping tax breaks for developers and supports the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel.



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