[ABC] Court disqualifies Fani Willis from Georgia election case against Trump, but indictment still stands
The Georgia Court of Appeals has disqualified Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from her prosecution of President-elect Donald Trump and his co-defendants in their election interference case.
"After carefully considering the trial court's findings in its order, we conclude that it erred by failing to disqualify DA Willis and her office," the court ruled.
The indictment against Trump and his co-defendants still stands, the court said.
Trump and 18 others pleaded not guilty last year to all charges in a sweeping racketeering indictment for alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the state of Georgia.
Defendants Kenneth Chesebro, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis and Scott Hall subsequently took plea deals in exchange for agreeing to testify against other defendants.
Thursday's ruling leaves the question of who takes over the case -- and whether it continues -- to the Prosecuting Attorneys Council of Georgia. That decision may be delayed if Trump or Willis continues their appeal to the state's highest court, Georgia's Supreme Court.
The case has been on pause after Trump and his co-defendants launched an effort to have Willis disqualified from the case over her relationship with fellow prosecutor Nathan Wade. Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee declined to disqualify Willis, leading Trump to appeal that decision.
The appeals court ruled to disqualify Willis and her entire office from the case because "no other remedy will suffice to restore public confidence in the integrity of these proceedings," the ruling said.
"The remedy crafted by the trial court to prevent an ongoing appearance of impropriety did nothing to address the appearance of impropriety that existed at times when DA Willis was exercising her broad pretrial discretion about who to prosecute and what charges to bring," the order said, reversing Judge McAfee's original decision.
Wade, who had been the lead prosecutor in the case, resigned as special prosecutor in March after McAfee issued his ruling that either Willis or Wade must step aside from the case due to a "significant appearance of impropriety" stemming from a romantic relationship between the DA and the prosecutor.
While the appeals court disqualified Willis and her office, it did not find enough evidence to justify "the extreme sanction" of tossing the entire indictment against Trump and his co-defendants, as Trump had sought in his appeal.
"While this is the rare case in which DA Willis and her office must be disqualified due to a significant appearance of impropriety, we cannot conclude that the record also supports the imposition of the extreme sanction of dismissal of the indictment under the appropriate standard," the ruling said.
[ISSUESINSIGHTS] Since the election, not-soon-enough-to-be-former President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created... by the — you know — you know, the thing... has provided a steady stream of reminders as to why the nation will be glad to be rid of him. His unique mixture of incompetence, cluelessness, disdain, arrogance, and sleaziness has been on full display.
Consider what Biden managed in a few short weeks.
The unprecedented, sweeping pardon of his son Hunter made a mockery of not only his solemn pledge that he'd trust the justice system but managed to infuriate every Democratic leader and media fanboy who'd sung his praises for that pledge.
The mysterious appearance of drone swarms around the country has showcased the ineptitude of Biden's administration, which has attempted to: 1) tell Americans that they must be mistaken, 2) reassure everyone that the drones pose no threat and 3) admit that it has absolutely no idea what's going on with these drone flights.
The administration's muddied responses sparked bipartisan outrage. New York's Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul complained that ''this has gone too far'' after drones temporarily shut down runways at New York Stewart International Airport.
Biden's decision to commute nearly 1,500 sentences for people — who, he said, ''have shown that they deserve a second chance'' — and pardon 39 others has raised hackles, even among the mainstream media.
NBC News led its story this way:
A county commissioner who was convicted of taking nearly half a million dollars' worth of bribes, including a stone-fired pizza oven; a tax attorney wrapped up in the ''biggest tax fraud prosecution ever''; and the owner of a bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... -area Medicare billing company who orchestrated a $26 million Medicare fraud.
CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... ran a story with this headline: ''Victims 'shocked' after Biden grants clemency to 'kids for cash' judge and $54 million embezzler.''
The ''kids for cash'' judge refers to Michael Conahan, who was convicted of ''funneling juveniles to for-profit detention centers in exchange for more than $2 million in kickbacks.'' One of those juveniles did away with himself. Now we learn that Biden acted ''without considering the specifics of his case.''
Pennsylvania's Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro called it ''absolutely wrong'' and said Biden ''created a lot of pain here in northeastern Pennsylvania.''
Meanwhile,
...back at the abandoned silver mine, a triangular dorsal fin appeared in the water. Then another... Biden's decision to auction off pieces of Donald Trump ...Never got invited to a P.Diddy party... 's border wall — which had been sitting around for four years — will cost taxpayers twice. The government will collect pennies on the dollar for these parts, and then Trump will have to buy them again to finish the wall.
That's a hefty price to pay to hamstring the next president.
(Fox News reported yesterday that Texas officials are planning to ''buy and store border wall materials'' and ''give it to Donald Trump.'')
To further underscore Biden's disdain for taxpayers, he's instructed his people to spend as much money as they can in their final weeks because Trump has promised to rescind unspent funds for Biden boondoggles such as the Inflation Reduction Act.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Warring Democratic factions are in a 'knife fight' for control of the Party after Kamala Harris former senatrix from California, 2020 Dem presidential hopeful and ultimately Joe Biden's intended successor 's humiliating election loss, say political insiders.
The battle lines are now drawn between West Coast liberals, Bernie Sanders
...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being an Independent socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around... -socialists and moderate technocrats in the Midwest, who insist the party has completely lost touch with the average American voter.
But first, there is one thing that all sides seemingly agree on: The current political establishment must be chased out of national politics for good.
A reckoning is coming.
'The people that are responsible for this s**tshow are the Obama people. They're just grifters,' a well-connected Democratic donor exclusively told Daily Mail.
He singled out Jen O'Malley Dillon, who went from Biden 2024 campaign chair to serve in the same role for Harris's camp, and David Plouffe, an ex-Obama 2008 campaign manager turned top Kamala adviser.
Deep-pocketed lefty patrons are enraged by Plouffe's post-election admission that Harris never led Trump in their internal campaign polling, despite public surveys showing her ahead.
'[Polls] came out in late September, early October, showing us with leads that we never saw,' Plouffe revealed late last month on the Democrat-friendly podcast 'Pod Save America.'
'They lied to us. It's just a circus of lies,' the donor erupted, complaining that Harris' team regularly painted a much rosier picture when speaking to supporters who were signing big checks.
Particularly appalling to these critics is that Harris' campaign also managed to blow through an unprecedented $1.5 billion in donor cash over the course of 15 weeks — and with barely anything to show for it, losing control of the White House, Senate and failing to flip the House of Representatives.
The campaign, for instance, spent nearly $1 million to light up the 366-foot-high, 516-foot-wide LED screen wrapping around The Sphere arena in Las Vegas.
The strip landmark played a 90-second Harris campaign ad for a week.
'$900,000 to put her face on The Sphere in Las Vegas! The ego!' griped Democrat mega-donor and trial attorney John Morgan last month. He describes himself as a 'Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Too old and senile to be prosecuted, not too old and senile to set national policy... Democrat.'
Other examples of alleged profligate spending included $2.5 million on the production costs for an Oprah Winfrey town hall event in September.
And there were purported donations totaling $500,000 paid to the civil rights hustler Al Sharpton ...Tawana Brawley's spiritual advisor... 's National Action Network charity (Harris was later treated to a softball interview on Sharpton's MSNBC show).
'People are pissed, and they are rightfully pissed,' fumed Democratic strategist Mike Nellis, a former senior advisor to Harris, to the Mail.
Donors like John Morgan are seriously suspicious.
'There's a lot of whispers. There's a lot of names about who got paid this, who got paid that, and a lot of people got rich on the back of donors trying to stop Trump,' he said.
Of Harris, he concluded, 'I think this disqualifies her forever. Forever.'
'If you can't run a campaign, you can't run America... The same thing is going to follow Harris for the rest of her career. She cannot be trusted with the money.'
Certainly, those vying to be the next boss of the Democratic National Committee are determined to get to the bottom of all of this.
Ken Martin, the Minnesota Party chair and frontrunner for the top DNC (If you're white you ain't right!) ...Democrat National Committee, where all those off-the-wall talking points originate... job, has called for a third-party audit of the entire Democratic party infrastructure.
'I think you're looking at everything. It's not just contracts and consultants, it's not just ad spends and media buys, it's A through Z,' he told MSNBC this week.
Another DNC chair hopeful, Wisconsin Democratic Party Chair Ben Wikler agrees: 'There needs to be a full review, a full and formal evaluation of this last cycle — the good, the bad and the ugly.'
Regardless, Harris insists she is not going anywhere and has, according to reports, been 'instructing advisers and allies to keep her options open.'
The VP still has supporters, even among those vying to be the next chair of the DNC.
Consultants speaking to the Mail described her four-month race as 'near perfect' and 'nearly flawless,' despite the result. If given more time, they say, Harris could bounce back in a future bid.
'Kamala Harris, whether she knows it or not, is the face of the party, if she wants to be,' said Democratic strategist Michael Trujillo. 'The day after Trump is sworn in she could announce her run for president in 2028.'
They blame Biden for staying in the race too long and not giving Harris enough time to get a campaign off the ground.
Indeed, relations between the Harrises and Bidens has appeared to turn downright frigid.
At a Kennedy Center award ceremony in Washington DC on Sunday, the president and first lady were seated next to the second couple, yet they didn't acknowledge their presence or even look in their direction.
Things are getting ugly.
Former Speaker Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments... is reportedly working behind the scenes to sabotage on Congresswoman 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 bid to become ranking member of the powerful House Oversight Committee.
Former reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... mayor and outgoing ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel has in recent weeks been vocal in slamming his party for its elitism, focusing too much on woke notions and special interests instead of the average American.
'Here's what I would say to the Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... : You have a YETI cup? Sit down and shut up,' said Emmanuel this month.
Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Governor Gavin Governor Hair Gel Newsom ...mayor of San Franciscoas it transformed itself into Poopville, currently governor of Californiaas it transforms itself into Cinderland... threw a shovelful of dirt on Biden's political grave after the president's pardon of his son Hunter despite vowing that he would not.
'I took the president at his word,' Newsom said last week. 'So by definition, I'm disappointed and can't support the decision.'
And even Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has gotten in on the action.
He triggered an angry response from establishment Democrats almost immediately after the election, when he lamented Harris's 'disastrous campaign' for 'abandoning' the working class.
To some, all this bloodletting is welcome.
'Stare into the abyss and see what comes of it because I think that the Democratic Party does a poor job of having tough internal conversations about what went right and what went wrong,' said former Harris adviser Nellis.
But it's what comes next that's most critical — and there already early signs of the skirmish.
'There's a reckoning inside the Democratic Party,' said CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... commentator and left-wing activists Van Jones. 'Kamala Harris promised us freedom... well, she delivered it to us, because now we're free from having to run anything in Washington, DC.'
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'They lied to us. It's just a circus of lies,' the donor erupted, complaining that Harris' team regularly painted a much rosier picture when speaking to supporters who were signing big checks.
Well, those donors don't sound too bright then. It's not like the MSM wasn't painting a rosy picture, either. Besides, they were buying influence and it failed. Sour grapes, anyone?
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'They lied to us. It's just a circus of lies,' the donor erupted, complaining that Harris' team regularly painted a much rosier picture when speaking to supporters who were signing big checks.
Unlike Samuel Benjamin Bankman-Fried's scheme, you won't be able to have Yellen get your money back from the public treasury.
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This story was posted several hours ago and nobody's ordered popcorn yet? You're leaving it to me who doesn't get up until 7 a.m. Pacific time? C'mon.
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This is the best entertainment we've had in years!
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@#5 - At least Scam Bankrupt-Fraud had all charges of campaign finance dropped. /sarc
We're already back to 2017. Bullshit reports spreading like wildfire, only to be snuffed out after a day of freakouts. Cycle will begin with something new tomorrow. Time is a flat circle. pic.twitter.com/tDAQT5SggF
[Politico] TURNING RED: Asian American voters in New York are increasingly shifting red — and Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... are trying to stop the bleeding.
And that dynamic is propelling a lobbying effort from the Coalition of Asian-American Independent Practice Associations (CAIPA), a group representing independent physicians that has sought to increasingly wield influence in Albany as the need for Democratic inroads with Asian Americans grows.
In the wake of Trump’s decisive victory and the Democratic autopsy underway nationally, party representatives in the city’s Asian American communities are undergoing a post-mortem of their own.
"This is not a fluke," said Assemblymember Grace Lee, co-chair of the body’s Asian Pacific American Task Force and the co-chair of the Democratic Assembly Campaign Committee, which organizes in competitive districts.
"This is a trend that has been happening over the course of a number of years," she added.
Those trends were born out in this year’s Election Day results.
In a South Brooklyn district representing Sunset Park and Bensonhurst, Democratic state Sen. Iwen Chu lost to Republican Steve Chan.
In the East Asian neighborhood of Flushing, Queens, Democratic Assemblymember Ron Kim saw his district go decisively for Trump even as he was able to hold onto his seat
And across the city, in areas where at least 45 percent of constituents are Asian, Kamala Harris who got her start in politix between former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's' knees saw her support drop 37 percent from President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Too old and senile to be prosecuted, not too old and senile to set national policy... ’s showing in 2020. Meanwhile,
...back at the alley, Bugs Moroni was holding Slats from behind while his brother Greasy Thumb was pounding his face into paste ... Trump increased his margin by 19 points, according to a New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... analysis.
"The recent immigrants colonists of Chinese, Asian descent have voted for Trump out of extreme frustration in the lack of delivery of solutions for their middle-class and working-class families," Kim said, noting that "Flushing’s gone red" for the last few cycles now.
"They’re angry, but they don’t really know who to blame or how to fix the problem. They just know that they no longer trust whatever is being sold to them," he added.
Both Lee and Kim said the debate over admissions to specialized high schools, a rise in anti-Asian hate and concerns about inflation have boosted Asian American support for Republicans in the city.
The shift is forcing Democrats like Kim and Lee to strategize how to win those voters back. And coalitions advocating in Albany on behalf of Asian Americans are seeing opportunity in the red shift.
CAIPA says the shift bolsters its relevance.
"Our community is very reliant on physicians, and physicians really, in the health care business, they’re very aligned with Democrats," said Peggy Sheng, who oversees CAIPA’s political activities. "We can make the influence, provided that the government works with us and try to promote more health care programs and really look at the needs of the community besides health care, like personal safety."
The group, which mainly focuses on issues around medicine, like laws governing medical malpractice filings or Medicaid funding, ramped up their little-known political action committee this year and boosted both Kim and Chu through digital ads and Chinese-language media pushes.
Ahead of the upcoming session, CAIPA is hoping to push Gov. Kathy Hochul to fund programs like the Medicaid Quality Incentive Program, which incentivizes providers to make changes that address health disparities for low-income New Yorkers. Lawmakers keen on building support among Asian American communities will be sure to take note.
"This is kind of new for the Asian American community to see this type of organizing happen," said Lee. "It really is coming at a really important time for the Asian American community, where often we feel targeted, but unseen, and it’s time for us to really make sure we’re exercising our political power."
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Elon Musk, Donald Trump's pick to hack away at frivolous government spending, has publicly slammed Republican Speaker Mike Johnson's nearly 1,600-page funding plan.
The super-sized bill is a continuing resolution (CR) to extend government funding until March, basically kicking the issue down the road three months.
But it's being met with heavy headwinds from disgruntled Republicans and members of Trump's incoming Cabinet.
Billionaire Musk, who is heading up Trump's DOGE agency with Vivek Ramaswamy, is leading the charge to slap down the bill he calls a 'piece of pork.'
He went so far as to threaten any Republican who votes for the measure, saying they'll be fired from Congress next election.
'Any member of the House or Senate who votes for this outrageous spending bill deserves to be voted out in 2 years!'
Attached to the package is over $100 billion relief aid to help states reeling from disastrous hurricanes Milton and Helene.
It also provides farmers with assistance, approves cash for submarines, and helps with other disasters.
But Musk is taking issue with a provision to bump up members of Congress' pay from $174,000 - a level set in 2009 - to $243,300 per year and other measures.
'How can this be called a 'continuing resolution' if it includes a 40 percent pay increase for Congress?' he questioned. Both of the DOGE boys took action:
Call your elected representatives today to stop the steal of your tax dollars! pic.twitter.com/6suIuQMcO4
There was more in this Continuing Resolution that the Daily Mail didn’t realize would be important to voters:, but Vivek was on it for all of us:
I wanted to read the full 1,500+ page bill & speak with key leaders before forming an opinion. Having done that, here's my view: it's full of excessive spending, special interest giveaways & pork barrel politics. If Congress wants to get serious about government efficiency, they…
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But Musk is taking issue with a provision to bump up members of Congress' pay from $174,000 - a level set in 2009 - to $243,300 per year and other measures.
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..there are several ways. The Pelosi gambit is the play the insider trading routine heavily. For others is to raise a impressive reelection war chest that they get to covert to personal income upon 'retirement'. Then there is the Biden gambit of basically running RICO and skimming grifts.
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I was really impressed that Vivek Ramaswamy read the whole thing so quickly, then I saw this:
Huge implications for the use of AI. They used AI to "read" all 1,574 pages of that monstrosity and pull out the graft and corruption. This is a game changer. They can't hide things in multi-thousand page bills anymore.
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The raise isn’t unreasonable, given there hasn’t been one in 15 years. Trying to hide it in the CR is unreasonable.
Given that they are ones who are primarily responsible for this country's $37 trillion debt, I'd say they should take a severe cut in pay. If they don't like inflation, they should do something to bring it under control instead of just giving themselves a raise to try to keep up with it.
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Have they done the What About the Farmers?! yet, like Josiah and Edith won't be able to hitch the plow when it's really Tyson, Smithfield, etc.
And a raise? A 40% raise? Get the fuck outta here.
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I misbelieve the 2009 angle. Seems like they change their own compensation during every lame duck session. Maybe it’s not always salary.
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This CR with all the pork in it was going to exempt members in Congress from Obamacare as well as a provide a huge increase in member's pay. The country has $36 trillion debt and is heading toward 40 trillion rapidly with the debt increasing at the rate $1 trillion every 100 days. Many in Congress don't seem to be aware the house is burning down. They must figure they can just print more money.
[REDSTATE] The key issue in particular that is perhaps the most grating of all on Republican members of Congress is the one that has taken center stage in recent years involving so-called "transgender rights" including the inclusion of transgender "women" in women's sports, bathrooms, dressing rooms, etc.
It's an issue that has seen prominent female athletes strongly take public stands in favor of leaving women's sports as they were originally intended. One of those athletes, LGBTQ icon Martina Navratilova, has loudly spoken out on the matter only to see the same far-left groups who had previously praised her for being a groundbreaker in sports turn around and try to cancel her for the crime of WrongSpeak.
Riley Gaines, a champion former University of Kentucky swimmer, has also emerged as a leading voice on this topic after having to share the trophies podium (and locker room) with former University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas, who identifies as a woman but who was born a man. Gaines has testified countless times before members of Congress on Capitol Hill and also before various state legislatures on the issue, and is currently part of a lawsuit against the NCAA.
It was Gaines' troubling experiences and those of other concerned girls and women that were at the heart of the aggressive questioning of NCAA president Charlie Baker during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday on sports gambling.
Baker unwittingly set himself up for quite the grilling with remarks made in his opening statement in which he declared that an "essential priority of the Association and its members is coordinating and delivering safe and fair competition."
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) took the ball and ran with it, questioning the former Massachusetts governor's statement and contrasting it with what he characterized as the NCAA's unfairness in not standing up against athletes like Lia Thomas being able to compete against female athletes.
At one point, Kennedy cornered Baker and got him to bend the knee on a key point by having him concede that men who compete against women in sports have an advantage "every time" after Baker initially (and laughably) claimed the point was "debatable."
''Why don't you go onto Amazon and buy a spine online and take a stand?'' Kennedy finally said at one point in frustration over Baker's continued insinuations that the NCAA didn't have a choice but to take the position they have because the courts supposedly have not provided "clarity" on the issue.
[TOWNHALL] Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) said he was "proud" to block a proposal from Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... to protect federal workers from potentially getting reclassified as political appointees under the incoming administration.
The measure was introduced by Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) as a way to prevent such reclassification without congressional approval. He asked for unanimous consent to pass the Saving the Civil Service Act, warning about ''attempts in recent years to erode the independence of the federal civil service,'' a reference to efforts President-elect Trump made in his first term.
Kaine and other Democrats fear that Trump, now reelected, may attempt to reclassify tens of thousands of federal workers as political appointees who could be hired and fired at will.
Kaine argued that federal workers need to keep their civil service protections to insulate them from political retaliation. He argued that such protections would better equip them to implement federal laws and policies dispassionately.
His bill would prohibit any position in the federal civil service from being reclassified as a job outside of the merit-based system without the consent of Congress. (The Hill)
Schmitt blocked the request, however.
''What we've seen in the last 100 years is the growth of an administrative state that isn't accountable to anybody,'' he said.
''There is no secret that President Trump ran on greater government efficiency and reducing the size of government. This is another effort to Trump-proof before Jan. 20,'' the Republican argued.
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He asked for unanimous consent to pass the Saving the Civil Service Act, warning about ''attempts in recent years to erode the independence of the federal civil service,'' a reference to efforts President-elect Trump made in his first term.
Independence is exactly what is wrong with the civil service. Nobody elected them. Nothing in the Constitution gives them any power to decide anything, including the terms of their employment.
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I don’t know much about Schmitt, but this is very positive.
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[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] President-elect Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election. Then he beat Kamala while dodging bullets... 's most striking characteristics today are clarity, confidence, and calm. This is extraordinary in a man renowned for chaos, confusion, and the thin-skinned hurling of demeaning insults. But it is a truth that needs to be acknowledged and accounted for to understand what we are witnessing as Trump prepares to resume the presidency.
His presser at Mar-a-Lago on Dec. 16 revealed a man almost preternaturally at ease with himself, his mission, his domestic support, and his acceptance abroad. His tone was measured, even somewhat humble, despite some bragging. When he dismissed questions, as he justifiably did once or twice, it was not done angrily or in a way that looked petty but with an assurance that widened the gap between himself and his erstwhile adversaries.
The press asked questions almost deferentially, showing respect for his office and a quietude rooted in the magnitude of his political triumph and mandate. The spectacle was a stunning contrast with the media maelstrom of his first term, when the likes of CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... 's Ace Newshound Jim Acosta ...CNN's showboating White House correspondent... , posing vainly as a modern-Danton or people's tribune, treated Trump as though he were axiomatically as illegitimate a president as Crooked Hillary Clinton ...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away. Politix is not one of her talents, but it's something she keeps trying to do... and others bitterly claimed.
But as the days and weeks of the current presidential transition pass by, the significance of the stunning electoral outcome on Nov. 5 is settling on Trump, the nation, and the rest of the world.
Van Jones, one of the Left's level-headed analysts, captured the truth lucidly in an interview with CNN's Chris Cillizza. When Cillizza asked Jones how such a supposedly unlikely guy as Trump ''became the one that cracked the code,'' Jones rejected the premise of the question.
''Can we cut it out? — Donald Trump is smarter than me, you, and all critics. You know how we know? Because he has the White House, the Senate, the House, the Supreme Court, the popular vote, he has a massive media ecosystem bigger than the mainstream built around him and for him, and a religious fervor in a political movement around him, and his best buddy is the richest person in the history of the world, and the most relevant Kennedy is with him. This dude is a phenomenon. He is the most powerful human on Earth in our lifetime. And we're still saying, 'How is this guy doing it?' We look like idiots.''
Jones's litany would give anyone confidence in their position and their power. Trump is the only president other than Grover Cleveland, kept in touch with the world by Obamaphone, ...was ruled by a Democrat machine from 1942 through 1971. After the river caught fire during the administration of Carl Stokes they tried a Republican, then went back to being Democrats when the party hacked up Dennis Kucinich... 130 years ago to win reelection after defeat. Assuming he completes his second term in office, he will have led the Republican Party for as long as Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush combined. He was impeached twice, hounded by corrupt officials in a banana-state-style lawfare campaign, convicted on 34 trumped-up felonies, faced two liquidation attempts, was shot once, and faced voters who'd been told by what was once the opinion-forming elite that he was manifestly ineligible for election and should be rejected.
In the face of all this, America essentially said, ''Stuff that,'' and chose him to return to office, sweeping all swing states with a near landslide in the Electoral College and a plurality of the popular vote.
Whereas in 2016, Trump could be seen as an aberration and supported by fewer voters than opposed him, today, no such self-deception is available to his detractors. The change means that he is approaching governing with a more radical reform agenda, which he is articulating with more sober and persuasive rhetoric. Although he pledged in 2016 to ''drain the swamp,'' he approached that task, if at all, only tentatively despite much braggadocio. Now, he is arriving in office more determined in his goals but more restrained and deliberate in his language. It has produced in him less swagger and more solidity. His opponents and critics have yet to work out how to respond.
In the face of Trump's popular election victory, the largely silent Left and foreign leaders know that a repudiation of Trump would now be read as a repudiation of America. Naturally, foreign leaders, many of whom are already on thin ice with their own people, will not do that. And here in the United States, many critics will not do it yet.
President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body.... has vanished, and Trump is universally treated as the leader of the world's most powerful nation. This was apparent early this month at the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral in Gay Paree and at his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and French President Emmanuel Macron.
In 2016, then-President Barack Obama I inhaled. That was the point... mocked a tweet in which Trump called him ''perhaps the worst president in the history of the United States.'' Obama responded, ''At least I will go down as a president,'' and then dropped his mic to emphasize his smiling contempt.
We cannot know how Trump's second term will pan out. But his political achievement already outshines that of Obama, who is no longer smiling.
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Trump has a history of refurbishing threadbare institutions. I consider his approach and team to be more entrepreneurial rather than chaos - especially Musk. America will be his greatest success or his greatest failure. I am betting on success, as I don’t see any alternative.
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America will be his greatest success or his greatest failure. I am betting on success, as I don’t see any alternative.
He may have to beat down the Dems, RINOs and deep-state to achieve success. That is a huge job. Wishing and praying for his and our (USA's) success.
[BREITBART] President-elect Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... nominated former Georgia United States Senate candidate Herschel Walker to serve as a U.S. Ambassador to the Bahamas.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump highlighted that Walker is a ''successful businessman, philanthropist,'' and a ''former Heisman Trophy winner'' who has ''been a tireless advocate for youth sports.'' Trump added that Walker has ''traveled to over 400 Military installations around the World'' in an effort to remove ''the stigma'' around mental health.
''I am pleased to nominate Herschel Walker as United States Ambassador to the Commonwealth of the Bahamas,'' Trump wrote. ''Herschel has spent decades serving as an Ambassador to our Nation's youth, our men and women in the Military, and athletes at home and abroad.''
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Will he appoint an ambassador to Bavaria? I mean, Berlin is pretty dysfunctional these days.
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You have a consulate there, surely, European Conservative. Set up a meeting and get some projects started — he’ll upgrade the relationship based on sheer momentum. ;-)
As author Sarah Hoyt says, “Work over, work under, work around.”
[BREITBART] President-elect Donald Trump ...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried.... has filed a lawsuit against pollster J. Ann Selzer due to her poll in the days before the election, which absurdly showed him trailing Vice President Kamala Harris What can be, unburdened by what has been by three points in Iowa.
Trump attorneys Edward Paltzik and Alan Ostergren filed the 29-page lawsuit Monday in the Iowa District Court for Polk County, seeking a jury trial. They allege that the defendants, including Selzer, the Des Moines Register, which sponsored the poll, its parent company Gannett Co., Inc., and Tribune Company, engaged in ''brazen election interference'' to benefit Harris. Fox News first reported that Trump had filed the suit.
The poll, conducted October 28-31 and published November 2, days before the election, was an extreme outlier. It found Harris with a 47 percent to 44 percent edge on Trump in the former swing state, which he won comfortably in 2016 and 2020.
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I am not sure how you can miss that bad in a state that you know intimately for years. It’s possible that she cooked the data. Alternately she could be incompetent. If it gets to discovery, we will find out, but I don’t think it will get there under this Iowa statute. The end result will probably be libs suing the three of four accurate pollsters that don’t fall in line with the fakes.
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Lawyers and insurance providers open a new liability insurance scam.
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Trump’s lawsuit argues that Selzer, the other defendants, “and their cohorts in the Democrat Party hoped that the Harris Poll would create a false narrative of inevitability for Harris in the final week of the 2024 Presidential Election.”
They have been trying to rig elections for some now with their phony polls. I wonder how much they are being sued for? This ought to chill down this fraud and election interference in the election system. Need to go after lawfare with a sledge hammer and wrecking ball as well.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...mayor of San Franciscoas it transformed itself into Poopville, currently governor of Californiaas it transforms itself into Cinderland...
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