[Washington Post] Alan Dershowitz, the lawyer and professor emeritus at Harvard Law School, assumed his standard role Thursday in the feedback loop connecting conservative cable news and President Trump’s Twitter pronouncements.
Dershowitz joined Fox News host Tucker Carlson to denounce purported discussions within the Justice Department about using the 25th Amendment to remove the president. The talks were confirmed by Andrew McCabe, the former acting FBI director, in an interview with "60 Minutes" set to air in full this weekend, CBS journalist Scott Pelley said Thursday, when a clip from the interview was released. The amendment, which creates a process for the vice president and Cabinet to declare a president unfit, was apparently explored by top Justice Department officials in May 2017 as they became alarmed by the president’s decision to fire James B. Comey, the former FBI director.
The advance clip does not include talk of the 25th Amendment but rather focuses on McCabe’s decision to authorize a probe into Trump’s possible ties to Russia out of fear that he would soon follow Comey in being dismissed.
Trump earlier on Thursday had launched a general attack on McCabe, impugning his personal character.
After watching Carlson’s show on Fox, his criticism became more specific. He quoted Dershowitz’s denunciation of the alleged consideration of the 25th Amendment as a means of removing the 45th president.
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Actually treason since they collaborated and depended on a foreign agent.
Treason, a capital offense.
With the hardcore leftists now running Fox I doubt we will be hearing the term 'Attempted coup d'etat" from anyone else on the once good American channel.
[Breitbart] Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein rejected allegations made by former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe to CBS News that he and other officials discussed removing the president via the 25th amendment after he fired James Comey, according to a Department of Justice (DOJ) statement.
Follows is a portion of an analysis on this article by commenter 'Incurablewound' and a must read: Incurablewound:
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Either the Deputy AG or the former Deputy Director of the FBI is lying about something rather significant. That is disturbing, regardless of which one.
#7
I believe you could find a 100 more corruption affairs, maybe not as weighty, on every level of the new class - that's what I mean by their privileges.
[New York Post] Opponents of Amazon’s plan to come to Queens were popping the champagne corks Thursday after the company announced it was backing out of the deal, with some calling it a major victory for the progressive movement.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called the decision a victory over "corporate greed" and over the retail giant’s billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos.
"Anything is possible," the Bronx/Queens Democrat tweeted. "Today was a day a group of dedicated, everyday New Yorkers & their neighbors defeated Amazon’s corporate greed, its worker exploitation, and the power of the richest man in the world."
She later incorrectly claimed the $3 billion in subsidies that would have gone to Amazon could be used to hire teachers, fix the subway and "put a lot of people to work."
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From "You didn't make that," to "We aren't going to let you make that." Next up, abortion prior to conception...
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Neurosurgeon making the same as a janitor will work like a janitor. Dedication has nothing to do with it.
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Should we have stocked up on popcorn for this?
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"Let's really rub Amazon's nose in it. We'll go on strike from the jobs we didn't get. That'll show those evil capitalist bastiges we can't be bullied."
#14
Cuomo is really P.O.ed at AOC. I anticipate bad mojo is sent AOCs way by some on the now conflicted leftist camp, Stalin Style.
Might not be a bad idea to assign some very discreet Secret Service people to watch over AOC. Be a shame if someone were to be apprehended (and thoroughly interrogated) attempting to do her harm.
"Well, there she was waiting in line for the grand re-opening show of Rent when two white males with red hats attacked, screaming 'This is MAGA country!'"
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In a year, AOC will be running ion her 'record' for another term.
I'm buying popcorn futures.
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Perhaps the anti-Amazon politicians oppose this because the subsidies granted would open up 25,000 jobs. These politicians know that their constituencies don't want to work. They would rather have the subsidies turned into more fungible financial vehicles with which to bribe, er, ensure their reelections.
#7
The millennium socialists are on the move. The rest of the Party seems to be giving tacit support for their goofy ideas.
Occasional Cortex studied economics in college. She really thinks the $3 billion of tax breaks for Amazon is going to be available for socialist causes now that Amazon pulled out. She ought to sue her college for false advertising.
[Free Beacon] The Kamala Harris campaign announced Thursday that Rep. Barbara Lee (D.), a far-left California congresswoman known for her relationship with deceased Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, would be its co-chair.
The endorsement from Lee, who has represented one of the most liberal districts in the country for the last two decades, is seen as a big win for Harris and her effort to win support from the liberal base of her party, CNN reported on Thursday. Lee has previously held leadership roles on both the Congressional Black Caucus and Congressional Progressive Caucus.
The Oakland congresswoman was also one of the leaders in the push to normalize relations with Cuba and Fidel Castro, a brutal communist dictator whose 2016 death she mourned.
"I was very sad for the Cuban people," Lee said. "He led a revolution in Cuba that led social improvements for his people."
Lee has been cultivating her relationship with Cuba since her first trip to the Communist island in 1977 and eventually won the praise of Castro himself. In a 2009 memo titled "Reflections by Comrade Fidel," he praised Lee's "political courage," not just for her efforts to reach out to him but also for being "the sole vote against Bush’s genocidal war in Iraq."
"It was unbeatable proof of political courage," Fidel wrote in the memo, which Lee gave to the San Francisco Chronicle for a piece on her relationship with Castro. "For that, she deserves every honor."
Lee once praised Castro for rationing access to gasoline, arguing that it forced his people to increase their use of bicycles, and "their rates of diabetes and high blood pressure went down."
Lee's reaction to Castro's death was out of the ordinary for members on either side of the aisle including her Democratic colleague Nancy Pelosi, who represents Lee's neighboring district in San Francisco.
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Lee once praised Castro for rationing access to gasoline, arguing that it forced his people to increase their use of bicycles, and "their rates of diabetes and high blood pressure went down."
Something we can look forward to in the U.S.A, right Kamela?
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I don't know the full picture here (its beyond any one person's grasp anyway) but the limiting provisions of this bill probably do not apply to funds authorized by other acts or maybe only apply in narrowly defined areas. Similarly, future authorizations would not, unless specific to the legislative language, affect the limitations of this 'compromise' bill. Furthermore, the limiting language may not be as limiting as it seems. For example, requiring consultation does not mean the same thing as requiring agreement.
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I hope we'll see how it fits into his plan. I hope.
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He vetoes it. It gets overridden. Who owns it?
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[Free Beacon] House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D., S.C.) praised new Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) on Thursday after she was embroiled in another anti-Semitic controversy this week, calling her an "incredible young lady" with a bright future.
Omar was forced to apologize on Monday by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) and some of her Democratic colleagues after claiming pro-Israel politicians are paid off by the lobbying group AIPAC. A supporter of the anti-Israel BDS movement, which has been called anti-Semitic by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.), Omar also recently said she used "unfortunate" language in a 2012 tweet where she said Israel had "hypnotized the world."
"I wish we would just go on and stop beating up on people when they make a mistake," Clyburn said on CNN. "All of us have misspoken at one time or another. All of us have to learn the processes up here. I think she's an incredible young lady who has a tremendous future in politics, and I'm going to be as supportive as I possibly can of her, and I wish we would just go on and put this behind us."
Clyburn said he had a "very long talk with her" about her recent remarks and called her "very sincere" in her apology. Omar tweeted she was "listening and learning, but standing strong." She said "I unequivocally apologize" but added AIPAC was among the lobbysists playing a "problematic role in our politics."
President Donald Trump called on her to resign for her tweets, or at the very least be kicked off the House Foreign Affairs Committee, leading her to retort he had "trafficked in hate his whole life." Omar also put up a fundraising page after Trump's comments.
#6
Everyone should refer to her as "Madame Brotherf*cker, with all due respect"
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Liberal blacks in Congress realize that soon muzz and hispanics will call the non-white tune. Hispanics may be sort of conservative when they are actually seeing money in their pockets and they won't have any white guilt. So. Blacks will have to side with muzz. The blacks aren't smart enough to know muzz consider them subhuman, so they will go all in.
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[Breitbart] A Republican-Democrat spending bill being offered to President Trump provides a de facto amnesty pipeline for all illegal alien household members of MS-13 gang members who arrive in the United States as "Unaccompanied Alien Children" (UACs).
As part of a bipartisan "compromise" spending package, lawmakers included provisions that prevent federal immigration officials from deporting anyone who has close contact with UACs who are readily resettled throughout the U.S. with so-called "sponsors" after being trafficked across the southern border.
These sponsors are often times illegal alien relatives, in many cases parents, of UACs. Federal officials have repeatedly noted how the UAC program has been widely used by the MS-13 gang to import more gang members into the country.
Last year, New York City Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official Angel Melendez said there are roughly 22,000 UAC "potential recruits" who are resettled across the country every year out of about 40,000 total UACs. These are mostly young men trafficked across the southern border from Central America, especially El Salvador.
The Trump administration has cracked down the UAC program slightly, often detaining and deporting illegal aliens who file to sponsor the young migrants.
[MEDIAite] Former Deputy Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe sat down with 60 Minutes host Scott Pelley for his first public interview since getting unceremoniously fired by the Trump administration.
"There were meetings at the Justice Department at which it was discussed whether the vice president and a majority of the cabinet could be brought together to remove the president of the United States under the 25th Amendment," Pelley said of his conversations McCabe.
A short clip of entire 60 Minutes segment aired Wednesday on CBS Morning, but the more interesting part came in the panel discussion afterward, in which Pelley described what he found to be the "most illuminating and surprising thing" they discussed: the eight days that followed President Donald Trump's firing of then FBI Director James Comey.
Pelley shared how McCabe explained what was happening behind the scenes at the highest levels of the FBI and Department of Justice in which serious discussions of invoking the 25th amendment to remove a sitting president.
"They were counting noses" Pelley explained, adding "Not asking cabinet members whether they would vote for or against removing the president. But they were speculating, this person would be with us. That person would not be, and they were counting noses in that effort."
McCabe also told of how he feared his immediate firing and hurried to start an investigation so that even if he was dismissed, an investigation would continue.
I was very concerned that I was able to put the Russia case on absolutely solid ground, in an indelible fashion. That, were I removed quickly, or reassigned or fired, that the case could not be closed or vanish in the night without a trace." McCabe said.
"I wanted to make sure that our case was on solid ground and if somebody came in behind me and closed it and tried to walk away from it, they would not be able to do that without creating a record of why they made that decision," McCabe added.
McCabe is a life-long civil servant who was fired just days before he reached his full pension-earning retirement term. He has also received voluminous criticism from right-of-center opinion media and conservative politicians who believe that he is a significant player in the "deep state" conspiracy that has polluted airwaves for the past two and a half years.
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If you strike at the king, you must kill the king.
There is no try.
He has also received voluminous criticism from right-of-center opinion media and conservative politicians who believe that he is a significant player in the "deep state" conspiracy that has polluted airwaves for the past two and a half years.
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More importantly, what was their motivation? I cannot believe it was simply politically inspired or a fear of Trump's inability to lead. Perhaps VDH was right when he recently opined that these vermin and their deeds would be revealed.
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One of the sworn law enforcement officers in the room should have stood up, drawn his weapon and arrested them all for treason, the fact it did not happen, means they are ALL guilty of treason. Hang them after their convictions on the white house lawn. Let them rot for a week or two as an example.
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7 Days in May, minus serious, charismatic people believable actors.
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Sedition and treason come to mind. A small cabal of non-elected apparatchiks decided that the people's duly elected POTUS should be deposed before he even took office for no cause and in violation of our Constitution.
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Dershowitz on Tucker last night nailed it, the 25th amendment is about the physical and mental capacity of the President, it has nothing to do with any crimes or policy he chooses. By his own admission, McCabe essentially admitted they were conspiring to use the 25th amendment illegally to remove a duly elected President because they didn't like him. This is the essence of a seditious conspiracy and should be treated as a criminal act! Deep State before your eyes openly revealed.
[SFChronicle] Just five weeks into the job, Gov. Gavin Newsom has crystallized his vision of what California will look like in the Trump era: It won’t just be the hub of the resistance against the president; it will be its own nation-state.
But before Newsom can create a country-within-a-country, he had to defuse two multibillion-dollar grenades that his predecessor, Gov. Jerry Brown, left in his in-box: high-speed rail and the delta tunnels project. In proposing Tuesday to scale back both of Brown’s unpopular legacy projects, Newsom hopes he can preserve enough political capital to get his own legacy projects on the fast track.
If he can do that, he can lead California down its own path for as long as Trump is president. California must go it alone, because Trump’s portrait of America is "fundamentally at odds with California values," the governor said Tuesday in his first State of the State speech.
Newsom said the president has "described a country where inequality doesn’t seem to be a problem, where climate change doesn’t exist, and where the greatest threat we face comes from families seeking asylum."
So California, as the world’s fifth-largest economy, is going to be a counterweight, a West Coast enclave built on its own values and funded, in part, by an anticipated $21.6 billion surplus.
So while the White House is "laser-focused on destroying the Affordable Care Act," as Newsom said Tuesday, he proposes that California offer its own health-insurance subsidies to families earning up to $150,000. He wants to expand Medi-Cal coverage to all Californians, including undocumented immigrants, until they are 26. The United States Constitution. Article III, section 3 reads as follows:
"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. [emphasis on topical legal premise added]. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
“The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted [sic]."
I lived in CA during "Fruit and Nuts." Great weather, laid-back lifestyles (for some, anyway) and South America wasn't using it as a magic ticket dispenser feeding the American Dream Nightmare. It's morphed into a place I cannot visit.
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Nothing stops you and your henchmen/women in Congress from submitting a Constitutional Amendment to make the separation legit. I suspect some flyover states would be more than happy to accommodate.
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My sister lives in California. I'm always asked when I'm coming to visit. Can't say it outright, sis, but your state already made choices that are costing me too much. I'm not bringing any money in by flying there...
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I hope he makes his move while Trump is still president because future presidents may not have the balls to send federal troops to arrest Newsom and put a stop to this insurrection.
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He rambles. He looks and sounds bedraggled and defeated in this speech. I'm afraid that Chuck and Nancy are wearing heavily on him. He talks about crime, drugs and gangs as if those are the only reasons to build the wall. He does not state the obvious which is the impact that illegal aliens from the Third World are having on our democracy. I suppose he can't talk about that without being accused of racism. Likewise, Chuck and Nancy can't say what the real reason is for their implacable opposition to the wall, which is that they need those Third World voters (and possibly the cartel graft as well).
So we have these two opposing parties talking past each other and it's no wonder a lot of citizens across the country don't understand what the real problem is.
Maybe you think I'm rambling here but my point is that Gavin Newsom is a product of this whole scheme the Democrats have to gain complete control over this country's political processes, to gain the absolute power they need to turn the United States into a socialist police state that would make Oceana look benign.
I've told you people before that California used to be a red state. We gave you leaders like Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, two of your greatest presidents ever. Today, neither one of these good men could get elected to any state wide office in California. That's because illegal immigration has turned the state blue.
Newsom is a creep and a thief. I say thief because he wants to take money that citizens of this state pay in taxes and give it to people who should not be here instead of using it only for the good of the citizens who pay those taxes. That way he hopes to win the favor of those Third World types and gain their votes so he can perpetuate and enlarge on his power play.
My only hope is that somehow Trump can put a stop to Newsom's scheme but my hope is wearing thin. It might be too late.
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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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Washington Post] Alan Dershowitz, the lawyer and professor emeritus at Harvard Law School, assumed his standard role Thursday in the feedback loop connecting conservative cable news and President Trump’s Twitter pronouncements.
[Breitbart] Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein rejected allegations made by former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe to CBS News that he and other officials discussed removing the president via the 25th amendment after he fired James Comey, according to a Department of Justice (DOJ) statement.
[Free Beacon] The Kamala Harris campaign announced Thursday that Rep. Barbara Lee (D.), a far-left California congresswoman known for her relationship with deceased Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, would be its co-chair.
[MEDIAite] Former Deputy Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe sat down with 60 Minutes host Scott Pelley for his first public interview since getting unceremoniously fired by the Trump administration.
Victor Davis Hanson wrote about this very topic back in 2003. 
