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"A Huge Wall Street Scandal Just Exploded In Kentucky
GOP law enforcement officials are targeting Stephen Schwarzman, the billionaire who bankrolls Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump’s political machine. The lawsuit breaks open a major financial scandal that threatens the world’s largest private equity firms — with global implications."
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/07/kentucky-stephen-schwarzman-private-equity
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It doesn’t take a legal expert to know that what’s happening in Portland, Oregon is an abuse of power. When unidentified federal forces dressed as soldiers pull people off the streets into unmarked vans, something is gravely wrong. What’s less apparent is that this abuse is part of an ongoing effort by the administration to get around “posse comitatus”: the principle that the president cannot use the military as a domestic police force. The implications for the rule of law — and potentially for the 2020 election — are staggering.
the administration is trying out a new end run around the Posse Comitatus Act.
trying an end run around Posse Comitatus …
I keep waffling back and forth and to a third position. This is
Whatever it is, it allows a solid reaction and development of tactics against their move. ACLU now has updated their legal arguments; Moms have bought yellow shirts and bicycle helmets; Dads found their orange shirts and leaf blowers; there is a whole new group of people who have signed on to "protect the election."
With dump's fart-in-a-windstorm planning, it could be any of the above.
This makes me sick
secret police, making secret arrests and the carrot is no charge so no bid deal, the stick is they shoot you int he face with some non leathal thing.
Who knew that southern segregationists advocating for state’s rights could be giving civil libertarians legal grounds today?
If you can stomach Kayleigh McEnancy justifying Trump’s Army Men, here is a link to today’s press conference.
Note: she doesn’t show up at the podium until 1/2 hour into the video.
She makes me miss Sean Spicer.
The National defense authorization bill passed the senate, 86 to 14, yesterday . The 14 include an eclectic group including Rand Paul and Bernie Sanders, Mike Lee and Elizabeth Warren. Go far enough to the right and far enough to the left and the two meet up.