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Today is National Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day
Chapman University Law Professor Retires After Bogus Trump Rally Fraud Claim
Law scholar John Eastman spoke alongside Rudy Giuliani before the Capitol riot and baselessly claimed voting machines were rigged in Georgia.
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Chapman will throw the bum out (post haste) but CU won't?!?!?!?
Exactly my question. I did read that both of his classes were cancelled at CU this spring due to insufficient enrollment. Perhaps CU's administration should shift their perspective from "political free speech" to, "hey, we shouldn't harbor an insurrectionist."
You'd probably not get much of an argument if you wanted to call him a 'terrorist mastermind'. The investigation may turn up more info about his associations and participation.
Then what is Regent Ganahl going to say now?
Hollywood socialists.
Clintons.
Her emails.
Deficit reduction.
Benghazi! Don't forget Benghazi!
I'm thinking this may be more chickens coming home to roost at CU Boulder.
The decade long debacle with Professor Ward Churchill may well have convinced the administration to simply let the contract flow to an end rather than trying to do anything about the "free speech" of a temporarily appointed academic.
How about eliminating affirmative action for conservatives?
The position is paid for by a private endowment … which no doubt covers the salary AND an "administration fee" for the University. Some years, the person selected has been fine: this year, not so much. When selected, he hadn't demonstrated full-on eccentric (to the point of ridicule) views. Timing has not been kind to the Professor.
The trustees, in their broadminded approach to higher education, have let this conservative tool take a big crap all over the reputation of their institution.
Good on 'em.
If you are a Republican Senator, do you want Trump to run for president again? If not, do you want it bad enough to impeach?
Trump has been impeached – the House did that yesterday.
The Senate will try- and may or may not convict.
And may or may not bar from future office.
And even if the impeachment does not result in bar from future office, a determination under 14th Amendment section 3 may bar from future office. It should.
And no way any serious republican senator wants Trump on the ballot.
Example – if Governors Bush or Kasich were the 2016 winner, they would have also won the re-elect.
Ttumpy made the front cover of The New European
That is approximately the same as winning a Noble prize. Does it still come with a trip to Denmark and a medal?
He's up for the second nomination of his own award
Matt, you are correct, I meant to convict, not impeach. The vote to bar him from office can only occur after conviction. My guess is that almost every Senator (including Cruz and Hawley), does not want him to run (or campaign) for the next four years. Are they willing to alienate his voters with a vote for conviction?
There's some serious doubts that the senate can convict after trump is out of office. But I'd like to test that theory. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/12/once-trump-leaves-office-senate-cant-hold-an-impeachment-trial/
Lawrence Tribe has article in Washington Post arguing that not only can conviction occur after a Perp leaves office but in fact citing examples of it happening. Tribe is God on the Constitution.
Even more to the point. In the most recent impeachments which included an appeal to the courts, the majority opinion is a variation on the theme say "the Senate has the power to set rules on impeachment trials, and we're not going to mess with it."
Luttig is a heavyweight, too. And his views are aligned with more members of SCOTUS than Tribe's. But I'd like to see this play out
I believe the argument for trial after the conclusion of the term is a strong one. The Constitution grants the Senate the power to impose two penalties for a conviction of impeachment; removal from office, and "disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States."
A president should not be able to avoid the imposition of the penalty of disqualification from future office by resigning or by committing an offense late enough in his term to avoid removal.
I'm looking forward to a test case. https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/as-house-impeaches-trump-some-contend-senate-trial-after-trump-presidency-is-unconstitutional?fbclid=IwAR0CGZLdKaG4ypTq4p9TnLoQr23jDjjZuswIdvJLcbkxIosuXQd4oiuPrfY
If you’re in a safe seat I don’t think you give a damn. You just swear your oaths (to the orange fuck) and collect your money/votes.
If you’re in PA/WI or have the last name Romney…you probably never want to hear his name again let alone have to run the gauntlet.
We have been watching with great interest the deepening pile of shit around congresswoman Lauren Boebert. I am pretty confident the FBI, the Capitol police, and congressional leadership have already seen the photo kwtree shared with us.
Bo Bo is in DEEP doo doo.
The photo I referenced in response to KWTREE's comment is NOT Boebert giving a tour. We'll need to wait to find what other evidence emerges from the investigation.
Sorry for the misinterpretation and the incorrect citation. My bad. What did that photo express?
The photo I posted showed Boebert palling around with militia members and white supremacists- but not on January 5 in DC. It was December 2019 in Colorado. That was my fault. I took it from a couple of sources who had it wrong, without doing a reverse image search.
However, as noted, the Capitol police and Sgt at Arms have been asked to investigate all of the suspicious tours of the Capitol Jan 5. Boebert will probably turn up, along with Gosar, Brooks, Taylor Greene, and the rest of the Sedition Caucus.
Unlike Fox News we correct our mistakes on this site!
Thanks, Tree.
I don’t know, maybe we should wait on that judgement, or at least label it as the open speculation that it is?
Having a little problem here seeing much of a qualitative difference between this and the unhinged FOXNews Ttumpers spouting, “Just because the ‘evidence’ we’ve shown is proven shit doesn’t automatically mean that Biden couldn’t have stolen the election”?
YMMV . . .
PS. This is in no way meant to be construed as any kind of defense of the CO-3 moron
You are of course free to label anyone’s posts, including mine, anything you want, as you have often done. As far as what “we” might do, as far as I know, I’m the only Polster who has troubled to correct an error of mine three times, and one of the few who bothers to post links to backup my claims. I did learn from this last error, FWIW.
Readers of this site understand that most posts written here are opinions based on evidence. I don’t think”we” need to tag This is Speculation, Not 100% Sure Here, I’m being Sarcastic, This is Meant Ironically, I’m Only Kidding Here, when we include clues to our intent.
YMMV.
The Capitol CCTV system will have a lot of video of her and her companions roaming the halls of the building. There are a lot of halls there.
One of Boebert’s family members posted on Instagram that they had gone on a Capitol tour. I’m not screenshotting nor linking because he is a minor. That’s why I thought Boebert might have had been one of the Sedition Tour Guides. She definitely took at least her family members around the Capitol…which is within norms for new Members.
But it remains to be seen whether she also included some of her militia buddies in the tour. I think it’s pretty likely. She romanticized the rioters with that “1776” and “most important 48 hours in American history” crap.
DOSIMPOTUS
Blanche is getting the vapors over what conviction in the Senate would mean to the GOP brand; has privately called GOP colleagues urging them to oppose convicting Trump in Senate trial
From the way-back time machine:
Biden picks Jaime Harrison, not Stacey Abrams, to be DNC chair.
I know a variety of people were pushing Abrams as DNC chair … but I hadn't seen anything from her or her organizations indicating she was interested. Picking Harrison and his interest in "Dirt Road Democrats" seems like a fine choice to me.
Why are you still tweeting, you twit?
It was anarchy at the deli counter.
On Sunday afternoon in Washington, D.C.’s Shaw neighborhood, a couple dozen masked people had crowded into a corner of a Giant supermarket, where they swiveled their heads warily. As I approached them, a slightly haggard man in an orange down jacket stopped me. “Here for the extra vaccine doses?” asked the man, who was part of the group, not a Giant employee. He handed me a scrap of paper with the number 24 scrawled on it.
To Tune of Colonel Boogie March
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Boebert, one of the Great Dimwits
Boebert, she gives us all the shits.
If her gunshots don’t kill you quickly
Her sliders will make you sickly.
Racist riots she will always bless
And her waiters are Waffen SS.
RIP Tim Bogert of Vanilla Fudge, Cactus, and Beck Bogert & Appice fame. Dude took rock bass playing to new and delightful places.
That's bad news on top of bad news. First it was Carmen, then Leslie West and now Bogert … the New York influence on rock.
After you posted about Carmen I replaced a couple of Cactus releases in my collection and added to my Mountain. There was a whole weekend day where my cave was a shrine to those guys. They all have several of their own wrinkles in my warped evolution. I loved them and their music then and now.
For good measure I had to watch Zachariah again too.