This IS REMARKABLE….
The United States Justice Dept. IS the governments legal adviser….
The Military has it’s own lawyers…
That Civilian lawyers will be ‘advising ‘ America military and National Guard troops is telling….
This group IS a indirect rebuttal to possible orders to the military from President Trump and supported be AG Barr…
It COULD set up a conflict for troops who have the right to NOT follow unlawful order’s…But doing THAT is a BIG deal….
The military leadership has already gone on record that they do Not want to get involved in the politics of the election, or post election…
The protests, which followed the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis, prompted confusion among law enforcement and National Guard leaders. Some officials said they had no warning that the U.S. Park Police, which commanded the operation, planned to move against protesters and that the crowd could have been moved out of the area without the use of force.
The legal group anticipates that military personnel might find themselves in the same position this fall, and they may question whether orders they receive are legal.
Some of the scenarios the lawyers have imagined are rooted in recent history with this year’s protests. But President Trump has also raised the prospect of unprecedented legal challenges. For instance, the lawyers say he could federalize the National Guard and order members to seize disputed ballots. Trump has repeatedly claimed, without evidence, that mail-in ballots, expected to be cast in historic numbers, are rife with fraud and could imperil his reelection chances.
“Military personnel don’t have to follow an unlawful order, but they take a risk when deciding not to,” said Eugene R. Fidell, one of the country’s leading experts on military law and an Orders Project co-founder.
Fidell advised concerned personnel to consult first with lawyers in their chain of command and to seek out the group as a kind of backup, if they want another opinion. The volunteer attorneys are all experts on the Uniform Code of Military Justice and will consult with service members on a case-by-case basis….
image…D.C. National Guard members join local law enforcement at Lafayette Square on May 30. (Spc. Chevonne Blackman, 715th Public Affairs Detachment/U.S. Army)
New Open Thread HERE….
Do NOT do a Franken…Cal….
If the GOPer’s can get away with this…
You can…But U DO need to get ur private life straightened out
Cunningham Won’t Answer Questions About Scandal
Asked four times if there were more women yet to come forward, North Carolina U.S. Senate candidate Cal Cunningham (D) did not answer directly, the Raleigh News & Observer reports.
Said Cunningham: “I’ve taken responsibility for the hurt I’ve caused in my personal life. I’ve apologized for it. I’ve said what I’m going to say about it.”
Sen. Thom Tillis (R), Cunningham’s opponent in the race, has publicly discussed a second affair allegation against Cunningham, an unconfirmed one made on Facebook by an attorney who says she knows of that relationship.
Good Afternoon Everyone….
Polling update will be coming out later…
Biden double digit nationally….
Trump holds in most red states….
I am beginning to think Lindsey Graham COULD lose his job…..
Wow, interesting comments today. Lots of denial.
First, Donald Trump is one of the most conservative Presidents in my lifetime. Just look at his court nominees, especially the current “June Cleaver from hell” who cannot even opine on whether the President can delay an election. She didn’t recall hearing the President say he planned to appoint judges that will overturn the ACA. Obviously Trump thinks this woman who ruled that a boss calling an employee the “N” word isn’t a reason for dismissal. What will her children of color think when they are old enough to realize the lady that adopted them is a racist. No wonder her coworkers have written to oppose her nomination. A nomination I fully expect to go through. The Republicans want to go back to the 1950’s and Amy will certainly do that for them. She even said being gay is a “preference,” imagine that, and imagine when she and her other conservative judges go after gay marriage.
And then we have Saint Mitt with his pox on both sides commentary filled with false equivalencies (where have we heard those before?). The man who votes with Trump 80% of the time is offended by Trump’s rhetoric, he’s concerned. Maybe he can take up where Susan Collins left off. Will he be voting to postpone Judge Amy’s nomination until after the election? Of course he won’t, because Mitt still thinks he can get his milky white ass elected to the Presidency. Do we think that even if Trump is in jail he is going to let that happen? Mitt simply flirts with greatness, he won’t get there.
The Republicans will try, as we can see by the comments of our resident Republican here, to pretend that Trump never existed. He did and so does all the damage he and his party has done. They enabled this fat assed mother fucker and no amount of denial will fix that.
Oh, and Dick Cheney did say, “deficits don’t matter.” In fact, he said it many times as he and W set about driving the deficit up with tax cuts and a disastrous war (the one that was supposed to pay for itself). These laps of memory when every Democratic “scandal” is on a loop is rather amusing. Cheney and Bush both invaded the wrong country at the wrong time, and created modern terrorism. Great accomplishments.
And, Nancy Pelosi, who passed her recovery bill in May has nothing to apologize to CNN and Wolf because Ro Kahana said people deserve relief. I guess Dave just misses Maggie. Talk to Mitch, who appeared to think the whole issue was humorous in his debate the other night.
Finally, voter suppression, thanks to the Republican Party, is on full display. People of color have to wait for hours to vote thanks to Republican Governors in Texas and Georgia. This country is ready to go off and is in the process of doing so.
Lots to do. Working with Michelle Obama’s group to arrange voting locations that will accommodate in-person voting. It’s lots of fun, exciting, and a hopeful experience.
Question: if that fly on Pence’s head laid eggs, will he allow them to be carried to full term?
In 2024 the GOP candidates who run as the most Trumpian (Hawley, Cotton, Carlson, Pence) will also be running as the most conservative.
Those who seek to distance themselves from Trump and his rhetoric and policies will still be Reagan type conservatives (Hogan. Sasse) but will be seen as RINOs.
Bank on it.
Morning…..
Expect Trump to try and drop something he thinks can replicate the effect of the Comey drop on Hillary 4 years ago….
I hope Biden has something also….
Less than 3 weeks and Trump looks like he’s floundering…
Trump’s youngest kid Barron has the virus…
Update….
Had the virus….
Quote of the Day
“I for one hope that every registered voter in this country votes on November 11.”
— Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), suggesting he doesn’t know the day of the election.
The guy seems about to lose his job anyways…
Or, else, he wants Cal Cunningham’s supporters to wait to visit their polling station until Veterans’ Day.
No more Al Franken mistakes!
Another Trump story drops…
FBI and DOJ had run a probe up until THIS SUMMER about Trump getting money from a Egyptian bank….
The case was closed….
No public comment….
Said there is gonna be leaks and LEAKS and LEAKS….
Remember ….
Barr could be gone on Jan 21st
Morning People….
Sasse Says Trump ‘Kisses Dictators’ Butts’
Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE), in a private call with constituents, excoriated President Trump, saying he had mishandled the coronavirus response, “kisses dictators’ butts,” “sells out our allies,” spends “like a drunken sailor,” mistreats women, and trash-talks evangelicals behind their backs, the Washington Examiner reports.
He added that Trump has “flirted with white supremacists” and his family “treated the presidency like a business opportunity.”
Ah Keith?
Did you just say Mitch McConnell wants to be President???
Apparently some Republican candidates are using images of Dt.Fauci in their campaign ads.
Fauci says He never endorses political candidates.
In a negative sense of him?
Morning….
J. Miles Coleman
Cal Cunningham up 49%-39% over Tillis in new SurveyUSA poll. He’s *improved* since the texting scandal — he was up 7% in the last poll.
Cunningham lost some ground with seniors, who I guess are used to having higher moral standards for electeds. #ncsen
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Franken syndrome gone from Democrats?
Trump flack Corey Lewandowski says it’s “mathematically impossible” for Biden to win according to Trumps internal polls.
The polls themselves?
Weren’t released.
Bull Shit factor IS gonna dramatically INCREASE in the next three weeks until REALITY Day….
Roberta McCain, mother of the late Senator, has passed away at the age of 108.
RIP
Morning people….
https://twitter.com/MittRomney/status/1316023618422235138/photo/1
I agree with everything Senator Romney is saying here… about both sides.
One can also read between the lines and see a definite preference for Biden over Trump inferred.
His example of hatred on the Democratic side is Keith Olbermann (who??) while on the GOP side it’s the President of the United States supported by just about every current elected Republican so–“both sides”
OK Mitt. Sure!
Clearly, it was designed to be “harsher” on Republicans. But he also had to be fair. What I thought Olbermann said was that he wanted people like ACB and others to be imprisoned when Democrats take power.
Olbermann may be a “nobody” in the grand scheme of things, but so was Donald Trump once in comparison to the then Presidents.
I mean I distinctly remember Obermann calling GWB a terrorist and “Yes, he is as bad if not worse than Hitler”, so that is nothing new for him, but he recently said that anybody who “enables” Trump should be “prosecuted” and “removed from society.” That’s even worse and far more dangerous in these times.
Romney made it clear he was talking about many aspects of American life, including elected officials, journalists, pundits, and others.
And if the Democrats nominated and elected him President the comparison between he and Trump and the GOP would be apt.
Focus on the big picture.
I doubt you really consider defending the honor of Keith Olbermann on par with the potential to gain votes for Joe Biden down the homestretch.
You ought to be disseminating Mitt’s statement to your right-wing friends and relatives.
It was also a clear quasi-endorsement of Joe Biden by a conservative Senator from Utah and a former Republican Presidential nominee, so perhaps people on your side should choose to be a bit more selective in the bitching.
Call me when he actually endorses.
That’s as far as he is going to go, and far as he should have to go.
The message he put out is clear. “Don’t vote for Trump. Biden is not as bad.”
Breaking…..
The Supreme’s ok Trump admin closing down the Census count early,…
Breaking…..
The Supreme’s ok Trump admin closing down the Census count early,…
The order is actually a stay of a lower courts injunction against the Trump admin request… Their reason is they do don’t have time for things to be finished by Dec 32st.,.
The counting was delayed due the virus…
Trump and Republicans have been trying to game the count down feeling that it would include EVERYONE like the constitution mandates every 10 years….
Pelosi and Wolf Blitzer go at it….
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi got into a heated exchange with CNN veteran Wolf Blitzer on Tuesday that resulted in the California congresswoman telling the cable TV journalist he didn’t know what he was talking about….
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Totally pointless on her behalf.
Nothing but late game fodder in reddish House district where her candidates may be competitive.
The statement itself ought to be worth far more to you guys than an unwillingness to throw Keith Olbermann under a bus or accepting a relatively minor rebuke offered of Pelosi as a price.
Chris Christie has become a born again mask wearing social distancer after being in intensive care with Covid.
Christie ,a well known babbling stooge for Republican Party Leader Donald Trump, apparently isn’t following Trumps anti mask pro virus herd immunity philosophy which is the new line emanating from dear leader of late.
Christie is now urging people to wear masks and practice social distancing.
‘Come to Jesus’ moment that passed over Trump’s head?
More on Christie ‘getting it’ now…
Christie Says He Was ‘Wrong’ to Not Wear a Mask
Former Gov. Chris Christie (R), who was recently battling a coronavirus infection, told the New York Times that he was “wrong” not to wear a mask at an event honoring Judge Amy Coney Barrett and in his debate preparation sessions with President Trump, and that people should take the threat of the virus seriously.
“Christie said that he had believed he was in a “safe zone” at the White House while he was there.”
“He urged people to follow best practices, like mask wearing and social distancing, but argued there’s a middle ground between extensive, large-scale shutdowns and reopening cities and states without taking proper precautions.”
My ballot is “in the mail.”
Feels sort of like a bullet.
Even though the picture in several state’s of people standing in line are first day ones….
If the in-person voting is anywhere near the mail-in’s?
We ARE having a LOT of people vote that did NOT 4 years ago….
2018 midterm previewed this….
Judicial Crisis Network is up with an +Amy Barrett commercial that I just saw….
Joke of the Day….
Businessweek
@BW
Trump says he’s winning Bernie Sanders voters. But that simply isn’t true
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan voted for Ronald Reagan for President–in 2020.
Writing in a dead person is pretty pointless to be honest, and I don’t think it’ll earn him amy extra points from GOP primary voters if he runs in 2024–but at least it’s not a vote for Trump and of course it is his right.
His adviser Ron Gunzburger is definitely voting for Biden and proudly displays his Biden flag on social media.
If Larry Hogan voted in 2000 for Ronald Reagan (1911-2004), that was while Reagan was still alive.
Scratch my last comment, I misread 2020 for 2000 [face-palm[.
In my view, Larry Hogan has as much chance of winning the Republican nomination in 2024 as John Bel Edwards, the conservative Democratic Governor oof Louisiana ,has of winning the Democratic nomination.
And for sure, this little write in gambit will be used against him too.
1%?….
Third party!
Hogan /Edwards?
I’d take Edwards/Hogan
Reminds me of the 90s when there was talk of various moderate Republicans and Democrats teaming up to run on the Reform Party ticket.
If only Dick Lamm/Ed Zschau had social media…
Mitt has a new statement out today alluding to a potential future third party.
Until there is ranked choice voting nationwide any all third party talk is pyrs fairy tale.
Who can forget Anderson/Lucey (no-name party)’80 ?
Anderson /Lucey ran on the National Unity Party ticket
The NUP of course was simply a name Anderson gave to his Independent campaign.
Interestingly, after the election Anderson announced that the NUP would survive and he pledged to build it into a real third party.
Then?Nothing happened and Anderson and the NUP simply faded away.
Anderson/Lucey probavly took more votes from Carter than Reagan in 1980, despite Anderson being an elected GOP congressman at the time.
I just realized that John Anderson and Patrick Lucey not only bridged the great partisan divide, they also spanned the vast territorial expanse between Illinois and Wisconsin, thus appealing to every corner of the republic.
Then I remembered that back in my college-shopping youth, I. too, had traversed that forbidding geographical chasm when I travelled from the airport in South Beloit, Illinois, to Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin.
Morning All….
Just a thought….
I’m kinda waiting for something from both campaigns to drop in the next 2 1/2 weeks that would be an ‘October Surprise’….
Rudy and NY Post thing isn’t gonna be it….
Hogan is walking on tight wire ….
Trump give up Minnesota?
The Trump campaign slashed another $1.1 million in reserved ad time in the Minneapolis-St. Paul TV market this week, KMSP-TV reports…
Politicalwire…
And I know where he got that flag from!
Good Morning All….
Morning…..
Reports are that OVER 20 Million votes have been casted already….
Last time there was a change in things before all this number of votes were made…
15 days out from Election Day…..
Morning…..
The NY Giants pull off a sloppy win….
Dodgers play the Tampa Bay Rays in the World Series in Baseball….
In person voting begins in Florida today…..
Interesting….
A Trump guy i know is worried about early voting which is based computer records from ur home voting place…
He’s worried that his vote might now be counted…
Is thinking of voting in person on election day at his regular place…
People who think Trump’s BS doesn’t find a home should think twice…
And this is in a Blue state….
Exhaustive but extremely long article about voting-fraud charges and delegitimizing elections by Jim Ruthofer in The New York Times Magazine here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/magazine/trump-voter-fraud.html
Thanks…..
Without reading the piece my feeling IS that Donald Trump willingly or unwillingly is taking his methodology straight from the revolutionary handbook for overthrowing a government…
He would gladly love to bury his opponent’s and opposition and ‘rule’…
Despite the hair on fire media?
So far there HAVE BEEN little brakes on his efforts….
And a BIG one from the virus that he just can’t get past…
Breaking….
GOPer’s lose on Pa. voter suppression effort...
Supreme Court denies Pennsylvania GOP request to limit mail-in voting
Why it matters: The 4-4 deadlocked ruling is a major win for Democrats that could decide the fate of thousands of ballots in a crucial swing state that President Trump won in 2016.
More on this later….
Not good news for Trump & Co concerning the court…
Barrett will be a wild card , but NOT on the court for at least a week and half…
Again,,,,
More a little later when the dust clears..
Unknown if this is applicable to other states…
this court is pro-ALL votes should be counted…
Caution with the 4-4 vote though .,,
The 6-3 thing may not materialize to much or at all?
Trump probably just lost Pa
Morning…..
Rush Limbaugh said his lung cancer is now at the terminal stage.
I guess soon he will be what he called Jerry Garcia the day after he died. Another dead doper.
Two more weeks ! Three more months ! (if Heaven is merciful unto the Republic)
They just keep jumping ship….
Howard Stern said the Trump presidency has cost him respect for old friends — and sleep, too.
The SiriusXM host, who’s no fan of President Trump, said on his Monday show that he finds it hard to be friends with MAGA backers and would rather not hear their thoughts…
More…
Morning….
Less than 2 weeks to go…..
Everyday more Biden/Harris signs showing up around my way!
Barr IS twisted….
The Justice Department said Monday that President Donald Trump had acted in his official capacity when denying a rape claim made by a longtime magazine columnist, and therefore shouldn’t be sued personally for defamation.
In a court filing, lawyers for the department told the court that “the President addressed matters relating to his fitness for office as part of an official White House response to press inquiries.”….
More…
Things get worst for Trump by the day….
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poll: 36% of respondents in the poll think the U.S. is headed in right direction, & 64% say it’s headed off on the wrong track. … 44% approve of the job TRUMP is doing as POTUS.
JOE BIDEN holds a 45-44 edge in who people trust to handle the economy
Trump’s ONLY lead was the Economy….
I’ll have the polling update tonight but Biden’s state polls are better today for him…
Morning All…..
Senate Judiciary Committee approved Amy Barrettt employment application for the US Supreme Court job….
Democrats not involved…
Final approval goes to the whole Senate…
Post forthcoming….