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Narrator: republicans will not stop. The fascists in the MAGA movement will not stop. They no longer care and never really did care about law and order. That was just clever marketing. If they cared about law and order, they would’ve obeyed the laws about mask mandates, but they don’t accept laws that force them to do anything. Yet they force everyone else to abide by their rules. And they criminalize everything they can to try and silence politically those with whom they disagree by making them felons and ineligible to vote. They will ramp up their attacks on the justice department, just like they ramped up their attacks on children’s hospitals, libraries, schools, doctors, nurses, teachers, librarians. They have no shame they have no morals they want to kill their political opposition. The sooner we wake up to the fact that the right wing MAGA movement is a neo-Nazi fascist takeover of the American Republic, and it will not stop until we acknowledge it as such. https://wapo.st/4bSs0yt

REVERBERATIONS FROM THE CAPITOL The US Supreme Court currently has two cases pending arising from the Capitol riot of January 6, 2021: Fischer v. United States, No. 23-5572, concerning whether the federal obstruction-of-justice statute (18 USC section 1512(c)(2)) can be applied to this event, and the far more newsworthy Trump v. United States, No. 23-939, concerning whether the former president can assert official immunity as a defense to a criminal prosecution. Aside from its presence on the high court's docket, January 6 continues to reverberate in the lower courts. It is the largest criminal investigation in US history, and has resulted in over 1,200 criminal prosecutions. Even today, more than three years later, there is still very much to be learned. New charges are filed regularly, and cases work their way through the legal pipeline, from arrest to trial to appeals. Additionally, we can examine broader trends among participants, as the Chicago Project on Security and Threats has been doing since the very beginning. I am proud to be playing a role in this work, which right now includes looking at how insurrectionists participate in public life after serving their sentences. The lessons learned, once decided, will help researchers and lay people alike in understanding modern political violence in America.

The Federal Government Could Be the Domestic Abusers We Need Disarmed The federal government has ABSOLUTELY NO JURISDICTION making any laws that infringe upon an American citizen's right to keep and bear arms. Period. Folks who want to blanket bind Americans really do not support, uphold, or preserve the form of Republic that our Founders gave to us, but would rather step around, or dismantle any boundary erected in the law at their discretion, or whimsy. Look, I don't want violent people, or folks with a history of resorting to violence, running around armed, but, "Hello? McFly!?" we have state governments. The most disturbing part of this is that the worst example of people with a history of resorting to violence running around armed while bending and breaking the law are the lawless governing who we pay to spare no expense while they short circuit our system of government, destroy its boundaries, criminalize our rights, and thumb their nose at us. Like, comment, and share for more 2A For Today (https://lnkd.in/gSJpanj2) content.

People are FURIOUS about my take on the Supreme Court Ruling. I'm gonna drop it here anyway - please REPOST for awareness. This is the conversation that nobody is having and exposes their total hypocrisy. Here’s the quick back story: Texas has vowed to fight the Supreme Court's decision on Monday – which allows the feds to cut razor wire that the state installed on the border with Mexico. And suddenly leftists and states like New York and California are up in arms, saying Texas is trying to launch a civil war by “defying” SCOTUS. BUTTTTTTT they’re complete hypocrites. Let’s flashback to 2022. That’s when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right to carry guns in public for self-defense. SCOTUS ruled that states could not require that residents must demonstrate a "special need" before allowing them to exercise that right. California’s Governor Newsom (who – mark my words – they are preparing to run in place of Biden) responded to what he called a "very bad ruling". He did so by backing a new law that makes carry permits easier to obtain but nearly impossible to use. New York did the same thing – effectively ignoring the ruling and passing radical legislation to clamp down on the Second Amendment. So to be clear: you have a state that’s vowing to PROTECT Americans by challenging an unconstitutional ruling… being attacked by states looking to REMOVE the constitutionally protected rights of Americans to be able to defend themselves. That, my friends, is hypocrisy – not to mention treason. REPOST if you agree with me. #thinblueline #lawenforcement

Along Gov. Newsom's line of thought and previous actions.....Without breaking the law, maybe creating new ones quickly, how difficult can Texas make it for agents to cut and remove the wire? Any brainstorming ideas? Lawyers, what ideas would work? Sell public roads and land, make them private? Impose huge access and usage fees for entities without a specific contract or license with Texas? Impose huge fines for damaging State OWNES resources? Pay the illegals to cause trouble for the unwanted visitors? Impose extra steps for illegals? E.g., 100% SINGLE LINES all the way back into Mexico? For illegals 'safety', as we had some drownings this week, require they present a swimming certificate signed by Texas? Refuse power, Internet, gas, lodging to unwanted Fed visitors? Tell them bring their own? Or even better yet, charge exhorbiant fees for the unwanted Fed visitors as their actions are escalating security risks? Mass class action law suits for inflicting PTSD on US Citizens? Any ideas? What would be legal?

"Qui tam" literally translates from Latin to "in the name of the king." Qui tam lawsuits can be filed by #whistleblowers under state and federal False Claims Acts. This doctrine allows private citizens or entities with evidence of fraud against federal programs to sue on behalf of the U.S. Government. The government has the right to join the action, but the plaintiff may proceed on their own if they decline. Learn more here: https://ow.ly/reie50QJpMx

New Post: Trump New York hush money criminal trial -2:31 p.m. ET, April 16, 2024 Each side has 10 strikes they can use. Here’s what that means Prosecutors and Donald Trump’s lawyers are now beginning the process of using their preemptive strikes. Each side has 10 strikes they can use. If either team chooses to use one of their 10 strikes, the potential juror... 2:31 p.m. ET, April 16, 2024 Each side has 10 strikes they can use. Here's what that means Prosecutors and Donald Trump's lawyers are now beginning the process of using their preemptive strikes. Each side has 10 strikes they can use. If either team chooses to use one of their 10 strikes, the potential juror is removed. Prosecutors said they would not use any strikes against the first 12 jurors seated in the box. Trump's attorney is challenging the social media posts of some of the jurors, saying the posts are contrary to the answers the jurors have given.  Right now, he's seeking to have the first juror dismissed for cause — which, if successful, means the defense would not have to use one of its 10 strikes. Source link

New Post: Trump New York hush money criminal trial -2:31 p.m. ET, April 16, 2024 Each side has 10 strikes they can use. Here’s what that means Prosecutors and Donald Trump’s lawyers are now beginning the process of using their preemptive strikes. Each side has 10 strikes they can use. If either team chooses to use one of their 10 strikes, the potential juror... 2:31 p.m. ET, April 16, 2024 Each side has 10 strikes they can use. Here's what that means Prosecutors and Donald Trump's lawyers are now beginning the process of using their preemptive strikes. Each side has 10 strikes they can use. If either team chooses to use one of their 10 strikes, the potential juror is removed. Prosecutors said they would not use any strikes against the first 12 jurors seated in the box. Trump's attorney is challenging the social media posts of some of the jurors, saying the posts are contrary to the answers the jurors have given.  Right now, he's seeking to have the first juror dismissed for cause — which, if successful, means the defense would not have to use one of its 10 strikes. Source link

A reasoned analysis by former federal prosecutor McCarthy on why former President Trump ought to be immune from the current prosecution. Lengthy, but worth the read. "That is what may give Trump’s immunity claim traction. Immunity is not, as the Biden Justice Department would have you believe, a get-out-of-jail-free card. It would be the result of a trade-off — one the Supreme Court has already endorsed in the civil-law context. While we don’t want to see law-breaking go unaddressed, we recognize that, even worse for the country than the occasional unprosecuted presidential crime, would be burdening every presidential decision with the specter of a future vindictive lawsuit — whether civil or criminal. That doesn’t mean presidential misconduct should not be checked; it means we recognize that the proper equilibrium is created by the checks we already have: Congress’s impeachment power, its oversight power to embarrass the president politically, its power of the purse to cut off funding for abusive practices, and the public’s discernment in vetting candidates and not electing monsters to be president. No one is saying the system is perfect. It is, instead, a trade-off: To have the executive branch operate effectively, we should forfeit whatever power there may be to prosecute presidents criminally over their official acts — because we have managed to get through nearly a quarter-millennium without prosecuting a president, because we have other means of avoiding or dealing with presidential excess, and because the specter of rogue prosecutors run amok is more real than that of rogue presidents ordering political murder." https://lnkd.in/gsUMWJY7

https://lnkd.in/gsRpWw99. ALL THESE CASES ARE GONE VIA DISMISSAL SOON.. AS I HAVE SAID FROM DAY: THESE CASES ARE GONE SOON (DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE), CONVICTIONS SET ASIDE, AND ARREST/CONVICTIONS EXPUNGED PERMANENTLY AND CASES SEALED.   THEN TRUMP’S 4 CASES ARE NEXT PLUS THE 2 FALSE/FAKE IMPEACHMENTS. THEN WE TURN OUR LEGAL GUNS ON THE US-DOJ AND THE FBI AND THE CENSORSHIP INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX FOR TRILLIONS$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$   https://lnkd.in/gsRpWw99