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We are in the punishment phase now, or entertainment phase for some!
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning".
~Winston Churchill
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"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning".
~Winston Churchill
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Oh boy - threats from trump ?
Go get the Orange Imbecile Jack.
Make that fucker squeal.
#FuckTrump
Go get the Orange Imbecile Jack.
Make that fucker squeal.
#FuckTrump
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it’s Lax Luthor
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Damn, this is a fine witch hunt. Damn fine. I've never seen the deep state act so flawlessly. Well played, Democrat Party.
It's the season of the witch (hunt).
Damn, this is a fine witch hunt. Damn fine. I've never seen the deep state act so flawlessly. Well played, Democrat Party.
It's the season of the witch (hunt).
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Missouri Supreme Court orders attorney general to let abortion ballot initiative go forward
Missouri’s ballot initiative to legalize abortion will be allowed to move forward after the state Supreme Court ruled the state’s attorney general was improperly stonewalling the effort.
The court ruled unanimously Thursday that Attorney General Andrew Bailey (R) was using “misleading” and “incorrect” arguments to justify delaying his approval of the cost estimates ballot measure that would allow residents to vote on whether to legalize abortion, a crucial step in the certification process.
The delay stretched far beyond the normal time the state allows for reviewing and approving ballot initiatives, meaning supporters were unable to start collecting signatures to try to place the measure on the ballot for next year’s election.
The court acknowledged the harm to plaintiff Anna Fitz-James and the initiative process. The process should take approximately 54 days, according to the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri, which represented Fitz-James. Instead, it’s taken at least 135 days.
“Until the official ballot title is certified – a critical step being held up solely by the Attorney General’s unjustified refusal to act – Fitz-James cannot challenge that title in circuit court or circulate her petitions,” the judges wrote. “Fitz-James’s constitutional right of initiative petition is being obstructed, and the deadline for submitting signed petitions draws nearer every day.”
In a statement, the ACLU of Missouri applauded the decision.
“While today is a tremendous victory for Missourians and the right to direct democracy, it is clear that some who hold office will not hesitate to trample the constitution if it advances their personal interests and political beliefs,” said Luz María Henríquez, the group’s executive director.
The dispute dates back to March, when as part of the procedure to qualify a ballot initiative, the state auditor’s office conducted a cost estimate. State auditor Scott Fitzpatrick found the proposal would have no known impact on state funds and an estimated cost of at least $51,000 annually in reduced local tax revenues, although “opponents estimate a potentially significant loss to state revenue.”
Bailey rejected those estimates and refused to approve them. He instead said his office estimated the measure’s impact would be “drastic” and could cost taxpayers upward of $12 billion because of a loss of Medicaid funding.
Missouri was the first state to enact a “trigger law” in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade, and has one of the strictest abortion bans in the country. There are some exceptions for medical emergencies, but not for rape or incest.
The proposed ballot initiative would enshrine the right to make decisions about abortion, birth control, childbirth and other issues related to pregnancy in the state’s constitution.
Ballot measures to protect abortion have been successful in other conservative states. As a result, state officials have been working to try to make the measure process much more difficult, if not ban it completely.
The court ruled the attorney general has the authority only to review the “legal content and form” of the auditor’s reports, “not their substance.”
Nothing in state law “gives the attorney general authority to question the auditor’s assessment of the fiscal impact of a proposed petition,” the court ruled.
The attorney general must now approve the auditor’s fiscal assessment by 1 p.m. Friday, and the amendment will then be able to move forward.
The proposal will next go to the office of the Missouri secretary of state, who is tasked with certifying the fiscal assessment and a summary of the proposal that would appear on the ballot. Once that occurs, supporters can start gathering the more than 100,000 signatures needed.
thehill.com
Missouri’s ballot initiative to legalize abortion will be allowed to move forward after the state Supreme Court ruled the state’s attorney general was improperly stonewalling the effort.
The court ruled unanimously Thursday that Attorney General Andrew Bailey (R) was using “misleading” and “incorrect” arguments to justify delaying his approval of the cost estimates ballot measure that would allow residents to vote on whether to legalize abortion, a crucial step in the certification process.
The delay stretched far beyond the normal time the state allows for reviewing and approving ballot initiatives, meaning supporters were unable to start collecting signatures to try to place the measure on the ballot for next year’s election.
The court acknowledged the harm to plaintiff Anna Fitz-James and the initiative process. The process should take approximately 54 days, according to the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri, which represented Fitz-James. Instead, it’s taken at least 135 days.
“Until the official ballot title is certified – a critical step being held up solely by the Attorney General’s unjustified refusal to act – Fitz-James cannot challenge that title in circuit court or circulate her petitions,” the judges wrote. “Fitz-James’s constitutional right of initiative petition is being obstructed, and the deadline for submitting signed petitions draws nearer every day.”
In a statement, the ACLU of Missouri applauded the decision.
“While today is a tremendous victory for Missourians and the right to direct democracy, it is clear that some who hold office will not hesitate to trample the constitution if it advances their personal interests and political beliefs,” said Luz María Henríquez, the group’s executive director.
The dispute dates back to March, when as part of the procedure to qualify a ballot initiative, the state auditor’s office conducted a cost estimate. State auditor Scott Fitzpatrick found the proposal would have no known impact on state funds and an estimated cost of at least $51,000 annually in reduced local tax revenues, although “opponents estimate a potentially significant loss to state revenue.”
Bailey rejected those estimates and refused to approve them. He instead said his office estimated the measure’s impact would be “drastic” and could cost taxpayers upward of $12 billion because of a loss of Medicaid funding.
Missouri was the first state to enact a “trigger law” in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade, and has one of the strictest abortion bans in the country. There are some exceptions for medical emergencies, but not for rape or incest.
The proposed ballot initiative would enshrine the right to make decisions about abortion, birth control, childbirth and other issues related to pregnancy in the state’s constitution.
Ballot measures to protect abortion have been successful in other conservative states. As a result, state officials have been working to try to make the measure process much more difficult, if not ban it completely.
The court ruled the attorney general has the authority only to review the “legal content and form” of the auditor’s reports, “not their substance.”
Nothing in state law “gives the attorney general authority to question the auditor’s assessment of the fiscal impact of a proposed petition,” the court ruled.
The attorney general must now approve the auditor’s fiscal assessment by 1 p.m. Friday, and the amendment will then be able to move forward.
The proposal will next go to the office of the Missouri secretary of state, who is tasked with certifying the fiscal assessment and a summary of the proposal that would appear on the ballot. Once that occurs, supporters can start gathering the more than 100,000 signatures needed.
Missouri Supreme Court orders attorney general to let abortion ballot initiative go forward
Missouri’s ballot initiative to legalize abortion will be allowed to move forward after the state Supreme Court ruled the state’s attorney general was improperly stonewalling the effort…
thehill.com
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Alabama GOP refuses to draw second Black district, despite Supreme Court order
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., have been calling state legislators about the map, which could affect control of Congress
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., have been calling state legislators about the map, which could affect control of Congress
Alabama Republicans refuse to draw a second Black congressional district in defiance of Supreme Court
The Supreme Court this year reaffirmed a federal court order for Alabama to include two districts where Black voters make up voting-age majorities, “or something quite close to it.”
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Damn that was quick.....sorry abbott, either get all that stuff out of the way, or face the DOJ.....
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Let's talk about the Michigan elector claims getting strange....
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She's a dude
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#6. Tevfik Arif
A former Soviet trade minister whose company Bayrock (co-owned with convicted gangster Felix Sater) collaborated with Trump on at least four projects in Florida, New York, and Arizona. Bayrock also scouted potential Trump deals in Russia.
Information obtained by the US Senate Select Committee suggests Arif was involved in Russian organized crime, money laundering and human trafficking dating back to at least 2000.
He was arrested in a Turkish prostitution sting. Authorities busted him aboard the world’s largest luxury yacht and accused him of linking up wealthy businessman with Russian and Ukrainian hookers, some of them underage.
Following his arrest, Arif denies involvement in prostitution or human trafficking. He says the women were invited as guests of the businessmen.
#7. Ali Alexander
Alexander is the founder of the campaign to push the conspiracy that Donald Trump was the actual winner of the 2020 election. He hosted a rally outside the Capitol on January 6, 2021, that fed the subsequent riot.
President Trump’s inner circle pleaded with him to break ties with Alexander and push him out. President Trump refused.
One accuser, Aidan Duncan, said that Alexander asked him for nude pictures in 2017 when Duncan was 15. The then-32-year-old Alexander told Duncan that as long as he was silent about their interactions, he'd introduce the teen to his far-right network.
Alexander publicly apologized for asking teenage boys and young men for sexually explicit images.
#8. George Nader
Nader was an adviser to Donald Trump's presidential transition team. He was a frequent visitor to the White House during President Donald Trump’s first year in office.
He was sentenced in June 2020 to 10 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for transporting a child into the country for sex and possessing child pornography.
Nader had been investigated and convicted of similar conduct in the past. In 1991, after being convicted of transporting child pornography in Alexandria, he was given a six-month sentence.
In 2003, he was sentenced to a year in prison in the Czech Republic for soliciting underage boys.
#9. Roy Cohn
Roy Cohn was Donald Trump's attorney from 1973 to 1985.
Trump met him in 1973 in a Manhattan nightclub. The two became friends, allies, business associates. Some say Cohn was Trump's mentor, or even his surrogate father.
Cohn was a gay pedophile who abused boys on both sides of the Atlantic.
Roy Cohn had connections to the Anglo-Irish Vice Ring in London, a pedophile network that overlapped with abuse rings in the US.
The Kincora Boys’ Home was in Belfast, Northern Ireland and was the scene of serious organized child sexual abuse, causing a scandal and attempted cover-up in 1980.
One of the boys Cohn abused was Richard Kerr from the Kincora Boys’ Home. Cohn selected Kerr from the home and took him to Venice for sexual abuse in 1977.
Richard Kerr stated that “Cohn didn’t talk too much and just took me up to the room and we had an encounter. I believe that I was there three or four days.”
Roy Cohn died from AIDS in 1986.
#10. Andy Lucchesi
Former male model Andy Lucchesi (who now runs the multi-million dollar company Locke Management) told the Daily Beast that he helped Trump organize parties at the Plaza Hotel in the 1990’s. He described himself as one of the men who “wrangled” young models for the parties.
Trump owned the Plaza Hotel and used to rent out suites "so older rich men could meet - and have sex with - teen models as young as 15" said two attendees.
"Trump would invite young models so that they could meet his affluent, older friends — who could give them major career boosts."
A photographer that attended the parties said "Trump was in and out. He’d wander off with a couple girls. I saw him. He was getting laid like crazy. Trump was at the heart of it. He loved the attention and in private, he was a total fucking beast.”
Andy Lucchesi told the Daily Beast "Trump would never partake of the cocaine, but more than often indulged in sex. A lot of girls, 14, look 24. That's as juicy as I can get."
Lucchesi added "I never asked how old they were; I just partook. I did partake in activities that would be considered controversial."
#11. Ted Nugent
Nugent has partied at the White House and has played the National Anthem and spoken at several Trump rallies.
Trump called him out on stage at one event "Where's that Ted Nugent? Well, there he is. Ted, we're so glad you're here. You know you're a handsome devil."
And because of that interaction, the title of Nugent's next album became "Handsome Devil."
Ted Nugent is accused of having sex with a 12-year-old, written a song about raping a 13-year-old and adopted a 17-year-old so that he could have sex with her.
Nugent had the novel idea of becoming legal guardian to a 17-year-old girl, so that they could have sex without her parents having legal recourse.
"I guess they figured better Ted Nugent than some drug-infested punk in high school" he told VH1 years later.
Nugent also claims in a documentary to have had several relationships with young girls, and seems to brag about gaining their parents' approval.
In an episode of the VH1 show "Behind the Music" Ted admits to a number of liaisons with underage girls.
Singer Courtney Love confessed that she was 12 and a half years old when she performed oral sex on Nugent backstage at a show.
JAILBAIT (Song by Ted Nugent)
Well, I don't care if you're just 13
You look too good to be true
I just know that you're probably clean...
Jailbait you look fine, fine, fine...
It's quite alright, I asked your mama
Wait a minute, officer
Don't put those handcuffs on me
Put them on her, and I'll share her with you.
#12. Other Trump Parties and Pageants
Barbara Pilling said she met Trump at a party in New York in the late 1980s while she was a young model. She alleged that then-businessman Trump asked her how old she was and approved when she said she was 17, allegedly responding “Oh, great. So you're not too old and not too young. That's just great.” Pilling said she was not the youngest girl at the party, claiming there were girls as young as 14 attending. “I felt I was in the presence of a shark” Pilling said, describing Trump.
Trump famously said on the Howard Stern show in 2005 "I’m allowed to go back to the dressing room because I’m the owner of the pageant. And therefore I’m inspecting it. 'Is everyone OK?' You know, they’re standing there with no clothes. And you see these incredible-looking women. And so I sort of get away with things like that.”
Mariah Billado, Miss Teen Vermont 1997 told BuzzFeed "he walked in and said 'Don’t worry, ladies, I’ve seen it all before.' I remember putting on my dress really quick because I was like, ‘Oh my god, there’s a man in here.'”
In 1997 the reigning Miss Universe, Brook Antoinette Mahealani Lee, recalls Trump asking her about the looks of his daughter Ivanka, who was co-hosting the pageant. “Don’t you think my daughter’s hot? She’s hot, right?”
Miss Utah, Temple Taggart, recalls Trump kissed her against her wishes. “He kissed me directly on the lips. I thought, ‘Oh my God, gross.’"
Former Miss Arizona Tasha Dixon told Los Angeles’ CBS affiliate that Trump entered the Miss USA dressing room in 2001 when she was a contestant. “He just came strolling right in. There was no second to put a robe on or any sort of clothing or anything. Some girls were topless. Others girls were naked."
2 Live Crew member Uncle Luke on the ‘MAKE IT PLAIN Show’ with Mark Thompson talked about going to a party hosted by Donald Trump. "Me, Mike Tyson and Eddie Murphy, we were invited to his mansion in West Palm Beach one time. Trump had a pageant contest going on and he invited us to come to the after party. There was a lot of sex going on. Think of the movie Eyes Wide Shut, that's what it looked like. Things going on in different rooms. They were mostly pageant women. There was a lot of women there, and a lot of these women weren't of age. People walked around to different rooms. I looked at girls and I realized that they weren't old enough, so I left."
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