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FSogol's JournalCourt of appeals won’t let McDonnell stay out of prison while pursuing Supreme Court challenge
In a paragraph-long order, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit declined to clarify that a previous ruling granting McDonnell bond would remain in effect while he prepared his petition to the nation’s highest court. The court also refused to delay putting its formal, final stamp on the case.
McDonnell (R) can still ask the Supreme Court to let him keep his freedom while he tries to take the case up the chain, and a spokesman said he would file a petition Thursday making such a request. But unless the Supreme Court intervenes, experts said, the case will get its final, formal stamp in seven days, then be sent back to a lower court judge to pick a date by which the former governor has to report to prison.
The former governor could be jailed within a few months, experts said.
From the Washington Post's Matt Zapotosky
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/court-of-appeals-wont-let-mcdonnell-stay-out-of-prison-while-pursuing-supreme-court-challenge/2015/08/20/4cfc8d74-45b5-11e5-8ab4-c73967a143d3_story.html?wpisrc=nl_buzz
Bob was sentenced to 2 years in prison. "Some experts have said his chances of winning Supreme Court review are slim, and the statistics are against him."
From Trump on Down, the Republicans Can’t Be Serious
A NYT OP-ed from Paul Krugman
The answer, according to many of those who didn’t see it coming, is gullibility: People can’t tell the difference between someone who sounds as if he knows what he’s talking about and someone who is actually serious about the issues. And for sure there’s a lot of gullibility out there. But if you ask me, the pundits have been at least as gullible as the public, and still are.
For while it’s true that Mr. Trump is, fundamentally, an absurd figure, so are his rivals. If you pay attention to what any one of them is actually saying, as opposed to how he says it, you discover incoherence and extremism every bit as bad as anything Mr. Trump has to offer. And that’s not an accident: Talking nonsense is what you have to do to get anywhere in today’s Republican Party.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/07/opinion/paul-krugman-from-trump-on-down-the-republicans-cant-be-serious.html?WT.mc_id=2015-AUGUST-OUTBRAIN-SHARED_AUD_DEV-0801-0831&WT.mc_ev=click&ad-keywords=AUDDEVREMARK
O'Malley at a tech conference in SF
https://www.periscope.tv/w/aKVIcjc4MDExNnw2NTM5NjgxOC-p6pg6ZcpGUt0gdHcnZe_5vdRolT-0nG9u0hx8zuDiTonight 4 of our 5 candidates spoke at the Wing Ding Dinner in Iowa
All did well, all were well received, but as Lincoln Chafee started speaking (following HRC, Sanders, and O'Malley), I got proud.
Each and every one of our candidates is a decent honest person. Each one would make a good President and would work to improve our Country.
Contrast that with the miserable screw-ups on the GOP side. Buffoons, assholes, grifters, holy rollers, and frauds, to the very last. Three of them, including their front runner, have never been elected or served in any position. Whether they are creating traffic on our roads or gridlock in our nation they shouldn't have a spot in our government.
Rest easy DU, we've got this.
Hey Chafee fans, he's about to speak. Livestream here:
http://features.desmoinesregister.com/news/politics/iowa-wing-ding-dinner/?hootPostID=fb8e4a9a543ebdd2db9a2b337cf3c1a5About to announce Martin O'Malley
Live stream here: http://features.desmoinesregister.com/news/politics/iowa-wing-ding-dinner/?hootPostID=fb8e4a9a543ebdd2db9a2b337cf3c1a5
HRC went first, Sanders 2nd. Chafee will follow O'M.
Federal appeals court turns down former Va. governor McDonnell, again
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit on Tuesday turned down McDonnell’s request to have the entire court, or the three judges who previously rejected his appeal, reconsider the case. The decision was another resounding defeat for the onetime Republican rising star: None of the court’s 15 active judges voted in favor of a rehearing, though seven disqualified themselves and did not participate.
Experts say the decision could put McDonnell — who was allowed to remain free with his appeals pending — in federal prison within a few months, though he can still fight to stay out. Henry Asbill, a McDonnell lawyer, said the former governor’s legal team has not given up.
McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, were convicted in September of public corruption for essentially lending the prestige of the governor’s office to Richmond businessman Jonnie R. Williams Sr. in exchange for $177,000 in loans, vacations and luxury goods. Jurors found unanimously that the couple helped Williams promote his dietary supplement company by arranging meetings for him with other state officials and allowing him use of the governor’s mansion in exchange for the businessman’s largess.
Whole Washington Post article by Mark Zapotosky, here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/federal-appeals-court-turns-down-mcdonnell-again/2015/08/11/aa11f932-4023-11e5-bfe3-ff1d8549bfd2_story.html?wpisrc=nl_buzz
Go directly to jail, Bob...
Federal appeals court turns down former Va. governor McDonnell, again
Source: Washington Post
Former Virginia Governor Robert F. McDonnell has but one avenue left — the U.S. Supreme Court — in his bid to overturn his public corruption convictions, and some experts say it is likely he will have to pursue his challenge behind bars.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit on Tuesday turned down McDonnell’s request to have the entire court, or the three judges who previously rejected his appeal, reconsider the case. The decision was another resounding defeat for the onetime Republican rising star: None of the court’s 15 active judges voted in favor of a rehearing, though seven disqualified themselves and did not participate.
Experts say the decision could put McDonnell — who was allowed to remain free with his appeals pending — in federal prison within a few months, though he can still fight to stay out. Henry Asbill, a McDonnell lawyer, said the former governor’s legal team has not given up.
McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, were convicted in September of public corruption for essentially lending the prestige of the governor’s office to Richmond businessman Jonnie R. Williams Sr. in exchange for $177,000 in loans, vacations and luxury goods. Jurors found unanimously that the couple helped Williams promote his dietary supplement company by arranging meetings for him with other state officials and allowing him use of the governor’s mansion in exchange for the businessman’s largess.
Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/federal-appeals-court-turns-down-mcdonnell-again/2015/08/11/aa11f932-4023-11e5-bfe3-ff1d8549bfd2_story.html?wpisrc=nl_buzz
Go directly to jail, Bob...
Rivers Shut Down Over EPA's Spill Of 3 Million Gallons Of Toxic Water
The spill began last Wednesday, when an EPA cleanup team used heavy equipment to breach a dam at an abandoned mine in Colorado. They inadvertently released water that was laden with heavy metals and contaminants into a creek that flows into a river above Durango.
"The orange plume of wastewater leaked from the Gold King Mine in southwestern Colorado down the Animas River into New Mexico's San Juan River," Colorado Public Radio's Grace Hood reports. She adds that seven public water supply systems have been shut off in Colorado and New Mexico.
Water samples taken after the spill showed lead concentrations that were 3,500 times the levels normally seen in Durango. The wastewater also contains manganese, zinc, copper and cadmium, along with other contaminants.
Whole story here:
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/08/11/431527360/rivers-shut-down-over-epa-s-spill-of-3-million-gallons-of-toxic-water
Cecil Adams on the high incarceration numbers in the US
From his "The Straight Dope" column:
I’ve heard the U.S. has the highest percentage of its population incarcerated of any country in the world. Is there a single crime or category of crime in which we excel that puts us in the top spot? Or are we just better at committing crime across the board? My guess is the war on drugs accounts for much of our prison population. Can you provide a breakdown showing how we've achieved our less-than-enviable position?
and Cecil replies:
Let’s review the incarceration rate, first discussed in this space in 2004. The U.S. currently has more than 321 million people. According to the World Prison Population List, the United States has a total prison population, including pretrial detainees, of 2.24 million. This works out to 716 prisoners per 100,000 people, the highest rate in the world.
Whole article here:
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/3241/is-any-one-crime-to-blame-for-the-high-u-s-imprisonment-rate?utm_source=Chicago+Reader&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=594146_The+Straight+Dope+08%2f07%2f2015&dm_i=2JCR,CQG2,2KTJUC,TI4K,1
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