dixiegrrrrl
dixiegrrrrl's JournalLet's play a game....let's say YOU are the Speaker of the House.
And YOU have agreed to impeach Trump. You've met with House Leadership members, they and you decide to go the Impeachment route.
What is the next required step of the Impeachment process that you need to do?
Judge who said teen rape suspect was 'from a good family' steps down
The longtime family court judge reportedly retired in 2012, but was still hearing cases on a part-time basis in Monmouth County Superior Court.
also, same state...
Russo who is also reportedly facing a sexual harassment suit from his former law clerk has been suspended without pay, pending the conclusion of his removal proceedings.
https://tinyurl.com/y4wnlphv
trump is textbook definition of a Stochastic terrorist
and not just Trump....his friends at Fox do the same thing.
Stochastic terrorism is the use of mass communications to incite random actors to carry out violent or terrorist acts that are statistically predictable but individually unpredictable.
Like a lot of people, when trump stood before a crowd in 2016 and said about Hillary...
If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is. I dont know.
I felt a huge chill.
And realized if he is clever enough to carry that off in public, he's clever enough to sell a lot worse.
which we have all seen in the last 3 years.
Clever Pelosi....
First, the resolution which will explicitly call Donald Trump a racist makes clear to the average nonpolitical American that Trumps words really are racist. This matters, because the people in the middle generally sit back and wait for one side or the other to spell these kinds of things out for them.
Second, this resolution forces House Republicans to vote yes or no on whether Donald Trump is a racist. Most will vote that Trump is not a racist, and that can then be used against them when they run for reelection in 2020. A few House Republicans might vote that Trump is a racist, in an attempt at protecting their reelection prospects, but thatll prompt Trump to begin attacking them. Either way, this forces the GOP to reckon with Trumps racism.
turns out, there is an explanation for Border Patrol behavior
Post 9-11, money was available to increase size of the then small Border Patrol agency.,
which caused rapid growth,
[Congress] view was, Were going to field a small army and make up for decades of neglect by previous administrations. Almost any body in the field was better than no body.
CBP recruited that new army by lowering its hiring standardsalready the lowest among top federal law enforcement agenciesand shoveling agents through the academy and into the field before even completing background checks. We werent prepared, one former training officer told me. Agents called it No Trainee Left Behind.
Management structures and processes failed, oversight lessened and by the end of the Bush administration, more than half of the Border Patrol had been in the field for less than two years. Already at that point, agent misconduct and criminality were on the risethe lax hiring standards and background checks had populated the new border army with the wrong sort of person. We made some mistakes, Bushs CBP Commissioner Ralph Basham told me in 2014. We found out later that we did, in fact, hire cartel members.
The result of inadequate screening was this:
In the Laredo sector alone, which hosts some 1,700 of the 20,000 total Border Patrol agents, Ortiz is at least the fourth patrolman to be arrested this year.
The other cases include an agent who allegedly murdered his lover and 1-year-old child;
another allegedly sexually assaulted a woman after threatening her with deportation.
Yet another agent, who hasnt been identified or arrested, shot and killed an unarmed 20-year-old Guatemalan woman in May.
CBP, which includes Border Patrol and customs agents, was also the target of 1,187 complaints of excessive force from 2007 to 2012. Since 2004, more than 200 agents have been arrested on corruption-related charges, including at least 13 under Trump. And a 2013 government-commissioned report found that Border Patrol agents regularly stepped in the paths of cars to justify firing at drivers, as well as shooting at rock-throwers, including teenagers on the Mexican side, with the intent to kill.
Having difficulty getting thru the Mueller report?? This is the answer
As a narrative, the document is a disaster. And at 448 pages, it's too long to grind through. For long stretches, it reads less like a story and more like a terms-of-service agreement. The instinct to click "next" is strong.
And yet, buried within the Mueller report, there is a narrative that reads in parts like a thriller, like a comedy, like a tragedy and, most important like an indictment.
The story just needed to be rearranged in a better form.
(I've been glued to it for well over an hour now....... )
https://www.insider.com/mueller-report-rewritten-trump-russia-mark-bowden-archer-2019-7?utm_source=CNN+Media%3A+Reliable+Sources&utm_campaign=c92600a079-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_11_04_47_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e95cdc16a9-c92600a079-82014837
Pence viewing the caged men reminded me of this..
If this has been posted in the last 8 hours, I missed it.
"Aunt Lidia".... Border Patrol chief was in secret Facebook group that mocked dead kids
The Intercept reported Provost's involvement with the group on Friday. Trump put Provost in charge of the agency in July of last year.
One post in the notorious group mocked the haunting image of a father and his two-year-old daughter who were found drowned in the Rio Grande. "Have y'all ever seen floaters this clean," a member of Provost's group wrote.
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