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riversedge's JournalTrump Lawyer Wrote Memo Arguing Pence Should 'Stop the Count' of Biden Electors
Source: rollingstone.com
December 10, 2021 5:37PM ET
Jenna Ellis’ far-fetched legal argument dated the day before the Jan. 6 riot was delivered to Jay Sekulow, one of then-President Trump’s outside attorneys
By William Vaillancourt
Saul Loeb/Pool/AP
Trump campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis wrote a memo dated the day before the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol arguing that then-Vice President Mike Pence should refuse to count presidential electors from states won by Joe Biden.
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Read more: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/jenna-ellis-memos-pence-stop-count-biden-electors-1270336/
Trump Lawyer Wrote Memo Arguing Pence Should ‘Stop the Count’ of Biden Electors http://dlvr.it/SF89bl #Politics #PoliticsNews
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Vice President Mike Pence officiates as a joint session of the House and Senate convenes to confirm the Electoral College votes cast in November's election, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. (Saul Loeb/Pool via AP)
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NEW: Trump campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis authored two memos in the week before Jan. 6 arguing that Pence could prevent Biden's victory.
Read them here. Story and details w/ @woodruffbets
Trump campaign lawyer authored two memos claiming Pence could halt Biden’s victory
In one previously unreported memo, Jenna Ellis delivered a technical — and far-fetched — legal argument to another of the former president's outside lawyers.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/10/trump-lawyer-pence-biden-524088
By BETSY WOODRUFF SWAN and KYLE CHENEY
Updated: 12/10/2021 01:00 PM EST
A Donald Trump campaign lawyer wrote two legal memos in the week before the Jan. 6 Capitol attack that claimed then-Vice President Mike Pence had the authority to refuse to count presidential electors from states that delivered Joe Biden the White House.
The memos from then-Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis, which contain widely disputed legal theories about Pence’s ability to stop a Biden presidency, underscore Ellis’ promotion of extreme arguments that she promulgated amid Trump's effort to reverse the election results. Her actions have remained largely below the radar as House investigators probe Trump’s inner circle.
A Dec. 31 Ellis memo delivered to Trump’s office suggested that Pence — who was constitutionally responsible for presiding over Congress’ counting of electoral votes on Jan. 6 — should simply refuse to open envelopes from states whose election results Trump considered to be fraudulent. That memo was described by ABC reporter Jonathan Karl in his recent book “Betrayal.” POLITICO is publishing it in full for the first time.
In a second, previously unreported memo dated Jan. 5, Ellis made a more technical legal argument that she delivered to Jay Sekulow, one of Trump's outside lawyers. Sekulow represented Trump during his first impeachment and in a series of legal battles during his administration, but he had minimal involvement in Trump’s election litigation. The exception was an early November Supreme Court case regarding Pennsylvania’s mail-in ballots..............................
https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1469365415545647106?s=20
https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1469365847336574978?s=20
One of the memos was first revealed by @jonkarl
in his recent book, Betrayal. We're publishing in full here.
The second, to Trump outside counsel Jay Sekulow on Jan. 5, is previously unreported.
Both track with public statements Ellis made at the time.
https://politico.com/f/?id=0000017d
Ellis says "at no time" did she call for overturning the election.
"As part of my role as a campaign lawyer and counsel for President Trump, I explored legal options that might be available within the context of the U.S. Constitution and statutory law.”
https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1469366244629483524?s=20
https://twitter.com/jaydcarr/status/1469374678292652036?s=20
A Utah group is going door to door looking for election fraud. But they don't want you to know about
A Utah group is going door to door looking for election fraud. But they don’t want you to know about it
Who is behind the Utah Voter Verification Project? A Tribune investigation uncovers some troubling tactics and connections.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2021/12/06/utah-group-is-going-door/
roup known as the Utah Voter Verification Project is conducting a door-to-door canvass of voters in Utah looking for election fraud.
By Bryan Schott
| Updated: Dec. 7, 2021, 6:24 p.m.
Last week, residents in Hurricane alerted Washington County officials that strangers were coming to their doors asking questions about the 2020 election.
The questioners did not wear name tags and refused to identify themselves or what organization they were with, according to the complaints. Residents said they also appeared to have the personal voter information of the people they were questioning.
These questioners were part of a private statewide effort to root out voter fraud, an investigation by The Salt Lake Tribune has found.
The group knocking on doors calls itself the Utah Voter Verification Project (UVVP), and it’s the latest front in the “Stop the Steal” election fraud conspiracy movement.
The group has no mainstream online presence. Most volunteers are recruited through alternative messaging apps like Telegram, but even then there’s only a graphic linking to a website where potential volunteers can sign up for more information.............................
(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Activists pushing for a forensic audit of the 2020 election in Utah, rally at the Capitol on Oct. 20, 2021. A g
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Sen. Baldwin, D, does real governing in WI, while Sen. Johnson, R, tells dangerous Lies Re Mouthwash
I got as an email.
Baldwin, Wisconsin Advocates Support Build Back Better Investment in Home Health Care & the Workers that Provide It
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Office of U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin
Dec 9, 2021, 11:33 AM (17 hours ago)
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Dear xxxx,
Wisconsin advocacy groups are voicing support for the Build Back Better Act’s investment to make home and community-based health care more affordable for families, and raise wages for home care workers. Senator Baldwin supports this legislation, which passed out of the House of Representatives last month.
“Every day, family caregivers in Wisconsin and across our country tend to the needs of their loved ones. They need support and I am working to make sure we provide it by lowering the cost of home health care,” said Senator Baldwin. “We are making the wealthy and big corporations pay their fair share of taxes so we can make an investment in working families that expands access to quality home-based care for millions of older adults and people with disabilities. We are also investing in our caregiving workforce and addressing current shortages by raising wages for home care workers, many of whom are working hard to care for our loved ones and living in poverty themselves. We can do better by the families that need home care and the workers that provide it. Build Back Better does that.”
The need for high-quality, accessible, and affordable care for seniors and Americans with disabilities continues to grow, but high costs and care shortages leave many individuals reliant on family members for unpaid caregiving. Right now, there are hundreds of thousands of older Americans and Americans with disabilities on waiting lists for home care services or struggling to afford the care they need, including more than 800,000 who are on state Medicaid waiting lists. The Build Back Better legislation will expand access to quality home- and community-based care to more of Wisconsin’s seniors and individuals with disabilities, and improve the quality and wages of caregiving jobs. Specifically, the bill will invest an additional $150 billion for home and community-based services and also strengthen the direct care workforce, which is disproportionately composed of Black, female, and lower-wage workers. In 2018, 58 percent of direct care workers earned less than $30,000 a year with nearly one-third of workers living in a low-income family that makes less than 200 percent of the federal poverty line. Finally, the Build Back Better Act will help reduce home health care workforce shortages that have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, along with historically low worker wages.
Wisconsin advocacy groups agree:
“This added investment in home and community supports included in Build Back Better means people with disabilities and older adults across the state who desperately want to stay in their home and communities will get the supports they need to avoid costly and restrictive institutional care,” said Beth Swedeen, Executive Director of the Wisconsin Board for People with Developmental Disabilities. “Across Wisconsin, the direct caregiver shortage due to low wages is causing providers to go out of business, increasing abuse and neglect, and forcing people out of their homes. This investment will allow Wisconsin to increase direct care worker wages to reflect the critical importance of the care they provide.”
“People with disabilities, families, and the direct support professionals who support them are struggling through the hardest of times in Wisconsin,” said Lisa Pugh, State Director of The ARC Wisconsin. “The news of passage of this bill is tremendous relief to the more than 1 million Wisconsinites who are family caregivers and the tens of thousands of people with disabilities who say they often go without the care they need to live in the community, and sometimes even get out of bed. Investing in home and community based services allows people to live the lives they want and contribute to their communities. It is a significant return on investment and the right thing to do.”
“Family Voices of Wisconsin works with families who have children with disabilities and special healthcare needs. Caring for children with complex needs can have a substantive impact on a family’s health and well-being, ability to find childcare, stay employed, and take care of other family members. In the worst scenarios, families may be forced to institutionalize or place a child in foster care when they are not able to manage the impact of their child’s disability on the family,” said Elizabeth Hecht, Co-Director of Family Voices of Wisconsin. “HCBS funding is an absolutely critical resource that helps families stay together and access resources that support them to care for their child within the family and community. As children become adults, HCBS funding supports that young adult to live, work and contribute to the larger community including participation in competitive employment. HCBS funding helps families stay together and helps children and young adults meaningfully access and contribute to their communities.”
“For years The Arc Fond du Lac has advocated for funding that increase wages for Direct Support Professionals; ensuring them fair and equitable pay for the care they provide,” said Jessica Kimball, Programs Director of The Arc Fond du Lac, Inc. “The Build Back Better Plan’s provisions give us hope that we will be able to increase Direct Support Professionals wages, continue providing exceptional care for persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, and ensure that each person has the support they need to live the life of their choosing.”
“We are encouraged by the provisions in the Build Back Better Act that support seniors, family caregivers, and the direct care workforce,” said Robert Kellerman, Chair of the Wisconsin Aging Advocacy Network (WAAN). “Critical investments in the Older Americans Act (our nation’s non-Medicaid aging services workforce and infrastructure), Medicare hearing benefits and prescription drug cost savings, paid family and medical leave benefits, and increased support for Medicaid Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) will support older adults to remain living at home with maximum independence.”
“Even before the pandemic, far too many Wisconsin seniors and people with disabilities did not have access to the quality home or community care they need and the pandemic has exacerbated this challenge. Meanwhile, home care workers continue to put in long hours of hard work but many still struggle to get ahead due to low wages,” said Brenda Frary, President of SEIU WI State Council and hospital worker in Madison. “We need to invest in Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services to ensure people can receive care while leading independent lives outside of institutional care settings and to support good paying jobs for home care workers. This is an opportunity to support a jobs program aimed at providing career paths and good, union, living-wage jobs for a majority-women-of-color workforce. Congress must seize the moment and pass the Build Back Better legislation with a strong investment in Home and Community-Based Services to support home care workers and the people they help. I know Senator Baldwin shares this commitment and I applaud her for working to get the job done.”
Read more about Senator Baldwin's support for investing in home health care and the Wisconsin workers that provide it here.
https://www.baldwin.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wisconsin-supports-historic-investment-in-home-health-care-and-the-workers-that-provide-it
12.07.2021
Wisconsin Supports Historic Investment in Home Health Care and the Workers that Provide It
Build Back Better will cut the cost of home care and increase wages for workers
Washington, D.C. – Wisconsin advocacy groups are voicing support for the Build Back Better Act’s investment in the care economy, which will increase access to affordable, comprehensive home- and community-based health care services and raise wages for home care workers. U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin supports this legislation, which passed out of the House of Representatives last month..................................
Signing off, Brian Williams: says "my biggest worry is for my country" while bemoaning "the darkness
Indeed. I had a lump in my throat listening to his final sign off.
Signing off MSNBC for the final time, Brian Williams says "my biggest worry is for my country" while bemoaning "the darkness" that has engulfed the nation.
"I’m not a liberal or a conservative. I’m an institutionalist. I believe in this place."
https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1469173484328820738?s=20
https://twitter.com/EveLueck/status/1469183872227233792?s=20
“They’ve decided to burn it all down, with us inside” resonated the most with me.
Its true.
https://twitter.com/AlrantAl/status/1469247569809186816?s=20
Sen. Ron Johnson, Repug, WI Falsely Says Mouthwash 'Has Been Proven To Kill The Coronavirus'
I missed this one completely. Sorry to say he is my Senator.
Sen. Ron Johnson Falsely Says Mouthwash 'Has Been Proven To Kill The Coronavirus'
It hasn't, but the Wisconsin Republican is still spitting out COVID-19 conspiracy theories.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ron-johnson-mouthwash-covid_n_61b17e97e4b068effec57056
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12/09/2021 01:03am EST | Updated 17 hours ago
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Republican Sen. Ron Johnson told supporters Wednesday that mouthwash is proven to be effective against COVID-19, continuing his trend of spreading dangerous misinformation about the disease and its treatments.
“By the way, standard gargle, mouthwash, has been proven to kill the coronavirus. If you get it, you may reduce viral replication. Why not try all these things?” he said during a telephone town hall with Wisconsin constituents. “It just boggles my mind that the NIH continues to tell people, ‘Do nothing, you know, maybe take Tylenol.’”
Mouthwash companies and researchers in the field have drawn no such conclusions.
Listerine, the top-selling mouthwash brand in the U.S., specifically states on its website that its product is “not intended to prevent or treat COVID-19 and should be used only as directed on the product label.”
“No evidence-based clinical conclusions can be drawn with regards to the anti-viral efficacy of Listerine Antiseptic mouthwash at this time,” it says....................................
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Semeru Mountain volcanic eruption from 2 days ago
The first photo is lovely---then we see the ash devastation.
Semeru Mountain volcanic eruption from 2 days ago
https://twitter.com/scientists_feed/status/1468130528062808070?s=20
https://twitter.com/moonbreeze2/status/1468361454109839365?s=20
Several horrible pics here:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/06/asia/indonesia-volcano-rescue-intl-hnk/index.html
Ex-Saudi Royal Guard Member Arrested In Jamal Khashoggi Killing
Source: huff post
Khalid Aedh Al-Otaibi was arrested at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris on Tuesday while attempting to fly to Saudi Arabia’s capital.
12/07/2021 04:01pm EST
A former member of the Saudi royal guard has reportedly been arrested for his suspected involvement in the brutal murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.
Khalid Aedh Al-Otaibi was arrested at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris on Tuesday, French RTL radio and the BBC reported, citing a police source. Al-Otaibi served as a personal security official for the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, whom U.S. officials have blamed for the journalist’s 2018 killing.
The 33-year-old is one of 26 Saudis wanted in Turkey for the killing of Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. He is also one of more than a dozen Saudi officials who were sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury in 2018 for Khashoggi’s death, The Associated Press reported...........................
Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jamal-khashoggi-murder-suspect-arrested-paris_n_61afb3dfe4b028ce3d0034ab
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Friends of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi hold posters bearing his picture as they attend an event marking the second-year anniversary of his assassination in front of Saudi Arabia Istanbul Consulate in 2020.OZAN KOSE via Getty Images
Trumps 2021 Xmas card..............
I do not see anyone this is a fake.
Christmas treeSparkles
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Oh where to begin with this monstrosity?
Up-pointing red triangleTrump is not president
Up-pointing red triangle Mar-a-Lago was never the WH
Up-pointing red triangleTrump has Ivanka before Melania in the ornament line up
Up-pointing red triangle Where's Barron?
Up-pointing red triangleLook at the white front of Trump's tux. Why does Santa & reindeer look like ejaculate from a big penis?
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Slavery is abolished in the United States December 6, 1865
December 6 —
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End of slavery in US
Slavery is abolished in the United States
Eight months after the end of the Civil War, the 13th amendment is ratified by the required number of states, abolishing slavery in the US. Its passage was secured after intense lobbying by President Abraham Lincoln, whose Emancipation Proclamation had declared slaves free, but their status after the war was still uncertain.
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