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Novara's JournalIntensifying Inquiry Into Alternate Electors Focuses on Trump Lawyers
NYT:
A federal grand jury in Washington has started issuing subpoenas in recent weeks to people linked to the alternate elector plan, requesting information about several lawyers including Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani and one of his chief legal advisers, John Eastman, one of the people said.
The subpoenas also seek information on other pro-Trump lawyers like Jenna Ellis, who worked with Mr. Giuliani, and Kenneth Chesebro, who wrote memos supporting the elector scheme in the weeks after the election.
A top Justice Department official acknowledged in January that prosecutors were trying to determine whether any crimes were committed in the scheme.
Under the plan, election officials in seven key swing states put forward formal lists of pro-Trump electors to the Electoral College on the grounds that the states would be shown to have swung in favor of Mr. Trump once their claims of widespread election fraud had been accepted. Those claims were baseless, and all seven states were awarded to Mr. Biden.
It is a federal crime to knowingly submit false statements to a federal agency or agent for an undue end. The alternate elector slates were filed with a handful of government bodies, including the National Archives.
The focus on the alternate electors is only one of the efforts by the Justice Department to broaden its vast investigation of hundreds of rioters who broke into the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
In the past few months, grand jury subpoenas have also been issued seeking information about a wide array of people who organized Mr. Trump’s rally near the White House that day, and about any members of the executive and legislative branches who may have taken part in planning the event or tried to obstruct the certification of the 2020 election.
The widening and intensifying Justice Department inquiry also comes as the House select committee investigating the efforts to overturn the election and the Jan. 6 assault prepares for public hearings next month.
The subpoenas in the elector investigation are the first public indications that the roles of Mr. Giuliani and other lawyers working on Mr. Trump’s behalf are of interest to federal prosecutors.
more: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/25/us/politics/pro-trump-lawyers-elector-scheme.html?referringSource=articleShare
Instead of calling him the shooter or the suspect, let's call him THE MURDERER
He was witnessed murdering 18 children and 3 adults. Let's call him what he is. No one needs a trial to prove what he is: a MURDERER.
Michael Cohen suggests the GOP took illegal donations from China -- and he has the evidence
Source: RawStory
On Thursday, President Donald Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen announced he had uncovered a hard drive with 14 million files including "e-mails, voice recordings, images, and attachments from Mr. Cohen’s computers and phones," and is prepared to hand them over to House Democrats to stay out of federal prison.
But his subsequent memo to lawmakers, first reported by BuzzFeed News, contains a stunning allegation not just about Trump, but about the Republican Party as a whole.
According to the memo, by Cohen attorneys Lanny Davis, Michael Monico, and Carly Chocron, this trove of evidence indicates "possible federal campaign finance violations by the Republican National Committee, including possibly illegal conduiting of illegal substantial donations to the RNC by foreign nationals, including from China."
Cohen, who also served as deputy finance chair of the Republican National Committee, was sentenced to three years in prison for bank fraud, tax evasion, and campaign finance violations related to his payoffs to porn star Stormy Daniels to cover up her affair with the president.
He claims that he did this with the president's blessing, and has subsequently sought to cooperate with both House Democrats and federal prosecutors with the Southern District of New York.
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2019/04/michael-cohen-suggests-gop-took-illegal-donations-china-evidence/
Ask Congress to pass HR350: Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2022
It authorizes domestic terrorism components within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to monitor, analyze, investigate, and prosecute domestic terrorism.
The domestic terrorism components of DHS, DOJ, and the FBI must jointly report on domestic terrorism, including white-supremacist-related incidents or attempted incidents.
DHS, DOJ, and the FBI must review the anti-terrorism training and resource programs of their agencies that are provided to federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies. Additionally, DOJ must make training on prosecuting domestic terrorism available to its prosecutors and to assistant U.S. attorneys.
It creates an interagency task force to analyze and combat white supremacist and neo-Nazi infiltration of the uniformed services and federal law enforcement agencies.
Finally, it directs the FBI to assign a special agent or hate crimes liaison to each field office to investigate hate crimes incidents with a nexus to domestic terrorism.
HR350
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I'd love to see this voted on. Get the republicans on the record voting it down. Great ads for the Dems for the midterms.
Prosecutors Pursue Inquiry Into Trump's Handling of Classified Material
Source: NYT
Federal prosecutors have begun a grand jury investigation into whether classified White House documents that ended up at former President Donald J. Trump’s Florida home were mishandled, according to two people briefed on the matter.
The intensifying inquiry suggests that the Justice Department is examining the role of Mr. Trump and other officials in his White House in their handling of sensitive materials during the final stages of his administration.
In recent days, the Justice Department has taken a series of steps showing that its investigation has progressed beyond the preliminary stages. Prosecutors issued a subpoena to the National Archives and Records Administration to obtain the boxes of classified documents, according to the two people familiar with the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation.
The authorities have also made interview requests to people who worked in the White House in the final days of Mr. Trump’s presidency, according to one of the people.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/12/us/politics/justice-department-trump-classified.html
Doing something! Oh yeah!
Oh, So Now Media Men Want to Talk About 'Roe'
But never let it be said that men missed an opportunity to shout over us. To center their own voices. To show off their savvy and political smarts and deep, vital knowledge of how things would poll. To quote one another as they dispassionately discussed the ramifications of allowing the government to force us to bear children.
From the moment Politico published Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion striking down Roe v. Wade and allowing states to ban abortion without exception, America’s Media Men began talking and they haven’t stopped all week.
They’ve said that maybe this is good news, actually!
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They can’t even name the body parts they’re trying to pass laws to control, and when called on their ignorance they hide behind religious reasoning that has no place in matters of state.
Even when they’re attempting to convince us how much they care for us, they do so by objectifying us as sainted mothers, objects onto which they can project their fantasies of childbearing unimpeded by the infrastructure needed to nurture those children.
They turn us into lists of circumstances under which they find our lives worthy of consideration and ignore anything that doesn’t fit their narrative.
We are hypotheticals to be discussed secondarily to things like reverence to the Constitution or the comfort of the Supreme Court.
We are scary stories, to be used as cautionary tales for polling purposes, as motivations for this or that constituency and bulwarks of support for a party.
We are anything and everything but people who need the freedom to decide if, when, and how we will get medical care.
It may be beyond the realm of the possible for Republican politicians, enamored as they are equally of stupidity and fascism, to consider that, but our brothers in the press might want to consider taking a step back and letting their female colleagues speak for ourselves.
Instead of approvingly retweeting every savvier-than-thou take on what this means for the holiness of the mostly male Supreme Court or the mostly male U.S. Senate or the entirely male U.S. presidency, media bros should be amplifying the voices of the people whose lives are under attack today.
That the corporate press considers their views less legitimate, less urgent, less fundamental to the future of this country, is a large part of how we wound up here in the first place and we’re not going to get out of this without listening to them.
https://www.damemagazine.com/2022/05/10/oh-so-now-media-men-want-to-talk-about-roe/
I bet they'll also outlaw tubal ligations and hysterectomies, but...
... not vasectomies.
Does anyone still think we don't need the ERA?
The Limits of Privilege: The new abortion regime is going to affect everyone.
There are a lot of very good reasons to point out the structural inequities that indeed make restrictions on reproductive-health care racist and particularly punishing for the poor. Abortion bans, as Warren says, hurt “the most vulnerable among us,” a statement that is rooted in extremely correct racial and class analysis. It perfectly sums up the circumstances of the past 40 years, when the Hyde Amendment and state restrictions made abortion all but inaccessible to many poor, Black, brown, immigrant, and Indigenous communities while middle-class white people could feel assured about the umbrella protection of Roe.
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If these past years with COVID have taught us anything, it’s that if you tell middle-class white people that they will be fine, they will not give a rat’s ass about anyone else. And so this message, intended to engender empathy and provoke action and commitment, may instead have been an anesthetizing one. It may have permitted middle-class white people, with their significant political clout, to sleepwalk comfortably — as they have through all of Roe’s existence — into the waiting jaws of illegality.
More: https://www.thecut.com/2022/05/roe-v-wade-limits-of-privilege.html
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