A bit OT,

but Schumer threatens Gorsuch and Kavanaugh

The Supreme Court on Wednesday took up June Medical Services v. Russo, which considers the constitutionality of a 2014 Louisiana law requiring doctors who perform abortions to obtain admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of their clinic, a credential many abortionists do not have. According to critics of the law, it threatens to shut down all but one abortion clinic in Louisiana, which sees roughly 10,000 abortions every year.

The Unsafe Abortion Protection Act was introduced by Democratic state senator Katrina Jackson , who told National Review she considers her bill “a health standard law” that is “very common sense.”

“Basically, Louisiana, unknowingly to us, had a lower standard of care for women who elected to have abortions in some places,” Jackson said. “And so what we did was make sure that that standard of health care that we established in Louisiana for years also applied to abortion.”

“I want to tell you, Gorsuch. I want to tell you, Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price,” Schumer told a cheering crowd of abortion advocates in front of the Supreme Court.

“You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions,” the New York Democrat added.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1235289783502589956

Chief Justice Roberts issues rare rebuke to Schumer's 'dangerous' and 'irresponsible' comments

https://www.foxnews.com/politi...gh-gorsuch-dangerous


All nine Supreme Court justices, including Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Chief Justice John Roberts, graduated from Ivy League law schools. Find out more about the people in the highest court in the land.

Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts on Wednesday issued a highly unusual and forceful rebuke to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., calling his seemingly threatening remarks directed at Associated Justices Neal Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh "irresponsible" and dangerous" -- prompting Schumer's office to slam Roberts and accuse him of bias.


The extraordinary back-and-forth began hours earlier at a pro-choice rally hosted by the Center for Reproductive Rights, when Schumer ominously singled out President Trump's two Supreme Court picks: "I want to tell you, Gorsuch. I want to tell you, Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price!" Schumer warned. "You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions."

"This morning, Senator Schumer spoke at a rally in front of the Supreme Court while a case was being argued inside," Roberts said in a written statement, obtained by Fox News. "Senator Schumer referred to two Members of the Court by name and said he wanted to tell them that 'You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You will not know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.'"

Roberts continued: "Justices know that criticism comes with the territory, but threatening statements of this sort from the highest levels of government are not only inappropriate, they are dangerous. All Members of the Court will continue to do their job, without fear or favor, from whatever quarter."


Schumer spokesman Justin Goodman quickly responded by accusing Roberts of bias in a statement to Fox News.

“Women’s health care rights are at stake and Americans from every corner of the country are in anguish about what the court might do to them," Goodman said. “Sen. Schumer’s comments were a reference to the political price Senate Republicans will pay for putting these justices on the court, and a warning that the justices will unleash a major grassroots movement on the issue of reproductive rights against the decision."

He added: “For Justice Roberts to follow the right wing’s deliberate misinterpretation of what Sen. Schumer said, while remaining silent when President Trump attacked Justices Sotomayor and Ginsberg last week, shows Justice Roberts does not just call balls and strikes.” That was an apparent reference to Trump's call for those liberal justices to recuse themselves due to alleged bias.


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WATCH: Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer threatens U.S. Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.

"You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price! You won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions!"

Video of Schumer's remarks had quickly circulated on social media, with Republicans casting the comments as a clear threat against two sitting Supreme Court justices.

Schumer noted at the rally that an upcoming Supreme Court case, June Medical Services LLC v. Russo, is the first "major" abortion case since President Trump's court picks have been on the bench. The dispute, dealing with restrictions over who can perform abortions, involves a Louisiana law similar to one in Texas that the court ruled unconstitutional in 2016, before either Trump justice was on the Supreme Court and before conservatives held a 5-4 majority.

Schumer did not explain what "price" this would be as far as the justices are concerned. But reached for comment, his office said in a statement to Fox News: "It’s a reference to the political price [Republicans] will pay for putting them on the court and a warning that the justices will unleash a major grassroots movement on the issue of reproductive rights against the decision."

During the rally, Schumer did go on to describe how Republican lawmakers could be impacted.

"We will tell President Trump and Senate Republicans who have stacked the court with right-wing ideologues that you’re gonna be gone in November, and you will never be able to do what you’re trying to do now ever, ever again!” he said. Earlier in his address, Schumer had accused Republican legislatures of "waging a war on women," and said reproductive rights are "under attack in a way we haven't seen in modern history."

The case before the court is part of a larger effort by red states to pass laws regulating abortion to test how supportive the new justices will be of precedents such as Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which formed the basis for abortion being legal.

The law in question requires abortion doctors in Louisiana to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital in case a patient experiences complications during or after a procedure. Those backing the law argue that it regulates abortion providers similarly to how other medical providers are regulated by the state while also ensuring doctors are competent. Opponents say that it is targeted at abortion providers with the goal of shutting them down, citing a 2016 case out of Texas in which the Supreme Court invalidated a very similar law.

The court's opinion in the 2016 case, Whole Women's Health v. Hellerstedt, said the law placed an undue burden on women seeking abortions because it would significantly reduce the number of available facilities in the state.

During Wednesday's oral arguments, Kavanaugh and Roberts questioned whether Lousiana might be different from Texas in terms of the practical effect the law would have.

"Assume all the doctors who currently perform abortions can obtain admitting privileges, could you say that the law still imposes an undue burden, even if there were no effect?" Kavanaugh asked.

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Roberts suggested other states may have different standards that might be constitutional.

Gorsuch did not speak during the arguments.

Wednesday's statement was not the first time Roberts has felt compelled to issue an unusual public rebuke of a sitting officeholder. In 2018, Roberts defended the judiciary after Trump railed against what he called an "Obama judge."

“We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges,” Roberts said at the time, in a statement also released by the court’s public information office. “What we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them.”

Roberts, writing on the eve of Thanksgiving, concluded: “That independent judiciary is something we should all be thankful for.”

Trump quickly shot back: "Sorry Chief Justice John Roberts, but you do indeed have ‘Obama judges,' and they have a much different point of view than the people who are charged with the safety of our country.”

For my US news, the Forum is first.

Then to look at oann.com a few times during the day. Then compare to foxnews.com.

From OANN:

Sen. Johnson: Homeland Security Committee to subpoena Bidens in Ukraine corruption probe

Biden probe in Ukraine Corruption

OAN Newsroom
UPDATED 3:18 PM PT — Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) has unveiled a plan to hold Joe and Hunter Biden accountable for their actions in Ukraine. On Wednesday, he said he is planning to force a vote in the Homeland Security Committee to subpoena the Bidens in an ongoing corruption probe.

Johnson confirmed his committee will issue an interim report on its findings. Senate Republicans also want to subpoena several lobbyists associated with Blue Star Strategies, a U.S.-based company with ties to Burisma Holdings.

Johnson added he will review all evidence on the matter, including testimonies by Ukrainian officials.

“The firing of Shokin, his replacement, has a pretty interesting (implication) for the file about how there’s a misinformation campaign perpetrated by U.S. representatives against the prosecutor general’s office,” he said. “There’s a lot of questions that remain unanswered and the press just wants to wipe this all away, say it’s just Russian disinformation.”

The senator has said his report will be released within a month or two, after all the evidence is verified. He noted none of it looks good for Biden’s 2020 campaign.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) echoed these claims on Wednesday, saying that ongoing probes into Ukrainian corruption will haunt Joe Biden’s bid for president. While speaking on Capitol Hill, he stated Hunter Biden sat on the board of the most corrupt company in the entire country.

Graham pointed out the former vice president was in charge of fighting corruption in Ukraine at the time. Ukrainian officials have claimed their country lost billions of dollars in money laundering and offshoring funds when Joe Biden was in office.

The senator emphasized this information will impact Biden’s chances of becoming president.

“If you’re going to run for president, you were in charge of the Ukrainian anti-corruption campaign as vice president, and your son’s sitting on the most corrupt company in the country while you’re trying to clean up the country, yeah, that’ll come up,” said Graham.

Well, Lizzy just dropped out, who shall she back?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/0...arren-drops-out.html

quote:

Elizabeth Warren, Once a Front-Runner, Will Drop Out of Presidential Race

Ms. Warren, a senator and former law professor, staked her campaign on fighting corruption and changing the rules of the economy.

BOSTON — Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts plans to drop out of the presidential race on Thursday and will inform her staff of her plans later this morning, according to a person close to her, ending a run defined by an avalanche of policy plans that aimed to pull the Democratic Party to the left and appealed to enough voters to make her briefly a front-runner last fall, but that proved unable to translate excitement from elite progressives into backing from the party’s more working-class and diverse base.

Though her support had eroded by Super Tuesday, in her final weeks as a candidate she effectively drove the centrist billionaire, former New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, out of the race with debate performances that flashed her evident skills and political potential.

She entered the race railing against the corrosive power of big money, and one long-term consequence of her campaign is that Ms. Warren demonstrated that someone other than Senator Bernie Sanders, and his intensely loyal small-dollar donors, could fund a credible presidential campaign without holding fund-raisers.

Her potential endorsement is highly sought after in the race and both Mr. Sanders and former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. have spoken with Ms. Warren since Super Tuesday, when the end of her campaign appeared imminent.

More at link

Hope she puts all of her might behind Bernie. That will pull votes from Biden....

The absolutely best headline I have seen so far, awesome - from the Babylon Bee of course:


Warren Returns To Tribe In Shame After Failing To Take Land Back From The Pale Faces

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Perhaps that discussion belongs here??

https://sigforum.com/eve/forums...0601935/m/8070022854

Haha, great comeback.

Romney still beats the antiTrump drum

https://www.breitbart.com/clip...e-appears-political/

CNN’s Manu Raju : “Do you have concerns about the appearance that that this committee is launching into Burisma —that the subpoena that Senator Johnson wants to issue for documents related to Burisma —are you concerned about the appearance if it? ”

Romney said, “There’s no question that the appearance of looking into Burisma & Hunter Biden appears political. And I think people are tired of these kinds of political investigations. I would hope that if there is something of significance that needs to be evaluated, it would be done by perhaps the FBI or some other agency that is not as political as perhaps a committee of our body.”

what an idiot. "the FBI is not political" ?

He continued, “We also have a lot of work to do on matters that are not related to Burisma. We probably ought to focus on those things. But I’m going to get the chance today to talk with the chairman and get his perspective.”

Romney was the only Republican senator to vote to convict President Donald Trump on the impeachment article of abuse of power.

because he is a bitter dickhead

Back for a moment to Schumer: it is impossible to interpret Sen. Schumer's remark as anything but a declared threat to Justices Kavanaugh and Gorsuch. He can try to spin it otherwise, but the words are abundantly clear. He should be tried for making a threat to them and jailed; barring that, Censure and removal from the Senate should happen.

flashguy

The President held a townhall meeting in Penn.




Link to original video: https://youtu.be/0zXuCLnbbgk

I had no idea he was gonna be in freaking Scranton today. I was in a Scranton all day today on business, I totally would have stayed if I knew this! Damn.

Town Hall was good, well done Prez. I forget about this thread now it's pinned to the top. Need to go back and read a few pages.

Watching Trumps news conference at his CDC tour and he is ripping CNN and the Washington state governor Inslee new asshole. It happened about an hour ago so i am a little behind on my dvr’d news.

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Originally posted by Mustang-PaPa:
Watching Trumps news conference at his CDC tour and he is ripping CNN and the Washington state governor Inslee new asshole. It happened about an hour ago so i am a little behind on my dvr’d news.

Goddamn I am hard after hearing he called Governor Douche Sock a snake.

https://www.breitbart.com/poli...-his-chief-of-staff/

President Donald Trump announced Friday night that Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) would become his new chief of staff.

Meadows, who had already decided not to run for re-election to the House of Representatives, will replace acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney.

“I am pleased to announce that Congressman Mark Meadows will become White House Chief of Staff. I have long known and worked with Mark, and the relationship is a very good one,” Trump wrote on Twitter.

Mulvaney preferred to remain as the “acting” chief of staff, admitting that the paycheck was better, as he was at first the Director of the Office of Management and Budget for the Trump administration.

Mulvaney was named acting chief of staff to replace former General John Kelly, who was named to replace former chief of staff Reince Priebus.

Trump said that Mulvaney would be the new United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland.

This cements the central place of the Freedom Caucus and by extension the Tea Party at the heart of Trump’s new Republican Party.

I wish I knew he was in Scranton, I would have gone. "Katherine" seems like a nice gal.