President Trump tweet yesterday morning:

I will be in Gulfport and Tupelo, Mississippi, on Monday night doing two Rallies for Senator Hyde-Smith, who has a very important Election on Tuesday. She is an outstanding person who is strong on the Border, Crime, Military, our great Vets, Healthcare & the 2nd A. Needed in D.C.

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Originally posted by HuskySig:

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
a news report is indicating that Trump has closed the CA/Mexico border at San Ysidro

How long until a 9th Circuit judge overturns the closure?

Judges have unlimited power. Truly they are lords of all they survey.

this is too good to pass up...

Joey D 11/26/18



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INTERVIEW - JOE DIGENOVA - Legal Analyst & Fmr. U.S. Attorney to the District of Columbia

The end of the year can't get here quick enough


Outgoing Arizona GOP Sen. Jeff Flake joined with Democrats on Wednesday in a failed bid to force a vote on legislation to protect Special Counsel Robert Mueller -- and locked arms again with the other side of the aisle to oppose a judicial nominee, resulting in an airtight vote requiring Vice President Pence to serve as tie-breaker.

Flake, along with Delaware Democratic Sen. Chris Coons and New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker, tried to use a parliamentary maneuver to pave the way for a vote on the Special Counsel Independence and Integrity Act, which would shield Mueller from inappropriate removal or political pressure.


Flake asked for unanimous consent to vote on the bill, but Utah Sen. Mike Lee objected, blocking the effort.

The three lawmakers expressed concern over comments made by President Trump, who has called the Mueller probe a “phony witch hunt,” as well as Trump’s ousting of Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

“It’s clear, therefore, something has to be done to protect Mr. Mueller’s investigation,” Flake said on the Senate floor.

The Special Counsel Independence and Integrity Act mandates that a special counsel can only be fired for good cause by a senior Justice Department official.

Some Republicans counter that the bill is unnecessary. During Tuesday’s briefing, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders denied that the president is considering firing Mueller.

“Look, I think that the president has had Robert Mueller doing his job for the last two years, and he could’ve taken action at any point, and he hasn’t. So we’ll let that speak for itself,” she said.

Sanders added, “He has no intent to do anything.”

The blocking of the bill, though, is complicating GOP efforts to confirm Trump’s judicial nominees. Flake, who is retiring from the Senate, has said he won’t support any of Trump’s judicial nominees until he gets a vote on his Mueller bill.

Flake followed through on Wednesday afternoon and joined Democrats opposing a bid to advance Thomas Farr’s nomination to serve on the federal bench for the Eastern District of North Carolina.

Pence was then forced to break a tie, in a rare Senate intervention by the vice president.

A final confirmation vote is expected later this week.

The Farr nomination has been controversial, with all 49 Democrats opposing Farr, arguing that Farr discriminated against African Americans through his rulings on voting laws.

“Mr. Farr defended North Carolina’s absurdly restrictive voter ID law, also passed by the conservative Republican state legislature, and they tailored their election laws to disadvantage African-American voters after requesting race-specific data on voting practices,” Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York said.

Republicans, meanwhile, are standing behind Farr.

“The American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary -- a body that's frequently been held up by my Democratic colleagues as the ‘gold standard’ -- has awarded Mr. Farr its highest possible rating: unanimously well qualified,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said.


https://www.foxnews.com/politi...-caught-in-crossfire

I hope that prick gets hit by a transit bus his first day back in Phoenix...what an arrogant prick

Yeah, he took that replacing McCain shit a little too literally.

I have to think that karma will catch up with snowflake!! He really needs to be gone from the Senate.

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vote on legislation to protect Special Counsel Robert Mueller

Wouldn't Trump just veto this POS anyway if it were passed (and no way would it make it past the Senate - or at least shouldn't)?

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vote on legislation to protect Special Counsel Robert Mueller

Why? I haven't seen any move to stifle or remove Mueller from his position--why does he need protection?

flashguy

"Flake, along with Delaware Democratic Sen. Chris Coons and New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker, tried to use a parliamentary maneuver to pave the way for a vote on the Special Counsel Independence and Integrity Act, which would shield Mueller from inappropriate removal or political pressure."...

All three of them probably fit Calamity Jane's description in more ways than one ...

NSFW warning...




Link to original video: https://youtu.be/L4E8xmJauK4

a good point by Alan Dershowitz

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...ve-findings-n2536701

Robert Mueller is grasping for straws, Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz said Thursday after Michael Cohen's guilty plea. The former Trump lawyer admitted to lying to officials about his contacts with Russia.

Dershowitz suggested that Cohen is now cooperating with Mueller's team because the special counsel does not have his report finished yet.

"They’re perhaps trying to fill some blanks because they’ve lost Manafort as a witness and of course he’s unlikely to be a witness," Dershowitz suggested.

"They’re probably hustling to get a new witness to fill some of those gaps. He’s constitutionally entitled to have contact with foreign powers. Mueller’s case has never been a very strong one against the president legally and constitutionally."

”I think the weakness of Mueller’s substantive findings are suggested by the fact that he has to resort to false statement prosecutions, which really shows that he didn’t start with very much, and the very fact that he’s conducting an investigation has created these crimes.”

“These are not crimes that had been committed prior to his appointment - they’re crimes that were committed as the result of his appointment, ” he added. “That raises some questions about the role of special prosecutors in creating crimes, or creating opportunities for crimes to be committed.”

why doesn't everyone understand this? he is right on point

Mueller created and fabricated crimes - none of which ever existed and is coercing people into perjuring themselves for political purposes

similar input from Andy McCarthy

http://insider.foxnews.com/201...as-turned-clown-show

McCarthy: Mueller Probe Started With 'Worthy' Purpose, But Turned Into 'Clown Show'

Mueller's office has accused former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort of lying and violating his plea agreement. Manafort, 69, was convicted on multiple counts of financial fraud over the summer in connection to work he completed in Ukraine as a political consultant.

Additionally, conservative author Jerome Corsi announced he would reject a deal with investigators that would have required him to plead guilty to perjury. A draft court filing prepared as part of the abortive plea deal said Corsi notified Trump adviser Roger Stone in August 2016 that WikiLeaks intended to release information damaging to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.

McCarthy said that even if Corsi got information from WikiLeaks and gave it to Stone who then gave it to Trump -- although there are no facts that establish that -- it's not a crime.

"What are they doing here? They are investigating the seamy underbelly of politics, the fact that campaigns go out and try to get dirt on the opposition candidate," McCarthy said. "The underlying thing they're investigating is politics, it's not crime. And it's not a prosecutor's place to do that."

What they have is: 'Somebody has unsavory information about our opponent and we're going to try to put it out at a time that is maximal as far as the campaign is concerned,'" McCarthy said, adding Mueller has only charged people for making false statements because of underlying weakness in the case.

video of McCarthy interview at link

The Dershowitz article is bizarre after all the media headlines of "Dershowitz claims Mueller Report will be Devastating to the President".

Chess vs checkers


President Trump, in an interview with the New York Post Wednesday, threatened that if Democrats launch probes into his administration, he will declassify documents exposing that the Obama Justice Department, FBI, and the Hillary Clinton campaign worked together to set him up.

“If they want to play tough, I will do it. They will see how devastating those pages are,” Trump told the Post.

Democrats who are set to take over the House in January have vowed to inundate the Trump administration with investigation after investigation — into his taxes, if his campaign colluded with Russia, and his order to the military to deploy to the Southwest border.

“If they go down the presidential harassment track, if they want [to] go and harass the president and the administration, I think that would be the best thing that would happen to me. I’m a counter-puncher and I will hit them so hard they’d never been hit like that,” Trump told the Post.

House Republicans have been long-urging him to declassify and release the documents, which include the FBI’s application for a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant on former Trump campaign aide Carter Page, and memos on DOJ official Bruce Ohr’s interactions with dossier author Christopher Steele.

They also include text messages sent by former FBI Director James Comey, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, and Ohr. Republicans believe the documents show a plot to take down Trump in favor of Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

But Trump told the Post he wanted to save the documents until they were needed. “It’s much more powerful if I do it then … because if we had done it already, it would already be yesterday’s news,” he said.

He said his lawyer, Emmet Flood, also thought it would be better politically to wait. “He didn’t want me to do it yet, because I can save it,” he said.

Trump said the documents were “so bad” that there were some things the public should not see. “Maybe it’s better that the public not see what’s been going on with this country,” he added.



https://www.breitbart.com/poli...wn-harassment-track/

Supreme Court pic from this morning




Took a helluva fight to get there

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up a challenge to President Donald Trump’s border wall Monday, which asserted that the administration violated the Constitution when it exempted border barrier projects from environmental regulations.

The plaintiffs warn of adverse effects to local ecosystems should the administration raise a wall along the border with Mexico.

“It’s disappointing that the Supreme Court won’t consider this important constitutional issue,” Brian Segee, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), told The Daily Caller News Foundation by email. “Trump has abused his power to wreak havoc along the border to score political points. He’s illegally sweeping aside bedrock environmental and public health laws. We’ll continue to fight Trump’s dangerous wall in the courts and in Congress.”

A 1996 law authorized the attorney general (and later the Homeland Security secretary) to build border barriers to deter illegal immigration. In that connection, the law gave the Department of Homeland Security secretary power to exempt certain border projects from environmental laws like the Endangered Species Act, as well as other legal rules, to ensure quick construction.

The law also restricts the jurisdiction of courts to hear legal challenges to the secretary’s waivers, and provides that such lawsuits must be lodged on an accelerated timetable.

A coalition of green advocacy groups sued after the Trump administration issued two waivers under the ’96 law for border wall projects in southern California. The plaintiffs argued the waiver and jurisdictional provisions violate the constitutional separation of powers.

“[The ’96 law] effectively allows an unelected cabinet secretary to repeal existing laws, and then shields the repeals from judicial review,” the CBD’s petition to the high court reads. The petition urged the justices to curtail the “extraordinary conferral of waiver authority that fundamentally distorts the allocation of power in our tripartite system of government.”

U.S. District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel sided with the federal government at an earlier stage of the case, prompting the appeal to the Supreme Court.

The president has clashed with Curiel in the past, as Curiel presided over a civil suit against Trump University, a real estate training program that has since closed.

2020 aspirant Robert “Beto” O’Rourke is among the signatories to an amicus (or “friend of the court”) brief from Democratic lawmakers urging the justices to hear the case.

Trump has made funding for the border wall a priority during the lame duck Congress, threatening to shut down the government if the project is not funded in full by year’s end.

“We need border security in this country, and if that means a shutdown I would totally be willing to shut it down,” Trump said on Nov. 28. “And I think it’s a really bad issue for the Democrats.”

https://dailycaller.com/2018/1...e-court-border-wall/

beto throwing rocks at the window trying to get attention.