Barack Obama warns the U.S. is dangerously close' to slipping into autocracy under Trump In rare public remarks, the former president said recent actions from the administration are "not consistent with American democracy."
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Appeals court says Trump can keep control of California National Guard troops
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... President Donald Trump is within his rights to deploy the California National Guard amid protests against federal law enforcement over immigration raids, an appeals court ruled Thursday night.
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the federal government made a required "strong showing" in arguing it would prevail against California's challenge to the legality of the deployment of troops usually under the governor's control.
"Under longstanding precedent ... our review of that decision must be highly deferential" to the president, the panel wrote in its ruling. "Affording the President that deference, we conclude that it is likely that the President lawfully exercised his statutory authority." ...
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Chaff?
"Both Iran and Russia shared an ally in former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and intervened on his behalf in the Syrian war until his eventual defeat late last year.
Iran has supplied Russia with Shahed kamikaze drones to be used on Ukrainian targets, and last year, there were reports that Russia received hundreds of Fath-360 ballistic missiles from Iran, which are known to be accurate at short range.
"Of course, Russia should be friends with Iran because, in politics and in life, everything is very simple," hawkish Russian TV personality Sergey Mardan commented after the latest Middle East crisis escalated.
"If you have an enemy and your enemy has partners and allies, his partners and allies are automatically your enemies.
"There are no illusions about this, and there can't be any. Since Israel is a key ally of the United States; ... of course, we are interested in the weakening of Israel and helping its adversaries."
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#28 It was not officially declared that Trump "staged a coup."
In the case of Anderson v. Griswold a Colorado state trial court, following a 5 cay trial in which the Buffoon participated, "found by clear and convincing evidence that President Trump engaged in insurrection ..." on J6. (pdf p.8) As a result the Colorado Supreme Court declared the Buffoon ineligible to run for the Presidency pursuant to the Fourteenth Amendment section 3. law.justia.com The USSC reversed holding only Congress can disqualify. The factual finding of "insurrection" was not challenged and remains valid.
Insurrection synonym coup. www.merriam-webster.com
#65 | Posted by BillJohnson
Your ignorance of the law is no excuse. Officially, i.e legally, finding that the Buffoon engaged in insurrection does not require a criminal court. The USSC ruling was about who decides qualification not who decides the predicate facts.
The court did not reach some of the other issues that Trump had urged them to decide in his brief on the merits " such as whether Trump "engaged in insurrection" on Jan. 6.www.scotusblog.com
Unlike your nonfactual personal opinions about mail ballots, to which you are entitled, that does not work with matters of law. Your personal opinion is irrelevant.
#86: Senator Lindsey Graham couldn't wait to start bombing Iran. Dummkopf Trumpf wasn't even inaugurated yet and the Israelis paused the Gaza genocide for a few weeks when faux Christian Lindsey Graham began clamoring to destroy Iran. Without a war or social issues to distract the American public that the .0000001% oligarchy controls 99.999999% of US wealth, the Republican apparatchiks serving the superrich would be nowhere. Link: www.politico.com
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