WH Memo: No Backpay for Furloughed Federal Employees

If the White House acts on that legal analysis, it would dramatically escalate Dummkopf Trumpf's pressure on Senate Democrats to end the week-old shutdown

LOL! Watch the country come to a standstill and see who gets the blame.

Ok. She's in contempt. Now what?

Jury nullification is certainly a tactic that individuals can deploy but even better would be laws that force the government (fed, state, muni) to pay for the legal defenses of the defendant if the defendant prevails plus extra for the defendant's lost income and pain and suffering. Hell, add in some more for punitive damages! That type of penalty would ensure that prosecutors only bring cases that they KNOW they will win. It would also ensure that defendants with a strong case would have no problem securing top notch legal representation.

A strong case can be made for reversing some precedents but no case can be made for decisions that are contrary to the explicit wording of the constitution!

John Bolton Knew Trump Would Come After Him

I wonder if people like Bolton ever sit back and contemplate how it is that a party they so long supported could have elected someone like Trump? Do they wonder if any of their actions might have contributed to people believing that he was the president that America needed?

Dems MUST do a better job of tying this souring to Trump's enablers: members of Congress.

Money leaves a trail. It's hard to imagine ANY money leaving a federal account without its "first stop" being traceable. After that, "Katy bar the door".

Why might they be in full panic mode?
Could a possible cover-up be exposed?

That's a good theory. It may be that some of their names are also listed in the files!

From Google AI

In March 2022, then-Congressman Madison Cawthorn claimed during a podcast interview that he had been invited to orgies and witnessed cocaine use among fellow politicians in Washington, D.C..