Department of Justice Statement on Solarwinds Update
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-statement-solarwinds-update
Rep. Paul Gosar objects to Arizona electoral college certification, backed by Sen. Ted Cruz
Congressman Paul Gosar, R-AZ, objected to the certification of Arizona’s electoral college certification. Gosar received the backing of Senator Ted Cruz, R-TX.
The electoral college count has Joe Biden winning Arizona with 11 electoral votes.
Each chamber of Congress will now separately debate the evidence presented by the objectors.
https://saraacarter.com/rep-paul-gosar-objects-to-arizona-electoral-college-certification-backed-by-sen-ted-cruz/
Top CEOs threaten to cut off funding for Republicans backing Trump’s election challenge: report
Here comes the pressure
Several CEOs of major corporations are threatening to pull financial support from congressional Republicans backing President Donald Trump's election challenge, according to Yale School of Management's Jeffrey Sonnenfeld.
What are the details?
Sonnenfeld, a senior associate dean at the prominent business school, told CNBC's "Closing Bell" on Tuesday that more than two dozen chief executives were considering the move as a way to express their frustration with Trump and his Republican allies' attempts to overturn the election.
The business leaders reportedly made the comments during a virtual conference hosted by Sonnenfeld earlier that day, in which 33 unnamed executives from a variety of sectors including finance, pharmacy, transportation, and manufacturing were present.
According to Sonnenfeld, every executive on the call answered "yes" to the survey question, "Should CEOs warn lobbyists privately that their firms will no longer support election result deniers in Congress?" Additionally, nearly nine in 10 said they were in favor of cutting off support.
"The GOP acting this way — these GOP members are certainly not the voice of American business, large or small. So they're talking about cutting off support," Sonnenfeld said.
He added the executives on the call, who reportedly joined on the condition of confidentiality, said the situation was causing "divided communities, angry workforces, and hostile workplaces" and that "this is not business as usual."
They reportedly expressed a desire to move beyond statements and start to "put our money where our mouth is."
What's the background?
President Trump has maintained for the better part of two months that the 2020 election was fraudulent, and his legal team has filed numerous legal challenges to the results in battleground states such as Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Arizona, but thus far to no avail.
But, in recent days, a new long-shot strategy has emerged as several Republican House and Senate members announced their intention to object when Congress moves to officially count Electoral College votes on Jan. 6 and demand a commission to audit the results. The challenge, however, is all but certain to fail.
Sonnenfeld said the potential of a chaotic transition is what gave rise to the last-minute the conference Tuesday. Given that fact, it might be fair to assume that the participating CEOs were not ones particularly supportive of Trump in the first place. But due to the call's confidentiality, only Sonnenfeld knows their identities.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/ceos-threaten-funding-republicans-election
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Pentagon Defends $265 Bln ICBM-Replacement Programme Amid Reports of Possible Biden Review
The United States is in the middle of a $1.5 trillion programme to upgrade its nuclear arsenal. The programme started under President Barack Obama and continued in expanded form under Donald Trump, with costs continuing to grow.
The head of the combatant command responsible for America’s nuclear arsenal has mounted a defence of the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) – the $264 billion lifetime cost nuclear missile system meant to replace the Minuteman III arsenal.
“You cannot life-extend Minuteman III,” Stratcom chief Charles A Richard said, speaking at a recent defence writers event, his remarks cited by Defence News. “It is getting past the point of [where] it’s not cost-effective to life-extend Minuteman III. You’re quickly getting to the point [where] you can’t do it at all,” he insisted.
According to Richard, further delays to the GBSD programme are not possible, because Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles are so old and obsolete that their original designers are dead and engineers no longer even have some of the necessary technical documentation.
“That thing is so old that in some cases the [technical] drawings don’t exist anymore, or where we do have drawings, they’re like six generations behind the industry standard. And there’s not only [no one] working that can understand them – they’re not alive anymore,” he added.
Richard cited the alleged growing threat posed by Russia and China as a reason to push forward with the spending. “This nation has never before had to face the prospect of two peer, nuclear-capable adversaries who have to be deterred differently. Actions done to deter one have an impact on the other. This is way more complicated than it used to be. [The GBSD] is an example of a capability we’re going to have to have to address threats like that,” the commander said, without elaborating.
The Stratcom chief also insisted that he would “welcome” a review of the US nuclear posture by the incoming Biden administration, but hinted that such a review would likely mean the discovery of additional new spending needs giving the comprehensive range of threats the US is said to face. “I would recommend a broader-base strategic review, as opposed to parsing it out in pieces,” Richard said.
Last month, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Biden team was planning to carry out a review of US nuclear policy, including the GBSD and other missile systems, such as the new low-yield nuclear weapons approved by Trump. In October 2020, the Pentagon estimated that it would cost $95.8 billion to replace the 450 existing Minuteman II ICBMs with GBSDs. However, a separate audit by Bloomberg found the lifetime cost of the missiles, not counting the new warheads, could be as high as $264 billion.
https://sputniknews.com/military/202101061081674469-pentagon-defends-265-bln-icbm-replacement-programme-amid-reports-of-possible-biden-review/
Liberals press Supreme Court Justice Breyer to retire with Democrats close to Senate control
Some liberals hope to replace the 82-year-old Breyer with someone younger as soon as possible
With results from Georgia's Senate runoff elections appearing to indicate that Democrats will take control of the chamber, liberals are quickly making their wishes known when it comes to the Supreme Court.
Demand Justice, a liberal group that supports Supreme Court reform, is already pushing liberal Justice Stephen Breyer to retire so that President-elect Joe Biden can replace him with a Black, female jurist who would presumably be much younger than the 82-year-old Breyer.
"Justice Breyer's service on the court has been remarkable, and history will remember him even more fondly if he ends up playing a critical role in ensuring the appointment of the first Black woman to the court," Demand Justice executive director Brian Fallon told Politico. "Timing his retirement in the coming year would guarantee that opportunity, and it would be wise to do so because the window may prove a narrow one."
Former state Rep. Bakari Sellers, D-S.C., tweeted Tuesday night that if Democrats took control of the Senate Breyer should retire the minute Biden takes office later this month.
"If we get to 50, I need Justice Breyer to announce retirement at 12:01pm on January 20th," Sellers said. "And I need us to nominate and elect some federal judges."
Breyer stated in December that he intends to retire "eventually," rather than serve for life like Justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg did, but he said that "it’s hard to know exactly when" he would leave the court.
Last year, Biden said he had been putting together a list of Black women who could possibly serve on the high court. Fallon specifically mentioned D.C. District Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as a possibility. Jackson, who is only 50 and clerked for Breyer, was reported to have been on President Barack Obama's short list of candidates before he nominated D.C. Circuit Court Judge Merrick Garland in 2016. Garland's nomination famously stalled when Republicans refused to hold a hearing on his nomination, opting to wait until after that year's presidential election. This allowed President Trump to nominate Justice Neil Gorsuch instead.
After Trump successfully confirmed three justices to the Supreme Court during his term in office, liberals, including Demand Justice, have called for sweeping changes to the high court, including expanding its size so a Democratic administration could add more liberal judges – a process commonly referred to as "court-packing."
Fallon's organization currently calls for adding four seats to the Supreme Court, which would overcome the court's current 6-3 conservative majority.
Court-packing was a major issue going into November's presidential election. Biden had dodged questions about whether he was in favor of it, but eventually spoke out against it. Likewise, Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin said in November that he would not support it, which would likely prevent a majority from approving any drastic measures.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/supreme-court-stephen-breyer-retirement-pressure-senate
Georgia Could Be a Big Win for American Jews – and a Big Loss for Netanyahu
The projected Democratic win in Georgia will usher in a new reality for Democrats, Republicans and American Jews of all stripes. But there's one Jewish politician who will likely be very disappointed with the results
The votes in Georgia are still being counted, but as of Wednesday morning, the bottom line seems clear: In a surprising turn of events, Democrats are heavily favored to win back control of the Senate, on the back of two narrow victories in a state that, just a few years ago, was considered ruby-red Republican.
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-georgia-could-be-a-big-win-for-american-jews-and-a-big-loss-for-netanyahu-1.9427993
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