==Democrats vote down investigation of Hunter Biden

"This is a nakedly partisan effort."==

House Democrats on Tuesday voted down a Republican plan to launch an investigation into Hunter Biden.

The House Oversight Committee rejected the plan from their GOP colleagues, who alleged that the Bidens offered "access to the highest levels of government to enrich themselves," according to the Epoch Times.

"It is time for President Biden to answer some questions about his participation in his family's business schemes with some of our most significant adversaries for years, including the Chinese Communist Party," Republican Tennessee Rep. James Comer said of the effort.

"If the Democrats vote against this resolution, then they are continuing in their coordinated effort to shield a potentially compromised President from necessary congressional oversight," he continued.

Republicans have long scrutinized the president's younger son over his alleged illicit activities. Among the most notable of his scandals were revelations from a laptop belonging to Hunter which contained damaging materials on the first family prior to the 2020 presidential election. That story, however, was derided as a disinformation effort and suppressed on social media.

Oversight Committee Chair Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., said Republicans were "obsessed" with Hunter Biden. "This is a nakedly partisan effort," she asserted.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/democrats-vote-down-investigation-hunter-biden

Federal appeals court reverses ruling on Jan. 6 subpoena to RNC, dismisses case

Appellate judges went out of way to acknowledge RNC’s appeal raised important issues and also took a dig at Democrats for vacillating.

A federal appeals court has reversed a lower court ruling ordering the Republican National Committee to comply with a subpoena from the House Jan. 6 committee, poking the Democrat-led investigation for vacillating on key issues and acknowledging there were "important and unsettled constitutional questions" about whether the panel is lawfully constituted.

The U.S. Circuit Court for Appeals or the District of Columbia said it was dismissing the case because the Jan. 6 committee withdrew the subpoena to the RNC seeking records of its dealings with a digital fund-raising vendor Salesforce.

"The RNC's appeal has become moot," the appeals court ruled in dismissing the case.

You can read the full ruling here:

File

1. (09-16-2022) ORDER of USCA (certified copy) as to 35 Notice of Appeal to DC Circuit Court filed by REPUBLICAN N (1).pdf

https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2022-09/0043.%20%2809-16-2022%29%20ORDER%20of%20USCA%20%28certified%20copy%29%20as%20to%2035%20Notice%20of%20Appeal%20to%20DC%20Circuit%20Court%20filed%20by%20REPUBLICAN%20N%20%281%29.pdf

Ordinarily, when a dispute is withdrawn, a federal appeals court issues a very brief order of dismissal. But the appellate judges went out of their way to acknowledge the RNC's concerns about the subpoena raising important issues and that the lower court's ruling needed to be reversed.

"The RNC claimed that disclosure of these documents would reveal sensitive information about its digital strategy, so it sued to prevent the disclosure," the appeals judges wrote. "The RNC argued that the Committee was not lawfully constituted and that the subpoena violated the First Amendment."

They also said: "Because the Committee caused the mootness and thereby deprived us of the ability to review the district court’s decision, and given the important and unsettled constitutional questions that the appeal would have presented, we vacate the district court's judgment."

The court also took issue with the House Democrat committee for playing essentially a game of hurry up, then wait.

"The Committee has taken various positions on whether and when it needs the subpoenaed RNC documents," the judges noted, citing a history of urgent requests followed by delay and then eventually withdrawal of the subpoena.

https://justthenews.com/government/congress/federal-appeals-court-reverses-ruling-jan-6-subpoena-rnc-dismisses-case

Videos shot by Australian soldiers in Afghanistan raise questions about conduct of 2nd Commando Regiment

The burly commando saunters down the porn-lined hallway of the accommodation block, a can of Red Bull in his hand.

Key points:

A video filmed by an Australian soldier in 2012 shows commandos in Afghanistan discussing a "quota"

Another video shows a soldier firing from a helicopter at what appear to be unarmed civilians

A third video shows two Australian commandos watching on as an Afghan soldier beats a man who is cowering on the ground

"Final thoughts while we rock out pre-job?" asks his Australian comrade holding the camera.

The commando stops, leans over, and props his elbow on a shelf. Through the green and black camouflage paint smeared on his face, his eyes lock on the camera.

"I believe we're going to get the quota," he says calmly.

"Woo!" cheers another commando behind him as two others holler in the background. "The quota! The quota must be met," says the soldier holding the camera.

It is late 2012, and the Taliban enemy shows no sign of wavering. Unlike the Australian commandos, the Taliban insurgents do not adhere to the laws of armed conflict.

They wear no uniforms and hide among civilians. It seems no matter how many of their fighters are killed on the battlefield, more emerge to take their place.

Heavy toll

In the 11 years of conflict to this point, the Taliban have already taken a heavy toll on the Australians. During this rotation, the 39th Australian will die in Afghanistan.

By the time Australian special forces leave Afghanistan a year later, special forces soldiers will account for about half of all Australian casualties.

On this rotation, the men of the 2nd Commando Regiment have been targeting one of the main weapons used by the Taliban to fund its insurgency – opium.

Together with the United States Drug Enforcement Administration and soldiers from Afghanistan's National Interdiction Unit, they have hit drug lab after drug lab.

On one mission, they torch more than a tonne of Taliban opium.

In the video obtained by ABC Investigations, these commandos are once again preparing to head outside the wire on another dangerous mission and capture their preparations on camera for posterity.

Neither the platoon commander nor any officers appear to be present.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-20/australian-commandos-in-afghanistan-filmed-discussing-quota/101432000

Former soldiers sentenced for transporting undocumented citizens

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdtx/pr/former-soldiers-sentenced-transporting-undocumented-citizens

Illegal Venezuelan Migrants File Class Action Lawsuit Against DeSantis – Claim Flight to Martha’s Vineyard was as Cruel as Treatment by Maduro’s Marxist Regime – HAHA!

The Venezuelan illegal aliens filed a lawsuit on Tuesday.

NOT against the lying hypocrites from Martha’s Vineyard who deported them from their exclusive island, but against Governor Ron DeSantis.

You really can’t make this up!

In their lawsuit with far left organizers, the illegal migrants claim the trip to Martha’s Vineyard was similar to the treatment they received by the Marxist tyrant Maduro in Venezuela!

HaHa!

The Miami Herald reported:

Three migrants who were part of a group that was flown from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard last week by the state of Florida are suing Gov. Ron DeSantis and other state officials, alleging they were duped into traveling to an isolated island in the northeast as part of a scheme to benefit the governor’s political career.

The suit, filed in federal court in Massachusetts, alleges that DeSantis, Florida’s Transportation Department secretary and others tricked migrants into leaving Texas by offering them McDonald’s gift cards and other items to board the flights, and by promising them assistance and employment. The plaintiffs include three anonymous Venezuelan migrants and Alianza Americas, a transnational organization that advocates on behalf of immigrants rights.

The lawsuit names five other people as defendants for allegedly participating in the scheme. Two defendants, identified by migrants as “Perla” and “Emanuel,” are believed by attorneys to have been the people recruiting migrants in San Antonio to board the planes.

“These immigrants, who are pursuing the proper channels for lawful immigration status in the United States, experienced cruelty akin to what they fled in their home country,” the lawsuit alleges.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/breaking-illegal-venezuelan-migrants-file-class-action-lawsuit-desantis-claim-cruelty-flight-marthas-vineyard-similar-maduros-regime-haha/