Attorney General Merrick Garland made 'greatest case' for impeaching Biden, Jonathan Turley says

The first son had reached a plea deal with the Justice Department to avoid prison time, but the deal fell apart when a judge questioned its constitutionality.

Updated: August 27, 2023 - 8:38pm

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley argues in a column published on Saturday that the House has no other option but to open an impeachment investigation into President Joe Biden and that Attorney General Merrick Garland made the "greatest case for an impeachment inquiry."

In the column, titled "Why the House Has No Alternative to an Impeachment Inquiry into President Biden," Turley said Congress "has little alternative but to launch a long-discussed impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden" when it returns to session next month.

Garland "appointed the one prosecutor who should have been categorically excluded — David Weiss,"Turley also wrote. "Not only did Garland have to ignore his own regulations to appoint Weiss but he also had to ignore the main qualification: The appointed outside counsel should be someone with 'a reputation for integrity and impartial decision-making.'"

Weiss, the U.S. Attorney for Delaware, had already been investigating Hunter Biden on alleged tax charges. The first son had reached a plea deal with the Justice Department to avoid prison time, but the deal fell apart when a judge questioned its constitutionality.

"While Garland seems incapable of imagining any crime involving the president, he has made a conclusive — if unintended — case for an impeachment inquiry," Turley added.

"With the investigative impediments created by the Weiss appointment and by Garland’s refusal to expressly extend the special counsel’s mandate to the allegations of Biden family influence-peddling, there is little choice but to commence an impeachment inquiry."

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Attorney General Merrick Garland made 'greatest case' for impeaching Biden, Jonathan Turley says

The first son had reached a plea deal with the Justice Department to avoid prison time, but the deal fell apart when a judge questioned its constitutionality.

Updated: August 27, 2023 - 8:38pm

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley argues in a column published on Saturday that the House has no other option but to open an impeachment investigation into President Joe Biden and that Attorney General Merrick Garland made the "greatest case for an impeachment inquiry."

In the column, titled "Why the House Has No Alternative to an Impeachment Inquiry into President Biden," Turley said Congress "has little alternative but to launch a long-discussed impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden" when it returns to session next month.

Garland "appointed the one prosecutor who should have been categorically excluded — David Weiss,"Turley also wrote. "Not only did Garland have to ignore his own regulations to appoint Weiss but he also had to ignore the main qualification: The appointed outside counsel should be someone with 'a reputation for integrity and impartial decision-making.'"

Weiss, the U.S. Attorney for Delaware, had already been investigating Hunter Biden on alleged tax charges. The first son had reached a plea deal with the Justice Department to avoid prison time, but the deal fell apart when a judge questioned its constitutionality.

"While Garland seems incapable of imagining any crime involving the president, he has made a conclusive — if unintended — case for an impeachment inquiry," Turley added.

"With the investigative impediments created by the Weiss appointment and by Garland’s refusal to expressly extend the special counsel’s mandate to the allegations of Biden family influence-peddling, there is little choice but to commence an impeachment inquiry."

https://justthenews.com/government/congress/attorney-general-merrick-garland-made-greatest-case-impeaching-biden-jonathan

Attorney General Merrick Garland made 'greatest case' for impeaching Biden, Jonathan Turley says

The first son had reached a plea deal with the Justice Department to avoid prison time, but the deal fell apart when a judge questioned its constitutionality.

Updated: August 27, 2023 - 8:38pm

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley argues in a column published on Saturday that the House has no other option but to open an impeachment investigation into President Joe Biden and that Attorney General Merrick Garland made the "greatest case for an impeachment inquiry."

In the column, titled "Why the House Has No Alternative to an Impeachment Inquiry into President Biden," Turley said Congress "has little alternative but to launch a long-discussed impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden" when it returns to session next month.

Garland "appointed the one prosecutor who should have been categorically excluded — David Weiss,"Turley also wrote. "Not only did Garland have to ignore his own regulations to appoint Weiss but he also had to ignore the main qualification: The appointed outside counsel should be someone with 'a reputation for integrity and impartial decision-making.'"

Weiss, the U.S. Attorney for Delaware, had already been investigating Hunter Biden on alleged tax charges. The first son had reached a plea deal with the Justice Department to avoid prison time, but the deal fell apart when a judge questioned its constitutionality.

"While Garland seems incapable of imagining any crime involving the president, he has made a conclusive — if unintended — case for an impeachment inquiry," Turley added.

"With the investigative impediments created by the Weiss appointment and by Garland’s refusal to expressly extend the special counsel’s mandate to the allegations of Biden family influence-peddling, there is little choice but to commence an impeachment inquiry."

https://justthenews.com/government/congress/attorney-general-merrick-garland-made-greatest-case-impeaching-biden-jonathan

More information about Paxton's impeachment trial in Texas leaked in violation of gag order

The House voted in May to impeach Paxton. His trial in the Senate is scheduled to begin Sept. 5.

Updated: August 27, 2023 - 12:22a

More information has been leaked about Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's impeachment trial in violation of the state Senate’s gag order.

This is the second time information has been leaked to the media by someone believed to be in the legislaturein violation of the rules governing the impeachment trial established by the Senate.

When asked if Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick was going to investigate who leaked this information or if he was planning on making a statement about it, his office did not respond to a request for comment from The Center Square.

The Dallas Morning News reported Thursday that House managers plan to call Paxton as a witness as well as real estate developer Nate Paul; “Laura Olson, a woman with whom Paxton is alleged to have had an affair;” and former Travis County District Attorney Margaret Moore, “according to confidential witness lists obtained by The Dallas Morning News.”

The House voted in May to impeach Paxton. His trial in the Senate is scheduled to begin Sept. 5.

Paxton lead attorney Tony Buzbee said last month that Paxton won’t testify. “Attorney General Paxton will not dignify the illegal House action by testifying,” he said. “The House has ignored precedent, denied him an opportunity to prepare his defense, and now wants to ambush him on the floor of the Senate. They had the opportunity to have Attorney General Paxton testify during their sham investigation but refused to do so. We will not bow to their evil, illegal, and unprecedented weaponization of state power in the Senate chamber.”

On Paxton’s list of potential witnesses “are two senators who will also sit as jurors during his impeachment trial: his wife, Angela Paxton, and Bryan Hughes, a Mineola Republican who is referenced in the articles of impeachment,” according to the document The Dallas Morning News obtained. Others on the list include Paxton’s Republican primary challengers, George P. Bush and Eva Guzman, Republican strategist Karl Rove, and Texans for Lawsuit Reform founder Dick Weekley.

Houston attorney Dick DeGuerin, representing the House managers, told the Dallas Morning News, “As far as the witness list being made public, I want it to be clear: Nobody from the House managers leaked that.”

In response to the Dallas Morning News story, Texans for Lawsuit Reform published a statement saying that it had “nothing to do with the House investigation of Ken Paxton and did not even know of its existence until the House General Investigating Committee’s public hearing on May 24, 2023. Any assertions otherwise are a blatant attempt to distract from the facts of the articles of impeachment.

“There is an ongoing effort underway to intimidate the Senators into abandoning their constitutional obligations and acquitting Paxton before the trial even begins and the evidence has been presented. … Texans deserve a trial and outcomes based on the factual presentation and consideration of evidence.”

Buzbee and Paxton’s attorneys have repeatedly argued in public statements before the gag order and in the motions they filed with the Senate that there is no evidence to support the claims made in the articles of impeachment and that 19 out of 20 of them should be thrown out.

Last month, a motion filed with the Senate was leaked to the Texas Tribune, in violation of the gag order. Patrick has not said if he launched an investigation to determine who leaked it.

Multiple motions have been filed by the Senate, House managers and Paxton’s attorneys. They are all published on the Senate Impeachment website and are available to the public.

https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/more-information-about-paxton-impeachment-trial-leaked-violation-gag

Price of Disney shares drop to lowest level in nearly nine years

Critics of the iconic American entertainment company pin Disney’s slide on what they consider its adopting and supporting an ultra-liber, so-called “woke” agenda.

Shares of Walt Disney on Thursday fell 3.9%, closing at their lowest level in nearly nine years.

Some investors predict a further price drop in the next few months, according to Reuters.

New Disney leader Bob Iger has promised a turnaround plan that includes a mix of price hikes across its streaming properties, more ads and cost cuts to lift the business.

Critics of the iconic American entertainment company pin Disney’s slide on what

they consider its adopting and supporting an ultra-liberal, so-called “woke” agenda.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/finance/price-disney-shares-drop-lowest-level-nearly-nine-years

AI program flags possible voter registration errors, aims to be used for voter roll maintenance

EagleAI NETwork can be used by states, counties, and citizens to analyze voter registrations.

new artificial intelligence program that finds voter registration errors can be used for voter roll maintenance, possibly being a replacement for the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC).

Since last year, nine GOP-led states have left ERIC, a multistate voter data-sharing organization that facilitates voter registration and maintenance of voter rolls, amid such concerns as partisan influence, increasing costs and a failure to address voter fraud.

ERIC calls itself "the most effective tool available to help election officials maintain more accurate voter rolls and detect possible illegal voting."

The organization’s executive director, Shane Hamlin, wrote in a March 2 open letter on ERIC's website, "We are a member-run, member-driven organization. State election officials — our members — govern ERIC and fund our day-to-day operations through payment of annual dues, which they set for themselves."

States that have left ERIC, such as Texas and Virginia, are seeking an alternative to the organization that would aid in the maintenance of voter rolls.

A new alternative to ERIC is EagleAI NETwork, which is software that flags voter registrations that appear to have issues. These problematic registrations can then be reviewed by election officials to help in the maintenance of voter rolls.

Dr. Rick Richards, EagleAI NETwork CEO and president, told Just the News on Monday that the software “could do the job that ERIC is supposed to be doing, and much more.”

He explained that the software found 507 registered voters over 114 years old in Fulton County, Ga. After a Fulton County resident challenged those voter registrations, the number dropped to 37 registered voters over 114 years old.

Fulton County Department of Registration and Elections Director Nadine Williams told Just the News that the registrations had incorrect birthdates.

“Voter roll maintenance identified a birthdate data entry error,” Williams said. “No voters have been removed from the voter rolls due to this error. The data entry error is currently being corrected.”

EagleAI NETwork can be used by states, counties, and citizens to analyze voter registrations, according to a fact sheet for the software. While states and counties can use the software to maintain their voter rolls, citizens can use it to challenge registrations or point out clerical errors on the voter rolls.

“Citizens are not charged to use EagleAI NETwork but need to purchase a software license for it to work,” Richards explained. “Having all on the same software, looking at the same data, at the same time creates the transparency necessary to restore everyone’s faith in this part of the election process.”

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EagleAI NETwork has been in testing for several months and will be launched in Georgia in September, he explained.

The software can be used to identify duplicate voter registrations, registrations of deceased voters, voters who have moved, registrations that are incomplete, registrations with nonresidential addresses, felons who don’t meet the eligibility requirements to vote, voters who have been adjudged mentally incompetent, and non-citizens, according to the fact sheet.

EagleAI NETwork doesn’t search for or include party affiliation of voter registrations, Richards said. The software uses publicly available data — such as USPS’ National Change of Address system, Private Change of Address sources, and the Social Security Administration’s Death Master File — but Richards said that if counties and states provide personally identifiable information, then the software could be more efficient in validating problem registrations.

Richards presented EagleAI NETwork to officials in the Georgia secretary of state’s office and Columbia County’s Board of Elections. He is also looking to expand its use to Florida, Nevada, North Carolina, and Texas, and is talking with people in 23 states.

Georgia secretary of state Elections Director Blake Evans said in a statement regarding EagleAI, "My thoughts are that the Eagle AI presentations that I have seen are confused and seem to steer counties towards unlawful list maintenance activities. Instead of asking questions or being curious about the data, EagleAI draws inaccurate conclusions and then spreads them as if they are facts."

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/new-ai-program-finds-voter-registration-errors-can-be-used-voter-roll