LEAK: Jack Smith to Indict Trump Again – Special Counsel Investigates Fundraising, Breach of Voting Machines

Special Counsel Jack Smith is gearing up to indict President Trump out of DC again, according to a new report by CNN.

Jack Smith has expanded his investigation into Trump’s effort to challenge the 2020 election and is focusing on Trump’s fundraising efforts.

President Trump raised millions of dollars after the 2020 election to investigate rampant Democrat vote fraud.

Jack Smith is also investigating how the money was used to inspect the voting machines.

A non-profit run by Sidney Powell hired forensic investigators to inspect voting machines in four swing states: Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Arizona.

Fulton County DA Fani Willis indited Trump and 18 of his associates on similar charges of computer trespass for daring to look at the voting machines.

CNN reported:

Special counsel Jack Smith is still pursuing his investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election a month after indicting Donald Trump for orchestrating a broad conspiracy to remain in power, a widening of the probe that raises the possibility others could still face legal peril.

Questions asked of two recent witnesses indicate Smith is focusing on how money raised off baseless claims of voter fraud was used to fund attempts to breach voting equipment in several states won by Joe Biden, according to multiple sources familiar with the ongoing investigation.

In both interviews, prosecutors have focused their questions on the role of former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell.

According to invoices obtained by CNN, Powell’s non-profit, Defending the Republic, hired forensics firms that ultimately accessed voting equipment in four swing states won by Biden: Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Arizona.

Jack Smith indicted Trump on 37 federal counts in Miami in June.

Trump was charged with 31 counts of willful retention of national defense information and 6 other process crimes stemming from his conversations with his lawyer.

Walt Nauta, a Mar-a-Lago aide, was indicted along with President Trump as a co-conspirator.

Last month Jack Smith hit Trump with 3 additional charges in the investigation into classified documents stored at Mar-a-Lago.

The superseding indictment, filed in the Southern District of Florida, claims Trump was part of a scheme to delete security footage from Mar-a-Lago.

Earlier this month Trump was hit with 4 counts in Jack Smith’s January 6 case up in DC: Conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/leak-jack-smith-indict-trump-again-special-counsel

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“Three Years Later, Trump Deserves A Nobel Peace Prize For The Abraham Accords”

Trump Deserves A Peace Prize For The Abraham Accords

On Sept. 15, 2020, President Trump ushered in a new era of peace and collaboration in the Middle East without a single bullet fired.

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Three Years Later, Trump Deserves A Nobel Peace Prize For The Abraham Accords

BY: ABE HAMADEH AND BRYAN E. LEIB

SEPTEMBER 05, 2023

On Sept. 15, 2020, President Trump ushered in a new era of peace and collaboration in the Middle East without a single bullet fired.

This month, the world will celebrate the three-year anniversary of President Donald Trump’s Abraham Accords.

While the Obama administration and others said Trump’s bold decision to keep his campaign promise and move the United States Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the eternal capital of Israel, would cause war in the Middle East, just the opposite happened. Many of these individuals said the same when the framework of the Abraham Accords was initially announced, but just as they were wrong before, they were wrong once again.

On Sept. 15, 2020, President Trump ushered in a new era of peace and collaboration in the Middle East among Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco without a single bullet fired. Imagine that: Peace was achieved through America leading with strength, without any wars started, when the experts said the opposite would happen.

Furthermore, Trump and his administration provided the metaphorical runway and jet fuel for long-standing relationships among the Israelis, Bahrainis, and Emiratis that had been held in the darkness to take off into the light for the world to see, which has led to tremendous economic and societal expansion. As commercial ties grow, so will the strength of the bonds between the countries and their people.

Per the Abraham Accords Peace Institute, trade between the countries saw a major increase from 2021 to 2022, coming in at $3.37 billion in 2022, an 82 percent increase from 2021! Bahrain is set to utilize Israeli solar technology as a result of the Abraham Accords, and earlier this year, the Abrahamic Family House opened its doors to the world in Abu Dhabi. The center encompasses three separate houses of worship — a mosque, a church, and a synagogue, as well as shared spaces for gathering and dialogue. Based on these economic and societal indicators, the Abraham Accords have been a major success thus far.

Both authors have seen firsthand how Israel is liked and respected in the Arab world, which never would have happened if not for the Abraham Accords. Having served as a U.S. Army Reserve captain and intelligence officer in Saudi Arabia during the historic peace accords, Abraham Hamadeh had a unique experience serving in the Middle East, with Syrian ancestry and Arabic language skills allowing for much more personal interactions with Saudi Arabia’s security apparatus’ leadership — and they’re ready for peace.

A Jewish American who is an outspoken supporter of the world’s only Jewish state, Israel, Bryan Leib has enjoyed relationships and friendships with Arabs in America and throughout the Middle East, especially Saudis and Emiratis, for years that predate the Abraham Accords.

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When President Joe Biden took office in January 2021 he had a prime opportunity to expand the Abraham Accords but unfortunately did not. The Biden administration took great pains not to acknowledge the Abraham Accords in the first year of his presidency, and that has created a chilling effect in the Middle East. Meanwhile, the Biden administration’s decision to reorient America’s foreign policy toward appeasement with the Islamic Republic of Iran while largely ignoring America’s closest allies has been a catastrophic mistake.

As this three-year anniversary approaches, we applaud the courageous leaders Trump assembled to achieve this historic peace in the Middle East. Surely had it been Biden or anyone else, the Nobel Peace Prize Foundation would have already awarded its highest honor for the Abraham Accords. Its failure to reward these historic agreements and Trump with the honor only damages the credibility of the Nobel Foundation. Peace shouldn’t be political, especially in a world where it’s hard to come by.

Looking forward, we both agree that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is most likely the next Arab-majority country to officially make a peace or normalization agreement with Israel, but the chances the inept Biden administration will be the broker are slim. The leaders and people of Israel and Saudi Arabia may have to wait for Trump to get back into the White House to broker their peace agreement.

Or perhaps it will happen naturally sooner than we think. A plane carrying Israelis home from the Seychelles was forced to make an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia before flying back to Tel Aviv on Aug. 29. As ABC News reported, “The passengers told the Associated Press their experience in Jeddah was pleasant, with some Saudis even greeting them in Hebrew.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took to social media to express his “deep appreciation” to the Saudi government for its treatment of Israelis. In a sign of respect, Netanyahu sent out the post in Arabic.

In many ways, our America First agenda can be achieved through leading on the world stage with strong diplomacy and supporting our like-minded allies throughout the world. America First doesn’t mean America alone, and the Abraham Accords is just one example that proves it.

https://thefederalist.com/2023/09/05/three-years-later-trump-deserves-a-nobel-peace-prize-for-the-abraham-accords/

‘I Wonder What Obama Knew About his VP’s Corrupt Business Schemes?’

Biden’s scandals now engulfing ex-president

There are multiple scandals about millions of dollars of foreign interest money being paid to members of the Biden family, a list that appears to be growing every day.

Those are linked to Joe Biden’s official actions such as his demand that Ukrainian officials fire a prosecutor investigating corruption at Burisma, which was paying first son Hunter Biden a million dollars a year.

And many more.

Now the questions are engulfing former President Barack Obama, according to a report at Just the News.

“I think that one question I have is, I wonder what President Obama knew about his vice president’s corrupt business schemes with his son,” Rep. James Comer, the chief of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, told the publication.

Added former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, “None of this could have happened without his active knowledge. It’s just not possible. So what you have is Obama weaponizing the Justice Department, breaking down the rule of law, establishing a defense for any left winger who wants to be corrupt, and at the same time, using the government to launch attacks on Donald Trump, because they’re so frightened of him.”

Gingrich’s comments came during an interview on the John Solomon Reports podcast.

He continued, “And I think it’s the totality of this, which is going to have to be investigated. And it’s vastly more we’re going to discover that there’s an entire system of corruption, lawlessness, and weaponization that is far beyond Joe Biden.”

In fact, it was during Obama’s White House tenure that the weaponization of the federal government became obvious, with the IRS attacks on conservatives and Christians.

Solomon’s report pointed out the irony of claims from Obama’s aide, Valerie Jarrett, late in his presidency. That was that “The president prides himself on the fact that his administration hasn’t had a scandal and he hasn’t done something to embarrass himself.”

She, of course, later went to work for Biden, with his “jaw-dropping pattern of secret emails with fake account names, [who] weaponized the U.S. Department of Justice against political foes, and [was entangled] with tens of millions of dollars in foreign money and other ethical conflicts.”

Issue on point regarding Biden: “When elected vice president, earned roughly $230,000 a year. By the time he left the Blair House, Forbes and others estimated his current net worth as $9 million.”

Biden’s scandals as president include revelations that his family took in tens of millions of dollars from foreign interests, there is an FBI report on a trusted confidential source’s report of $5 million bribes to Joe and Hunter Biden, how Joe Biden often would join his son’s business meetings by telephone and more.

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Comer told “Just the News, No Noise” that it was toward the end of Biden’s vice presidency, during which he’d “really had no role,” that he “suddenly wanted to be a foreign policy expert in all the corrupt countries around the world.”

It was because he and his family were in it for the profits, and he “was using his son Hunter, as the front man for that,” the report said.

Obama’s own most famous scandals included that IRS campaign to target conservatives and Christians, the infamous “Fast & Furious” gun-running operations that supplied weapons to Mexican drug cartels and the horrible loss of American lives in Benghazi in 2012.

Just the News listed the most troubling issues as members of Congress consider an impeachment inquiry into Biden.

“Last week, a Freedom of Information Act filed by Just the News and the Southeastern Legal Foundation revealed the National Archive has 5,400 emails under three Joe Biden pseudonym accounts, the first concrete evidence the current president used private email for government business. The Archives is refusing to release the emails, prompting a further lawsuit,” the report said.

Some of those emails provided to Hunter Biden sensitive government information.

Secondly, there is Biden’s “weaponization” of law enforcement that dates back as least as far as then-CIA chief John Brennan briefing Obama on Hillary Clinton’s scheme for the 2016 election to try to link Donald Trump to Russia.

“Special Counsel John Durham concluded in a report that the allegations were ‘hogwash’ with no merit and yet the government knew they were unfounded and kept investigating for years,” Just the News reported.

Also, the fact that “Hunter Biden, his uncle and associates solicited business fees from foreign interests specifically for profit, including from Russia, Romania, Ukraine and China, as his father oversaw policy in those countries as Obama’s vice president,” the report explained.

The report charged, “It becomes clearer every day that documents may show that there was a virus of corruption in the White House long before President Biden took office.”

Copyright 2023 WND News Center

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/i-wonder-what-obama-knew-about-his-vps/

IT BEGINS: Vaccinated And Boosted Whoopi Goldberg Absent from ‘The View’ Due to COVID-19 For the Third Time

In the latest push for the liberal COVID narrative, “The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg is absent from the show due to her third bout of COVID-19. This comes just one day after the White House announced that First Lady Jill Biden also tested positive for the virus. Both are fully vaccinated and boosted, yet here we are.

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Goldberg’s case comes after Jill Biden, who is double-vaxxed and twice boosted, tested positive while vacationing in Delaware. Despite President Biden testing negative, the narrative of a looming COVID crisis is being revived. And conveniently, this happens as rumors swirl of a return to full lockdowns and masking mandates—first at airports, and then likely everywhere else.

Whistleblowers have reportedly stated that the Biden Administration is gearing up for another series of lockdowns and mask mandates. Infowars reported that TSA and airport employees could be masked as early as mid-September, with mandates extending to pilots, flight staff, passengers, and all airport patrons by mid-October.

It’s becoming increasingly difficult not to see the pattern. The Democrats seem to be setting the stage for justifying mail-in ballots for the 2024 presidential election. After all, if the COVID-19 narrative continues to be inflated, what better way to control the electoral process than through mail-in ballots.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/it-begins-vaccinated-boosted-whoopi-goldberg-absent-view/

==FBI Created 3,200 J6 “Playing Cards” to Identify and Surveil Americans who Attended J6 Protests – They Are Using SAME SYSTEM to Target Trump Supporters that They Used to Target America’s Enemies and Saddam’s Henchmen in Iraq War (VIDEO)

During the 2003 invasion of Iraq by the United States-led coalition, the United States Department of Defense released a set of playing cards with the names and faces of the most-wanted Iraqi members of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s government, including high-ranking members of his Baath Party and family members including his two sons.

The US Department of Defense used these playing cards to identify and capture America’s enemies, the dangerous members of Saddam Hussein’s inner circle.

This was a clever way the DOD thought up to target, capture or kill America’s enemies.

Fast forward to today…

J6 defendant Eric Clark in a recent interview with Mel Hawley.

In May 2021, the FBI arrested Eric Douglas Clark, a Marine veteran from Louisville, Kentucky. The FBI spent tens of thousands of dollars in resources to track down, spy on, surveil, and arrest Eric for the crime of walking inside the US Capitol on January 6th and peacefully leaving the US Capitol minutes later. Eric told The Gateway Pundit he saw no violence that day the entire time he was inside the US Capitol.

** Please help J6er Eric Clark, an innocent man, as he continues to battle the Biden regime and their baseless charges against him.

During our discussion, Eric Clark dropped a bomb that left us stunned.

Eric Clark, who has had access to the original 14,000 hours of government footage from January 6, told us about the clandestine system the government is using to identify the Americans who innocently walked into the US Capitol on January 6th — Government playing cards!

Representation of FBI’s 3200 ‘playing cards’ they used to target Saddam’s henchmen in Iraq War.

According to Eric, the FBI has created approximately 3,200 “playing cards” to identify and target the enemies of the regime.

Eric Clark: The FBI, they have this facial recognition software. It’s called baseball. So when they spit in their photos, their video, and they set their parameters, it spits out what’s called “baseball cards.”

So I’m in this database, and I’m looking through these baseball cards, and there’s about 3,200 people in there. And among those 3200 people are all the people we know that have so far been arrested.

Jim Hoft: Wow! So they have 3200 baseball cards that they spit out?

Eric Clark: Approximately, 3200 baseball cards. I didn’t count them. But going by the number of pages and number of cards on each page, I think it’s fair to say approximately 3200.

Jim Hoft: Wow. That is unbelievable. Yeah. And each one is an individual. It’s a specific individual.

Eric Clark: You click on that card and it gives you sort of their statistics, so to say. Like, maybe some clips of footage that they plan on using, maybe the special agents investigating surveillance schedule even. Like the days and times that they plan on surveilling these people. And all this, which I wouldn’t discuss, but it is all there. And also sort of to this main file was all their requests for funding the FBI

Jim Hoft: That’s really big, Eric. I hadn’t heard. Okay. But these cards, it’s reminiscent of the Iraq playing cards that the FBI created during the Iraq War, and those were, of course, the enemies of America at the time, and they put out all these playing cards. So now you’re saying that it appears that now they have the same sort of a system for patriotic Americans that they’re after and will be arresting. Very, very concerning… The government has labeled protesters who went through open doors and were welcomed by police as enemies of the state. So I think Americans need to wake up to that because they’re now labeling fellow Americans as enemies of this government, and we have Republicans and Democrats both giving them funding to do very, very concerning, Eric. It’s outrageous, actually.

The US government is labeling ordinary Americans as enemies of the state!

Please Note: We already know the FBI-DOJ will deny they are using “baseball cards” to identify Americans from January 6. We will not play semantics and word games with these people. The truth is the truth.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/shocking-exclusive-fbi-is-using-j6-playing-cards/

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“TRUMP EXPANDS LEAD OVER GOP RIVALS”

“Right now you’re seeing a Donald Trump dominated race, and Donald Trump’s getting stronger.”

Sep 05, 2023, 3:06 PM

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Why Trump Is Great for Democracy

The 45th president gets people out to vote, driving turnout for Republicans and Democrats alike.

Pauline Kael knew she wasn’t a representative American.

The onetime New Yorker film critic is famous in folk memory for having said she didn’t know anyone who voted for Richard Nixon in 1972, when he won a 49-state landslide.

The way her words are misremembered, she was surprised that someone so reviled by her social set could win the White House.

In fact, she wasn’t surprised: Kael told the Modern Language Association in a December 28 speech that year, “I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they (i.e., Nixon voters) are I don’t know. They’re outside my ken.”

Kael’s example is worth keeping in mind when thinking about next year’s election.

President Trump shocked Democrats — and elite Republicans — in 2016 because they didn’t know any Trump voters; or, if they did, they never suspected there could be so many of them.

Trump voters felt the same way about turnout for President Biden in 2020: Where could all these people, 81 million of them, have come from?

Democrats underestimate support for Mr. Trump in the sorts of places that most Democrats never think about, rural and post-industrial America.

Republicans similarly underestimate the magnitude of opposition to Mr. Trump in places that don’t elect Republicans: the GOP knows cities are blue, but it doesn’t appreciate just how blue they can be if the right (or wrong) candidate is on the ballot.

President Obama drew blue-city voters out in droves because they loved him.

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Urban voters came out in even greater numbers against Mr. Trump in 2020.

Yet if Republicans were amazed by the scale of the anti-Trump vote, Democrats were astonished by how well House and Senate Republicans performed anyway. Why weren’t they drowned by the tide that flooded Mr. Trump?

Republicans gained seats in the House of Representatives and kept their losses in the Senate below what pollsters predicted.

The difference between expectation and reality was down to Mr. Trump: the man is great for democracy, in the simple sense of getting people out to vote. He drives turnout for Republicans and Democrats alike.

That explains the mixed verdict of the 2020 election and the weak GOP showing in last year’s midterms.

Without Mr. Trump on the ballot in ’22, many of his voters simply stayed home, so the GOP struggled to win back the House and lost seats in the Senate.

With Mr. Trump on the ballot in 2020, Republicans outside of urban areas flocked to the polls, lifting the House GOP.

Unfortunately, Mr. Trump maximized urban Democratic turnout as well, which was fatal to him in purplish-red states like Arizona and Georgia.

Maximize the urban vote in Phoenix and Atlanta and those states are lost to the GOP.

The same is true for Pennsylvania when Philadelphia votes in force. Wisconsin’s story was slightly different: Milwaukee’s urban turnout dropped in 2020, but Democrats made up the difference with huge margins in Madison — home to liberal students and state government employees.

House Republicans looking to 2024 are comfortable with Mr. Trump because few of them represent districts that will flip if the urban vote explodes.

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House Republicans looking to 2024 are comfortable with Mr. Trump because few of them represent districts that will flip if the urban vote explodes.

Instead, they reap every benefit from Mr. Trump’s capacity to turn out the GOP base.

Senate Republicans are more nervous, and Republicans with an eye on gubernatorial and other state contests are even more worried, because in most competitive states, a sudden surge in the cities can tip the election.

That applies to the Electoral College, too.

Mr. Trump’s head-to-head national numbers against Mr. Biden look fine. Yet if voting against Mr. Trump gives urban Democrats a stronger reason to go to the polls than voting for Mr. Biden, states like Arizona and Georgia will again be in jeopardy.

Republican strategists would prefer to make the election about Mr. Biden, not Mr. Trump, and to keep turnout low.

They’re optimistic that just the prospect of throwing Mr. Biden out of office will deliver the GOP all the turnout it needs — and Democrats won’t be equally eager to show up to keep an aged and uncharismatic incumbent in office.

The only flaw in the plan is the Republican base, which adores Mr. Trump and appears determined to nominate him.

In truth, it’s never safe to build a strategy on the assumption that voters won’t vote.

Whatever happens next year, the rural-urban divide will continue to bedevil both parties, each fearful that the voters it doesn’t know will show up in unexpected numbers.

The GOP’s problem, though, is that the cities are growing while rural and post-industrial America is withering.

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The party can’t ditch the base Mr. Trump has cultivated — but it can’t win with those voters alone.

Mr. Trump reconnected Republicans to Americans the Democrats had written off. Soon some GOP leader will have to reconnect the party with voters who don’t know any Republicans.

https://www.nysun.com/article/why-trump-is-great-for-democracy

Trump’s Momentum Toward 2024 Is a Case of the Office Seeking the Man

It’s getting difficult to see anyone breaking his lock on the Republican nomination.

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https://www.nysun.com/article/in-a-2024-run-trump-has-the-constitution-on-his-side

In a 2024 Run, Trump Has the Constitution on His Side

The raid on Trump’s home foreshadows a clash between not only prosecutors and the 45th president but the Constitution and federal law.

The FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago is shrouded in secrecy, but a possible outcome that could upend the landscape of American politics has come into view: If President Trump is found guilty of criminally mishandling documents, he could face disqualification from office.

The raid on Mr. Trump’s home and the possible prosecution of the man himself has foreshadowed a clash not only between prosecutors and the 45th president but also one between the Constitution and federal law over who holds the power to set qualifications for becoming president.

That was raised on Twitter by a prominent Democrat, lawyer Marc Elias, who pointed to 18 U.S. Code § 2071, which mandates that anyone who “willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys” protected documents “shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States.”

Mr. Elias would go on to “recognize the legal challenge that application of this law to a president would garner (since qualifications are set in Constitution). But the idea that a candidate would have to litigate this is during a campaign is in my view a ‘blockbuster in American politics.’”

While cautioning that we do not yet know if the statute above is in fact the one underwriting the warrant, a law professor, Joshua Blackman, tells the Sun that he reads it as referring to “bureaucrats” or other “appointed officials,” not elected officials, whose qualifications are rooted in the Constitution.

If the case were pressed against Mr. Trump, that litigation would turn on whether the qualifications laid out in Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 of the Constitution — that the president must be a natural-born citizen of the United States, be at least 35 years old, and have been a resident of the United States for 14 years — can be augmented by lawmakers.

This is not the first time in recent memory that a link has been drawn between the disposition of records and eligibility to move into the Oval Office. In 2016, a one-time judge and attorney general, Michael Mukasey, mused that Hillary Clinton, then in the throes of controversy over the use of a private server during her time as secretary of state, might be barred if convicted.

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Charges were never brought against Mrs. Clinton, though she claims the kerfuffle cost her the presidency. Mr. Mukasey eventually retracted his argument, admitting: “The disqualification provision in Section 2071 may be a measure of how seriously Congress took the violation in question, and how seriously we should take it, but that’s all it is.”

What persuaded Mr. Mukasey, and a whole host of other right-leaning commentators, that Mrs. Clinton was safe from disqualification in the event of conviction was nothing less than Supreme Court precedent. While the high court has not touched on the qualification question in respect of the chief executive, it has done so with regard to Congress.

The turbulent year of 1969 saw the handing down of Powell v. McCormack, which concerned the picaresque representative from Harlem, Adam Clayton Powell. Powell was held in contempt by a New York judge, even as he was re-elected to Congress in 1966. The House voted to expel him, and Powell countered by arguing that he fulfilled the constitutional age, citizenship, and residence requirements, and thus should retain his seat.

By a 7-to-1 margin, a majority opinion authored by Chief Justice Warren agreed and concluded that “since Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., was duly elected by the voters of the 18th Congressional District of New York and was not ineligible to serve under any provision of the Constitution, the House was without power to exclude him from its membership.”

A 1995 case, U.S. Term Limits Inc. v. Thornton, concerned an amendment adopted by Arkansas voters that sought to set term limits of three terms for Arkansan representatives and two terms for senators. The national parchment itself provides for no limits for Article I tribunes, and so the question presented was whether they might be added.

In a 5-to-4 decision written by Justice John Paul Stevens, the court held that they could not and that “allowing individual States to craft their own congressional qualifications would erode the structure designed by the Framers to form a ‘more perfect Union.’” The qualifications, in the court’s language, are “fixed.”

By holding that Article I, § 2, cl. 2 is the exclusive source of qualifications for representatives and Article I, § 3, cl. 3 the remit for senators, the Nine explained: “If the qualifications set forth in the text of the Constitution are to be changed, that text must be amended.”

That is precisely what happened in 1868, when the 14th Amendment was adopted in the wake of the Civil War. Section 3 of that amendment bars those officeholders who have “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same [United States], or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof” from returning to office.

Separate from the investigation into his handling of classified materials, Mr. Trump has also faced a disqualification push on these grounds, with one group, Free Speech for People, sending a letter to all 50 secretaries of state urging them to bar him from the ballot.

https://www.nysun.com/article/in-a-2024-run-trump-has-the-constitution-on-his-side

–ANOTHER RESIGNATION FOR THE RECORD==

Philadelphia's police commissioner Danielle Outlaw, to resign, mayor confirms

Philadelphia's first black female police commissioner, Danielle Outlaw, will leave her post in late September.

Outlaw assumed the post in February 2020 and will depart on Sept. 22 to assume a position with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Fox News reported.

"Commissioner Outlaw has worked relentlessly for three and a half years during an unprecedented era in our city and a number of crisis situations, and she deserves praise for her commitment to bring long-overdue reform to the Department after years of racism and gender discrimination prior to her appointment," Mayor Jim Kenney announced. "We wish her success in her new position and thank Commissioner Outlaw for her dedication to serve the residents of Philadelphia."

Kenney went on to tout Outlaw's record gun seizures and point to a decline in certain violent crimes during her tenure. Fox highlighted that while homicides are down 21% from the same period in 2021, the city has still seen higher homicide figures than in the years prior to her time in office.

First Deputy Commission John Stanford will fill the role of interim police commissioner.

https://justthenews.com/nation/crime/philadelphias-police-commissioner-resign-mayor-confirms

Philadelphia police commissioner resigns amid crime wave

Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw will leave her position on Sept. 22, Philadelphia's mayor says

https://www.foxnews.com/us/philadelphia-police-commissioner-resigns-crime-wave

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Danielle M. Outlaw - Police Commissioner

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Biden's Fake Names And Companies Are Quite Disturbing: Rep Jason Smith

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Biden's Fake Names And Companies Are Quite Disturbing: Rep Jason Smith

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Jack Smith suffers court setback over access to Rep. Scott Perry's phone

Special counsel Jack Smith was partially impeded by a federal appeals court over his bid to access seized cellphone data from Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) as part of the investigation into Donald Trump and interference in the 2020 election.

A three-judge panel on the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Columbia overruled part of a lower court's decision that would have given Smith's team of prosecutors access to much of the data sought on Perry's phone, according to multiple outlets. The ruling remained under seal as of Tuesday afternoon.

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The judges on the panel included Neomi Rao, a Trump appointee, who wrote the main opinion. Rao was joined by Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson, who was nominated by President George H.W. Bush, and Judge Greg Katsas, who is also a Trump appointee.

Howell initially wrote that Perry's efforts to investigate alleged election fraud in the 2020 election, which included communications with the executive branch, deemed those contacts unprotected by speech or debate immunity.

FBI agents seized the cellphone last August while Perry was on vacation with his family. He accused the DOJ at the time of launching a partisan effort against him, noting the timing of the raid on Trump's home that took place just days before. The phone seizure took place months before Attorney General Merrick Garland's Nov. 18 appointment of Smith to oversee the Trump investigation, which eventually landed four charges against the former president after a grand jury handed up a four-count indictment on Aug. 2.

Perry filed a civil complaint against the DOJ, seeking to prevent the agency from searching his phone but dropped the lawsuit in October.

Smith's team can attempt to appeal Tuesday's order to the Supreme Court. The three-judge panel gave the parties a week to indicate whether they believe any portions of the ruling need to remain under seal.

Perry was supported in an amicus brief filed by House Republicans that remains under seal as well.

The Washington Examiner contacted an attorney for Perry and the special counsel's office.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/jack-smith-suffers-setback-scott-perry-phone

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Letitia James asks for legal sanctions against Trump in $250 million lawsuit

New York Attorney General Letitia James requested legal sanctions against former President Donald Trump and the co-defendants who are tied to a $250 million lawsuit against Trump's organization.

James asked a judge for the sanctions, which amount to $20,000, in court documents Tuesday. She claimed the former president has made the same legal argument five times, despite the argument being rejected by the courts three times and being referred to as "frivolous." The two that have not been denied have not been ruled on yet because they were filed last month.

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James is seeking $250 million in damages for the case overall, but Trump's attorneys vehemently denied the charges or any wrongdoing on the former president's part. Trump's two oldest sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, are also named in the sanction request with other prominent players in the family's company.

Despite a couple of attempts to dismiss the case, a trial on the civil case will begin on Oct. 2.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/letitia-james-new-legal-sanctions-trump

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