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Trump LOSES his bid for a new trial or a judgment overturning the more than $80 million verdict for E. Jean Carroll in the second trial.
Ruling https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.543790/gov.uscourts.nysd.543790.338.0.pdf
11:09 AM · Apr 25, 2024
Updated farm bill to limit SNAP benefits amid ballooning costs
https://spectrumnews1.com/oh/columbus/news/2024/04/24/farm-bill-snap-ohio
WASHINGTON, D.C. — One year late, lawmakers on Capitol Hill are planning to release the text of an updated farm bill by the end of May.
What You Need To Know
House Republicans want to cut down the farm bill's ballooning price tag by cutting $30 billion worth of nutrition program funding over 10 years
The farm bill is usually renewed every five years, but was not updated last year amid partisan disagreement
Farmers want updated safety net measures as they face higher risks due to extreme weather, inflation
The Farm Bill is a sweeping package of legislation to set policy and funding levels for farm, food and conservation programs. Historically it has been a bipartisan affair, but in the last year Democrats and Republicans have clashed, particularly over the farm bill’s price tag.
The farm bill is usually renewed every five years and was up for reauthorization in September 2023. However, as lawmakers disagreed over funding and were preoccupied with avoiding a government shutdown and passing a foreign aid package through the fall, they instead extended the old farm bill another year.
Only about 20% of the farm bill goes to farm programs; the other 80% goes to nutrition programs, including food stamps.
If the farm bill’s current calculation for nutrition programs stays in place, the Congressional Budget Office projects the next farm bill will cost $1.51 trillion over 10 years. The previous farm was estimated to cost $867 billion over 10 years.
House Republicans on the Agriculture Committee recently revealed a plan to bring down that price tag by cutting $30 billion worth of nutrition program funding over 10 years.
The cuts would happen by updating the cost of the Thrifty Food Plan (TFP), the basis for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, based on current food prices, consumption patterns and dietary guidance for a family of four.
In all previous farm bills, the TFP and thus food benefits were determined following that “cost-neutral” benefit calculation.
In 2021 President Joe Biden used his executive power to increase SNAP benefits by $256 billion over 10 years to support families amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The change allowed benefits to increase in the future by whatever amount Congress approves each year, rather than on the cost-neutral calculation.
Ohio food banks, however, said any cuts to nutrition programs could hurt families already struggling. Kam McKenzie, the SNAP outreach manager at Freestore Foodbank in Cincinnati, said people who relied on the additional SNAP benefits offered during the pandemic were already receiving fewer benefits.
“Even though they’re trying to do a formula to do the increase with inflation, it still will be way below to actually meet the needs of the individuals,” McKenzie said.
The proposed cuts would also affect food banks themselves, which also assist people who don’t qualify for food stamps.
Visits to the Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank were 30% higher in the first three months this year than the same time last year, according to vice president Katie Carver Reed. Many of those visitors do not qualify for food stamps, she said.
“We are seeing visits for our network higher than they were during the pandemic without that same level of support,” she said. “We wouldn’t advocate for any changes to SNAP as it stands now, but also there is a large population who don’t receive that benefit who still need support as well.”
Lawmakers are also working to address the farm bill’s provisions for farmers, such as additional safety net measures due to challenges that have developed since the last bill passed in 2018.
“The pandemic for one, inflation, rising supply costs, frequent extreme weather events, global events: these are all things that are beyond the farmers’ control,” said Ty Higgins, the Ohio Farm Bureau’s senior director of communications and media relations. “So risk management is a huge aspect of the farm bill for us.”
Extreme weather events like droughts have contributed to rising crop insurance costs, which the Congressional Budget Office predicts will go up 29% in the next decade.
Meanwhile, the Department of Agriculture predicts crop prices to decline overall through 2027.
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Safety net measures include subsidies for crop yield and natural disaster insurance, as well as commodity support programs to maintain a price floor for certain crops.
Other updates include a measure introduced by House Agriculture Committee member Max Miller, R-Ohio. The Farm to Fly Act would allow agriculture-based fuels such as ethanol to be used in aviation in order to reduce carbon emissions.
“We’re going to help our farmers turn corn, wheat, sorghum, soybean into ethanol and jet fuel and renewable energy subsidies, which is going to lower the cost of flights and travel for the American people writ large,” Miller said.
Lawmakers have until October to pass a new farm bill.
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https://sg.news.yahoo.com/trump-tells-scotus-even-military-145343866.html
Trump Lawyer Tells SCOTUS That Even A Military Coup Order Would Be Immune From Prosecution
WASHINGTON — A presidential order to the military to conduct a coup to keep him in office “might well be an official act,” Donald Trump’s lawyer told the Supreme Court Thursday on the question of whether Trump’s attempted coup is immune from prosecution.
The extraordinary exchange was among several in lengthy oral arguments before the justices, who will now decide whether the former president will stand trial on federal charges based on his actions leading up to the violent assault on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Trump has been claiming that all his actions as president were “official acts” and therefore immune from prosecution entirely. While justices seemed skeptical of that assertion, most expressed concern that former presidents could be prosecuted in bad faith and for political reasons in the years to come.
“Reliance on the good faith of the prosecutor may not be enough,” Chief Justice John Roberts told Department of Justice lawyer Michael Dreeben.
“I take that concern,” added Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. “I think it’s a real thing.”
How justices decide to protect future presidents from prosecutions based on their legitimate official actions could decide whether Trump faces a trial at all before the November election on the Jan. 6 indictment. If the court orders trial judge Tanya Chutkan to hold an evidentiary hearing to weed out the “official” components of Trump’s actions versus the ones for his private or political gain, that hearing and potential appeals of her ruling could consume many more months.
And if Trump wins back the White House, he could order prosecutors to drop all unresolved federal charges against him.
While Dreeben did not refer to the coming election at all, he repeated his boss special counsel Jack Smith’s request that the case be sent back to Chutkan with instructions that concerns about not punishing “official” acts be dealt with in jury instructions, rather than a separate hearing.
“We would like to present that as an integrated picture to the jury so that it sees the sequence and the gravity of the conduct and why each step occurred,” Dreeben said.
Trump’s lawyer, John Sauer, meanwhile came in for even more pointed questioning from most of the justices, but none more on point than Elena Kagan’s question about 40 minutes in.
“How about if the president orders the military to stage a coup?” Kagan asked.
“That might well be an official act,” Sauer answered.
Sauer also claimed that a presidential assassination of a political rival as well as the sale of nuclear secrets to a foreign power could also be defended as official acts immune from prosecution.
Trump was not at the Supreme Court during the oral arguments Thursday but rather was in a different courtroom, in lower Manhattan, in the early phase of an unrelated criminal trial.
He has made it clear, though, that he is keenly aware of the import of the high court’s coming decision. On Monday, he posted an all-capital-letters screed demanding that all actions taken by a sitting president be given “complete & total” immunity, even those that “cross the line.” He ended with: “God bless the Supreme Court.”
Thursday morning, just minutes before he was due in the New York City courtroom, he posted three more times about the immunity case: “WITHOUT PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY, IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR A PRESIDENT TO PROPERLY FUNCTION, PUTTING THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN GREAT AND EVERLASTING DANGER!”
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Trump has previously stated that he hoped the three justices he nominated ― Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett ― would be loyal to him and has subsequently complained that they and the others selected by Republican presidents have treated him unfairly in an attempt to appear nonpartisan.
On Thursday, Barrett was among those grilling Sauer about whether Trump’s various actions to overturn his election loss were “official” and therefore immune.
“I want to know if you agree or disagree about the characterization of these acts as private: petitioner turned to a private attorney who was willing to spread knowingly false claims of election fraud to spearhead his challenges to the election results. Private?” she asked Sauer.
Sauer conceded that that activity was not private, although he then claimed that Trump calling Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel to tell her to come up with fake elector slates was indeed an official act.
Trump’s lawyers have tried the same immunity arguments twice, before Chutkan and a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. In both courts, the judges sided with prosecutors who argued that a former president should have no more immunity from prosecution than anyone else and that, specifically in this case, Trump’s actions to overturn an election were an attack on the foundations of the republic.
The U.S. Supreme Court will weigh whether former President Donald Trump can be prosecuted for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, including charges that he incited his followers to storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, while Congress met to certify the electoral vote.
The U.S. Supreme Court will weigh whether former President Donald Trump can be prosecuted for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, including charges that he incited his followers to storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, while Congress met to certify the electoral vote. John Minchillo/Associated Press
With Trump running for his old job, the timing of the high court’s decision may be as important as its substance.
A relatively quick ruling simply affirming the appeals court decision that Trump’s actions leading up to and on Jan. 6 are not immune from prosecution could allow Chutkan to begin a trial by late summer, which would likely produce a verdict by Election Day on Nov. 5.
But a “remand” to Chutkan with instructions to hold an evidentiary hearing on the question of “official” acts, while it would bring forth testimony from former Trump White House officials damaging to Trump, could mean that a trial may not conclude by Nov. 5, particularly if the Supreme Court does not issue a ruling until the close of its term at the end of June.
Trump faces four felony counts in the Jan. 6 indictment: conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstructing an official proceeding and conspiracy to deprive millions of Americans of the right to have their votes counted. If convicted, he could face decades in prison.
Should Trump regain the presidency, however, he would control the Department of Justice, and could order the dismissal of both that indictment as well as a South Florida federal prosecution based on his refusal to return secret documents he took to his Palm Beach country club upon leaving the White House.
Trump is facing a separate Jan. 6-related state-level prosecution in Georgia for trying to overturn his election loss there. A trial on those racketeering and conspiracy charges could take place later this year.
And in New York City, Trump is currently on trial on charges that he falsified business records to hide $130,000 in hush money payments to a porn star in the days before the 2016 election. Trump has said nothing he did in the scheme to bury her story was illegal.
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Lawless Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs Vetoes Bill to Require Proof of Residency for Voting
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/lawless-arizona-governor-katie-hobbs-vetoes-bill-require/
Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs on Tuesday vetoed legislation that would define residency in Arizona and require proof of residency, such as a home rental agreement or ownership, to vote in the state’s elections.
Hobbs stole the 2022 election for Governor from Kari Lake, and she is getting ready to rig the 2024 election for Joe Biden.
SB 2581 stipulates that “a resident is an individual who has actual physical presence in the state for at least one hundred eighty-one days with the intent to remain” but provides exceptions for individuals to vote if they provide evidence of employment, residential property, child school enrollment, and active duty military service.
Hobbs’ veto comes as flyers instructing illegal immigrants to vote for Joe Biden in the forthcoming U.S. election have been reportedly distributed at a non-governmental organization (NGO) in Mexico, according to an investigation by The Oversight Project, a watchdog initiative linked to the Heritage Foundation.
Additionally, voters are not required to show proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections on a “federal only” ballot.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Hobbs also vetoed a bill Tuesday that would have allowed Arizona homeowners to remove an unlawful occupant or a “squatter” from their property.
Hobbs has vetoed over 185 bills since taking office last January. This shatters Democrat Janet Napolitano’s record of 181 vetoes during an entire four-year term.
Hobbs vetoed SB 2581, claiming that it "creates additional, unnecessary barriers for individuals registering to vote."
Critics of the bill claim that it would bar out-of-state college students from voting in Arizona's elections as the bill defines "resident" as an individual physical presence in the state for 181 days with the intent to remain.
However, the bill outlines six exceptions, which would allow students and temporary residents to vote.
>worked just fine for millennia without their help
you sure? Genesis/Bereshit, which dates to Sumerian times, explains how Elohim 'MADE man in THEIR image'.
animal behavior
https://twitter.com/accuweather/status/1783520873632207297
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More than 100 long-finned pilot whales were beached on the western Australian coast Thursday.
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10:38 AM · Apr 25, 2024
horses in UK yesterday too…
Military horses are HIGHLY conditioned and disciplined. For them to bug out, something very unfamiliar is perceptible to them.
Since the Federal Reserve Act and the League of Nations/UN. Same president did both, btw. WW
what are they failing at?
did the border close and the millions get removed?
fentanyl stop?
cyber infiltration ended?
politricksters no longer on payroll or blackmailed?
LGBTQTranny promotion ended?
China owned stategic lands in USA confiscated and tenents deported?
Did they stop holding more than HALF of the global grain stores?
etc
If that is failing, their success would be staggering.
Perhaps. But knowing there are now millions of Chinese and Chinese and Chinese-facilitated foreigners here to bring down the USA doesn't stop it from happening. There is no authority or volume of manpower to affect that clear and present danger, other than organized citizen defense IMHO. Which is non existent, as covid, fraudulent, elections and justice system and media, etc have illustrated.
Division, fear, illness, laziness, and lack of interest and lust for life have the US and the world in this position, it appears.
they are already here, not just Chinese, but men from all over the world, on Chinas and US dime, of course.
Who is doing this 'mass deportation'? Exactly. Wake up man.
They have INFILTRATED, no need to INVADE.
Cut power grid or internet, (one essentially would do the other), and supply chain, logistics, LEO, med services, food inventory, water treatment, traffic signaling, ATC, financial transacting, fuel pumping, ship loading and offloading, mil/FEMA response capabilities and pharma supply grinds to a halt. Mix in the distrust and fear programming everyone has been MK'd with via media for 20+ years, and a majority population with VAIDS and some addiction, and you have instant chaos and collapse. Not just China may want this, so too does Iran, North Korea, the WEF, and the UN.
not so much when they succeed though.
>I wouldn't say it
why not. Deception is the enemy of truth and revelation. Secrecy is the same as deception.
All beans to be spilled.