Russ Vought: "We Have To Unite The Fiscal Battle With The Battle To Save The Country"Vought is a brilliant and brave man, he was head of the Office of Management and Budget for Trump in his first term.
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House backs Bannon in contempt of Congress appealBrief seeks to resurrect argument that Jan. 6 panel subpoenas were invalid
By Michael Macagnone Posted July 22, 2024 at 4:20pm
The House filed a brief Monday in the appeal of Trump ally Steve Bannon that seeks toresurrect legal arguments that the House select panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol could not issue subpoenas because it was illegitimate.
The chamber’s filing at the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit takes the position of House Republican leaders toargue the panel broke the chamber’s rules when it was set up.
Bannon is currently serving a four-month sentence as he appeals his convictions on two counts of contempt of Congress, filed after he ignored a subpoena from the Jan. 6 committee seeking documents and his testimony about events leading up to the attack.
Although the brief said the House did not take a position on Bannon’s other arguments, it sought to revive legal arguments about the panel’s legitimacy that multiple courts have rejected.
Monday’s brief made two arguments: that the committee should have had 13 members, including five from the Republican minority; and that it should have had a ranking minority member, rather than a vice chair.
To issue lawful subpoenas— a requirement to find Bannon in contempt of Congress — the committee had to be set up with those features, the House argued. “In this House’s view, none of these things happened,” the brief said.
Last month, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, Majority Leader Steve Scalise and Majority Whip Tom Emmer said they had voted together to weigh in on Bannon’s behalf over the objection of Democratic leaders.
District Judge Carl Nichols of the District of Columbia rejected similar arguments from Bannonas part of the pretrial process. Numerous courts have upheld the committee’s composition, including the D.C. Circuit itself, following a suit by former President Donald Trump seeking to keep the House from gaining access to his presidential records.
Now-Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson joined a unanimous three-judge panel that found the committee was properly constitutedand that Trump had no legal ability to keep the Biden administration from handing over records. (They can’t decide what the rules our in the House for the Committee, it’s the House’s rules.)
Bannon was convicted on two counts of contempt of Congress in 2022 and has fought the conviction since, arguing that he relied on his attorney’s advice that executive privilege prevented him from cooperating with the subpoena.
In May, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit found that there was no executive privilege involved in the subpoena and that Bannon had a duty to at least respond rather than ignoring it. Bannon has since appealed that ruling to the full D.C. Circuit, leading to the House weighing in on Monday.
The only other witness prosecuted for contempt of Congress in the Jan. 6 select panel’s investigation, former trade advisor Peter Navarro, recently finished his four-month sentence. Navarro also has a pending appeal of his conviction, on different legal arguments.
House Republicans have for years criticized the panel, including a resolution last month from Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., that would purport to rescind the subpoenas issued by the panel to Bannon and other recalcitrant witnesses who refused to cooperate.
https://rollcall.com/2024/07/22/house-backs-bannon-in-contempt-of-congress-appeal/
(This guys knew these problems when the stupid J6 report came out, they could have nullified the Committee immediately when they took the House, they didn't even though they knew Navarro and Bannon were in jeopardy of going to jail. They waited, and now they are acting like heroes, it's disgusting. Better let than never if it works. Knowing them they probably screwed up the filing so it will be overruled again. None of them like Bannon, and probably hate him, so they are just trying to get Bannon's war room to vote for them when they need it. Dream on, not going to happen)
Groups call for Georgia to ditch voting machines before November election11 Alive News.
YES, remember that BS article that Raffensberger and some local in S. GA said, people are not complaining about voting machines much, well that was bullshit they made up
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The people are pushing for paper ballots. The idiots that love the voting machine, have no idea what is going on. They just like the short time it takes, it doesn't take longer to fill out a ballot and is probably faster.
'These Are Your Words—Not Mine…': John Kennedy Confronts Witness With Her Pas Tweets. Hearing is about “birth behind bars”
This is funny this doctor is trying to dodge all direct answering Sen. Kennedy’s questions on her twitter. He reads her tweet about “Kavanaugh’s shit show” and trying to get girls and women out of prison. What’s funny is he just keeps on asking her questions.I don't know why these people don't understand Sen. Kennedy always has the receipts, they might as well apologize in advance.
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Below highlighted in red is whyI don’t understand why Hunter Biden has received SS protection for more than 8 years, he is not under 16, and he had SS protection long after Bidan left office as VP. Can anyone answer this for me, why is our government given and paying for Hunter's unlimited SS protection?
18 U.S. Code § 3056 - Powers, authorities, and duties of United States Secret Service
(a)Under the direction of the Secretary of Homeland Security, the United States Secret Service is authorized to protect the following persons:
(1) The President, the Vice President (or other officer next in the order of succession to the Office of President), the President-elect, and the Vice President-elect.
(2) The immediate families of those individuals listed in paragraph (1).
(3) Former Presidents and their spouses for their lifetimes, except that protection of a spouse shall terminate in the event of remarriage.
(4) Children of a former President who are under 16 years of age.
(5) Visiting heads of foreign states or foreign governments.
(6) Other distinguished foreign visitors to the United States and official representatives of the United States performing special missions abroad when the President directs that such protection be provided.
(7) Major Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates and, within 120 days of the general Presidential election, the spouses of such candidates. As used in this paragraph, the term “major Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates” means those individuals identified as such by the Secretary of Homeland Security after consultation with an advisory committee consisting of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the minority leader of the House of Representatives, the majority and minority leaders of the Senate, and one additional member selected by the other members of the committee. The Committee shall not be subject to chapter 10 of title 5.
(8)Former Vice Presidents, their spouses, and their children who are under 16 years of age, for a period of not more than six months after the date the former Vice President leaves office. The Secretary of Homeland Security shall have the authority to direct the Secret Service to provide temporary protection for any of these individuals at any time thereafter if the Secretary of Homeland Security or designee determines that information or conditions warrant such protection.
The protection authorized in paragraphs (2) through (8) may be declined.
(b)Under the direction of the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Secret Service is authorized to detect and arrest any person who violates—
(1) section 508, 509, 510, 871, or 879 of this title or, with respect to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Federal land banks, and Federal land bank associations, section 213, 216,[1] 433, 493, 657, 709, 1006, 1007, 1011, 1013, 1014, 1907, or 1909 of this title;
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/3056