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Ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi collapses in court and dies
Egypt’s ousted President Mohamed Morsi collapsed during a court appearance Monday and died, according to the country’s state TV. Morsi, 67, is on trial for espionage charges. He fainted in court and died, state TV said. His body was transported to a hospital.
Morsi, a member of Islamist group the Muslim Brotherhood, won Egypt’s first free presidential election in 2012, following the ousting of longtime leader Hosni Mubarak a year earlier. Morsi was ousted and arrested by the military in 2013 amid a crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood and its leaders.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ousted-egyptian-president-mohamed-morsi-collapses-in-court-and-dies
Supreme Court declines to overturn exception to double jeopardy clause
The Supreme Court left intact a century-old exception to the Fifth Amendment’s double jeopardy clause that permits a state and the federal government to prosecute a person for the same criminal offense. The court ruled 7-2 Monday in declining to overturn the "separate sovereigns'' doctrine, with Justice Samuel Alito delivering the opinion of the court. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Neil Gorsuch dissented.
The case before the high court involved a challenge to the Supreme Court’s separate sovereigns doctrine, an exception to the Fifth Amendment’s double jeopardy clause, which states no one can be “subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life and limb.” Under the separate sovereigns exception, however, a person can be prosecuted in state and federal courts for the same criminal conduct because the states are separate sovereigns.
The man at the center of the legal challenge is Terance Gamble, who was pulled over for a broken tail light in Mobile, Ala., in 2015. Police smelled marijuana during the traffic stop and, upon searching the vehicle, found the drug, a digital scale, and 9-millimeter handgun, according to court filings. The state of Alabama prosecuted Gamble for possessing the marijuana, and the state and federal government charged him with being a felon in possession of a firearm. Gamble sought to have the federal charge tossed out and argued his Fifth Amendment right had been violated.
The federal district court, however, ruled against Gamble, citing the long-held doctrine allowing for dual prosecutions, and the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed. The Supreme Court agreed in June to review the lower court’s ruling, and during oral arguments in December, several justices seemed reluctant to overturning the separate sovereigns exception. Writing for the majority, Alito said the "historical evidence" assembled by Gamble in favor of expanding double jeopardy protections is "feeble." "Pointing the other way are the clause's text, other historical evidence, and 170 years of precedent," he wrote.
But Ginsburg knocked the separate sovereigns doctrine as "misguided" and wrote the double jeopardy clause bars successive prosecutions. The separate sovereigns doctrine, Ginsburg wrote, "has been subject to relentless criticisms by members of the bench, bar and academy. Nevertheless, the court reaffirms the doctrine, thereby diminishing the individual rights shielded by the Double Jeopardy Clause. Different parts of the 'whole' United States should not be positioned to prosecute a defendant a second time for the same offense."
Gorsuch, meanwhile, wrote in a separate dissenting opinion that the separate sovereigns exception "finds no meaningful support in the text of the Constitution, its original public meaning, structure, or history." "When governments may unleash all their might in multiple prosecutions against an individual, exhausting themselves only when those who hold the reins of power are content with the result, it is 'the poor and the weak' and the unpopular and controversial, who suffer first — and there is nothing to stop them from being last," Gorsuch said. "The separate sovereigns exception was wrong when it was invented, and it remains wrong today."
The case came to the justices against the backdrop of special counsel Robert Mueller’s 22-month investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, which concluded in March. The probe resulted in guilty pleas for five associates close to President Trump, including Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort. Some believed the Supreme Court case could have implications for those ensnared in Mueller’s investigation if they received a pardon from the president, which only applies to federal charges. Manafort was found guilty last year on eight counts of financial crimes in the first trial stemming from Mueller’s probe. He was subsequently sentenced to more than seven years in prison for federal crimes including bank and tax fraud. Not only was Manafort charged by federal prosecutors, but in March, a grand jury in New York indicted the longtime political consultant on 16 state felony charges, including residential mortgage fraud.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/supreme-court-declines-to-overturn-exception-to-double-jeopardy
Poll: AOC disliked, distrusted, unwanted in her own NY district
She’s a star on the national political stage, but Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is viewed skeptically back in her Queens and Bronx 14th Congressional District, according to a new door-to-door survey. It found that she has a low 21% favorability rating, that just 11% believe she has their best interests in mind, and that only 13% would vote to reelect her. The survey of registered voters was conducted by the political action committee targeting her with a Federal Election Commission complaint, Stop The AOC PAC.
A previous survey by the group found that residents were upset with the lawmaker’s opposition to bringing an Amazon headquarters to the district. In part due to Ocasio-Cortez’s complaints, Amazon backed out of moving to her district. The congresswoman and the Stop the AOC PAC have tussled for weeks, especially after the group’s founder, Washington attorney Dan Backer, filed an FEC complaint against her campaign. Backer said that he has “a particularly strong dislike” for Ocasio-Cortez’s leftist politics and wanted to test the district to see if she is vulnerable to a primary or general election challenge. In 2018, she upset the Democratic establishment by defeating House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley in the primary.
She has since become a media star and leader of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. But in her district the survey conducted by Mobilize the Message for the opposition group found weak support for the congresswoman. The key findings:
42% are unfamiliar with AOC.
51% have an unfavorable view of her.
33% are ready to vote against her, and only 13% would vote for her.
“Facing an electorate more concerned with results than retweets, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez has problems in her backyard. Despite her online notoriety and fandom in the national new progressive movement, the citizens of New York District 14 want a representative aligned with their values,” said the survey analysis. Backer said that he hopes potential opponents act on his survey results and take on Ocasio-Cortez. “She does not have a strong constituency outside her core support group,” he said.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/poll-aoc-unliked-untrusted-unwanted-in-her-own-ny-district
https://www.stoptheaoc.com/
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He knew that the vote was rigged for him during the Arab Spring..who created the Arab Spring, Obama and crew..no doubt it came at a cost.
Indeed, no where to run and no where to hide.