Posted on 12/21/2023 10:06:07 AM PST by SeekAndFind
I didn’t say it would go Colorado’s way, I said some of the lib judges would dissent.
I fully expect the Colorado scotus ruling to be struck down, but 9-0? No way
Having said all that, even WHEN the US SCOTUS squashes it, there will more than likely be shenanigans at the precinct level in Colorado.
They’ll all support the rule of law, except for Roberts... He’ll write the dissenting opinion.
and in between they did the right thing on Roe-something obv passed on for 50yrs.
They’re a big favorite to do the right thing this time.
re: the ACA, they failed but it preceeded a net -1050 losses for Democrats. The most either party had lost under a two termer by 500.
Lessee now...two black people on the court? That’s 22%.
AA’s beez 13% of the US pop and going down due to mass LATAM illegal invasion. S/B about 10% after all those people start getting counted.
Conclusion: Africans seriously overrepresented on the “Supreme” court. We should keep the guy, he’s actually qualified. And that’s all.
I wouldn’t trust Trump’s last two picks. Sometimes they make Ginsberg look good.
Excellent piece by Turley. The Supremes need to have a unanimous decision here or it will make a mockery of the Court itself.
In his book Profiles of Courage, TED SORENSON discussed figures who answered the call of history and how such defining moments are “an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to us all.”
There, Fixed that!
The ballots were simply lists of names of the Electors who were pledged to the candidate. The voter would "vote" the list.
In the southern states, printers refused to print ballots for the Lincoln campaign, and people were afraid to submit them for fear of being shunned or physically attacked.
It was intimidation tactics like this that section 2 of the 14th Amendment was intended to address.
-PJ
“re: the ACA, they failed but it preceeded a net -1050 losses for Democrats. The most either party had lost under a two termer by 500.”
Yes, but... the damage to the healthcare system and health insurance system has still been done. And all those gains we made back then seem to have been reversed or erased... considering the extreme FUBAR scenario we’re in now.
If the Supreme Court votes unanimously against the Colorado court’s decision, maybe it will be less likely that other states will pursue seeking that decision.
One can hope, anyway…
nbcnews.com
Tom Winter
Dec 21, 2023
Records released by House Republicans show that Joe Biden repeatedly emailed Hunter Biden’s business associate in 2014
Democrats say the emails were routine and that Hunter Biden’s business associate worked as Joe Biden’s financial adviser and helped the then-vice president file his tax returns.
Image: President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden on the South Lawn of the White House on April 10, 2023.....Drew Angerer / Getty Images
Joe Biden exchanged emails with his son Hunter’s business associate 54 times while he was serving as vice president, and some of the messages were sent around the time the elder Biden was traveling to Ukraine and his son was working for a Ukrainian gas company, according to records released by House Republicans.
A White House spokesperson declined to comment but pointed to statements by House Democrats that Hunter Biden’s business associate, Eric Schwerin, worked as Joe Biden’s financial adviser from 2009 to 2017 and helped him file his tax returns. Schwerin did not respond to requests for comment.
Hunter Biden: ‘My father was not financially involved in my business’ DEC. 13, 2023
The records released describe the dates of the emails and who exchanged them, but do not include the messages themselves. NBC News has not reviewed the contents of the emails.
All told, then-Vice President Biden emailed Schwerin 35 times before and after his 2014 trips to Ukraine. Five emails were exchanged just prior to a trip by Vice President Biden to Ukraine on June 7, 2014, and 27 emails were sent from the end of June to a second trip to Ukraine by Biden on Nov. 21, 2014.
The bulk of the communication occurred in the lead-up to and following an agreement for Hunter Biden to serve on the board of the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma.
Earlier this year, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., said in a news release that Schwerin told House Ways and Means Committee staff in a March interview that the elder Biden was not involved in the business of his son or any of his relatives.
Raskin said Schwerin stated that “he was not aware of any involvement by President Biden in the financial conduct of the President’s relatives’ businesses, much less any transactions into or out of the then-vice president’s bank account related to business conducted by any Biden family member.”
The email disclosures were part of law enforcement records released by House Republicans following the testimony of IRS whistleblower Joseph Ziegler. This month, Ziegler provided the documents to the House Ways and Means Committee in conjunction with a sworn affidavit. The committee, which also heard the testimony of a second IRS whistleblower, Gary Shapley, is led by Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo.
Ziegler told Congress that “there were multiple emails found with Hunter Biden and his business associates” but the investigative team was unaware at the time that then-Vice President Biden used an alias in his private emails.
Hunter Biden earned nearly $1.2 million from Burisma in 2014, according to emails contained on a copy of his hard drive and obtained by NBC News. In their recent tax indictment of Biden, federal prosecutors alleged he made over $1.4 million from 2016 to 2019, when Biden’s engagement with the Ukrainian firm ended.
Biden is scheduled to be arraigned on misdemeanor and felony federal tax charges in Los Angeles in early January. After his indictment last week, Biden’s attorney Abbe Lowell said in a statement, “After five years of investigating with no new evidence — and two years after Hunter paid his taxes in full — the U.S. Attorney has piled on nine new charges when he had agreed just months ago to resolve this matter with a pair of misdemeanors.”
Biden’s addition to Burisma’s board as head of legal affairs was reported in a news release in May 2014. At some point from May to December 2014, Burisma allegedly paid a bribe to a Ukrainian official to help stop a joint British-U.S. money-laundering investigation into Burisma’s top executive, according to a State Department email that quotes a Ukrainian prosecutor.
Former President Donald Trump has falsely claimed that Joe Biden helped oust a Ukrainian prosecutor, Victor Shokin, when he was “prosecuting” Burisma. Multiple U.S. officials testified to Congress that Shokin was forced out in a joint American and British effort because he himself was corrupt.
Hunter Biden later wrote in his 2021 book, “Beautiful Things: A Memoir,” that few of his business deals brought tangible results. He said he wasn’t “desperate” before he landed a position on the board of Burisma in 2014 but that the money was “helpful” and that it came at a “fortuitous” time.
He said it meant he didn’t have to work hard to find clients, “the most time-consuming part of my work — drilling twenty dry wells to finally hit pay dirt,” and that it allowed him to spend more time with his dying brother, Beau.
Tom Winter is a New York-based correspondent covering crime, courts, terrorism and financial fraud on the East Coast for the NBC News Investigative Unit.
Rebecca Kaplan and Chloe Atkins contributed.
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