...designated researchers and infectious disease professions have a need and duty to continuously access and share the best available data on an infectious diseases, including applicable long term antibody data for a population... (anonymized when appropriate)...
...on May 17, 1973*Samuel James Ervin Jr. (D-NC) gaveled to order the House Committee on the Judiciary to investigate the Watergate break-in...stonewalling, subterfuge, subpoenas, standoff, sackings, and sentencing followed...Trump:Nixon::Barr:Mitchell...
...with the help of Attorney General Barr,** Republican senators voting for impeachment acquittal and a silent United States Supreme Court Chief Justice...there is an ignominious pathological lying sociopath at the top of our government...now is not the time for silent acquiescence...
"...Because the public is listening to what's going on, and I don't think people like the fact that you got somebody at the top basically trying to dictate whether somebody should be prosecuted. I just think it's a banana republic when we go down that road and we have those type of statements being made that are conceivably even if not influencing the ultimate decision, I think there are a lot of people on the outside who perceive that there is undo inappropriate pressure being brought to bear. And I just would hope that -- it's just, it's very disturbing that we're in the mess that we're in in that regard. Because I think having been a part of the prosecution for a long time and respecting the role that prosecutors play in the system I just think the integrity of the process is being unduly undermined by inappropriate comments and actions on the part of people at the top of our government..." --Case 1:18-cv-01766-RBWDocument 54-3 Filed 02/14/20 Page 5 of 16--
...kudos to a not so silent district court Judge Reggie Walton (aka RBW)...prosecutors could not explain to an increasingly frustrated judge why they were not charging McCabe...the public release of previously sealed court documents resulted in a DoJ letter to McCabe's attorney stating the obvious...that Andrew McCabe would not be charged...he just got in the way of an ignominious pathological lying sociopath's disinformation campaign...
** ...the irony of Barr's demand is beautiful...Barr, an acolyte of the extremist Federalist Society tells the ignominious pathological lying sociopath at the top that he can't "play" him if the ignominious pathological lying sociopath at the top is busy "playing" Barr...
... congress and the courts must make extraordinarily clear, when properly subpoenaed a special counsel or others cannot choose whether to appear before congress or a court...they may respond and read aloud from a report, but they cannot decline to appear...
...it is highly likely that prayers and family interventions are insufficient to obviate our unstable, unfit, unwell, unbalanced, and unlawful "new" alt-white-house et al...can we have early elections...
...more rectum-ramblings from our unstable, unfit, unwell, unbalanced, and unlawful "new" alt-white-house et al...it's reminiscent of Nixon's "I've never obstructed justice...I'm no crook"...
...our unstable, unfit, unwell, unbalanced, and unlawful "new" alt-white-house et al. say's "I don't do cover-ups"...our unstable, unfit, unwell, unbalanced, and unlawful "new" alt-white-house et al. forgot the word "well"...
United States Senator Lindsey Graham a huckster or trumpster, I get them confused, from South Carolina told a Munich Security Conference2020 gathering that as a "conservative" he's helpless to do anything about climate change, curiously saying it's business and the Baptists' responsibility?
Senator, last time I checked you write the laws and business follow them while the Baptists pray for "God" to cleanup "his" atmospheric mess.
I'm not sure what a "conservative" is these days, but they seem to often use a disinformation device know as "false choice"...please provide your data for the "false choice" between cleaning up the excessive atmospheric carbon and bankrupting business.
Senator, with all due respect you're full of shit, as are most hucksters and trumpsters.
Associate Justice Antonin Gregory Scalia dies at age 79—he preached a static and stale legal pedanticism that neither our language nor Constitution could carry.
...the earlier (2018) lower judicial council investigating 83 complaints against Kavanaugh ended when it decided it had no authority to investigate the higher Supreme Court...not a disability for Congress with its impeachment power...
...when you begin removing the wrapping around a carefully packaged Kavanaugh you discover misleading statements, dissembling, lies, lack of candor, and earlier contact with potential witnesses...sounds like our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al. and its Republican Party schlepps in the senate...
...Kavanaugh is an unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced nomination to our Supreme Court made by our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al...both are boorish, bullying belligerent liars...
...the Republican's hearing on sexual misconduct allegations against Kavanaugh is little more than their sham (Senator Graham (R-S.C.) and Kavanaugh doth protest too much∅) efforts to continue efforts to cram-down another unfit justice...but as Bob Dylan might say "The Times They Are A Changin'"
...appointing a female proxy prosecutor to conduct questioning for the majority committee of elderly all white male senators is a wonderful metaphor for a devolving and obsolete Republican Party...
∅ ...yes Senator Graham (R-S.C.), if you stand in a line awaiting your turn to sexually assault an impaired women you are a "gang rapist", whether you actually sexually assault the impaired women...your "righteous indignation" without the required FBI background investigation and thorough vetting is meaningless...
...the "Federalist" is arguing a criminal case that doesn't exist and likely will not exist...
...nor is this a "he said-she said" or "innocent until proven guilty" case...
...it is she says with 91-98% veracity that she was sexually mistreated in a nation, which has a historical pattern of ignoring, dismissing, and mistreating women when they report sexual mistreatment (unsurprisingly, resulting in significant underreporting)...
...as a national policy on sexual mistreatment of women (and men) our nation must clearly, loudly, and continuously broadcast to our women (and men) that anytime you are sexually mistreated and report you will be believed, full stop...regardless of who your assaulter is...
...Blasey's assertion that she was sexually mistreated by Kavanaugh are enough to end his bid for a justiceship returning him to his judgeship on the DC Court of Appeals...
...conduct a fair investigate of the allegations of the sexual mistreatment and end his judgeship, if reasonable...
...FBI interviews into the background of candidates for public trust positions is de rigueur...conflating these interviews with a criminal investigation mischaracterizes their purpose... (also, National Background Investigations Bureau)
..."cramming down" Kavanaugh amid ongoing sexual assault allegations is likely to further accelerate an already fast declining Republican Party (some might say already imploded) and decaying Supreme Court of the United States...
..."educated" is just one attribute and not the most important, which "qualifies" a person to sit on our United Supreme Court...Judge Kavanaugh lacks some of those other attributes...if Kavanaugh cannot answer a "hypothetical" whether a president can self-pardon for crimes committed before or during their presidency, maybe he can articulate a "hypothetical" in which a president can self-pardon...
...Kavanaugh is "independent" like our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al. is a "truth-teller"...imagine our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al. as a "unitary executive" and Kavanaugh joining Scalia's dead dicta to tell us that we cannot subpoenaed, indict, prosecute or otherwise get rid of our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al. so long as it occupies the Executive Office of the President of the United States...
...kudos to Senators Kolbuchar, Coons, Harris, Blumenthal, Mazie Hirono, Booker, Flake, et al...their questioning has begun to show pursuit of an imbalanced democratic governance agenda underpinned by dogma, drivel, and doctrinaire...or as the Chief Justice might say, gobbledygook...
...not only must the Senate decline to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh, it must await the renomination and senate vote on Judge Merrick Garland, before filling any vacancy on the Supreme Court...
...Judge Kavanaugh...an acolyte of the deceased Scalia, Federalist Society protege, and docent of the "originalism" dogma docket is highly unlikely to do well a primary duty of an active justice, complement court credibility...
...without credibility what is a court's announcement that a business baker can decide whether to deliver cakes into the steam of commerce based on his interpretation of the gospel according to Jesus...makes the constitutional interpretive efforts of originalism seem stupendously scientific...
He's "mainstream" while attending Federalist Society meetings with its claimed membership estimated at 70,000 (6/7th lawyers and 1/7th law students)! However, such a small clique or core cabal of lawyers committed to pursuing an extreme libertarianism (aka neo-anarchism) is hardly representative of "mainstream" America, especially if they wear black robes on our Supreme Court.
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It is not clear if criteria of the ABA Federal Judiciary Standing Committee's rating considers such a stagnant, extreme, and dogmatic2 judicial temperament in a justice of our Supreme Court?
Efforts to disguise libertarian dogma and doctrine (aka neo-anarchism) in black robes is likely to backfire while seriously harming our Supreme Court and nation.
Justices who pretend they can interpret our frabjous1Constitution within today's context are preferable to those who pretend they can interpret it within yesterday's context.
2. Dogma by definition is stagnant and not an element in the desirable set of attributes required of any lawyer, much less a nominee lawyer to our Supreme Court. An ABA Federal Judiciary Standing Committee, which rates a dogmatic lawyer "well qualified" is either unaware of the dogma or evaluating the nominee as "well qualified" to enforce an implicit agenda.
Horrifyingly, it is possible that the the ABA Federal Judiciary Standing Committee is ignoring the dogma and evaluating a Supreme Court nominee as "well qualified" to enforce an explicit agenda?
Originally Published February 14, 2016; Last Updated November 17, 2019; Last Republished November 16, 2019:
...and then a decision will be made and that is a decision that goes beyond me...but we're not dominated by the polls...what we're dominated by are the facts and the truth and I do believe the truth will set us free...there are many things that the president does that are completely out of the question that are not impeachable...and they're about the election...
...but when it comes to violating the Constitution of the United States, as he undermines our national security, jeopardizes the integrity of our elections1, dishonors his own oath of office...that's about impeachment...I really have a real discomfort level of responding to what Republicans say because they are in denial about what has happened in the country... --from the below video interview with Speaker Pelosi--
...the majority in the Senate et al. are behaving like a parent who enters a room to discover their toddler is smearing feces on the wall and joins in hoping to create a Picasso...
...hey, don't worry, be happy...Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) assures us the ignominious pathological lying sociopath has "learned...and will be much more caution in the future"...the senators voting to acquit the ignominious pathological lying sociopath may want to check Impeachment Article I...
...if the senate majority leader thinks the Senate's impeachment trial acquittal has stopped the scorching of our Republic he is sadly mistaken...it's not the Democratic Party, which is heavily invested in active disinformation campaigns and shaking down foreign governments to undermine our institutions and elections...the beauty of irony is boundless...
...attorneys that lie to a bunch of senators during impeachment proceedings presided over by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court are unlikely to lose their law license, but they should...the Breitbart propaganda is precious...Senator Joni Ernst et al. are looking for facts...really!...
...here's how our friends over at the Federalist Society see the impeachment hearings, Impeachment Gets Worse Ratings Than Soap Operas...maybe at their next presser "Joni" (R-IW) can Don a cheerleader's costume while Senators Scott (R-S.C.), Lankford (R-OK) and Barrasso (R-WY) dance with pom poms...that might boost the Republican Party's ratings?...
...the Republican Party hasn't seen "impeachment hell", yet...let them continue pursuing their "keep power at any cost" strategies and they'll be defending sociopaths "round the clock" in impeachment proceedings...the "bipartisan divide" will be the least of their concerns...that is impeachment hell!...
...don't forget to laugh as the Republican Party decays...it has worked very hard to amass its rot...as the quality of candidates for the Republican Party slide down the personality disorder spectrum from occasional bad behavior to serious law breakers or those that argue the law doesn't apply to them expect their "lawyers" to argue that the impeachment standards are too low...do not expect the GOP-RNC to argue that their candidates' character has decayed...unsurprisingly sociopaths do not tend to attract law abiding citizens...
...what are the senate-keys getting and giving from the "wannabee king" to retain power (hint, it's unnecessary to over think the "wannabee king" as a future dictator)...
...the response most often attributed to the octogenarian and Founding Father Benjamin Franklin when asked what type of government the constitutional convention delegates created...so far so good!!!...
...their votes will forever proudly rebuke the ignominious actions of the conspicuously unstable, unfit, unwell, unbalanced, unlawful, untrustworthy occupant of the White House, its senate sycophants☭ and any future aspiring wannabe authoritarians...our nation is forever grateful for their principled preference for good governance...more leaders like those voting "Yea" in roll call 695 and 696, please...
☭...why does "Moscow Mitch" believe that an independent senate impeachment trial will or should conform with a House impeachment?...sycophancy is not a desirable behavior for any senator...sycophancy for the purpose of perpetuating a conspicuously unstable, unfit, unwell, unbalanced, unlawful, untrustworthy presidency is dangerous and destructive of our nation...
...kudos to the Speaker and House...a set of 535 commanders in chief trumps a dumb-ass duo deciding to go to war while taking Mulligans on the back nine...there are no Mulligans in war...unlike the golf course every shot counts on the battlefield...
...Senator Graham et al. stultify themselves while trying to shield the impeached president's behavior...the real arguments they're advancing in the highest courts (USCA-DC 19-5331 mp3) and elsewhere are beyond stultifying...there is no executive "prerogative" (maybe counsel means privilege?) to obstruct investigations into criminal behavior (official or unofficial), [remember Nixon]...
...reigning in the out of control executive is long over due...as an aside those who've doubted whether women can govern, let them doubt no more...
...kudos to the Speaker and senate minority leader...Chief Justice John Roberts has a duty to make publicly clear he will not preside over a sham impeachment trial...the idea that he 's there as "eye candy" or a "partisan rubber stamp" is nonsense...
...“Clear direction from POTUS to continue to hold [appropriated Ukraine military funding.]”...released redacted email from former Wisconsin GOP cum RAG Party head Michael Duffey who is now a political appointee at the Office of Management and Budget...wonder why the RAG Party senators are ignoring relevant redacted facts?...
...understanding these emails in the context of Ukraine's history and its persistent progress toward autonomy makes impeding current diplomatic efforts more than criminal...of course it's highly unlikely that Duffey et al. know much about Ukraine's long-suffering efforts toward autonomy, inspite of periods of extraordinary cruelty by Russia...
...kudos to President Zelensky on the prisoner exchange, gas contract signing and New Year conversation with Putin...and planning for a future connection to the euro-grid...an event, which will present the "BlackEnergy " hackers w ith new and more dangerous challenges...
...digressive diatribes, conspiracy theory, sloganeering or parroting (SHAM, CIRCUS, WITCH-HUNT, PARTISAN-COUP, ELECTION VENDETTA, SCHIFF SHOW etc.) will not substitute for pertinent facts and evidence...
...the only response to any president's failure to recognize Congress's impeachment authority is immediate impeachment. and removal...
...those that think this Executive's response is customary...let them think that no more...
...so far the House minority's response to
overwhelming
evidence of impeachable conduct is that the House is partisan and moving
too fast...as always history
will judge...meantime all future presidents will know that asking for,
accepting or coercing foreign electoral help will result in their swift
impeachment, even when that president tries to blockade all evidence...a wonderful message that will only strengthen our democracy (republic)...
...the Speaker of the United States articulates a bright-line between behavior that is impeachable and partisan...blur the line at your own risk, so says our Founding Fathers and Madame Speaker...attempt to erase that line and you'll be immediately impeached...
1. ...impeachment and removal is the only way to lawfully, peaceably and reliably end a constitutional threat presented by any president's willingness to ask for, accept, or coerce foreign electoral assistance...by definition the president's own action(s) has removed elections as the customarily reliable method of preserving a democracy (republic)..
...contrast this with the Judiciary's power to annul an election to meet the same ends...
Originally Published November 18, 2019; Last Updated February 12, 2019: Last Republished February 12, 2019:
