UPDATE 6/30: Pressure works.
Biden is now calling for a carveout for the filibuster to codify Roe v. Wade.
Saturday, June 25, 2022
Countermeasures
But not end the filibuster or advocate for Supreme Court reform.
UPDATE 6/27:
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UPDATE 8/3: Kansas voters overwhelming vote to protect abortion rights in Kansas.
Baby steps where a giant leap is needed
The Supreme Court says states should have the right to determine whether women should have the right to control their own bodies, but the Court should have the right to determine whether people can carry hidden weapons.Joe Biden on Saturday signed the most sweeping gun violence bill in decades, a bipartisan compromise that seemed unimaginable until a recent series of mass shootings, including the massacre of 19 students and two teachers at a Texas elementary school.
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The House gave final approval on Friday, following Senate passage on Thursday, and Biden acted just before leaving Washington for two summits in Europe.
The legislation will toughen background checks for the youngest gun buyers, keep firearms from more domestic violence offenders and help states put in place red flag laws that make it easier for authorities to take weapons from people adjudged to be dangerous.
Most of its $13bn cost will help bolster mental health programs and aid schools, which have been targeted in Newtown, Connecticut, and Parkland, Florida, and elsewhere in mass shootings.
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Biden signed the measure two days after the supreme court’s ruling striking down a New York law that restricted people’s ability to carry concealed weapons.
Guardian
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
Global setback
I don't want to hear another Republican derrogate Mid-East countries for how they treat women.
The end of constitutional protections for abortions in the United States has been described as a “backwards” move by world leaders and health organisations, while handing a huge boost to pro-life groups around the world. The Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and the British prime minister, Boris Johnson, all condemned the supreme court’s overruling of the landmark Roe v Wade decision, while New Zealand’s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, said the decision was “incredibly upsetting”. “Watching the removal of a woman’s fundamental right to make decisions over their own body is incredibly upsetting,” she said.
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“To see that principle now lost in the United States feels like a loss for women everywhere. When there are so many issues to tackle, so many challenges that face women and girls, we need progress, not to fight the same fights and move backwards.”
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Nicola Sturgeon, leader of the Scottish Nationalist party, the third biggest party in the UK parliament, said it was “one of the darkest days for women’s rights in my lifetime ... this will embolden anti-abortion and anti-women forces in other countries too”.
Guardian
Friday, June 24, 2022
Meanwhile in Georgia
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.As the national media focuses on the Jan. 6 committee hearings on Capitol Hill, testimony quietly continues behind closed doors before the Fulton County special grand jury probing former President Donald Trump.
The AJC’s Tamar Hallerman tells us that jurors heard yesterday from Democratic state Sens. Jen Jordan and Elena Parent, who were both at a Dec. 2020 hearing with Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani.
Jordan and Parent were among the only lawmakers to push back against Giuliani’s testimony about Georgia’s elections system, which was filled with conspiracy theories, falsehoods and half-truths.
Both received threats as a result and Parent ultimately requested police protection.
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Hallerman learned that at least one of the senators was asked about the “alternative” GOP electors who filed fake documents claiming to be the state’s true electors to the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
DOJ investigating Jeffrey Clark
Law enforcement officials on Wednesday searched the Virginia home of former top Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, according to his employer and former Trump administration colleague.
Russ Vought, who served as former President Donald Trump’s White House budget director and now works with Clark at the Center for Renewing America, tweeted that “more than a dozen DOJ law enforcement officials searched Jeff Clark’s house in a pre dawn raid, put him in the streets in his pjs, and took his electronic devices.” A spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington stated only that law enforcement recently engaged in “activity” in the vicinity of Clark’s home.
That office is leading investigations related to the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021.
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A key question regarding the Clark search is whether it happened because of his connection to the alternate electors scheme, or because of other actions that are not currently known to be under investigation by the Justice Department. Regardless, it’s rare for former top administration officials, particularly from DOJ, to face law enforcement scrutiny.
The Clark search is not the only recent indication of law enforcement activity linked to the 2020 election gaining steam: Arizona GOP Chair Kelli Ward and her husband Michael have received grand jury subpoenas, according to a source familiar with the matter.
The development suggests a deepening DOJ investigation of an effort by Republican Party officials to deliver false slates of electors to Congress. Both Michael and Kelli Ward were among the pro-Trump activists who signed certificates claiming to be the duly-elected and qualified electors for Trump from Arizona.
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The Clark-related activity came just before Congress’ Jan. 6 select committee held a public hearing that intensely scrutinized him and other allies of the former president.
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Videos and witness testimony at the hearing also depicted a meeting on Jan. 3, 2021, that turned into a dogpile on Clark over his involvement in pushing false fraud claims. Eric Herschmann, who was a White House lawyer at the time, described in footage played by the select panel that he called Clark an “a-hole” in the meeting. The remark came after Clark talked about how he would use a grand jury to investigate Trump-backed fraud allegations.
“When he finished discussing what he planned on doing, I said good — fucking excuse me, sorry, a-hole — congratulations,” Herschmann said in taped testimony recalling his conversation with Clark. “You just admitted the first step or act you’d take as attorney general would be committing a felony and violating Rule 6(e). You’re clearly the right candidate for this job.”
Politico
As a part of the feds’ widening effort, one of your Insiders reported Wednesday that at least two Georgia Republicans were served with subpoenas-- party chairman David Shafer and Brad Carver, one of the party loyalists who served as a fake elector for Trump as the former president sought to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 victory in Georgia.
The expanded effort is national in scope. Officials in Arizona were also served with subpoenas Wednesday, while Nevada’s top GOP official was served a search warrant from the FBI related to his role in that state’s fake elector scheme.
AJC
Bingo
I'll call out specific people if Dan Pfeiffer, ex-Obama communications adviser, doesn't want to.
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