Conquer Club

He* is a threat to their evil. It is deep-seated too.

jimboston wrote:Trump…who basically made the US a Third World Nation by attempting a coup…

jimboston wrote:Trump…who basically made the US a Third World Nation by attempting a coup...

saxitoxin wrote:Leader McCarthy has vowed to go after Garland for this violent politicization of the FBI and turning the U.S. into a banana republic.

saxitoxin wrote:Leader McCarthy has vowed to go after Garland for this violent politicization of the FBI and turning the U.S. into a banana republic.

mookiemcgee wrote:why are republicans so upset?

The federal investigation into Hunter Biden's business activities is nearing a critical juncture as investigators weigh possible charges and prosecutors confront Justice Department guidelines to generally avoid bringing politically sensitive cases close to an election, according to people briefed on the matter.

While no final decision has been made on whether to bring charges against President Joe Biden's son, sources say the probe has intensified in recent months along with discussions among Delaware-based prosecutors, investigators running the probe and officials at Justice Department headquarters.

David Weiss, the US Attorney in Delaware, is leading the probe, which dates back to as early as 2018.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/07/20/poli ... index.html

bigtoughralf wrote:

jimboston wrote:Trump…who basically made the US a Third World Nation by attempting a coup...

Isn't the US literally founded on insurrection, and has a clause in its constitution specifically designed to enable Americans to take arms against their government?

Justice Department should have subpoenaed documents, not raided Trump’s home

There were no raids, for example, on the homes of Hillary Clinton or former Clinton administration national security adviser Sandy Berger for comparable allegations of mishandling official records in the recent past. Previous violations of the Presidential Records Act typically have been punished by administrative fines, not criminal prosecution.

The more appropriate action would have been for a grand jury to issue a subpoena for any boxes of material that were seized and for Trump’s private safe that was opened.

Searches and seizures should only be used when subpoenas are inappropriate because of the risk of evidence destruction. It is important to note that Trump himself was 1,000 miles away when the FBI’s search and seizure occurred. It would have been impossible, therefore, for him to destroy subpoenaed evidence, especially if the subpoena demanded immediate production.

Defenders of the raid argue that the search warrant was issued by a judge. Yet every criminal defense lawyer knows that search warrants are issued routinely and less critically than candy is distributed on Halloween; judges rarely exercise real discretion or real supervision.

It is true that a president or former president is not above the law — but neither should he or she be below the law. Precedents established in relation to Democrats must be equally applied to Republicans. On the face of it, this standard has not been met here.

https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3 ... umps-home/

saxitoxin wrote:Harvard University Emeritus Professor of Law -- and one of the most acclaimed criminal attorneys in American history -- Alan Dershowitz...

degaston wrote:If good government actually came from a violent, armed population, then Afghanistan and Somalia would be the two best-governed places on earth.

saxitoxin wrote:
This is an attempt by a deeply unpopular dictator - Biden - to cling to power by sending armed men to raid the homes of his critics. This is a coup.

degaston wrote:

saxitoxin wrote:Harvard University Emeritus Professor of Law -- and one of the most acclaimed criminal attorneys in American history -- Alan Dershowitz...

You mean the Alan Dershowitz who two days ago said that Joe Biden has done “a good job” and gotten a “lot of things accomplished” including now the Inflation Reduction Bill which just seconds ago passed the Senate.
And who says "He's done great things in Ukraine," Dershowitz told Bartiromo in a Sunday interview. "I think he has done good things on domestic policy, gotten some very good things passed."
And "[Biden] is the candidate who restores normality and if Trump is going to run, ... Trump will lose."

That Alan Dershowitz?

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/8/7/2115069/-Bartiromo-loses-her-mind-as-Dershowitz-gives-Biden-credit-for-doing-A-great-job

mookiemcgee wrote:Biden didn't so this

- They abolished the filibuster for district and appellate judges.
- The GOP responded by abolishing the filibuster for Supreme Court judges and then jammed SCOTUS with Federalists.

- They declared the 2016 election was illegitimate on a handful of Pacifica Radio programs and DailyKos.
- The GOP responded by declaring the 2020 election was illegitimate at a volume of 13, and swayed half the country to that belief.

- They picketed outside the Trump-run White House and caused him to be minorly inconvenienced.
- The GOP responded by invading the Pelosi-run Capitol, forcing her to flee out the back door crying and panting.

- They raided Trump's residence when he was 1,000 miles away.
- Hopefully the MAGA-in-waiting is already planning to organize a law enforcement raid of Martha's Vineyard in the middle of the night and drag Barack and Michele onto the street for a public strip search broadcast live on national TV.

saxitoxin wrote:The Rats never learn

Reinhart was hauled over the coals in a 2011 Crime Victims' Rights Act lawsuit which accused him of violating Justice Department policies by switching sides.

It implied the attorney had leveraged inside information about the probe into Epstein's affairs to gain favor with him.

He flatly denied this and said he was nothing to do with the team that was looking into the pedophile's horrific crimes.

But two years later his former supervisors in the US Attorney's Office said 'while Bruce E Reinhart was an assistant U.S. attorney, he learned confidential, non-public information about the Epstein matter'.

He helped the billionaire pedophile's pilots Larry Visoski, David Rodgers, Larry Morrison and Bill Hammond.

He also worked with scheduler Sarah Kellen and Nadia Marcinkova, who was known as his 'Yugoslavian sex slave'.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... rkers.html

bigtoughralf wrote:

degaston wrote:If good government actually came from a violent, armed population, then Afghanistan and Somalia would be the two best-governed places on earth.

The US has higher gun ownership and more murders than either of those countries, but carry on with your 'brown people bad' vilification if it makes you happy. Make you and jp4 could start a club.