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By Matt Naham @ LawandCrime.com, Dec. 13
The Supreme Court of the United States on Friday granted certiorari in the three Trump tax return disputes that were dropped on its doorstep, meaning the high court will consolidate the cases and hear arguments in March 2020. This will then be resolved by June of next year, months before the 2020 election [....] The cases are Trump v. Vance, Trump v. Mazars USA, and Trump v. Deutsche Bank [....]
Opponents used to have to do "oppo research," now they just have to sit back, relax and wait for the cancel culture warriors to arrive?
By Scott Bixby @ TheDailyBeast.com, Dec. 13
Cenk Uygur said the genes of women who didn’t want to sleep with him are “flawed.” Bernie Sanders said his voice “desperately” belongs in Congress. Now everyone’s backtracking.
By Alberto Luperon @ LawandCrime.com, Dec. 13
There’s been an arrest in the stabbing murder of a Barnard College student in Manhattan, New York.A 13-year-old boy has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder, robbery, and a weapons charge after 18-year-old Tessa Majors was stabbed to death blocks away from campus, senior law enforcement sources told NBC News.
The victim was stabbed to death Wednesday evening at Morningside Park, police said. NYPD Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison said that several individuals robbed her, and there was a struggle. One of the suspect stabbed her several times, he said. “She staggered her way up the street,” he said. “One of the security guards saw her and called 911.” Majors was pronounced dead at a hospital. Authorities suggest there were one to three suspects.
The defendant was not identified. The boy did not confess to the murder, but did implicate himself, according to an official speaking with The New York Times. [....]
Trump backed loser for KY governor Matt Bevin issued over 400 pardons for murderers, rapist, child rapists and other criminals before leaving office. He didn't publicize the list, shocked local Kentucky prosecutors had to file open records requests to find out who Bevin has set loose on the community. Bevin is the deplorable guy who said striking teachers "would be responsible" if students left home got raped by KY folks hanging around their homes. It's Ok because I am sure he prayed on it. Some criminal pardons were family members of big GOP contributors.
"The list of pardons includes Blake Walker, who was convicted in 2003 of killing his parents; Kurt Smith, who as a teenager was found guilty of murdering his 6-week old son; Delmar Partin, who was convicted of beheading a woman and stuffing her in a barrel; and Kathy Ann Harless, who left her newborn baby to die in an outhouse."
Welcome to The Hill’s annual Top Lobbyists list [....] Not all of those honored on this list are formally registered as lobbyists. [....] But the people below are all at the top of their game — [....] these are the players who stand out for delivering results for their clients in the halls of Congress and the administration.
"America's non-response to the Turkish horrors established patterns that would be repeated," Sen. Bob Menendez said.
By Burgess Everett @ Politico.com, Dec. 12
The Senate on Thursday unanimously passed a resolution recognizing the Armenian genocide in Turkey more than 100 years ago, over earlier objections from President Donald Trump.
The move amounted to a stern condemnation of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has grown close to Russia in recent months and who criticized a similar resolution passed by the House. Moreover, the Senate advanced Turkish sanctions legislation on Wednesday, threatening to disrupt Trump's alliance with Erdoğan [....]
How Freedom Caucus leaders got behind Trump and never looked back (or forward).
By Sigal Samuel @ Vox.com, Dec. 12
With a new law — and massive new detention camps — the country is undermining its status as a democracy.
By Jonathan Chait @ NYMag.com, Dec. 12, 7:06 pm
The British election results, like any election result, is the result of unique circumstances and multiple factors. It is also, however, a test of a widely articulated political theory that has important implications for American politics. That theory holds that Corbyn’s populist left-wing platform is both necessary and sufficient in order to defeat the rising nationalist right. Corbyn’s crushing defeat is a decisive refutation.
Many writers, not only on the left, detected parallels between the rise of Corbyn and the movement around Bernie Sanders. The latter is considerably more moderate and pragmatic than the former, and also not laden with the political baggage of Corbyn’s widely-derided openness to anti-Semitic allies. And yet many leftists have emphasized the similarities between the two, which are indeed evident. Both built youth-oriented movements led by cadres of radical activists who openly set out to destroy and remake their parties. Both lost in somewhat close fashion, Sanders in 2016 and Corbyn the next year. And fervent supporters of both men treated their narrow defeats as quasi-victories, proof of victory just around the corner.
Arguments of this sort tend to quickly devolve into straw-man attacks. So, in order to show that the view I’m describing is widespread, I am sharing lengthy excerpts from a half-dozen essays written by American leftists in recent years [....]
Which means: Brexit gonna happen!
Live coverage by Andrew Sparrow @ TheGuardian.com, Dec. 12-13
Exit polls, first results and the biggest winners and losers after Britain votes in the ‘most important poll in a generation’
Frank Luntz, Steve Kornacki, Jennifer Rubin and others are discussing the possibilities on this Twitter thread:
By Jerry Lambe @ LawandCrime.com, Dec. 11
A federal court in California on Wednesday issued a nationwide injunction blocking the Trump administration from diverting money allocated by Congress for military construction projects to be used in funding a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. The decision’s reasoning was strikingly similar to a Tuesday ruling from a federal court in Texas [....]
By Alberto Luperon @ LawandCrime.com, Dec. 11
The Broward Sheriff’s Office announced Wednesday that they fired a deputy seen on video slamming a teen boy’s head to concrete.
“This was not something that we were dealing with where it was life-threatening,” Sheriff Gregory Tony told CBS Miami. “There’s no weapons involved. The deputies lives weren’t in imminent danger. There was nothing that was presenting that would require a deputy to use that level of force.”
Deputy Christopher Krickovich was the law enforcement officer seen on video roughing up 15-year-old Delucca Rolle [....]
