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LetMyPeopleVote's JournalMoscow Marge is upset that critics of Moscow Marge are referring to Moscow Marge as "Moscow Marge"
https://twitter.com/middleageriot/status/1778877501629931939
https://twitter.com/Neo_Jane8/status/1778871103097618613
https://twitter.com/IAmJohnAles/status/1778970924458606930
https://twitter.com/lynn_of_cait/status/1778866490533429340
https://twitter.com/Tarquin_Helmet/status/1778022979802177873
The White House released a statement reiterating the U.S.'s "ironclad" support for Israel
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1779256065928093762
While POTUS Biden is in the situation room, TFG is having another rally
I really love laughing at the idiots who go to a TFG rally
https://twitter.com/ScooterCasterNY/status/1779218984618934594
https://twitter.com/TimcastNews/status/1779248258151293416
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1779250893008801848
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1779248761463537829
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1779246462850789720
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1779245484789453136
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1779239709488672872
The best is the at the asshole who drives around with the hog-tied Biden poster is bragging about this stunt/violation of the law
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1779244696725766191
BREAKING: White House makes statement on Iran attack.
I am happy/relieved that President Biden is on the job compared to TFG
https://twitter.com/SaltFlash/status/1779246411315282002
After targeting judges, Trump condemns criticisms of docs case judge
After targeting judges for years, Donald Trump is outraged that special counsel Jack Smith isn't exactly getting along with Judge Aileen Cannon.
https://twitter.com/stevebenen/status/1778755641814794493
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/targeting-judges-trump-condemns-criticisms-docs-case-judge-rcna147526
But the former president nevertheless returned to the subject yesterday, publishing a follow-up item to his social media platform. As Axios reported:
Former President Trump said President Biden and others were “working overtime to try to illegally intimidate and harass” Judge Aileen Cannon, who is overseeing Trump’s classified documents criminal case.
This actually understated matters a bit. In his online missive, the former president argued that President Joe Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and Smith are trying to “illegally intimidate and harass” Cannon.
In other words, the presumptive GOP nominee would have the public believe that the special counsel and the nation’s chief law enforcement officials are engaged in criminal misconduct against a federal district court judge......
We’ve probably all heard the “every accusation a confession” expression, but this is ridiculous. Trump has a variety of reasons to launch campaigns against the judges overseeing his cases, but the more the former president talks about others working the refs, the more he makes clear that he goes after judges and their families as part of a larger effort to work the refs.
The science of jury selection
I am not a litigator but I originated a nice corporate law/breach of contract/securities fraud case that had some good damages and a solvent defendant. I referred the case to a top plaintiff's firm and got to see the jury selection process up close. The plaintiff firm hired a top jury consultant and spent a ton on jury selection. The jury consultant and the plaintiff firm did two full mini trials with juries selected to mirror the population and then questioned the mock jurors to see which arguments the mock jurors found compelling. It was an interesting experience, and it is going to be fun watching the jury selection process for TFG's trial. This segment on the Katy Phang show was amusing.
https://twitter.com/katiephangshow/status/1779187812971000194
The case that I originated was my type of case and I had drafted most of the pleadings and a couple of summary judgment motions that were pending at the time of trial. I knew that the jury consultant had a shadow jury that was going to watch the trial and give the trial team feedback on the trial. I was out for High Holy Days during the first part of the jury selection (the litigators were comfortable that I was not needed for this part of the trial). I got to the court room after attending services the prior day to find out that the judge had ruled in our favor on the main summary judgement motion and that the only issue to be tried was attorney fees. The other side stipulated to attorney fees and we spent 6 years in appeals until we settle the case on great terms. I ended up doing some corporate work for the jury consultant.
A criminal trial is different from a civil trial and I doubt that there were any mock trials but many of the same principles apply. I suspect that TFG's attorneys have a jury consultant who will be looking at the social media postings of the potential jurors during the selection process.
The jury selection process will be fun to watch. Again, the methods used in civil case are different than what will be used in TFG's criminal case but some of the science will apply. Both the prosecution team and TFG's teams will have a profile that they want in the jurors sitting in this case
In plot to oust speaker, Marjorie Taylor Greene is short on friends
A grand total of zero GOP members have publicly endorsed Marjorie Taylor Greene’s effort to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson. It’s worth appreciating why.
https://twitter.com/dphtkr/status/1778823997456843137
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/plot-oust-speaker-marjorie-taylor-greene-short-friends-rcna147556
Trump world isn’t happy with Greene’s threat to throw the House GOP into chaos once again. There’s a fear that an election-year speakership battle will undercut the party’s goals of keeping the House and flipping the White House and Senate. “100 percent distraction. Unwanted. And just stupid,” one Trump insider told Playbook last night.
The report quoted another person close with Trump who added that the former president’s operation has grown weary of the constant motion-to-vacate threats. “It’s no way to run a party,” the source said.
But just as important is the fact that no one in the House Republican conference, including Greene, has any idea who could replace Johnson — the GOP’s fifth choice for speaker after contingents within the party rejected the other nominees. Axios reported:
House Republicans are vocal about not wanting to repeat last fall’s chaotic, protracted speaker vacancy, with many acknowledging there may be no alternative to the current speaker. One House Republican told Axios any vacancy would “devolve” into chaos, with “nobody” seen as prepared to step into Johnson’s shoes. “There is no one,” the lawmaker said.
Republican Rep. Troy Nehls of Texas, for example, said he wants to keep Johnson in office, not because of his deep support for the Louisianan, but because “nobody wants the job. Who wants the job? And who could do the job?”....
In other words, the beleaguered House speaker appears likely to prevail — at least for now — not because he’s done a good job and earned the respect of his colleagues, but because his party doesn’t want to deal with the power vacuum that would be left in his wake.
Despite lengthy to-do list, GOP reps eye work on home appliances
Congress has a lot of real and important work to do. So why are Republicans poised to focus on silly home-appliance bills?
https://twitter.com/stevebenen/status/1778778275008901355
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/lengthy-list-gop-reps-eye-work-home-appliances-rcna147538
But that’s just the start. Members also have work to do on providing funding to repair the Key Bridge in Baltimore, reauthorizing the soon-to-expire Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), deciding what to do with a child tax credit expansion, completing work on a possible TikTok bill, reauthorizing the FAA, finishing work on a rail-safety bill, and wrapping up work on the impeachment case against the Homeland Security secretary.
But it’s against this backdrop that the GOP-led House Rules Committee — which tends to be the last stop for bills before they reach the House floor for final votes — unveiled its schedule for next week. These are the actual bills — I’m not kidding — that the panel will take up on Monday and send to the floor for consideration from the full House.
H.R. 6192 — Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act
H.R. 7673 — Liberty in Laundry Act
H.R. 7645 — Clothes Dryers Reliability Act
H.R. 7637 — Refrigerator Freedom Act
H.R. 7626 — Affordable Air Conditioning Act
H.R. 7700 — Stop Unaffordable Dishwasher Standards Act
As Democratic Rep. Don Beyer of Virginia wrote via social media, in reference to the list of bills, “This is real. This is actually what Republicans are preparing to spend next week on in the House. Really.”.....
House GOP members tend not to like rolling up their sleeves and doing the unglamorous work of solving problems. It’s far more satisfying and entertaining to tee up the “Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act” — which will no doubt make for delightful fundraising letters and several Fox News segments — while real priorities in need of Republicans’ attention wither.
'Poor Marge': MTG mocked after report suggests she lost $32K by investing in Trump Media
MTG is one of the idiots who lost money in DJT
https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/1778843607266459821
https://www.rawstory.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-trump-stock/
Greene wouldn't respond to questions from CNBC or NBC News about her holdings in Digital World Acquisition Corp (DWAC), which merged with Trump Media and saw its share price drop at least 45 percent to date, NBC News reported.
Greene, along with Indiana GOP Rep. Larry Bucshon, revealed they bought stock in the company in October 2021 — the same month it announced the merger with Trump Media.
Just days after the announcement, Greene bought shares of DWAC ranging from $15,000 to $50,000. As NBC News points out, if Greene is still an investor in the company, she would have lost up to $32,000. Bucshon could have lost up to $8,900.
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