DL Open Thread: Thursday, June 16, 2022
Ginni Thomas Acted As John Eastman’s Cheerleader:
The emails show that Thomas’s efforts to overturn the election were more extensive than previously known, two of the people said. The three declined to provide details and spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.
The two people said the emails were among documents obtained by the committee and reviewed recently. Last week, a federal judge ordered Eastman to turn more than 100 documents over to the committee. Eastman had tried to block the release of those and other documents by arguing that they were privileged communications and therefore should be protected.
Has any D senator called for Clarence Thomas’ resignation? If not, why not? I mean, reverse the roles and you don’t have to ask whether the R’s would do such a thing.
Eastman Had Inside Line Into Thinking Of Supreme Court Justices On Prospective Jan. 6 ‘Chaos’. Eastman, Ginni Thomas, Clarence Thomas. Connect the dots:
WASHINGTON — A lawyer advising President Donald J. Trump claimed in an email after Election Day 2020 to have insight into a “heated fight” among the Supreme Court justices over whether to hear arguments about the president’s efforts to overturn his defeat at the polls, two people briefed on the email said.
The lawyer, John Eastman, made the statement in a Dec. 24, 2020, exchange with a pro-Trump lawyer and Trump campaign officials over whether to file legal papers that they hoped might prompt four justices to agree to hear an election case from Wisconsin.
“So the odds are not based on the legal merits but an assessment of the justices’ spines, and I understand that there is a heated fight underway,” Mr. Eastman wrote, according to the people briefed on the contents of the email. Referring to the process by which at least four justices are needed to take up a case, he added, “For those willing to do their duty, we should help them by giving them a Wisconsin cert petition to add into the mix.”
Could This Finally Be The End Of–Vince McMahon? Wrestling Observer’s Dave Meltzer said that tons of CEO’s have been deep-sixed for far less. The WWE Board conducting the investigation also uncovered several other previous NDA’s:
World Wrestling Entertainment’s board is investigating a $3 million hush-money settlement that CEO Vince McMahon paid a woman over an alleged affair, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, citing documents and people familiar with the matter.
The agreement, which was struck in January, is intended to prevent the woman, who had worked as a paralegal for the company, from discussing her relationship with McMahon or making critical statements about the chief executive, the Journal added.
A WWE spokesman told the newspaper that the company is cooperating with the board’s investigation and that the relationship between McMahon and the woman was consensual.The report said the board’s investigation, which started in April, also revealed nondisclosure pacts related to misconduct claims from other women who had worked at WWE. These agreements involved McMahon and WWE talent executive John Laurinaitis, who wrestled under the name Johnny Ace, the Journal added.
What the Democrats need to do, right now, is to make it clear: they may have 50 votes in the Senate, but they do not have 50 votes to pass the legislation that the American people want and need. They have no Republican support and there are two Democrats who will vote with Republicans on important issues.
Now is the time to make democracy work. Let us bring to the Senate floor the major issues impacting working families and vote, vote and vote again. Even if we lost these votes, which is likely, the American people have the right to see where their elected officials stand. Make them vote!
The Democratic party cannot continue to ignore the needs of the working class of our country and expect to retain majority control in the US House and US Senate. It’s time to show which side we’re on. It’s time to start voting.
Why DE LEOBOR Reform Is Dead With Current General Assembly. More articles like this one from Esteban Parra and Hannah Edelman, and they’d have more subscribers. Thankfully, I’m one of the remaining subscribers, so I can share some of this:
But as the two-year anniversary of Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin passed last month, nothing of significance has come of those election-year pledges – and nothing is expected to occur before the General Assembly session ends on June 30.
Days after the world saw Minnesota Police Officer Derek Chauvin use his knee to drain the life out of Floyd’s body, Delaware lawmakers gathered in front of Legislative Hall to announce measures to reform police accountability in the state. Delaware Speaker of the House Pete Schwartzkopf was among those gathered on June 10.
While Schwartzkopf (said he) agreed on a need to change, many blame him and the Democrat’s two other House leaders for delays in significant reform. Schwartzkopf and House Majority Whip John L. Mitchell are former police officers and House Majority Leader Valerie Longhurst is the Police Athletic League of Delaware’s executive director.
- Four of Delaware’s nine lawmakers in leadership roles have ties to law enforcement – they are either former officers or work closely with police organizations.
- At least eight Delaware lawmakers (13% of the General Assembly) are former law enforcement officers: six former police officers and two Delaware deputy attorneys general.
- At least 21 lawmakers have some sort of link to law enforcement, that includes everything from being former police officers to benefiting from working or overseeing law enforcement organizations.
- Half – 31 – of lawmakers receive money from the Delaware State Troopers Association’s political action committee, Troopers PAC.
“A legislator writing a policy is not going to get the approval of the law enforcement officers, I’m going to tell you that right now,” Schwartzkopf said then.
“It is amazing what we see happen to good legislation that could promote real change because of the need to support law enforcement,” said Cameron McEllhiney, director of training with National Association for Indianapolis-based Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement.
So much more in this article. But the message couldn’t be more clear. Until the Kop Kabal goes, there can be no reform.
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