Only 20 days to go. Be sure to support your candidates with money and time. This is a very significant primary. But the movement is bigger than any single Election Day.
Elections are an important part of a program of sustained activism, not an end in themselves.
Lydia York campaigning at the Middletown Peach Festival.
Also…This Thursday
Join us on Thursday, August 25th from 3pm to 8pm for a Canvass Cookout in support of DeShanna Neal’s state house candidacy is District 13.
Food from the grill and drinks sponsored by the Highlands Bunker podcast! The cookout location will serve as a rally point for teams of canvassers. Experienced activists and campaigners will lead groups into the neighborhoods to speak with folks about positive political change for regular people. And how DeShanna and the Working Families Party slate can delivery it!
Apparently a signage vandalism spree has hit Suxco.
The race for the Sussex County Council District 5 seat is of particular interest and has resulted in one of the most negative campaigns witnessed in years. We urge the candidates and their supporters to keep the debate centered around the issues.
The phrase of the day is “taint team”
(CNN)A federal judge in Florida has given former President Donald Trump until Friday to refine the legal arguments in his request for a special master (a third party attorney) to oversee the review of evidence gathered in the Mar-a-Lago search.
District Court Judge Aileen Cannon in the Southern District of Florida ordered Trump’s lawyers to elaborate on their arguments for why the court has the ability to step in at this time, explain what exactly Trump is asking for and whether the Justice Department has been served with Trump’s special master motion.“What’s she saying is, ‘What are you doing in front of me?'” Mark Schnapp, a criminal defense lawyer in Florida who spent seven years working for the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida, told CNN.
…Trump waited two weeks to make such a request, raising eyebrows because of how far along in the process the Justice Department likely is in reviewing what it seized at Mar-a-Lago. (For the review, the Justice Department is using what’s known as “taint team,” which is a group of prosecutors not working on the probe in question who filter out materials that should not be handed over to investigators.)And when Trump did file his request with the court, the complaint leaned heavily into political accusations, while being light on the sort of legal discussion that would explain to a court why it should intervene and what authority it had to do so. When Trump’s lawyers did cite the court rules they said gave the judge the authority to grant the request, they cited the rules of civil procedure, without any explanation for why those rules should be applied in a context concerning a criminal search warrant.