DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 27, 2022
Yes, The Feds Had Loads Of ‘Probable Cause’ To Raid Mar-A-Lago:
The affidavit suggests that if some of the classified documents voluntarily returned from Mar-a-Lago to the National Archives and Records Administration in January had fallen into the wrong hands, they could have revealed sensitive details about human intelligence sources or how spy agencies intercept the electronic communications of foreign targets. Over the spring and summer, the affidavit states, the FBI came to suspect that Trump and his team were hiding the fact that he still had more classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, leading agents to want to conduct a search of the property.“There is also probable cause,” the affidavit says, “to believe that evidence of obstruction will be found.”
The warrant authorizing the August search said agents were seeking all “physical documents and records constituting evidence, contraband, fruits of crime, or other items illegally possessed in violation of three potential crimes,” including a part of the Espionage Act outlawing gathering, transmitting or losing national defense information. The warrant also cites destruction of records and concealment or mutilation of government material.
The fact that, with Trump, this is all ‘dog-bites-man’ stuff, illuminates the degree of his criminality.
Get To Know Amy Coney Barrett’s Cult:
The People of Praise, a secretive Christian faith group that counts the conservative supreme court justice Amy Coney Barrett as a member, considered women’s obedience and subservience to men as one of its central early teachings, according to leaked remarks and writings of the wife of one of the group’s founders.
A leaked video of a recent private People of Praise event, marking its 50th anniversary, shows Dorothy Ranaghan explaining how some female followers of the faith group cried intensely in reaction to the group’s early teachings on “headship” and the “roles of men and women”, in which men are considered divinely ordained as the “head” of the family and dominant to women.
The Guardian has previously reported that one of the group’s former members described in a sworn affidavit filed in the 1990s that Kevin Ranaghan – a group co-founder and Dorothy’s husband – exerted almost total control over the former member when she was living in the couple’s household, including making all decisions about her finances and dating relationships. The group also embraces traditions like encouraging members to speak in tongues, and performing exorcisms.
Barrett, who lived in the Ranaghan household while she attended law school at Notre Dame, has never publicly disclosed or discussed her membership in the Christian charismatic sect, where her father had a leadership role and where she previously served as a “handmaid”. Barrett has said she is a “faithful Catholic” whose religious beliefs would not “bear in the discharge of my duties as a judge”.
Did I mention that she’s now on the Supreme Court for life? You have to work to find people this extreme to put on the Court. You also have to work to uncover stuff like this. Something, oh, say, Chris Coons would never do. She’s religious, that’s good enough for him.
Cali Doesn’t Wait Around For The Feds. All new cars sold after 2035 must be emissions-free. Auto manufacturers support the regulation. The petroleum industry? Well, we’ll see:
California, the nation’s largest auto market, plans to require that all new cars sold in the state be emissions-free by 2035. Currently, about 16 percent of new cars sold in the state are electric. California will have to boost that number to 35 percent by 2026, and to 68 percent by 2030. And at least a dozen other states are expected to follow suit.
C’mon, Delaware, join that list of states. If we get rid of Deb Heffernan, we can pass that emissions reduction bill she buried in her own committee. That’s a good start.
Delaware Stonewall Endorsements/RD 32 Race. Some good background from the Delaware State News:
Mr. McGinnis’ notable campaign contributions include those from former Republican state Sen. Greg Lavelle, the campaign committee of former Democratic state Rep. Quinn Johnson, and several lobbyists, developers and Realtors.
Ms. Harris’ notable donations are from a number of incumbent Delaware legislators, including Rep. Eric Morrison, D-Glasgow; Rep. Larry Lambert, D-Claymont; Rep. Madinah Wilson-Anton, D-Newark; Rep. Melissa Minor-Brown, D-New Castle; Sen. Sarah McBride, D-Wilmington; and Sen. Pinkney.
What do you want to talk about?
I just heard a guest on CNN say that the top secret documents might be “too secret” (too damaging to national security if disclosed) to allow for prosecution.
That would be a very Trumpy twist. Kinda like when he borrowed SO MUCH money from so many banks that they all decided to keep him afloat.
Let’s not forget that Philly boy got $$$$ from his fellow Real Estate mogul and former state Rethug Chair Mike Harrington!
Or his trip to Harrington for the Trump Rally in 2016.
Just finished up a canvass for Shane.
I think that door-to-door canvassing is democracy at its best. I love it.
Bumped into Bud Freel, who was canvassing for Nnamdi. I’ve always enjoyed talking with Bud, and today was no exception.
Bumped into another group canvassing for Nnamdi. We joked and wished each other luck.
I know we can only do this on smaller-scale local races. Which, apparently, is where I belong. Don’t mind in the least.
I miss walking the streets. Shane’ will win on the merits she is the real deal!
i LOVE YOU FOR IT.
What I don’t get about Nnamdi is that he’s not a firebreather like his father. Instead of being a man of the people he’s been co-opted into the Delaware Way. Never thought that would happen.
We endorsed him in his run against the terminally-shady Charles Potter.
Were really happy when he won.
I don’t think there’s any way Shane would have challenged him if he had voted to protect renters’ legal rights, and hadn’t carried Mayor Mike’s and Buccini/Pollin’s water on eminent domain.