He’s Once, Twice, 34 Times A Felon. Brings a tear to my eye. Jennifer Rubin states the sadly obvious:
The flock of pundits who insisted trying Trump was constitutionally untoward and strategically unwise nowlook foolish and, worse, clueless about the importance of holding Trump accountable for his crimes. One cannot defend the rule of law while simultaneously pleading for a different standard of prosecution for former presidents. Disregarding the naysayers, Bragg upheld his oath and struck a blow for accountability in delivering what may be the only criminal verdict against Trump before the election. (Even if the scandal-plagued Supreme Court were to extend immunity to Trump in the Jan. 6, 2021, case, the ruling would be inapplicable to the Manhattan case concerning personal matters that took place before Trump took office.)
Especially when the federal courts are paralyzed with partisan judges, a state criminal court verdict reaffirms the Founders’ wisdom in devising a system of government with two sets of courts. On the federal side, Trump toady and U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon and the right-wing partisan majority on the Supreme Court (besmirched by Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.’s unforgivable breach of impartiality) seem to have ground the courts to a halt.
Federalism is designed precisely for this dilemma: If justice is thwarted in one system, it can be pursued in the other. Bragg has bolstered democracy with one guardrail — the state courts — in the face of the collapse of another, the federal courts. (The Fulton County RICO case, meanwhile, is hopelessly bogged down, the result of District Attorney Fani T. Willis’s decision to file a sprawling, unmanageable case against nearly 20 defendants.)
“This is the final battle,” he told supporters in the narration. “With you at my side, we will demolish the deep state. We will expel the warmongers from our government. We will drive out the globalists. We will cast out the communists, Marxists and fascists. We will throw off the sick political class that hates our country.”
“We will rout the fake news media and we will liberate America from these villains once and for all,” he concluded.
Falls short of a call for insurrection–but just short.
John Flaherty Does Media’s Job For Them. Calls for an investigation into blatant Carney Administration cover-up of Department Of Labor embezzlement:
An open government group has asked the Delaware General Assembly to investigate an undisclosed embezzlement problem at the state Department of Labor’s Division of Unemployment Insurance.
John Flaherty, Delaware Coalition for Open Government board member, said the investigation request follows a May 6 story by WHYY News about a former Delaware Department of Labor supervisor who embezzled more than $181,000 from the state’s unemployment insurance trust fund in 2023.
The state did not reveal the embezzlement despite state law specifying the disclosure of illegal activity in their official reports, Flaherty said.
Someone should ask both members of the Carney/Hall Long team why they support this ongoing lack of governmental transparency.
Karl Baker Reveals Carney’s Latest Secret Plot. How Carney plans to fund the port expansion:
Gov. John Carney plans to contribute $195 million in state funds to help build a new container port, but his administration has refused to publicly disclose how much money sits in the little-known pot of money that he plans to utilize for it. That funding, which has previously helped to pay state retiree health care costs, could also become entangled with a looming Supreme Court case penalty.
Asked whether Delaware is at risk of losing any of that money after the Supreme Court ruled last year that the state must give up one source of it, a spokesperson for the governor said in an emailed statement that the fund is “sufficient” to satisfy claims that could result from the legal fight.
The lack of transparency appears to be a direct result of the Supreme Court case, which was brought by Pennsylvania and several other states that sought to challenge Delaware’s lucrative, yet aggressive, seizures of unclaimed property held by companies that maintain their legal home in the First State.
But, some of that money also flows to a separate fund that the state holds in reserve to resolve what it calls extraordinary claims on its unclaimed property operations. And, a portion of that fund can flow to yet another pot of money, if Delaware Finance Secretary Rick Geisenberger deems it to be in “excess” of what the state needs in reserve.
It is that little-known excess amount that Carney tapped to pay for nearly a third of the Edgemoor port construction estimated to cost $635 million.
Who the fuck elected Rick Geisenberger to officially deem anything to be ‘excess’?
This is more sneaky Delaware Way shit. Other than Karl Baker, who will decide not to just look the other way because of ‘jobs’?
What do you want to talk about?