DL Open Thread: Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Trump Would Have Been Convicted–DOJ Report:
If Donald Trump hadn’t won the presidential election in November, the Justice Department would have had ample evidence to convict him at trial of trying to obstruct the 2020 election results, special counsel Jack Smith said in a report released early Tuesday.
The Justice Department posted the report on its website shortly before 1 a.m. — less than an hour after a court order barring its release expired. The report serves as the final public record of a historic Justice Department prosecution that never made it to trial, with the federal government abandoning the case in November after its criminal defendant became the president-elect.
Submitted Without Comment. Other than that nobody, but nobody, epitomizes the Delaware Way more than Nancy Cook. Nor does her presenter, one Bobby Byrd. (Hmmm, guess I commented.)
How Maryland Government Officials Campaigned Against Offshore Wind:
Electricity rates have skyrocketed in the mid-Atlantic region since COVID, but a proposed offshore wind farm near Ocean City, Md., has sparked widespread opposition from many Sussex County businesses and residents. The debate led a Maryland county to secretly lobby elected county leaders in Delaware to deny the project in a rare interstate episode.
StopOffshoreWind.com included the names and contact information for Sussex County Council members, as well as an online message form that sat underneath the phrase, “Write a Letter to your Sussex County Councilmembers.”
“Tell the Sussex County Council to DENY this permit,” the website stated.
What it did not show were the names of the people or companies that had created and funded it.
Spotlight Delaware has since learned that the website was the creation of a coalition of Maryland wind farm opponents, funded and led by the government of Worcester County, Md.
Great News From–The Supreme Court??:
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of Delaware’s assault weapon ban case, leaving the law intact.
The First State banned assault weapons and large-capacity magazines in 2022, which quickly prompted a lawsuit from the Delaware State Sportsmen’s Association, a gun activist group that has legally challenged several gun safety bills.
DSSA argued the legislation violates the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, as well as Delaware’s Constitution, but the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ultimately denied the group’s request for preliminary injunction.
The Third Circuit’s decision was different than one in a similar case within the Ninth Circuit, which led DSSA to file with the U.S. Supreme Court in hopes of a definitive answer.
The irony that a newspaper would refuse to adhere to the first amendment, due to the order of its billionaire boss! The Washington Post used to be a premier newspaper. It should not survive!!! (Maybe all of those excellent journalists who have quit the WaPo due to its failure to speak out for what it believes will start their own quality newspaper to replace it.)
Well, Jennifer Rubin has founded ‘The Contrarian’ with Norm Eisen ‘to combat, with every fiber of our being, the authoritarian threat that we face.’
Its tagline: “Not owned by anybody”.
I find this quote from Rubin’s resignation letter very powerful:
“None of us could imagine Katharine Graham sending LBJ or Nixon a $1M check. ”
but am depressed by the fact that it means nothing to anybody who didn’t live through the Watergate era.
Interesting article on offshore wind. Great work by Spotlight Delaware again.
Yep. This is where journalism is going. As long as great reporters have some place to report and earn a decent living, and as long as I can read what they write, I’m happy.
Legacy media is looking increasingly doomed.