https://thebulwark.com/the-nrcc-carr...cam-tradition/
Do you even seriously have to ask? It's more than just that, that's just the most standout bit of insanity.
https://thebulwark.com/the-nrcc-carr...cam-tradition/
Do you even seriously have to ask? It's more than just that, that's just the most standout bit of insanity.
https://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...rump-officials
Unsurprisingly: Even high level officials in Trumps administration like McConnell's wife, Elain Chao, former Transportation Secretary, are having a helluva time finding the kind of work they did before joining the administration.
Guess there are gonna be a lot of other folks joining the Pence's as they couch-surf their way through a post-Trump presidency where they find themselves unemployed and largely unwanted by any company who can afford to pay them a decent salary for sitting on a board.
Giuliani files a motion to dismiss the Dominion lawsuit against him.
"On what grounds?"
He says he didn't do it.
"...he knows that's what the trial is for, right?"
Well he also claims that Dominion lacks the standing to file.
"But they're the injured party. Yes, they do."
Well, the filing also claims that Dominion can only file for lost profits.
"Well first of all, Dominion's filings show $650 million in losses or likely losses, the rest is punative. Which they're allowed to do by law. Isn't Giuliani a lawyer?"
I mean, he is for now.
"No no no. I mean, he went to law school. He's supposed to know the stuff he's staying is head-meltingly stupid."YSBA has received hundreds of complaints in recent months about Mr. Giuliani and his baseless efforts on behalf of President Trump to --
Giuliani missed the deadlinet o respond to Dominion's lawsuit and asked for a 35-day extension which ends in a matter of hours. Incidentally, 35 days before that, he said
"Did he do literally any of that?"Dominion’s defamation lawsuit for $1.3B will allow me to investigate their history, finances, and practices fully and completely. The amount being asked for is, quite obviously, intended to frighten people of faint heart. It is another act of intimidation by the hate-filled left-wing to wipe out and censor the exercise of free speech, as well as the ability of lawyers to defend their clients vigorously. As such, we will investigate a countersuit against them for violating these Constitutional rights.
No.
"Is there a Constitutional right to accuse someone else of fraud, in public, without evidence?"
No.
"Doesn't Giuliani's filed-today claim that Dominion can only sue for losses, fly in the face of his claim they can't sue him for money he doesn't have? If he claims the law says they can sue for losses, why is he complaining that the number isn't based on his finances?"
Because he's desperate and floundering. In addition to everything Giuliani said in public, about Dominion, that even if he through it was true he lacked evidence, what about all those court filings he personally signed?
And before we get too far away from this, remember: It's not if Giuliani knowingly lied. It's about if he made shit up and said it was true.
"So, he's fucked. This was his big I-need-a-month-extension and he still came up with wild flailing like a muppet in a tumble dryer."What are the major issues in the Dominion Voting Systems defamation case against Rudy Giuliani? What should law students be paying attention to?
The real major issue revolves around Mr. Giuliani's state of mind when he made the statement. When the plaintiff in a defamation case is a "public figure," Supreme Court authority requires that plaintiff to show not only that the defendant uttered a false statement damaging to reputation, but that the defendant knew it was false or acted with reckless disregard of its accuracy. The Court refers to this state of mind as "constitutional malice." The standard is designed to prevent a conflict between defamation law and the principles of the First Amendment. Moreover, the standard for constitutional malice is subjective. It is not whether a reasonable person would have known the statement to be false, but rather whether Mr. Giuliani knew it was false and said it anyway.
Dominion is almost certainly a public figure, at least insofar as issues of election integrity are concerned. Mr. Giuliani's statements were based on the declaration of an anonymous Venezuelan military officer, which he obtained from another Trump lawyer named Sidney Powell. The case will thus hinge on whether it was legally reckless for Mr. Giuliani to rely on this document.
He has one last emergency exit that I don't think's been touched on. See, Giuliani could claim his main basis for the statements is the bolded red above. He could try to throw Powell under the bus to save himself, and say "Whaaaaaaaaa? One of Trump's employees showed me information that was questionable? I am shocked, I say, shocked! I had no reason to question the Kraken when she handed me an unsigned, unnamed statement from a continent my boss insists is full of drugs, crime, and rapists like his ally Gaetz. I was merely quoting in good faith what I was shown to be as ironclad as any other unnamed source my boss has claimed are Fake News for five years."
If he does this, this will be Giulani's Last Stand, having already uses Shield Wall and Spell Reflection.
1) Because Powell will instantly turn on him if he tries that. She doesn't have $650 million, either.
2) Giuliani would be forced, in court, in person, to say "I saw the unsigned, unnamed, document from another country and assumed it was true with no attempt to verify it, and therefore made public declarations that Dominion was stealing a national election based on what basically amounts to Some Guy On Twitter."
3) Or, he could say "I trusted the source without knowing its source" and that's instant disbarrment for filing massive election-ending lawsuits based on something you didn't read and don't know that it is.
4) But regardless of which of those two versions he tries, he'll be forced to say under oath "Yes I said those things and I said so with the believe they were true" and hope that the judge/jury somehow believes "well that's something that Trump entrusted with this most valuable task would do, that seems completely reasonable".
Let me make this clear: I have enough proof Giuliani fucked his own niece, as Giuliani does that Dominion committed massive election-stealing fraud. If I were to go on live TV and say "I have proof Giuliani fucked his own niece, and also I'm filing sixty civil/criminal court cases for his incest which I can prove" then I can and should be sued and/or jailed. Because I have nothing to base such a public statement or sixty lawsuits on except deranged conspiracy theorists on Reddit /r/melty_man to work with.
And.
Even if @cubby or @Edge- or @Benggaul or someone PMed me saying "I have proof Giuliani fucked his own niece, you should say so in public and sue" it's still my dubmass fault if I do that.
Giuliani is kitchen sinking this. "I didn't say it, and even if I did you're not allowed to complain, and even if you are you can't ask for that much money, and even if you can IT WAS HER FAULT ALL HER FAULT BLAME HER NOT ME!"
https://nypost.com/2021/04/07/white-...g-migrant-boy/
Suddenly Republicans seem to...pretend to care about migrant children? Man, who knew all you had to do to get them to pretend to care was have a Democrat in the White House.
I don't think anyone actually believes they really care, especially since most were cheering on the Trump administration literally kidnapping children and losing track of their parents. But hey, at least the performative political art is mildly entertaining.
Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi
https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/s...68897183051776
Y'all...I regret to share with you...the "comedy" stylings of Greg Gutfeld. It's not funny. Conservative humor so rarely is.
He's trying to clean it up further still.
Hmm. Has McConnell ever pushed someth--Businesses must not use economic blackmail to spread disinformation and push bad ideas that citizens reject at the ballot box
The Senate voted on a tax bill pretty much nobody had read
Oh, right. The health care bill. Yeah, he totally did that. Difference is, it's not the MLB's job to read bills before making judgement. McConnell's, however, is.
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-- LaPierre, under oath.We filed this bankruptcy to look for a fair legal playing field where NRA could prosper and grow in a fair legal environment, as opposed to what we believed had become a toxic, politicized, weaponized government in New York state.
I'm pretty sure "we want to move" is not the same as "we owe more than we can pay". That doesn't sound like bankruptcy to me.
Oh, and LaPierre says he filed without telling anyone else. That's...ballsy. Investigators are going to get any records that exist.