[GatewayPundit] Earlier today, Alicia Powe at The Gateway Pundit exposed J6 insurrection leader James Ray Epps lying to the FBI in a leaked interview obtained by The Gateway Pundit.
After the release of this audio incriminating Epps, federal agents raided J6 political prisoner Ryan Samsel’s jail cell and dragged him to solitary confinement in the hole of the Metropolitan Detention Center Brooklyn on Thursday night.
[Breitbart] Justice Samuel Alito sparred with a government lawyer Thursday during oral arguments in which a majority of Supreme Court justices sympathized with former President Donald Trump’s attorneys’ arguments that a president does enjoy some level of immunity that endures past the term of office.
Alito pressed the government’s lawyer Michael Dreeben on its claim that a former president does not have any form of immunity. Dreeben represented Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team in arguing against Trump’s claim that he is immune from prosecution on charges of attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
As Alito phrased it, Dreeben claims that while a former president does not have immunity, he enjoys “a form of special protection, namely, that statutes that are applicable to everybody must be interpreted differently under some circumstances when they are applied to a former president.”
Dreeben agreed, attributing it to “the general principle that courts construe statutes to avoid serious constitutional questions. And that has been the longstanding practice of the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) in the Department of Justice.”
Alito questioned Dreeben’s assertion that courts would avoid prosecuting former presidents as well as if that protection was truly a protection at all:
All right. So this is more, I think, than just a quarrel about terminology, whether what the former president gets is some form of immunity or some form of special protection because it involves this difference, which I’m sure you’re very well aware of.
If it’s just a form of special protection, in other words, statutes will be interpreted differently as applied to a former president, then that is something that has to be litigated at trial. The former president can make a motion to dismiss and may cite OLC opinions, and the district court may say: Well, that’s fine, I’m not bound by OLC and I interpret it differently, so let’s go to trial.
And then there has to be a trial, the former president may be unable to engage in other activities that the former president would want to engage in. And then the outcome is dependent on the jury, the instructions to the jury and how the jury returns a verdict, and then it has to be taken up on appeal.
So the protection is greatly diluted if you take the form — if it takes the form that you have proposed. Now why is that better?
“It’s better because it’s more balanced,” Dreeben answered.
Alito also referenced “the old saw about indicting a ham sandwich,” a quip conveying that some district attorneys have so much influence on grand juries that they could get them to indict a ham sandwich.
The case is Trump v. United States, No. 23-939 in the Supreme Court of the United States.
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Some of these people will be recognized for generations like Alger Hiss.
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Justice Sotomayor said, “If the president decides that his rival is a corrupt person and he orders the military to assassinate him, is that within his official acts for which he can give immunity?”
Actually, yes, but the military will be charged with the murder since obedience of an unlawful order is not an excuse.
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Not to automatically defend Boeing but airlines could be dodging responsibility for years of crappy maintenance, and the media loves to pile on to todays designated Evil Corporation. When did they get the plane, and how did they maintain it?
[NY Post] Entitled Asshole Status™ Confirmed. Fire her
An upstate New York district attorney refused to stop for cops when she was caught speeding — and instead drove back her house and called the police chief to complain about the "a—hole" officer who pursued her home, bodycam footage shows.
Monroe County District Attorney Sandra Doorley admitted that she was driving 55 mph in a 35 mph zone on Monday on Phillips Road in Webster
…founded by Daniel Webster — the dictionary guy — it’s the fastest-growing suburb of the city of Rochester…
— less than half a mile from her neighborhood, WHAM reported.
"Once I realized that the intention of the [police car] was to pull me over, I called the Webster Police Chief to inform him that I was not a threat and that I would speak to the Officer at my house down the street," she said in a statement.
The officer followed her to her home and issued Doorley a ticket, which she accepted. The DA pleaded guilty in municipal court on Tuesday "because I believe in accepting responsibility for my actions and had no intention of using my position to receive a benefit," she said.
However, bodycam footage released by the Webster Police Department on Friday shows the tense exchange between Doorley and the officer in her driveway, in which the district attorney appears to have been doing just that.
When the cop tells her she was doing 55 in a 35, she tells him "I don’t really care," clearly irritated.
She gets on the phone and calls Webster Chief of Police Dennis Kohlmeier and asks him "can you please tell them to leave me alone?"
Doorley refuses to step outside her garage to speak with officers. She dismissively hands the cop the phone to speak with the chief and tells him "just go away." The officer can be heard explaining what happened on the phone.
She then storms inside the house against the officer’s orders.
He explains that he’s trying to conduct a traffic stop, and she shoots back "I know the law better than you," footage shows.
"What is it your so against me? I’m doing my job. You say you’re a DA?" the cop asks at one point.
"I am THE DA," she emphatically snaps back, and fetches her badge out of her car as she calls him an "a—hole."
At one point the officer asks her why she was going so fast she responded that she "didn’t feel like stopping on Phillips Road at 5:30," to which the officer responded, "That’s not your choice; you know that."
"What do you want us to do, not do our jobs because it’s you?" the officer then asks Doorley.
She tells him to just write her the ticket, but he reminds her she refused to stop.
"That’s not a traffic ticket; that’s an arrestable offense, Sandra. You know this," the cop says.
In another clip, Doorley can be heard saying, "I’ve had a really bad day; I’ve been dealing with murders in the city," and then apologizes.
In a statement after the footage was released provided to WHAM, Doorley said "nobody, including your District Attorney, is above the rule of law, even traffic laws.
"Anybody who knows me understands without a doubt that I have dedicated my entire 33 year career to the safety of this community," she continued. "My work to ensure the safety and respect of law enforcement is well proven time and time again. I stand by my work and stand by my commitment to the public safety of Monroe County."
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Privilege.
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[Gateway] After the release of this incriminating audio, federal agents raided J6 political prisoner Ryan Samsel’s jail cell and dragged him to solitary confinement in the hole of the Metropolitan Detention Center Brooklyn on Thursday night.
Earlier today, Alicia Powe at The Gateway Pundit exposed J6 insurrection leader Ray Epps lying to the FBI in a leaked interview to The Gateway Pundit.
Epps repeatedly lied to authorities saying he was listening to President Trump’s speech at the Ellipse when there is numerous video clips proving Epps was not being truthful.
Ray Epps was directing Trump supporters to the US Capitol for hours before the protests on Capitol Hill. Epps later was one of the leading protesters who broke through the first and second set of barriers going to the US Capitol.
[Just The News] The Department of Justice’s decision this week to refuse to turn over the audio tapes of President Joe Biden’s interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur could set up a new fight between the administration and Congress.
The refusal marks the second time the DOJ has declined to provide the audio tapes to Congress, though it has turned over the transcripts of the interview.
[GEO.TV] United States State Department’s spokesperson for the Middle East and North Africa, Hala Rharrit, has resigned in protest of America’s policy on Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... — at least the third high-profile resignation from the department, as pro-Paleostinian demonstrations at university campuses across the country grow.
Great idea to deny State your undeniably valuable knowledge and services. More should punish Genocide Joe’s government that way.
Rharrit was also the Dubai Regional Media Hub’s deputy director and joined the State Department almost two decades ago as a political and human rights officer, the department’s website showed.
"I resigned in April 2024 after 18 years of distinguished service in opposition to the United States’ Gaza policy," Hala Rharrit wrote in a LinkedIn post, according to Al Arabiya.
"Diplomacy, not arms. Be a force for peace and unity," she added.
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I anxiously away mass resignations, early retirements, or group self-immolations at Foggy Bottom. Don't just sit there and quietly massage your genitalia. Make your voices HEARD !
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
