[UPI] A federal judge on Wednesday blocked what was scheduled to be the second federal execution this week after a 17-year moratorium. The same Obama-appointed Judge that was overruled by the Supremes Monday. Round 2 should be overruled too and she needs a bitchslap
The Department of Justice had planned to execute Wesley Ira Purkey, 68, for the rape and murder of 16-year-old Jennifer Long in 1998. After killing the teen, he dismembered, burned and dumped her body in a septic pond. He was also convicted in state court of murdering 80-year-old Mary Ruth Bales with a hammer.
The order by Washington, D.C., District Judge Tanya Chutkan blocks Purkey's execution. In a second order, Chutkan imposed an injunction on two other scheduled executions, renewing a challenge to the government's new protocol involving the drug used for lethal injection. I'd take him out and feed him alive to hogs. More fitting
"The court finds that at least one of plaintiffs' claims has a likelihood of success on the merits, and that absent a preliminary injunction, plaintiffs will suffer irreparable harm," Chutkan wrote in her order on Purkey's case.
Attorneys for Purkey have argued his execution should at least be delayed because dementia has left him unable to understand his punishment.
Wednesday's was supposed to be the federal government's second execution in two days, after Daniel Lewis Lee was put to death on Tuesday at the U.S. Penitentiary at Terre Haute, Ind., which was the first federal execution in 17 years. A third execution at the facility, for inmate Dustin Lee Honken, was scheduled for Friday -- and a fourth, for Keith Dwayne Nelson, on Aug. 28.
Attorneys for Purkey filed a request for a stay due to their client's health. In a filing with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in June, Purkey's attorneys said executing him in his current condition violates the Eighth Amendment.
"Wes Purkey is a severely brain-damaged and mentally ill man who suffers from Alzheimer's disease," defense attorney Rebecca Woodman said.
"He has long accepted responsibility for the crime that put him on death row, but as his dementia has progressed, he no longer has a rational understanding of why the government plans to execute him.
"He believes his execution is part of a large-scale conspiracy against him by the federal government in retaliation for his frequent challenges to prison conditions, and he believes his own lawyers are working against him within this conspiracy."
Purkey's attorneys said two medical experts -- Dr. Bhushan Agharkar and Dr. Jonathan DeRight -- have diagnosed him with dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
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Who cares if he can understand his punishment? Kill him anyways.
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Purkey's level of comprehension became moot after the genuinely disgusting things he did. This isn't Mr Rogers or Sesame St, he need not understand anything, he needs to go.
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Judge Chutkan (Bath House Barry appointee) will rubber stamp every capital case appeal that crosses her bench. Maybe she should have a talk with Judge Sullivan, who said he "is not a rubber stamp."
/derision
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US District Court - 11 Obama appointees, 4 Trump
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Judges that do things like this should be removed based on the "good order" clause in their appointment. They are no longer serving the Constitution and the laws passed in accordance to it, but their own political beliefs. We also need to "terminate with great prejudice" a number of others, to get the attention of others.
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[FOXNEWS] Police arrested 87 people protesting the death of Breonna Taylor outside of Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron's house on Tuesday.
All of those individuals now face felony charges of intimidating a participant in a legal process, police said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the bunker, his Excellency called the chief of staff and complained that the artillery was keeping him awake... activists remain outraged that over four months after Taylor was killed by police issuing a "no-knock" search warrant in her home, Sherlocks have yet to arrest or bring charges against the officers involved in her death.
"The protesters chose to occupy the front yard of a home owned by the Kentucky Attorney General and continuously chant towards he and his neighbors," a spokesperson for the Louisville Metro Police Department said in a statement to Fox News. "All were given the opportunity to leave, were told that remaining on the property would be unlawful, and chose not to leave."
Protesters were also hit with misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct and violations for criminal trespass. They are facing between one and five years in prison if convicted. All of the protesters were released from the Metro Department of Corrections on Wednesday, WHAS radio reported.
Among those arrested were Houston Texans’ wide receiver Kenny Stills and "Real Housewives of Atlanta" star Porsha Williams, according to reports.
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Daniel Cameron's Kentucky's first black AG and first Republican since 1948. So it looks like he's been trying to actually enforce the law all along.
[CBSNEWS] The statue of a slave trader that was torn down and thrown into a river last month in Bristol, England, was replaced overnight by a sculpture of a Black Lives Matter protester with a fist raised to the sky. The new statue of Jen Reid, who helped pull down the statue of 17th-century merchant Edward Colston in June and was photographed in the same pose, was secretly installed by the team of artist Marc Quinn at dawn on Wednesday.
A cardboard sign saying "Black lives still matter" was placed beneath the work, which the artist titled "A surge of power (Jen Reid) 2020."
The city of Bristol has not yet officially decided what to do with the plinth on which Colston's statue previously stood, and it was unclear Wednesday how long the new statue might remain in the spot. In a statement, Bristol's mayor, Marvin Rees, said that the installation had been put up without permission.
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Pull it down and install something else.
Also this was sponsored by an Arm of the UK MSM, Channel 4.
#5
Since it is a well-know fact that all black people look alike (I denounce myself!), can't we just paint the statures black until this all blows over? I mean, who is going to know? It's not like this crowd is big on historical literacy.
[GatewayPundit] In February of 2019 we reported that we are finding out additional information on how the Trump team was set up by US and foreign agents.
We shared candidate Trump’s unpaid volunteer George Papadopoulos was indicted by the Mueller team for lying. We still don’t know what he lied about, but we are finding out about the FBI’s involvement in setting him up.
Papadopoulos was in an interview with former Secret Service Agent and author Dan Bongino when he shared this –
Bongino: I want to get right to it. I have a list of questions for you. I guess the easiest question to ask is why did you meet with Mifsud?
Papadopoulos: Professor Mifsud is a Maltese professor. Just so everybody understands – he’s not a Russian.
I was working at this organization in London – the London Center for International Law Practice (LCILP) – that unbeknownst to me at the time was apparently some sort of front group for ex-western diplomats and ex-western intelligence types of personalities.
As well, the legal counsel for the FBI in the UK, Arvinder Sambei, just happens to also be a director at this organization I used to work for. I tell this organization ‘Look, I’m joining the Trump Campaign, I’m leaving. I’m going back to the U.S. I’m leaving London’.
But they all of a sudden tell me, ‘before you leave, you really need to come to Rome with us. We want to introduce you to some people there.’ So, I say, ‘that’s fine. I’ll go to Rome. It’s a three-day holiday before I get back to Washington.
They introduce me to Joseph Mifsud at this university in Rome called Link Campus. This isn’t any normal university in Rome. At the time I had no idea what this place was. But apparently, it’s a training ground for western intelligence operatives in Rome. The CIA has held symposiums there. David Ignatius from the Washington Post has actually written extensively about this place. They have connections to the FBI and other groups.
I also saw many Italian diplomats there. The ex-foreign minister of Italy was the director of this university, so things started to pop in my mind that this isn’t just a random event – a random meeting.
They tell me it’s very important for you to meet Josef Mifsud. I had no idea who this person was. He came up to me, presented himself as this mid-fifties, former diplomat, who knew the world.
Today George Papadopoulos and his wife Simona tweeted about Link University:
The Italian “university” where I “bumped” into Joseph Mifsud has been raided by Italian authorities. Italy is with us.
Simona Papadopoulos (who shared her story exclusively with us in June) reported that 14 people at Link campus are under investigation in Italy:
Today 14 people at the Link campus have been put under investigation in Italy. Including Vincenzo Scotti. All the roads lead to Rome.. @GeorgePapa19 ! pic.twitter.com/yPgV6o3Mpd
— Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos 🌸🇮🇹🇺🇸🌸 (@simonamangiante) July 15, 2020
The project features, among others, GOP political strategists Rick Wilson, Steve Schmidt, the Washington Post’s "conservative" columnist Jennifer Rubin, former "Weekly Standard" editor Bill Kristol, and disgruntled attorney, George "Mr. Kellyanne" Conway, who spends nearly all of his time trying to ruin his wife’s White House career.
In her new book, Disloyal Opposition: How the NeverTrump Right Tried―And Failed―To Take Down the President, news hound Julie Kelly looks into this group of out of work and out of favor politicos — left on the sidelines after a Trump 2016 victory. She wonders how they got the money to begin their political monkeywrenching operation against Trump after the Weekly Standard, a reliable home for the "Resistance®," went bust.
Kelly assembled the pieces of the Kristol and company money machine puzzle and winds up with a picture of a Silicon Valley billionaire. She depicts the relationship as one of basically paymaster and servant.
Kristol and most of his NeverTrump cohorts are on the dole of a left-wing philanthropist generously underwriting any cause or influencer committed to ending the Trump presidency. This billionaire benefactor has tried to stop Trump since 2016; he’s buying off so-called conservatives to create the illusion of broad intra-party disgust with Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... , an illusion that does not exist but that NeverTrump is paid — handsomely — to represent.
Pierre Omidyar is a very rich man.
Kelly reports that Omidyar is the founder of eBay and the publisher of "The Intercept." He was a billionaire at the age of 31 and is throwing around his money like his idol, George Soros ...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true...
The tech titan runs an extensive operation of nonprofits through the Omidyar Network, based in Silicon Valley. In 2017 alone, his foundation donated roughly $85 million to a variety of causes around the world. As one would expect from a Bay-area billionaire, Omidyar is anything but conservative. He, along with like-minded tycoons such as George Soros and Tom Steyer, promotes a far-left radical agenda.
Kelly reports that Kristol and other Trump haters have created or run several groups, including Defending Democracy Together and the Niskanen Center, which also receives Soros funding and which is full of well known Republicans.
Niskanen houses a who’s who of NeverTrumpers. Gabe Schoenfeld, author of a hit piece on Victor Davis Hanson, and writer Linda Chavez are senior fellows. Its advisory board includes Egg McMuffin Evan McMullin,
...I’d been wondering what he was doing with his clever self...
Mindy Finn, David Frum and Tom Nichols. In December 2018, Niskanen hosted a daylong seminar entitled ’Starting Over: The Center-Right After Trump’. Panelists included conservatives-turned-lefties Jennifer Rubin, David Frum and Bill Kristol.
ANTI-TRUMP TROLLING FOR DOLLARS
Rick Wilson announced that the anti-Trump group raised nearly $17 million to this quarter to continue their Trump hate programs. And now they’re working to get rid of Republican Senators, just like the Democrats.
Consider this group a force-multiplier for the Democrats.
The Never-Trumpers are making a splash this week after apparently orchestrating the outrageous USA Today "fact" check that floated the idea that the American eagle used on a Trump t-shirt was a Nazi symbol. That’s right, an American eagle. Worse, as I reported here, the people who "first noticed" the "similarity" were an antifa murderous Moslem in one Facebook post and — wait for it — "The Lincoln Project." That troll dove-tailed with a laudatory Washington Post story and several others predicting that the group of Trump haters would be a force to be reckoned with this election. So it looks like that billionaire money is paying off in free media.
After a video of Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson being humiliated in an interview on “Inside the Hill” began circulating Twitter yesterday, Mike Cernovich pointed out that the group’s other co-founder John Weaver is a registered foreign agent for Russia.
Weaver’s registering as a foreign agent was reported by Politico in May of 2019.
Weaver later cancelled the contract when it was made public and reported on.
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Actually, G(r)rom, I think it's 'Ricola'. Swiss banks and all.
The sad part is not that they're hypocrits, but that they're mad that they got caught.
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^I have a friend who's a police detective. According to him, he never met a criminal who believed himself a criminal.
[NBCNEWS] A House member from Kansas was slapped with voting fraud charges Tuesday about a half-hour before he took the stage in a Republican primary debate.
"I haven't done anything wrong," Rep. Steve Watkins said in the debate, sponsored by NBC affiliate KSNT of Topeka, calling the timing of the charges "very suspicious" and "highly political."
"I look forward to clearing my name. I have done nothing wrong and look forward to setting the record straight," he said.
Watkins said he hadn't yet seen the charges, which Shawnee County District Attorney Mike Kagay announced shortly before Watkins' debate against his two challengers, Kansas media reported.
"This is clearly hyperpolitical," Watkins said.
The first question of the night, posed to all three challengers, was: "What is your response to the charges?"
Watkins, who was hit with three felony charges and a misdemeanor count, is accused of having used a Topeka UPS store as his registration address for the 2019 local city and school board election and voting in the wrong City Council district.
Watkins later listed the address for an apartment complex about 2 miles north of the UPS store as his residence, then corrected his voter registration form in mid-January to list an apartment number.
"As soon as I realized that I had put my mailing address instead of my physical address, we fixed it," Watkins said at the debate, adding that he'd cooperated with the DA's investigation.
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body... was on Phoenix Channel 12 this morning.
He opened up the conversation saying Arizona is an important city.
12 News Host Mark Curtis: "Democratic nominee Joe Biden. Good to see you sir and look, Arizona is very much in play in 2020 so we appreciate you taking the time to talk to the people of our state."
Joe Biden: "Look, oh, it’s an important city..."
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"...Can't miss it, go to Wisconsin and hang a right. Wisconsin's important, isn't it?"
Mike
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[NECN] Rhode Island's capital city is looking at providing reparations to residents of African and Native American heritage, Providence Mayor Jorge Elzorza announced Wednesday.
The Democratic mayor signed an executive order creating a "Truth-Telling, Reconciliation and Municipal Reparations Process" that would examine the feasibility of providing reparations, which are typically direct cash payments to individuals.
Elorza said it's the first step in accepting the city's role in the country's fraught racial history, including Black slavery and mistreatment of Native Americans.
"We're putting a marker on the ground and committing to elevating this conversation and using the levers at our disposal to correct the wrongs of the past," he said.
Eloza said two other cities in the country have taken similar steps to provide reparations, but haven't gone as far as what he is pushing Providence to do.
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It's always easy to spend other peoples money to cover your party's moral debt.
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Ashville, NC has also jumped on the left's current bandwagon de-jour.
How about we call it more than even since an estimated 596,670 Union soldiers were killed, wounded or went missing freeing the slaves? Toss in all the diversity programs as well. Time to forget it; it's just picking an old scab over and over again.
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.
[UPI] A federal judge on Wednesday blocked what was scheduled to be the second federal execution this week after a 17-year moratorium.
...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true...
[NBCNEWS] A House member from Kansas was slapped with voting fraud charges Tuesday about a half-hour before he took the stage in a Republican primary debate.
...The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body...
