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Here's what Grassley said last November on 1 reason he was relaxing standards on prior drug use by judicial nominees: 'Maybe the word gets around that you better lie about it or you ain’t going to get a judgeship. That’s kind of worried me a lot.' politi.co/2OEAr5A
If due to some bizarre twist of fate you actually care about the judicial background check process above and beyond the current furor, I'd commend to you this video of the Sen. Judiciary Committee from last November (start 40:10 in) bit.ly/2ODalQD
You'll see the senators of both parties calmly and rationally discussing the issue of how to treat past drug use by judicial nominees. (And also Sen. Durbin praising Sen. Grassley for how fair he always is.) If we get a hearing next week, it won't look much like this, folks.
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Judge just sentenced CIA contractor to 90 days for filling 60 notebooks w/classified data and taking them home. Defense asked for Petraeus probation deal but judge said 'significantly' need to deter others from similar conduct... Earlier: politico.com/story/2018/05/…
Still a mystery is why Reynaldo Regis spent years doing unauthorized database searches and recording the results. Judge O'Grady: 'The $64 question is why was he keeping these notebooks?' Neither prosecution nor defense nor Regis answered the judge's Q, but....
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Sessions on Trump: 'He calls himself a law and order president--and he means it!'
Approaching 10 references to Trump so far in this speech.
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Chief Justice Roberts acted Saturday to keep in place (at least for now) a disputed FEC regulation that lets many dark-money group donors stay anonymous politi.co/2OqpW60
A 3-judge DC Circuit panel seemed happy to let the regulation go. 'Unlike fine wines, regulations that so materially rewrite and recast plain statutory text do not improve with age,' wrote panel w/1 GWBush judge & 2 Obama judges.
Also of note: this was a Chevron deference case with a reversal of the typical roles. Conservatives favored giving FEC broad latitude to craft their reg, while liberal-leaning group said reg was in too much tension with statute.
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The Texas decision on the Affordable Care Act is out. The individual mandate is unconstitutional, the court rules, and the mandate can't be severed from the rest of the Act.
The court's decision is NOT limited to guaranteed issue and community rating. In the court's view -- and this is *absolutely* insane -- the entire Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional.
Procedurally, however, the court has not granted an injunction. He has instead treated the red states' motion for a preliminary injunction as a request for summary judgment.
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Assange Statement On The 1st Day Of Manning Trial | 4 June 2013

As I type these lines, on June 3, 2013, Private First Class Bradley Edward Manning is being tried in a sequestered room at Fort Meade, Maryland, for the alleged crime of telling the truth.

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The court martial of the most prominent political prisoner in modern US history has now, finally, begun.
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He was shipped to Kuwait, placed into a cage, and kept in the sweltering heat of Camp Arifjan.
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@tal7291 @Medscape You’re talking to each other, not your patients! Until you talk to your patients you’ll never understand what this “epidemic” is doing to Chronic pain sufferers 1. These patients reported adequate pain control at varying dosages of opioids. Adequate defined as pain that was (1)
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This comes down to leadership. Senate Dem leaders could take a stand and station one senator on the floor at all times to object, forcing McConnell to jump through interminable hurdles & produce 51 votes - twice - for each nominee, likely resulting in fewer lifetime Trump judges.
I laid out some of the procedural tools Dems could use here. It's not that complicated: basically, all Dems would have to do is have one Senator on the floor at all times. It doesn't even have to be the same senator - they can rotate as often as they want.
To be clear, doing this would *not* block all of the judges confirmed under this agreement.

But it *would* force McConnell to run through the time-consuming "cloture" process for each nomination, and produce 51 recorded votes twice for each nominee. This has a few advantages:
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People are falling for the media’s tricks. The media wants to implicate Trump in Russian collusion. They’re desperate to do so. So, they see “connections” where they don’t exist. For example.
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Since our Cdn #FakeNews is crowing about Trudeau "taking the highroad" with @POTUS, I thought it would be fun to have a look at how much truth there is behind that statement, and how we got to this trade war.
FACT: Trudeau had declared war on Trump before he was ever elected. 1/
A "War Room"??
Seriously, does your ALLY and friend create a "war room" to deal with you? 2/
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