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Leslie McAdoo Gordon 🇺🇸 Profile picture
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America: Here is (part of) the sacrifice you made to preserve the Union & end slavery. This is the National cemetery in Petersburg, VA. Thousands of slain men, from across the nation, many buried as unknowns. Sons, husbands, brothers, fathers.
The cemetery was built in 1866. They found as many of the Union soldiers buried around Petersburg during the battles & reburied them here. Headstones have names, the numbered square stones are unknown Union soldiers.
The fallen came from all over our nation. PA, NY, NJ, Maine.
Maryland, Connecticut, Ohio, Delaware
Massachusetts, Michigan, West Virginia, Vermont
There were a number of Black Union troop units that fought at Petersburg. Black & white they lie fallen here together - an eternal testament to the strength, determination & moral courage of our nation.

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Leslie McAdoo Gordon 🇺🇸 Profile picture
Oct 11
Invoke your inner libertarian!

Step 1: Practice saying these every day:

1. To each their own.
2. So what.
3. Not my problem.
4. Doesn’t affect me.
5. Mind your own business.

Get used to thinking like that. Because for 85% (at least) of things - that’s the right answer.
Step 2: Make a list of the issues in the 15% of things where those aren’t the right answers.

Like protecting the vulnerable from bullies & predators & minority view holders from majority tyrants; free speech, freedom of conscience; US sovereignty; etc.

It’s a short list really.
Step 3: Prepare for what you’re willing and able to do to speak or act when those 15% of issues come up.

Otherwise, roll out the sayings in Step 1.

If we all acted more in a libertarian way in every day life, we’d all be better off & half our problems would disappear.
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Leslie McAdoo Gordon 🇺🇸 Profile picture
Oct 11
Be informed & don’t be naive.

DOJ had gotten indictments on Comey & James. And I’m personally satisfied that both are likely guilty (based on the available known facts at this moment) & that their prosecutions are justified & warranted.
That by no measure means that they will be convicted. They could easily be acquitted or the cases dismissed for legal reasons not related to guilt.
There are issues with both cases. (There are issues with nearly all criminal cases.)

They have or will have good defense lawyers. There are factual and legal defenses and/or difficulties for the prosecutors in both cases. (Comey’s more than James’.)
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Leslie McAdoo Gordon 🇺🇸 Profile picture
Oct 9
Federal judges have become so used to issuing opinions & orders that invalidate federal agency actions that they no longer recognize where the line is drawn signaling the end of their power & so they fail to see that they blew past that line miles ago.
Any federal judge thinking they can personally enjoin the POTUS (or the Congress as a body either) has totally lost the plot.

Nor does a federal court have ANY power to dictate what/how the POTUS as Commander in Chief directs active duty military personnel, esp beforehand.
It does not matter that a prior order says that POTUS cannot federalize a state National Guard. POTUS has the power to direct already federalized Guardsman from other states to assist in the carrying out of federal law. That’s not an end run around the earlier ruling.
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Leslie McAdoo Gordon 🇺🇸 Profile picture
Sep 27
Should Comey have been charged?

As we discussed on the Spaces last night, I’ve been going back and forth in my mind on this question ever since the indictment dropped. There are competing considerations, but I’ve finally concluded that the answer is yes, he should have been.
It goes without saying that both the lawfare & the coup against Trump were totally unacceptable. And Comey is partly responsible for both. That makes him a traitor to the republic. It doesn’t necessarily mean he broke any federal criminal laws in doing so, although he might have.
Mostly tho, the federal criminal law is not designed to address that conduct. We haven’t needed criminal statutes in the past to tell people not to undermine the duly elected POTUS. Thank goodness, in a way.
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Leslie McAdoo Gordon 🇺🇸 Profile picture
Sep 27
Will Comey be convicted?

It’s impossible for any competent lawyer to say with any degree of certainty at this stage - either way.

The indictment is not legally defective as far as I can see.

So it won’t be dismissed on that basis.
The defense has some facts on which to base a vindictive/selective prosecution motion to dismiss.

But those motions fail 99% of the time.
The facts may be weak or they might not be. There aren’t enough of them in the indictment to say at this stage.

But even if they are weak, there is no way before trial to contest them. And Comey is unlikely to plead guilty.

So it’s likely a trial.
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Leslie McAdoo Gordon 🇺🇸 Profile picture
Aug 25
The EO banning no cash bail in DC may be legal but doesn’t address the real problem.

DC law permits judges to detain anyone who’s violent/a risk to others or a flight risk. No cash bail is only for people who aren’t. The problem is w/juveniles, not adults getting no cash bail.
And the EO may not be legal actually either. I’d need to go back and look at the authorities closely.

But the fact that the feds have power over DC doesn’t necessarily mean the federal executive branch can do whatever it wants.

Congress has the constitutional power over DC.
Congress definitely has the power to override any DC law. In fact, DC laws don’t go into effect until the Congress either exercises its right to amend them or passes on that.

So, I’m not sure that the POTUS has the authority to override a law that Congress has approved.
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