ICYMI:
Florida Bar suspended Matt Gaetz's law license for failure to pay fees
They called him “delinquent” & said he's “not eligible to practice law in Fla”
Gaetz money situation is reported to be flailing
(And this isn't a lot of money)
Uh oh Matty.. thedailybeast.com/delinquent-mat…
Per DB: " the Florida Bar has branded Gaetz as “delinquent” twice in the past two years. The organization temporarily cut him off in 2019 and again in 2020, because Gaetz failed to affirm that he is properly handling and protecting any clients’ money in trust accounts. .
2/"Lawyers must abide by strict rules to ensure they are not stealing or misusing money that belongs to the people they represent .. In 2019, he also ran afoul of the professional organization’s “standards of civility” for serving the role of Trump attack dog.
3/"Gaetz threatened Trump Organization attorney-turned-whistleblower Michael Cohen on the eve of his tell-all congressional testimony, tweeting at him: “Do your wife & father-in-law know about your girlfriends?”
4/"When Gaetz later apologized, the group’s grievance committee let him off the hook—but not before issuing a “letter of advice” that said his behavior was “unprofessional, reckless, insensitive, and demonstrated poor judgment.”
5/"[and some are] some thinking Gaetz failed to pay his lawyer dues to avoid having his license unceremoniously revoked. “It might be a calculated move. I think he’s preemptively trying to remove a level of scrutiny from the Bar,” said Cris Dosev.."
BAD week for Matt Gaetz!
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Biden's Supreme Court Commission has released a draft report on their findings
And it doesn't look like they're strongly recommending an expansion
Final report due 11/14
Per Psaki: Biden won't be commenting until the final report is released
Here: cbsnews.com/news/supreme-c…
2/"The commission arranged a separate 16-person committee of Supreme Court lawyers and former solicitors general who collectively have argued more than 400 cases before the high court, to share their views on the proposals for major changes to the court.
3/"This group "unanimously oppose[d] proposals to enlarge the court" because "increasing the number of justices represents an escalation of the problem, not a solution, and a larger bench could make arguments less productive, deliberations more difficult,
Lots of folks aren't understanding what's involved in Congress referring for criminal contempt. So here's a thread from Jan 6th Committee chair Bennie Thompson's statement on referring Steve Bannon to DOJ
Everyone should read these words:
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"Any person who willfully refuses to provide testimony or documents subpoenaed by Congress..is potentially liable for contempt of Congress under 2 U.S.C. §§ 192, 194. Contempt of Congress is a crime that may result in a fine and between one and twelve months imprisonment.
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"Contempt of Congress begins with a “formal action” by the Select Committee, i.e., a business meeting at which a contempt report is adopted. If a witness fails to appear, produce documents, or refuses to answer any question “pertinent to the question under inquiry,”
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Here's the second letter WH Cousel Dana Remus sent to Nat'l Archives
Dated 10/8 & publicly released today
-doubling down on Biden's position that EP not be extended to Trump for *any* of the docs requested by Jan 6th Committee
thread: whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…
2/"For the same reasons described in my earlier letter, the President maintains his conclusion that an assertion of executive privilege is not in the best interests of the United States, and therefore is not justified as to any of the documents
3/"..Biden does not uphold the former President’s assertion of privilege [&] instructs you..to provide the pages identified as privileged by the former President to the Select Committee.
So I just read Kyrsten Sinema's Wiki page
She had a rough early life
You would think that she is one who would *completely* understand the needs that reconciliation's social programs will fill for millions
Something is *very* wrong with this picture
Here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyrsten_S…
2/"When her stepfather lost his job and the bank foreclosed on their home amid the 1973–1975 recession, the family lived for three years in an abandoned gas station.[19][20] Sinema has said that for two years they had no toilet or electricity while living there.[21]
3/"She later recalled, "My stepdad built a bunk bed for me and my sister. We separated our bunk bed from the kitchen with one of those big chalkboards on rollers. I knew that was weird. A chalkboard shouldn't be a wall. A kitchen should have running water."[21]
NEW!
Jan 6th Committee has issued a slew of new subpoenas for testimony & records to people tied to events leading up to 1/6, incl the rally at the Ellipse & the Capitol
I will list the names below ⤵️
Here's their statement: january6th.house.gov/news/press-rel…
Subpoenaed:
Amy Kremer, founder and Chair of WFAF.
Kylie Kremer, founder and Executive Director of WFAF.
Cynthia Chafian, submitted the first permit application on behalf of WFAF for the January 6th rally, and founder of the Eighty Percent Coalition.
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Caroline Wren, listed on permit paperwork for the January 6th rally as “VIP Advisor.”
Maggie Mulvaney, listed on permit paperwork for the January 6th rally as “VIP Lead.”
Justin Caporale, of Project Manager of Ellipse rally
Event Strategies, Inc.,
And ⤵️
Wow
SO:
Per Dylan Byers at Puck:
The front runner emerging to take Rachel Maddow's place in the 9pm MSNBC time-slot next year
is none other than Nicolle Wallace!!
Thread
or more here: puck.news/msnbc-stares-d…
2/"NBC executives and producers told me much of Chris Hayes‘ audience at 8 p.m. and Lawrence O’Donnell‘s audience at 10 p.m. is made up of Maddow viewers who show up early and stay late.
3/"Not a single one of those high-level insiders thought either host could sustain their current audiences without her, let alone come close to matching hers