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Legislators are preparing to override his veto to allow greater school choice under the state voucher system, so Gov. Cooper declared that override to be akin to be Cat 5 hurricane... jonathanturley.org/2023/05/23/cat…
...Cooper's invocation of emergency powers leaves voters with a chilling message: they are the threat.  Cooper is detecting a sharp drop in political atmospheric pressures just before an election season. For a politician, that is nothing short of an emergency.

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Jan 13
We are 15 minutes away from the oral argument in Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J. I will be on X and Fox News with the coverage...
...Notably, Lindsay Hecox does not want the Court to hear her case. This may reflect the fact that the Court is likely to not just rule against the claims under the Equal Protection Clause but establish historic new precedent...
supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/2…
...I will be listening with most interest to Justice Gorsuch who wrote the majority opinion in 2020 in Bostock v. Clayton County, ruling that federal employment discrimination laws protect gay and transgender employees. He was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan. He treated the transgender status as employment discrimination “because of sex.”...
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Jan 12
The criminal investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell raises legitimate concerns over retaliation. There was no referral from Congress (as is usually the case in alleged false statements in hearings). There are equally legitimate concerns over the soaring costs, but that is hardly unknown in Washington...
...President Trump has insisted that he did not order the criminal investigation, but the concern is that this is a Becket-like circumstance where associates respond to the implied question of "who will rid me of this meddlesome fed?'
...The most credible cases are referrals not from individual members but from a Committee and supported by the House...
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Jan 9
A new video on the cellphone camera of the shooting officer is now available. That is the video that some of us have said that we most wanted to see. It shows the car driving directly into the officer as the wife of Good taunts the officer...
...The speed of the encounter is captured in the new video and reinforces the argument of the officer under the prevailing legal standard. This does not appear to be something akin to being hit by a refrigerator door, according to Mayor Frey...
...The video does show that Good's wife taunted the agents taking the license plate of the vehicle and indicated that they expected to be contacted later. However, Good takes off without her and speeds directly into the officer...
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Jan 9
Jacob Frey is calling for Minnesota to be part of the investigation. Given his infamous declaration of the officer as a murderer and profane attack on ICE, Frey may be the least compelling person to call for such cooperation...
...Frey is confirming that there are "lies, damn lies, and statistics". He is claiming that ICE is responsible for "fifty percent of the shootings" in the city. It is only January 9th. Two shootings have occurred in the first week...
...Notably, Frey was immediately followed by another local politician who immediately repeated that the officer was a murderer...
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Jan 7
Mayor Jacob Frey just called the claim of self-defense "b*llsh*t" and said that he watched the video. He apologized to the family and said that ICE is in Minnesota to "literally kill people." This is the type of rhetoric that fuels the rage. Perhaps wait for the investigation?...
...Frey says "let us offer the best version of ourselves . . . show them who we are." He added we will meet this moment "with love" while saying "get the f**k out of Minneapolis."
...Frey just said again that it "is not true" that this was done in self-defense because the woman was driving away from the officers...
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Jan 5
If Maduro thought the seizure operation was scary, wait until he reads this superseding indictment. He is not just facing documented allegations of his facilitating drug transits, but also potential high-level cooperating witnesses...justice.gov/opa/media/1422…
...The indictment details how this was not just a criminal enterprise but a family enterprise. The socialism shtick concealed an alleged burgeoning narcotics operation. Cartel communism was a market-driven business using state power to enforce monopoly power.
...Maduro has asked to speak with his consulate, which is his right and that of his wife as foreign nationals. It raises an interesting question of whether the Venezuelan government has paid counsel. That could get around government challenges to the source of legal fees...
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