Former President Donald J. Trump

[BARON CORNY DOG]

Hooray! More Trump Judges on the way!

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his GOP caucus have long prioritized confirming conservative judges to lifetime appointments. But they’re about to accelerate their ability to unilaterally approve many nominees in dramatic fashion.

The Senate is on track to confirm the 34th Circuit Court judge of Trump’s presidency in the next week and the GOP has three more ready for floor action; that would give Trump roughly 20 percent of the Circuit Court seats in the country after just two years in office. At this rate, McConnell and Trump could leave few, if any, vacancies there for a potential Democratic president in 2021.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/ ... lid=630318

[Count Machuki]

Did you see they confirmed one thirty-seven year-old lady to a lifetime appointment?
I'm pretty sure that 37 was just about the life expectancy in 1776. Given, we've made some progress on infant mortality and such.
Maybe it's time we reexamined this whole lifetime appointment thing?

[BARON CORNY DOG]

Did you see they confirmed one thirty-seven year-old lady to a lifetime appointment?
I'm pretty sure that 37 was just about the life expectancy in 1776. Given, we've made some progress on infant mortality and such.
Maybe it's time we reexamined this whole lifetime appointment thing?

Good for the goose, good for the gander. If a judicial OAC were nominated to the federal bench we’d be ecstatic.

Democrats aren’t appropriately obsessed with stacking the bench when they have the power and to their credit, the Republicans always have their eyes on the prize.

[Count Machuki]

Anybody tried to watch any of TRUMP’s C-PAC speech? Holy fuck. It’s all starting to make sense to me now. I’m sure the time I spent trying to make sense of that caused serious, irreversible brain damage!

At CPAC, Trump ricocheted from his prepared teleprompter remarks into what can only be described as a herky-jerky, stream-of-conscious creepshow -- a Willy Wonka ride into the dark, twisted world of Trump’s increasingly haunted and scattered brain. There was sweaty red-faced performance art; American flag leg-humping; bizarre and often shouty anecdotes leading nowhere; insults and obscenities directed at his enemies, both real and imagined; mean-spirited attempts at jokes; unabridged fear-mongering about infanticide and murderous immigrants; bug-eyed facial contortions more terrifying than the Momo Challenge; and other kneejerk outbursts that defy description.

:| Go on...

[Snarfyguy]

Did you see they confirmed one thirty-seven year-old lady to a lifetime appointment?
I'm pretty sure that 37 was just about the life expectancy in 1776. Given, we've made some progress on infant mortality and such.
Maybe it's time we reexamined this whole lifetime appointment thing?

Apparently she's practiced law for nine years, tried all of four cases to verdict or judgment (none as lead counsel) and isn't a member of the bar in any of the states that comprise the Circuit she's been nominated to.

[Matt Wilson]

In other words, she's as qualified as Betsy DeVos.

[Jimbo]

Naive question, I know, but what difference is it who appoints the judge? Are we supposed to believe that people are genetically destined to have left or right political opinions? Is there some blood test? If they're intelligent people and given the facts then they should make good decisions.

And if the left want to nail down legalized abortion they should frame it as a privacy issue: what goes on in a doctor's office is private. No matter if you get treated for a cold or have an abortion it's no one's business. The "choice vs life" framing is crap.

[BARON CORNY DOG]

I could write paragraphs and paragraphs in answer to that question, and only I would want to read them. Also, I don’t have time.

So, yes, it is deeply naive.

Abortion, in the context of a discussion about judges, is a legal issue. The Supreme Court, in 1973, decided that the 14th Amendment’s due process clause protects a woman’s decision to have an abortion. But does it? It’s a good question that could lead to pages and pages of writing. It isn’t as simple as how the left talks about the issue. What if the Supreme Court decides Roe was wrongly decided, overrules the decision, and says the constitution does not guarantee a right. Then most of the former confederacy (and a handful of midwestern states) outlaw abortion. There will be nothing for “the left” to frame.

[Jimbo]

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The trial of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort has found no evidence of any collusion with Russia, Manafort’ s lawyer Kevin Downing told reporters.

The lawyer spoke after Manafort was sentenced to 47 months in prison in the US state of Virginia over bank and tax fraud related to his work in Ukraine. …

Special Counsel Robert Mueller has been investigating claims that Russia meddled in the 2016 US presidential election, as well as allegations of collusion between Trump's campaign team and Moscow.

Russia has repeatedly denied interfering in the election, saying the allegations were made up as an excuse for the defeat of Trump's campaign opponent as well as to deflect public attention from actual instances of electoral fraud and corruption. The claims of collusion have also been repeatedly dismissed by both Moscow and US President Donald Trump, who has called Mueller's probe a "witch hunt."

https://sputniknews.com/us/201903081073 ... al-russia/

[Snarfyguy]

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The trial of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort has found no evidence of any collusion with Russia, Manafort’ s lawyer Kevin Downing told reporters.

Odd thing to lead with considering charges of that sort were not in play at this trial.

DJT himself certainly appeared to feel exonerated though.

"The judge said there was no collusion with Russia. This had nothing to do with collusion, there was no collusion. It's a collusion hoax. It's a collusion witch hoax. I don't collude with Russia."

[BARON CORNY DOG]

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The trial of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort has found no evidence of any collusion with Russia, Manafort’ s lawyer Kevin Downing told reporters.

Odd thing to lead with considering charges of that sort were not in play at this trial.

That’s what Jimbo’s link said!?

[Jimbo]

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The trial of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort has found no evidence of any collusion with Russia, Manafort’ s lawyer Kevin Downing told reporters.

Odd thing to lead with considering charges of that sort were not in play at this trial.

Don't play dumb like you, along with the lying NYT and Madcow Rachael Maddow, weren't hoping the trial wouldn't somehow reveal collusion.

[Diamond Dog]

Odd thing to lead with considering charges of that sort were not in play at this trial.

Don't play dumb like you, along with the lying NYT and Madcow Rachael Maddow, weren't hoping the trial wouldn't somehow reveal collusion.

Trump quoted the judge as saying he had found 'no collusion'. The judge had said no such thing.

[Charlie O.]

Jimbo, this trial was about taxes and bank fraud. If Manafort had happened to volunteer that there was collusion with Russia, that would've been sweet, but no-one who was actually paying attention was expecting that.

[Jimbo]

Odd thing to lead with considering charges of that sort were not in play at this trial.

Don't play dumb like you, along with the lying NYT and Madcow Rachael Maddow, weren't hoping the trial wouldn't somehow reveal collusion.

Trump quoted the judge as saying he had found 'no collusion'. The judge had said no such thing.

Like the Baron said: according to the article:

The judge also pointed out that the sentence is not related to the Russian investigation.

Trump is right - this time.

But my larger point is that it isn't worth risking a war falsely blaming Russia for an internal and rather piddly political matter. Nonetheless, HRC supporters like Bill Maher and Stephen Colbert and a few of us here continue to make jokes about how Trump was put in office by Putin. Time after time that's been proved wrong and then to make fun of Trump for gloating over this indicates an inability to admit they were wrong. And forget the off-the-charts anti-Russia fake news bullshit still being spewed by the UK media and government! Good luck finding a British court to exonerate Russia. Enjoy your war.

[Jimbo]

Jimbo, this trial was about taxes and bank fraud. If Manafort had happened to volunteer that there was collusion with Russia, that would've been sweet, but no-one who was actually paying attention was expecting that.

Who's being naive, Kay?

[Charlie O.]

You are, James.

Like in the post above, where you suggest that "the sentence is not related to the Russian investigation" is the same as "the judge [said he'd] found 'no collusion'."

[Jimbo]

If only Trump were guided by Putin. In the latest Russian version of America's State of the Union speech:

most of the address was about: eradication of remaining poverty; low, subsidized mortgage rates for families with two or more children; pensions indexed to inflation above and beyond the official minimal income levels (corrected and paid out retroactively); high-speed internet for each and every school; universal access to health care through a network of rural clinics; several new world-class oncology clinics; support for tech start-ups; a “social contract” program that helps people start small businesses; another program called “ticket to the future” that allows sixth-graders to choose a career path that includes directed study programs, mentorships and apprenticeships; lots of new infrastructure projects such as the soon-to-be-opened Autobahn between Moscow and St. Petersburg, revamped trash collection and recycling and major air pollution reductions in a dozen major cities; the list goes on and on.

https://off-guardian.org/2019/03/11/put ... are-swine/

[Diamond Dog]

You are, James.

Like in the post above, where you suggest that "the sentence is not related to the Russian investigation" is the same as "the judge [said he'd] found 'no collusion'."

Well, quite.

[Diamond Dog]

But my larger point is that it isn't worth risking a war falsely blaming Russia for an internal and rather piddly political matter. Nonetheless, HRC supporters like Bill Maher and Stephen Colbert and a few of us here continue to make jokes about how Trump was put in office by Putin

I don't recall anyone on here making such a claim (I may be wrong) - but saying that there was some Russian help/influence isn't the same as saying that that collusion was enough to put Trump in office, is it? I think it's you that is going overboard with the significance of the claims - but any level of collusion with a foreign power - by itself- is surely enough to warrant Trump unfit for the office he was up for ?