Flynn’s New Lawyer Asked Barr Directly To Throw Out Flynn’s Case
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/flynn-powell-barr-justice-department-discovery
White House eliminates advisory boards for marine life, invasive species
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/463893-white-house-eliminates-advisory-boards-overseeing-marine-life
“Secretary Pompeo was reportedly on the call when the President pressed Ukraine to smear his political opponent. If true, Secretary Pompeo is now a fact witness in the House impeachment inquiry. He should immediately cease intimidating Department witnesses in order to protect himself and the President. “Any effort to intimidate witnesses or prevent them from talking with Congress—including State Department employees—is illegal and will constitute evidence of obstruction of the impeachment inquiry. In response, Congress may infer from this obstruction that any withheld documents and testimony would reveal information that corroborates the whistleblower complaint. “The Committees are operating pursuant to our long-established authorities as well as the impeachment inquiry. We’re committed to protecting witnesses from harassment and intimidation, and we expect their full compliance and that of the Department of State.”
https://intelligence.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=712
Trump and Republicans are working on either charging Robert Mueller or buying a Grand Jury Indictment against Robert Mueller
Justice Department told to produce 500 pages of interview memos from Mueller investigation
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/01/politics/mueller-fbi-witnesses/index.html
Barr Went to Rome to Hear a Secret Tape from Joseph Mifsud, the Professor Who Helped Ignite the Russia Probe | A source in the Italian Ministry of Justice, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told The Daily Beast that Barr and Durham were played the tape. A second source within the Italian government also confirmed to The Daily Beast that Barr and Durham were shown other evidence the Italians had on Mifsud. Ever since Robert Mueller concluded his probe in March 2019, Barr has worked to blunt its impact—and investigate the investigators behind it. Barr assigned Durham to look into the Mueller probe’s origins. And the Attorney General’s name is listed in the whistleblower complaint about the July 25 call Trump made to the Ukrainian president to pressure him into investigating political rival Joe Biden. According to the complaint, Barr was directly involved in the president’s attempt to “solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election.” The minutiae of his involvement are feeding a scandal gripping Washington that changes by the nano-second.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-ukraine-white-house-releases-text-of-zelensky-call-that-sparked-impeachment-inquiry
Federal prosecutors have accused Donald Trump‘s former national security advisor Michael Flynn of making frivolous document production requests that are not actually related to his defense at all but are instead an attempt to fuel outrage by spreading conspiracy theories about the Russiagate investigation. And one of those theories was allegedly suggested by Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA). In a 41-page motion filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday, U.S. Attorney Jesse K. Liu and her top lieutenants Brandon Van Granck and Jocelyn Ballantine argued that Flynn’s recent request for potentially exculpatory evidence known as Brady material is a sideshow with no genuine legal bearing on his case–which is currently in a very slow-drip sentencing phase. “The defendant predicates much of his request on conspiracy theories, demanding that the government engage in a fishing expedition for documents that could offer support for those theories,” the filing alleges. “Irrespective of whether such documents exist, a fact that the government does not concede here, the defendant fails to establish that such information is relevant—let alone favorable and material—in this criminal case.”
https://lawandcrime.com/crazy/feds-accuse-michael-flynn-of-advancing-conspiracy-theories-at-devin-nunes-request/
A government watchdog group asked a federal judge on Tuesday to issue an emergency order requiring the White House to preserve records of all of President Donald Trump’s calls with foreign leaders. At a court hearing later in the day, a Justice Department lawyer told the judge that she couldn’t immediately commit to assuring that the administration would preserve records of all of Trump’s conversations, as well as other records about how the administration had handled those documents. The judge gave the government until Wednesday afternoon to make a decision. The case, which accuses the Trump administration of failing to meet its legal obligations to create — and properly save — records of Trump’s and other officials’ conversations with foreign leaders, was originally filed in May. But the plaintiffs are now arguing that the judge needs to take immediate action in light of recent events.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/trump-lawsuit-call-records-foreign-leaders-impeachment
Yahoo software engineer pleads guilty to hacking into accounts of 6,000 young women in search of nude photos
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7522977/Engineer-admits-hacking-Yahoo-accounts-searching-images.html
The Newseum is an interactive museum that promotes free expression and the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, while tracing the evolution of communication.[1] The seven-level, 250,000-square-foot (23,000 m2) museum is located in Washington, D.C. and features fifteen theaters and fifteen galleries. Its Berlin Wall Gallery includes the largest display of sections of the wall outside Germany. The Today's Front Pages Gallery presents daily front pages from more than 80 international newspapers. Other galleries present topics including the First Amendment, world press freedom, news history, the September 11 attacks, and the history of the Internet, TV, and radio. It opened at its first location in Rosslyn, Virginia, on April 18, 1997, and on April 11, 2008, it opened in its current location. In January 2019, the Freedom Forum announced that it would close the existing location no later than January 2020 as it seeks another site.[2] The Newseum is a popular destination, attracting more than 815,000 visitors a year, and its television studios host news broadcasts. The adult admission fee in 2017 was $26.38.[3] Despite such high admission fees, it has seen years of financial losses. In February 2018, these losses led to an exploration of selling its building or moving to another location.[4] In January 2019, the Freedom Forum announced that The Johns Hopkins University would purchase the building for $372.5 million in order to use the space for several graduate programs.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newseum
I still think Trump’s big fundraising advantage is that his base does not care *at all* that he raises big donor money, and agrees that he can do this while “draining the swamp.” While many Dems demand $ purity and raise alarms when, like, an Exxon counsel gives $2000.
https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1179143514174754817
Trump’s reelection campaign and the Republican National Committee raised $125 million in the third quarter of the year, a presidential fundraising record. The pro-Trump effort said Tuesday that it has raised more than $308 million in 2019 and has more than $156 million in the bank. Republicans aim to use the fundraising haul to fight off Democrats’ impeachment effort. Former President Barack Obama and the DNC raised just over $70 million in the third quarter of 2011.
https://apnews.com/3b5b5d61556f4ca49402477de9d28bdb
The McCutcheon case has completely changed presidential-level fundraising in that time: The Supreme Court on Wednesday continued its abolition of limits on election spending, striking down a decades-old cap on the total amount any individual can contribute to federal candidates in a two-year election cycle.
The ruling, issued near the start of a campaign season, will very likely increase the role money plays in American politics. The 5-to-4 decision, with the court’s more conservative members in the majority, echoed Citizens United, the 2010 decision that struck down limits on independent campaign spending by corporations and unions.
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/03/us/politics/supreme-court-ruling-on-campaign-contributions.html
Along with a cash advantage Trump has time on his side. He began running for re-election the day after inauguration. A dem nominee will be lucky to leave the primary and focus on the general by next spring.
https://twitter.com/hunterw/status/1179141913162735619
Former special envoy for Ukraine Kurt Volker is attending his scheduled Thursday deposition w/ 3 House committees, while former Ukraine Ambassador Yovanovitch's deposition will now occur next Friday (was scheduled for tomorrow), per an aide
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/01/politics/deposition-delayed-impeachment-investigation/index.html
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Harvard University does not discriminate against Asian Americans in undergraduate admissions, handing the school a victory in a lawsuit that marks one of the latest chapters in the affirmative action debate. U.S. District Judge Allison D. Burroughs rejected claims of a plaintiff that Harvard violates the law as it considers race in selecting an incoming freshman class. While Harvard’s “admissions process may be imperfect,” Burroughs wrote, the judge concluded that statistical disparities among racial groups of applicants “are not the result of any racial animus or conscious prejudice.” The judge also found that Harvard “narrowly tailored” its use of race in admissions to achieve the benefits of a diverse class.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/federal-judge-rules-harvard-does-not-discriminate-against-asian-americans-in-admissions/2019/10/01/dc106b54-a8a1-11e9-a3a6-ab670962db05_story.html
Pompeo says State Dept. officials won’t show up for scheduled impeachment depositions this week
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2019/10/01/pompeo-says-state-dept-officials-wont-show-up-for-scheduled-impeachment-depositions-this-week/
A veteran federal judge on Monday warned U.S. prosecutors either to charge former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe or to drop their investigation into whether he lied to investigators about an unauthorized media disclosure, saying their indecision was undermining the credibility of the Justice Department. If a decision is not made, U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton of Washington, D.C., said at a hearing that he would order the Justice Department to release internal FBI documents related to McCabe’s firing by Nov. 15. The extraordinary warning by Walton — a 2001 President George W. Bush appointee and former presiding judge of the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court — marked the latest turbulence in an investigation that McCabe’s defenders say is a move by the Trump administration to punish the president’s perceived political enemies.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/judge-to-doj-decide-on-charging-andrew-mccabe-by-nov-15-or-face-release-of-fbi-records/2019/10/01/3e169168-e3c4-11e9-a331-2df12d56a80b_story.html
Vegans should be pushy. Performing evil acts on animals and the environment isn't something we should just sit back and let people choose to do. This is our planet as well and it's not their right to torture and kill animals nor their right to destroy the earth itself, not to mention human health.
Only 4 in 10 Republicans believe Trump mentioned Biden on Ukraine call even though Trump acknowledged doing so
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/10/01/poll-gop-doesnt-believe-trump-talked-biden-ukrainians/3829338002/
“We are a disease that is infecting our planet” - Jason Momoa delivers powerful speech on ‘global crisis’ of climate change at UN | “The people will hold our governments and corporate powers accountable for the destruction you are allowing to our environment"
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/jason-momoa-climate-change-speech-un-island-nations-samoa-pathway-a9124486.html
US court says FCC cannot bar states from setting net neutrality rules
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/01/us-court-says-fcc-cannot-bar-states-from-setting-net-neutrality-rules.html
Two Republicans, one of them former congressman Bob Inglis, have sued the S.C. Republican Party over its decision to cancel its GOP presidential primary next year. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Richland County, alleges the party scrapped their 2020 election contest illegally and violated its own party rules and state election law. The suit further contends the near-unanimous decision made by the state party’s Executive Committee deprives Inglis, of Greenville, and fellow plaintiff Frank Heindel of Mount Pleasant, of their right to vote for the candidate of their choosing in the 2020 primary. “Instead, the State Executive Committee has chosen which candidate to support by fiat, and in doing so, excluded Republican voters from the process entirely — in violation of the law and its own rules,” the lawsuit states.
https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/south-carolina-republican-party-sued-for-canceling-its-gop-primary/article_33891534-e452-11e9-9a8b-7b4072b62d5e.html
Trump And Republicans delay funding for human-trafficking victims
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/463917-trump-admin-abruptly-delays-funding-to-house-human-trafficking
North Korea test-fires another missile, just hours after agreeing to resume nuclear talks
https://bnonews.com/index.php/2019/10/north-korea-test-fires-another-missile/
Privately, Trump had often talked about fortifying a border wall with a water-filled trench, stocked with snakes or alligators, prompting aides to seek a cost estimate. He wanted the wall electrified, with spikes on top that could pierce human flesh. After publicly suggesting that soldiers shoot migrants if they threw rocks, the president backed off when his staff told him that was illegal. But later in a meeting, aides recalled, he suggested that they shoot migrants in the legs to slow them down. That’s not allowed either, they told him. | Mr. Trump’s order to close the border was a decision point that touched off a frenzied week of presidential rages, around-the-clock staff panic and far more White House turmoil than was known at the time. By the end of the week, the seat-of-the-pants president had backed off his threat but had retaliated with the beginning of a purge of the aides who had tried to contain him.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/us/politics/trump-border-wars.html
Iraqi security forces clashed with anti-government protesters in the capital and other provinces Tuesday, killing two people and injuring more than 200, according to officials | The protests were largely driven by economic issues, including what demonstrators saw as the government’s failure to improve public services and create jobs. “We want the very basic rights: Electricity, water, employment, and medicine, and nothing else,” said Mohammed Jassim, a protester. “But this government is shooting at the crowd.” Many demonstrators also held posters of a popular army commander — Iraq’s counterterrorism chief, Lt. Gen. Abdul-Wahab al-Saadi — whose recent dismissal has set off controversy, with some people blaming it on Iran-backed politicians in the country.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/world/middleeast/two-killed-in-anti-government-protests-in-iraq.html
The State Department’s inspector general is expected to give an "urgent" briefing to staffers from several House and Senate committees on Wednesday afternoon about documents obtained from the department’s Office of the Legal Adviser related to the State Department and Ukraine, sources familiar with the planned briefing told ABC News.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/state-dept-inspector-general-expected-urgent-ukraine-briefing/story?id=6599191
Gina Ortiz Jones raises massive $1 million haul in third quarter — The Democrat is running for the seat being vacated by retiring U.S. Rep. Will Hurd, R-Helotes, after narrowly losing to him last year.
https://www.texastribune.org/2019/10/01/gina-ortiz-jones-raises-1-million-bid-replace-us-rep-will-hurd/
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