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The developments of today will permit us to have the stay lifted in the civil case & should also permit us to proceed with an expedited deposition of Trump under oath about what he knew, when he knew it, and what he did about it. We will disclose it all to the public.

1:38 PM - 21 Aug 2018

Michael Cohen has also refused any pardon from the Trump if offered.

August 21, 2018
By Eric Lach

On Tuesday, Michael Cohen, (click here) Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, pleaded guilty to federal tax evasion and campaign-finance charges in a New York City courtroom, and the most significant moment in the proceedings came when Cohen asserted that he had committed some of his crimes “at the direction of the candidate”—meaning Trump. “The words ‘coördination with’ and ‘at the direction of’ will haunt the Trump Presidency,” The New Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin told me, soon after the hearing. “Cohen directly implicated Trump as a co-conspirator in a felony.”...

There is no doubt what occurred here. There are tapes. Whether or not they are admissible in court is not the issue, politically those tapes are valid. The country has a right to relief from criminals sitting in the White House.

We heard how Michael Cohen set up a company to receive information about one of Trump's many affairs with women outside his marriage and we heard how creative the funding would be so it could not be tied directly to the candidate's personal or business or campaign funds.

The God Father was never implicated in all the murders he ordered either.

This in no way can be construed as being "The Deep State." There is nothing government about Cohen and the evidence points to crimes. What is there about the prosecutor in this case that is characteristic of a free wheeling conspiracy? There is nothing here to even begin to suspect government overreach.

Trump's base always cries, "It is the Deep State." What is not the Deep State? That is what I want to know. What about any law enforcement is not the Deep State? Anything in relation to the investigations not the Deep State?

Here ya go:

Duck_walk said: ↑ (click here)

His TV lawyer said it was his patriotism and love of country, period. He also said he would not accept a pardon from Agent Orange.

I don't think you can trust anything said by the guy who says anyone won't accept a pardon......not that one would be offered. "No thanks, i'll rot in prison", sounds reasonable.

5 millerbleach, 48 minutes ago

Huh? Bolton is working with Butina and the NRA?

How much did the White House know (click here) about John Bolton’s work with a Russian gun group? That’s the question Congressmen Elijah Cummings and Stephen Lynch asked White House Chief of Staff John Kelly in a letter on Monday. Bolton, now President Trump’s national security advisor, appeared in a 2013 video filmed for the Right to Bear Arms, in which he encouraged the Russian government to loosen gun restrictions. The Moscow-based organization was founded by Maria Butina, who last month was charged with attempting to infiltrate the National Rifle Association as a covert Russian agent. “Given the alarming and unprecedented nature of these revelations — and the high-level position of trust Mr. Bolton now holds — we request that you produce documents relating to whether Mr. Bolton reported his previous work with this alleged Russian spy on his security clearance forms or other White House vetting materials prior to President Trump appointing him to his current position,” the letter reads....

  

22 weeks for voluntary abortion...

...with no limit in termination of pregnancy to save the life of the fetus and/or the mother. The anti-abortionists are not interested in the mother, they place the fetus in sainthood and dictate the woman's circumstances. Abortion is about the mother, it is not about the fetus. We live in a country with a healthy birth rate.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with a stable birth rate for any country.

August 22, 2018
By Jonathan Stempei

A federal appeals court (click here) on Wednesday upheld a permanent injunction blocking Alabama from banning the most common method of second-trimester abortion.

But two judges from the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta used the 3-0 decision to cast doubt on the Supreme Court's abortion jurisprudence, including that terminating a pregnancy is a constitutional right.Some states are passing restrictive abortion laws they hope might win favor from a conservative Supreme Court.

Alabama was trying to enforce a 2016 law criminalizing the dilation and evacuation (D&E) procedure, which the state called "dismemberment abortions."

That law was challenged by the West Alabama Women's Center and Alabama Women's Center, the state's only abortion clinics performing the procedure. The American Civil Liberties Union represented them.

Last October, U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson blocked enforcement, saying the law would effectively ban abortions in Alabama after 15 weeks.

In Wednesday's decision, the first by a federal appeals court on the issue, Chief Judge Ed Carnes said the law imposed an "undue burden" on the right to end pregnancy before the fetus is viable....

How many current judges belong or had belonged to the Federalist Society? I expect the US Senate to be asking questions about their involvement to The Federalist Society and what exactly that means to their judgeship.

August 21, 2018
By Mike Scarcella

Jonathan Kobes, (click here) for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Kobes, since 2016, has served as general counsel to U.S. Sen. Michael Rounds of South Dakota. He formerly served as director of corporate compliance at the agriculture industry manufacturer Raven Industries Inc. His primary duties there focused on “general compliance for the company’s business operations and specifically export compliance.” His earlier professional associations include the American Bar Association (2002-03); Association of Corporate Counsel (2008-14); Federalist Society (1999-2004); and the National Rifle Association (2013-14). Kobes was an assistant U.S. attorney in Rapid City, South Dakota, from 2003 to 2005. The White House counsel’s office in June 2017 reached out to Kobes to ask about his interest in serving on the Eighth Circuit.