The Georgia Prosecutors are absolutely correct. Trump solicited fraud.

Shelby Township Clerk Stan Grot (clic here) speaks with reporters after announcing his 2018 Republican run for Michigan secretary of state on Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017, at the Capitol in Lansing, Mich. Grot, a Republican who has served as the Shelby Township clerk since 2012, was notified Thursday, July 20, 2023, that he will be prohibited from holding elections after being charged earlier this week for acting as a fake election in 2020 for then-President Donald Trump.

Stan Grot is responsible for his actions, but, his inspiration did not simply come into being from shear imagination. The False Elector phenomena occurred in more than just Michigan.

Ginni Thomas was in the White House frequently and in touch with Trump every time. She caused people to be fired from the staff. She was involved in bringing pressure to people to act and defraud the 2020 elections. Prosecutors better not look the other way. The Justice Thomas has stated Ginni acts independently in her political fervor. The entire scenario surrounding 2020 is being attempted again and it needs to stop. Those responsible at all levels need to be held accountable, not just the Grunt Workers like Stan Grot.

July 25, 2023

By Ewan Palmer

...Neama Rahmani, (click here) a former federal prosecutor and president of West Coast Trial Lawyers, said there is a possibility that Thomas could yet be investigated over the Arizona fake electoral plot.

"Her lawyer has publicly said that Thomas simply signed a pre-written letter, but there is reportedly evidence that she played a larger role in efforts to overturn the 2020 election. If so, Ginni Thomas may have crossed the line of political advocacy or aggressive legal strategy to criminal conduct," Rahmani told Newsweek.

As well as her emails to Arizona lawmakers and election officials, according to information obtained by The Washington Post and CBS News, Thomas was found to have sent text messages to Trump's former chief of staff Mark Meadows urging him to help overturn the 2020 results while spouting a series of election conspiracy theories, including calling Biden's victory as the "greatest heist of our history."

The House Select Committee which investigated the Capitol attack said that Thomas was also in direct communication with Trump attorney John Eastman, who allegedly orchestrated the plot to pressure former Vice President Mike Pence to not certify the 2020 election results in Congress on January 6, despite knowing such a tactic would be illegal....

The Georgia prosecutors are absolutely correct. There is no doubt and plenty of proof. Trump solicited fraud.

Other states need to examine the findings of Georgia because Trump actively solicited plans to overthrow a federal presidential election. There are false electors being charged, but, don't stop there. They did not carry out their conspiracy alone. 

25 July 2023

By Hugo Lowell

The Fulton county district attorney (click here) investigating Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia in recent weeks has weighed several potential statutes under which to charge, including solicitation to commit election fraud and conspiracy to commit election fraud, according to two people briefed on the matter.

The move by the Fulton county district attorney, Fani Willis, to identify a list of potential charges marks a major juncture in the criminal investigation and suggests prosecutors are on course to ask a grand jury to return indictments next month.

Among the state election law charges that prosecutors were examining: criminal solicitation to commit election fraud and conspiracy to commit election fraud, as well as solicitation of a public or political officer to fail to perform their duties and solicitation to destroy, deface or remove ballots, the people said....

AI needs to be permanently dismantled.

I have said it before. AI has no brain. It does not think. It cannot discern life from no life. It is dangerous in it's ability to be programmed and carry forward it's own priorities. It creates lazy humans.

This may be a test, but, it also is proof. AI is not capable of thinking and allowing it's programming is too dangerous to continue. The only entity that thinks and conducts the scientific method are human beings.

Computers don't need oxygen!

25 July 2023

By Celeste Biever

The world’s best artificial intelligence (AI) systems (click here) can pass tough exams, write convincingly human essays and chat so fluently that many find their output indistinguishable from people’s. What can’t they do? Solve simple visual logic puzzles.

In a test consisting of a series of brightly coloured blocks arranged on a screen, most people can spot the connecting patterns. But GPT-4, the most advanced version of the AI system behind the chatbot ChatGPT and the search engine Bing, gets barely one-third of the puzzles right in one category of patterns and as little as 3% correct in another, according to a report by researchers this May1.

The team behind the logic puzzles aims to provide a better benchmark for testing the capabilities of AI systems — and to help address a conundrum about large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4. Tested in one way, they breeze through what once were considered landmark feats of machine intelligence. Tested another way, they seem less impressive, exhibiting glaring blind spots and an inability to reason about abstract concepts.

“People in the field of AI are struggling with how to assess these systems,” says Melanie Mitchell, a computer scientist at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico whose team created the logic puzzles (see ‘An abstract-thinking test that defeats machines’)....

The GOP continue to act in bigoted ways.

Mississippi State Senate (click here)

Party		As of July 2023
	Democratic Party	15
	Republican Party	36
	Other	1
	Vacancies	0
Total		52

Senate Bill 2358 (click here)

Ballot harvesting ban

May 31, 2023

Lawsuit filed by Disability Rights Mississippi, (click here) the League of Women Voters of Mississippi, a voter and two individuals who provide voter assistance challenging Senate Bill 2358, a recently enacted law that “restricts voters with disabilities from having a person of their choice assist them in submitting their completed” mail-in ballots. Specifically, S.B. 2358 stipulates that only election officials, postal workers, family members, household members or caregivers can assist voters with disabilities in returning their completed mail-in ballots and imposes criminal penalties and fines on those who violate the law. Prior to the enactment of S.B. 2358, anyone of a voter’s choice — including social workers, voting organizations and other trusted individuals — could assist voters with disabilities in returning their completed mail-in ballots. 

The plaintiffs allege that the challenged law — which makes it harder for voters to cast their ballot and “also risks disenfranchising entirely blind, disabled, or low-literacy voters” — violates Section 208 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). Section 208 of the VRA guarantees that “[a]ny voter who requires assistance to vote by reason of blindness, disability, or inability to read or write may be given assistance by a person of the voter’s choice’” so long as the assistor is not the “the voter’s employer or agent of that employer or officer or agent of the voter’s union.”...

July 26, 2023
By Ashley Lopez

A U.S. District Court in Mississippi (click here) temporarily blocked a voting law in the state Tuesday that was set to go into effect July 1. The law, known as Senate Bill 2358, creates new restrictions for who can assist someone while voting by mail.

Voting rights and disability rights advocates, who filed the lawsuit, argue Mississippi's law violates a federal protection that allows a voter to choose who helps them cast a ballot.

In his order striking down the law, U.S. District Court Judge Henry Wingate wrote, "voting polls are expected to extend outstretched hands of welcome and provide unfettered access to conscientious citizens anxious to enjoy 'participatory democracy'- whether those citizens be among the vulnerable and the disabled."

SB 2358, which was signed into law earlier this year, set new limits on who can collect and transmit a ballot that was mailed to someone else. In Mississippi, the state's absentee-by-mail voting program is for limited groups of voters — people out of town on Election Day, people 65 or older and people with a temporary or permanent physical disability....

Why are there politics surrounding Hunter Biden?

Hunter Biden is not being handed a pardon by his father. He is made to be responsible for his actions. If his attorney tried to consolidate the resolve to the indictments in one document, that is not anyone's fault. The judge stated it was unprecedented. It is time for Hunter Biden's attorney to try again to find an avenue of appropriate fines, etc. 

The GOP's corruption runs deep and doesn't at all include accountability for their lawlessness.

July 26, 2023

By Manu Raju, Annie Grayer, Melanie Zanona, Morgan Rimmer and Nikki Carvajal

...GOP lawmakers sharply criticized (click here) the Justice Department on today’s developments over Hunter Biden’s plea deal and expect the collapse of the deal will bolster their probe into President Joe Biden....

Perhaps the GOP needs to be reminded of how very corrupt their party has become.

Trump Pardons (click here)

 

This is aphasia. The same illness Bruce Willis took the sidelines.

Everyday is Christmas for Thomas.

Harlan Crow (click here)

July 9, 2023
By Abbie VanSickle and Steve Eder

On Oct. 15, 1991, (click here) Clarence Thomas secured his seat on the Supreme Court, a narrow victory after a bruising confirmation fight that left him isolated and disillusioned....

July 25, 2023

By Mike Florio
This is a political article. (click here)

But while it is about politics, it takes no political point of view. These concepts apply regardless of affiliation or inclination. Red or blue. Republican or Democrat. Conservative or liberal. Tory or Whig.

When (click here) he served as chairman of the EEOC (Equal Opportunity Employment Commission), Thomas appeared in a public service announcement with the Cowboys, and Thomas and Jones became friends, per the report.

There are rules that apply to judges. Rules about avoiding impropriety and the appearance of impropriety. Those rules should be honored and respected by every judge, at every level.

The Supreme Court recently has been embroiled in controversy regarding lavish benefits reportedly bestowed on longtime Justice Clarence Thomas. Recently, the New York Times reported that Cowboys owner Jerry Jones once gave Thomas a Super Bowl ring.

On Tuesday, Jones was asked about the kind of gift that typically isn’t handed out by NFL owners — unless guys like Vladimir Putin walk away with one....

...Supreme Court Justices are indeed politicians. They don’t land in those jobs without being politically active and/or politically connected. And, regardless of whether they were engaged in active partisan politics before being confirmed to the bench, they must be unbiased — and they must appear to be unbiased.

That’s where Jones also got it wrong. Asked whether his unique and expensive gift to Thomas created a conflict of interest and/or assisted Jones in any business he might have before the Supreme Court, Jones tried to downplay such obvious complications....

Jones didn't just get it wrong, so did Thomas. "The Giving" is one act of corruption, but, "The Receiving" is more egregious and highly unethical. 

...As a 43-year-old with barely one year of experience on the judiciary under his belt, (click here) Clarence Thomas was quite young and inexperienced when George H. W. Bush nominated him to the Supreme Court in 1991....

Ms. Anita Hill was absolutely correct in addition to his sexual harassment and possibly assault, Clarence Thomas was simply not ready for the Supreme Court.