Category: Crime
Florida Cities Raise Pride Flags Over City Halls After Failed GOP Attempt To Ban Them From Govt Buildings
The good people are fighting back now. DeathSantis and his fundamentalist minority have pushed decent people too far. But look for a response from the right wing shock troops, the Proud Boys, the militias, the other right wing gang thugs. Hugs. Scottie
Tampa’s WMNF reports:
Several Tampa Bay area cities have raised the LGBTQ Pride flags over city buildings this weekend. But that would have been illegal if a bill that died in this year’s Florida Legislature had instead become law.
On Saturday morning the city of Gulfport in south Pinellas County raised the Pride flag over its public library. It came after a short ceremony of speeches honoring the city’s commitment to equality and before a day-long block party celebration of Pride.
The nearby City of St. Petersburg raised its LGBTQ Pride flag over City Hall on Friday. Meanwhile, the City of Clearwater will host Pride events but will not fly the Pride flag at a city building.
Read the full article.
Also raising the Pride flag over their city halls this weekend were Tampa, Wilton Manors, Miami, and Orlando. If you know of any others, let us know in the comments.
The Republican bill to ban Pride flags at government buildings passed earlier this year in the Florida House, but died when the state Senate ran out of time to vote on the issue before the session ended for the year.
Of note, an amendment to the Senate version of the bill would have allowed the Confederate flag, something its sponsor later claimed was as “error.”
NBC: Cultists Dox Michael Cohen’s Wife And Children
Rule by gang thugs violence and threats. Make everyone feel unsafe to even question the right or the cult Dear Leader. These people are a small number of our public, but they are vocal, and they are willing to use violence, hurt others, break the laws to get their way. They are the brownshirts of 1930s Germany, and the Proud Boys admit they are trump’s army. The rest of us must not let this be the new normal. They are teenage bullies just like their boss. This is terrorism. Hugs. Scottie
NBC News reports:
The addresses and phone numbers of former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s family members were posted to a doxing website after presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felonies in connection with a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election.
Phone numbers and addresses for Cohen’s wife and children were posted early Monday morning on a site that has been used to target other figures involved in Trump’s various legal issues, according to the group Advance Democracy, a non-profit research group.
Trump supporters attempted to dox jurors last week. During the trial, the mother of a former police officer who was nearly killed on Jan. 6, 2021, by rioters who believed Trump’s lies about the 2020 election was swatted after her son called Trump “an authoritarian” with “a violence fetish.”
Read the full article.
Stephanopoulos Shuts Down Trump Lawyer’s Claim That Biden Is Behind New York Trump Case: “Zero Evidence”
Finally and about time reporters are starting to push back against tRump and his sycophants lies. Maybe Fox losing a almost a billion dollars for endorsing lies might have wakened them up. Stephanopoulos was angry the guy kept saying it even after he corrected him several times. Hugs. Scottie
Trump lawyer Will Scharf: “This case in New York? It was called the zombie case. It sat and sat and sat. It could have been brought at any point after 2020. And then suddenly, when President Trump announced his campaign for president, it was dusted off, rushed in front of a grand jury and then rushed into court.
“You want to talk about the politicization of the legal system? I mean, this is exhibit A. I vehemently disagree that the district attorney in New York was not politically motivated here. And I vehemently disagree that President Biden and his political allies aren’t up to their necks in this prosecution.”
ABC host George Stephanopoulos: “There’s no evidence of that! Sir, I’m not gonna let you continue to say that! There’s just zero evidence of that! This has nothing to do with President Biden.”
RELATED: Scharf is running for Missouri attorney general and a couple of weeks ago Jimmy Kimmel had a field day with Scharf’s very creepy smile, calling him “the first human attorney to be generated by AI.” The clip below is cued up.
The Rectification of Names
https://yastreblyansky.blogspot.com/2024/06/whats-going-on-ii.html
Again the credit for the link goes to Ten Bears, link below. This is important because the right still wants to claim that Hamas is the hold up to peace. But the fact is this plan in almost the very same respects was offered by Egypt and Hamas accepted it while Israel again refused it. Every attempt that has been offered to stop the slaughter and bring the hostages home has been blocked by Israel and Bibi specifically. Does anyone remember when the Biden administration claimed the last few days that Israel accepted the proposal … that was pressure on Israel because Bibi was already saying no not without with major changes, while Hamas said OK. It was also gaslighting by still making Hamas the bad guy in all this. Hugs. Scottie
What’s Going On. II
From the Livre d’Or des Voyages of Louis Mainard, 1890, via picryl.com.
Déjà vu all over again? Biden (the day after the guilty verdict for convicted felon Donald Trump, some people think that’s relevant) announces proposals for a ceasefire in Gaza, to be carried out in three phases: six weeks during which all Israeli forces withdraw from the Strip, hostages in Gaza (especially women and elderly, and remains of the dead) will be exchanged for detainees in Israeli prisons, Gazan civilians will return home, supplied with temporary shelters, and delivery of food, water, medicine, and fuel will get back to full strength, and the parties will work out the details of a probably lengthier second phase; a second phase in which the exchange of hostages and prisoners will be completed and the parties will negotiate a final, permanent ceasefire; and a third, which is supposed to last forever, when Gaza is rebuilt and the last remains are transmitted.
Isn’t this approximately where we arrived three weeks ago, when Haaretz reported that Hamas had accepted a deal proposed by Egypt with a very similar shape, and Israel appeared to have turned it down?
Not exactly. The big difference, to my mind, which isn’t getting a lot of press attention, is that this one is billed as an Israeli proposal—Biden is very insistent on that:
Now, after intensive diplomacy carried out by my team and my many conversations with leaders of Israel, Qatar, and Egypt and other Middle Eastern countries, Israel has now offered — Israel has offered a comprehensive new proposal.Although, as he acknowledges, there are ministers in the Israeli cabinet who are determined that Israel should reoccupy Gaza
I know there are those in Israel who will not agree with this plan and will call for the war to continue indefinitely. Some — some are even in the government coalition. And they’ve made it clear: They want to occupy Gaza, they want to keep fighting for years, and the hostages are not a priority to them.and national security adviser Tzachi Hanegbi told reporters just two days ago that the war would continue for another seven months—and a couple of hours after Biden’s statement the Israeli prime minister’s office seemed to be categorically rejecting the offer:
Israel released a vague statement following Biden’s address, saying Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu authorized a proposal to maintain its goal of returning hostages as soon as possible, but insisted that “the war will not end until all of [the Israeli government’s] goals are achieved, including the return of all our abductees and the elimination of Hamas’ military and governmental capabilities.”Wait what? Israel refuses to sign on to its own ceasefire plan? What’s up with that?
It’s possible, of course, that Biden was just lying about it, but what would be the value of that? What would it get him, or us, or anybody?
Meanwhile, of course, international pressure on Israel continues to mount, after the move by Ireland, Spain, and Norway to recognize the existence of a Palestinian state before it really exists. Last week, the International Court of Justice, engaged in the investigation of South Africa’s case accusing Israel of genocide, ruled that Israel must
Immediately halt its military offensive, and any other action in the Rafah Governorate, which may inflict on the Palestinian group in Gaza conditions of life that could bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.(Israel has a quibble over the comma after “Governorate”, claiming it means it doesn’t have to halt anything, since it denies that it is doing anything that could have such an effect, which is patently absurd, since its blockage of aid could clearly starve everybody to death, among other things. The comma is simply an error; if you were to take it seriously, you would have to interpret it as changing the restrictive relative clause “which may inflict…” into a non-restrictive relative applying to the main clause with the verb “halt”, which would imply that halting the offensive could destroy the civilians, which makes even less sense).
Two days later came the massacre at the Tel al-Sultan refugee camp in western Rafah, a supposed safe zone to which IDF had instructed people to move, where bombs apparently ignited a fire in which 45 or 50 human beings burned to death in their tents in a strike aimed at two Hamas militants who may or may not have been there. Less than two days after that, an attack on another tent city in the area killed at least 21 more.
In Washington, the congressional leaders have finally agreed, after weeks of wrangling, to invite Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress, though they’re not saying when, and it’s become clear why it was taking so long, according to The Hill; it was Schumer:
The invitation left Washington after weeks of delay from Schumer who, during a high-profile floor speech in March, declared Netanyahu had “lost his way” and called for new elections in Israel, drawing the ire of the longtime Israeli leader, Republicans and some Democrats.
Schumer, the highest-ranking Jewish official in U.S. history, and his office on a number of occasions said the Senate leader was supportive of having Netanyahu address Congress, despite his sharp criticism of the Israeli leader, but the New York Democrat did not sign the letter until recently.
I’m really glad to have it clarified that Schumer hasn’t dropped his opposition to Netanyahu as PM (he says the invitation isn’t to be interpreted as extended to Netanyahu as a person at all, but as a representative of the Israeli state)
In Israel, IDF has been at diametric odds with the prime minister since mid-May over his obstinate refusal to offer any plans for what happens after the war, led by defense minister Yoav Gallant, who has demanded that Gaza should be administered by Palestinians, in opposition to Netanyahu’s religious nationalist partners, who want to reoccupy the Strip with Jewish settlers, and Netanyahu fears (no doubt with reason) that if he crosses the partners they will leave the government, collapsing it and leaving Netanyahu without a job and forced to face his corruption trial.
That lends an extreme significance to something that came up this morning from Yair Lapid, who implores Netanyahu to accept the plan Biden announced yesterday, with what sounds like an offer of his own—that his party will allow Netanyahu to stay in office (for now) if the religious nationalists decide to topple the government, if and only if he sign on to the new ceasefire proposal:
“The Israeli government cannot ignore President Biden’s significant speech. There is a deal on the table and it needs to be done,” Yair Lapid wrote in a post on X.
“I remind Netanyahu that he has a safety net from us for the hostage deal if Ben-Gvir and Smotrich leave the government.”
Netanyahu’s response so far has been negative, but that could change. The hostage families, of course, have endorsed the new idea.
In the most recent weeks I’ve frequently been tempted to give up on the theory of Biden as peacemaker, as he seems just not to respond to how horrible this war is, but I generally come back to realizing how impossible it would be for him to do the work by himself—how much help the process requires from a host of international and domestic actors, from the worst (Saudi Arabia) to the most annoyingly virtuous (South Africa). It occurs to me that Biden could be telling the truth about this new ceasefire approach—that it really is an Israeli proposal, with buy-in from all the Israelis the US needs to be talking to, in the military and intelligence, in the political opposition in all its prickly oppositionality, in the broad public, just not exactly Netanyahu himself (who isn’t Israel, as Schumer helpfully reminds us, just a hated PM), or not yet. But don’t rule it out.
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Trump classified documents judge is target of more than 1,000 complaints, appeals court reveals
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/31/trump-classified-documents-aileen-cannon-complaints.html
KEY POINTS
- Judge Aileen Cannon has been criticized for her handling of the criminal case in Florida federal court against former President Donald Trump, who appointed her to the bench.
- Trump is charged in the case with crimes related to retaining classified government documents after he left the White House, and with obstructing the recovery of those records.
- The presumptive Republican presidential nominee was found guilty Thursday in New York state court of falsifying business records related to a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.
Aileen M. Cannon, United States District Judge, Southern District of FloridaCourtesy: US CourtsThe Florida federal judge overseeing the criminal classified documents case against former President Donald Trump has been the target of more than 1,000 complaints in just one week this month raising allegations of her handling of the case, a top appeals court judge revealed in an order.
The complaints against Judge Aileen Cannon have come to light amid renewed criticism by some legal observers and Trump opponents that she is slow-walking the criminal case against the former president to ensure it does not go to trial before the presidential election.
“Many of the complaints” against Cannon filed with the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals “request that the Chief Circuit Judge remove her from the classified-documents case and reassign the case to a different judge,” Chief Judge William Pryor wrote in a May 22 order posted on the appeal court’s website.
And “many of the complaints against Judge Cannon also question the correctness of her rulings or her delays in issuing rulings in the case,” Pryor wrote.
Those complaints filed since May 16 “appear to be part of an orchestrated campaign,” according to Pryor, whose appellate court reviews cases arising from federal district courts in Florida, Georgia and Alabama.
Public critics of Cannon have noted her delays in ruling on multiple pending motions, granting hearings to Trump’s lawyers on legal issues that might otherwise be easily addressed through court filings, and criticizing filings by special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecutors.
Trump, who appointed Cannon to the bench, is charged in the case with crimes related to withholding classified government records at his Mar-a-Lago club residence in Palm Beach, Florida, after he left the White House, and trying to hide them from officials who sought their recovery.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee, who has pleaded not guilty in that case, on Thursday was convicted by a state court jury in New York of 34 felony counts related to a 2016 hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.
Pryor, in his May 22 order about the complaints, wrote that he “has considered and dismissed four of those orchestrated complaints as merits-related and as based on allegations lacking sufficient evidence to raise an inference that misconduct has occurred.”
He also wrote that neither he nor the appeals court’s Judicial Council has the authority to remove Cannon from the case under the Rules for Judicial-Conduct and Judicial-Disability Proceedings.
“Although many of the complaints allege an improper motive in delaying the case, the allegations are speculative and unsupported by any evidence,” Pryor wrote.
“The Complaints also do not establish that Judge Cannon was required to recuse herself from the case because she was appointed by then-President Trump.”
The chief judge also wrote that before May 16, “multiple Complaints of Judicial Misconduct or Disability” were filed against Cannon, who sits in Fort Pierce, Florida, federal court, “raising allegations in connection” with Trump’s criminal case.
“Some of those complaints have been acted upon, and others will be acted upon in due course,” Pryor wrote, without revealing the nature of those actions.
Pryor said that he recommended that the Judicial Council order the appeals court’s clerk not to accept complaints against Cannon received after May 16 “to the extent they are similar to previously filed complaints.” The council followed that recommendation, according to the order.
Pryor also wrote, that while the judicial-complaint process “is not the appropriate way to seek review of Judge Cannon’s orders, her orders are nevertheless subject to appellate review in normal course.”
CNBC has requested comment from Cannon through the office of the chief judge of the U.S. Southern District Court of Florida.
Glenn Kirschner, a lawyer and former federal prosecutor, on his podcast Justice Matters earlier this week did an episode on Cannon titled “Judge Aileen Cannon Grinds Trump’s Classified Documents/Obstruction/Espionage Case to a Halt.”
The episode’s description on Apple Podcasts says, “Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon should not be presiding over Trump’s federal prosecution in Florida.”
“She has brought the case to a screeching halt by declining to resolve motions in a timely manner and by refusing to even set a trial date. Judge Cannon is NOT an honest broker of the law, and the federal law requires a judge to be removed when his/her ‘impartially might reasonably be questioned.’ ”
The episode links to a YouTube video featuring Kirschner explaining how to file a complaint against Cannon by mailing one to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.
“A lot of people took advantage of that step-by-step video, and they submitted those judicial complaint forms,” Kirschner said on the podcast.
CNBC has requested comment from Kirschner on Pryor’s order.
Pryor was on a three-judge panel of the appeals court that issued a scathing ruling in December 2022 overturning Cannon’s appointment of an outside watchdog to determine whether documents seized from Mar-a-Lago by FBI agents could be used in the ongoing criminal probe of Trump.
“This appeal requires us to consider whether the district court had jurisdiction to block the United States from using lawfully seized records in a criminal investigation,” the panel wrote. “The answer is no.”
“The law is clear. We cannot write a rule that allows any subject of a search warrant to block government investigations after the execution of the warrant,” the panel written statement continued. “Nor can we write a rule that allows only former presidents to do so.”
“The district court improperly exercised equitable jurisdiction in this case.”
Over the last few days I have been busy trying to read news and set up new browsers. Here are some links to Joe My God stories that stood out for their pushing Christian hate on everyone. Plus some other hates from the tRump cult.
Per reports, Little’s salary is more than $200,000. In 2021, a Long Beach lifeguard tower decked out for Pride was destroyed in arson, much to the delight of commenters on the YouTube clip below.
And now for the tRump cult out cries about that guilty verdict.
I love how every accusation they make about Biden and the democrats / left turns out to be a confession by the republicans. For example they claim that Biden has weaponized the Department Of Justice and is controlling the AG Merrick Garland. But the republicans and trump have been calling for the locking up of his pollical opponent since his first run in 2016. He and his supporters have long called for locking up Biden. These people don’t want to run a country, they want to rule the country and everyone in it. They want to raid the treasury and hammer anyone who tries to stop them. Simply put they wrongly claim no one has ever been charged with this same crime, but it has been charged over 9,000 times. But they are now a cult and if the dear leader says it it must be so, reality be damned. Hugs. Scottie
The Washington Post has a fact check:
Trump called it ridiculous, unconstitutional and un-American “that the highly Conflicted, Radical Left Judge is not requiring a unanimous decision on the fake charges against me.” At first glance, it might appear that the former president doesn’t understand one of the basic tenets of the legal system: that guilty verdicts in criminal cases have to be unanimous.
The jury must be unanimous when it comes to determining whether Trump is guilty or not guilty of each specific falsifying business records count, and whether he did so in an effort to unlawfully impact an election, New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan said.
He added, however, that the panel did not have to be unanimous about which of those three types of crimes could serve as the underlying violation that brings the state election charge into play. In Trump’s case, prosecutors have offered three types of crimes that would make the state election-meddling charge come into play: federal election law crimes, tax crimes or false business records.
And now for a few just off the wall … weird world. Hugs. Scottie
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