The only thing bipartisan about this is the knowledge that such a bill will never pass. That’s why these psychos introduce it every so often. Just a publicity stunt.
Gulliani has absolutely flipped on Trump, Trump is utterly fucked and zero lubricant is going to be used.
…(unless by some slim chance fascist dictatorships suddenly come into fashion and he wins the presidency against all odds, and then he can manage to pardon himself and everything will be fine).. this really does seem to be his plan right now, it’s increasingly excellent to watch his desperation increase.
what a fun few months/years going forward we are going to have.
Yep. The next election is basically a coin flip. It will be decided by a few thousand people in a small number of swing states, thanks to our idiotic system.
Florida's pension fund only had a $50m position in InBev, for a loss of ~$600k. Not a lot out of a fund of $235 billion. Florida pension funds under DeSantis also took a $200m bath because they invested in Russia, and because DeSantis gave control of Florida's pension funds to managers who donated to his campaign. Still they're using this as an excuse to push their culture war and threaten InBev with lawsuits over less significant losses that Republicans caused.
At the end of March, Florida’s pension fund held more than 682,000 shares of AB InBev valued at the time at nearly $46 million. The company’s stock price has fallen since then from $66 a share to $58, though it’s still higher than its 52-week low of $44 from September 2022, which was well before the company’s recent controversies.
And this is where I stopped reading. It’s up year over year and he wants to sue? He of course bitches about “woke” while discussing this. Meanwhile he has no shot of winning the primary which makes this all the more pathetic.
I assume if the judicial branch were included it would be found "unconstitutional". Maybe this has a shot of getting through the supreme court and then we can go from there.
This... This is an ad. This is literally a recruitment ad for Russian defectors disguised as a common article in CNN.
Lede very much unburied(exhumed?):
“Disaffection creates a once-in-a-generation opportunity for us,” said CIA Director Bill Burns last year during a speech in the United Kingdom. “We’re very much open for business.”
“That business is the exchange of information that the asset or agent would provide for something that they want,” said David McCloskey, former CIA officer and author of Moscow X. “We want people who have some sense of what [Russian] leaders’ priorities are – what they’re trying to accomplish.”
I understand the sentiment, but it is important for felons to be allowed to run for office. I would also say that the vast majority of them should be allowed to vote as well (I would only take that away in cases which involve acts against democracy, election interference, etc--which, incidentally, this was).
Sometimes the law is wrong. How many people are felons because they smoked pot, for example?
Meh...the felon population is not supposed to be large enough to influence elections...looks up incarcerated numbers...Louisiana/Oklahoma/Mississipi: nearly 1%...ok...new voting group: the incarcerated...but...who wants to fight for that vote?
because once you take the right away from a group, somehow laws are written and enforced to make targeted population into that group. Look at drug laws. Oh, you have 2 Marijuana cigarettes? 20 years and no vote for you drug kingpen.
The charges against Trump are Class E felonies, the least serious category under New York law. Each count carries a maximum sentence of four years in prison.
Experts tend to think it is highly unlikely that Trump will face any jail time as a result of the hush money verdict.
“I’d be shocked” if Trump is sentenced to jail, Bachner said. He added that a sentence of probation would be normal for the average defendant convicted of the same crime.
[Judge] Merchan has made clear throughout the trial that he is mindful of Trump’s unique political status, and he has previously expressed reluctance to put the ex-president behind bars.
Gershman told CNBC that a jail sentence is “certainly plausible,” and that it “would not be out of bounds” for Merchan to sentence Trump to some time behind bars.
But he acknowledged that, due to the immense and complex challenges of incarcerating a former president, the judge might instead opt for a sentence of house arrest.
“This case goes to the heart of our democracy, according to the judge,” Gershman said. “He views this case as very, very serious.”
Not sure what that has to do with the potential for shenanigans given the public news of a sentencing date being 4 days before the nominating convention, but ok.
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