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Why not request the SCIF be located in Riyadh at this point. It would cut down on the need to provide as many documents since who know how many are already there.

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Surprised she didn't "rule" that good ole TFG could view the documents while sitting in his golf cart with his Secret Service Detail running along side holding up one those blue tarps as an impenetrable shield! She must be angling for a future job as Attorney General

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19th Century legal philosopher Eugen Ehrlich: "There is no guarantee of justice except the personality of the judge." Ms. Cannon resembles a high-class courtesan, absolutely attentive to her client's needs and desires. If there *is* the popular image of a physical afterlife, Ethel Rosenberg is saying to Julius, "You're not going to believe this," while a couple of clouds over, Judge Irving Kaufman, who sent the Rosenbergs to the electric chair, is saying to his celestial judicial colleagues, "WTF? A guy who stole secret documents and stored some on them next to his crapper, waved Pentagon attack plans in front of people, that guy wants those documents sent *back* to him?" Over on another cloud, Richard Pryor, Terry Southern and Lenny Bruce are giving each other "Wow! Even *I* wouldn't have made *this* one up!" glances.

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I want to cry!

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Remember Ovid: "Tears at times have the weight of speech."

However, wearing a sweatshirt with Ovid's mug on it might be seen as a bit pretentious.

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I will take that into consideration before deciding on a sweatshirt!

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SQS --- Smile Quite Silently

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It might outrage the incipient anti-intellectuals, though, so there's that.

Arguably, the ones deciding (?Maybe having knee jerk reaction?) a t-shirt with an

Ovid image and a pithy quote are just tragically hip, transposed into dictating what is and ain't pretentious. Or like the bunch who wear a "Kill all the lawyers" shirt, a new favorite on the far right according to some snippet of AM radio I heard while searching for the Twins game, blissfully ignorant of Shakespeare having that line from one of the most despicable characters - a depraved rabble-rouser - in any of his plays.

Anarchism in that sense of freedom from caring is something to consider, maybe!

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Putting history in perspective, l agree that satire eases the pain.

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I heard this tonight: Laughter is the poison to fear.

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Well this just really frosts my cookies (I'm being polite here).

When is some sane, adult in the legal system stand up and say 'just stop this silly shit?'

I am rapidly losing all faith in our legal system. It looks like an over-verbalized shit show. A game more suited to a carnival venue.

I guess this is the legal 'strategy' brought by the infamous white shoe firm of "Stahl, Hamper and DeLay"

GMAFB!

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Companions to the firm of Dewey, Cheatem and Howe, and the less well-known, but much older Viking law firm: Slashburn, Pillage and Pierce.

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Yes, that's another old one-reeler gag I remember!

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DeweyCheatem is an oldie, but the Viking law firm is my own invention, inspired by an actual lawyer named Gordon Slashburn.

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Authoritarians of all stripes exult when citizens reach the point of "losing all faith in our legal system."

"Listen up Charlie in Tucson," they might say, with all the assurance of well-practiced carnival mountebanks and tub-thumping evangelists, " Yes, my friend, you couldn't be more right: our legal system is broken, broken! - as broken and morally bankrupt as the universities like the one in Tucson, tearing at our nation like crazed wildcats on loco weed, the same jimson weed smoothie they gonna make compulsory for each and every schoolkid to drink with their so-called free lunch, there ain't no free lunch, someone always pays for it, and that's you, Charlie in Tucson, an outraged taxpayer, the youth would grow up to learn all about this, so the crazy Democrats love miseducating the youth, destroying their future just like the Democrats always try to do, that's why what we need right now, is a strong leader!"

{Perhaps you try to get a word in edgewise, but the wolf in sheep's clothing is not havin' it!}

"We need a strong, committed leader, a man like Governor Ron De Santis, a man with a revival plan for America, for you, your children, and our troubled youth, a man with a vision for 'Merica Ron has honed to perfection in Florida, where he is vilified by the pointy headed intellectuals with their foul, ungodly teachings!" blah blah blah just sign away your critical thinking right there along with your hope for legal reform and much more, and they are satisfied - another disillusioned voter has been verified, turned off by the system to the point he or she will not ask disturbing questions, volunteer for campaign work, run for office himself, make donations to candidates evaluated as trustworthy and having practical winning chances.

With any luck, they hope they can hornswoggle some of your relatives, friends or neighbors into either "dropping out," or even supporting De Santis!

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Someone has hacked Richard Turnbull J.D.'s Substak account. This post is WAY too short.

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Wow, I just scanned that post and it's WAY SHORT only in terms of what might have been required to pound the substantive points into smithereens, that's all!

The idea of "giving up on the rule of law" really deserves a much longer set of refutations, cites going all the way back to the Greek tyrants, but this forum isn't built for that. Have to see what's allowed when my own substack is established!

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If given the chance I will bring in everything from Police and Thieves by The Clash to Proto-Indo-European mythology, so sue me!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KVFn2uSAjk

Police & Thieves (Remastered)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_mythology *****

EXCERPT, and maybe it applies to today's struggles, right now, this very leptosecond?:

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The Structuralist School argues that Proto-Indo-European mythology was largely centered around the concept of dualistic opposition.[18] They generally hold that the mental structure of all human beings is designed to set up opposing patterns in order to resolve conflicting elements.[19] This approach tends to focus on cultural universals within the realm of mythology rather than the genetic origins of those myths,[18] such as the fundamental and binary opposition rooted in the nature of marriage proposed by Tamaz V. Gamkrelidze and Vyacheslav Ivanov.[19] It also offers refinements of the trifunctional system by highlighting the oppositional elements present within each function, such as the creative and destructive elements both found within the role of the warrior.[18] *****

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Ouch! That smarts.

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Wasn't "I. Fleecum & U. Cheatum" one of the law offices featured in Three Stooges shorts?

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Yes! Nyuk nyuk nyuk.

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This unabashed pandering to TFG is beyond ridiculous.Why is he any different than any other?"Special treatment that no other criminal defendant would receive" says it all pretty much in a nutshell.We The People are getting had by this conman and his judicial picks and I for one am very disgusted by it all. I wrote a quote down but didn't write the authors name(apologies to whoever it was)-"the nonsensical notion that everyone is treated equally under the law" is very present in this odious situation.His own SCIF! Are you kidding me?!

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We are under siege from the traitors of the RNC.

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Noooooooo! Can we take any more of the games? I know I can’t. All I hear is how unprecedented it all is. Wull, let’s go back to precedent and give TFG what the rest of us would hopefully get: a speedy trial, a fair verdict and house arrest for life. BUT he can only choose one...Which has to beFlorida to maintain his state residency. MIKE DROP!

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My ignorance is no doubt showing, but I can't figure out the need for the perp to see the stolen classified docs he presumably has already seen. I don't believe that a thief on trial for robbing a jewelry store has to brush up, beforehand, on the rings and watches he clipped.

Mr. T.'s latest, however, has reinforced a feeling I've had for far too long: I am sick to death of Trump, Cannon, and a cast roughly equal to the number of extras in "Quo Vadis." More deponent sayeth not.

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LOL, love the last line - it's not Trump who "needs" them, and your common sense question is not ignorant at all, just beside the point: it's a temporary, very delicately constructed phenomenon (given Trump's vanishingly short attention span) we can think of as "Trump-instructed-by-attorneys-to-say-exactly-how-little-he-ever-intended-to-ever-be-extremely-reckless-with-the-docs-or-try-to-keep-them-which-was-just-a-joke," or some such legal stratagem to milk the maximum obfuscation out of Trump's parlous legal predicament.

They want the documents to work on highlight the ones that are incredibly innocuous, perhaps, and try to convince the judge that Trump was confused, and thought all of them were likely harmless, souvenirs he could show around without ever INTENDING any harm.

They might have a whole brainstorming session scheduled at least once a week to try to avoid looking like total chumps!

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"confused" I could see him playing that, and then being mildly contrite. It would work for his followers. I wish his lawyers would have him try to pull a Captain Queeg moment. At least then I could feel some compassion for him.

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I am not interested in whether or not I can envision hypothetical behavior by defendant which elicits "compassion" for him, that's my background assumption - compassion for all sentient beings in the universe! Om Sat Chit Mahakaruna Ananda!" You see what I did there - took the classic mantra and just inserted "Mahakaruna," = "Ultimate Compassion (for all sentient beings is implied)" - been meditating with that for over thirty years.

But this case is about defendant's alleged crimes, serious crimes which require condign retribution via our legal system - the legal system defendant endlessly mocks, declaring the Special Counsel Jack Smith "unhinged," attacking Smith's family, taunts and incitements which have arguably been the proximate cause of credible DEATH THREATS.

I will forego working up a special "compassion" for Trump until I see serious remorse expressed from him.

And there will be no "Humphrey Bogart star turn" acting, much less a real breakdown in front of cameras (more than usual, I mean, it's DONALD J. TRUMP

we're talking about, not a reasonably sane human being) allowed by or even arranged by his latest slew of attorneys, even they aren't dilly enough to try that kind

of stunt, not even in front of Judge Loose Cannon Cannon.

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Your "ignorance is showing" with the same comic touch that showed us Katherine Hepburn's nylons during the torn dress sequence in "Bringing Up Baby." LKTIV used the precise word, "delay" and he wasn't dredging up Terrible Tom DeLay. As for the number of extras in "Quo Vadis," if SAG/AFTRA and the WGA lose their strike, AI will literally pixelate us with the number of extras it can create.

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Re SAG/AFTRA, I have friends marching, and my former husband was head of that union, and in fact is the one who joined the two groups.

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Let's get Kevin Bacon in here, right now, to erase all the degrees of separation. You and I met at Brandeis, yes, before JFK was elected. Rather than drop names and bore Lucian's faithful readers, you can "find" me, under the nom-de-whom of lsdietz716 (at the inevitable) gmail.

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I will write you now. (You will plotz.)

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"Liked" for reasons I just explained in reply to Mr. Dietz!

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I reserve the right to be vicariously interested in all kinds "old school ties" pending my declaration otherwise, though!

Sometimes "name dropping" is a kind of pointless slur on people mentioning a major or minor celebrity in any of several thousand fields of life in a context they find instructive, it can be fascinating!

Admittedly, sometimes people drop names without making a larger point, I have yet to read anything Margo posted on here that did that, she's just widely read and with her own very "connected" bio, right?

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Oh. Mr T is Trump?

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No, silly. Mr. T. is our host.

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I'm sorry. Neighbors woke me up before 3am.

Two excellent reporters, that makes a lot more sense.

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"Neighbors" woke me up two nights ago, there were even patrol cars - I know the manager of the building nearby - across the street, past Aveda Institute, where that was happening, have yet to ask him what it was about and likely won't "unless it makes the papers."

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My little section of the neighborhood is safe I can judge this by looking at crime mapping, we live in a horseshoe shaped area where there is very little going on. I can frequently hear gunfire 1 or2 streets over in a couple of directions. One night there were shots fired from the left that sounded like a 22, shots fired on the right from something louder and deeper. The exchanged rounds and it seemed like the 22 was having to reload while the other guy seem to have more rounds? After a while I no longer heard the 22. A few more shots from the other direction. And then it ended. It took several days for a report to show up in the newspaper about a shootout. Couple of days ago a neighbor and I heard gunfire. They looked at me and said that sounded like a gun. Yep. And then there were several shots fired. They looked at me and it said they they sound like they're firing from different directions. Yep. Like a shootout. Yep it is. They're shooting at each other. I guess I hear it so often that it doesn't scare me. Maybe that's not a good thing. But it is one of the biggest reasons that I'm going to sell my house and move closer to one of my daughters.

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Exactly, if you can reasonably foresee things like that worsening, mere blocks away, not miles and miles away - and maybe in a significantly smaller urban area where these crazy "shootouts"

are fortunately almost unknown, albeit it is bad enough we have more guns than humans in the USA and people resort to "settling things" violently at a scale that's unsustainable, but back to your plan - why not put your local affairs in order and relocate (even in the same metro area) to try for more peace of mind?!

Where I live, my 7-floor, 77 unit building - it is only two blocks to the Mississippi River /St. Anthony Main /Nicollet Island and beyond that, the east side of downtown Minneapolis, while 8 blocks along SE University Avenue the East Bank campus begins. Between that and the West Bank campus, counting students, teaching staff and support employees of all kinds, it becomes

a kind of fluctuating small city on its own, but by no means untouched by gun violence as well.

Needless to say, there has been an ongoing battle over restructuring the Minneapolis Police Department consequent to the extrajudicial killing of George Floyd May 25, 2020 - two weeks to the day I moved in here - and all the days and weeks of raucous, righteously outraged, mostly NON-violent protests at first, which quickly degenerated into arson, looting, etc. The MPD is under a consent decree with the feds/DOJ, to absolutely clamp down on and remove cops like Derek Chauvin and the three others, not enable their illegal, immoral flouting of any civilized code of policing. And much else.

No wonder LKTIV routinely hammers on our plague of gun violence, as "we," collectively, to one degree or another, have created it, and only we can end it.

www.google.com/maps/@44.9772243,-93.2125335,14z?hl=en&entry=ttu

I live in Marcy Holmes, over the years I have worked in every single neighborhood adjoining the U campus, also on campus

in Ford Hall (then housing the philosophy department, sociology, women's studies also) and in the labyrinthine

www.google.com/maps/place/515+Delaware+St+SE,+Minneapolis,+MN+55455/@44.973139,-93.2330123,17z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x52b32d17e03f891d:0x263fdd38a715cca3!8m2!3d44.973139!4d-93.2314768!16s%2Fg%2F11p1112ftt?hl=en&entry=ttu

Malcolm Moos Health Sciences Tower, surveying patients in the connected hospital system. That was back in the 1980s, the

entire area around there has mammoth apartment buildings that didn't exist then, when the U was even more of a "commuter campus" than it remains now.

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The entire request seems like a waste of time, who really believes that Trump is going to sit down and review documents, wherever they are. The issue is that Trump shouldn't have retained them, not what is in them. I'm sure Jack Smith knows all this but has to pretend its an ordinary case and normal protocol should be followed. So far that's all that has happened, the prosecution's normal protective order is granted. The Sky isn't falling yet.

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There’s not a snowball’s chance in hell that *Rump would/could read one page of those documents, let alone understand what’s contained in them. This is just another irrelevant convoluted delaying tactic that a real judge would laugh at. The document contents, and the rationale for classifying them isn’t the issue. His illegal possession of them is.

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"`The entire request seems like a waste of time,'" I like that, Mr. Heep, may I call you Uriah? Your can-do attitude has been noted, yes noted. Now, does anyone else have any more suggestions for wasting the court's time, that is, we can waste it, no one need ever know Trump is in the main dining room scarfing cheeseburgers and dictating unhin...I mean, creative attacks on Hunter Biden."

"I believe he learned that trick from Roy Cohn, Chief, make it personal, go after their family like a mad dog on Ibogaine, it's definitely bugging Sleepy Joe."

"Yes, Mr. Butcher, just wait until the prosecutors demand the death penalty, that'll show 'em what happens to wise guys who mess with Donald Trump!"

"The death penalty, that's a byoo-t-ful thing, that is! For having an unloaded gun for eleven days and lying about it, Chief, you're a genius! The sheer chutzpah, the moxie as my old cousin Rocco Roccarollie used to exclaim after a hit where the weasel gettin' bumped off complained about just needing more time!"

"Moxie, ok, now what about telling Loose Cannon Cannon we can't possibly try the case before 2026, anyone? Anyone?"

See what I mean, Tom, you have to think inside the perspective of a lawyer whose first goal is hours, hours, billable hours at $850 an hour, extra for court appearances that risk contempt of court citations even from the likes of Loose Cannon Cannon, no illogical gyration is too absurd if it wastes time, time is money, that's what they say! And this, courtesy of your host, You Tube, this should get you in the right frame of mind, study it closely and you're on your way to concluding your own Faustian bargains, at the crossroads under a full moon, get it?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8RW3K3hhWU

The Third Man - "The Cuckoo Clock"

Joseph Cotten - Holly Martins

Orson Welles - Harry Lime

Director: Carol Reed

Script: Graham Greene

Studio: Carol Reed's Production, London Film Productions

1949

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEZzs-8--Es

Orson Welles | The 3rd Man (1949) Film-Noir, Thriller | Colorized Movie, subtitles Cult Cinema Classics 1.02M subscribers 631,003 views Premiered Jul 8, 2023 VIENNA

In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a “third man” present at the time of Harry’s death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry’s grief-stricken lover, Anna.

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funny, Richard.

I just re-watched "The Third Man" less than a week ago. and it was better than ever. I do kinda resent people calling Orson Welles (a presence I adore as much as anyone) the "star." he's in...what...two scenes. granted, they're amazing scenes, but the movie belongs to Joseph Cotten and Trevor Howard, two magnificent actors who've never quite gotten their appropriate due.

I remember a TV series from the '60s with Michael Rennie in which, somehow, Harry Lime becomes the hero and is sort of a professional do-gooder/private eye type. I knew the series before I saw the movie for the first time, so imagine my surprise when I discovered Harry was not a nice guy at all. and when the movie came out, the press flak referred to Alida Valli as "the most beautiful woman in the world." this might have been overcompensation for the fact that Il Duce had a crush on her, but she had spectacular bones, especially for B&W. it's hard to decide which of Carol Reed's three great movies is the best...I have a special love for "The Fallen Idol" (Ralph Richardson's great moment) and "Odd Man Out" is every bit as gorgeous to look at as "The Third Man." most people pick TTM, but I've never been quite sure about that. definitely the best music, though. I just noticed that you seem to have seen a "colorized" version. ew.

I sometimes feel like a machine into which you feed a movie title and the machine free-associates.

oh jeez..

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I originally logged on here today, Saturday 9-16-23 to "retract" any recommendation for that particular You Tube version of a colorized The Third Man, not because of aesthetic defects, which we can argue for or against, but because the damn commercials are MORE than just an opening snippet easily avoided!

In fact, I even liked the colorized idea enough I am googling to see if it can be bought on Ebay etc.

$9.95 SHIPPED FROM OVERSEAS. Not from Ebay, though.

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From what I understood from the Order, Cannon granted the prosecution motion in full and left the determination of which SCIF facility to use up to the chief information security officer, whoever that is. At least at this point Trump doesn't have permission to review them at Mar-A-Lago.

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Yes I thought that did happen - just took an extra month for her to try to understand how to be a judge!

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I would never stoop to the cheap pun of "loose cannon" but she is both loose and cheap.

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Ha! I named her that soon after she came on the scene.

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Yes and I have borrowed it, sure fits that character.

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Yep a real Head case

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Gsil, Sorry. My man brainspread got loose

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And in the same spirit of flouting legal fairness and democratic norms, there's this still moving along in 'Sconsin:

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/14/wisconsin-republicans-vote-fire-meagan-wolfe-election-official

Alice Herman in Madison, Wisconsin

Thu 14 Sep 2023 22.19 BST

Wisconsin’s top elections official suffered another blow on Thursday when the Republican-controlled state senate voted to fire her by a party line vote of 22 to 11. Meagan Wolfe’s status as elections administrator will now likely be determined in court.

Legal experts and the Wisconsin attorney general have disputed the move by Republican senators to remove Wolfe, a respected and accomplished non-partisan leader. Her removal would affect the administration of elections in 2024 and illustrates the increasingly wide reach of election deniers and rightwing conspiracy theorists in Wisconsin politics.

Janet Protasiewicz<br>Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz, who is being targeted for possible impeachment by Republican lawmakers because of donations she received from the Democratic Party and comments she made during her campaign, attends her first hearing as a justice Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023, in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Republicans threaten to impeach newly elected Wisconsin supreme court judge

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Before she became a lightning rod for conspiracy theories and criticism surrounding the 2020 election, Wolfe enjoyed wide support from Republicans in the state legislature. Appointed to head the Wisconsin elections commission in 2018, she was confirmed by a unanimous vote in the state senate in 2019.

When the Covid-19 virus pummeled Wisconsin, disrupting elections, an attorney representing the Republican assembly speaker, Robin Vos, and the former senate majority leader Scott Fitzgerald wrote in a letter that they “wholeheartedly support” many protocols outlined by the statewide commission.

Crucially, Wolfe, who provides expertise and recommendations to the commission, serves at their direction – and not the other way around.

One pandemic-era policy that has come under fire by Republicans, creating temporary adjustments to nursing home voting, was issued by a unanimous vote of the three Democratic and three Republican commissioners.

“Meagan is being blamed for the decisions of her commission,” said Claire Woodall-Vogg, executive director of Milwaukee’s election commission. “It’s really unfortunate that she’s being used as the scapegoat when she was not the person responsible for making any decisions that they’re punishing her for.”

It was only after the 2020 election, which Donald Trump lost to president Joe Biden by just over 20,000 votes in Wisconsin, that complaints about the nonpartisan administrator began to circulate. Groups and individuals that spread falsehoods about widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election have obsessed over Wolfe, publishing missives in Gateway Pundit, a site that peddles misinformation, and earning a warning from state capitol police for allegedly stalking her.

State lawmakers, largely focusing their criticisms on pandemic-related policies like the expanded use of ballot drop boxes and the guidance for nursing home voting, joined the chorus calling for Wolfe’s ouster.

When Wolfe’s term ended in June, Democrats on the bipartisan commission blocked a vote to send a recommendation for her reappointment to the state senate, anticipating the senate would in turn vote to fire her. The commissioners relied on precedent from a 2022 Wisconsin supreme court ruling that found a Republican member of the state’s natural resources board who declined to put himself forward for reappointment in 2021 could not be removed from office.

Still, Republicans moved forward with reappointment proceedings for Wolfe, holding a 29 August hearing where election deniers and conspiracy theorists from around the state gathered to air their grievances about Wisconsin elections. In a letter, the Democratic attorney general, Josh Kaul, wrote that the state senate had “no current authority to confirm or reject the appointment of a WEC administrator”, an opinion that was echoed by the legislature’s own nonpartisan attorneys.

Jeff Smith, a Democratic state senator on the shared revenue, elections and consumer protection committee who abstained from a committee vote on Wolfe’s reappointment, said in a statement that the vote was “not properly before the Senate or its committees”, adding that he has “full confidence in Administrator Wolfe and the work that she has done for the people of Wisconsin”.

Devin LeMahieu, the Republican state senate majority leader who voted against Wolfe’s reappointment, previously accused the administrator of “mishandling” the 2020 election. LeMahieu’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

A polling place in Madison. County clerks and municipal clerks – the people who make elections run – work year round to instill a sense of faith in the electoral process.

Wisconsin voters caught in the middle as misinformation takes on education

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During the floor session on Thursday, the Democratic senate minority leader, Melissa Agard, described the move to oust Wolfe as one of many “shameless continued attacks on our elections”.

Democrats in the state senate objected to the vote repeatedly. Mark Spreitzer, a Democratic member of the senate’s shared revenue, elections and consumer protection committee, called the nomination “fake” and accused Republicans in the senate of indulging conspiracy theorists.

Senators opposing the vote noted the wide-ranging implications of Wolfe’s disputed reappointment process.

“Disenfranchisement was real,” said the Democratic state senator Lena Taylor, describing the long lines that plagued polling places in Milwaukee during the spring 2020 election. Taylor argued that the vote – which she described as a “sham process” – would delegitimate sincere elections concerns in favor of falsehoods and conspiracy theories. ***** The article continues...

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So in Wisconsin, political appointees do not have to vacate their positions until the State Senate confirms their replacement. Frank Prehn was appointed to the Natural Resources Board by Scott Walker in 2015 and his official term ended in 2021. Governor Evers nominated his replacement but the Republican Senate did not confirm her, so Prehn refused to vacate his seat, which maintained a 4-3 Republican majority on the board. In the same vein, Meagan Wolfe can also refuse to vacate her position if no one else is nominated - she’ll just stay in her current role. It’s all a game. The significance of electing Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz cannot be over-stated. She will hopefully even the playing field that has been dominated by the Republican Legislature for over a decade.

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Thanks! That clarifies my own post on a similar subject. (I was too lazy to look up all the names involved.) There is an obvious glitch in Wisconsin state law that allows this sort of bad faith chicanery to persist. At least it's come back now to bite the trumpies on the butt, for as long as it lasts.

Drumpf was pulling this same stunt as prez, when the Dems controlled the Senate, he was naming "acting" officials who could perform the duties of the office without having to receive Senate confirmation. Federal law is different but equally flawed if it's subject to this sort of end-around.

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Yes, what goes around comes around! The Frank Prehn fiasco really angered me because his vote allowed the Board to increase the amount of Wolves that could be killed during hunting season and also ignore Clean Water regulations. Really despicable.

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Despicable, wholly agree. Leave the wolves alone, what is WRONG with people? The wolves were decimated in the last hunt and environmentalists had so much labor and expense undone. Why is the small, and shrinking, psychotic hunting lobby catered to so much? Can't the American Indian groups halt the hunt again this time? I should dig further.

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They succeeded in raising the Wolf quota BUT it was overturned in court. I can’t remember who brought the suit but somebody is looking out for the Wolves. Many people were outraged about the increased quotas. As I remember it, the hunters kept ( illegally) exceeding the quotas. The Former president also reversed many protections for Wolves.

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I love just about everything about wolves.

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Thanks for reposting this, I read the Guardian article earlier today. GOP dirty tricks keep a-comin' here in Scansin.

What's blackly ironic is that there was a Republican-appointee state official who until recently refused to resign his post and his replacement was also held up due to a reverse of this ploy -- the state senate refused to hold a confirmation hearing on the nominee from Democratic governor Evers. Same situation in reverse, the Republicans gaming the system to hold onto power illegitimately.

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LOL 'Scansin' even better than the MInnie-SOH-tah mild putdown attempted with "Sconsin," I'll take any momentary laugh breaks I can get from the deadly serious crookery they're trying.

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I'm sure that the next step for the FS will be establishing FS chapters in high schools. I can foresee that right-wing Bonafide's will be like Nazi party badges; those who joined prior to 1933 (when Hitler got the Chancellorship) and those who joined after he took power. Future Supreme Court judges will shout that they joined the FS in high school, thereby establishing that they have been assholes since their teens.

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Just asking because I don’t know the rules, but were Gitmo defendants and/or their lawyers allowed to even look at classified documents bearing on the alleged offenses.

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Bearing how on what offenses?

I can't imagine a scenario off the top of my head where that would help the defense attorneys, but maybe you have something specific in mind?

If it's a document that motivated a "top secret" operation to capture the prisoner, maybe, with a ton of redactions.

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Thanks Leonard Leo

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And don't forget The Federalist Society ...

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The local paper had a photo of a young man who had just gotten his law degree. It noted that he was a member of his school's chapter of the Federalist Society. I am sure that there are now chapters of the FS at every law school, from the wretched Patrick Henry to Harvard. This assures America that there is a large stream of (jerks) in the anti-democratic pipeline.

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We're doomed.

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I think your glass half full has sprung a major leak. :-)

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same thing.

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And, she waited unnecessarily for a month to make a ruling! (I thought she did make that ruling in favor of the prosecution - it just took a month for absolutely no reason except to DeLaY for her boyfriend....she wants the VP job?

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