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Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#285826: Jul 26th 2019 at 1:57:40 PM

Any of them in competitive seats?

EDIT: D- pagetopper. I was asking about the retiring GOP reps.

Edited by Ramidel on Jul 26th 2019 at 12:58:02 AM

Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#285827: Jul 26th 2019 at 2:09:23 PM

The one from Texas is potentially flippable. The others are from very conservative districts. Though they have been among the few Republicans who were inclined to criticize Trump. Sounds more like they're being driven out of politics by the base.

RainingMetal (Handed A Sword) Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#285828: Jul 26th 2019 at 3:05:02 PM

Shame. Could have been useful assets in a Heel–Face Turn.

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Soban Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
#285829: Jul 26th 2019 at 3:13:05 PM

Poll: No impeachment bump after Mueller's testimony

A new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll, conducted immediately after former special counsel Robert Mueller’s congressional testimony, shows little impact on support for impeaching President Donald Trump, with a plurality of voters still opposed to beginning proceedings that could result in Trump’s removal from office.

Only 37 percent of voters say Congress should begin impeachment proceedings against Trump, according to the poll, which was conducted Thursday. More voters, 46 percent, say Congress should not begin impeachment proceedings. Sixteen percent of voters are undecided.

...

But while public sentiment overall continues to lean against impeaching the president, the POLITICO/Morning Consult poll also underscores the quandary facing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders: Democratic voters are strongly in favor of impeachment, with 64 percent supporting it, combined with 18 percent who oppose it.

Democratic support for launching impeachment proceedings contrasts sharply with Republicans (6 percent support, versus 86 percent oppose) and independents (34 percent support, versus 42 percent oppose).

...

While Trump had claimed since the release of Mueller’s report that it exonerated him — a claim Mueller rebutted on Wednesday — only 35 percent of voters say Mueller exonerated Trump. Four-in-10 voters, 40 percent, say Mueller didn’t exonerate Trump, but fully 25 percent say they don’t know if Mueller exonerated Trump.

Voters are also split on whether Trump’s campaign worked with Russia to influence the 2016 election: 43 percent say that it did, while 39 percent say that it didn’t. Mueller’s report said it found insufficient evidence to sustain any charge that the campaign conspired with Russia.

But nearly half of voters, 49 percent, think Trump tried to impede or obstruct the Russia investigation — more than the 35 percent who say they don’t think so. Sixteen percent of voters don’t know whether Trump tried to obstruct the investigation.

tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
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#285830: Jul 26th 2019 at 4:42:00 PM

Supreme Court is allowing Trump to tap into $2.5 billion in Defense Department money in order to build his border wall.

"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#285831: Jul 26th 2019 at 4:46:35 PM

2.5 billion is nothing for a procurement of that size

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
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#285832: Jul 26th 2019 at 4:55:06 PM

Essentially, the court struck it down on the Grounds that the States don't have the right to sue over this issue. It really sucks, because it basically means any President can simply ignore the will of Congress and say "Hey, I'm gonna use the money this way, not in the way you actually intended for the money to spend", defying the Constitution in the Process (Its Congress with the Power of the Purse, not the President).

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#285833: Jul 26th 2019 at 5:15:18 PM

Justice Department OKs T-Mobile takeover of Sprint after they agreed to spin off Dish Network as a wireless service.

Edited by tclittle on Jul 26th 2019 at 7:17:52 AM

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ironballs16 Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Owner of a lonely heart
#285834: Jul 26th 2019 at 8:43:05 PM

[up][up]

Okay, so who does have standing to file suit? Could a group of Congressmembers on the Federal level do so?

"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"
Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#285835: Jul 26th 2019 at 8:52:35 PM

Nope. Courts essentially said that both chambers need to bring the lawsuit for it to be considered.

DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
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#285836: Jul 26th 2019 at 9:07:32 PM

[up] Which is impossible right now, McConnell will never bring up a suit against Trump over anything.

Our only hope is we get the Trifecta in 2020 (which is a possibility), and the House and Senate create a hard rule that says "Presidents can only spend money the way we say they can", with the President signing off on it. My worry would be that not even the most Democratic President would want to give up powers back to the Congress, and result in the Democratic Congress suing the Democratic President to get them to lose this power.

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#285837: Jul 26th 2019 at 9:18:51 PM

https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2019/07/26/day-918/

    Day 918: Warriors 
1/ The House Judiciary Committee said it would petition a federal judge to unseal Robert Mueller's secret grand jury evidence. Chairman Jerry Nadler argued that it's essential that Congress "have access to all the relevant facts" – including witness testimony – in order to fully investigate potential abuses of power by Trump and his inner circle before deciding whether to recommend articles of impeachment. The petition does not seek the public release of the grand jury evidence. The committee will also continue its investigation during the House's six-week summer recess and is working to obtain testimony from former White House counsel Don Mc Gahn. Nadler said he is going to court today and again next week to file a lawsuit to force Mc Gahn to testify. (New York Times / Politico / Washington Post)

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/26/mueller-report-secret-grand-jury-evidence-1436846

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House will make a decision regarding impeachment in a "timely fashion," denying that she is trying to "run out the clock" on the issue. Pelosi's comment came shortly before Nadler said the House Judiciary Committee had already "in effect" been conducting an impeachment inquiry. (NBC News)

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/pelosi-decision-impeachment-will-be-made-timely-fashion-n1035051

2/ Russia targeted the election systems in all 50 states in 2016, the Senate Intelligence Committee's new report on election interference concluded. Officials believe that Russians probably "scanned" systems in every state for "election-related web pages, voter ID information, election system software, and election service companies." The investigation found that Russia's interference began as early as 2014 and continued into at least 2017, but there was no evidence that votes were changed or that any voting machines were compromised. (New York Times / Washington Post)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/senate-intelligence-panel-releases-first-chapter-of-bipartisan-report-into-russian-meddling/2019/07/25/63bce4f4-af0c-11e9-bc5c-e73b603e7f38_story.html

📌 Day 917: The Senate Intelligence Committee found that "the Russian government directed extensive activity, beginning in at least 2014 and carrying into at least 2017, against U.S. election infrastructure at the state and local level," according to the committee's report on Russian interference. The report recommends that Congress provide additional funding for states to secure elections once the $380 million appropriated in 2018 is spent. (NPR / Bloomberg / Axios / The Hill)

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/25/745205135/senate-intel-committee-unveils-election-security-report-in-wake-of-mueller-day

3/ Active duty military personnel are stationed within feet of migrant adults and children inside Border Patrol facilities. The proximity could lead to violations of the 140-year-old federal law that prohibits active duty troops and military personnel from coming into direct contact with migrants or from being used as law enforcement. Soldiers stand on elevated platforms throughout large rooms inside the facilities where detained migrants are held. Troops were originally assigned to the facilities to conduct periodic welfare checks of the migrants detained inside, but officials say that arrangement has evolved into a continual presence watching over them. (NBC News)

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/active-duty-u-s-troops-are-now-just-feet-away-n1034416

4/ Several U.S. Marines were arrested at Camp Pendleton and charged with human smuggling and other offenses for allegedly transporting undocumented migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border. The migrants in question told border agents they had agreed to pay the Marines $8,000 to take them north of the border to Los Angeles and eventually to New Jersey. The Marines could face charges in military or federal court. None of the Marines in question had served in support of the Southwest Border Support mission. (NBC San Diego)

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Mass-Arrests-Marines-Camp-Pendleton-San-Diego-513200381.html

5/ The U.S. government will pay between $15 and $150 per acre to American farmers hurt by Trump's trade war with China. The latest aid package will cost $16 billion, with farmers in the South expected to see higher rates than those in the Midwest. The assistance will be distributed beginning in mid-to-late August, and payment will be disbursed based on their geographic location instead of the crops they produce. (Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-idUSKCN1UK2M7

6/ The Justice Department approved the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint after the two companies agreed to create a new wireless carrier by selling assets to satellite-TV provider Dish. The attorneys general for 13 states are trying to block the $26 billion merger with an antitrust lawsuit, arguing the deal could leave consumers with higher cellphone bills. T-Mobile and Sprint are the third- and fourth-largest wireless companies in the U.S. (New York Times / Wall Street Journal)

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/26/business/media/sprint-tmobile-merger.html

📌 Day 749: T-Mobile executives involved in the company's merger with Sprint last year have booked more than 52 nights at Trump's D.C. hotel since then. Newly obtained records from the hotel show T-Mobile executives booked more nights than previously reported, sometimes staying in rooms that cost up to $2,246 per night. Trump still owns the hotel, despite turning day-to-day control over to his sons Eric and Don Jr. (Washington Post)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/t-mobile-executives-seeking-merger-approval-booked-more-than-52-nights-at-trumps-hotel--more-than-previously-known/2019/02/06/cd6fa7e6-29ca-11e9-b011-d8500644dc98_story.html

📌 Day 775: T-Mobile spent $195,000 at Trump's Washington hotel after the announcement of its merger with its Sprint last April. Before news of the deal broke on April 29, 2018, only two top officials from T-Mobile had ever stayed at Trump's hotel. (Washington Post / Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sprint-corp-m-a-trump-idUSKCN1QM1ZY

7/ U.S. economic growth didn't hit Trump's 2018 target of 3%, according to revised government data that showed a slower pace of expansion in the final quarter than previously estimated. Trump called the report "not bad." Gross domestic product was up 2.5% in the fourth quarter of 2018 from a year earlier, but down from a recent estimate of 3%. (Bloomberg / Wall Street Journal / CNBC / New York Times)

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/26/us-gdp-second-quarter-2019.html

8/ Trump attacked Fox News after the network's pollsters showed him losing a handful of hypothetical matchups against 2020 Democratic candidates. Trump claimed that Fox News had been "Proud Warriors!" during the 2016 campaign but the "new Fox Polls" are "so different from what they used to be." The national survey said Trump would lose to Biden by 10 percentage points and to Bernie Sanders by 6 points. It also showed him beating Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris by 1 point. The poll's margin of error is 3 percentage points. (Politico)

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/26/trump-fox-news-biden-poll-1437265

RJ-19-CLOVIS-93 from New Zealand (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#285838: Jul 26th 2019 at 10:33:33 PM

Is Pence involved in any of the adminstration's scandal or not?

Imca (Veteran)
#285839: Jul 27th 2019 at 12:57:13 AM

Technicly Yes, in a way that would mater No.

BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#285840: Jul 27th 2019 at 2:12:11 AM

It would be great if he gets indicted too when the next administration is sworn in.

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#285841: Jul 27th 2019 at 2:49:28 AM

I have the feeling that he's managed to stay just far enough from the corrupt shit so that he'll survive the end of this administration.

Disgusted, but not surprised
Kayeka (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#285842: Jul 27th 2019 at 2:59:12 AM

I guess, as a vice-president he technically doesn't have any power to do much of anything. Which may hold up in court.

Soban Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
#285843: Jul 27th 2019 at 4:12:14 AM

Pence is not Spiro Agnew. I don't think I can remember his name coming up at any point during the various scandals as a player in them.

DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
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#285844: Jul 27th 2019 at 5:29:47 AM

Nick Sandmann's (The Kid who was wearing the MAGA hat and got confronted by Anti-Trump protests, specifically Native American Activist Nathan Philips) lawsuit against The Washington Post for 'Defemation' has been dismissed. The Judge declared that what the Post did does not constitute as defemation because they did not make any conclusions as to what Sandmann did, only on what Mr. Philips had told them. Since the case was Dismissed by the Court, it can not be retried in a different or higher court.

Edited by DingoWalley1 on Jul 27th 2019 at 8:30:57 AM

PhysicalStamina i'm tired, my friend (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Coming soon to theaters
i'm tired, my friend
#285845: Jul 27th 2019 at 5:49:56 AM

Uh, no, he confronted them.

i'm tired, my friend
Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#285846: Jul 27th 2019 at 5:58:47 AM

Its complicated,bunch of people were in the wrong place at wrong time,including Black Hebrew Israelites

as a refresher here's Huff Post on it

have a listen and have a link to my discord server
ironballs16 Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Owner of a lonely heart
#285847: Jul 27th 2019 at 6:02:01 AM

[up][up]

As [up] said, apparently the Native American protesters were trying to break up tensions between the MAGA high schoolers and Black Israelites, the latter of whom were the primary instigators. As a result, the Native group approached the others, not vice-versa.

"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"
Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#285848: Jul 27th 2019 at 6:17:24 AM

And then there was the whole media circus spinning it a million different ways,a shitty situation all around that could have ended in bloodshed,thankfully no one escalated things beyond verbal threats

have a listen and have a link to my discord server
thok That's Dr. Title, thank you! (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Non-Canon
That's Dr. Title, thank you!
#285849: Jul 27th 2019 at 6:36:54 AM

Somehow the clearest villains of the piece (the BHI) got almost no blowback from the incident, despite their views being insane.

Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#285850: Jul 27th 2019 at 6:42:19 AM

Because they're a sect not exactly mainstream for people to care about beyond "Huh?"

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