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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Reposting, since this is big and got buried on the last page
From Attorney General Schneiderman:
No one accused of breaking NY’s laws should escape accountability merely because of a strategically timed presidential pardon. [1]
We are disturbed by reports that @POTUS is considering pardons of individuals who may have committed serious federal crimes—acts that may also violate NY law.
We must ensure that if any president issues such pardons, we can use NY’s laws to bring such individuals to justice. [2]
The full letter can be read here
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To expand on this a bit more:
There are plenty of NY State crimes that Mueller deliberately hasn't charged, which @AG Schneiderman would be free to prosecute. Mueller structured his indictments brilliantly to give @AG Schneiderman as large an opening as possible in case widespread pardons are deployed. [2]
And this:
edited 18th Apr '18 7:43:39 PM by megaeliz
I mean, that would also make vulnerable Republican Senators unable to campaign, too. And considering, as we get closer to Election time, there are more of them then there are Vulnerable Democrats, it would just be another Self-Inflicted Wound on the Republicans.
x5 Yeah, Trump can try, but he'll fail. Heck, if he tries, it might be another nail in his coffin.
edited 18th Apr '18 7:29:07 PM by DingoWalley1
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And yet they still seem to have a good chance at taking the Senate
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Funny how that works.
edited 18th Apr '18 7:46:42 PM by Fourthspartan56
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji YangRight, but the point is McCuntell's plan would disproportionately affect the Democrats. At the moment, the most competitive republican seats are Arizona, Nevada, and possibly Tennessee and Texas. Flake (AZ) and Corker (TN) are retiring, so the only campaigning republicans likely to be affected would be Cruz and Heller (NV).
It's absolutely overkill, in the best way possible.
claimed death tolls from each country.
- Syrian claim: 55 killed
- SOHR claim: 68 killed
- U.S. claim: 100+ killed
The first two are from state run media, so are just Propaganda.
edited 18th Apr '18 9:54:16 PM by megaeliz
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The actual number of dead is probably a little lower than the stated total, but by all accounts it was a fairly humiliating defeat. The AC-130 and Apaches did most of the work, which says a lot about how unprepared those mercenaries were.
If I had to guess I’d put it in the 150-200 range.
Wagner itself is almost hilariously shady. They get their name from their founder’s love of Nazi culture, they’ve popped up everywhere from the Donbass to Sudan and the CAR, and they have deep ties to the Russian Mo D to the point where some have accused them of being mercenaries in name only. They train at military bases and essentially operate as a deniable force for the Kremlin. Basically any shady behavior you can name they’re up to.
edited 18th Apr '18 9:37:22 PM by archonspeaks
They should have sent a poet.U.S. seeks to deport thousands of Vietnamese protected by treaty: former ambassador
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A “small number” of people protected by the agreement have already been sent back, the former ambassador, Ted Osius, told Reuters in an interview.
Osius said that many of the targeted immigrants were supporters of the now defunct U.S.-backed state of South Vietnam, and Hanoi would see them as destabilizing elements.
“These people don’t really have a country to come back to,” he said. Many of those targeted would have come to the United States as refugees after the end of the Vietnam War.
Osius said the push by the Trump administration started in April last year and contributed to his resignation in October.
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spokesman, Brendan Raedy, said that as of December last year, there were 8,600 Vietnamese nationals in the United States subject to deportation and “7,821 have criminal convictions”.
The Trump administration has labeled Vietnam and eight other countries “recalcitrant” for their unwillingness to accept their deported nationals back.
The Vietnamese immigrants, most of whom are legal U.S. residents but not citizens, are in a unique position, however.
According to Osius, most of those targeted for deportation arrived in the United States prior to 1995, the year diplomatic relations between Vietnam and the United States were resumed after the Vietnam War.
A 2008 bilateral agreement between Vietnam and the United States states that “Vietnamese citizens are not subject to return to Vietnam” if they “arrived in the United States before July 12, 1995”.
Osius said the Trump administration had threatened to withhold privileges for Vietnamese officials to the United States and link the issue to trade between the two countries.

There's a reason all voter suppression and the most egregious gerrymandering is Republican. They've been this way for quite a while.
Mainly because they're right-wing authoritarians who have wet dreams about Putin's Russia.
edited 18th Apr '18 7:20:27 PM by Fourthspartan56
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang