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bbc:  US ambassador quits ‘over Trump comments’

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in case you’re wondering about the likelihood of another female sitting  on the scotus bench

indy star:

What we know about Trump Supreme Court candidate Amy Coney Barrett

and here’s an oped at bloomberg by Ramesh Ponnuru [a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He is a senior editor at National Review, visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and contributor to CBS News] 

Kennedy’s Replacement Should Be Judge Amy Coney Barrett

Mitch McConnell’s version of justice prevails at the Supreme Court

they also use to sing this one…  sure would  fit in the twit’s sphere of today

When something in my history is found
Which contradicts the views that I propound
Or shows that I perhaps am not the guy I claim to be
Here’s what I usually do

I lie
I simply boldly falsify
I look the other feller in the eye
And just deny, deny, deny
I lie

I don’t apologize.
Not me. Instead
I say I never said the things I said
Nor did the things some people saw me do
When confronted by some things they know are true

I lie
I simply boldly falsify
I look the other feller in the eye
And just deny, deny, deny
I lie

I hate those weasel words some slickies use
To blur their past or muddy up their views
Not me. I’m blunt. One thing that makes me great
Is that I’ll never dodge nor obfuscate

I lie
I simply boldly falsify
I look the other feller in the eye
And just deny, deny, deny
I lie

noteworthy excerpt in a wapo article about the twit’s “grandfather, who came to the U.S. as an unaccompanied minor”:
In 1897, President Grover Cleveland vetoed legislation that would have restricted immigration by requiring a literacy test that would require immigrants to read five lines from the Constitution. In his veto message, he said:
 

Heretofore we have welcomed all who came to us from other lands except those whose moral or physical conditions or history threatened danger to our national welfare and safety…. We have encouraged those coming from foreign countries to cast their lot with us and join in the development of our vast domains, securing in return a share in the blessings of American citizenship.

too bad the judge didn’t include congress in this and  all the stuff the house has asked doj to turn over to them.  bet some of that finds its way to the ruskies.
wapo:
A federal judge has approved a request to tightly control how evidence is shared with a Russian company accused of funding an Internet trolling operation to mislead American voters in the 2016 election.
 
The dispute over how to protect sensitive materials from disclosure had threatened to stall prosecution of the sole defendant to appear in court to face charges in the indictment of Russian entities under special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.
 
U.S. District Judge Dabney L. Friedrich of the District of Columbia said Friday that federal prosecutors gave “ample good cause” that identifying sources in the probe could tip off Russian intelligence and other foreign services to ongoing national security investigations and undermine efforts to protect future elections from similar interference.
 
Friedrich barred the U.S.-based attorneys for Concord Management and Consulting, which was indicted in February along with 13 Russian individuals and two other companies from sharing sensitive case materials from any foreign national without court approval.
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Prosecutors have told Concord’s lawyers that they plan to turn over voluminous records, much of it related to hundreds of fake social media accounts but also some that includes “uncharged co-conspirators.”