speaking of women, here’s a woman speaker speaking
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday night that the House will vote in the coming days on a resolution rejecting President Trump’s national emergency declaration, encouraging fellow Democrats to support the effort as they try to stop Trump’s push to expand efforts to build a barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border.
In a “Dear Colleague” letter, the California Democrat said Trump’s declaration “undermines the separation of powers and Congress’s power of the purse, a power exclusively reserved by the text of the Constitution to the first branch of government, the Legislative branch, a branch co-equal to the Executive.”
By invoking a national emergency, Trump is claiming authority to shift federal funds appropriated by Congress for other purposes to be spent instead on his border wall.
Pelosi announced that the House would move “swiftly” to pass a disapproval resolution authored by Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Tex.), although she did not specify an exact date and indicated it would move through a House committee before coming to the floor.
“All Members take an oath of office to support and defend the Constitution,” Pelosi wrote. “The President’s decision to go outside the bounds of the law to try to get what he failed to achieve in the constitutional legislative process violates the Constitution and must be terminated.”
Pelosi’s announcement formalizes a strategy House Democrats settled on several days ago. Democratic leaders had been anticipating Trump’s emergency declaration for weeks and had been working quietly behind the scenes on a two-pronged approach that would include passing a disapproval resolution to put Republicans on record on the matter, then eventually suing or joining with a lawsuit challenging the declaration in court.
House committee chairmen, including Judiciary chief Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), also anticipate holding hearings on Trump’s decision.
[…]
Should the measure pass the Senate, Trump officials have already told surrogates that he will veto the bill. Congress is unlikely to have the numbers to override that veto.
The bigger threat to Trump’s declaration is the courts. A group of states led by Democratic governors have filed suit against the administration, while other groups — representing border landowners and other potential parties who could be affected by the border wall or the shifting of appropriated funds to pay for it — are either preparing lawsuits or have filed them already.
Democratic lawmakers are expected to aggressively defend Congress’s constitutional power to appropriate money in the courts, arguing that Trump cannot unilaterally shift other resources to a project that lawmakers have otherwise refused to fund. But Trump allies argue that Congress itself placed few bounds on presidential emergency powers and that courts should not intervene if the congressional disapproval process fails.
House lawyers have not determined whether the chamber will join or support one of those lawsuits or instead file suit against Trump itself, Democratic aides familiar with the deliberations said last week.
from the guardian: Alec Baldwin fears for family’s safety after Trump ‘retribution’ threats
[…]
In an interview for the podcast the Dworkin Report on Wednesday night, Baldwin told host Scott Dworkin, a self-described member of the resistance against Trump, the president’s tweet was the first time he had had cause to fear for his or his family’s safety.
“People would say to me early on, do you have any concerns about retaliation, not necessarily from the government or from Trump, but from his agitators?” said Baldwin. “I always said not really, I didn’t really think that was something that was real, until now, when he made this comment about retribution and he thought SNL should be investigated.”
Baldwin said the president’s hostile language functioned as “codes”.
“Trump signals people, not necessarily what to do, but how to feel, and that’s the beginning. The beginning is you make people angry, the beginning is you make people agitated and bitter and then the actions flow from there.”
On Sunday, Baldwin responded to the president’s tweets asking whether “a sitting president exhorting his followers that my role in a TV comedy qualifies me as an enemy of the people constitutes a threat to my safety and that of my family?”
Baldwin told Dworkin it was “nearly impossible” to predict what would happen with the Mueller investigation.
“Nobody has any idea, but in the way that people have this silly parlour game where they speculate as to what’s going to happen, Trump may not go down, he may not go to prison, he may not be impeached, but it sure looks like his son’s going to be indicted … and unless he’s pardoned, he’ll go to prison and I guess he’ll have a lot of time to watch SNL then.”
WASHINGTON — A former Trump campaign staffer filed a class action Wednesday seeking to invalidate all of the nondisclosure and nondisparagement agreements that the Trump campaign required all staffers to sign.
The claims brought by former campaign staffer Jessica Denson represent the broadest attack to date on the Trump campaign’s practice of having staffers, volunteers, and contractors sign agreements barring them from ever publicly criticizing Trump, his company, or his family, and from disclosing private or confidential information.
The Trump campaign has gone after several former staffers who publicly aired their grievances against Trump, his administration, or his campaign, including Omarosa Manigault Newman and Cliff Sims, who recently wrote a book about his time in the White House called Team of Vipers. Denson was ordered to pay nearly $50,000 to the campaign after filing a workplace discrimination and harassment lawsuit in 2017.
Denson has been tangling with the Trump campaign on multiple fronts in court and in arbitration. Her class action case was filed before the American Arbitration Association Wednesday. Individual arbitration proceedings normally take place in secret, but class action cases are public.
Denson’s lawyers estimate thousands of campaign staffers, volunteers, and contractors signed NDAs and could be covered by the case. If the nondisclosure and nondisparagement agreements that they signed were thrown out, these former staffers would be free to talk about their time on the campaign — and to criticize the campaign or the president without fear of facing financial penalties.
Denson’s lawyers argue the campaign’s standard NDA is unlawful because it penalizes employees for exercising their right to sue for things like workplace discrimination and harassment, unpaid wages, and violations of workplace safety laws, and for claiming violations of campaign finance laws, corruption, or fraud.
“The Form NDAs effectively strip employees, contractors, and volunteers of their ability to pursue any of their rights to redress workplace misconduct,” Denson’s lawyers wrote in the arbitration filing. “Anything and everything they could do will of necessity contain some information that a Trump Person could find disparaging or a disclosure of confidential information.”
Her lawyers are also arguing that the language of the NDA is too vague — it gives Trump himself discretion to decide what is “private” and “confidential” — doesn’t have any time or geographic limits, “lacks a legitimate purpose,” and is void because it allows a government actor — in this case, the president — to restrain a person’s free speech rights under the First Amendment.
“Indeed, any person who has ever signed the Form NDA, whether or not he or she has entered into government service, subjects himself or herself to grievous financial penalty for the mere act of engaging in constitutionally protected criticism of the sitting President of the United States,” Denson’s lawyers wrote.
The NDA that Denson signed, which her lawyers contend was the same document used for other campaign staffers, volunteers, and contractors, applies not only when staffers worked for the campaign, but also “at all times thereafter.”
Towards the end of yesterday’s thread, Jack linked an extremely interesting contemporaneous obituary of Frederick Douglass (The Great). Scant mention was made of his wife of many years who did much to enable her husband’s marvelous efforts. The Smithsonian Magazine has sought to remedy the dearth of material on Anna Murray Douglass
trail mixers, please come to jace’s rescue with some thread ideas or else!
(by “or else” i mean to continue to send in stupidly inane, dumb and dumber drafts with which to litter the trail)
it’s easy even if you’re new to posting:
aim your cursor at “trail mix” on upper left of this screen and click on “dashboard”
at top right of dashboard page under “quick draft” type in the title of your thread in block labeled “title” (DUH)
then type in the block labeled “What’s on your mind?” whatever rant you wish to rage (music for the savage breast is always welcome)
when you’ve finished your masterpiece, click the blue box labeled “save draft” (you can review and edit by punching other buttons if necessary)
jace promises he will take it from there (dear jace, kudos for volunteering)
p.s. fearless leader has provided all kinds of bells & whistles with instructions to do more fancy stuff, but they’re beyond my ability to explain let alone make use of myself.
patd, without looking at the internet or the comments, was the ’64 female candidate Shirley Chisholm?
(I looked – nope, not her)
RIP Peter. I guess the Monkees reunion tour is over. There were going to be a couple of dates that Mike joined Mickey and Peter, Sorry to hear that won’t happen. Mrs. P & I talked about trying to catch a show.
Jace, check the oven – something’s burning. (Let it cool overnight and you can serve it in the morning.) btw, feel free to reformat the crap out of it.
Judge Jackson shuts Stone up and leaves him the opportunity to really piss her off and buy a ticket to jail. I’m betting the stupid shit won’t be able to STFU and stay out of jail pending his trial. Word to the wise, don’t get too cute by half with a federal judge – they don’t think that kind of shit is funny.
Do I wish for the 60’s again? Green Acres? Gilligan’s Island? I Dream of Jeannie? Gun Smoke? Paladin? Smothers Brothers? Laugh in? Body counts on the evening news? The Monkee’s on television? Tricky Dicky?
With the current administration destroying America, I would like the GOP to be in charge of the Republican Party. But the current set of russian agents would have been imprisoned by the Republicans of the 1960’s.
Wow must be embarrassing to be a North Carolinian — not only was there fraud in this last election but apparently been part of the Gooper Gameplan for years and widely known
Congratulations to Mrs Jack ! I hope that she continues to gain strength, and more strength, and more. After we’ve all been starved for good news, Mrs Jack’s recovery feels great all the way over here.
from 1964 video above: “we even have a woman running for president!”
bet you can’t guess who she was and, nope, not Victoria Woodall.
55 years later, according to CNBC, “‘There’s not just one women’s lane’: A record number of female candidates running for president”.
however, Rowlf’s lame jokes about lady candidates are still alive and well in 2019. just wait for the next tweet from the twit to see.
speaking of women, here’s a woman speaker speaking
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday night that the House will vote in the coming days on a resolution rejecting President Trump’s national emergency declaration, encouraging fellow Democrats to support the effort as they try to stop Trump’s push to expand efforts to build a barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border.
In a “Dear Colleague” letter, the California Democrat said Trump’s declaration “undermines the separation of powers and Congress’s power of the purse, a power exclusively reserved by the text of the Constitution to the first branch of government, the Legislative branch, a branch co-equal to the Executive.”
By invoking a national emergency, Trump is claiming authority to shift federal funds appropriated by Congress for other purposes to be spent instead on his border wall.
Pelosi announced that the House would move “swiftly” to pass a disapproval resolution authored by Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Tex.), although she did not specify an exact date and indicated it would move through a House committee before coming to the floor.
“All Members take an oath of office to support and defend the Constitution,” Pelosi wrote. “The President’s decision to go outside the bounds of the law to try to get what he failed to achieve in the constitutional legislative process violates the Constitution and must be terminated.”
Pelosi’s announcement formalizes a strategy House Democrats settled on several days ago. Democratic leaders had been anticipating Trump’s emergency declaration for weeks and had been working quietly behind the scenes on a two-pronged approach that would include passing a disapproval resolution to put Republicans on record on the matter, then eventually suing or joining with a lawsuit challenging the declaration in court.
House committee chairmen, including Judiciary chief Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), also anticipate holding hearings on Trump’s decision.
[…]
The bigger threat to Trump’s declaration is the courts. A group of states led by Democratic governors have filed suit against the administration, while other groups — representing border landowners and other potential parties who could be affected by the border wall or the shifting of appropriated funds to pay for it — are either preparing lawsuits or have filed them already.
Democratic lawmakers are expected to aggressively defend Congress’s constitutional power to appropriate money in the courts, arguing that Trump cannot unilaterally shift other resources to a project that lawmakers have otherwise refused to fund. But Trump allies argue that Congress itself placed few bounds on presidential emergency powers and that courts should not intervene if the congressional disapproval process fails.
House lawyers have not determined whether the chamber will join or support one of those lawsuits or instead file suit against Trump itself, Democratic aides familiar with the deliberations said last week.
from the guardian: Alec Baldwin fears for family’s safety after Trump ‘retribution’ threats
[…]
In an interview for the podcast the Dworkin Report on Wednesday night, Baldwin told host Scott Dworkin, a self-described member of the resistance against Trump, the president’s tweet was the first time he had had cause to fear for his or his family’s safety.
“People would say to me early on, do you have any concerns about retaliation, not necessarily from the government or from Trump, but from his agitators?” said Baldwin. “I always said not really, I didn’t really think that was something that was real, until now, when he made this comment about retribution and he thought SNL should be investigated.”
Baldwin said the president’s hostile language functioned as “codes”.
“Trump signals people, not necessarily what to do, but how to feel, and that’s the beginning. The beginning is you make people angry, the beginning is you make people agitated and bitter and then the actions flow from there.”
On Sunday, Baldwin responded to the president’s tweets asking whether “a sitting president exhorting his followers that my role in a TV comedy qualifies me as an enemy of the people constitutes a threat to my safety and that of my family?”
In reply, Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jnr, tweeted “spare everyone your bullshit Alec!”
Baldwin told Dworkin it was “nearly impossible” to predict what would happen with the Mueller investigation.
“Nobody has any idea, but in the way that people have this silly parlour game where they speculate as to what’s going to happen, Trump may not go down, he may not go to prison, he may not be impeached, but it sure looks like his son’s going to be indicted … and unless he’s pardoned, he’ll go to prison and I guess he’ll have a lot of time to watch SNL then.”
alec’s got reason to worry with “make America white again” maga folks like this running around.
also from the guardian:
Neo-Nazi in coast guard plotted attack on Democrats and journalists, say prosecutors
Lieutenant Christopher Hasson allegedly intended to ‘murder civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country’
[…]
…he searched online for “civil war if trump impeached” and “what if trump illegally impeached”, according to investigators.
[continues]
Emperor Trump Rides Bucking Congress
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buzzfeed:
WASHINGTON — A former Trump campaign staffer filed a class action Wednesday seeking to invalidate all of the nondisclosure and nondisparagement agreements that the Trump campaign required all staffers to sign.
The claims brought by former campaign staffer Jessica Denson represent the broadest attack to date on the Trump campaign’s practice of having staffers, volunteers, and contractors sign agreements barring them from ever publicly criticizing Trump, his company, or his family, and from disclosing private or confidential information.
The Trump campaign has gone after several former staffers who publicly aired their grievances against Trump, his administration, or his campaign, including Omarosa Manigault Newman and Cliff Sims, who recently wrote a book about his time in the White House called Team of Vipers. Denson was ordered to pay nearly $50,000 to the campaign after filing a workplace discrimination and harassment lawsuit in 2017.
Denson has been tangling with the Trump campaign on multiple fronts in court and in arbitration. Her class action case was filed before the American Arbitration Association Wednesday. Individual arbitration proceedings normally take place in secret, but class action cases are public.
Denson’s lawyers estimate thousands of campaign staffers, volunteers, and contractors signed NDAs and could be covered by the case. If the nondisclosure and nondisparagement agreements that they signed were thrown out, these former staffers would be free to talk about their time on the campaign — and to criticize the campaign or the president without fear of facing financial penalties.
Denson’s lawyers argue the campaign’s standard NDA is unlawful because it penalizes employees for exercising their right to sue for things like workplace discrimination and harassment, unpaid wages, and violations of workplace safety laws, and for claiming violations of campaign finance laws, corruption, or fraud.
“The Form NDAs effectively strip employees, contractors, and volunteers of their ability to pursue any of their rights to redress workplace misconduct,” Denson’s lawyers wrote in the arbitration filing. “Anything and everything they could do will of necessity contain some information that a Trump Person could find disparaging or a disclosure of confidential information.”
Her lawyers are also arguing that the language of the NDA is too vague — it gives Trump himself discretion to decide what is “private” and “confidential” — doesn’t have any time or geographic limits, “lacks a legitimate purpose,” and is void because it allows a government actor — in this case, the president — to restrain a person’s free speech rights under the First Amendment.
“Indeed, any person who has ever signed the Form NDA, whether or not he or she has entered into government service, subjects himself or herself to grievous financial penalty for the mere act of engaging in constitutionally protected criticism of the sitting President of the United States,” Denson’s lawyers wrote.
The NDA that Denson signed, which her lawyers contend was the same document used for other campaign staffers, volunteers, and contractors, applies not only when staffers worked for the campaign, but also “at all times thereafter.”
[continues]
Towards the end of yesterday’s thread, Jack linked an extremely interesting contemporaneous obituary of Frederick Douglass (The Great). Scant mention was made of his wife of many years who did much to enable her husband’s marvelous efforts. The Smithsonian Magazine has sought to remedy the dearth of material on Anna Murray Douglass
Jack,
Saw your post from yesterday. Great news about Mrs. Jack! Hoping for nothing but continued improvement.
jace
Craig,
When you come up for air take a minute and let us know how you are doing.
Hope all is going well.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/430913-west-virginia-teachers-end-strike-after-pro-private-school-education
Pogo,
Nice to see a little common sense prevailing in your neck of the woods.?
Peter Tork has passed away at 77. This just leaves Dolenz & Nesmith from the Monkees.
trail mixers, please come to jace’s rescue with some thread ideas or else!
(by “or else” i mean to continue to send in stupidly inane, dumb and dumber drafts with which to litter the trail)
it’s easy even if you’re new to posting:
aim your cursor at “trail mix” on upper left of this screen and click on “dashboard”
at top right of dashboard page under “quick draft” type in the title of your thread in block labeled “title” (DUH)
then type in the block labeled “What’s on your mind?” whatever rant you wish to rage (music for the savage breast is always welcome)
when you’ve finished your masterpiece, click the blue box labeled “save draft” (you can review and edit by punching other buttons if necessary)
jace promises he will take it from there (dear jace, kudos for volunteering)
p.s. fearless leader has provided all kinds of bells & whistles with instructions to do more fancy stuff, but they’re beyond my ability to explain let alone make use of myself.
patd, without looking at the internet or the comments, was the ’64 female candidate Shirley Chisholm?
(I looked – nope, not her)
RIP Peter. I guess the Monkees reunion tour is over. There were going to be a couple of dates that Mike joined Mickey and Peter, Sorry to hear that won’t happen. Mrs. P & I talked about trying to catch a show.
Jace, the WV teachers killed the publicly funded private education charter school bill. Once it was dead beyond reviving they returned to work.
I’ll try to come up with a thread starter – got one in mind in fact.
Jace, check the oven – something’s burning. (Let it cool overnight and you can serve it in the morning.) btw, feel free to reformat the crap out of it.
Pogo,
Got it. Thanks.?
New election ordered for disputed House seat due to fraud.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republican-candidate-mark-harris-calls-new-election-north-carolina-disputed-n974176
Judge Jackson shuts Stone up and leaves him the opportunity to really piss her off and buy a ticket to jail. I’m betting the stupid shit won’t be able to STFU and stay out of jail pending his trial. Word to the wise, don’t get too cute by half with a federal judge – they don’t think that kind of shit is funny.
Do I wish for the 60’s again? Green Acres? Gilligan’s Island? I Dream of Jeannie? Gun Smoke? Paladin? Smothers Brothers? Laugh in? Body counts on the evening news? The Monkee’s on television? Tricky Dicky?
With the current administration destroying America, I would like the GOP to be in charge of the Republican Party. But the current set of russian agents would have been imprisoned by the Republicans of the 1960’s.
Wow must be embarrassing to be a North Carolinian — not only was there fraud in this last election but apparently been part of the Gooper Gameplan for years and widely known
Big Time Electoral Cheaters = Republicans
…from the state that gave us Devin Nunes. Kinda embarrassing to be an American, in general.
2 old 2B cool
Theme night!
https://youtu.be/u7APmRkatEU
Here’s Johnny
To the dreamers
https://youtu.be/yp_QkUVZGPc
Any video with an epilepsy warning must be good
Epilepsy warning:
Ok i’m done
Just catching up to the rest of you….
Congratulations to Mrs Jack ! I hope that she continues to gain strength, and more strength, and more. After we’ve all been starved for good news, Mrs Jack’s recovery feels great all the way over here.