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The Supreme Court rejected a stay request from the Pennsylvania GOP, which means that the election map re-drawn by the State Supreme Court will replace the gerrymandered map that was previously drawn.
 
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Three lawsuits now with filed a giants the orange rapist. Stormy, playboy model, and another who’s suing him for defemation because he sexually assaulted her, but denied and attacked her.
 
Orange a****** was told to not congratulate putin, in ALL CAPS. He did the opposite. The guy who just poisoned two people and had a rigged election, was congratulated by trump.
 
Trump's day so far:

Court clears the way for the victim of one of his sexual assaults to bring her case to Court while he's in the WH.

McConnell defends the integrity of the Mueller Investigation and the importance of leaving the Counsel in place.

Former Playmate Karen McDougal sues to make the story of her 2006 affair with Trump public.

CBS uncovers video of Stormy Daniels's polygraph, substantiating her story of the 2006 affair with Trump, including unprotected sex.

McCain and McConnell call Trump out publically for attempting to gratify Putin over his fraudulent election.

Cambridge Analytica CEO confirms meeting with Trump "many times," and coordinating between Trump and PAC/Super Pac donations--MAJOR no-no.

Republicans block Trump's nominee to be ODNI. Republicans. Wow.

And it's only Tuesday.

#MAGA!
 
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Yep. Looking like Cambridge Analytica ran his digital campaign. The true fake news of pretty much all of his bogus talking points that was then shared on social media and Fox News.
 
Just when you think the GOP can't sink any lower. One of them says hold my beer.

https://splinternews.com/gop-shocked-to-discover-another-hell-monster-may-win-a-1823916741

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Politico reports today that the Republican Party is aghast and baffled that yet another miserable demon from beneath the world of men may end up winning the party’s nomination in a crucial race.

West Virginia coal baron Don Blankenship—who recently completed a one-year prison sentence for conspiring to violate health and safety standards at Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch Mine, where 29 of his workers died in unimaginable horror—is running for the GOP nomination for Senate in West Virginia, and f*** me, it looks like he could win it.
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Just when you think the GOP can't sink any lower. One of them says hold my beer.

https://splinternews.com/gop-shocked-to-discover-another-hell-monster-may-win-a-1823916741

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Politico reports today that the Republican Party is aghast and baffled that yet another miserable demon from beneath the world of men may end up winning the party’s nomination in a crucial race.

West Virginia coal baron Don Blankenship—who recently completed a one-year prison sentence for conspiring to violate health and safety standards at Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch Mine, where 29 of his workers died in unimaginable horror—is running for the GOP nomination for Senate in West Virginia, and f*** me, it looks like he could win it.
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i see your coal barron and raise you one Nazi
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Arthur Jones — an outspoken Holocaust denier, activist anti-Semite and white supremacist — is poised to become the Republican nominee for an Illinois congressional seat representing parts of Chicago and nearby suburbs.

“Well first of all, I’m running for Congress not the chancellor of Germany. All right. To me the Holocaust is what I said it is: It’s an international extortion racket,” Jones told the Chicago Sun-Times.

Indeed, Jones’ website for his latest congressional run includes a section titled “The ‘Holocaust Racket’” where he calls the genocide carried out by the German Nazi regime and collaborators in other nations “the biggest blackest lie in history.”

Jones, 70, a retired insurance agent who lives in suburban Lyons, has unsuccessfully run for elected offices in the Chicago area and Milwaukee since the 1970s.

He ran for Milwaukee mayor in 1976 and 13th Ward alderman on Chicago’s Southwest Side in 1987.

Since the 1990s to 2016, Jones has jumped in the GOP 3rd Congressional District primary seven times, never even close to becoming a viable contender.

The outcome will be different for Jones in the Illinois primary on March 20, 2018.

To Jones’ own amazement, he is the only one on the Republican ballot.
 
I said it a while back that non-disclosure agreements are not legal for public servants.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...sure-agreements-washington-post-idUSKBN1GU11E

White House officials made to sign non-disclosure agreements: Washington Post

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump ordered senior staff after they joined the White House to sign non-disclosure agreements following several leaks in the early months of his administration, the Washington Post reported on Sunday.

The agreements stipulated officials could face monetary penalties if they disclosed confidential White House information to the press or others, and were intended to remain in effect after Trump was no longer president, according to the report.

A draft copy of the agreement would have subjected violators to a $10 million penalty for each instance, payable to the U.S. Treasury, according to Ruth Marcus, the Post’s deputy editorial page editor. Sources familiar with the final document do not remember a similarly large penalty, she said.

Top officials in the Trump campaign signed similar agreements, but legal experts questioned whether such an agreement would be legal for a high-ranking government employee, given constitutional free-speech protections.

Officials ultimately agreed to sign the agreements, in part after concluding they were likely not enforceable, according to the Post.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/19/for...ed-white-house-non-disclosure-agreements.html

President Donald Trump had senior administration officials sign agreements muzzling them from discussing confidential information even after leaving the White House, the Washington Post reported Sunday.

Transparency watchdogs and civil liberties groups are criticizing the reported NDAs as unconstitutional.

"Public employees can't be gagged by private agreements," said Ben Wizner, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, in a statement on Monday.

"These so-called NDAs are unconstitutional and unenforceable."

The Washington post reportedly viewed a draft version of the non-disclosure agreements. The draft would impose crippling $10 million penalties against a signee for each public statement of confidential information uttered, according to the Post. That money would go to the federal government, the Post reported.

"I guess it's like, pick your poison," Wizner said of the various legal problems with the draft agreement in an interview with CNBC. "I don't know which would be more absurd: paying Trump, or paying the U.S. Treasury."

"The fact that the government is listed here makes it even clearer" that the agreement violates the First Amendment, Wizner said.

Non-disclosure agreements in government — even those that extend beyond one's time of service — are not uncommon in certain contexts. Standard Form 312, for instance, is a form of non-disclosure agreement that applies to certain classified information.

But outside of those relatively narrow bounds, Wizner said, "the president has no authority to impose a gag as a requirement of the administration."

The draft reportedly defined "confidential" information as being "all nonpublic information I learn of or gain access to in the course of my official duties in the service of the United States Government on White House staff," including "communications ... with members of the press" and "with employees of federal, state, and local governments."

A person who signed the final version of the agreement told the Post that Trump himself, with support from then-Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and the White House Counsel's Office, had senior White House staff sign the agreements.

And the non-disclosure agreements reportedly stayed in effect even after these officials left the White House. The newspaper wrote that the agreement would restrict the ability for Trump aides to discuss certain information beyond their White House service "at all times thereafter."​
 
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief...ses-defamation-lawsuit-brought-by-carter-page

Judge tosses defamation lawsuit brought by Carter Page

A judge in New York has rejected a lawsuit former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page filed against a media company, The Associated Press reported.

Page alleged in a defamation lawsuit against Oath Inc., Yahoo's parent company, that he had been threatened as the result of a September 2016 Yahoo News article.

He also alleged in the lawsuit, filed last September, that the article hurt his business relationships.

The article reported that Page was being investigated by U.S. intelligence agencies after a July 2016 trip to Moscow, the New York Daily News reported.

Federal Judge Lorna Schofield said the lawsuit did not include "sufficient factual allegations" and would not move to a trial, according to the AP.
Oath declined to comment to the AP.

Page earlier this year was a central figure in a GOP memo that alleged surveillance abuses at the Justice Department.

The memo accused Justice Department officials of improperly using information from the so-called Steele dossier — which originated as an opposition research document during the 2016 presidential race — to obtain surveillance warrants on Page.

Page last month said the memo was worse than he could have imagined.​
 
The existence of a privilege to disclose another's trade secret depends upon the circumstances of the particular case, including the nature of the information, the purpose of the disclosure, and the means by which the actor acquired the information. A privilege is likely to be recognized, for example, in connection with the disclosure of information that is relevant to public health or safety, or to the commission of a crime or tort, or to other matters of substantial public concern.
 
I said it a while back that non-disclosure agreements are not legal for public servants.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...sure-agreements-washington-post-idUSKBN1GU11E

White House officials made to sign non-disclosure agreements: Washington Post

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump ordered senior staff after they joined the White House to sign non-disclosure agreements following several leaks in the early months of his administration, the Washington Post reported on Sunday.

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And the non-disclosure agreements reportedly stayed in effect even after these officials left the White House. The newspaper wrote that the agreement would restrict the ability for Trump aides to discuss certain information beyond their White House service "at all times thereafter."​
To what extent do NDA's carry in the states? I know internationally, there's a huge amount of wiggle room, and if anything seems shady, the agreement is f***ed.

I'm baffled by the amount of people that willingly signed them after reading the details of them in the USA. Some of the clauses in Weinstein's explicitly stated that you couldn't repeat what you saw, but you had to facilitate it.

By the by, Stormy Daniels is handling it like a f***ing champ.
https://mobile.twitter.com/stormydaniels?lang=en




Check out her tweets. She's brutally honest.
 
To what extent do NDA's carry in the states? I know internationally, there's a huge amount of wiggle room, and if anything seems shady, the agreement is f***ed.

I'm baffled by the amount of people that willingly signed them after reading the details of them in the USA. Some of the clauses in Weinstein's explicitly stated that you couldn't repeat what you saw, but you had to facilitate it.

By the by, Stormy Daniels is handling it like a f***ing champ.
https://mobile.twitter.com/stormydaniels?lang=en




Check out her tweets. She's brutally honest.

NDAs for government employees is not possible. Any NDA signed is invalid.

NDAs are strong unless it’s used to cover up a crime, endangers the public, or the party that asks for it breaks it.

That tweet is I don’t give a f*** tweet and she knows the NDA is invalid.
 
I said it a while back that non-disclosure agreements are not legal for public servants.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...sure-agreements-washington-post-idUSKBN1GU11E

White House officials made to sign non-disclosure agreements: Washington Post

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump ordered senior staff after they joined the White House to sign non-disclosure agreements following several leaks in the early months of his administration, the Washington Post reported on Sunday.

The agreements stipulated officials could face monetary penalties if they disclosed confidential White House information to the press or others, and were intended to remain in effect after Trump was no longer president, according to the report.

A draft copy of the agreement would have subjected violators to a $10 million penalty for each instance, payable to the U.S. Treasury, according to Ruth Marcus, the Post’s deputy editorial page editor. Sources familiar with the final document do not remember a similarly large penalty, she said.

Top officials in the Trump campaign signed similar agreements, but legal experts questioned whether such an agreement would be legal for a high-ranking government employee, given constitutional free-speech protections.

Officials ultimately agreed to sign the agreements, in part after concluding they were likely not enforceable, according to the Post.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/19/for...ed-white-house-non-disclosure-agreements.html

President Donald Trump had senior administration officials sign agreements muzzling them from discussing confidential information even after leaving the White House, the Washington Post reported Sunday.

Transparency watchdogs and civil liberties groups are criticizing the reported NDAs as unconstitutional.

"Public employees can't be gagged by private agreements," said Ben Wizner, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, in a statement on Monday.

"These so-called NDAs are unconstitutional and unenforceable."

The Washington post reportedly viewed a draft version of the non-disclosure agreements. The draft would impose crippling $10 million penalties against a signee for each public statement of confidential information uttered, according to the Post. That money would go to the federal government, the Post reported.

"I guess it's like, pick your poison," Wizner said of the various legal problems with the draft agreement in an interview with CNBC. "I don't know which would be more absurd: paying Trump, or paying the U.S. Treasury."

"The fact that the government is listed here makes it even clearer" that the agreement violates the First Amendment, Wizner said.

Non-disclosure agreements in government — even those that extend beyond one's time of service — are not uncommon in certain contexts. Standard Form 312, for instance, is a form of non-disclosure agreement that applies to certain classified information.

But outside of those relatively narrow bounds, Wizner said, "the president has no authority to impose a gag as a requirement of the administration."

The draft reportedly defined "confidential" information as being "all nonpublic information I learn of or gain access to in the course of my official duties in the service of the United States Government on White House staff," including "communications ... with members of the press" and "with employees of federal, state, and local governments."

A person who signed the final version of the agreement told the Post that Trump himself, with support from then-Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and the White House Counsel's Office, had senior White House staff sign the agreements.

And the non-disclosure agreements reportedly stayed in effect even after these officials left the White House. The newspaper wrote that the agreement would restrict the ability for Trump aides to discuss certain information beyond their White House service "at all times thereafter."​
I died when Stormy lawyer pulled the picture of Cohen and asked where is he! LOL
 
NDAs for government employees is not possible. Any NDA signed is invalid.

NDAs are strong unless it’s used to cover up a crime, endangers the public, or the party that asks for it breaks it.

That tweet is I don’t give a f*** tweet and she knows the NDA is invalid.
That's my understanding too. But the NDA's that follow a settlement are the ones that baffle me.



Also, check out her Twitter for the last few days. She's a strong woman. She's being called every name under the sun, and she still manages to reply with some cheeky tact.
 
McCabe authorized a pergery investigation against Sessions.

Well, that's even more reason to be grateful for the Democrats who have offered McCabe a staff job so he can earn the pension they tried to screw him out of for, you know, doing his job.
 
Did someone officially offer him a job yet?
Mark Pocan of WI did. Not sure what came of that though. I think others have offered as well but not sure who.

Edit: not really sure how "official" it really is but he was the first as far as I know.
 
About half way through listening to last night's Rachel Madow show, and some new information from the New York Times last night regarding George Nader. tldr of the story is that he might have been given immunity and flipped on another guy to show that the White House has been making policy decisions due to foreign money influence from UAE and Saudi Arabia.

A cooperating witness in the special counsel investigation worked for more than a year to turn a top Trump fund-raiser into an instrument of influence at the White House for the rulers of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, according to interviews and previously undisclosed documents.

Hundreds of pages of correspondence between the two men reveal an active effort to cultivate President Trump on behalf of the two oil-rich Arab monarchies, both close American allies.

High on the agenda of the two men — George Nader, a political adviser to the de facto ruler of the U.A.E., and Elliott Broidy, the deputy finance chairman of the Republican National Committee — was pushing the White House to remove Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson, backing confrontational approaches to Iran and Qatar and repeatedly pressing the president to meet privately outside the White House with the leader of the U.A.E.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/21/...column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
 
About half way through listening to last night's Rachel Madow show, and some new information from the New York Times last night regarding George Nader. tldr of the story is that he might have been given immunity and flipped on another guy to show that the White House has been making policy decisions due to foreign money influence from UAE and Saudi Arabia.



https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/21/...column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
Keep digging Mueller!
 
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