This one is flying under most people’s radar…to America’s harm. ===== WSJ 2/21/2018 Political chaos has broken out in Pennsylvania after the state’s high court last week redrew the congressional map for this year’s midterm elections. Behold our future judicial overlords if the U.S. Supreme Court rules that partisan gerrymanders are unconstitutional. Last month a 5-2 liberal majority of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court... Read more
Archive for the ‘Law’ Category
Redistricting and the US Supreme Court
February 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Law, US ConstitutionWe Don’t ‘Push the Envelope’ Any More
January 24 | Posted by mrossol | Big Govt, LawWow. I was more than surprised… ====== WSJ 1/24/2018 By Mick Mulvaney When I arrived at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in November, I told employees that despite what they might have heard, I had no intention of shutting down the bureau. As members of the executive branch, we are charged with faithfully executing the law. The law mandates that we enforce consumer... Read more
Transparency for Fusion and the FBI
January 19 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Law, The LeftWhose is opposed to transparency?? ====== By The WSJ Editorial Board Jan 18, 2018 The chance that Americans will learn what really happened between the FBI and Fusion GPS is growing with Thursday’s vote by the House Intelligence Committee to give every House Member access to key information. Soon the House should move to declassify all documents in the case that don’t jeopardize... Read more
The Definition of Stonewalling
December 11 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Law, Liberal Press, Party Politics, The LeftEven I am surprised at how neglected this story has been by the main-street press. ========= WSJ 12/11/2017 Christopher Wray was supposed to bring a new candor and credibility to the FBI after the James Comey debacle, but the country is still waiting. The director’s testimony Thursday to the House Judiciary Committee suggests he has joined the Justice Department effort to stop the... Read more
Obstruction of Justice? – WSJ
December 11 | Posted by mrossol | Law, Liberal Press, Party Politics, Strassel, US ConstitutionNo one should be surprised that ‘they’ are not giving up easily. ===== WSJ 12/8/2017 K A Strassel Obstruction of Congress The media echo chamber spent the week speculating about whether Special Counsel Robert Mueller can or will nab President Trump on obstruction- ofjustice charges. All the while it continues to ignore Washington’s most obvious obstruction— the coordinated effort to thwart congressional... Read more
Still Looking for Evidence
December 2 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Law, Liberal Press, Russia, Special Counsel===== WSJ Dec. 1, 2017 7:01 p.m. ET Robert Mueller’s special prosecution machine grinds on, and on Friday it crushed former national security adviser Mike Flynn on the ever-ready charge of lying to the FBI. The guilty plea is a tragedy for the former three-star general and head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, but whether it is ominous for the Trump Presidency... Read more
