It appears that Rep. Bill Pascrell (D., NJ) has a serious problem with Republicans going to court. We recently discussed Pascrell’s absurd effort to disbar roughly two dozen Republican lawyers for challenging the results of the 2020 election. Now Pascrell is declaring that 120 House Republicans signing a “Friend of the Court brief” (or amicus brief) is tantamount to supporting a rebellion against the United States and that they should be blocked from taking their seats in Congress. I previously denounced Pascrell for his “dangerous form of demagoguery.” This latest call shows the demagoguery has reached a level of utter delusion.
From the outset of the Texas lawsuit, I stated that it was virtually guaranteed to fail on standing. It did fail last night. However, courts are where we take cases alleging such injuries. Tens of millions of American believe that the election was not fair, including many Democratic voters. Roughly 70 percent of Republican voters believe the election was stolen. Such challenges and concerns are brought to the courts where we can have disputes resolved without violence in a constitutional system.
Pascrell has long denounced political critics of destroying the Constitution based on his disagreement with their views. In the case of President Trump, he called for impeachment in 2019 on such undefined grounds as “disgrac[ing] his office and our nation beyond measure.”
Rather than welcome such review, Democrats have launched a scorched earth campaign, including an abusive campaign of harassment and abuse by the Lincoln Project. These efforts notably began shortly after Biden was declared the presumptive winner of the election and before any challenges were actually ruled upon by the courts.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has also fueled such reckless rhetoric, declaring that the Republicans are “subverting the Constitution by their reckless and fruitless assault on our democracy which threatens to seriously erode public trust in our most sacred democratic institutions, and to set back our progress on the urgent challenges ahead.”
Pascrell’s move against his colleagues mirrors language in the response of Pennsylvania’s Attorney General Josh Shapiro calling the Texas lawsuit “seditious.” Seeking judicial review is the antithesis of sedition or rebellion. It is working within our constitutional system for a legal opinion on the merits of a challenge. These litigants have complied with court orders, as has President Trump.
On Twitter, Pascrell declared
“Stated simply, the men and women who would act to tear the United States Government apart cannot serve as Members of the Congress. These lawsuits seeking to obliterate public confidence in our democratic system by invalidating the clear results of the 2020 presidential election undoubtedly attack the text and the spirit of the Constitution, which each Member swears to support and defend.”
Pascrell cites the 14th Amendment to argue that filing with a federal court is an act of rebellion and “trying to overturn a democratic election and install a dictator seems like a pretty clear example of that.”
Pascrell’s call is utterly unhinged from any logical or constitutional foundation. Rebels do not storm the courts with legal filings. They overthrow courts with the rest of the constitutional system. Those who lack faith or fealty in our constitutional system are those who label litigants “rebels” and legal filings as forms of “rebellion” and “sedition.”
Key impeachment witness gave 2017 corruption warning about Hunter Biden-tied Ukraine firm
Ex-Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch claimed in 2019 testimony she knew little about Burisma beyond media reports. Her emails show more substantive knowledge.
Former U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovich cautioned John McCain’s think tank in 2017 not to accept funding from the Ukrainian gas firm that had hired Hunter Biden because State officials considered Burisma Holdings and its founder to be corrupt, according to newly released memos.
During impeachment hearings last year, Yovanovitch, a key witness for Democrats, testified to Congress that she knew little about Burisma beyond what she’d gleaned from her pre-confirmation State Department briefing in summer 2016 and press reports. “It just wasn’t a big deal,” she declared under oath on Oct. 11, 2019.
Two years earlier, though, she had enough knowledge to warn a McCain Institute official not to become entangled with Burisma.
You’re plagiarizing from a copyrighted article. Expect Darren to delete your comment.
It’s not plagiarism. It is just the first paragraphs. The body was not sent. Credit is to just the news
Whenever you quote something that’s copyrighted and you don’t include quotation marks and don’t identify the author, it’s plagiarism.
I don’t want to get in the sewer with you but it is too dam bad.
LMAO that you think someone pointing out your plagiarism places the other person in the sewer.
Darren has more than once deleted your comments for being in excess of fair use, and he’ll delete plagiarism too. They’re both forms of copyright infringement. I was trying to be nice, alerting you ahead of time so you know why it will be deleted and don’t keep making the same mistake, but you’re such a jackass that you can’t hear the message.
Don’t even try being nice because I still need a shower after being near you. If he deletes it he deletes it but it is less in length than then promos I get that are published elsewhere
But, thank you anyway Peter Shill, Paint Chips, Seth, anonymous.
She is presently at the bath houses in West Hollywood wearing a mask looking like Eric Swalwell, hoping someone, anyone, notices her. Seth is a real mess
It’s called fair use.
No it isn’t –
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2017/11/16/plagiarism-attribution-and-fair-use/
Several witnesses warned of problems with the Biden’s – Kent was one of those.
There is lots of correspondence between state and the VP’s offce telling the VP’s office that Hunter was trying to sell jis influence with the VP.
EXCLUSIVE: Hunter Biden Called His Father And Chinese Business Partner ‘Office Mates’ In September 2017 Email
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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden attend an NCAA basketball game between Georgetown University and Duke University in Washington, U.S., Jan. 30, 2010. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Hunter Biden sent an email to the manager of his Washington, D.C. office building in September 2017 asking her to make keys for his “office mates” Joe Biden and Gongwen Dong, who he said was the “emissary” for the chairman of the Chinese energy conglomerate CEFC.
Hunter Biden’s dealings with CEFC in 2017 were at the center of Tony Bobulinski’s October allegation that Joe Biden was “plainly familiar” with his family’s Chinese business dealings.
Multiple news outlets have reported this week that a federal investigation into Hunter Biden’s “tax affairs” is focused on his foreign business activities, including with CEFC.
Supreme Court, these Americans have no standing:
You communists (liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs) can’t lie, cheat, corrupt, tamper with and steal this:
While seeking relief in the Courts may not be seditious, asking state legislatures to ignore their own voters in violation of their state laws and the Voting Rights Act is clearly seditious.
Is that the actual Republican argument? Is that their state of mind? Are they “asking state legislatures to ignore their own voters”?
Or do you just want to spin it that way? To baffle us with BS? And are you an instigator, or merely the believer and carrier of BS?
I truly believe that Republicans are done with democracy and want a strongman dictator. They want Trump to be like Putin or Kim Jong Un.
Not to worry, Comrade, we got it all taken care of. Soon you will be enjoying all of the benefits that the CCP has to offer just like Hong Kong is coming to appreciate….or not. Hunter Biden did extremely well with our assistance, though the Crack Pipe was something the Russians did.
Truly beleive whatever you want – Trump was not a “strong man” – Obama was.
What actions of Trump’s make you think he was a “strong man” ?
He was a tough negotiator. But he rarely acted unilaterally – that is what strong men and authoritarians do.
That is what Obama/Biden did constantly.
Did ATF under Trump sell guns to mexican drug lords ?
Did IRS under Trump target political opposition groups ?
Did CIA/NSA under Trump spy on senators ?
Did FBI under Trump spy on journalists ?
Each of these was done by Obama/Biden BEFORE they had the US government meddle in the 2016 election.
There is not a republican legislature that would not jump at the chance to count every single legitimate ballot – regardless of who it was for.
But by ignoring SOME but not all election laws we have created a situation where that is not possible – and that was not accidental.
Secret ballot laws require that before mailin ballots are counted they must be stripped of any connection back to the voter.
We can potentially identify how many fraudulent ballots were case. We will never be able to extract the fraudulent ones from the legitimate ones.
BTW that is why observers and challenges are so important – because a challenged mailin ballot is isolated, and not counted until it can be determined to be valid.
But we ignored laws requiring mailin ballots be verified by signature, DOB, Drivers license, ….
But did not ignore laws that required they be secret – even though mailin ballots are NOT secret ballots – one of their other problems.
Any election conducted without following the laws and constitution of that state is lawless – and seditious and fraudulent.
The States TX sued indesputably did precisely that.
To the extent there is lawlessness and violations of constitutions – federal and state – you can look to the left, in particular the executives in GA, PA, WI, AZ, MI who ran elections ignoring the requirements of their own state laws and constitutions.
Sounds like “sedition” to me.
It would be unwise for those of you on the left to play these games.
You may be on the right side of the courts but you are on the wrong side of the rule of law.
This is unbelievable. Are we fighting the civil war all over as a Cold War? These democrats seem to still be in a major freak out! Why don’t they grow up and get A LIFE! The time for behaving like this was high school. You democrats need to have your head examined but one would only find a geranium in their cranium. SIGH!
Well, ya, the Rs are coming out as the party that is anti-voting and doing almost everything they can to overturn a legal election. Freaking out is quite reasonable.
Shhhhhhh, Comrade MollyG. we can not disclose our secret in how we bought the White House and the American news establishment so that we can control the Yankees. Let’s keep that little secret to the Reds who happily now include Bidens & Harris, even if we tampered with the US election. Keep telling them about the Russians. Americans are so stupid they believe it
Yes, lots of people do not want the votes of dead people, fictitious people, non citizens, people who voted more than once to count.
Those dastardly republicans they only want one person, one vote.
BTW the election was inarguably illegal.
In each fo the states TX sued, the election laws of that state were openly violated by the executive and election officials.
Freaking out over actual lawlessness is quite reasonable.
Because you have acted lawlessly, and because the courts have been unwilling to re-establish the rule of law, you are begging people to take the law into their own hands.
You do not seem to grasp – lawlessness does not end well.
I do not know what the response to this will be – and you do not grasp this is not about Trump.
As with myriads of issues – you stick your heads in the sand and pretend that ideological magic makes real world problems go away.
But think about this – if democrats are not going to follow election laws – why should repubicans ?
You say that only legitimate ballots were counted in these big cities ? So if in the next election those cities are flooded with mailin ballots that favor republicans you will have no problem counting those too ?
The laws that you flouted exist to prevent illegitimate ballots – from being counted. If you think that the procedures followed were sufficient to accomplish that – then you will have no problems if those procedures are tested in the next election.
While we are at it – we might as well flood republican precincts with additional mailin ballots, and have republican election officials ignore the same election laws as democrats have.
What degree of stupidity do you have to have to fail to understand that if you ignore the law you WILL get massive fraud.
You can pretend it did not occur in 2020.
But the only way you can stop it in the future is to follow the law.
In fact I would suggest that the legislature pass laws authorizing the deliberate flooding of all precincts with fraudulent ballots to test whether they properly catch them.
I have argued repeatedly that it is relatively easy to secure elections – if we actually want to.
It is even relatively easy to secure them – knowing those administering the election are corrupt – all that is necescary is to assure that if they fail to do their job there will be a consequence.
One consequences would be that they are fired or even prosecuted.
But another possibility is to assure that if they fail to stop illegal votes, that the election will be tipped against them.
The American Founders stopped suffering British oppression, stopped consuming British prevarication and “…provide[d] new Guards for their future security….”
Being lawless, achieving an entirely unconstitutional welfare state, progressing now to outright corruption, tampering with and theft of an election creating a one-party communist state, and obtaining no relief and
no remedy from the absent and biased judicial branch, including the Supreme Court, Americans are backed into a corner and left with no choice.
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“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and
to provide new Guards for their future security….”
– Declaration of Independence
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Has resolve evaporated from actual American DNA?
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Thank you, Justice Alito. Thank you, Justice Thomas.
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Kayleigh on Supreme Court: Yeah there’s no way to say it other than they dodged. They dodged. They hid behind procedure and they refused to use their authority to enforce the constitution.
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Georgia GOP Chair: ‘We Are Trusting No One,’ ‘We Have Eyes on Every Part’ of Voting Process
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“We’ve not gotten any court to judge this (the vote) on its merit.”
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of Texas. It is a legal disgrace, an embarrassment to the USA!!!
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So, you’re the President of the United States, and you just went through an election where you got more votes than any sitting President in history, by far – and purportedly lost. You can’t get “standing” before the Supreme Court, so you “intervene” with wonderful states…..
This claim about election fraud is disputed
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….that, after careful study and consideration, think you got “screwed”, something which will hurt them also. Many others likewise join the suit but, within a flash, it is thrown out and gone, without even looking at the many reasons it was brought. A Rigged Election, fight on!
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The Supreme Court really let us down. No Wisdom, No Courage!
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“Don’t the voters have to know what the Federal prosecutor’s know. The establishment failed us. The media, congressional leaders, the Democrat Party? No wonder 74 (a pres. record) million Americans voted for Donald Trump, & they still don’t believe the outcome of this election…
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REGARDING ABOVE:
Here we can see, beyond any doubt, that Trump is a narcissistic sociopath with no sense of reason or concern for the country. He’s just mindlessly lashing out, incapable of grasping that his campaign has never produced credible evidence of fraud.
Word in the bath houses of WeHo is that no one hooks up with you on Grinder because you are so fricken cray cray.
Yeah, Boy’s, that ‘you’ for sure; the saddest closet queen. Just some nerdy loser in nowhere USA. You fantasize about the WeHo in your head.
“Here we can see, beyond any doubt, that Trump is a narcissistic sociopath”
That would be true of pretty much every politician.
It is certainly true of Biden, Harris, Obama, Clinton. Pelosi, Swallwel, Schiff, …
It is prerequisite for running for president.
“with no sense of reason or concern for the country.”
Because you say so ?
“He’s just mindlessly lashing out, incapable of grasping that his campaign has never produced credible evidence of fraud.”
The TX challenge was not specifically about fraud – it was about the failure of 5 states to conform to their own election laws and constitutions.
Separately plenty of evidence of fraud has been provided.
No sane person has claimed there was no fraud.
The court decisions against Trump are problematic as they are all summary judgements for failing to prove SUFFICIENT fraud to have changed the outcome.
That is not the standard for summary judgement.
That is the standard for a final decision – after hearings and discovery.
Contra the left and far to many courts – it is not required to prove that you will win to get into court.
It is merely a requirement that you have a plausible case.
No one who has taken even a cursoury look at the evidence doubts that 3 things are present.
States faliing to follow their own laws – that is an absolute given.
Actual instances of fraud – every lawsuit provided numerous examples of that.
The possibility of fraud of sufficient scale to alter the outcome.
Many politicians are narcissists. Most narcissists aren’t sociopaths.
“Many politicians are narcissists. Most narcissists aren’t sociopaths.”
Honestly – you want to debate this ?
According to Hare about 1 in 30 people are sociopaths.
Politics is one of the top 10 fields that they cluster in.
All sociopaths are not criminals.
Many are among the most productive members of society.
But all will break the rules if they can get away with it.
“The terms “malignant narcissist” and “psychopath” are sometimes used interchangeably because there is little to clinically separate the two.”
All narcissits are not sociopaths. All sociopaths are narcists.
If there was no fraud – why are you so afraid that Trump or anyone else might be allowed to actually look for it ?
Why did each of the 5 major cities that tipped this election lie claiming they stopped counting ballots. send observers and the press home and then out of observation continue to count ballots ?
When you act in the dark it is reasonable to assume you are up to no good.
You assume Trump is up to no good when he does things right out in the open.
Yet you have failed to find anything.
Conversely – why should we trust the people who bought the collusion delusion, Told us that Biden’s misconduct in the Ukraine was a right wing conspiracy, ….. to count the votes without cheating ?
Why should we beleive people who have been caught lying repeatedly ?
Stop asking loaded questions.
No one is afraid that Trump or anyone else might be allowed to actually look for evidence.
Prove that each of the 5 major cities that tipped this election lied claiming they stopped counting ballots, sent observers and the press home and then out of observation continue to count ballots.
Alone, the mathematical proofs provide substantial evidence but perhaps not enough to prove it in court. Fraud frequently is difficult to prove and many guilty people are let go because of that lack of proof.
However there is other proof hear including violations of state constitutions, and all the other things mentioned.
You forget all those things either because you want to or you don’t have the capacity to know them in the first place.
Are you talking about Texas’s foolish quadrillion:1 claim based on faulty assumptions?
Texas is wrong about the violations of state constitutions, as was made clear in several of the briefs and also in legal blog discussions like Volokh’s.
You forget all those things either because you want to or you don’t have the capacity to know them in the first place.
I am not referring to the Texas quadrillion. I am referring to to many coincidences. Though the odds are the same on red and black every time the wheel is turned, the odds of red continuously coming up get worse every time the wheel turns.
I take note that you don’t understand what Volokh said to put it in your own words. Tell me what did I forget. Are you too dumb or just a coward?
And yet again, Allan, you resort to some of your go-to trolling strategies:
– Insult
– Pretend to read someone’s mind and attack the person on the basis of your made up attribution.
– Attribute your own failings to others.
Anonymous, you deserve everything you get.
I would never presume to read your mind. Reading an empty mind is a waste of time.
And now you add your other go-to strategy: lie.
OK. You deserve more than you get. Is that better?
I am not interested in dueling briefs claims.
That facts as asserted by TX are correct.
The only question is whether a remedy is possible – SCOTUS said no.
Giving their impramatur to future election fraud.
You left wing nuts do not see to grasp that you can not win. As I repeatedly told my son when he was a toddler – keep it up, it only gets worse.
We can follow the law – or we can be lawless. When YOU choose lawless, YOU can expect that everyone else will too.
Did eliminating the fillibuster work well for you ? Did CA ballot harvesting work out ?
Do you honestly beleive election fraud is a winner for democrats ?
Worse still you do not seem to grasp that by FIGHTING inquiry, you undermine your credibility.
AS Joshua Blackmum on Volohk noted regarding the TX lawsuit – if TX does not have standing – Who does ?
Is SCOTUS – are YOU going to assert that no one can bar elections officials from violating their own state laws ?
“Alone, the mathematical proofs provide substantial evidence but perhaps not enough to prove it in court.”
They would be enough if you were on the left trying to prove racial discrimination.
That would be why in WI they found that all the 2020 election data had been deleted off the voting machines ?
Data from 2018, 2016, and 2014 was still on those machines – only 2020 have been deleted.
And why it required a court order in GA to stop deleting election data.
That would be why in Milwaukee, Atlanta, Philadelphia, and Detroit election observers were told to go home on election night – that counting was stopping, and after they left democrat election officials continued through the not without any oversight ?
If you do not wish to be accused – don’t behave as ig you are guilty and hiding things,
“Prove that each of the 5 major cities that tipped this election lied claiming they stopped counting ballots, sent observers and the press home and then out of observation continue to count ballots.”
The election officials in these cities actually told the media that they were closing for the night.
So my proof is a plethora of election night news stories stating PRECISELY that.
Are you saying that the media is lying ? that Republican observers left on their own ?
I would specifically directly you to the fulton country video.
It SHOWS election officials clearing everyone from the counting room, turning off the lights, and THEN a few come back turn on the lights. pull cases of votes from under the table and resume counting.
It is possible that is evidence of election fraud – meaning counting illegal ballots – we can not really know that.
It is inarguable that it is evidence of election fraud – counting without required observers – which I beleive is a fellony in GA.
Are you totally clueless ?
If you are going to demand proof the least you should do is make it hard ?
So it is OK for the left and Obama and Biden to be critical of supreme court decisions they do not like – but it is not OK for Trump ?
regardless, SCOTUS did “dodge” pretty much as expected.
Had they addressed the RX lawsuit which 3/5 of all states signed on to on the merits – there was only one possible outcome – the election in atleast 4 states violated state laws, state constitutions and the US constitution. There was ZERO doubt regarding the merits.
SCOTUS found a way out – found a way to avoid a very difficult decision to follow the law and the constitution.
Regardless lawlessness has consequences.
You do not seem to gather this.
While it would be preferable for the courts to DO THEIR JOB, and uphold the constitution,
there is no good outcome for the left.
WE can either follow the law – and the left loses.
Or not follow the law – and we will see increasing lawlessness.
If you think the left is going to prevail as we become more lawless – you are an idiot.
What you should fear is that lawlessness – YOUR lawlessness increases the odds that the next Donald Trump – and make now doubt there will be another is the actual tyrant and authoritarian you fear.