Examples of GOP Leadership
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cannabineer
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topcat
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Like facts, they're alternative definitions so they fit the narrative. Repeat, repeat, repeat.
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Ex-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to quit U.S. Congress
Two months after his historic ouster as U.S. House Speaker, Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy announced Wednesday that he is resigning from his congressional seat in California.
His announcement capped a stunning end for the one-time deli owner from Bakersfield, Calif., who ascended through state and national politics to become second in line to the presidency before a contingent of hard-right conservatives engineered his removal in October.
McCarthy is the only Speaker in history to be voted out of the job.
"No matter the odds, or personal cost, we did the right thing," McCarthy wrote in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, announcing his decision.
"It is in this spirit that I have decided to depart the House at the end of this year to serve America in new ways," he wrote.
His toppling from the chamber's top post was fuelled by grievances from his party's hard-right flank, including over his decision to work with Democrats to keep the federal government open rather than risk a shutdown.
McCarthy, 58, arrived in the House in January 2007 after a stint in the California Assembly, where he served as minority leader. In Congress, he manoeuvred through his party's hierarchy — serving as majority whip and Republican leader along the way — before being elected Speaker in January 2023.
The days-long floor fight that preceded his elevation to the House's top job foreshadowed a stormy tenure, at a time when former U.S. president Donald Trump remained the de facto leader of the party and deep divisions within the GOP raised serious questions about the party's ability to govern.
It took a record 15 votes over four days for McCarthy to line up the support he needed to win the post he had long coveted, finally prevailing on a 216-212 vote with Democrats backing leader Hakeem Jeffries and six Republican holdouts voting present. Not since the Civil War era has a speaker's vote dragged through so many rounds of counting.
McCarthy emerged from the fight weakened, especially considering Republicans held only a fragile margin in the chamber after a predicted "red wave" failed to materialize in the 2022 elections.
Once installed as speaker, his well-known savvy for fundraising and political glad-handing appeared ill-suited for corralling his party's disputatious hard-right faction. And deals he cut to become speaker — including a rules change that allowed any single lawmaker to file a motion to remove him — left him vulnerable.
When he became speaker, "he faced new challenges that required a different skill set," said Claremont McKenna College political scientist Jack Pitney, a one-time domestic policy analyst for House Republicans.
And "the deals he made to become speaker made it almost impossible for him to succeed as speaker." McCarthy, the son of a firefighter and a homemaker, has long depicted himself as an unflagging battler.
He is fond of quoting his father, who told him, "It's not how you start, it's how you finish."
Two months after his historic ouster as U.S. House Speaker, Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy announced Wednesday that he is resigning from his congressional seat in California.
His announcement capped a stunning end for the one-time deli owner from Bakersfield, Calif., who ascended through state and national politics to become second in line to the presidency before a contingent of hard-right conservatives engineered his removal in October.
McCarthy is the only Speaker in history to be voted out of the job.
"No matter the odds, or personal cost, we did the right thing," McCarthy wrote in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, announcing his decision.
"It is in this spirit that I have decided to depart the House at the end of this year to serve America in new ways," he wrote.
His toppling from the chamber's top post was fuelled by grievances from his party's hard-right flank, including over his decision to work with Democrats to keep the federal government open rather than risk a shutdown.
McCarthy, 58, arrived in the House in January 2007 after a stint in the California Assembly, where he served as minority leader. In Congress, he manoeuvred through his party's hierarchy — serving as majority whip and Republican leader along the way — before being elected Speaker in January 2023.
The days-long floor fight that preceded his elevation to the House's top job foreshadowed a stormy tenure, at a time when former U.S. president Donald Trump remained the de facto leader of the party and deep divisions within the GOP raised serious questions about the party's ability to govern.
It took a record 15 votes over four days for McCarthy to line up the support he needed to win the post he had long coveted, finally prevailing on a 216-212 vote with Democrats backing leader Hakeem Jeffries and six Republican holdouts voting present. Not since the Civil War era has a speaker's vote dragged through so many rounds of counting.
McCarthy emerged from the fight weakened, especially considering Republicans held only a fragile margin in the chamber after a predicted "red wave" failed to materialize in the 2022 elections.
Once installed as speaker, his well-known savvy for fundraising and political glad-handing appeared ill-suited for corralling his party's disputatious hard-right faction. And deals he cut to become speaker — including a rules change that allowed any single lawmaker to file a motion to remove him — left him vulnerable.
When he became speaker, "he faced new challenges that required a different skill set," said Claremont McKenna College political scientist Jack Pitney, a one-time domestic policy analyst for House Republicans.
And "the deals he made to become speaker made it almost impossible for him to succeed as speaker." McCarthy, the son of a firefighter and a homemaker, has long depicted himself as an unflagging battler.
He is fond of quoting his father, who told him, "It's not how you start, it's how you finish."
cannabineer
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With his disarming boy-next-door demeanor delivering the big lies smooth as cough syrup, this one is dangerous.
A theme that has played in this forum over the last years is that we’re quite lucky that That Man has ambitions of dictatorship, but was so spectacularly clumsy in implementing them.
Johnson does not have that flaw. (Kenobi voice) I sense a disturbance in the Dark Money.
I would not be surprised if he is fast-tracked into the nomination for the candidacy.
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MickFoster
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Odds are he's going to work for the orange traitor........."people say" he gives the best blowjobs.
cannabineer
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Guaranteed gov’t housing if he does. It’s nice to be secure heading into advanced age.
OldMedUser
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cannabineer
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I had an old boss half a lifetime ago who would mumble something when one of the suits said something extra ripe.
“The check is in your mouth, and I won’t come in the mail.”
compassionateExotic
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cannabineer
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looks like Kitara was option A. Have a look at option B.
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Candidate for George Santos' old seat convicted on Jan. 6 charges after testifying he had 'no idea' Congress met in the Capitol
Prosecutors said Philip Sean Grillo, who is running for the seat previously held by George Santos, had videotaped himself during the 2021 attack on the Capitol.
printer
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Of course they will appeal, after all the child will die so what is the mother concerned of?
Texas judge grants woman with fatal fetal condition permission to have abortion
A Texas judge on Thursday granted a pregnant woman whose fetus has a lethal diagnosis permission to get an abortion despite Texas’s strict ban.
But the state is likely to appeal, and it’s unclear just how quickly the plaintiff, a 31-year-old Dallas woman named Kate Cox, will be able to obtain an abortion.
District Court Judge Maya Guerra Gamble said she would grant a temporary restraining order that allows Cox to get an abortion, while also protecting her husband from being held liable for helping her under Texas’s “bounty” law, as well as preventing her physician from being prosecuted for performing the abortion.
Cox is currently 20 weeks pregnant, and her fetus has been diagnosed with full trisomy 18, a chromosomal anomaly that leads to miscarriage, stillbirth or the death of the infant within hours, days or weeks after birth.
Cox’s doctors said carrying the pregnancy to term will force a cesarean section or induction that would inflict serious injury. Inducing labor would risk a uterine rupture because of two prior C-sections with earlier pregnancies, and another C-section at full term would risk her future fertility.
During the hearing, Cox’s attorneys said in the two days since the lawsuit was first filed, she has already needed to go to the emergency room, her fourth trip during the pregnancy.
“The idea that Ms. Cox wants desperately to be a parent and this might cause her to lose that ability is shocking, and would be a genuine miscarriage of justice,” Gamble said in granting the injunction.
Texas has overlapping abortion bans. The state outlaws all abortions from the point of fertilization and also enforces a “bounty” law that rewards private citizens who sue others who have helped a person get an abortion.
There are medical exceptions to save the life of the mother, but doctors and abortion advocates argue the law is too vague on what constitutes such a risk, so physicians won’t risk providing abortions for fear of potential criminal charges or lawsuits.
The state argued Cox was not eligible for an injunction, and any injuries are merely potential and not life-threatening.
thehill.com
Texas judge grants woman with fatal fetal condition permission to have abortion
A Texas judge on Thursday granted a pregnant woman whose fetus has a lethal diagnosis permission to get an abortion despite Texas’s strict ban.
But the state is likely to appeal, and it’s unclear just how quickly the plaintiff, a 31-year-old Dallas woman named Kate Cox, will be able to obtain an abortion.
District Court Judge Maya Guerra Gamble said she would grant a temporary restraining order that allows Cox to get an abortion, while also protecting her husband from being held liable for helping her under Texas’s “bounty” law, as well as preventing her physician from being prosecuted for performing the abortion.
Cox is currently 20 weeks pregnant, and her fetus has been diagnosed with full trisomy 18, a chromosomal anomaly that leads to miscarriage, stillbirth or the death of the infant within hours, days or weeks after birth.
Cox’s doctors said carrying the pregnancy to term will force a cesarean section or induction that would inflict serious injury. Inducing labor would risk a uterine rupture because of two prior C-sections with earlier pregnancies, and another C-section at full term would risk her future fertility.
During the hearing, Cox’s attorneys said in the two days since the lawsuit was first filed, she has already needed to go to the emergency room, her fourth trip during the pregnancy.
“The idea that Ms. Cox wants desperately to be a parent and this might cause her to lose that ability is shocking, and would be a genuine miscarriage of justice,” Gamble said in granting the injunction.
Texas has overlapping abortion bans. The state outlaws all abortions from the point of fertilization and also enforces a “bounty” law that rewards private citizens who sue others who have helped a person get an abortion.
There are medical exceptions to save the life of the mother, but doctors and abortion advocates argue the law is too vague on what constitutes such a risk, so physicians won’t risk providing abortions for fear of potential criminal charges or lawsuits.
The state argued Cox was not eligible for an injunction, and any injuries are merely potential and not life-threatening.
Texas judge grants woman with fatal fetal condition permission to have abortion
A Texas judge on Thursday granted a pregnant woman whose fetus has a lethal diagnosis permission to get an abortion despite Texas’s strict ban. But it’s unclear just how quickly the plaintiff…
thehill.com
BudmanTX
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Paxton already did file.....tha fuckerOf course they will appeal, after all the child will die so what is the mother concerned of?
Texas judge grants woman with fatal fetal condition permission to have abortion
A Texas judge on Thursday granted a pregnant woman whose fetus has a lethal diagnosis permission to get an abortion despite Texas’s strict ban.
But the state is likely to appeal, and it’s unclear just how quickly the plaintiff, a 31-year-old Dallas woman named Kate Cox, will be able to obtain an abortion.
District Court Judge Maya Guerra Gamble said she would grant a temporary restraining order that allows Cox to get an abortion, while also protecting her husband from being held liable for helping her under Texas’s “bounty” law, as well as preventing her physician from being prosecuted for performing the abortion.
Cox is currently 20 weeks pregnant, and her fetus has been diagnosed with full trisomy 18, a chromosomal anomaly that leads to miscarriage, stillbirth or the death of the infant within hours, days or weeks after birth.
Cox’s doctors said carrying the pregnancy to term will force a cesarean section or induction that would inflict serious injury. Inducing labor would risk a uterine rupture because of two prior C-sections with earlier pregnancies, and another C-section at full term would risk her future fertility.
During the hearing, Cox’s attorneys said in the two days since the lawsuit was first filed, she has already needed to go to the emergency room, her fourth trip during the pregnancy.
“The idea that Ms. Cox wants desperately to be a parent and this might cause her to lose that ability is shocking, and would be a genuine miscarriage of justice,” Gamble said in granting the injunction.
Texas has overlapping abortion bans. The state outlaws all abortions from the point of fertilization and also enforces a “bounty” law that rewards private citizens who sue others who have helped a person get an abortion.
There are medical exceptions to save the life of the mother, but doctors and abortion advocates argue the law is too vague on what constitutes such a risk, so physicians won’t risk providing abortions for fear of potential criminal charges or lawsuits.
The state argued Cox was not eligible for an injunction, and any injuries are merely potential and not life-threatening.
Texas judge grants woman with fatal fetal condition permission to have abortion
A Texas judge on Thursday granted a pregnant woman whose fetus has a lethal diagnosis permission to get an abortion despite Texas’s strict ban. But it’s unclear just how quickly the plaintiff…
Bagginski
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The thing is, Chump’s support is growing in decibels / volume, not in numbersTrump, allies fire back at media warnings of second-term dictatorship
Headlines blaring warnings about how a second Trump presidency could slip toward dictatorship on Monday prompted a stiff pushback from allies of the ex-president, who is topping GOP primary polls just weeks before the Iowa caucuses.
The Washington Post, The Atlantic and The New York Times each published stories referencing a “Trump dictatorship” in recent days, arguing a new Trump presidency posed a threat to democracy. The Times wrote a second Trump term likely would be more radical than his first.
“All of these articles calling Trump a dictator are about one thing: legitimizing illegal and violent conduct as we get closer to the election,” Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), a Trump ally, wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “Everyone needs to take a chill pill.”
“It’s August 2016 all over again. Skyrocketing cost of health care has millions worried. President Trump’s Dem. opponent off the campaign trail & hiding from the press,” senior Trump adviser Jason Miller wrote on X.
“Dems & their media allies have given up on debating issues & have shifted to name-calling & rhetorical fearmongering,” he added.
The Atlantic announced Monday the magazine’s January/February issue would be dedicated to what a second Trump term would mean for immigration, civil rights, the Justice Department, climate and more. The magazine’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, wrote an editor’s note titled, “A Warning,” to introduce the series.
The New York Times on Monday published its latest piece in a series focused on what a second Trump term might mean for the country. In it, the reporters noted Trump’s rhetoric on the campaign trail “has attracted growing alarm and comparisons to historical fascist dictators and contemporary populist strongmen.”
And a Washington Post opinion column penned by editor-at-large Robert Kagan headlined, “A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending,” made an extensive case that Trump’s reelection could feasibly set the U.S. on a path to becoming a dictatorship.
Trump allies dismissed the pileup as the latest instance of media outlets opposing the former president, who routinely derides the press as “fake news” and previously called some journalists the “enemy of the people.”
“This is nothing more than another version of the media’s failed and false Russia collusion hoax,” Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said of The Atlantic project, claiming the magazine “will be out of business soon because nobody will read that trash.”
Several Trump allies in Congress also took aim at the recent spate of headlines suggesting Trump could rule like a dictator.
Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.), addressing The Atlantic piece, accused the left of using “the same hysterical scare tactics from 2016 & 2020 to attack Trump.”
Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-Texas), referencing The Washington Post column, claimed the left had gone into “FULL PANIC Mode” and suggested another Trump term would mean “the end of dictators in America, NOT the beginning.”
But news outlets and opinion columnists are not alone in suggesting another Trump presidency could have catastrophic consequences for American democracy.
“I think it’s a very, very real threat and concern,” former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), an outspoken Trump critic, told NBC’s “Today” on Monday when asked about the risk of the U.S. becoming a dictatorship under Trump.
“And I don’t say any of that lightly and frankly, it’s painful for me as someone who has spent her whole life in Republican politics, who grew up as a Republican to watch what’s happening to my party and to watch the extent to which Donald Trump himself has basically determined that the only thing that matters is him, his power and his success,” she added.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), who, like Cheney, served on the House panel that investigated the Jan. 6 riots, told MSNBC last month a second Trump term “would look a lot like Viktor Orban in Hungary — illiberal democracy, meaning democracy without rights, or liberties, or respect for the due process, the system, the rule of law.”
The increased warnings about the consequences of another Trump presidency come as the former president has ratcheted up the intensity of his rhetoric on the campaign trail.
Trump last month described his political opponents as “vermin” who posed a threat to the country from within, comments that drew backlash and comparisons to rhetoric from the likes of Hitler and Mussolini. He has repeatedly signaled he would look to take revenge on his enemies if reelected, telling supporters he would be there “retribution” and suggesting it would be fair game to investigate President Biden and his family because of Trump’s legal troubles.
And Trump last week suggested the government should punish MSNBC “and make them pay for their illegal activity.”
On Saturday, Trump tried out a new line of attack when he described Biden as a “destroyer of American democracy.”
“They’ve been waging an all-out war on American democracy,” Trump said. “If you put me back in the White House, that reign will be over and America will be a free nation once again.”
The comments were an inversion of a common argument from Biden and his allies that Trump poses a singular threat to U.S. democracy, something Biden sought to elevate in the closing weeks of the 2022 midterm campaign. Democrats ultimately held control of the Senate and performed better than expected in the House even as Republicans won the majority.
Democrats see those arguments as a winner against Trump in 2024, but Trump’s counterattacks suggested he thinks it can be made into a rallying cry for his supporters.
Biden and other Democrats have repeatedly emphasized the election denialism that has become commonplace among Trump and his supporters. False claims of voter fraud culminated in the violent Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol, when Trump supporters stormed the complex to try and halt the certification of the 2020 election results.
Some Biden allies have suggested the White House would welcome it if Trump wanted to make the 2024 election a battle over the fate of democracy.
“If I’m in the Biden campaign, I would say, bring it on,” Kate Bedingfield, Biden’s former communications director, said Sunday on CNN. “This is bringing the fight to a place that is good for Joe Biden, that is about who’s protecting your freedoms, who’s protecting your rights.”
Trump, allies fire back at media warnings of second-term dictatorship
Headlines blaring warnings about how a second Trump presidency could slip toward dictatorship on Monday prompted a stiff pushback from allies of the ex-president, who is topping GOP primary polls j…
The fact that the entirety of GOP office-holders are indelibly tarred w/ their participation & support for the overthrow, before, during, and after 1/6 shows that as primates, we’re not as exalted as we like to pretend; it also shines a glaring light on “conservative” willingness to consistently adopt the most RADICAL & least sound policies, arguments, & justifications. The fact their shit is so threadbare should tell you they’ve been using (& waving) the same rags since Ft. Sumter, they just keep trying to make it smell better
Bagginski
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Creepy: looks like a Predator (from the movie) had plastic surgery to make it look “safe”
Bagginski
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Clearly, the spirit of the law is that it’s intended to fuck with people….
When they say the cruelty is the point for republicans, when they get called authoritarian,
*THIS* is the shit they mean
THEY WANT CONTROL.
NOW. TODAY.
AND THEY WANT TO KEEP IT
(What, did you think Karl Rove’s shit in the 80s about a “permanent Republican majority” was just a taunt? *I* did until I learned better)
They have been working the plan with incredible diligence, to where they now screech with one voice, move with one shadow, see with one eye: anyone who might vote for a democrat cannot be allowed to vote, ‘cause they’re in league w/ demons; anyone who might run as a democrat or support democratic policies cannot be allowed to win or to succeed in any way, ‘cause they’re demons. Preacher said so.
printer
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See! There is life after the GOP.
Kimmel sends prank Cameo scripts to Santos, who reads them
Late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel sent former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) prank scripts on Cameo to see if he would read them, and the ousted lawmaker did so.
After being expelled from the House last week, Santos has begun selling personal videos for several hundred dollars each and has gone viral for his responses. Customers can request holiday messages or ask Santos for gossip, a pep talk or advice, among other messages.
Kimmel told the audience at his show this week that he ordered videos with several prank scripts without saying they were from him to find out if the former congressman would say what was sent.
“George please congratulate my friend Gary Fortuna for winning the Clearwater Florida beef eating contest. He ate over six pounds of ground beef in under 30 minutes – which was a new record!” Kimmel’s prank script read. “He’s not feeling great right now, but the doctor thinks he will be released from the hospital soon. Please wish him a speedy recovery!”
Santos responded to the script, congratulating the fake Gary Fortuna for winning the contest and wishing him a quick recovery.
“I know you’re feeling a little under the weather, but I hear from a great source that the doctors said you’ll be released from the hospital soon and recover well,” Santos said in a video. “Look, have a speedy recovery, and then enjoy the festivities of the end of the year. Bye.”
Kimmel then showed two more prank scripts and the former lawmaker’s responses. He said he has “ordered about dozen more of these” and will be releasing them next week.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) said Monday that he sent “ethically-challenged” Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) a Cameo video from Santos because he thought his colleague “could use some encouragement given his substantial legal problems.”
Menendez, along with his wife, Nadine, are accused of accepting “hundreds of thousands of dollars” in bribes from three businessmen in New Jersey in exchange for using the senator’s “power and influence” as Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair to benefit both the businessmen and Egyptian government.
Federal prosecutors with the Southern District of New York charged Menendez with conspiracy to commit bribery, conspiracy to commit honest services fraud, conspiracy to commit extortion and conspiracy for a public official to act as a foreign agent. He has denied the allegations.
Santos was removed from the House in a bipartisan vote, ending his tenure in Congress just 11 months after it began. He became the sixth lawmaker ever to be expelled from the lower chamber.
His expulsion came shortly after the House Ethics Committee released a report that found he violated federal criminal laws. It determined that Santos used campaign funds for personal purposes including trips to Atlantic City and Las Vegas and for Botox and other cosmetic purposes. He made purchases at the luxury brand Hermés and an adult content subscription website OnlyFans.
thehill.com
Kimmel sends prank Cameo scripts to Santos, who reads them
Late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel sent former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) prank scripts on Cameo to see if he would read them, and the ousted lawmaker did so.
After being expelled from the House last week, Santos has begun selling personal videos for several hundred dollars each and has gone viral for his responses. Customers can request holiday messages or ask Santos for gossip, a pep talk or advice, among other messages.
Kimmel told the audience at his show this week that he ordered videos with several prank scripts without saying they were from him to find out if the former congressman would say what was sent.
“George please congratulate my friend Gary Fortuna for winning the Clearwater Florida beef eating contest. He ate over six pounds of ground beef in under 30 minutes – which was a new record!” Kimmel’s prank script read. “He’s not feeling great right now, but the doctor thinks he will be released from the hospital soon. Please wish him a speedy recovery!”
Santos responded to the script, congratulating the fake Gary Fortuna for winning the contest and wishing him a quick recovery.
“I know you’re feeling a little under the weather, but I hear from a great source that the doctors said you’ll be released from the hospital soon and recover well,” Santos said in a video. “Look, have a speedy recovery, and then enjoy the festivities of the end of the year. Bye.”
Kimmel then showed two more prank scripts and the former lawmaker’s responses. He said he has “ordered about dozen more of these” and will be releasing them next week.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) said Monday that he sent “ethically-challenged” Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) a Cameo video from Santos because he thought his colleague “could use some encouragement given his substantial legal problems.”
Menendez, along with his wife, Nadine, are accused of accepting “hundreds of thousands of dollars” in bribes from three businessmen in New Jersey in exchange for using the senator’s “power and influence” as Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair to benefit both the businessmen and Egyptian government.
Federal prosecutors with the Southern District of New York charged Menendez with conspiracy to commit bribery, conspiracy to commit honest services fraud, conspiracy to commit extortion and conspiracy for a public official to act as a foreign agent. He has denied the allegations.
Santos was removed from the House in a bipartisan vote, ending his tenure in Congress just 11 months after it began. He became the sixth lawmaker ever to be expelled from the lower chamber.
His expulsion came shortly after the House Ethics Committee released a report that found he violated federal criminal laws. It determined that Santos used campaign funds for personal purposes including trips to Atlantic City and Las Vegas and for Botox and other cosmetic purposes. He made purchases at the luxury brand Hermés and an adult content subscription website OnlyFans.
Kimmel sends prank Cameo scripts to Santos, who read them
Late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel sent former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) prank scripts on Cameo to see if he would read them, and the ousted lawmaker did so. After being expelled from the Hou…
thehill.com
printer
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Pregnant Kentucky woman sues over state’s two abortion bans
A pregnant woman in Kentucky filed a lawsuit on Friday demanding the right to an abortion, challenging the state’s six-week ban as well as its near total “trigger” ban. The lawsuit was filed in state court on behalf of an anonymous woman using the pseudonym Jane Doe, who is about eight weeks pregnant and can’t legally obtain an abortion in her home state.
Doe is seeking class-action status on behalf of all Kentuckians who are pregnant or may become pregnant and can’t legally access abortions because of the state’s laws. The lawsuit seeks a court ruling that declares the state’s trigger and six-week bans unconstitutional and blocks them from being enforced any longer.
Doe and the others in the class are suffering “medical, constitutional, and irreparable harm because they are denied the ability to obtain an abortion,” the lawsuit stated. She is joined in the lawsuit by the Kentucky chapter of Planned Parenthood, which operated one of only two outpatient health centers licensed to provide abortions in the state.
“This is my decision—not the government’s or any other person’s. I am bringing this lawsuit because I firmly believe that everyone should have the ability to make their own decisions about their pregnancies,” plaintiff Doe said in a statement issued by the American Civil Liberties Union, one of the groups supporting her effort. Kentucky has two overlapping abortion bans, rendering the procedure illegal in almost every circumstance.
The state’s “trigger” law banning all abortion was passed in 2019 and took effect last year when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. It bans all abortions except when they’re carried out to save the life of the patient. It does not include exceptions for cases of rape or incest or severe fetal anomalies.
The state also has a six-week “heartbeat” law in effect, which bans abortion after detection of fetal cardiac activity. The six-week ban also contains no exceptions for rape or incest, only for saving the life of the pregnant patient. The lawsuit comes less than a year after the state Supreme Court dismissed another challenge to the bans. The court in a narrow ruling in February said the state’s two abortion clinics did not have standing to challenge the ban on behalf of their patients.
But the ruling didn’t address any larger issues of constitutionality and left open the possibility that patients could challenge the laws directly.
The lawsuit is only possible because Kentuckians rejected an anti-abortion ballot measure last year that would have amended the state constitution to exclude the right to abortion.
thehill.com
A pregnant woman in Kentucky filed a lawsuit on Friday demanding the right to an abortion, challenging the state’s six-week ban as well as its near total “trigger” ban. The lawsuit was filed in state court on behalf of an anonymous woman using the pseudonym Jane Doe, who is about eight weeks pregnant and can’t legally obtain an abortion in her home state.
Doe is seeking class-action status on behalf of all Kentuckians who are pregnant or may become pregnant and can’t legally access abortions because of the state’s laws. The lawsuit seeks a court ruling that declares the state’s trigger and six-week bans unconstitutional and blocks them from being enforced any longer.
Doe and the others in the class are suffering “medical, constitutional, and irreparable harm because they are denied the ability to obtain an abortion,” the lawsuit stated. She is joined in the lawsuit by the Kentucky chapter of Planned Parenthood, which operated one of only two outpatient health centers licensed to provide abortions in the state.
“This is my decision—not the government’s or any other person’s. I am bringing this lawsuit because I firmly believe that everyone should have the ability to make their own decisions about their pregnancies,” plaintiff Doe said in a statement issued by the American Civil Liberties Union, one of the groups supporting her effort. Kentucky has two overlapping abortion bans, rendering the procedure illegal in almost every circumstance.
The state’s “trigger” law banning all abortion was passed in 2019 and took effect last year when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. It bans all abortions except when they’re carried out to save the life of the patient. It does not include exceptions for cases of rape or incest or severe fetal anomalies.
The state also has a six-week “heartbeat” law in effect, which bans abortion after detection of fetal cardiac activity. The six-week ban also contains no exceptions for rape or incest, only for saving the life of the pregnant patient. The lawsuit comes less than a year after the state Supreme Court dismissed another challenge to the bans. The court in a narrow ruling in February said the state’s two abortion clinics did not have standing to challenge the ban on behalf of their patients.
But the ruling didn’t address any larger issues of constitutionality and left open the possibility that patients could challenge the laws directly.
The lawsuit is only possible because Kentuckians rejected an anti-abortion ballot measure last year that would have amended the state constitution to exclude the right to abortion.
Pregnant Kentucky woman sues over state’s two abortion bans
A pregnant woman in Kentucky filed a lawsuit Friday demanding the right to an abortion, challenging the state’s six-week ban, as well as its near-total “trigger” ban. The lawsuit was filed in stat…
thehill.com