Check out Lawyer Neal Katyal discuss all the losses that Trump has had. He has been covering them daily…He’s a MSNBC contributor and had clerked for SCOTUS, and argued in front of it.
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Budget and Congress signing a CARES ACT bill - now spilt potentially in two bills
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is expected on Monday to release two economic relief proposals instead of one, a calculated shift in strategy that they hope will break a political logjam and lead to a deal.
The first bill to be released by the bipartisan group is a $748 billion package that includes new unemployment benefits, small business aid, and other programs that received broad bipartisan support. The second bill is a roughly $160 billion package that would include liability protection for businesses and state and local aid. This measure proved much more divisive for negotiators, and the liability shield has been broadly opposed by most Democrats.
Negotiators are hoping by advancing both of these measures they will draw Democratic and Republican leaders into the negotiations to speed the process along and ultimately lead to a final package.
The two bills show how far the bipartisan group of negotiators took the process but also the limits of their effort, as they weren’t able to solve some of the most complex problems. Still, they didn’t let disagreements topple the entire push. Bringing their bills to congressional leaders could kick off a new round of higher stakes negotiating. Optimism about a deal getting hammered out to provide some emergency economic relief has risen on Capitol Hill
Coronavirus stimulus updates: Bipartisan relief bill will be released - Cares Act
Bipartisan group to release Covid relief bill as Congress faces pressure to send help
Published Mon, Dec 14 202010:33 AM ESTUpdated Mon, Dec 14 20203:43 PM EST
Key Points
- Congress aims to approve another coronavirus relief package and a government funding bill this week as millions are set to lose financial benefits during the pandemic.
- A bipartisan group plans to release its $908 billion aid legislation Monday, but lingering disagreements over state and local government aid, liability protections and direct payments could make reaching a deal a challenge.
- The measure would also put $6 billion into vaccine distribution.
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Wow.
This re-tweet from Trump has so much to unpack, from putting the Chinese flag on Georgia Gov. Kemp and SoS Raffensperger and stating they’re going to jail to declaring he’s “a genuinely good man who doesn’t really like to fire people.”
In other words, not one true thing.
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Ok…Mitch finally speaks to recognize Biden/Harris win.
Breaking with President Trump’s drive to overturn his election loss, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader and the most powerful Republican in Congress, said on Tuesday that the Electoral College’s vote had removed any doubt that Joseph R. Biden Jr. would be the next president.
“Many of us hoped that the presidential election would yield a different result, but our system of government has processes to determine who will be sworn in on Jan. 20,” Mr. McConnell said in a speech on the Senate floor, after weeks of declining to recognize Mr. Biden’s win. “The Electoral College has spoken. So today, I want to congratulate President-elect Joe Biden.”
He also congratulated Senator Kamala Harris of California, referring to her as the vice president-elect.
“Beyond our differences, all Americans can take pride that our nation has a female vice president-elect for the very first time,” Mr. McConnell said.
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Buttigieg will be the Transportation Secretary and Cabinet member which will give him some good visibility, and closer to the power. Good call.
President-elect Joe Biden will nominate Pete Buttigieg to be his transportation secretary, sources familiar with the matter tell CNN, elevating the former South Bend, Indiana, mayor and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate to a top post in the federal government.
Buttigieg would be the first Senate-confirmed LGBTQ Cabinet secretary should his nomination make it through the chamber.
The choice – which represents the first time the President-elect has called on one of his former Democratic presidential opponents to join his administration as a Cabinet secretary – vaults a candidate Biden spoke glowingly of after the primary into a top job in his incoming administration and could earn Buttigieg what many Democrats believe is needed experience should he run for president again.
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Basically, cowardly McConnell still needs Trump in Georgia so he’s hoping he can acknowledge Biden and not tick off Donnie.
He don’t know the petulant pustule pretending to be president very well, do he?
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Democracy Won Because Donald Trump Couldn’t Break the Judiciary—Including His Own Appointees
Republicans have tried like crazy to rig the judiciary, but thank God it’s still independent enough that even Trump’s own judicial appointees stopped him cold.
Donald Trump was never about “America First.” In reality, he was always about “Trump First.” And Trump believed that the people he “hired” should subscribe to that philosophy—including the 229 federal judges and three U.S. Supreme Court justices he hand-picked.
Clearly, Trump viewed judges as owing loyalty to whoever appointed them, slamming some adverse court decisions in the past as coming from “Obama judges.” With that mindset, Trump declared in September that he wanted to fill the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s vacant seat as soon as possible on the nation’s top court because he believed the 2020 election “would end up in the Supreme Court.” Add to that, once Team Trump began filing its election lawsuits, Trump was on Fox Business in late November pleading for judges to be “brave”—aka, be loyal to Trump.
But like a scene out of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar , these Brutuses (in Trump’s eyes) judges really “et tu’d” Trump in his hour of need. The eight Trump-appointed judges who considered Trump and his allies’ post-election lawsuits all—with zero exceptions—ruled against Trump. Simply put, these “Trump judges” choose the U.S. Constitution over loyalty to wannabe emperor Trump—including his most recent high-profile pick to the Supreme Court, Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
Sadly I can’t post more than this, it’s behind a paywall.
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Trump has reportedly been convinced he actually won, tells advisers he may not vacate the White House
Gee, what could he have to hide that would make Trump so desperate to shield this guy?
Trump is reportedly considering a pardon for the Trump Organization’s chief financial officer
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