McConnell Is Confirming More Judges, Prompting a Democrat Meltdown
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has moved forward to confirm a number of federal judges this week and praised President Trump for their nominations.
“While our committees are working, the full Senate is keeping busy with one of our core constitutional responsibilities: continuing to confirm well-qualified men and women to lifetime appointments to the federal judiciary," McConnell said from the Senate floor Tuesday. "Yesterday, we voted to advance the nomination of Kristi Haskins Johnson, the current Solicitor General of Mississippi with multiple impressive clerkships under her belt, to serve as a District Judge for the Southern District of Mississippi. She’ll make history as the first woman to join the bench in that district."
“This is just the first of several nominations we’ll consider this week. We’ll also vote today on Benjamin Beaton, a Kentuckian who has been nominated to be a District Judge for the Western District of Kentucky," he continued. “Mr. Beaton received a first-rate education from Kentucky’s Centre College and then Columbia Law School, where he edited the law review. He clerked on the D.C. Circuit and on the Supreme Court for the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg."
McConnell's agenda and focus on judges prompted a meltdown from Democrat Senator Sherrod Brown.
Yesterday President Trump sent two additional nominations to the Senate for confirmation, including a replacement for Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals:
Joseph L. Barloon, of Maryland, to be a Judge of the United States Court of International Trade, vice Leo Maury Gordon, retired.
Thomas L. Kirsch II, of Indiana, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Seventh Circuit, vice Amy Coney Barrett, elevated.
Georgia recount ‘error’ nearly gave Biden 9600 extra votes, as more uncounted Trump ballots discovered
Three previously uncounted batches of votes have now been discovered in Georgia, narrowing Joe Biden’s lead over Donald Trump by more than 1400.
The three caches of votes in Floyd, Fayette and Walton Counties, turned up during the state’s recount, heavily favoured the President, although they are still not enough to overcome his deficit of more than 12,000.
Meanwhile, Georgia Republican Party Chairman David Shafer said a 9626 vote error had been picked up during the hand recount in DeKalb County.
“One batch was labelled 10,707 for Biden and 13 for Trump – an improbable margin even by DeKalb standards,” Mr Shafer said on Twitter.
“The actual count for the batch was 1081 for Biden and 13 for Trump. Had this counting error not been discovered, Biden would have gained enough votes from this one batch alone to cancel out Trump’s gains from Fayette, Floyd and Walton.”
In a sworn affidavit, the Republican observer described how he only picked up the error by observing the numbers written on the sheets attached to the boxes of ballots.
DeKalb County chief executive Michael Thurmond said in a statement he had launched a preliminary investigation into the accuracy of Mr Shafer’s “unsubstantiated tweet”, and that elections officials “have not verified the allegation”.
“Based on Chairman Shafer’s Twitter storm, the alleged ‘vote error’ was discovered, reported to DeKalb elections officials and corrected prior to the transmission of the official audit report to the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office,” he said.
“If the scenario occurred as Chairman Shafer alleges, this is evidence that the checks and balances, established by Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to ensure the accuracy of the election results, performed as designed.”
Mr Shafer replied, “The affidavit that we submitted identifies the batch of ballots by scanner and box number. What does it mean when DeKalb County says it cannot ‘verify’ our account of the error? Is the paperwork missing? Are the ballots gone? Where have they looked? Who have they interviewed?”
Separately, lawyer L. Lin Wood has filed a number of affidavits in his lawsuit against the Georgia Secretary of State, as he seeks an emergency order blocking the certification of the results.
Nine of the witnesses to the recount process claimed to have seen suspiciously pristine mail-in ballots, almost all for Mr Biden, with voting bubbles perfectly filled in – as though they had been printed or machine stamped.
“I observed that the markings for the candidates on these ballots were unusually uniform, perhaps even with a ballot marking device,” poll worker Susan Voyles said in one statement.
“By my estimate in observing these ballots, approximately 98 per cent constituted votes for Joe Biden.”
Republicans have touted the ongoing developments in Georgia as evidence that Mr Trump still has a chance.
Earlier this week the head of Arizona’s Republican Party has insisted “the election is far from over”, while the President hailed a “big victory” in Nevada.
“Do not lose heart,” Arizona Republican Party chairwoman Dr Kelli Ward said in a video message on Monday.
“Do not allow the negativity and the fake news to bring you down. Arizona is in this fight 100 per cent. We are out to make sure that our elections in our state have integrity.”
Mr Biden currently leads Mr Trump by 10,377 votes – just 0.3 percentage points – in Arizona, which has not voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since Bill Clinton in 1996.
It’s one of a number of key battleground states where the Trump campaign and Republicans have alleged widespread voter fraud, and are attempting to overturn the results through a combination of legal challenges and requests for recounts and audits.
Unlike many other states, Arizona does not allow recount requests and its threshold for automatic recounts are much stricter, requiring the vote difference to be less than 0.1 per cent.
In the video, Dr Ward referred to a viral 2017 tweet from Arizona’s Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs – responsible for overseeing elections – who described Mr Trump’s base as neo-Nazis.
“That doesn’t speak to being unbiased to me. Does it to you?” she said.
“I think it’s something that we have to be very, very cognisant of. We’re going into the canvassing phase of this election. That means we’re assuring that the votes cast are cast as the voter intended and counted appropriately. We have questions that have to be answered.”
Dr Ward said she was working “hand-in-hand” with the Trump campaign and his legal team, including Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, “to make sure that the elections in Arizona have integrity”.
“So stay strong, stay firm, understand that this election is far from over,” she said.
“We do not have a president-elect at this time. States have not certified elections, and that’s what makes a president-elect – not the media, not the pundits, not the talking heads, not the fake news.”
On Tuesday, Mr Giuliani made his first appearance in court for the Trump campaign’s Pennsylvania lawsuit, where he alleged “widespread national voter fraud”.
At the same time, the state’s Democratic-majority Supreme Court knocked back a separate case which alleged poll watchers were illegally prevented from observing the counting process.
The Arizona Republican Party filed a lawsuit last week demanding a hand recount of votes by individual precinct rather than “voting centres”, which were introduced by the state’s most populous county, Maricopa County, for the 2020 election.
A hearing in that case is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon.
That came as a separate lawsuit requesting reinspection of ballots with “over votes”, which occurs when the voter marks more candidates than is allowed, was tossed out by a judge.
Meanwhile, three Arizona Republican Congressmen, Andy Biggs, Paul Gosar and David Schweikert, have called for a “100 per cent audit” of all ballots in Maricopa County.
In a letter to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors on Friday, the trio said “hundreds” of residents had signed affidavits alleging their ballots “may have been discounted”.
“While the election margins may not be narrow enough to trigger a recount, you are permitted to conduct a 100 per cent manual audit,” they wrote.
They cited the narrow margin between the two candidates, “together with questions regarding anomalies and potential errors”, as “more than enough” justification to commence an audit of the ballot images.
“Although Arizona conducts elections with far more transparency and accountability than other states, there have been some issues raised about the integrity of some of our election systems within the state,” Mr Biggs said in a statement on Monday.
“For this reason, I am calling on the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors to go above and beyond to assure the public of the integrity of Maricopa County’s elections. Let’s leave no stone unturned in the pursuit of accountability and transparency.”
In a video released this week, which also raised questions about Dominion Voting Systems, Mr Biggs described the election as “a joke”.
On Monday, Mr Trump hailed a “big victory” in Clark County, Nevada – which takes in Las Vegas – after election officials threw out the results of a county commissioner race due to voting “discrepancies”.
“Big victory moments ago in the state of Nevada,” the President tweeted.
“The all Democrat County Commissioner race, on same ballot as President, just thrown out because of large scale voter discrepancy. Clark County officials do not have confidence in their own election security. Major impact!”
The Clark County Commission cited the narrow 10-vote margin between Democrat Ross Miller and Republican Stavros Anthony, as well as a number of discrepancies including six people who voted twice, as justification for a possible re-run of the single local election.
“We have found discrepancies that we can’t explain that would cast a doubt on whether or not that margin of victory is solid,” Registrar of Voters Joe Gloria told commissioners.
“That’s the only race in the entire election we have any concern related to the outcome. And it’s because of the margin.”
They certified the presidential election results, where Mr Biden beat Mr Trump by 33,596 votes.
Still, Mr Trump’s allies have seized on the news.
Former Nevada Attorney-General Adam Laxalt said the election represented 153,000 votes, or one sixth of the county’s total.
Former Acting Director of National Intelligence Ric Grenell, who is working with Mr Laxalt on the Trump campaign’s legal challenges in Nevada, said “you have to suspend common sense to believe fraud only happened on one race of a long ballot”.
“They didn’t have faith in their election – there were too many discrepancies,” he tweeted. “They threw out 150,000 ballots over 10 cases? Absurd.”
The Democratic candidate was declared the presumptive winner of the 2020 election after edging ahead of Mr Trump in key battleground states including Pennsylvania and Georgia in the days after the election, as batches of absentee ballots continued to be counted.
Mr Trump has so far refused to concede, claiming the election was “rigged” and vowing to exhaust his legal avenues.
Time is running out for the President, with the electoral college due to meet in each state on December 14 and formally vote on the winner.
Pennsylvania Governor Mandates Mask-Wearing in Your Own Home
With another COVID-19 wave on the horizon, several states are restricting the number of guests you can have over for Thanksgiving.
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf, however, is adding several new measures, including testing and quarantining for people coming into the state (with some exceptions) and requiring the wearing of masks in your own home if you have company over.
Pennsylvania already has a statewide mask mandate and other social distancing guidelines. But these new mandates are in response to a spike in cases despite their existing coronavirus-fighting efforts.
It’s a good time to move to Florida.
Here’s Something You Can Lock Down
What is this weird, unseemly delight these same people who have totally failed to date regarding the virus have in trying to tell us what to do? Oh right, they are power hungry creeps who we should laugh at and ignore. Also, the time of the purging is coming!
Viral Load
The fact that they have been allowed to get away with their idiotic dictates for so long has only encouraged them in trying to grab more power. They approach the idea of telling us what to do and how to live with the same icky glee that Jeffrey Toobin experiences looking forward to a Zoom call. They like this. This is fun for them. They are experiencing the giddy thrill of unchallenged power and it’s time we challenged it.
Oh no, Kurt, you’re denying science and you don’t care if a zillion people die and blah blah blah.
Um, we’ve been doing what these pint-sized Mussolinis wanted for nearly a year and guess what? The virus is still here and it’s spreading.
Now, if you go back to the beginning of this pandemic, the doctors were saying things that made sense, to wit, that it’s a pandemic. Almost everyone is going to get it eventually and the idea is to keep everyone from getting it all at once. And weird – everyone is getting it. But somewhere along the way the alleged goal changed to keeping people from getting it perpetually. Not just at-risk folks but everyone, and that’s never been doable.
Here’s the sad fact – you’re probably going to get it if the vaccine does not come out soon. That’s just a fact. So why are we compounding this problem by destroying businesses and kid’s lives and generally wrecking everything?
Sure, the notion that the Establishment is conspiring to do it in order to weaken us and prep us for further tyranny is certainly intriguing, but these clowns aren’t competent enough to pull that off. Yes, they like the idea of disrupting families by banning holidays, but the idea of some sort of ideological scheme is much less likely than the simplest explanation, that they just get off on bossing people around.
How about we choose? How about we assess our own risks?
I have people I know who are very vulnerable to the virus. They need to protect themselves, and that means that I can’t hang around them sometimes. Others, well, they can roll the dice. Life is about balancing risk, not about eliminating it. If my forefathers had refused to take risks then they would have stuck around Stuttgart and now I’d be one of those tiresome Germans who eat schnitzel and refuse to pay their fair share of NATO. No one wants that.
I am not saying ignore the virus and pretend it doesn’t exist. I know firsthand that it does. But I am saying that society cannot come to a halt every few months because people are going to get sick. People are going to get sick, people.
We’ve been following their advice for nearly a year and people are still getting sick. So, now we are going to fix things by…continuing to do the same things that got us here?
I’m tired of the lies. I’m tired of the dictator vibe. I’m tired of it all and I refuse to be a part of it.
So Done With The Sissies
Right on time, here come the weak-sister RINOs congratulating Biden on the election he has not won yet. Why? Why do they do this? Because they want to keep “credibility” with people who hate them.
Elections get litigated. This one is being litigated. Trump will win or he will lose. That’s the reality. But the bizarro world of the left is one where Trump and his pal Putin “hacked” the 2016 election and he was not a legitimate president and blah blah blah – there’s a lots of blahs in this week’s column, huh?e – and the goal is to somehow establish an official narrative.
And these simps keep falling for it.
How hard is it to say the true and actually principled thing, which is “There’s a process and when it’s done we’ll know who won?” If these people were actually principled, instead of faux-principled, that would be their answer. But they aren’t. They want to suck up to people who hate them. The people who hate them will still hate them, though, and now so will we.
Basically, they abandoned their vaunted principles for a handful of magic beans. Smart!
We’ve been culling the lame and treacherous for a while, and there are more to cull. Cheer up – the wheels will grind finely and soon we will be rid of even more of them. The fact is that the softcons have no home. We don’t want them (except the ones who must be soft to survive, like Susan Collins) and the Democrats don’t want them. Their time is running out. And it’s all their own fault.
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2020/11/18/heres-something-you-can-lockdown-n2580197
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