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Georgia, Illinois, Oregon -- LAST DAY to register to vote! (2.20.18)
Georgia
Various counties will be having special elections on March 20th. If you are in one of these counties, today is your last day to register to vote in this election.
Counties: Carroll, Dekalb, Walton, Clayton, Henry, Dawson, Chatham, Cherokee
Register to vote : Find your polling location
Oregon
Various counties will be having special elections on March 13th. If you are in one of these counties, today is your last day to register to vote in this election
Counties: Multnomah, Washington, Benton, Clackamas, Yamhill, Pinellas
Register to vote : Find your polling location
**Illinois is under the cut because they have a lot going on this election**
Illinois
On March 20h, Illinois will be having their primary elections. If you intend to vote in this primary, today is your last day left to register.
Offices Up for Election
Governor and Lieutenant Governor
Republican
Bruce Rauner
Jeanne Ives
Democrats
Daniel Biss & Litesa Wallace
Bob Daiber & Jonathan Todd
Tio Hardiman & Patricia Avery
Chris Kennedy & Ra Joy
Robert Marshall & Dennis Cole
JB Pritzker & Juliana Stratton
Attorney General
Republican
Gary Grasso
Erika Harold
Democrats
Scott Drury
Sharon Fairley
Aaron Goldstein
Renato Mariotti
Kwame Raoul
Nancy Rotering
Jesse Ruiz
Pat Quinn
Secretary of State
Republican: Jason Helland
Democrat: Jesse White
US House of Representatives
District 1
Republican: Jimmy Lee Tillman, II
Democrats
Bobby Rush
Howard Brookins, Jr.
District 2
Republicans
Patrick Harmon
David Merkle
John Morrow
Democrats
Marcus Lewis
Robin Kelly
District 3
Republican: Arthur Jones (LITERALLY A NAZI)
Democrats
Marie Newman
Daniel Lipinski
District 4
Republicans
Mark Wayne Lorch
Ann Melicher
Jay Reyes
Ruben Sanchez, Jr.
Democrats
Sol Flores
Jesus Garcia
Richard Gonzalez
Raymon Lopez
Joe Moreno
District 5
Republican: Tom Hanson
Democrats
Mike Quigley
Sameena Mustafa
Steve Schwartzberg
Benjamin Thomas Wolf
District 6
Republican: Peter Roskam
Democrats
Becky Anderson
Sean Casten
Carole Cheney
Amanda Howland
Ryan Huffman
Kelly Mazeski
Jennifer Zordani
District 7
Republicans
Craig Cameron
Jeffrey Leef
Democrats
Danny K. Davis
Ahmed Salim
Anthony Clark
District 8
Republicans
Jitendra Diganvker
Vandada Jhingan
Democrat: Raja Krishnamoorhi
District 9
Republicans
John Elleson
Max Rice
Sargis Sangari
D. Vincent Thomas Jr.
Democrat: Janice Schakowsky
District 10
Republicans
Doug Bennett
Sapan Shah
Jeremy Wynes
Democrat: Brad Schneider
District 11
Republicans
Nick Stella
Connor Vlakancic
Democrat: Bill Foster
District 12
Republicans
Mike Bost
Preston Nelson
Democrats
David Bequette
Charles Koen
Brendan Kelly
District 13
Republican: Rodney Davis
Democrats
Johnathan Ebel
David Gill
Erik Jones
Betsy Londrigan
Angel Sides
District 14
Republican: Randy Hultgren
Democrats
Matt Brolley
John Hosta
Daniel Roldan-Johnson
Victor Swanson
Lauren Underwood
Jim Walz
George Weber
District 15
Republican: John Shimkus
Democrats
Kevin Gaither
Carl Spoerer
District 16
Republicans
Adam Kinzinger
Jaye Circus Time
Jim Marter
Democrats
Amy Murri Briel
Sara Dady
Neill Mohammad
Beth Vercolio-Osmund
District 17
Republican: Bill Fawell
Democrat: Cheri Bustos
District 18
Republicans
Darin LaHood
Fuck Boy Rients
Democrats
Brian Deters
Junius Rodriguez
Darrel Miller
Register to vote : Find your polling location : Find your federal congressional district
**Updated 1/20/2018
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When President Donald Trump fired the powerful U.S. attorney in Manhattan over the weekend who had been leading investigations into some of his associates, it was the latest incident highlighting the president’s seeming willingness to subvert the traditional independence of the Justice Department when it serves his own interests.
Even for an Administration that is fluent in high-profile ousters, the circumstances of Geoffrey Berman’s dismissal were dramatic: Attorney General William Barr tried to fire him Friday night, but Berman refused to step down, forcing Trump to fire him the following day. The result of Berman’s removal is just as stark. The man who led the Southern District of New York’s (SDNY) investigations into two of Trump’s personal lawyers, as well as other probes that had rankled the President, has been removed from his position against his will. The move has raised acute concerns given both the nature of Berman’s work at SDNY and Trump’s own history of statements and actions eroding the independence of the DOJ — or at the very least, the appearance of it.
“How we view Berman’s removal should be informed by Trump’s history, which involves firing (or attempting to fire) multiple DOJ and FBI officials in order to influence investigations of himself and his associates,” says Renato Mariotti, a former federal prosecutor now at Thompson Coburn. “Even if Trump lacked that history, and if Barr’s announcement were less bizarre, I would nonetheless be concerned if the head of a U.S. Attorney’s office was removed by a president when the office was investigating the president’s personal lawyer and inaugural committee. But the present circumstances raise much more serious concerns.”
The White House said Berman was removed because the Administration wanted to give the position to Jay Clayton, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said at a June 22 press briefing that Clayton had expressed interest in returning to New York City, and that the White House wanted to “keep him in government.” It is unlikely, however, that Clayton will be confirmed by the Senate given the opposition by both New York senators, and deputy U.S. attorney Audrey Strauss has been named acting head in the meantime.
When asked by TIME at Monday’s briefing if Berman was fired because he oversaw investigations into Trump’s close associates, including Michael Cohen and Rudy Giuliani, McEnany said, “No, he was not,” and added: “This will not disrupt the cases being handled by the district, which will proceed as normal.”
Read More: Fearing Internal Dissent Ahead of the Election, Trump Expands His War on Washington
Berman had been U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York since 2018. Over the course of his two years on the job, he oversaw multiple investigations into members of Trump’s inner circle. He led the prosecution of Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen for Cohen’s role in arranging hush money payments on behalf of Trump to adult-film star Stormy Daniels. Cohen pleaded guilty to crimes including campaign finance violations and making false financial statements, and he implicated Trump in the scheme under oath. (Trump denies having an affair with Daniels and denies any wrongdoing associated with the payments.)
Berman’s office has also been looking into the business dealings of Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, and issued a grand jury indictment last year against Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, two of Giuliani’s associates, for their alleged use of a shell company to make an illegal donation to a super PAC supporting Trump’s reelection.
Separately, SDNY has reportedly been investigating possible financial impropriety in Trump’s inaugural committee, which may be one of a number of investigations that Robert Mueller spun off from his special counsel investigation. The inauguration probe likely “goes very far and wide,” says Jed Shugerman, professor at Fordham University School of Law, “and many of us have been wondering what has been going on for the last 15 months since Mueller wound his investigation down.”
The key question in Berman’s firing, Shugerman says, is “Why now?” He predicts the Southern District is getting ready to hand down indictments— in the inaugural committee investigation or others— before the usual time frame to make a splashy indictment this year would close, so as not to interfere with the presidential election. “It would be stunning to me if the Southern District… had not made enough progress on any of the number of scandals,” Shugerman says, for the office not to be pushing “to make an indictment now within the June-July window.”
Whether or not Berman’s office is nearing a new phase in any investigations into Trump’s associates, Berman has angered Trump with other work that Trump promised to quash in order to curry favor with foreign leaders, according to a new book by Trump’s former national security advisor John Bolton. Berman oversaw an investigation into Turkish bank Halkbank, a probe Bolton claims Trump promised Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan would be “fixed.” According to Bolton’s book, during a side meeting at a summit in Buenos Aires late in 2018, Erdoğan gave Trump a memo from the law firm that represented Halkbank that claimed the bank was innocent. Trump flipped through it, then said he believed Halkbank was “totally innocent”.
“Trump then told Erdoğan he would take care of things, explaining that the southern district prosecutors were not his people, but were Obama people, a problem that would be fixed when they were replaced by his people,” Bolton writes.
Given all of the concerns over Berman’s firing, Congress has vowed to take action, and House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler, a Democrat from New York, has said he will investigate the matter. “Neither the President nor the Department of Justice have offered any explanation for Mr. Berman’s purported dismissal,” Nadler said in a statement. “We know that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York is engaged in investigations aimed at President Trump’s inner circle.” Nadler said he will hear from two whistleblowers this week about Berman’s firing and hopes to secure Berman’s testimony as well. “I’m sure he will testify,” Nadler said on CNN on Sunday.
Jonathan Turley, professor at The George Washington University Law School, notes that in Barr’s confirmation hearing, in which Turley testified on his behalf, Barr said he would not allow any move seeking to influence an investigation. “That is the hill to die on for an Attorney General,” Turley, who also testified against Trump’s impeachment in the House last year, says. “The measure is whether Barr was acting to undermine the investigations.”
While Turley says he hasn’t seen evidence of that intent in Berman’s case, he acknowledges there are real questions raised by the firing given the prosecutor’s body of work over the past two years, and he “entirely supports” a congressional investigation.
“There are legitimate concerns,” Turley says, that “should be addressed.”
—With reporting by John Walcott and Brian Bennett/Washington
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Facebook sued by Russian firm linked to woman charged by U.S.
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Facebook sued by Russian firm linked to woman charged by U.S.
(Reuters) – A Russian company whose accountant was charged by federal prosecutors for attempting to meddle in U.S. elections sued Facebook Inc (FB.O) on Tuesday, claiming it is a legitimate news outlet and its Facebook account should be restored.
FILE PHOTO: A 3D printed Facebook logo is seen in front of a displayed Russian flag in this photo illustration taken on August 3, 2018. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
The Federal Agency of News LLC, known as FAN, and its sole shareholder, Evgeniy Zubarev, filed the lawsuit in federal court in the Northern District of California, seeking damages and an injunction to prevent Facebook from blocking its account.
Facebook deleted FAN’s account in April as it purged pages linked to the St. Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency, which was indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller earlier this year for flooding social media with false information in a bid to sow discord in the run-up to the 2016 U.S. election.
Facebook did not respond to a request for comment. Peter Carr, a spokesman for Mueller, declined to comment.
FAN and Zubarev said they were improperly swept up in Facebook’s purge, which took down more than 270 Russian language accounts and pages, according to the complaint.
“FAN is an independent, authentic and legitimate news agency which publishes reports that are relevant and of interest to the general public,” the company said in the lawsuit.
The lawsuit argued that Facebook had effectively acted as an arm of the government in improperly impinging on its right to free speech, and cited the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in claiming Facebook discriminated against it due to its Russian origins.
Renato Mariotti, a former federal prosecutor, described those arguments as weak and predicted the plaintiffs would have a hard time gaining any traction in the courts.
“It’s safe to say this lawsuit is not going to be very successful,” he said. “At first glance it seems like a PR stunt to me.”
FAN acknowledged previously sharing the same office building as the Internet Research Agency and said it has employed Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova, the Russian woman charged by prosecutors last month for attempting to meddle in the 2018 congressional elections, as its chief accountant since August 2016.
But the plaintiffs said Khusyaynova’s role at the company has been limited to overseeing day-to-day bookkeeping, and that she was not an officer and had no discretion over editorial content.
The plaintiffs also said they were not involved in “Project Lakhta,”, a Kremlin-backed information warfare campaign U.S. prosecutors say was started in 2014 and financed by Evgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin, an oligarch close to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Prigozhin, known as “Putin’s chef” due to his catering company and its ties to the Kremlin, was indicted in February along with the Internet Research Agency, which he controls.
Khusyaynova was the chief accountant for Project Lakhta, according to the charging documents in her case, which is being prosecuted by assistant U.S. attorneys in the Justice Department’s Eastern District of Virginia.
A spokesman for the district did not respond to a request for comment.
Mueller is not handling Khusyaynova’s case because his focus is on the 2016 presidential election and the charges against her relate to the 2018 midterm elections.
Reporting by Nathan Layne and Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Richard Chang
Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
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Facebook sued by Russian firm linked to woman charged by U.S.
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Facebook sued by Russian firm linked to woman charged by U.S.
(Reuters) – A Russian company whose accountant was charged by federal prosecutors for attempting to meddle in U.S. elections sued Facebook Inc (FB.O) on Tuesday, claiming it is a legitimate news outlet and its Facebook account should be restored.
FILE PHOTO: A 3D printed Facebook logo is seen in front of a displayed Russian flag in this photo illustration taken on August 3, 2018. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
The Federal Agency of News LLC, known as FAN, and its sole shareholder, Evgeniy Zubarev, filed the lawsuit in federal court in the Northern District of California, seeking damages and an injunction to prevent Facebook from blocking its account.
Facebook deleted FAN’s account in April as it purged pages linked to the St. Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency, which was indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller earlier this year for flooding social media with false information in a bid to sow discord in the run-up to the 2016 U.S. election.
Facebook did not respond to a request for comment. Peter Carr, a spokesman for Mueller, declined to comment.
FAN and Zubarev said they were improperly swept up in Facebook’s purge, which took down more than 270 Russian language accounts and pages, according to the complaint.
“FAN is an independent, authentic and legitimate news agency which publishes reports that are relevant and of interest to the general public,” the company said in the lawsuit.
The lawsuit argued that Facebook had effectively acted as an arm of the government in improperly impinging on its right to free speech, and cited the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in claiming Facebook discriminated against it due to its Russian origins.
Renato Mariotti, a former federal prosecutor, described those arguments as weak and predicted the plaintiffs would have a hard time gaining any traction in the courts.
“It’s safe to say this lawsuit is not going to be very successful,” he said. “At first glance it seems like a PR stunt to me.”
FAN acknowledged previously sharing the same office building as the Internet Research Agency and said it has employed Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova, the Russian woman charged by prosecutors last month for attempting to meddle in the 2018 congressional elections, as its chief accountant since August 2016.
But the plaintiffs said Khusyaynova’s role at the company has been limited to overseeing day-to-day bookkeeping, and that she was not an officer and had no discretion over editorial content.
The plaintiffs also said they were not involved in “Project Lakhta,”, a Kremlin-backed information warfare campaign U.S. prosecutors say was started in 2014 and financed by Evgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin, an oligarch close to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Prigozhin, known as “Putin’s chef” due to his catering company and its ties to the Kremlin, was indicted in February along with the Internet Research Agency, which he controls.
Khusyaynova was the chief accountant for Project Lakhta, according to the charging documents in her case, which is being prosecuted by assistant U.S. attorneys in the Justice Department’s Eastern District of Virginia.
A spokesman for the district did not respond to a request for comment.
Mueller is not handling Khusyaynova’s case because his focus is on the 2016 presidential election and the charges against her relate to the 2018 midterm elections.
Reporting by Nathan Layne and Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Richard Chang
Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
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Facebook sued by Russian firm linked to woman charged by U.S.
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Facebook sued by Russian firm linked to woman charged by U.S.
(Reuters) – A Russian company whose accountant was charged by federal prosecutors for attempting to meddle in U.S. elections sued Facebook Inc (FB.O) on Tuesday, claiming it is a legitimate news outlet and its Facebook account should be restored.
FILE PHOTO: A 3D printed Facebook logo is seen in front of a displayed Russian flag in this photo illustration taken on August 3, 2018. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
The Federal Agency of News LLC, known as FAN, and its sole shareholder, Evgeniy Zubarev, filed the lawsuit in federal court in the Northern District of California, seeking damages and an injunction to prevent Facebook from blocking its account.
Facebook deleted FAN’s account in April as it purged pages linked to the St. Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency, which was indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller earlier this year for flooding social media with false information in a bid to sow discord in the run-up to the 2016 U.S. election.
Facebook did not respond to a request for comment. Peter Carr, a spokesman for Mueller, declined to comment.
FAN and Zubarev said they were improperly swept up in Facebook’s purge, which took down more than 270 Russian language accounts and pages, according to the complaint.
“FAN is an independent, authentic and legitimate news agency which publishes reports that are relevant and of interest to the general public,” the company said in the lawsuit.
The lawsuit argued that Facebook had effectively acted as an arm of the government in improperly impinging on its right to free speech, and cited the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in claiming Facebook discriminated against it due to its Russian origins.
Renato Mariotti, a former federal prosecutor, described those arguments as weak and predicted the plaintiffs would have a hard time gaining any traction in the courts.
“It’s safe to say this lawsuit is not going to be very successful,” he said. “At first glance it seems like a PR stunt to me.”
FAN acknowledged previously sharing the same office building as the Internet Research Agency and said it has employed Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova, the Russian woman charged by prosecutors last month for attempting to meddle in the 2018 congressional elections, as its chief accountant since August 2016.
But the plaintiffs said Khusyaynova’s role at the company has been limited to overseeing day-to-day bookkeeping, and that she was not an officer and had no discretion over editorial content.
The plaintiffs also said they were not involved in “Project Lakhta,”, a Kremlin-backed information warfare campaign U.S. prosecutors say was started in 2014 and financed by Evgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin, an oligarch close to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Prigozhin, known as “Putin’s chef” due to his catering company and its ties to the Kremlin, was indicted in February along with the Internet Research Agency, which he controls.
Khusyaynova was the chief accountant for Project Lakhta, according to the charging documents in her case, which is being prosecuted by assistant U.S. attorneys in the Justice Department’s Eastern District of Virginia.
A spokesman for the district did not respond to a request for comment.
Mueller is not handling Khusyaynova’s case because his focus is on the 2016 presidential election and the charges against her relate to the 2018 midterm elections.
Reporting by Nathan Layne and Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Richard Chang
Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
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Facebook sued by Russian firm linked to woman charged by U.S.
New Post has been published on http://thefaerytale.com/facebook-sued-by-russian-firm-linked-to-woman-charged-by-u-s/
Facebook sued by Russian firm linked to woman charged by U.S.
(Reuters) – A Russian company whose accountant was charged by federal prosecutors for attempting to meddle in U.S. elections sued Facebook Inc (FB.O) on Tuesday, claiming it is a legitimate news outlet and its Facebook account should be restored.
FILE PHOTO: A 3D printed Facebook logo is seen in front of a displayed Russian flag in this photo illustration taken on August 3, 2018. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
The Federal Agency of News LLC, known as FAN, and its sole shareholder, Evgeniy Zubarev, filed the lawsuit in federal court in the Northern District of California, seeking damages and an injunction to prevent Facebook from blocking its account.
Facebook deleted FAN’s account in April as it purged pages linked to the St. Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency, which was indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller earlier this year for flooding social media with false information in a bid to sow discord in the run-up to the 2016 U.S. election.
Facebook did not respond to a request for comment. Peter Carr, a spokesman for Mueller, declined to comment.
FAN and Zubarev said they were improperly swept up in Facebook’s purge, which took down more than 270 Russian language accounts and pages, according to the complaint.
“FAN is an independent, authentic and legitimate news agency which publishes reports that are relevant and of interest to the general public,” the company said in the lawsuit.
The lawsuit argued that Facebook had effectively acted as an arm of the government in improperly impinging on its right to free speech, and cited the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in claiming Facebook discriminated against it due to its Russian origins.
Renato Mariotti, a former federal prosecutor, described those arguments as weak and predicted the plaintiffs would have a hard time gaining any traction in the courts.
“It’s safe to say this lawsuit is not going to be very successful,” he said. “At first glance it seems like a PR stunt to me.”
FAN acknowledged previously sharing the same office building as the Internet Research Agency and said it has employed Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova, the Russian woman charged by prosecutors last month for attempting to meddle in the 2018 congressional elections, as its chief accountant since August 2016.
But the plaintiffs said Khusyaynova’s role at the company has been limited to overseeing day-to-day bookkeeping, and that she was not an officer and had no discretion over editorial content.
The plaintiffs also said they were not involved in “Project Lakhta,”, a Kremlin-backed information warfare campaign U.S. prosecutors say was started in 2014 and financed by Evgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin, an oligarch close to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Prigozhin, known as “Putin’s chef” due to his catering company and its ties to the Kremlin, was indicted in February along with the Internet Research Agency, which he controls.
Khusyaynova was the chief accountant for Project Lakhta, according to the charging documents in her case, which is being prosecuted by assistant U.S. attorneys in the Justice Department’s Eastern District of Virginia.
A spokesman for the district did not respond to a request for comment.
Mueller is not handling Khusyaynova’s case because his focus is on the 2016 presidential election and the charges against her relate to the 2018 midterm elections.
Reporting by Nathan Layne and Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Richard Chang
Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
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President Donald Trump is doubling down on his call to end birthright citizenship by executive order, embracing a fringe interpretation of the 14th Amendment backed by people who oppose granting universal citizenship to children born in the United States.
Trump caused consternation on Tuesday when he declared in an interview with Axios reporter Jonathan Swan for an upcoming HBO special that he planned to end birthright citizenship for children born in the United States to unauthorized immigrant parents. He falsely claimed that the US is the only country to grant citizenship to everyone born here. (More than 30 do.)
The president, who just days ahead of the 2018 midterms is stoking divisions on immigration in an effort to fire up the Republican Party’s base, on Wednesday reiterated his executive order idea on Twitter. He claimed that birthright citizenship costs the United States “billions of dollars and is very unfair to our citizens” and that it would be ended “one way or the other.”
So-called Birthright Citizenship, which costs our Country billions of dollars and is very unfair to our citizens, will be ended one way or the other. It is not covered by the 14th Amendment because of the words “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” Many legal scholars agree…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 31, 2018
Trump claimed the matter is not covered by the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution because of the words “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” His claim appears to be that unauthorized immigrants’ children aren’t “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States. Opponents of birthright citizenship endorse this interpretation (Vox’s Dara Lind has a full explainer on the 14th Amendment and birthright citizenship.)
The president’s plan to scrap birthright citizenship via executive order has sparked a lot of debate, namely about whether or not he can actually do it. House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) on Tuesday rebutted the idea, saying that changing birthright citizenship would “involve a very, very lengthy constitutional process.”
Most people assume that the 14th Amendment’s text applies to everyone born in the US, regardless of where their parents were born. But the Supreme Court has never ruled on whether that applies to children of unauthorized immigrants.
Per Lind:
Trump and the critics of universal birthright citizenship are correct that the Supreme Court has never explicitly held, as a matter of law, that children of unauthorized immigrants born in the United States are citizens. (It has assumed that they are; in the 1985 case INS v. Rios-Pineda, in which the parent of two US-born children challenged his deportation order, the Court referred to the children as US citizens by birth. But because the Court didn’t make a formal legal finding in this regard, the statement was just dicta, or rhetoric.)
That doesn’t mean the executive branch has the power to unilaterally clarify what the Supreme Court meant. In practice, Trump signing an executive order redefining birthright citizenship would be a way to bring the issue to the attention of the Supreme Court — doing what he wants, and daring a conservative court with two Trump-appointed justices to stop him.
It’s unclear whether there’s an actual timetable for Trump’s executive order, or if one even exists. Trump has also been touting a non-existent tax plan ahead of the midterms, and he’s been talking a lot about immigration in an effort to fire up voters. He’s been stoking fears about a migrant caravan from Central America for weeks and is now sending 5,000 troops to the border to keep the migrants out, even though they’re still hundreds of miles away.
Trump’s plan, if there is one, appears to be to get the matter to the Supreme Court, which he indicated in a second tweet on Wednesday.
….Harry Reid was right in 1993, before he and the Democrats went insane and started with the Open Borders (which brings massive Crime) “stuff.” Don’t forget the nasty term Anchor Babies. I will keep our Country safe. This case will be settled by the United States Supreme Court!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 31, 2018
It’s not clear how such a challenge could play out. “Perhaps he is banking on the Supreme Court to change its interpretation of the 14th Amendment to permit him to circumvent it via executive order,” Renato Mariotti, a former federal prosecutor, told Vox’s Sean Illing, “but that is very unlikely given its clear language.”
Trump does not appear to believe so.
Original Source -> Trump wants the Supreme Court to take up birthright citizenship
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Friday submitted a list of 35 potential witnesses for the trial of President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort due to begin next week in Virginia, including bankers and accountants likely to testify regarding charges of bank and tax fraud.
Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort arrives for arraignment on a third superseding indictment against him by Special Counsel Robert Mueller on charges of witness tampering, at U.S. District Court in Washington, U.S., June 15, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
The list, disclosed in a court filing, included Manafort’s longtime business associate Richard Gates, who was indicted in October at the same time as Manafort, pleaded guilty in February and has been cooperating in Mueller’s probe.
Also on the list was Tad Devine, a consultant who worked with Manafort in Ukraine and served as chief strategist for 2016 Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders. Devine’s firm said in a statement he was serving as a fact witness and had been assured he did not have legal exposure.
Manafort has pleaded not guilty to 18 counts of bank and tax fraud and failure to file reports of foreign bank accounts. The charges largely pre-date the five months when Manafort worked on Trump’s campaign in 2016.
A large number of the witnesses are executives at banks that lent Manafort money, the accounting firm that did his taxes and others involved in financial dealings who could be asked to corroborate documentary evidence showing the alleged bank and tax fraud at the heart of the case.
“The case will be proven by paper and those people who have a transactional relationship to the paper,” said Michael Zeldin, a former federal prosecutor. “All those people to say essentially that Manafort knew what he was doing.”
The trial had been scheduled to start this past Wednesday in the Washington suburb of Alexandria, but U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III delayed it until next Tuesday and directed Mueller to provide a witness list to Manafort’s lawyers.
The list also included people at businesses where Manafort spent money such as the director of ticket operations at the New York Yankees baseball team, the head of a landscaping firm and an executive at a Mercedes-Benz dealership.
Renato Mariotti, a former federal prosecutor who is now a defense lawyer, said prosecutors likely want to show Manafort’s “luxurious lifestyle,” with the aim of making him less likeable to jurors.
Five of the witnesses, all financial professionals, were identified previously when they were granted immunity to testify.
None of the charges relate to possible coordination with Russian officials by Trump’s campaign, an important element of Mueller’s investigation into Moscow’s interference in the election. Russia denies election interference. Trump denies collusion.
Manafort faces a second criminal trial in Washington in September on related charges, including witness tampering, in connection with lobbying work he performed for the pro-Russia Ukrainian government.
Reporting by Eric Beech in Washington and Nathan Layne in New York; Editing by Will Dunham
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Georgia, Illinois, Oregon -- One week left to register to vote! (2.13.18)
Georgia
Various counties will be having special elections on March 20th. If you are in one of these counties, you have one week left to register to vote in this election.
Counties: Carroll, Dekalb, Walton, Clayton, Henry, Dawson, Chatham, Cherokee
Register to vote : Find your polling location
Oregon
Various counties will be having special elections on March 13th. If you are in one of these counties, you have one week left to register to vote in this election
Counties: Multnomah, Washington, Benton, Clackamas, Yamhill, Pinellas
Register to vote : Find your polling location
**Illinois is under the cut because they have a lot going on this election**
Illinois
On March 20h, Illinois will be having their primary elections. If you intend to vote in this primary, you have one week left to register.
Offices Up for Election
Governor and Lieutenant Governor
Republican
Bruce Rauner
Jeanne Ives
Democrats
Daniel Biss & Litesa Wallace
Bob Daiber & Jonathan Todd
Tio Hardiman & Patricia Avery
Chris Kennedy & Ra Joy
Robert Marshall & Dennis Cole
JB Pritzker & Juliana Stratton
Attorney General
Republican
Gary Grasso
Erika Harold
Democrats
Scott Drury
Sharon Fairley
Aaron Goldstein
Renato Mariotti
Kwame Raoul
Nancy Rotering
Jesse Ruiz
Pat Quinn
Secretary of State
Republican: Jason Helland
Democrat: Jesse White
US House of Representatives
District 1
Republican: Jimmy Lee Tillman, II
Democrats
Bobby Rush
Howard Brookins, Jr.
District 2
Republicans
Patrick Harmon
David Merkle
John Morrow
Democrats
Marcus Lewis
Robin Kelly
District 3
Republican: Arthur Jones (LITERALLY A NAZI)
Democrats
Marie Newman
Daniel Lipinski
District 4
Republicans
Mark Wayne Lorch
Ann Melicher
Jay Reyes
Ruben Sanchez, Jr.
Democrats
Sol Flores
Jesus Garcia
Richard Gonzalez
Raymon Lopez
Joe Moreno
District 5
Republican: Tom Hanson
Democrats
Mike Quigley
Sameena Mustafa
Steve Schwartzberg
Benjamin Thomas Wolf
District 6
Republican: Peter Roskam
Democrats
Becky Anderson
Sean Casten
Carole Cheney
Amanda Howland
Ryan Huffman
Kelly Mazeski
Jennifer Zordani
District 7
Republicans
Craig Cameron
Jeffrey Leef
Democrats
Danny K. Davis
Ahmed Salim
Anthony Clark
District 8
Republicans
Jitendra Diganvker
Vandada Jhingan
Democrat: Raja Krishnamoorhi
District 9
Republicans
John Elleson
Max Rice
Sargis Sangari
D. Vincent Thomas Jr.
Democrat: Janice Schakowsky
District 10
Republicans
Doug Bennett
Sapan Shah
Jeremy Wynes
Democrat: Brad Schneider
District 11
Republicans
Nick Stella
Connor Vlakancic
Democrat: Bill Foster
District 12
Republicans
Mike Bost
Preston Nelson
Democrats
David Bequette
Charles Koen
Brendan Kelly
District 13
Republican: Rodney Davis
Democrats
Johnathan Ebel
David Gill
Erik Jones
Betsy Londrigan
Angel Sides
District 14
Republican: Randy Hultgren
Democrats
Matt Brolley
John Hosta
Daniel Roldan-Johnson
Victor Swanson
Lauren Underwood
Jim Walz
George Weber
District 15
Republican: John Shimkus
Democrats
Kevin Gaither
Carl Spoerer
District 16
Republicans
Adam Kinzinger
Jaye Circus Time
Jim Marter
Democrats
Amy Murri Briel
Sara Dady
Neill Mohammad
Beth Vercolio-Osmund
District 17
Republican: Bill Fawell
Democrat: Cheri Bustos
District 18
Republicans
Darin LaHood
Fuck Boy Rients
Democrats
Brian Deters
Junius Rodriguez
Darrel Miller
Register to vote : Find your polling location : Find your federal congressional district
**Updated 1/20/2018
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A key witness in the Russia probe had 'a lengthy conversation' with Trump at Mar a Lago
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A key witness in the Russia probe had 'a lengthy conversation' with Trump at Mar a Lago
Former CIA Director James Woolsey dined with President Donald Trump last weekend at his Palm Beach Mar-a-Lago estate, where a report said they had a “lengthy conversation” at the main dining table surrounded by several of Trump’s friends, associates, and political allies.
A tipster told Politico’s Playbook about the conversation, which raised eyebrows given Woolsey’s centrality to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
Woolsey, who served on the board of Flynn’s lobbying firm Flynn Intel Group, was present at a September 19, 2016, meeting with Flynn and Turkish government ministers, where they discussed removing the controversial Muslim cleric Fetullah Gulen from US soil.
Mueller’s team has interviewed Woolsey about that meeting, according to Woolsey’s spokesman, Jonathan Franks. Franks said Woolsey and his wife have been in touch with the FBI since before Mueller’s office began overseeing the Russia probe in May.
“Ambassador Woolsey and his wife have been in communication with the FBI regarding the September 19, 2016, meeting Ambassador Woolsey was invited to attend by one of Gen. Flynn’s business partners,” he said in a statement. “Ambassador Woolsey and his wife have responded to every request, whether from the FBI, or, more recently, the Office of the Special Counsel.”
Woolsey’s participation in both that meeting with Flynn and Turkish government ministers and another meeting the next day with two Turkish businessmen — during which he reportedly pitched his own $10 million contract to help discredit Gulen — may have landed him on the FBI’s radar even before Trump won the presidential election.
Now, Mueller has reportedly gathered enough evidence against Flynn and his son to charge them with crimes related to their unregistered lobbying work for Turkish government interests.
Legal experts have speculated that Mueller may be leveraging the threat of an indictment against Flynn and his son to get them to cooperate with the broader investigation into whether Trump’s campaign team — for which Flynn was a top surrogate — colluded with Russia, and whether Trump sought to obstruct the Russia probe when he fired former FBI Director James Comey in May.
Flynn was forced to resign as national security adviser in early February when reports surfaced that he had spoken with former Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak about US sanctions on Russia several times during the transition.
Franks did not immediately respond to a request for comment about what Woolsey and Trump discussed over dinner last weekend. But the conversation will likely be of interest to investigators scrutinizing Flynn, to whom Trump has reportedly remained loyal, and examining why Trump asked Comey shortly after Flynn resigned if the FBI would consider dropping the investigation into Flynn.
“Whenever a subject of a criminal investigation talks to a witness, the prosecution will ask questions about what was discussed during that meeting,” said former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti. The subject, in this case, is Trump, he said, while the witness is Woolsey.
Woolsey abruptly resigned from his position as a senior adviser to Trump’s transition team in January, one day before Trump was set to receive a conclusive briefing from US intelligence officials on Russia’s election interference.
The Washington Post reported at the time that Woolsey became uncomfortable after being cut out of intelligence talks between Trump and Flynn, and that he was taken aback by Trump’s reported plans to restructure the CIA.
“The campaign was over, and I didn’t want them to keep saying that I was a senior adviser on the transition because I really wasn’t,” Woolsey told then-Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly in his first post-resignation interview. “I was not really called upon to go to meetings or participate in work on the transition.”
SEE ALSO: Newly obtained flight records shed light on Paul Manafort’s extensive Russia ties
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Facebook sued by Russian firm linked to woman charged by U.S.
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Facebook sued by Russian firm linked to woman charged by U.S.
(Reuters) – A Russian company whose accountant was charged by federal prosecutors for attempting to meddle in U.S. elections sued Facebook Inc (FB.O) on Tuesday, claiming it is a legitimate news outlet and its Facebook account should be restored.
FILE PHOTO: A 3D printed Facebook logo is seen in front of a displayed Russian flag in this photo illustration taken on August 3, 2018. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
The Federal Agency of News LLC, known as FAN, and its sole shareholder, Evgeniy Zubarev, filed the lawsuit in federal court in the Northern District of California, seeking damages and an injunction to prevent Facebook from blocking its account.
Facebook deleted FAN’s account in April as it purged pages linked to the St. Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency, which was indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller earlier this year for flooding social media with false information in a bid to sow discord in the run-up to the 2016 U.S. election.
Facebook did not respond to a request for comment. Peter Carr, a spokesman for Mueller, declined to comment.
FAN and Zubarev said they were improperly swept up in Facebook’s purge, which took down more than 270 Russian language accounts and pages, according to the complaint.
“FAN is an independent, authentic and legitimate news agency which publishes reports that are relevant and of interest to the general public,” the company said in the lawsuit.
The lawsuit argued that Facebook had effectively acted as an arm of the government in improperly impinging on its right to free speech, and cited the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in claiming Facebook discriminated against it due to its Russian origins.
Renato Mariotti, a former federal prosecutor, described those arguments as weak and predicted the plaintiffs would have a hard time gaining any traction in the courts.
“It’s safe to say this lawsuit is not going to be very successful,” he said. “At first glance it seems like a PR stunt to me.”
FAN acknowledged previously sharing the same office building as the Internet Research Agency and said it has employed Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova, the Russian woman charged by prosecutors last month for attempting to meddle in the 2018 congressional elections, as its chief accountant since August 2016.
But the plaintiffs said Khusyaynova’s role at the company has been limited to overseeing day-to-day bookkeeping, and that she was not an officer and had no discretion over editorial content.
The plaintiffs also said they were not involved in “Project Lakhta,”, a Kremlin-backed information warfare campaign U.S. prosecutors say was started in 2014 and financed by Evgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin, an oligarch close to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Prigozhin, known as “Putin’s chef” due to his catering company and its ties to the Kremlin, was indicted in February along with the Internet Research Agency, which he controls.
Khusyaynova was the chief accountant for Project Lakhta, according to the charging documents in her case, which is being prosecuted by assistant U.S. attorneys in the Justice Department’s Eastern District of Virginia.
A spokesman for the district did not respond to a request for comment.
Mueller is not handling Khusyaynova’s case because his focus is on the 2016 presidential election and the charges against her relate to the 2018 midterm elections.
Reporting by Nathan Layne and Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Richard Chang
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