#rep. adam schiff

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy served further notice Sunday that his potential speakership will be politically volatile, saying he will try to keep three high-profile Democrats off of certain committees.

Democrats said McCarthy will do whatever his right wing wants him to do because he still lacks the votes to land the speaker's job.

In stumping for the position, McCarthy has targeted Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; and Reps. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., members of the House Intelligence Committee.

McCarthy and other Republicans have for months said these members' past statements and actions regarding issues like Israel, China and Russia should keep them off these committees.

"I'll keep that promise" to remove them, McCarthy told Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures."

Schiff and other Democrats said McCarthy is trying to court support from hard-right conservatives like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. – who was expelled from committees during a 2021 vote of the full House because of her incendiary statements about Democrats.

"I suspect he will do whatever Marjorie Taylor Greene wants him to do," Schiff said on ABC's "This Week." "He is a very weak leader of his conference, meaning that he will adhere to the wishes of the lowest common denominator. And if that lowest common denominator wants to remove people from committees, that’s what they’ll do."

McCarthy is favored to become Speaker of the House when Republicans take over the chamber next year – but it is not yet a done deal.

Conservative Republicans like Reps. Andy Biggs of Arizona and Matt Gaetz of Florida said they will oppose McCarthy. Every vote counts because the GOP majority will likely be no more than 10 seats.

"He does seem to be struggling" to get to the 218 votes necessary to win the speakership, said Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., who is expected to be Democratic leader in the next Congress.

"Let's see what happens on January 3," Jeffries said on CNN's "State of the Union."

Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., who is retiring from Congress and ran afoul of McCarthy over the latter's support of Donald Trump, told CNN the presumed speaker has made a lot of promises to Greene and other hard-right conservatives.

Right-wing Republicans won't be happy if McCarthy has to cut deals with Democrats to get essential business done, Kinzinger said, and he could wind up as their political hostage.

"I, frankly, don't think he's going to last very long," Kinzinger said. "Maybe he will prove me wrong. But it's sad to see a man that I think had so much potential just totally sell himself."

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[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

So much has occurred since Trump’s first impeachment in December 2019 that it is easy to forget the nation’s turmoil at that time. A president had done the unthinkable: he bullied and cajoled an ally to fabricate lies about his political opponent by threatening to withhold military aid Congress had approved. The brutish effort by Trump was equal parts bribery, extortion, and corruption. Nearly every fact needed to prove the crime was recorded on audio. Trump was unfit to continue in office and was a clear and present danger to the Constitution, the rule of law, and our national security.

         But Republicans balked at holding Trump accountable. To conceal the truth and create a smokescreen for acquittal, Senate Republicans irrationally contended that the trial in the Senate was limited to the evidence and witnesses called in the House impeachment proceeding. Republicans did not argue that Trump was innocent of the charges. Instead, they claimed that his conduct did not warrant removal from office and that we should “let the voters decide” if he should be re-elected. Susan Collins argued that Trump “had learned his lesson” and would reform his ways.

         At that fraught, unstable, maddening time in our history, it felt as though the nation was teetering on edge. Into this maelstrom walked Adam Schiff, one of the lead prosecutors in the Senate trial of Trump’s impeachment charges. As lead prosecutor, Adam Schiff spoke for the nation and restored a measure of sanity and reason. He contained the madness of the moment by putting into words the insane and bewildering situation that confronted a troubled country.

         Adam Schiff’s closing argument in the Senate trial will endure as one of the great speeches in our nation’s history. A link to a 3-minute excerpt is here and should be required watching for every American: Schiff: Trump will ‘do it again’ if not removed. Schiff said, in part,

Can we be confident that he will not continue to try to cheat in [this] very election? Can we be confident that Americans and not foreign powers will get to decide, and that the president will shun any further foreign interference in our Democratic affairs. The short, plain, sad, incontestable answer is no, you can’t. You can’t trust this president to do the right thing. Not for one minute, not for one election, not for the sake of our country. You just can’t. He will not change and you know it.

We must say enough — enough! He has betrayed our national security, and he will do so again. He has compromised our elections, and he will do so again. You will not change him. You cannot constrain him. He is who he is. Truth matters little to him. What’s right matters even less, and decency matters not at all.

         Schiff’s words were prophetic. The GOP’s lock-step refusal to convict Trump emboldened him. Eleven months later, Trump began plotting a coup and planning a violent insurrection. If Republicans had heeded Adam Schiff’s eloquent plea, we would have avoided the national tragedy of the January 6th insurrection.

         Because Schiff spoke the truth in such simple, powerful, incontestable terms, Republicans despise him. He is a constant reminder that they had a chance to stop Trump and retreated in fear. Adam Schiff offered to serve as their conscience, the voice of morality and decency in their heads that they ignored to their everlasting shame. And there is more: Schiff is a formidable adversary whose civil demeanor and calm exterior camouflage his tenacity and persistence.

         Because of Schiff’s role in prosecuting Trump and his effectiveness in exposing the depravity of Trump’s enablers, Kevin McCarthy blocked Adam Schiff from the House Select Committee on Intelligence. Schiff’s exclusion from the committee is a blow to our national security.

         The move was vindictive, venal, and petty. McCarthy promised MAGA extremists that he would block Schiff’s membership on the Intelligence Committee to garner support for McCarthy’s ego-driven quest to become Speaker. And it comes at the same time that McCarthy is placing Marjorie Taylor Greene on the committee that oversees Homeland Security. Greene has famously promoted the QAnon conspiracy theory of a Satan-worshipping, pedophile, blood-drinking cabal that runs the world. She also claims that “Jewish space lasers” funded by George Soros were responsible for massive forest fires in California in 2020. McCarthy has also appointed the “human fraud” George Santos to two committees even though Santos has admitted to pervasive lies on his resume and is credibly accused of campaign finance fraud.

         If McCarthy believes he can stop Adam Schiff from speaking the truth, he is sorely mistaken. But McCarthy’s vindictive behavior relating to a committee that has been above partisan politics for decades has rattled the moderates in the GOP caucus. See Newsweek, GOP Rep. Blasts ‘Corrosive’ Kevin McCarthy Kicking Democrats Off Committees. (GOP Rep. Don Bacon from Nebraska has said Kevin McCarthy’s decision to remove Democrats from some House committees was “corrosive.")

         If speaking unpleasant truths is grounds for exclusion from House committees, then supporting an insurrection surpasses that bar by orders of magnitude. When Democrats next control the House, it should exclude from committees every member who abetted Trump in his attempted coup.

[Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter]

#Rep. Adam Schiff #Robert B. Hubbel Newsletter #Robert B. Hubbell #impeachment #US House of Representatives #Corrupt GOP #MAGA GOP

[gwydionmisha]

#Donald Trump #Republicans #Rep. Adam Schiff #Joe Biden #Mike Johnson #Impeachment #News

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U.S. House Censures Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA)

#U.S. House Censures Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA)

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[bighermie]

MUST SEE: TGP Reporter Confronts Serial Liar Adam Schiff on Russiagate Lies and Persecution of President Trump for Speaking Out Against Rigged Elections | The Gateway Pundit | by Jordan Conradson

[mojave-pete]

Couldn't happen to a better low life scum bag douche!

[thetrekkiehasthephonebox]

The bill requires that a full list of copyrighted works in an AI model’s training data set be filed with the Copyright Office no later than 30 days before the model becomes available to consumers. This would also be required when the training data set for an existing model is altered in a significant manner. Financial penalties for non-compliance would be determined on a case-by-case basis by the Copyright Office, based on factors like the company’s history of noncompliance and the company’s size.

Get regulated assholes.

#some idiot going viral on tumblr: there's just nothing we can do without giving disney ultimate power #adam schiff: actually here is step 1 to regulate it

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

The House on Wednesday effectively killed a resolution to censure Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), voting for a Democratic-led motion to table the measure.

The chamber voted 225-196-7 to table the resolution. Twenty Republicans voted with Democrats to table the measure, while seven lawmakers — five Democrats, two Republicans — voted present.

“I think it says that Trump and his MAGA supporters view me as a threat,” Schiff said shortly after the resolution was tabled. “There’s a reason they signaled me out — they think I was effective in holding them accountable. And they won’t stop me.”

“And I think frankly this [is] deeply counterproductive to that goal but that’s their aim, to go after anybody that stands up to them, to try to make an example out of them. But it’s not gonna deter me for a moment,” he added.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) introduced the censure measure in May but brought it to the floor as a privileged resolution on Tuesday, forcing the House to take action on the legislation. Democratic leadership motioned to table the measure, which requires a simple majority vote.

The effort by House Republicans to censure Schiff is the latest iteration of the conference’s longtime crusade against the California Democrat, who became a bogeyman to the right after spearheading efforts against former President Trump while he was in the White House.

Schiff, as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, led the first impeachment inquiry into Trump, which ended with the House impeaching him for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Schiff was also at the forefront of Democratic accusations that Trump colluded with Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign.

In January, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) blocked Schiff and Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) from serving on the Intelligence panel, following through on a promise he made before securing the Speaker’s gavel. He said the decision was made “in order to maintain a standard worthy of this committee’s responsibilities.”

And in May, Luna filed a resolution to expel Schiff, who is running for Senate, from the House.

As Schiff was speaking to reporters in the Capitol following the vote, Luna walked by and announced that she is planning to file another resolution to censure the California Democrat next week.

“I’ll be filing to censure you next week,” she said. “And we’ll get the votes for that.”

Asked about the interaction, Schiff said “this is what it takes to ratify Donald Trump.”

Luna’s censure resolution, which spans four pages, calls for censuring and condemning Schiff “for conduct that misleads the American people in a way that is not befitting an elected Member of the House of Representatives.” It would also direct the Ethics Committee to conduct an investigation into Schiff’s “lies, misrepresentations, and abuses of sensitive information.”

Luna, a staunch Trump ally, brought the measure to the floor as a privileged resolution the same day the former president pleaded not guilty to 37 counts brought against him by the Department of Justice as part of the investigation into his handling of classified documents. Prosecutors allege that Trump willfully retained classified records and then obstructed efforts by authorities to collect them.

In a letter to Democratic colleagues on Tuesday, Schiff argued that Luna was forcing a vote on the censure resolution — which he called “false and defamatory” — to distract from Trump’s legal woes. He said it would discipline him for his work “holding Donald Trump accountable.”

“This partisan resolution to censure and fine me $16 million is only the latest attempt to gratify the former President’s MAGA allies, and distract from Donald Trump’s legal troubles by retaliating against me for my role in exposing his abuses of power, and leading the first impeachment against him,” he wrote.

“The intent of this resolution goes far beyond me and my role leading investigations of Donald Trump, and his first impeachment — an effort I would undertake again, and in a heartbeat, if it were necessary,” he later added. “This resolution plainly demonstrates the lengths our GOP colleagues will go to protect Donald Trump’s infinite lies – lies that incited a violent attack on this very building.”

Schiff also asserted that the censure resolution was “a clear attack on our constitutional system of checks and balances.”

“Once again, our GOP colleagues are using the leverage and resources of the House majority to rewrite history and promulgate far-right conspiracy theories — all to protect and serve Donald Trump,” he wrote.

In comments following the vote, Schiff said spending time on the floor to vote on the censure resolution was an abuse of the chamber’s resources, and argued that it was a reflection of the lack of control McCarthy has over the chamber.

“But to use the House floor time this way is such an abuse of the resources of the House,” Schiff said, “and it shows how little control McCarthy has over the place that this even came to the floor.”

The resolution, which has 10 GOP cosponsors, zeroes in on Schiff’s previous comments about collusion between Trump and Russia. It cites the report from special counsel John Durham, released last month, that offered a scathing assessment of how the FBI launched and conducted an investigation into Trump’s ties to Moscow, concluding that authorities did not have sufficient information to begin the case.

It argues that Schiff “abused” the trust he was afforded as chair and ranking member of the Intelligence Committee.

“By repeatedly telling these falsehoods, Representative Shiff purposely deceived his Committee, Congress, and the American people,” the resolution reads.

The measure also includes a non-binding “whereas” clause that says if the Ethics Committee finds that Schiff “lied, made misrepresentations, and abused sensitive information” that he should be fined $16 million. Luna said that dollar figure is half the amount of money that American taxpayers paid to fund the investigation into potential collusion between Trump and Russia.

The Justice Department in August 2019 said the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller cost $32 million.

Luna’s call for financial action was a point of concern for Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who signaled ahead of the vote that he would support a motion to table the resolution. He argued that the fine would violate the Constitution.

“Adam Schiff acted unethically but if a resolution to fine him $16 million comes to the floor I will vote to table it. (vote against it)” Massie wrote on Twitter.

“The Constitution says the House may make its own rules but we can’t violate other (later) provisions of the Constitution. A $16 million fine is a violation of the 27th and 8th amendments,” he wrote in a subsequent tweet.

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[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Adam Schiff: Even the Constitution cannot protect us if the people sworn to uphold it do not give meaning to their oath of office, if that oath is not informed by ideas of right and wrong, and if people are unwilling to accept the basic truth of things. None of it will be enough. But if we allow ourselves to be guided by facts — not factions — and if we choose our representatives based on their allegiance to the law and to the Constitution, then we should have every confidence that our proud legacy of self-government will go on. It is our hope that this report will make a small contribution to that effort. Our country has never before faced the kind of threat we documented. May it never again.

#trump #donald j #Rep. Adam Schiff #USConstitution #NYTimes #right and wrong #ethics

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[1americanconservative]

[gusty-wind]

Poll: GOP's Steve Garvey Leads Adam Schiff in Calif. Senate Race

Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Steve Garvey took the lead in a primary poll of the Golden State, surpassing both California Democrat Reps. Adam Schiff and Katie Porter. newsmax.com/newsfront/steve-ga

#the great awakening #war is real

[bighermie]