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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 2 years

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The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a bill to codify the right to same-sex and interracial marriage in the wake of the Supreme Court's reversal of Roe v. Wade -- with one Justice writing that the right to same-sex marriage should also be reversed.

The final vote was 267-157, with 47 Republicans joining every Democrat in the majority. The chamber erupted in applause as the final tally came in.

Notable among those conservatives was Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming -- in a break from her past stance on the issue, which publicly put her at odds with her parents and sister, who is gay. In 2021, Cheney reversed her opinion and said, "I was wrong." (By contrast, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, of California, voted no on the legislation Tuesday.)

Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., kicked off debate on the bill -- The Respect For Marriage Act -- which would prevent state discrimination related to marriage based on "sex, race, ethnicity, or national origin." It would also repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, which was found to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

The legislation, Nadler said, "would reaffirm that marriage equality is and must remain the law of the land."

"Congress should provide additional reassurance that marriage equality is a matter of settled law. All married people building their lives together must know that the government must respect and recognize their marriage for all-time," Nadler continued.

Concern among some lawmakers and advocates about the legal fate of same-sex marriage mounted after Justice Clarence Thomas' concurrence in the Supreme Court's ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson, which reversed Roe last month. In his separate opinion from the majority, Thomas wrote that the court should next revisit its opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges, from 2015, which guaranteed nationwide same-sex marriage.

While the Court's majority took pains to note its decision to overturn Roe should not be seen as an indication of future rulings, Thomas' separate opinion caused alarm among same-sex marriage supporters.

House Democrats have set votes on multiple bills to codify rights that were not spelled out in the Constitution but which were granted -- at least for a period of time, in Roe's case -- by Supreme Court rulings.

"The Supreme Court's extremist and precedent-ignoring decision in Dobbs v. Jackson has shown us why it is critical to ensure that federal law protects those whose constitutional rights might be threatened by Republican-controlled state legislatures," House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said in a statement on Monday.

Following Nadler's introduction of the marriage bill Tuesday, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, called the proposal an attempt to "intimidate" the Supreme Court and said the threat to same-sex marriage was a "manufactured crisis" -- accusing Democrats of using the the legislation as a political tool.

"Democrats can't run on their disastrous record, they can't run on any accomplishments less than four months before an election," Jordan said.

Both he and Texas Republican Rep. Mike Johnson said there was no need for the bill.

Nadler pushed back on the notion that Obergefell was solidified and that the bill was unnecessary. "If that decision is not overturned, this bill is unnecessary but harmless. If that decision is overturned, this bill is crucial -- and we don't know what this court is going to do," he said.

House Republican Minority Whip Steve Scalise said at a press conference Tuesday morning that Republicans would be free to make their own decision on the bill -- reflecting, in part, how the politics around the issue have shifted for the GOP in the seven years since Obergefell. Polling shows Americans have become increasingly supportive of same-sex marriage.

"Every member obviously is going to have to make their own vote on that," Scalise said.

In a show of Republican backing for the bill, New York Rep. Nicole Malliotakis indicated her support shortly before debate began.

"Today, I will vote to codify same-sex marriage to ensure our fellow Americans continue to have the right to equal marriage and benefits under federal law," Malliotakis said in a statement after expressing regret for a previous vote against the legalization of same-sex marriage in New York when she served in the state Assembly.

After being passed by the House, the bill moves to a split Senate where Republican support is possible, too, if fragmented. It's unclear if and when the upper chamber will take it up, given other business and a looming recess.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has promised "to look at everything that we can do to deal with these issues," but he has not committed to taking up this bill before the Senate leaves for August.

"I've made clear my support for gay marriage years ago. I will look at what the House is doing and see what that might mean here on the Senate side," Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska said Tuesday morning. She also listed the Supreme Court's pro-abortion access rulings and its ruling guaranteeing contraception for married couples as rights she would like to see codified. (Democratic leaders in the House said this week they will also vote on a bill codifying contraception access.)

Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., criticized Democrats' framing of the same-sex marriage proposal but stopped short of saying how he would vote on it.

"It's obviously settled law right now. This is a pure messaging bill by a party that has failed on substantive issues -- be it inflation, crime or the [southern] border and now are looking for cultural issues in order to somehow do better in November," he said.

Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., said the marriage bill would likely draw a "mixed bag" of Republican votes.

The proposal was introduced Monday by a bipartisan group including Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine.

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dontmean2bepoliticalbut · 2 years

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#us politics #2022 #rep. liz cheney #wy #wyoming #quotes #these white people are dangerous #white supremacy #fuck white supremacists #white supermacists #fuck white supremacy #anti semitic #anti semitism #white nationalist #white nationalism #republicans #conservatives #gop #abc news

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enubus · 2 years

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#In a pathetic bid to reclaim her congressional seat #Republican Rep. Liz Cheney is mailing instructions to Wyoming Democrats on how to vote for her in the state’s upcoming Aug. 16 primary.#As reported by The New York Times #“In the last week #Wyoming Democrats have received mail from Ms. Cheney’s campaign with specific instructions on how to change their party affiliation to vote #Also included in the Cheney campaign literature are directions on how Democrats can obtain an absentee ballot #as well as the specific start and end dates for when voters can acquire and return said ballots.#“Voted absentee ballots must be received in the county clerk’s office by 7 p.m. on election night in order to be counted #” the campaign mailer says. “Ballots received after this deadline will not be counted.”

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reportwire · 2 years

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Rep. Madison Cawthorn's Childish Taunt At Rep. Liz Cheney Comes Back To Haunt Him

Rep. Madison Cawthorn’s Childish Taunt At Rep. Liz Cheney Comes Back To Haunt Him

People on Twitter are using Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.)’s own words against him. Cawthorn, who has been involved in various controversies ― including insider trading and sexual harassment allegations ― lost a re-election campaign to conservative challenger Chuck Edwards in the GOP primary for the 11th Congressional District Tuesday. Now, Twitter users are making sure his parting message to one…

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#Cawthorns #Cheney #Childish #Haunt #Liz #madison #Rep #Taunt

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pennsyltuckyheathen · 2 months

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Cheney recirculates Stefanik Jan. 6 statement after she reportedly deletes it | The Hill

Stefanik has fully completed her transition to Trump sycophant and bootlicker. The last traces of her integrity, character and morality have been cast aside. Abusing the trust of her constituents and using her elected office for which she swore an oath to the United States of America to knowingly and intentionally deceive Americans for the benefit of TraitorTrump and herself.

#Stefanik #TraitorTrump #CorruptMAGA #MAGATraitors #TrumpInsurrection

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 2 years

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Near the end of the Jan. 6 Committee’s final meeting before the midterm elections, the panel took an historic, unanimous vote on Thursday to subpoena former President Donald Trump, demanding he testify about his failed plot to stay in power after losing the 2020 election.

The subpoena marks the first time a congressional panel has directly targeted the nation’s ex-Commander-in-Chief, and it underscores how high the stakes are in the ongoing investigation of the Jan. 6 insurrection.

“He led an effort to upend American democracy that directly resulted in the violence of January 6th. He tried to take away the voice of American people. He is the one person at the center of the story of what happened… we want to hear from him,” said Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MS).

“This is a question of accountability to the American people. He is required to answer for his actions, he is required to answer for those police officers who put their lives and bodies on the line,” he added, noting that this was as “serious and extraordinary action.”

Neither Trump’s office nor his top lawyers on these matters responded to a request for comment on Thursday.

Should Trump ignore the subpoena, he faces the same threat of a criminal prosecution for “contempt of Congress” that led to a federal conviction against another MAGA ally: former senior White House adviser Stephen Bannon.

However, consequences for witnesses refusing to testify have been applied unequally. For example, even though Congress held former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in contempt, the Department of Justice appears uninterested in actually pursuing charges over the House vote. Trump ignoring a subpoena could result in charges, but it also could result in nothing.

For months, the Committee has publicly presented evidence that Trump engaged in frivolous lawsuits to overturn the election, intimidated state officials to erase Joe Biden’s lead in the 2020 election, ignored evidence that he lost fairly, and knew his loyal mob in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021 was armed and seething when he sent them to march on the Capitol building where they attacked Congress. But throughout the panel’s nine public hearings, one voice has been conspicuously silent: Trump himself.

The closest the panel has come was when it played outtakes from Trump’s video addresses during and after the attack on the Capitol, revealing a President who simply refused to concede and still wanted to rile up his enraged followers.

The decision to subpoena the former President—who will likely ignore it—is an aggressive tactic that could go two very different ways. If the president refuses to show up and the full Congress refers the matter to the Department of Justice, prosecutors could refuse to take up the case and embolden resistant witnesses. Otherwise, Trump faces a prosecution similar to the year-long case that will end next week when a federal judge sentences Bannon.

Thursday’s subpoena came from one of the few Republicans who is furthest removed from the party’s loyalty to Trump’s MAGA movement: Co-Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY).

“We must seek the testimony—under oath—of January 6th’s central player,” she said. “At some point the Department of Justice may well unearth facts these witnesses are concealing. But our duty today is to our country, to our children, and to our Constitution. We are obligated to seek answers directly from the man who set these events in motion.”

#us politics #news #donald trump #house select committee #capitol riot #capitol riot investigation #2022 #rep. liz cheney #rep. bennie thompson #mark meadows #steve bannon #subpoenas #Congressional subpoena #contempt of congress #2020 election #the daily beast

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justinspoliticalcorner · 2 days

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Nick Visser at HuffPost:

Former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney (Wyo.) urged the Supreme Court to reject former President Donald Trump’s claims of absolute immunity from prosecution when it hears arguments on the matter Thursday, saying his efforts to delay and dodge standing trial risk breaking American institutions of law and order.

Cheney, who served on the House select committee investigating the origins of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, wrote an op-ed published in The New York Times on Sunday. In the piece, she said the Supreme Court should quickly rule against Trump’s efforts to see the federal indictment for his role in the insurrection tossed out. The former president has argued he should be immune from prosecution for anything he did while in office, a broad interpretation that would also imperil the cases against him in Georgia and Florida. “As a criminal defendant, Mr. Trump has long had access to federal grand jury material relating to his Jan. 6 indictment and to all the testimony obtained by our select committee,” Cheney wrote in the op-ed. “He knows what all these witnesses have said under oath and understands the risks he faces at trial.” “That’s why he is doing everything possible to try to delay his Jan. 6 federal criminal trial until after the November election,” she added. The lawmaker stressed the work of the Jan. 6 House select committee, which released in 2022 a scathing report of Trump’s behavior, relied on testimony from dozens of Republicans who worked in the White House.

Former Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-WY) wrote a scathing op-ed in the New York Times urging SCOTUS to reject Donald Trump's delay tactics in the presidential immunity case Trump v. United States.

#Liz Cheney #OpEds #Opinion #The New York Times #Donald Trump #Total Immunity #Trump Indictment III #House Select Committee on the Capitol Insurrection #Trump v. United States

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2bpoliticallycurious · 10 months

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Republicans celebrate their successful deception of voters

“The idea that I’m biased against conservatives seems somewhat insane to me, given my own personal background.”

--Christopher Wray, FBI Director

"Good for [FBI Director Christopher Wray]. But here’s what’s especially insane, absurd and ludicrous: No matter how many refutations Wray and others provide, Republicans are persuading people to believe their lies — and they are proud of the deception."

--Dana Milbank, opinion columnist for The Washington Post

Dana Milbank knocks it out of the ballpark in describing how House Republicans are convincing many people that the FBI is targeting "conservatives," despite refutations by people like lifelong Republican FBI Director Christopher Wray. This is an important summary of all the conspiracy theories that the GOP flung at Wray during their "inquisition" of him. Consequently, the above link is a gift link 🎁so you can read the entire column, even if you do not subscribe to The Washington Post.

After looking at the Wray interrogation, Milbank also discusses the GOP clown show that was a hearing of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.

In addition, Milbank goes on to talk about how Gal Luft, the "star 'whistleblower' behind the allegations of corruption against President Biden and his family, was indicted on a charge of acting as an illegal arms broker and an unregistered agent for China."

Finally, Milbank talks about all the conspiratorially based amendments the GOP have added to the National Defense Authorization Act.

Below are some excerpts from his column:

An honest man visited the House of lies this week. He did not like what he found there. “Insane.” “Absurd.” “Ludicrous.” Those are the actual words FBI Director Christopher Wray used to describe House Republicans’ crackpot conspiracy theories. “The American people fully understand,” Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-Wyo.) informed Wray at Wednesday’s hearing before the House Judiciary Committee, “… that you have personally worked to weaponize the FBI against conservatives.” Right. Hageman, the election denier who ousted Liz Cheney in a primary, would have you believe that Wray — senior political appointee in the George W. Bush Justice Department, clerk to a noted conservative judge, contributor to the Federalist Society, Donald Trump-appointed head of the FBI — is part of a conspiracy to persecute conservatives. “The idea that I’m biased against conservatives seems somewhat insane to me, given my own personal background,” he replied. [...] Good for him. But here’s what’s especially insane, absurd and ludicrous: No matter how many refutations Wray and others provide, Republicans are persuading people to believe their lies — and they are proud of the deception. Johnson, the leadoff questioner at Wednesday’s hearing, told Wray about a recent NBC News poll, in which “only 37 percent of registered voters now view the FBI positively,” down from 52 percent in 2018. “That’s a serious decline in the people’s faith, and it’s on your watch,” he told Wray.

#gop house committees #fbi conspiracies #pandemic conspriacies #christopher wray #republicans #national defense authorization act #dana milbank #the washington post #gift link

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simply-ivanka · 3 months

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A bombshell new report alleges that just days before the GOP took over the House majority in 2022, over 100 encrypted files relating to the January 6th Capitol riot probe were mysteriously deleted.

In a new interview with Fox News, the chairman of the House Administration Committee's Oversight Subcommittee, Rep. Barry Loudermilk of Georgia, described the revelation as bringing the investigation into a 'new phase.'

Loudermilk alleges that a forensics team found that 117 files had been either deleted or encrypted on January 1, 2023, shortly before the Republicans took over the investigation that had previously been led by Rep. Bennie Thompson and Rep. Liz Cheney.

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