The Donald Trump Score Card

An effect of Trump shaping the Supreme Court. It is assumed the leak is accurate.


Reaction to report on U.S. Supreme Court draft abortion decision

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"(Reuters) - A leaked initial draft majority opinion suggests the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide, Politico reported on Monday.

The unprecedented leak stunned Washington. It holds the potential to reshape the political landscape ahead of U.S. midterm elections in November."

 

Exclusive: Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows

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"The Supreme Court has voted to strike down the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, according to an initial draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito circulated inside the court and obtained by POLITICO.

The draft opinion is a full-throated, unflinching repudiation of the 1973 decision which guaranteed federal constitutional protections of abortion rights and a subsequent 1992 decision – Planned Parenthood v. Casey – that largely maintained the right. “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Alito writes.

“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” he writes in the document, labeled as the “Opinion of the Court.” “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”"

 

Georgia DA to investigate Trump's fake electoral certificate.


Georgia DA to Look Into Phony Electoral College Certificates by Trump Backers

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"A Georgia district attorney probing Donald Trump’s attempts to steal the 2020 presidential election says she is also looking into fake Electoral College certificates submitted by Trump supporters. In comments to CNN late Monday, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said the phony certificates are “of interest” in the investigation. “We’re going to look at anything connected with interference with the 2020 election,” she said, noting that the investigation has a “broad scope” and will include “fake electorates.” Federal prosecutors are also looking into the bogus documents, which were sent to the National Archives by Trump backers proclaiming his victory in seven states that he actually lost. The documents, which had no bearing on the outcome of the election, were created in Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada, and New Mexico, according to American Oversight."

 

Trump Settles Suit Over Payments to Hotel for 2017 Inauguration

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"WASHINGTON — The Trump family business and President Donald J. Trump’s 2017 inauguration committee have jointly agreed to pay $750,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the attorney general for the District of Columbia, who claimed that the Trump International Hotel in Washington illegally received excessive payments from the inauguration committee.

The settlement in the civil suit came with no admission of wrongdoing by the Trump Organization, the former president or the inaugural committee.

But the payment amounted to nearly three-quarters of the $1.03 million that the lawsuit, filed by Attorney General Karl Racine of Washington, said had been paid to Mr. Trump’s hotel by the nonprofit inaugural committee to rent out space at what Mr. Racine asserted was an above-market rate and then use it in part to host a private reception for Mr. Trump’s children on the evening he was sworn in as president.

The settlement also came just days before the Trump family was slated to formally close on the sale of the Trump International Hotel, which will be converted to a Waldorf Astoria after Mr. Trump’s name is stripped from the landmark building on Pennsylvania Avenue, a few blocks from the White House."

 

Trump Settles Suit Over Payments to Hotel for 2017 Inauguration

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"Negotiations to settle the suit intensified earlier this year after a Superior Court judge in Washington set a trial date for September and rejected an effort by the Trump Organization to be removed from the lawsuit, making it likely that members of Mr. Trump’s family were going to be called in open court to testify.

“After he was elected, one of the first actions Donald Trump took was illegally using his own inauguration to enrich his family,” Mr. Racine said in a statement announcing the settlement on Tuesday. “Nonprofit funds cannot be used to line the pockets of individuals, no matter how powerful they are.”"

 

It's the usual tactic of Trump. Delay for years until a public trial is about to occur and then settle before trial to avoid being seen explicitly as a loser.

 

https://thehill.com/news/state-watch/3474187-larry-hogan-makes-pitch-for-gop-to-move-on-from-trump/

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“Trump said we would be winning so much that we would get tired of winning. Instead we lost the White House, the Senate, the House, governors, and state legislative bodies,” Hogan will say. “I am tired of our party losing.”

“A party that lost the popular vote in seven out of the last eight presidential elections, and that couldn’t even beat Joe Biden is desperately in need of a course correction,” he will say. “The truth is the last election was not rigged and it wasn’t stolen. We simply didn’t offer the majority of voters what they were looking for.”

 

https://thehill.com/news/state-watch/3474187-larry-hogan-makes-pitch-for-gop-to-move-on-from-trump/

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“I ran 45 points ahead of Trump and I won not only the base Republican votes and conservative voters, just as he did, but I also won suburban women and minorities and young voters, and that’s what the party has to do nationwide if we’re going to be able to be a majority party and win national elections and be able to govern,” Hogan said.

Hogan was a frequent critic of Trump, for whom he never voted.

“Enough of the angry rhetoric and the grievance politics. Enough of the narcissism of small differences,” Hogan will say in his speech Tuesday. “Excuses, lies, and toxic politics will not win elections or restore America.”

 

Bout time you woke up, GOP.

 

Trump will continue with his zero-sum, narcissistic course of dividing the U.S. public with petty culture wars and trying to garner his 51% to barely win.

 

And he forgot “racism”

 

Did you just call the GOP "woke"?

lol

 

This is not just about abortion. Wait and see.

I am curious though if this will drive Democrats to the polls.

 

Not just Democrats but Independents too. Most polls show that some 70-80% of Americans think abortion should be legal, meaning all the Dems and probably all the Independents. Republicans are patting themselves on the ass right now, but I think they just kicked a major hornet's nest. And with only months to go before midterms.......

Recent history shows us the best way to get Dems & Independents to vote is to piss them the F off. Aaaand I think this'll do it lol

 

Roberts confirmed the authenticity of the leak but said it doesn't represent a decision.


Supreme court Chief Justice John Roberts confirms leak of draft abortion ruling and orders investigation – live | Roe v Wade | The Guardian

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"In what is regarded as an unprecedented leak, of a draft majority opinion to overturn the 1973 Roe v Wade decision legalizing the right to an abortion in America, Roberts was not among the five names listed in the majority.

In the court’s first public reaction since the scoop by Politico, Roberts said: “Although the document described in yesterday’s reports is authentic, it does not represent a decision by the Court or the final position of any member on the issues in the case.”

In a statement, he added: “To the extent this betrayal of the confidences of the Court was intended to undermine the integrity of our operations, it will not succeed.”"

 

Bush to appear at fundraiser for Kemp.


George W. Bush to appear at fundraiser for Trump nemesis Kemp

 

Sen. Susan Collins sounds shocked that one or more of Trump's appointees may not have been truthful to her.


Susan Collins Is Shocked That Trump Appointees May Have Lied to Her

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"Sen. Susan Collins is shocked, stunned, and astounded that two conservative, Trump-appointed Supreme Court justices may have deceived her regarding their position on abortion rights.

According to a reported draft majority opinion leaked to Politico, both Justice Neil Gorsuch and Justice Bret Kavanaugh have voted to overturn established precedent, protecting abortion rights, a precedent Collins has repeatedly said they told her they believed was “settled law.”

“If this leaked draft opinion is the final decision and this reporting is accurate, it would be completely inconsistent with what Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh said in their hearings and in our meetings in my office,” Collins said, adding, “Obviously, we won’t know each Justice’s decision and reasoning until the Supreme Court officially announces its opinion in this case.”

Collins was a key vote for Kavanaugh’s 50-48 confirmation. She also voted to confirm Gorsuch.

Collins even defended Kavanaugh in 2019 when he dissented on a case regarding abortion access. She said that Kavanaugh “said under oath many times, as well as to me personally many times, that he considers Roe to be ‘precedent upon precedent’ because it had been reaffirmed in the Casey v. Planned Parenthood case.” And when asked by Jake Tapper if Gorsuch would overturn Roe, Collins replied, “I actually don’t.” She added that she had a “very long discussion with Justice Gorsuch in my office and he pointed out to me that he is a co-author of a whole book on precedent.”

Collins and fellow Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski have introduced a bill that would protect the right to abortion, but it has not been passed and would certainly face a filibuster from fellow Republicans. On Monday, Biden called on Congress to codify abortion rights into federal law, and he urged voters to elect a Democratic majority this November that could make that happen."