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22 Apr 2022, 4:00 am
National/Federal Agencies Announce Plans for More Equity in Federal Programs MSN – Michael Macagnone (Roll Call) | Published: 4/14/2022 Dozens of federal agencies launched plans that focus on minority groups and other underserved communities, meant to open federal programs to more people and reduce racial disparities caused by government decisions. [read post]
15 Apr 2022, 4:00 am
Jan. 6 Panel Has Evidence for Criminal Referral of Trump, but Splits on Sending Yahoo News – Michael Schmidt and Luke Broadwater (New York Times) | Published: 4/10/2022 The leaders of the House select committee investigating the Capitol attack have grown divided over whether to make a criminal referral to the Justice Department of former President Trump, even though they have concluded they have enough evidence to do so, people involved in the discussions said. [read post]
7 Apr 2022, 7:26 pm
In 1986, Congress passed the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”), 18 USC §1030, that defines both civil and criminal liability for “…[w]hoever . [read post]
9 Mar 2022, 6:30 am
But they caricature this position, aligning it with the notion that ‘Brussels’ is a metonym for technocracy (p 233) and instead of developing the argument, are deflected into discussing a critique of ‘instantaneous democracy’ and the straw man of the rationalist voter (pp 234 – 243). [read post]
11 Jan 2022, 9:01 pm
According to Michael Lewis, author of The Fifth Risk, “if you could somehow organize the entire population into a single line, all 350 million people, ordered not by height or weight or age but by each citizen’s interest in the federal government, and Donald Trump loitered somewhere near one end of it, Max Stier would occupy the other. [read post]
30 Dec 2021, 6:51 pm
A lot of the time, my job there involves scooping poop and laying out fresh straw, but it also includes spreading love, petting the animals, and singing to them. [read post]
5 Nov 2021, 4:00 am
Michael Bennet and Elizabeth Warren introduced legislation to prohibit former politicians from holding on to their campaign money forever. [read post]
1 Nov 2021, 4:00 am
Campaign Finance National: “Cases Show Foreign Donors Secretly Funnel Money Through Straw Donors, Shell Companies, ‘Dark Money’” by Anna Massoglia for Center for Responsive Politics New Jersey: “Former Owner of Morristown Law Firm Admits Directing Bold Straw Donor Scheme” by Lori Comstock (Morristown Daily Record) for MSN Elections Florida: “Florida Blocks Professors from Testifying Against Voting Law Pushed by DeSantis” by Gary… [read post]
29 Oct 2021, 4:00 am
National/Federal Democrats Turn Down Top Lobbying Roles at Facebook as Scandals Pile Up Yahoo News – Nihal Krishan (Washington Examiner) | Published: 10/27/2021 Facebook is reportedly struggling to hire Democrats for its lobbying shop in Washington, D.C. despite paying top dollar, a potential sign the social media behemoth is now deemed radioactive by many on the Left. [read post]
8 Oct 2021, 4:00 am
The complaints note Michael Pack, a conservative filmmaker who was installed as chief executive of USAGM in June 2020, expressed his distrust of foreign journalists working for the various broadcast entities under the USAGM umbrella and refused to renew more than 30 of their visas, causing them to lose their jobs. [read post]
27 Sep 2021, 6:57 am
Reviewed by Michael H. [read post]
31 Aug 2021, 9:01 pm
” The complaint provides numerous examples of guns manufactured for initial sale in the U.S. in the apparent hope that so-called straw purchasers would divert them to Mexico.For instance, Paragraph 216 alleges that “Colt’s special edition .38 Super pistol is engraved with an image of the Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata on one side of the barrel and a phrase attributed to him on the other. [read post]
25 Aug 2021, 9:01 pm
It would have been easy to make a straw-person argument whose weakness is so evident that rebuttal is hardly even necessary. [read post]
17 Aug 2021, 6:24 am
The issue dividing [Bill Barr, Michael Luttig, and Starr] was a law that permitted private citizens to sue for fraud against the federal government [and receive a bounty]…Barr and Luttig thought the law infringed on presidential authority, the final straw in a series of court decisions eroding executive authority…But new soliticor general Starr concluded any challenge to the law would be quixotic at best. [read post]
4 Aug 2021, 9:17 pm
This strikes me as a straw man argument. [read post]
11 Jun 2021, 4:00 am
Such reimbursements could run afoul of state or federal laws, which prohibit “straw-donor” schemes meant to allow wealthy donors to evade individual contribution limits and obscure the source of a candidate’s money. [read post]
16 Apr 2021, 4:00 am
Gaetz Faces House Ethics Probe; Federal Investigation Widens Associated Press News – Eric Tucker, Michael Balsamo, and Lisa Mascaro | Published: 4/10/2021 The House Committee on Ethics announced an investigation into U.S. [read post]
2 Mar 2021, 1:05 pm
District Judge John Michael Vazquez cited not just Greenwald’s conduct during the scheme but also his conduct during the investigation. [read post]
12 Feb 2021, 11:53 am
Frank Bowman recently published an essay in Lawfare that criticized arguments I made in an essay on the site. [read post]
7 Jan 2021, 8:30 pm
National/Federal Aides Weigh Resignations, Removal Options as Trump Rages Against Perceived Betrayals MSN – Philip Rucker, Josh Dawsey, Shane Harris, and Ashley Parker (Washington Post) | Published: 1/7/2021 President Trump was ensconced in the White House residence, raging about perceived betrayals, as an array of top aides weighed resigning and some senior administration officials began conversations about invoking the 25th Amendment – an extraordinary measure that would remove… [read post]
