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Group of federal judges calls emergency meeting over concerns about DOJ's intervention in politically sensitive cases

Washington (CNN)The leaders of a group of federal judges will hold an emergency meeting on Wednesday to address growing concerns about the recent intervention of President Donald Trump and the Justice Department in politically sensitive cases, Megan Cruz, the executive director of the group, told CNN on Tuesday.
Trump and Attorney General William Barr ignited fresh concerns about the impartiality of the Justice Department last week when Barr retracted a recommended sentence for Trump ally Roger Stone after the President criticized it on Twitter. Trump also took to social media to criticize the judge involved in Stone's case. Barr is also ordering a re-examination of several high-profile cases, including that of former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
The actions prompted more than 2,000 former Justice Department officials who served in Republican as well as Democratic administrations to sign a statement calling on Barr to resign.
It is extremely rare for judges to speak out about pending cases or controversies, but a handful, including Chief Justice John Roberts, have pushed back in the past regarding the President's criticism of judges.

The group, called the Federal Judges Association, is an independent and voluntary organization of US judges that was founded in 1982 in part to address concerns related to the compensation of federal judges.
Cruz said she could not make further comments about the planned conference call but confirmed that the nine-member executive committee of the group decided the emergency meeting was necessary. Five officers of the group, including Judge Cynthia M. Rufe, its president, will also participate in the call.
"They felt it was necessary to have the call," Cruz said, noting that the group's next regularly scheduled meeting is in April.
The conference call was first reported by USA Today on Monday.

 
The many paths from Trump to Russia

 
Fact-checking the false claims Trump made in defending Roger Stone

President Donald Trump made a series of false and misleading claims in tweets and public remarks Tuesday and Wednesday related to the government's handling of the legal case involving Roger Stone, his longtime adviser, who was convicted in November of lying to Congress, witness tampering and obstructing a congressional investigation.
Trump's comments followed a controversial decision by the Department of Justice to ask a court to sentence Stone to "far less" time in prison than the seven to nine years department prosecutors had recommended to the court just a day prior. All four prosecutors resigned from the case after they were overruled.

 
At Trump's State of the Union, the bigotry was in plain sight

Washington (CNN)As on so many other occasions during his presidency, Donald Trump on Tuesday night demonstrated that he's ever the showman, having used part of his third official State of the Union address to ostensibly pander to black voters as he vies for another term in the White House.
And as before, one thing seemed especially clear: The President would rather perform support for black Americans than actually champion them.
There were the predictable talking points, such as Trump's crowing about low black unemployment rates under his leadership -- "African American poverty has declined to the lowest rate ever recorded," he said -- despite the fact that he inherited an already OK economy that's still just OK.
Indeed, black unemployment has hit all-time lows while Trump has been in office. In August, the unemployment rate for black workers fell to 5.5% from 6%, according to the Labor Department data. The previous record low of 5.9% was set in May 2018.

 
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The many paths from Trump to Russia




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Why Have No Republicans Turned on Trump?

There is a very simple reason why some Republicans voted for the impeachment proceedings against Richard Nixon, but none have so far broken ranks against Trump.

That reason is a corrupted U.S. Supreme Court.

In 1976 (Buckley v. Valeo) and 1978 (First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti), the Supreme Court ruled that when corporations and billionaires purchase their very own politicians, it is constitutionally protected “free speech” rather than “bribery,” which is how we defined it from the beginning of our republic until 1976. In 2010, the Supreme Court doubled down on its betrayal of American democracy with its Citizens United decision.

After those twin decisions in the 1970s, money from corporations and the morbidly rich began to flow into the coffers of the Republican Party, hoisting Ronald Reagan into the White House. (Democrats were then still largely funded by unions, and thus not so easily up for sale.)

The spigots of cash never turned off; the 2016 election was a $6.5 billion affair.


As a result, today’s Republican politicians are wholly owned agents of corporations and the billionaire class, stoking extreme anger over a few social issues (immigration, guns, God, gays, race) and using it to bring in the Fox rubes that the billionaire Murdochs kindly hand them.

Prior to this betrayal of America by the Supreme Court, politicians generally felt a need to respond to the wants and needs of their constituents. From Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s people-powered election in 1932 to Reagan’s inauguration in 1981, politicians’ proposed legislation and votes tended to reflect what the people in their districts or states wanted.

Nixon’s impeachment hearings happened in 1974, before the Supreme Court legalized bribery—and so the Senate voted 77-0 to forward the investigation, and the House voted 412-3 to accept the Judiciary Committee’s report showing “clear and convincing evidence” of Nixon’s corruption. Republicans were more concerned about their voters than about their donors back then.

From the 1980s to today, though, as a study by Martin Gilens and Benjamin Page shows, the political desires of the economic bottom 90 percent of Americans are completely irrelevant to the introduction or passage of legislation. But the desires of the top 10 percent of Americans are consistently passed into law and policy.

Republicans don’t want the money to stop, so they have to keep supporting Trump as he pushes the corporate- and billionaire-friendly policies of deregulation and tax cuts supported by their donors.

When the billionaires abandon Trump, so will the GOP.

It’s really just that simple.

As long as the Supreme Court continues to assert that there is absolutely nothing wrong with billionaires and corporations owning politicians, the GOP will continue to be an extension of the lobbying industry and the morbidly rich. In exchange for deregulation and tax cuts, that bunch would work to keep a gerbil in the White House, if that’s what it took.

And as long as their owners and funders continue to pay Republicans to keep Trump in office, they’ll continue to say, “How high?” every time Trump yells, “Jump!”

 
Why Have No Republicans Turned on Trump?

There is a very simple reason why some Republicans voted for the impeachment proceedings against Richard Nixon, but none have so far broken ranks against Trump.

That reason is a corrupted U.S. Supreme Court.

In 1976 (Buckley v. Valeo) and 1978 (First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti), the Supreme Court ruled that when corporations and billionaires purchase their very own politicians, it is constitutionally protected “free speech” rather than “bribery,” which is how we defined it from the beginning of our republic until 1976. In 2010, the Supreme Court doubled down on its betrayal of American democracy with its Citizens United decision.

After those twin decisions in the 1970s, money from corporations and the morbidly rich began to flow into the coffers of the Republican Party, hoisting Ronald Reagan into the White House. (Democrats were then still largely funded by unions, and thus not so easily up for sale.)

The spigots of cash never turned off; the 2016 election was a $6.5 billion affair.


As a result, today’s Republican politicians are wholly owned agents of corporations and the billionaire class, stoking extreme anger over a few social issues (immigration, guns, God, gays, race) and using it to bring in the Fox rubes that the billionaire Murdochs kindly hand them.

Prior to this betrayal of America by the Supreme Court, politicians generally felt a need to respond to the wants and needs of their constituents. From Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s people-powered election in 1932 to Reagan’s inauguration in 1981, politicians’ proposed legislation and votes tended to reflect what the people in their districts or states wanted.

Nixon’s impeachment hearings happened in 1974, before the Supreme Court legalized bribery—and so the Senate voted 77-0 to forward the investigation, and the House voted 412-3 to accept the Judiciary Committee’s report showing “clear and convincing evidence” of Nixon’s corruption. Republicans were more concerned about their voters than about their donors back then.

From the 1980s to today, though, as a study by Martin Gilens and Benjamin Page shows, the political desires of the economic bottom 90 percent of Americans are completely irrelevant to the introduction or passage of legislation. But the desires of the top 10 percent of Americans are consistently passed into law and policy.

Republicans don’t want the money to stop, so they have to keep supporting Trump as he pushes the corporate- and billionaire-friendly policies of deregulation and tax cuts supported by their donors.

When the billionaires abandon Trump, so will the GOP.

It’s really just that simple.

As long as the Supreme Court continues to assert that there is absolutely nothing wrong with billionaires and corporations owning politicians, the GOP will continue to be an extension of the lobbying industry and the morbidly rich. In exchange for deregulation and tax cuts, that bunch would work to keep a gerbil in the White House, if that’s what it took.

And as long as their owners and funders continue to pay Republicans to keep Trump in office, they’ll continue to say, “How high?” every time Trump yells, “Jump!”



How about it was all a sham
 
John Bolton criticizes White House 'censorship' ahead of his planned book release
Bolton spoke out Monday for the first time since the impeachment trial ended.

Former national security adviser John Bolton, speaking out for the first time since the conclusion of President Donald Trump's impeachment trial, discussed his upcoming book and expressed serious concerns about the White House review process that he claimed is holding up its publication.

Bolton labeled the review process as "censorship."

I say things in the manuscript about what [Trump] said to me; I hope they become public someday," Bolton said during an interview in front of an audience at Duke University on Monday evening. "He tweets, but I can't talk about it -- how fair is that?"

Bolton's book, which contains allegations regarding President Trump's personal involvement with activities in Ukraine that led to his impeachment and subsequent acquittal, has been in a standard prepublication security review for classified information with the White House National Security Counsel since December 30th, according to Bolton's lawyer, Charles Cooper.

The NSC and Bolton's team have been at odds about the information in the manuscript, according to letters exchanged between the two and provided by Bolton's attorney and the White House. The NSC found the book to contain "significant amounts" of classified information, but Bolton's lawyer pushed back, claiming that none of it "could reasonable be considered classified."

 
More than 2,000 former DOJ officials call on Attorney General William Barr to resign

More than 2,000 former Department of Justice officials are calling on Attorney General William Barr to resign, according to the group Protect Democracy.

"Political interference in the conduct of a criminal prosecution is anathema to the Department's core mission and to its sacred obligation to ensure equal justice under the law," according to the group, which has been critical of the administration in the past.

The nonpartisan, nonprofit group said that the attorney general has "flouted" that fundamental principal.

The former DOJ officials said it is "outrageous" the way Barr interfered in the Roger Stone case.

"Although there are times when political leadership appropriately weighs in on individual prosecutions, it is unheard of for the Department's top leaders to overrule line prosecutors, who are following established policies, in order to give preferential treatment to a close associate of the President, as Attorney General Barr did in the Stone case," they wrote.

MORE: Transcript of Attorney General Bill Barr's exclusive interview with ABC News
The group claims that Barr has done the president's bidding and that those actions have caused damage to the Department of Justice. The letter was signed by officials appointed from both Democrat and Republican administrations, according to Protect Democracy.

The officials commended the actions of the four line prosecutors who resigned from the Stone case and called on more to resign.

"We call on every DOJ employee to follow their heroic example and be prepared to report future abuses to the Inspector General, the Office of Professional Responsibility, and Congress; to refuse to carry out directives that are inconsistent with their oaths of office; to withdraw from cases that involve such directives or other misconduct; and, if necessary, to resign and report publicly -- in a manner consistent with professional ethics -- to the American people the reasons for their resignation."

The number of former DOJ officials who signed the statement nearly doubled since Monday morning.

 
but the gop is not racist




Court blocks North Carolina GOP's voter ID law for intentionally discriminating against black voters


On Tuesday, a panel of three judges on North Carolina's Court of Appeals unanimously overturned a lower court's ruling and ordered it to grant a preliminary injunction blocking Republicans' voter ID law until the case gets decided on the merits. The appellate court ruled that the plaintiffs were likely to succeed in demonstrating that Republicans had enacted the law with the unconstitutional intent to discriminate against black voters.


This ruling is the second time this year that a court has blocked this voter ID law, and a federal court had already issued its own preliminary injunction in a separate case ahead of an upcoming trial. Democratic state Attorney General Josh Stein previously announced he would wait until after the March 3 primaries to appeal the federal ruling (Republicans aren't party to that case, but Stein has a general obligation to defend state laws in most instances), so the voter ID requirement was already on hold for next month's vote. However, this latest ruling could mean that it remains suspended through the November general election, too.

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Watch: Trump trade advisor cornered as CNN’s Poppy Harlow catches him in several lies about the economy

On CNN Tuesday, President Donald Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro tried to sell the GOP’s fiscal plans — and reporter Poppy Harlow ambushed him with a series of hard data contradicting his claims.


“I want to ask you about the budget released from the White House,” said Harlow. “As you know, it does not eliminate the federal deficit in ten years. And as you know, when the president was running, because you were advising him, I remember meeting with you during that time, he promised to the Washington Post he’d eliminate the national debt if given eight years in office. What happened to that promise?”

“Well, we still have five more years to go, and I think we can get there,” said Navarro.

Yeah, but even this budget — no, no, but this budget says it’s going to take to 2036 to even start narrowing, not eliminating it,” said Harlow.

“Just let me make this point. Elections do have consequences,” said Navarro. “One of the problems we faced in the short term with the Democrats holding the House is that when we made the last budget deal, that was more expenditures than we otherwise would have had. The trick of the budget, really, is not cutting expenditures or raising taxes so much as growing faster. The difference between the 2 percent growth rate and 3 percent growth rate is all the difference in the world.”


“Kevin Hassett, your good friend, formerly worked with you, said there’s aggressive growth projections in this budget, and when you look at the tax cut impact on all of this, it was a big factor,” said Harlow. “Even he admitted it. Listen to this with me just last week.”


“The military spending is way above what we originally thought, which the president has advocated,” said Hassett in the clip. “And then the tax cuts reduced revenue by more than we thought in the first year.”

Fair to say the tax cuts aren’t paying for themselves as promised and just adding to the deficit?” said Harlow.


Well, Kevin was one of the architects of those tax cuts,” said Navarro, looking slightly thrown. “And if he were sitting in this chair, he’d say the tax cuts are doing great to stimulate this economy. Things like opportunity zones, helping blue-collar workers, lowest unemployment rate in history for Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, veterans.”


“No, I hear you on all of that, but they’re adding to the deficit,” Harlow pressed him. “I’m asking about the president’s promise to the American people and Republicans, who used to care about these things, Peter.”

“So, look, the economy is doing great,” said Navarro. “We’ve got a great economic plan to do it. If we get back the House of Representatives, we’ll have a lot better fiscal situation than we do now. The bond market doesn’t seem to be worried about the prospect of a large fiscal deficit, which I think is supportive of President Trump’s economic policies, because they believe that our economy will grow faster because of the Trump policies.”

Let me ask you about this
,” said Harlow. “The president overnight slamming former President Obama for what he calls taking credit for the good economy. The president was marking 11 years since the Recovery Act. Of course, the depths of the great recession. When you look at the numbers, we have not yet seen one quarter of 4 percent economic growth under President Trump. We saw that four times under President Obama. And if you compare job growth in the last, you know, 36 months of President Obama’s term, it was 227,000 jobs on average and President Trump, also good, but 191,000 jobs per month on average. Don’t both presidents deserve credit for good economies?”

“If you lived through the Obama years, which everybody watching this show did, they remember what it was like,” said Navarro. “What President Obama did was double the debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion … what President Trump realized is that we had a structural problem, primarily with offshoring our jobs and overregulation and high taxes relative to around the world. He fixed those structural problems. That set up the economic boom that we’re having right now. And back in the Obama-Biden years, it was horrible. We had this new normal of a growth under 2 percent—”


“Peter, I’m sorry, I can’t let — Peter, I am just going to pull back the numbers up,” said Harlow. “These are numbers from the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Over 4 percent economic growth, four quarters under President Obama. We’ve not seen growth above 4 percent on a quarterly basis under President Trump. It’s a good economy now. It’s a great economy now. All I’m asking you is, wasn’t it a good economy then as well?”

No, it was not. It was a horrible economy during the Obama years,” said Navarro. “If you can tell me that higher regulation, higher taxes are going to really propel growth like the Democrats want to do, I got a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn, which i think you’re probably close to right there … but we can have that debate. This is all politics.”

“Well, actually, I was just asking about the numbers
,” said Harlow.


Watch below:

 
Watch: Trump trade advisor cornered as CNN’s Poppy Harlow catches him in several lies about the economy

On CNN Tuesday, President Donald Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro tried to sell the GOP’s fiscal plans — and reporter Poppy Harlow ambushed him with a series of hard data contradicting his claims.


“I want to ask you about the budget released from the White House,” said Harlow. “As you know, it does not eliminate the federal deficit in ten years. And as you know, when the president was running, because you were advising him, I remember meeting with you during that time, he promised to the Washington Post he’d eliminate the national debt if given eight years in office. What happened to that promise?”

“Well, we still have five more years to go, and I think we can get there,” said Navarro.

Yeah, but even this budget — no, no, but this budget says it’s going to take to 2036 to even start narrowing, not eliminating it,” said Harlow.

“Just let me make this point. Elections do have consequences,” said Navarro. “One of the problems we faced in the short term with the Democrats holding the House is that when we made the last budget deal, that was more expenditures than we otherwise would have had. The trick of the budget, really, is not cutting expenditures or raising taxes so much as growing faster. The difference between the 2 percent growth rate and 3 percent growth rate is all the difference in the world.”


“Kevin Hassett, your good friend, formerly worked with you, said there’s aggressive growth projections in this budget, and when you look at the tax cut impact on all of this, it was a big factor,” said Harlow. “Even he admitted it. Listen to this with me just last week.”


“The military spending is way above what we originally thought, which the president has advocated,” said Hassett in the clip. “And then the tax cuts reduced revenue by more than we thought in the first year.”

Fair to say the tax cuts aren’t paying for themselves as promised and just adding to the deficit?” said Harlow.


Well, Kevin was one of the architects of those tax cuts,” said Navarro, looking slightly thrown. “And if he were sitting in this chair, he’d say the tax cuts are doing great to stimulate this economy. Things like opportunity zones, helping blue-collar workers, lowest unemployment rate in history for Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, veterans.”


“No, I hear you on all of that, but they’re adding to the deficit,” Harlow pressed him. “I’m asking about the president’s promise to the American people and Republicans, who used to care about these things, Peter.”

“So, look, the economy is doing great,” said Navarro. “We’ve got a great economic plan to do it. If we get back the House of Representatives, we’ll have a lot better fiscal situation than we do now. The bond market doesn’t seem to be worried about the prospect of a large fiscal deficit, which I think is supportive of President Trump’s economic policies, because they believe that our economy will grow faster because of the Trump policies.”

Let me ask you about this
,” said Harlow. “The president overnight slamming former President Obama for what he calls taking credit for the good economy. The president was marking 11 years since the Recovery Act. Of course, the depths of the great recession. When you look at the numbers, we have not yet seen one quarter of 4 percent economic growth under President Trump. We saw that four times under President Obama. And if you compare job growth in the last, you know, 36 months of President Obama’s term, it was 227,000 jobs on average and President Trump, also good, but 191,000 jobs per month on average. Don’t both presidents deserve credit for good economies?”

“If you lived through the Obama years, which everybody watching this show did, they remember what it was like,” said Navarro. “What President Obama did was double the debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion … what President Trump realized is that we had a structural problem, primarily with offshoring our jobs and overregulation and high taxes relative to around the world. He fixed those structural problems. That set up the economic boom that we’re having right now. And back in the Obama-Biden years, it was horrible. We had this new normal of a growth under 2 percent—”


“Peter, I’m sorry, I can’t let — Peter, I am just going to pull back the numbers up,” said Harlow. “These are numbers from the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Over 4 percent economic growth, four quarters under President Obama. We’ve not seen growth above 4 percent on a quarterly basis under President Trump. It’s a good economy now. It’s a great economy now. All I’m asking you is, wasn’t it a good economy then as well?”

No, it was not. It was a horrible economy during the Obama years,” said Navarro. “If you can tell me that higher regulation, higher taxes are going to really propel growth like the Democrats want to do, I got a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn, which i think you’re probably close to right there … but we can have that debate. This is all politics.”

“Well, actually, I was just asking about the numbers
,” said Harlow.


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