Just to address a small part of your post:
But they are planning on "censuring" Trump (requires less votes than impeachment). I don't know what that specifically entails, besides I was told it would bar him from running for political office.
A "censure" is a strongly-worded letter. It carries no penalty and has no legal significance or weight whatsoever. It certainly would not would bar him from running for political office.
Walked away from insider trading charges with a slap on the wrist. So fuck him if the WSB crew gave him a good crack to the jaw and a knee to the nuts. Well deserved.
When the Securities and Exchange Commission leveled insider trading charges against hedge fund billionaire Leon Cooperman in September 2016 for his trades in a company called Atlas Pipeline, some expected it would end to one of Wall Street's most storied careers. Cooperman, a former Goldman Sachs partner, helped create the firm's over $1 trillion asset management business and then left in 1991 to start hedge fund Omega Advisors, becoming a billionaire and managing assets that peaked at nearly $10 billion.
The SEC had offered Cooperman the opportunity to settle charges if he agreed to a five-year industry ban, but he instead chose to contest the charges, vowing in public appearances to fight to keep his reputation intact after roughly 50 years on Wall Street. Now, just months before the insider trading case was set to move to trial, it appears Cooperman has triumphed.
On Thursday evening, documents in a Pennsylvania court show Cooperman has settled the insider trading case with the SEC without admitting wrongdoing or agreeing any industry bar. As part of the settlement, which still has to be approved by courts, Cooperman will fork over a total of $4.9 million in fines and penalties and agree to have an independent compliance monitor at his fund. Importantly, the settlement means Cooperman's hedge fund, Omega Advisors, will be able to stay in business and potentially even seek new outside funds. Presently, Omega manages some $3.6 billion in assets, most of it being Cooperman's own money after heavy investor redemptions, some of it due to the SEC's case.
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They nuked Rudy a while ago. See for yourself - https://twitter.com/RudyGiuIiani
You're right, I had a misspelled link.
America's enemies shall tremble before IT'S MA'AM!!!
Remember when Trump ordered the military transgender ban and Mattis...ordered another study? Should have fired that insubordinate cocksucker right there and then.
The process is governed by law - first and foremost, by the 12th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and secondarily by a federal law called the Electoral Count Act.
The concept of "sending electors back to the states" doesn't exist in the 12th Amendment or the Electoral Count Act. It's not there.
If the state legislatures were serious, their only recourse would have been to meet and pass resolutions disclaiming the validity of the Biden electors due to evidence of fraud, name Trump electors in their place, and send a new certificate to the Vice-President.
On Jan 6th, he would have had to open both certificates and the Congress would debate which to accept under the same objection process that was used by Sen. Hawley and multiple representatives to challenge counting electors from Arizona and Pennsylvania. If the House and Senate disagreed on which slate of electors to accept, the original slate certified by the states' governors and sent in before the December 8th "safe harbor" date would be the one counted.
Now, if that were to happen the states would have had a solid court challenge and that is the only point where SCOTUS might have intervened. The states would file an emergency complaint in federal court and make this argument:
The Constitution gives us the power to choose electors and does not constrain that power in any way. No law can diminish our inherent constitutional authority in this area. To the extent that the ECA sets out "Safe Harbor" deadlines and presumes to allow Congress to make the final decision about which of two competing elector slates from our state is the right one, the ECA improperly usurps that constitutional authority. Our final decision on electors is the Trump slate, and we demand they be the only ones counted.
They could have tried doing that even after Jan 6th, if they had the courage to do so.
I don't know what you mean by that. His job on 1/6 was ministerial: to record and tally the states' electoral votes. He could not reject electors or even object to a given state(s) electors. Such objections had to be made in writing by at least one representative joined by at least one senator. Then those objections were to be resolved by seperate votes of the House and Senate. He wouldn't even have had a vote on the objection unless the Senate was tied 50-50.
Mike Pence did not have the authority to do what was asked of him. The President was given bad information.
You want to blame people -- blame the state legislatures, who had the power to actually do something about the election, but sat on their hands for two months. Then, at the 11th hour, they expect Mike Pence to invent some new Vice-Presidential power that doesn't exist to "give them 10 more days".
They had 2 months and did nothing. Ten more days wouldn't have helped.
I don't get that thinking. Trump people are being blacklisted from employment all over and she's got bills to pay.