Tag: DOJ

Judge Sullivan isn’t done with Flynn just yet, case going to full court of appeals

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Judge Sullivan isn’t done with Flynn just yet, case going to full court of appeals

Flynn’s only hope for avoiding sentencing doesn’t lie with any legal claim. It’s with the White House, and with Attorney General William Barr’s effort to give Flynn a pardon without Trump having to dirty his pardon pen by withdrawing the case. Two weeks ago, a three-person panel of the Washington, D.C. Court of Appeals shockingly went along with Barr and told Flynn to go home, grab a beer, and revel in the ability of Trump to run rampant over the law. But now Judge Sullivan has replied with a not-so-fast, sending the case back to the Washington, D.C. Court in full—where the outcome is likely to be considerably different.

TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY: WE MUST STOP COVID-19 WITHOUT VIOLATING HUMAN RIGHTS.

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY. WE MUST STOP COVID-19 WITHOUT VIOLATING HUMAN RIGHTS.

The COVID-19 pandemic is a public health crisis. We need to take warnings from medical professionals seriously and do everything we can to slow down the spread of the virus and save lives. We must also ensure that governments and corporations do not endanger us further by increasing surveillance, censoring speech, and detaining people indefinitely without trial. There will be a world after this coronavirus outbreak. It’s up to us to make it a world worth living in.
— Read on www.takethisseriously.org/

🚨 DOJ Wants to Suspend Constitutional Rights for Coronavirus Emergency

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

DOJ Wants to Suspend Certain Constitutional Rights During Coronavirus Emergency

The Department of Justice has secretly asked Congress for the ability to detain arrested people “indefinitely” in addition to other powers that one expert called “terrifying”

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‘Oh Hell No’: DOJ Using Coronavirus Crisis to Push for Expansive Emergency Powers

DOJ seeks new emergency powers amid coronavirus pandemic

Chief Justice John Roberts says Americans may ‘take democracy for granted’

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Americans, Roberts said, have in the modern era come to “take democracy for granted,” and the chief justice lamented the fact that civic education has “fallen by the wayside.”
“In our age, when social media can instantly spread rumor and false information on a grand scale, the public’s need to understand our government, and the protections it provides, is ever more vital,” Roberts wrote in his annual report on the state of the judiciary, issued each New Year’s Eve.
— Read on www.cnn.com/2019/12/31/politics/john-roberts-judiciary-democracy/index.html