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The State of Illinois has released a list of almost 4,000 inmates released from prisons, including 64 convicted of murder, since March 1st.

A list released by the state shows each inmate who had their sentence commuted by Gov. JB Prtizker or were released early by the Illinois Department of Corrections.

Police departments from all over the state of Illinois have sent a letter to Gov. JB Pritzker questioning why the governor has reduced the sentences of violent criminals and convicted murderers.

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In order to stop the spread of COVID-19 in Illinois prisons, Pritzker has granted clemency to more than 1,000 prisoners

Then, in the past month alone, another 1,300 inmates have been released as the offices of the Cook County Sheriff, Public Defender and State's Attorney focused on releasing those awaiting trial and low-level nonviolent offenders.

The Democratic-led House of Representatives on Monday told the Supreme Court that the House needs secret Mueller grand jury materials to determine if there is new evidence of impeachable offenses involving President Donald Trump.
The House Judiciary Committee has been attempting obtain the documents prosecutors collected from witnesses about Trump in a back-and-forth legal fight that's now reached the Supreme Court.
"The Committee's impeachment investigation related to obstruction of justice pertaining to the Russia investigation is ongoing," Douglas Letter, the House general counsel, said in a court filing Monday.

"If this material reveals new evidence supporting the conclusion that President Trump committed impeachable offenses," Letter said, "the Committee will proceed accordingly -- including, if necessary, by considering whether to recommend new articles of impeachment."

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Mon May 18, 2020 7:17 pm I like them raising the issue now to get him all worked up. Normally I'd say it would be a severe distraction in a time of crisis but given that the Secret Service just signed a 6 month golf cart rental for his Bedminster course ($179K), I'm guessing he has no intention of focusing on anything important anytime soon.

LawBeefaroni wrote:

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Mon May 18, 2020 7:17 pm I like them raising the issue now to get him all worked up. Normally I'd say it would be a severe distraction in a time of crisis but given that the Secret Service just signed a 6 month golf cart rental for his Bedminster course ($179K), I'm guessing he has no intention of focusing on anything important anytime soon.

6 grand a day for golf cart rental? How many, like 100?

Zaxxon wrote: ↑Mon May 18, 2020 7:28 pm

LawBeefaroni wrote:

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Mon May 18, 2020 7:17 pm I like them raising the issue now to get him all worked up. Normally I'd say it would be a severe distraction in a time of crisis but given that the Secret Service just signed a 6 month golf cart rental for his Bedminster course ($179K), I'm guessing he has no intention of focusing on anything important anytime soon.

6 grand a day for golf cart rental? How many, like 100?

One grand/day.

Zaxxon wrote: ↑Mon May 18, 2020 7:28 pm

LawBeefaroni wrote:

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Mon May 18, 2020 7:17 pm I like them raising the issue now to get him all worked up. Normally I'd say it would be a severe distraction in a time of crisis but given that the Secret Service just signed a 6 month golf cart rental for his Bedminster course ($179K), I'm guessing he has no intention of focusing on anything important anytime soon.

6 grand a day for golf cart rental? How many, like 100?

One grand/day.

Kraken wrote:I think I read that trump can't directly fire the IGs, but has to give the Senate 30 days notice that he's removing them. The Senate can then block that. So it's really on Moscow Mitch. But I read a lot of things that I only half-remember.

Zarathud wrote: ↑Tue May 19, 2020 4:26 am The corruption is plain. Moscow Mitch’s wife Chao is Trump Secretary of Transportation. All the better to divert pork into Kentucky for her husband’s re-election, funnel projects to companies she owns, and punish Trump’s Blue State enemies.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday temporarily blocked the release of former special counsel Robert Mueller's grand jury material to the Democratic-led House of Representatives.
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The White House and Justice Department had asked the Supreme Court to block the release of the material to give them time to file a full appeal.

In the brief, unsigned order, the justices set out a time period asking for briefs by June 1. Such a timeline suggests they will decide before this term ends whether to take up the case.

LordMortis wrote: ↑Tue May 19, 2020 8:01 am

Zarathud wrote: ↑Tue May 19, 2020 4:26 am The corruption is plain. Moscow Mitch’s wife Chao is Trump Secretary of Transportation. All the better to divert pork into Kentucky for her husband’s re-election, funnel projects to companies she owns, and punish Trump’s Blue State enemies.

I tend to think you are over the top, but not this time.

On Friday, President Trump announced the firing of State Department Inspector General Steve Linick, based on the recommendation of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, a move that surprised official Washington and infuriated Democrats. Now, there is additional concern about Linick’s replacement, Stephen Akard, who is already on the job — and is also keeping his existing State Department position, setting up a clear conflict of interest.

According to the law, the administration must notify Congress 30 days in advance before firing an inspector general. But multiple sources told me that Linick’s last day was Friday, the same day Congress learned about his ouster. Akard showed up at the office on Monday morning and immediately assumed the boss’s role. Yet Akard is keeping his job as the head of the State Department’s Office of Foreign Missions, a Senate-confirmed political appointee position he has held since September. Adding the inspector general’s job to his duties essentially means he will be overseeing himself.

“The independence of inspectors general is paramount. Embedding a political ally to serve as IG who is still working in the very agency they are supposed to oversee is very problematic and an affront to that independence,” Sen. Robert Menendez (N.J.), the ranking Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, told me. “I have trouble seeing how Ambassador Akard could fulfill those duties effectively given the circumstances and without stepping down from his current role.”

Unagi wrote: ↑Fri May 22, 2020 9:28 am I’m sorry, but does she have the hand of a corpse?

malchior wrote: ↑Wed Jun 10, 2020 1:51 pm Yeah but Rao is involved. Chances of a shit show are high.

Donald Trump was told in advance that Wikileaks would be releasing documents embarrassing to the Clinton campaign and subsequently informed advisors that he expected more releases would be coming, according to newly unredacted portions of special counsel Robert Mueller's report into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.

In July 2016, political consultant Roger Stone told Trump as well as several campaign advisors that he had spoken with Julian Assange and that WikiLeaks would be publishing the documents in a matter of days. Stone told the then-candidate via speakerphone that he "did not know what the content of the materials was," according to the newly unveiled portions of the report, and Trump responded "oh good, alright" upon hearing the news. WikiLeaks published a trove of some 20,000 emails Russians hacked from the Democratic National Committee on July 22 of that year.

But based on the interviews it conducted with those three men and other officials, Mueller’s report concluded it had "established that the Trump Campaign displayed interest in the WikiLeaks releases, and that former Campaign member Roger Stone was in contact with the Campaign about those releases, claiming advance knowledge of more to come."

The newly unredacted portions of the Mueller report also show that after the initial dump by WikiLeaks, Trump personally asked Manafort to keep in touch with Stone, who in turn told the then-campaign chairman to keep him “apprised of any developments with WikiLeaks.” Investigators were also told by Gates that Trump had multiple phone conversations with Stone during the campaign and that, following one call held en route to LaGuardia airport, “Trump told Gates that more releases of damaging information would be coming.”

Unagi wrote: ↑Wed Jun 24, 2020 10:46 am And Flynn WALKS

U.S. appeals court orders dismissal of criminal case against Michael Flynn
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... d=msedgntp

Unagi wrote: ↑Wed Jun 24, 2020 10:57 am I thought this move had some finality to it, no?


"preventing a judicial review of the propriety of the request"