Odds and Ends — 17 January 2024
Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:
https://twitter.com/Lookintobtc/status/1747051150220857499
Wall Street CEO on Tether Controversy: ‘They Have the Money’
https://twitter.com/100trillionUSD/status/1747215652899713289
Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:
https://twitter.com/rcwmsn/status/1747024825774985364
Florida Man:
Wall Street Journal urges DeSantis drop out of presidential race: ‘No clear path to nomination’
No clear path? As if there’s an unclear path?
Politics:
https://twitter.com/iamMauriceW/status/1747276233811890427
Judge Aileen Cannon Is Quietly Sabotaging the Trump Classified Documents Case
Judge Cannon’s brief order asserted that Smith’s motion was ‘not amenable to proper consideration at this juncture, prior to at least partial resolution of pretrial motions’ and further discovery.
Sound innocuous? It’s anything but. Instead, it’s part of a pattern we’ve already seen of Cannon laying the groundwork for delaying Trump’s trial—until it’s too late for a jury to be empaneled and the case tried to verdict before the election.
That is, of course, just what Trump has been angling for.
https://twitter.com/eorden/status/1747271576670851259
The U.S. Lacks What Every Democracy Needs
The history of voting in the United States shows the high cost of living with an old Constitution, unevenly enforced by a reluctant Supreme Court.
Unlike the constitutions of many other advanced democracies, the U.S. Constitution contains no affirmative right to vote. We have nothing like Section 3 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, providing that ‘every citizen of Canada has the right to vote in an election of members of the House of Commons or of a legislative assembly and to be qualified for membership therein,’ or like Article 38 of the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany, which provides that when it comes to election of the Bundestag, ‘any person who has attained the age of 18 shall be entitled to vote.'
As we enter yet another fraught election season, it’s easy to miss that many of the problems we have with voting and elections in the United States can be traced to this fundamental constitutional defect. Our problems are only going to get worse until we get constitutional change.
How media amnesia becomes GOP amnesty
https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1747288901713350711
Capitol Police Investigating Roger Stone Remarks About Assassinating Members of Congress
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1747231967744024777
Peter Navarro Denied a New Trial
Let’s Face It: Trump’s Iowa Result Was Pretty Weak
New York high court denies Trump appeal of fraud case gag order
https://twitter.com/MarkJacob16/status/1747262021643706805
The Des Moines Register pre-caucus poll also found that among these gung-ho Republicans, six percent would support Robert F. Kennedy Jr. rather than Trump, and eight percent would seek another third party choice. Bottom line: At least 25 percent of Iowa Republican caucus-goers say they will not vote for Trump in the general.
That’s significant. Our elections are decided by a few thousand votes in five swing states. Admittedly, Iowa is not one of those swing states, but if large numbers of Republicans in ruby-red Iowa are saying they will not vote for Trump in the general election, what does that suggest about Republicans in places like Pennsylvania, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Georgia?
A Potentially Huge Supreme Court Case Has a Hidden Conservative Backer
The case is one of the most consequential to come before the justices in years. A victory for the fishermen would do far more than push aside the monitoring fee, part of a system meant to prevent overfishing, that they objected to. It would very likely sharply limit the power of many federal agencies to regulate not only fisheries and the environment, but also health care, finance, telecommunications and other activities…
https://twitter.com/danielsgoldman/status/1747257243555557807
Supreme Court Stays Out of Transgender Bathroom Access
The court left in place an appeals court ruling that required a middle school in Martinsville, Indiana, to allow a transgender boy to use the bathroom that corresponds with his gender identity.
https://twitter.com/preparedwombat/status/1747371659311387051
US House panel considers commission to tackle nation's soaring debt
In Washington, commissions are often where ideas go to die. This is nominally bipartisan, but it’s unlikely to have much in the way of Democratic support.
Appeals court won’t re-hear case on keeping special counsel’s Twitter search secret from Trump
A federal appeals court said Tuesday it won’t re-hear a case concerning executive privilege and Twitter after special counsel investigators in the 2020 election interference case were allowed to access data from Donald Trump’s account without telling him.
The case has centered around questions about protection of communication around the presidency, and if Trump should have been informed when the special counsel’s office got court approval for a search warrant for his Twitter data. Ultimately, the courts decided federal investigators could access Trump’s account for its criminal probe, and Twitter could be forced to keep the search secret from Trump.
https://twitter.com/MarkJacob16/status/1747281082074943907
Serendipity:
How to prevent America’s aging buildings from collapsing – 4 high-profile disasters send a warning
https://twitter.com/RyanShead/status/1747127687897034938
Diabetes Is Fueling an Amputation Crisis for Men in San Antonio
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