First, this nomination is why the American people elected Donald Trump as president and this confirmation is why the American people voted for a Republican majority in the U.S. Senate.

When Bernie Sanders‘ donors sued the Democratic National Committee, saying: people paid money in reliance on the understanding that the primary elections for the Democratic nominee — nominating process in 2016 were fair and impartial. And that’s not just a bedrock assumption that we would assume just by virtue of the fact that we live in a democracy, and we assume that our elections are run in a fair and impartial manner.  Page 13

Moreover, the party’s own charter calls for elections to be run in a fair and impartial manner.

Yet the Party argued that it is not even minimally required to run a “fair and impartial” election, neither by democratic norms, nor by the bylaws that it voluntarily adopted, nor by the statements the party leaders gave during the primary that they would run a fair and impartial primary:

Smoke Cigars and Pick Candidates:

Bruce V. Spiva, the lawyer who represented the Democratic National Committee argued that the party had the right to decide: Look, we’re gonna go into back rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the candidate that way. That’s not the way it was done. But they could have. And that would have also been their right  Page 36 

Spiva argued that it was not enough that

• democratic norms call for fairness and impartiality,
• the party’s bylaws call for impartiality
• party officials promised impartiality in the media

The only way the Democratic Party had any culpability to be fair and impartial, is if Bernie Sander’s donors:

• specifically read the Bylaws before donating, and
• their donation was demonstrably contingent on reading the bylaws.

Sander’s donors were not even asking for the election results to be changed.  They were merely asking to get their donations back and the DNC wouldn’t even do that.

 

Related:

• DNC: We Can Legally Choose Candidate Over Cigars In Back Room

 

 

Hi Steve,

Here’s an example of a contextual citation from your December 5, 2000 article in the Mennonite Quarterly Review.

The article describes the “mission movement”:

For about a decade during the middle of the twentieth century, Old Order church members organized national mission conferences, attended and graduated from college, participated in Mennonite voluntary service programs, distributed mission-oriented literature to thousands of Amish homes, and funded full-time Amish mission  workers from Mississippi to Ontario. To be sure, by the early 1960s all this would become impossible and even unthinkable in an Old Order context, but during the 1950s it was part of a yeasty mix of ideas and values competing for the Amish soul.

You can test-drive the CiteIt.net contextual citations program for yourself by visiting the demo area, where you can watch a 5 minute video explaining how to use the CiteIt.net WordPress plugin.

Non-Wordpress sites can use CiteIt.net without too much trouble, but it does require modifying the page’s Html.

Currently the live site does not support citing PDF, but PDF support is in the works.

• Create your own Contextual Citations on the demo site.

 

-Tim

In a highly unusual legal move, lawyers for the Justice Department said in court papers that Mr. Trump was acting in his official capacity as president when he denied ever knowing Ms. Carroll and thus could be defended by government lawyers — in effect underwritten by taxpayer money.

Though the law gives employees of the federal government immunity from most defamation lawsuits, legal experts said it has rarely, if ever, been used before to protect a president, especially for actions taken before he entered office.

In a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Lee said the 24 regular untreated mice lost considerable muscle and bone mass in weightlessness as expected — up to 18%.

But the eight genetically engineered “mighty mice” launched with double the muscle maintained their bulk. Their muscles appeared to be comparable to similar “mighty mice” that stayed behind at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.

In Fort Collins, the Colorado Climate Center at Colorado State University measured .3 inches of snow this morning, “the earliest accumulating snow ever observed in over 130 years of records!”

That followed a high of 99 degrees Sunday, the highest temperature ever observed so late in September. The National Weather Service says Fort Collins hit 100 degrees on Saturday.

“I’m not saying the military’s in love with me,” Trump added, as he advocated for the removal of U.S. troops from “endless wars” and lambasted NATO allies that he says rip off the U.S. “The soldiers are.”

“The top people in the Pentagon probably aren’t because they want to do nothing but fight wars so all of those wonderful companies that make the bombs and make the planes and make everything else stay happy,” he added.

“Some people don’t like to come home, some people like to continue to spend money,” the president said. “One cold-hearted globalist betrayal after another, that’s what it was.”

Golda Barton told KUTV she called 911 to request a crisis intervention team because her son, who has Asperger’s syndrome, was having an episode caused by “bad separation anxiety” as his mother went to work for the first time in more than a year.

“I said, ‘He’s unarmed, he doesn’t have anything, he just gets mad and he starts yelling and screaming,’” she said. “He’s a kid, he’s trying to get attention, he doesn’t know how to regulate.”

She added: “They’re supposed to come out and be able to de-escalate a situation using the most minimal force possible.”

Instead, she said, two officers went through the front door of the home and in less than five minutes were yelling “get down on the ground” before firing several shots.

“He’s a small child,” she said. “Why didn’t you just tackle him? He’s a baby. He has mental issues.”

Asked how much of his own money he would consider putting into the campaign, Trump replied: “Whatever it takes, we have to win.”

The NBC News/Marist poll showed support for the Republican and Democratic tickets evenly split, at 48 percent each, among likely voters in the state. Among registered voters, 47 percent supported Biden’s ticket while 48 percent supported Trump’s — comfortably inside the margin of sampling error.