Of Probation. Former Oath Keeper Ray Epps, who publicly urged people to go into the Capitol on Jan. 5 and 6, and who led the rush on the Capitol on the 6th, but somehow didn't actually enter the Capitol itself, had pled guilty to "disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds", and sentenced to one year of probation, despite many people having walked through the building peacefully, or even assembling the steps outside having been sentenced to years for felonies. James Lynch at Da Caller, Ray Epps Sentenced To One Year Probation For Conduct During Jan. 6th Riot
Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia James Boasberg sentenced Epps to 12 months probation after Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutors recommended Epps serve six months in jail for his conduct on and ahead of the Jan. 6th, 2021 Capitol attack. He is also ordered to pay $500 restitution. (RELATED: Biden Compares Jan 6 Protesters To Confederate Soldiers, Dubs It Second ‘Lost Cause’)
Epps pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count for disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds in September after coming to a deal with federal prosecutors. Epps’ legal team suggested he serve a probationary sentence in response to prosecutors’ sentencing memo arguing for six months probation.
Hat Hair's Beege Welborn, Woof - a Year Probation and They're Still Saying Ray Epps Wasn't a Fed?. From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 01.09.24 (Evening Edition), Nice Deb at Am Great Judge, Prosecutor, and Defense Lawyer All Agree Ray Epps Is a Victim of MAGA Conspiracy Theories; Gets Probation, No Jail Time" and at LI, Ray Epps, the Man Who Told People to Enter the Capitol on Jan. 6, Receives One Year Probation, And as long as we're on Jan 6, KT at Hat Hair pays attention to Pierre Delecto so you don't have to, Romney to Biden: January 6 Is a Political Dead Horse.
At Hat Hair,
Dennis Prager on Joe Biden's Scary Speech on Jan. 6 "Politically speaking, the purpose of the speech was clear. Given that
Biden has among the lowest favorability numbers ever recorded for a sitting
president, he cannot make the election about his achievements. Because he has
none that warrant his reelection. In every way, he has made America a worse
country."
Ed Driscoll
again, WATCH: Race-baiting Joe Biden claims housing prices are based on race. "Joe Biden is race-baiting again in order to try and help uplift his
abysmal poll numbers. Today he claimed that housing prices are based on race,
suggesting identical homes with blacks living in them are valued less than
ones with whites. Seriously." At Da Fed Eddie Scarry says Biden’s Campaign Doesn’t ‘Brief’ The Media, It Colludes With Them, From Da Mail, Top South Carolina Democrat Jim Clyburn says he is 'very concerned' as
Biden tanks with African-American voters and is not 'breaking through the
MAGA wall' as president set to visit key southern state today. Hat Hair's KT, Jill Biden Is Doing What Joe Biden Cannot - She's Campaigning, but for
Whom? Harold Hutchinson at Da Caller,
Jesse Watters Predicts Michelle Obama Could Emerge As A ‘Plan B’ For
Biden. Althouse, "She wants to run. So, this is her way — now that she’s talking about
politics, if she were really concerned about..." ""... the future and tenor of the country, she would be on the campaign
trail with Joe Biden. She is just as concerned about him as she is about
Donald Trump. This is her way of sending out a little canary into the coal
mine to see if it lives, and I think this could be beginning of her
campaign." Said Fox News commentator Kennedy, quoted in
"Fox News Hosts Claim Michelle Obama Isn’t Helping Biden’s Campaign Because
'She Wants To Run'"
(Mediaite)." She would rather be queen.
Hat Hair's John Sexton reports NYC High School Students Go Remote Tomorrow As Their School Is Used to House Migrants Overnight. Althouse, "When classes were virtual, students would log on some days, and some days they wouldn’t.... For parents, it might seem easier that way." . . . Writes Alec MacGillis, in "Has School Become Optional? In the past few years, chronic absenteeism has nearly doubled. The fight to get students back in classrooms has only just begun" (The New Yorker)." Hat Hair's KT, AMLO Has a List of Demands for Team Biden to Help With Immigration... Are You Kidding?
WUWT, Federal Court Throws Wrench into Biden Admin’s War on Appliances. "The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion in a legal battle between eleven red states and the federal government over the Department of Energy’s (DOE) efforts to impose energy and water efficiency standards for dishwashers and clothes washers that asserted it “is unclear that DOE has statutory authority to regulate water use in dishwashers and clothes washers,” according to the opinion’s text. The Biden administration has attempted to push new standards for both appliances since coming into office in 2021 as part of a wider push to nudge the market toward more energy efficient appliances, which in some cases are generally less effective than their other models, the court asserted in its opinion."
PJM's Stephen Kruiser notes Threats to 'Democracy' Abound, but They're Coming From the Left and Bab Spencer says Pot, Meet Kettle: Kamala Harris Accuses Republicans of ‘Trying to Silence’ Voters. Insty wonders WHAT DOES BANGLADESH SAY ABOUT OURS? "US says Bangladesh elections were not free and fair. I dunno about Bangladesh, but there’s this . . . " At the Babylon Bee, 'MAGA Is A Cult,' Says Party Doing Chants For Politician Inside Church. Capt. Ed notes "Only barely satire, especially if one remembers all of the cult-of-personality stuff going on in 2007-8 around Barack Obama."
Althouse, "He claimed magnets don’t work underwater.... He bragged about his ability to put on pants.... He said the Civil War could have been 'negotiated.'..." "I'm reading "8 Awful Things Trump Said in Iowa, Ranked" (NY Magazine). Is it not a good thing to believe wars can be avoided? Is it an article of faith that American slavery could only have been ended through warfare? Why is it "awful" to say that, as President, Trump would have tried to end it peacefully?" At Red State Nick Arama wants you to WATCH: Ron DeSantis Levels Protesters at Fox Town Hall With One Quip "I'm curious as to the process by which Fox vetted people to get into the town hall with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Somehow, they let protesters in with a huge banner, and at least a couple of the questions sounded like they might have come from Democrats." Althouse alarmed "Ms. Haley isn’t getting attacked just by Mr. DeSantis in Iowa but also by Mr. Trump in New Hampshire." Hat Hair's KT thinks Nikki Haley's Latest Endorsement Is... Interesting, Judge Judy?
Dave Strom at Hat Hair points out how Arizona Allows Noncitizens to Vote in Federal Elections (With a Wink and a Nod).
You must be a citizen to vote. Wink wink, nod, nod. Really, you must!
But if you aren’t, we’ll let you vote in federal elections, such as for Congress, Senator, and President of the United States. No questions asked. To do otherwise, you see, would be voter suppression. Really, it would be!
There are a lot of well-meaning people who honestly believe that the border policies pursued by the Democrats are all about compassion, decency, and a sincere desire to help oppressed people from around the world.
Bulls**t. This is raw politics. Joe Biden has opened the floodgates and is importing somewhere between 8-12 million new illegal immigrants into the country. There is going to be massive voter fraud in the next election. The way that they are accomplishing this is making it nearly impossible to track down who was eligible to vote and who wasn’t.
Ballots will be distributed like Monopoly money, collected by “ballot harvesters,” and counted by corrupt local officials, and they hope that by doing so, they can eke out a victory or better than that.
Do the illegal immigrants streaming into the country know they are part of this scheme? Most likely not. Will most of them participate in it? Probably not. It’s not like most of them came into the country as willing participants in a scheme to steal federal elections.
But will the flood of illegal aliens, many of whom are getting driver’s licenses in states like my own, Minnesota–19 states and the District of Columbia–be used to rig the vote? Certainly, throw in motor voter and lots of illegals will be automatically registered to vote, even if they don’t intend to. Ballots will be sent, collected by operatives, and returned.
It may be easier in some places than others. It will probably be haphazard. But our elections are sometimes so tight that it can make a huge difference- the difference between Joe Biden winning or losing the electoral college.
At Althouse, "Skeptics of disqualification have... argued that, even if Section 3 does cover a former President, it is not 'self-executing'..." ' At TownHall, Becca Downs reports Ted Cruz Has an Idea on How SCOTUS Could Rule Unanimously to Keep Trump on the Ballot "Cruz went on to say, the Court "will say instead is, however, the determination of that matter, cannot be made, without evidence, without due process, without a judicial proceeding, and in particular, the ground that I think the Court will go to, involves a federal statute," with the senator pointing to 18 USC § 2383, which, as he explained, codifies Section 3 of the 14th Amendment" and Mia Cathell observes Those Behind the Effort to Kick Trump Off Ballots Have Something in Common, money from George Soros. From NewsMax, Trump Warns Biden: Indictments Could Await You, Too. Althouse thinks you should Listen to the argument in United States v. Trump. (The issue is presidential immunity.) PJM's Vicky Taft sees Trump Show Up in Federal Court and Witnesses Major Case of TDS by Judges "Don't believe me? Judge Florence Pan took Jack Smith's over-the-top rantings in a pre-hearing brief and posed an outrageous hypothetical to Trump's attorney John Sauer of the Thomas More Law Center. Judge Pan hypothesized if Trump could be immune from prosecution if he — and we're not making this up — sent SEAL Team 6 to kill a political opponent." At The Right Scoop, Trump to deliver closing argument HIMSELF in civil fraud trial. Capt. Ed, "This is not a good idea, especially for someone as rhetorically undisciplined as Trump. He’s not an attorney and has demonstrated that several times in public statements that have contradicted his legal defenses in key ways. In this case particularly, Trump might end up corroborating elements of the plaintiff case in ways that could render potential appeals worthless. That’s especially true in a trial in which the judge has already determined that fraud occurred. There is no jury to impress here, only a judge to further annoy." But then, it's a show trial, with foregone conclusions, and he's going to give them a show.
At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 01.09.24 (Morning Edition), Twitchy, Techno Fog Drops Bombshell Thread About Fulton County DA Fani Willis, Athena Thorne at PJM says itLooks Like the Georgia RICO Case Against Trump Just Imploded, with charges the DA Fani Willis hired a man she was sleeping with as prosecutor, and then took vacations with him. At NewsMax, Huckabee to Newsmax: Georgia DA Should Be Disbarred, Trump Charges Dropped. From RedState, Jen Van Laar reports Fani Willis' Spokeswoman Is a DNC Member, Wife of 2022 Dem Lt. Gov Nominee - and There's More "Indeed, she is the spokesperson cited in response to a recent court filing by defendant Michael Roman alleging an improper romantic relationship between Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade."
PJM's Bob Spencer reports Far-Left Journalists Caught on Hot Mic Joking About What They Really Want for Trump, assassination.
Insty, THEY ALWAYS PRETEND IT’S ABOUT NAZIS: Substack Versus the Slippery Slope: The real reason to keep even Nazis on the platform. The people pushing this line don’t care about Nazis, they just want to use the “threat” of Nazis to acquire the power to shut down their political rivals. It’s this way every time. They’re not well-meaning anti-Nazis, they’re vile censors with bad intent. Dave Strom reports Tulsi Gabbard Announces Partnership With Twitter/X, Don Lemon and Jim Rome Joining Too. NewsMax, GOP Seeks Records on Censorship by Left-wing Groups. "House Republicans continue to pressure the State Department for more records concerning grants, such as ones that ultimately landed with organizations aimed at silencing conservative voices, the Washington Examiner reported. Members of the House Small Business Committee asked the State Department's Global Engagement Center (GEC) for information on grants the office has awarded. The request is part of the committee's broader inquiry into "government censorship and revenue interference of American small businesses by proxy," the Examiner reported Tuesday."
Don Surber sees Harvardicide, "Come for the destruction of DEI, stay for academia's collapse." Leslie Eastman at LI, reads Glenn Reynolds: Bill Ackman Frightening Leftists Because He’s Holding Universities Accountable "Woke activists are finally experiencing much needed accountability due to the action of outside forces." At 7 News, Boston, Pro-Palestinian protesters disrupt Mayor Wu’s State of the City address. According to the Free Bacon, SEIU Leader Participated in Palestinian Protest That Shut Down Brooklyn Bridge, "Union leader Larry Alcoff was joined by his wife Linda and son Jose, an Antifa member who was charged with felony assault in 2019." Times of Israel, US police arrest 325 anti-Israel protesters blocking New York City tunnel, bridges. But will they be left off? From CJ, Prosecute the New York Bridge Blockers. "The city must stop protesters from impeding travel." Capt. Ed comments "This is a tactic of the Left, subsidized and protected by municipal governments *only* for their ideological allies. If a MAGA demonstration blocked a bridge in this manner, Eric Adams would have demanded a deployment of National Guard troops. But there’s more danger in this than just hypocrisy. Pretty soon activists of all stripes will respond to the perceived incentives here by adopting the same tactics, and not too long after that, citizens will take matters into their own hands. I’m actually surprised we haven’t seen more of this than we have thus far."
John Sexton, Former DEI Staffer Sues University of Wisconsin for Racial Discrimination. From the College Fix, DEI staffer alleges U. Wisconsin discriminated against her for being white: lawsuit. Sauce for the goose. Can they both lose?
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The annual convention for the NCAA is set for January 10 to 13 in Phoenix. Protesters who hope to save women’s sports will rally outside the convention. They will demand an end to transgender athletes competing in female sports events.
NCAA swimming champions Riley Gaines and Paula Scanlan will be among the women protesters. Scanlan was a teammate of Lia Thomas, a male swimmer who competed on the UPenn swim team. When he was unable to win as a male swimmer, he was allowed to compete on the women’s team as a transgender athlete.
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Former Governor of Massachusetts, Charlie Baker, a Republican, now is president of the NCAA. Gaines criticizes him for avoiding the issue of transgenderism in women’s sports. Fox New online ran a blistering opinion piece by the Senior Director of Government Relations for Concerned Women for America.
The Wombat has Rule 5 Monday: Happy Lee-Jackson Day! and FMJRA 2.0: Whip it good! up and at 'em at The Other McCain.
Charlie Baker is no more republican than Mitt Romney or Paul Ryan.
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