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In what must be considered one of the most bizarre rulings to every ooze out of the US judicial system, Judge McAfee decided that, despite the "odor of mendacity" (his words), Fani Willis can continue to persecute Donald Trump in Fulton County, Georgia, provided she gives up the services of boy toy Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade.  Of course, Wade resigned almost immediately, $700,000 dollars later. 

Capt. Ed at Hat Hair, BREAKING: McAfee Splits the Fani Baby? "So Willis acted unprofessionally in the courtroom and contributed to an "odor of mendacity," establishing "an appearance of impropriety" ... but McAfee wants to let Willis resolve the situation because she's just so darned trustworthy, or something." Curtis Houck@CurtisHouck "So, if I have this right, Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee decided to pull a James Comey, Robert Mueller, and Robert Hur: Write a ruling saying Fani Willis and Nathan Wade are guilty as hell, have no ethics, and aren't good role models....BUT Fani can stay." Althouse, "Judge Says Fani Willis Can Stay on Trump Case, but Only if Former Romantic Partner Leaves." "The NYT reports." "The court could not find that the Willis/Wade relationship began before she hired him because Terrance Bradley's testimony was so weak. And Robin Yearti's testimony "lacked context and detail." But there was "an odor of mendacity" to Willis and Wade's testimony — and that is part of the "appearance of impropriety." The court found Willis's "church speech" "legally improper" but not the point where it "denied the opportunity for a fundamentally fair trial" or required Willis's disqualification." The Dersh at his substack, That's forbidden love! ALAN DERSHOWITZ slams Georgia judge for letting DA Fani Willis continue her war on Trump despite paying her 'lover' with taxpayer dollars... "... it's more proof of America's rotten justice." "Trump and his co-defendants should seek an immediate review of this gross injustice by an appellate court. Certainly, if the former President or any others are convicted, there will be grounds to seek those convictions be overturned." Capt. Ed adds |I'll go Dersh one step further: the explanations Willis offered about cash stashing and undocumented reimbursements sound custom made for a RICO predicate -- more so than the indictment she filed against Trump et al." Ace, Cowardly Politician McAfee Placates the Mob and Allows Fani Willis to Continue Prosecuting the Trump Fake RICO Case. Sundance at CTH, She Dindunuffin’ – Judge Scott McAfee Gives Option: DA Fani Willis or Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade Gotta Go – But McAfee and His Wife Donated to Willis, So… XiNN, Georgia prosecutor Nathan Wade’s resignation letter and DA Fani Willis’ response. Da Caller, Nathan Wade Resigns From Trump Case In Response To Judge’s Fani Willis Ruling. Jonathan Turley at NYPo, Judge throws Fani Willis a lifeline, when he should have tossed whole case against Trump. Capt. Ed, "Exactly. As I wrote earlier, the problem with splitting the baby is that the baby dies. This has effectively drained whatever credibility remained in this proceeding in Fulton County. And Turley also wonders what happens when the state bar inevitably looks at his ruling about the "odor of mendacity" coming from Willis and Wade and has to take action because of it." Kyle Becker@kylenabecker, "So this is not a good day for the state and it’s not a good look for the state.” JUST IN: CNN Legal Expert Slams Willis Ruling: This Would Be ‘Career-Ender For A Normal Prosecutor’" Da Caller, CNN Legal Analyst Says Fani Willis Ruling Is ‘Not A Good Look’: ‘Gift To The Defense’ From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 03.15.24 (Evening Edition) at Am Great, House Judiciary Committee Threatens Fulton County DA Fani Willis with Contempt and I'm sure the Biden/Garland DOJ will get right on that. Darlene Casella at Am Think doesn't think much of The Face of Democrat Justice,  The Geller Reports Judge DISMISSES Six Charges Against Trump in Absurd Fani Willis’, LI  *UPDATE* Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade Resigns From Georgia Trump Case, .From the Free Bacon, Jim Jordan Threatens To Hold Fani Willis in Contempt of Congress. ET, Fani Willis Faces Possible Contempt of Congress Proceedings Over Subpoena Non-Compliance. 

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In the New York trial, based very loosely on Trump's hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels, the trial has been delayed by the revelation that the prosecution has a 15,000 more pages of "evidence." to turn over to the defense. Fox, Judge delays Trump's hush-money trial amid last-minute evidence dump by feds. "Both sides have fought over the hundreds of thousands of pages of information that's likely to delay start of Trump's trial in New York." Althouse, "New York prosecutors said Friday that they expect to get an additional 15,000 pages of potential evidence in Donald Trump’s hush money case...." "[F]ederal prosecutors previously investigated much of the same conduct that became the basis for Bragg’s office to charge Trump last year with violating state laws on business records. Trump is accused of scheming to cover up his payment of hush money in 2016 to hide from the public an alleged sexual liaison years earlier with an adult-film actress. Lawyers for Trump... have accused prosecutors of deliberately withholding reams of such documents until the last minute before the scheduled March 25 trial. In recent days, federal prosecutors turned over more than 100,000 pages of documents...." WaPo reports. For one reason or another, every one of these criminal cases against Trump is getting delayed" Will Kessler at Da Caller reports Trump’s New York Hush Money Trial Delayed By Judge. 30 days. ET, Trump Scores Partial Win in Request to Delay Manhattan Criminal Trial.

A judge asks a good question, Da Caller, Judge Questions Why Trump Was Only President Charged Over Handling Of Classified Material The redoubtable Julie Kelly@julie_kelly2 "NEW: From FLA courthouse in Trump's classified documents case with a prediction. Robert Hur report and testimony is the biggest elephant in the room. The term "arbitrary enforcement" used frequently by both the defense and Judge Aileen Cannon. Cannon hammered the fact no former president or vice president has been charged under Espionage Act for taking and keeping classified records including national defense information--which represents 32 counts against Trump in Jack Smith's indictment. Prediction: Cannon won't dismiss the case based on the motions debated today--vagueness of Espionage Act and protection under the Presidential Records Act. But it's very likely she will dismiss the case based on selective prosecution, a motion still pending before her."

Dave Harsanyi at Da Signal say it Turns Out Biden Lied About Hur, Beau, and Why He Pilfered Classified Documents. Capt. Ed adds "If his lips were moving, Biden's lying. That's the track record of Joe Biden over the course of his 50 years in Washington: he's twenty pounds of bull**** in a ten-pound bag." Hollywood it Toto, Colbert Gaslights Viewers on Hur Testimony to Protect Biden. I could save six words from that title. Chris Flanagan at the Ops Desk asks about The Biden Family Accounts. "Did the Oversight Committee ask the right questions?" I detect an odor of mendacity. Bob Spencer at Front Page sees the Media Dig Up the Old ‘Biden’s Not Senile, He Just Stutters’ Lie.

KT at Hat Hair VIP, Senate Republicans Introduce Laken Riley Act Mocked by Senator Warnock. From Breitbart cites Donald Trump: Joe Biden Has Shown ‘No Compassion’ to Laken Riley’s Family, Only Said Her Name Incorrectly After MTG Pressure. Capt. Ed says "Trump's right about this; Biden should have kept his mouth shut about it during the SOTU, but Biden always thinks he can outfight his opponents when he's unable to out-think them." Mike LaChance at LI, New York City Spending an Eye-Popping Amount on Illegal Immigrants Every Day. “New York City is spending about $387 per day per migrant to provide food and shelter to the 64,800 migrants in the city, according to data from NYC City Hall.” Hank Berrien at Da Wire, ‘Who The F*** Has Ever Said That’: Eric Adams Calls NYC ‘Port-Au-Prince Of America’, cannibalism and all? Breitbart, Chicago Struck with Multiple Cases of Illegals with Measles, CDC Responds. Hat Hair's John Sexton reports that in Chicago: Migrant Evictions Will Begin Sunday. Sarah Arnold at TownHall, Biden Has Only Deported .25% of Illegal Venezuelans Who Have Entered the U.S. Brianna Lyman at Da Fed notes how the HHS Secretary Refuses To Explain Why ‘Hardworking Americans’ Should Pay For Illegals’ Healthcare. From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 03.15.24 (Evening Edition), A Shot in the Dark wonders Ever Wonder What A Sled Dog Feels Like? Alpha News@AlphaNewsMN "Minnesota Democrat Carlie Kotyza-Witthuhn says illegal immigrants should be eligible for a proposed universal basic income program." Not even close, sled dogs are bred to run without asking any stupid questions, like where are we going and why?

Ace, Women Solo Jogger Alert: Three Illegal Aliens Arrested for Kidnap and Rape of Florida American Citizen. "Here's another group r*pe for Rachel Maddow and Jen Psaki to giggle about." From Henry Rogers at Da Caller, Gaetz Demands Answers From ICE After Refusal To Provide Info On Illegal Immigrant Accused Of Killing Constituent.  From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 03.15.24 (Evening Edition), The Federalist,  How Many More? Illegal With Drunk Driving Record Faces Vehicular Homicide Charges In Wisconsin, 

Mark Hemingway at Da Fed thinks 2024 Is Shaping Up To Be The ‘We Were Right About Everything’ Election. Hat Hair hosts How Do Spring Breakers Feel About Joe Biden? Well...

Marv Folkertsma at Da Spec, Can the Pesky, Messy 25th Amendment Be Used Against Biden? "It raises a tangle of political problems, but it may also solve one."

From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 03.15.24, Twitchy: Rob Schneider Needs Just One Headline To Completely Torch Today’s Democratic Party,  and Disgraced Former Biden Appointee/US Attorney Rachael Rollins Has Law License Suspended. 

At Fortune observes The economy was just hit with a one-two punch of bad data. Nick Arama at RedState say Biden Demonstrates His Brain Is Mush With Inflation Remark in Wisconsin, Americans Not Buying It. mrcTV, Biden: 'We Have Among the Lowest Inflation Rates of Any Country in America'. See Capt. Ed's comment above. Breitbart cites the White House: We’re Still Making Inflation Progress, Last Two Months Had ‘Seasonality’. Dan Oliver at Am Great, The Scorpion, the Frog—and Biden. "Adam Smith said there’s a lot of ruin in a country. If Biden and his fellow scorpions raise corporate taxes, this country may discover how much ruin there is, and we all may go the way of the frog."

Dave Strom at Hat Hair reports Qatar Offered to Expel Hamas; Blinken Said No. As Stacy McCain notes Democrats are the The Pro-Hamas Party

Breitbart crows Donald Trump Leads or Ties Joe Biden in 75% of 2024 Swing States, Polls Show, but they haven't counted the mail-in vote yet. Nate Silver warns Democrats are hemorrhaging support with voters of color "The trend is real in polls, and in at least some election results." Andy Stein at NYPo explains Why this Democratic Nikki Haley backer is endorsing Trump for president. Sundance not surprised Mike Pence Says He Will Not Vote for Donald Trump. Well, I won't vote for you either. John Sexton at Hat Hair VIP, 'Duty to Warn' Is Back to Warn About Trump's Mental Decline. At Althouse,  "Small clips of his craziness can be too easily dismissed as the background noise of our times." "Writes Susan B. Glasser, in "I Listened to Trump’s Rambling, Unhinged, Vituperative Georgia Rally—and So Should You/The ex-President is building a whole new edifice of lies for 2024"" "Below is the speech Glasser watched in full. I've watched it. It's a standard Trump rally speech. Is Trump "vituperative"? Why not "fiery" or "feisty" (the words used to describe Biden's loud, angry SOTU)? Is he "rambling" and "unhinged" or a marvel of stamina and spontaneity? But Glasser is convinced — or poses as convinced — that watching the whole 2 hours will persuade voters who might vote for Trump that he's as awful at Trump haters insist he is..."

From Ace, House Looks to Stop "Bidenbucks" Plot to Use Federal Money to Sign Up Democrat Voters; The Feds Go Into Prisons to Sign Illegal Alien Convicts to Vote. "There will be cheating like never before in the history of any "civilized" western country. Fred Lucas at Da Signal, DOJ Keeps Plan Secret for Biden’s Election Executive Order. At Da Caller, ‘They Are Miles Ahead’: Despite ‘Election Integrity’ Hype, GOP Could Be Walking Into 2024 Legal Buzzsaw. From Da Fed's Brianna Lyman, Michigan Has More Registered Voters Than Eligible Citizens In 53 Counties, Says RNC Lawsuit and MD Kittle wonders Even Leftists Understand Ranked-Choice Voting Is Unfair, So Why Are Squishy Republicans Pushing It? Da Caller notes DNC Forms First-Ever Team To Combat Third-Party Candidates In 2024. Hat Hair's Beege Welborn sees a Weekend at Nardo's: Ohio GOP Primary Skullduggery Surprises Surface.

 From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 03.15.24 (Evening Edition), The Federalist: Zuckbucks Group Teaches Election Offices How To Shut Down Speech And Influence Election Laws, Dragging Trump Into Court While Biden Campaigns Is Election Interference, Regardless Of Verdict, Leftists Hate Natural Law Because It’s The Only True Bulwark Against Tyranny, Bigoted Democrats Reject Science When It Comes From The Religious Right, Lawsuit: Anti-Trump Official Illegally Designated Ballot Drop-Off Sites In Pennsylvania County.

'Becca Downs at TownHall, Trouble Might Be Coming for Members of the January 6th Committee. Matt Margolis at PJM, House May Refer Members of January 6 Committee for Prosecution, for destruction of evidence and obstruction. Da Fetched, House May Refer Jan 6 Committee Members for Prosecution for ‘Destroying Evidence’. From PM, Jim Jordan demands DOJ answer for arrest of journalist Steve Baker over J6 reporting. "Jordan claimed that the FBI's treatment of Baker "smacks of harassment and selective treatment for a disfavored criminal defendant."" Da Blaze reports Mike Lee subjected to TSA pat-down days after calling to nix the agency: 'Maybe it's a coincidence'. Phil Reichert at Am Spec says Our Intelligence Community Is Broken. "Trump will fix it, not break it." 

Eric Swalwell and "Christine" Fang Fang

Neil McCabe at RedState says Hu Knows: Swalwell Bundler Fang Fang Breaks Cover, Reveals FBI Offered Her $1 Million “In 2015, the CIA & FBI approached her, asked her to ‘cooperate,'” he said. “The FBI used coercion & inducement, offering to give her U.S. citizenship and $1 million, requiring her to work for them or else they would ‘ruin her.’”. .  .“Three days after the FBI had a showdown with her, she fled U.S. alone and returned to China, her motherland,” Hu said. “She told me: ‘I just don’t want to betray my motherland. I don’t want to be an American spy. That’s my bottom line as a person.’”

At PM, Supreme Court rules public can sue officials who block, mute them on social media. "The ruling was unanimous." Dan McLaughlin at NRO, cited at Hat Hair thinks The SCOTUS Ruling on Social-Media Blocks Is a 'Bad Result'. Capt. Ed comments "After reading Dan's analysis, I read the opinion in Lindke v Freed and found it nearly impenetrable. It misses the forest for the trees in its attempts to grapple with the idea that every social-media post is in itself a public forum of some sort. Under this rubric, courts will have to engage in fact-finding as to whether officials were acting 'under color of authority' even on personal accounts in determining whether a block violates First Amendment rights. That's nonsense. The "public forum" is the platform, not individual posts. Blocking trolls doesn't deny them the right to speak -- it just denies them access to an account on the platform. They can still post away to their hearts' content. And as Dan writes, it's very disappointing that not one justice figured that out. "

Matt Taibbi at Racket, Why the TikTok Ban is So Dangerous "Did they tell you the part about giving the president sweeping new powers?" Do you really want Joe Biden (or whoever is speaking through his mouth) to be able to decide what you can see? Capt. Ed, "I had a sneaking suspicion that Congress was trying to set a larger precedent, which is why I warned about the bill yesterday. It's a PATRIOT Act for social media, and it follows on the heels of the exposure of the Big Tech-Gov't Big Brother Operation that suppressed dissent and silenced criticism of the government during the pandemic, including the silencing of the New York Post on Twitter. The only reason we know the scope of that operation is because Elon Musk spent $44 billion of his own money to buy Twitter and expose it." Sundance hosts Tucker Carlson's Interview Senator Rand Paul About The TikTok Ban Law – HR7521. TNP, Trump Further Clarifies Position on TikTok/Facebook Restrictions: ‘Do Them Both?’ 

Twitchy, CNN Attempts a 'Dirty Job' on Mike Rowe and He Deftly Handles Their SNEAKY Scheme. Sister Toldja at RedState calls him a 'Class Act': Mike Rowe Lauded Over Smooth Handling of CNN Reporter's 'Gotcha' Games.

Tim Graham at Front Page catches AP ‘Fact Focus’ Elastically Redefining Terms to Defend Biden. "The latest "fact-checkers" ploy."

At Campus Reform, Pro-Hamas statement quietly scrubbed from MIT website as school faces congressional investigation. Beege Welborn hears Sour Notes: Hamas Supporters Fits Over Army Sponsoring Music Fest Has Bands Doing the TX Tantrum Two-Step. Breitbart has a Report: Anti-Israel Protesters Beat Up Jewish Man at Theater in Chicago. From the Free Bacon, Israeli Lawyer Ran Bar-Yoshafat Will Return to Berkeley After Anti-Semitic Mob Shut Down His Speech. 'I really think this is bigger than an Israeli issue or a Jewish issue.'   At Hollywood in Toto, ‘Killing America’ Connects Shocking DEI Dots "Mini-doc explores how woke school manifestos fuel raging antisemitism."

The College Fix reports New Indiana higher ed law mandates intellectual diversity, enacts post-tenure review. Leslie Eastman at LI, Epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff, Who Correctly Warned Against Covid Lockdowns, Says Harvard Fired Him . "Warning about the politicization of research, Kulldorff writes: “Science cannot survive in a society that does not value truth and strive to discover it.” Volokh at The Volokh Report reports Employers' Talking "About Race—Any Race—With a Constant Drumbeat of Essentialist, Deterministic, and Negative Language" Risks Racial Harassment Liability. "So a federal district court just held." At Ace, Warner Bros. Chief Diversity Officer on How to Deal With White Men Who Question DEI: Just Ignore Them and "Change the Culture" Around Them Until They "Will Start Saying This Place Isn't the Way it Used to Be and They'll Leave Themselves, Which is Great!" "He doesn't specify that he wants white men to self-deport, but, come on, they're the people getting screwed by DEI, so they're the ones most likely to oppose it." Capt. Ed, "Sounds great ... in theory. In practice, though, corporations have tried similar strategies to avoid layoffs by making conditions miserable enough to depart. And who leaves? It's largely the people who can readily find jobs elsewhere -- the people with the skills and experience these companies need to succeed. Who doesn't leave? Primarily those who can't easily find work elsewhere. It's called "brain drain," and it's a recipe for mediocrity or worse."

Ashe Schow at Da Wire reports Media Ran With Claim That ‘Nonbinary’ Teen Died From ‘Brain Trauma’ Caused By Bullies. It Was Actually A Drug Overdose. At Victory Girls, a “Journalist” Tries To Push Trans-Teen Bullying Narrative. ET, ‘Affirmation at All Costs’: What Internal Files Reveal About Transgender Care "Recently released files from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) show a lack of informed consent and scientific evidence." At Da Wire, Nearly 30% Of Gen Z Women Identify As LGBT: Gallup Poll. "The general population of adults who identify LGBT also hit an all-time high." It's an alternative to anorexia and eating disorders. 

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