About supreme court justice lies; Little bits

 A Kansas City Star opinion comments:

There’s still one recourse for Supreme Court 

justices who lied at their confirmations

First it was overturning Roe v. Wade, ending the federal constitutional right to abortion in the United States. Then it was the recent ruling in Snyder v. United States, allowing public officials to in effect take bribes in the way of “gratuities” and “rewards.” And now it is the recent ruling in Trump v. United States, which holds that presidents should enjoy “absolute immunity” for so called “official acts,” which in essence means that a president could even commit premeditated murder, and it would not be a crime — as long as the president declared the murder an “official act.” The lunacy of this court is mind boggling. People all over the country, and even around the world, are rolling their eyes in disbelief that the Supreme Court of the United States would do such a thing — but it did. People feel that there is nothing that can be done about Supreme Court justices who obviously lied during their Senate confirmation hearings when they testified under oath that “nobody is above the law” — including the president. Chief Justice John Roberts testified at his confirmation hearing: “No one is above the law under our system and that includes the president. The president is fully bound by the law.” Justice Samuel Alito testified at his confirmation hearing that “no person in this country is above the law, and that includes the president and it includes the Supreme Court.” Justice Neil Gorsuch testified at his Senate confirmation hearing, “No man is above the law.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh testified at his confirmation hearing, “No one is above the law in our constitutional system.”

In essence, all these justices committed perjury at their Senate confirmation hearings, which is a crime under Title 18 of U.S. Code. Under the law, witnesses commit perjury “after having taken an oath” to testify under penalty of perjury if they “knowingly and willfully” make “any material false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation” with respect to “any investigation or review, conducted pursuant to the authority of any committee, subcommittee, commission or office of the Congress.” Under the law, the perjury committed by these justices at their respective Senate confirmation hearings could subject them to fines or imprisonment of up to five years, or both.

The liars may be "subject" to prosecution. But with Merrick Garland The Traitor in charge of the DoJ, one can confidently predict there will be no prosecutions. Not even an investigation. The DoJ Manual, whatever the heck that is, comments on perjury laws, which apply to regular people, but not people like federal court nominees, DJT and other rich and/or powerful elites:

Perjury -- Overview Of 18 U.S.C. §1621 And 1623 Violations

Several Federal statutes criminalize perjury and related false statements. The two most commonly used statutes for perjury offenses are 18 U.S.C. §§ 1621 and 1623. Section 1621 is the traditional, broadly applicable perjury statute, and is used to prosecute perjuries committed before legislative, administrative or judicial bodies. Section 1623, added in 1970, eliminated some of the proof problems associated with these difficult prosecutions, but Congress limited its applicability to false statements before Federal courts and grand juries. (emphasis added)

Well rule of law fans, there you have it. Congress neutered its own useless perjury law that was intended to give the law some teeth. Instead, we got milquetoast. That tells us a lot about deep moral rot in our government.

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Elon Musk Writes, Then Deletes, a Post Musing About Threats to Biden and Harris -- Hours after what the F.B.I. called a second attempted assassination of former President Donald J. Trump, Elon Musk wrote on his social media site — and then deleted — a post suggesting it was odd that nobody had tried to kill President Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris. Mr. Musk said the post on X had been intended as a joke.

Ah good, it was just a joke.  /s

Leon, as the demented DJT called him, Musk is a shameless liar.

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Russia Ramps Up Air Assault on Ukrainian Cities -- The Ukrainian authorities on Monday said that they had repelled a “massive” Russian attack on Kyiv in the early morning hours. They said it was the eighth attack on the Ukrainian capital in just over two weeks, in what appears to be an escalation by Russia of its long-running air campaign against the city.

This is just a reminder, that if the war does not end in a peace settlement, the Ukraine will be pulverized into the stone ages, even if the Russian military is corrupt and inept. Sooner or later the Ukraine will no longer be able to defend itself. Then the Putin genocide will commence.

Too bad the US and the West torpedoed a peace agreement when one was possible. Now it is very likely too late, just like it is very likely too late for a "two-state solution" for Palestine. Just my hopefully wrong opinion.

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Portage County Ohio sheriff: 'Write down the addresses' of Kamala Harris supporters who display yard signs -- Sheriff Bruce D. Zuchowski, who took office in 2021, made the remarks in Facebook posts shared to two separate accounts on the night of Sept. 13. "When people ask me...What's gonna happen if the Flip - Flopping, Laughing Hyena Wins?? I say...write down all the addresses of the people who had her signs in their yards! Sooo...when the Illegal human "Locust" (which she supports!) Need places to live...We'll already have the addresses of the their New families...who supported their arrival!" Zuchowski wrote.

Hm, that's a sheriff talking. Sheriffs have a lot of power. Too bad he is a foaming at the mouth radical right authoritarian thug. The rule of law is rotting away before our eyes in real time.

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Calls for J.D. Vance to resign after he admits that he created pet-eating story about immigrants -- Fact check: J.D. Vance did not create the pet-eating story about immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, but he has admitted to amplifying and spreading these unsubstantiated claims. Origin of the claims: The rumors about Haitian immigrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio appear to have originated from far-right activists, local Republicans, and neo-Nazi groups before Vance echoed them.

Well, aren't far-right activists, local Republicans, and neo-Nazi groups a reliable source of accurate, nuanced, properly contextualized and empathetic information and news? Not? Oh, never mind. It's election season.

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Salon writes:

Donald Trump is openly running a 

Great Replacement Theory campaign 

Donald Trump made clear on the Philadelphia debate stage this week, as he has throughout his three presidential campaigns, a basis of his run for office. Trump is running on the platform that non-white immigration is an existential threat to the nation. This time around, Trump has made his primary message, the so-called Great Replacement Theory (GRT), more vivid than ever. It is therefore of existential importance in understanding the stakes of this election to have clearly in mind what has happened in the past when GRT has been the central driving narrative both of individuals and of states.

According to the Great Replacement Theory, the nation’s greatness, its traditions and its practitioners, are existentially imperiled by an influx of foreign races, ethnicities or religions. The foreign elements are sometimes described in the narrative of GRT, as vermin or diseases.

GRT was central to the official Nazi motivation for the genocide of the Jews of Europe. Hitler blamed the loss of World War I on Jewish betrayal of Germany. But this betrayal, for Hitler, was intimately connected to the Great Replacement Theory, via the introduction of Black soldiers in the French army subsequently occupying the Rhineland, the so-called “Black Horror on the Rhine.” In Mein Kampf, Hitler writes:

It was and is the Jews who bring the Negroes into the Rhineland, always with the same secret thought and clear aim of ruining the hated white race by the necessarily resulting bastardization, throwing it down from its cultural and political height, and himself rising to be its master.

Aw geez, now we're reduced to quoting Hitler. But if the shoe fits, hit someone with it. Hm, wrong quote. I wonder, did Hitler equate being Jewish with being non-White? Seems so. Is there a historian in the house? Anyone? Ah, Perplexity raised its hand. So, what do you have to say about that? Perplexity says:

It's kind of you to ask. Let me say this about that: Hitler and the Nazis did view Jews as a distinct "race" that was separate from and inferior to the "Aryan race" they considered to be superior. Nazi ideology was based on racist theories that divided humanity into different races, with the "Aryan race" considered superior. The Nazis classified Jews as a separate, inferior race, not just a religious group

 

Well history fans, there you have it. The origin of the GRT, at least according to one historian.