NY Times: It's Cannon unless she recuses herself

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Saturday June 10, 2023 · 3:39 PM PDT

2023/06/10 · 15:39

NYTimes reports that the clerk of the southern district of Florida said that the assignment was random and that Cannon will continue to be in charge of the case unless she recuses herself.

A Trump-Appointed Judge Who Showed Him Favor Gets the Documents Case https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/09/us/politics/trump-documents-judge-aileen-cannon.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

Judge Cannon, 42, a Trump appointee in Florida, shocked legal experts across ideological lines last year by intervening in the investigation and issuing rulings favorable to Mr. Trump, only to be rebuked by a conservative appeals court.

The chief clerk of court for the Southern District of Florida has said that new cases there are randomly delegated to its judges even if they are related to previous ones. It was not immediately clear whether Mr. Trump lucked out, or if an exception was made. Either way, legal specialists said Judge Cannon’s return was significant.

Reversed! Mary Trump's book can be released

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Wednesday July 01, 2020 · 6:16 PM PDT

2020/07/01 · 18:16

A New York appellate judge has reversed the recent ruling preventing it's release.

In his decision, Justice Scheinkman ruled that Simon & Schuster was not a party to — and thus could not be bound by — the confidentiality agreement, which was signed by Ms. Trump, Donald Trump and the president’s two siblings, Robert S. Trump and Maryanne Trump Barry.

Tell-All Book on Trump Can Move Forward Pending Hearing, Judge Rules

Voting in Wisconsin

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Tuesday April 07, 2020 · 6:15 AM PDT

2020/04/07 · 06:15

Voted in Madison this morning and it was … just fine. Short wait, plenty of hand sanitizer. The only odd thing was the little privacy stands where you fill out the ballot were set up in pairs which would not work with social distancing. I think they might be constructed that way. Many more people were dropping off absentee ballots than voting in person (I’ll skip the embarrassing reason I didn’t vote absentee).

However that’s just one neighborhood in Madison. I worry about how things are going elsewhere, especially Milwaukee.

Felony charges DROPPED for VA GOP worker who tossed registration forms

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Wednesday April 03, 2013 · 2:40 PM PDT

2013/04/03 · 14:40

Remember Colin Small?
He is the employee of Nathan Sproul's GOP-connected company which has been accused of multiple episodes of voter suppression. Back in October Small was caught tossing registration forms in a dumpster. He was charged with 13 counts, including 8 felonies. Yesterday the felony counts were dropped by (Republican) prosecutor Marsha Garst. Many more details are at http://www.bradblog.com/... including:

Unlike other Commonwealth Attorneys, observed a local Democratic-leaning political muckraker yesterday, Garst failed to recuse herself from the prosecution despite what would appear to be very clear conflicts of interests in the case.

and

Tribbet, citing the WHSV report, notes that "Small's defense was he thought the people who filled out these forms were 'already registered'. So he drove to a random dumpster to throw them out instead of just putting them in the trash at his office? This doesn't pass the laugh test."

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Republican South Carolina State Rep. explains GOP opposition to Medicaid expansion

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Wednesday March 13, 2013 · 8:04 AM PDT

2013/03/13 · 08:04

I haven't found this on DKos, sorry if it's already been blogged.
Kris Crawford, a South Carolina State representative gave an interview to the Charleston Regional Business Journal back on January 29. His words just now seem to be gaining notice.
http://www.charlestonbusiness.com/...
Crawford is also an emergency physician.

“The politics are going to overwhelm the policy. It is good politics to oppose the black guy in the White House right now, especially for the Republican Party,” Crawford said.
He encouraged the doctors to advocate the use of the budget to accomplish expansion of Medicaid, rather than passing additional laws.

Brave honesty, or just an accident?

Obama in Madison livestream [Finished] [Updates]

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Thursday October 04, 2012 · 1:38 PM PDT

2012/10/04 · 13:38

Tammy Baldwin gave a great speech. Waiting for the president to come to the podium. Bascom Hill on campus is full with ~30,000, others turned away.

http://www.channel3000.com/...

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Wednesday August 01, 2012 · 7:25 AM PDT

2012/08/01 · 07:25

Documents finally released from Wisconsin's redistricting process confirm that Republicans used their legislative majorities and a lot of taxpayer money to gerrymander districts to favor their incumbents.

[Link warning: the comments section at madison.com is a cesspool into which I have not waded in a long time. Go at your own risk.]

More details below the cheddar cheese curd.

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Monday June 04, 2012 · 4:03 PM PDT

2012/06/04 · 16:03

Marketplace (American Public Media) just broadcast a brief but nice piece on public safety workers hurt by the Walker administration in Wisconsin. There are some really articulate interviewees including Mahlon Mitchell. I kept waiting it to finish with a false-equivalency rebuttal but ... it didn't happen.

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Friday June 01, 2012 · 8:31 AM PDT

2012/06/01 · 08:31

Well I woke up to this headline on CapTimes.com (Madison, WI):

Capitol Report: Deer hunting Texas style? Walker administration says 'no'

Democratic Assembly members are starting to push the issue. Brett Hulsey says “It’s a pay-to-play deal.” There is pushback from a Walker spokeswoman who says "It’s just rumors." The article is pretty balanced, except that they mention the original Texas Monthly piece about Deer Czar Kroll and they provide quotes from Kroll on his website defending himself, without giving any of the original extremely inflammatory quotes. I provided a couple examples in the comments section of the article.

Edit: some choice quotes (these are from deeranddeerhunting.com since I haven't registered at Texas Monthly):

“Game Management,” says James Kroll, driving to his high-fenced, two-hundred-acre spread near Nacogdoches, “is the last bastion of communism.”

People who call for more public lands are “cocktail conservationists,” he says, who are really pining for socialism.

Where does this leave the public-land hunter? “It will suck to be you,” said one deer manager who asked to remain anonymous out of fear for his job. “The resources and efforts will go toward improving the private land sector. This is all about turning deer hunting away from the Public Land Doctrine and more toward a European-style of management — like they have in Texas.”

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