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Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund Refused to Support #MeToo Sex Assault Allegation Against Joe Biden | Democracy Now!

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The Intercept: Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund Refused to Support #MeToo Sex Assault Allegation Against Joe Biden | Democracy Now!

The Intercept is reporting that the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund, set up to help survivors of rape and sexual assault, refused to fund a #MeToo investigation into allegations against Joe Biden. The charges were brought by Tara Reade, who worked as a staff assistant for then-Senator Biden in 1993, when she was in her mid-twenties. Reade told journalist Katie Halper in an interview published Tuesday that Biden repeatedly touched her without her consent and sexually assaulted her. A warning to listeners and viewers: Her account is graphic.

Roger Stone Can’t Be Saved, Even by Bill Barr – Rolling Stone

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Roger Stone Can’t Be Saved, Even by Bill Barr – Rolling Stone

It’s not every day that a degenerate former swinger and serial scumbag who built a career based on a single line of bullshit and self-fellation so constant and vigorous that it is practically a yogic art form stands before the bar of justice, but here we are. Roger Stone is, as he loves to be, in the center of a national political scandal, and with his sentencing approaching in just days, Stone hoped the Trump “Justice” Department would save him from a well-deserved sentence of seven to nine years in prison.

Stone earned the recommended sentence not because he is a Trump ally, but because he threatened witnesses, lied to the court and to the House of Representatives, and got caught. Worst of all, he threatened Judge Amy Berman-Jackson online, defied various gag orders, and engaged in his usual rat-fuckery. He made the mistake of thinking that Judge Berman-Jackson is as gullible as the claque of hangers-on, wanna-be catamites, and scumbag errand boys with whom Stone usually surrounds himself.

Trump Commutes Blagojevich’s Sentence, Gives Clemency To 10 More

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Trump Commutes Blagojevich’s Sentence, Gives Clemency To 10 More

President Trump has commuted the sentence of the ex-governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, who has been imprisoned since being convicted on corruption charges over his attempt to sell the Senate seat vacated by then-President Barack Obama.

On Tuesday, the White House announced that Blagojevich is among 11 people who will be receiving clemency.

Those individuals include Edward DeBartolo Jr., former San Francisco 49ers owner convicted in a gambling fraud scandal; convicted Wall Street financier Michael Milken, who became known as the "junk bond king"; and Bernard Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner who pleaded guilty in 2009 to tax fraud and lying to federal officials.

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1,100 Ex-Justice Officials Call On William Barr To Resign Amid Roger Stone Case : NPR

"Such behavior is a grave threat to the fair administration of justice," the former officials wrote. "In this nation, we are all equal before the law. A person should not be given special treatment in a criminal prosecution because they are a close political ally of the President. Governments that use the enormous power of law enforcement to punish their enemies and reward their allies are not constitutional republics; they are autocracies."

It’s a terrible idea to let President Trump go unpunished over the Ukraine ordeal

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It’s a terrible idea to let President Trump go unpunished over the Ukraine ordeal …

While it’s true that being impeached is hardly without consequence — it’s a formal rebuke forever in the history books — he’s not going to be fined or forfeit his office for exploiting his office for political gain. If he is re-elected, it’s unlikely he will have learned from his mistake and do something just as stupid again.

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Trump Broke The Law In Freezing Ukraine Funds, Watchdog Report Concludes : NPR

A federal watchdog concluded that President Trump broke the law when he froze assistance funds for Ukraine last year, according to a report unveiled on Thursday.

The White House has said that it believed Trump was acting within his legal authority.

Trump's decision to freeze military aid appropriated by Congress is at the heart of impeachment proceedings against the president that are shifting venues this week from the Democrat-controlled House to the majority-Republican Senate.