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#22574694 at 2025-02-13 15:20:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27587: Thunderous Thor Thursday: Kash and RFK Confirmations Edition
>>22574693
Separation of Powers
Here is what Vance said:
If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal. If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that's also illegal. Judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power.
Vance's words do nothing more than explain the separation of powers at work. Under the Constitution, the president has his sphere of authority and the judges have theirs. The Constitution grants the president "the Executive power," requires him to execute the laws faithfully (of which the Constitution is the highest law), and charges him to protect national security. Among other things, these constitutional authorities give him the power to supervise the personnel in the executive branch, from Cabinet officials on down. Neither the federal judiciary nor Congress can "control the executive's legitimate power" (as Vance put it) within that sphere, just as the president cannot dictate to the Supreme Court how to decide a case or controversy.
An obvious example is the one Vance provides: war. The Constitution vests the president with the role of commander-in-chief of the armed forces, while it gives to Congress the power to declare war. The courts have no power to direct the president in the exercise of his wartime authority.
During the Vietnam War, Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman sued to stop the bombing of Cambodia (which President Richard Nixon had ordered). Holtzman obtained an injunction from a district court. The court of appeals promptly stayed the district court order. Holtzman petitioned Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, who oversaw that court of appeals, to vacate the stay. Marshall properly refused, writing "the proper response to an arguably illegal action [by Nixon] is not lawlessness by judges charged with interpreting and enforcing the laws." Holtzman then reapplied to liberal Justice William Douglas, an outspoken critic of the war, who rejected the executive's argument that reimposing the ban on the bombing would cause a "constitutional confrontation." Douglas then ordered the military to stop the bombing. The military ignored Douglas' order. Douglas' colleagues on the court immediately overturned his unconstitutional order. No federal court has ever attempted to stop military hostilities, or - for critics of Vance would have to accept this possibility - ordered them to begin.
Vance also correctly recognizes that courts cannot direct the president's exercise of the power of prosecution. The Constitution grants the president broad discretion over what cases, criminal or civil, to bring or not to bring, and what level of federal resources to dedicate to the enforcement of federal law. The Supreme Court affirmed the breadth of prosecutorial discretion in the 1985 case of Heckler v. Chaney. Supporters of the Biden administration should be the last people to question the breadth of the president's prosecutorial discretion. Biden virtually suspended control of the border by claiming the right not to enforce immigration law. The Biden administration claimed that same discretion to pursue not just the Jan. 6 rioters, but even the past president and the leading opposition candidate for the same office, Donald Trump.
Prosecutorial discretion is not absolute. Prosecutions begun on the basis of race violate the Fourteenth Amendment, as recognized by the Supreme Court in the 1886 Yick Wo v. Hopkins decision. Prosecutors also cannot target defendants because of their speech, political views, or religion. But these are not separation of power principles - these rules apply to the courts and Congress too.
#19549012 at 2023-09-14 12:47:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #24008: The Awakening Process Edition
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/revealed-how-the-cia-protected-nazi-murderers-2158071.html
How the CIA protected Nazi murderers
US shielded war-time collaborators to try to destabilise Soviet Union
Declassified CIA files have revealed that US intelligence officials went to great lengths to protect a Ukrainian fascist leader and suspected Nazi collaborator from prosecution after the Second World War and used him to stir up trouble inside the Soviet Union from an office in New York.
Mykola Lebed led an underground movement to undermine the Kremlin and wage guerrilla operations for the CIA during the Cold War, said a report prepared by two scholars under the supervision of the US National Archives. During the Second World War, Lebed helped to lead a Ukrainian nationalist organization that collaborated with the Nazis in the murder of the Jews of the western Ukraine and also killed thousands of Poles. The report details post-war efforts by US intelligence officials to throw the federal government's Nazi hunters off his trail and to ignore or obscure his past.
The report, titled Hitler's Shadow: Nazi War Criminals, US Intelligence, and the Cold War, draws from an unprecedented trove of records that the CIA was persuaded to declassify, and from more than a million digitised army intelligence files that had long been inaccessible. Among other things, the authors say, the files also show that US intelligence officials used and protected ex-Nazis during the Cold War to a greater extent than previously known.
Elizabeth Holtzman, a former Democratic congresswoman from New York who fought for the disclosure of Nazi files, welcomed the release. "This is a difficult, and in some respects shameful, chapter in American history," she said. "It was not known to the public, and I think it's a mark of governmental courage and of national courage to take this era and these documents and say, 'We want to learn the truth about what our government did', and to do it in a way that was professional and serious."
In 1949 the US government brought Lebed to New York, where he was safe from assassination. Through his CIA-funded organisation, Prolog, he gathered intelligence on the Soviets into at least the late 1960s. In 1991, he was still considered a valuable asset to the agency, the report said. Lebed was eventually identified by federal investigators as a possible war criminal but was never prosecuted. He died in 1998.
One of the report's chapters deals with how the Americans used Gestapo officers, including Rudolf Mildner, after the war. Mildner oversaw security in Denmark in 1943 when most of the country's 8,000 Jews were ordered to be arrested and deported to Auschwitz - though they were rescued after Danish resistance leaders were tipped off. The US army detained Mildner and saved him from war crimes investigators because his knowledge of Communist subversion was considered useful.
Nazi hunters and lawmakers have long raised questions about the US government's involvement with war criminals during the Cold War. Between 1945 and 1955 alone, more than 500 scientists and other specialists with Nazi ties were brought to the US, and went on to play major roles in such fields as missile development and the space programme.
#17412872 at 2022-08-18 23:27:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21340: Judge orders partial unsealing of docs related to Trump FBI raid Edition
>>17412844
>>NEW YORK TIMES FACES BACKLASH OVER DAN GOLDMAN ENDORSEMENT DEBACLE
Both the Times' official statement and a tweet thread from the company's PR feed are carefully worded. In the tweet thread, the paper states that there are "no members of the Sulzberger family who have anything to do with candidate endorsements other than our publisher," who is, of course, a Sulzberger. The thread stresses that the endorsements are "independent decisions" but adds that the board reports to the publisher, A.G. Sulzberger, through the opinion editor.
Daniel Okrent, the former public editor of the Times, had no knowledge of the specific endorsement in question but explained that similar situations have happened before. "The publisher of the paper is the authority over the editorial page," Okrent said. "It's not infrequent that the board might want somebody and the publisher wants someone else."
Okrent didn't find this instance particularly worthy of condemnation; after all, the publisher is ultimately responsible for what goes out under the paper's name. In this case, he wasn't sure whether it merited disclosure within the endorsement. "I can see how [the editorial board] would think, 'If we say he's a family friend, that would weaken our determination that he's the best person for the job,'" he noted.
THE ENDORSEMENT ITSELF is unusually weak. It leads by saying that Goldman and Jones stand out from the mostly unnamed rest of the field. (Former Watergate-era Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman and Assembly Member Jo Anne Simon, along with Niou and Rivera, round out the top six candidates.) It highlights Goldman's work on the Trump impeachment and says that "those who have worked with Mr. Goldman behind the scenes describe him as diligent and prepared and a person of integrity." Longtime local reporter Errol Louis translated that to mean: "Queries within the alumni networks of Sidwell Friends, Yale, and Stanford Law, from which Goldman graduated, turned up good reports and no scandals."
The endorsement celebrates Goldman "bring[ing] serious policy ideas to the race" but only mentions his support for a "ban on stock trading by members of Congress," which has already been widely embraced by a majority of Democrats. The endorsement lauds Goldman for assisting with some research while in law school on the book "The New Jim Crow" but does not linger on Goldman's immediate decision to become a prosecutor in the same criminal justice system the book had just lacerated.
Jones, by contrast, is described as a "prolific legislator" and a "bridge builder between the progressive wing of his party and its more moderate leadership." The only mark against him is that he lacks experience working in the community he seeks to represent; Jones was elbowed out of his home district when Maloney, the chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, moved to a more favorable seat. But of course Goldman similarly lacks that experience; the endorsement points out that "Goldman would need to use his first term to convince the large numbers of lower-income and middle-class Americans he would represent that he understands the issues facing those constituents."
The Times editorial board is also known to harbor ill will in general toward candidates who self-fund their campaigns, a vestige of the anti-corruption piety that harkens to its mugwump roots. Goldman held off self-funding for much of the campaign, presumably fearful of losing the coveted endorsement. But on July 13, facing a cash shortfall, he dropped $1.24 million of his own money into his campaign coffers and another $750,000 a week later. Goldman later donated an additional $2 million of his own money.
Still more: https://theintercept.com/2022/08/17/new-york-times-dan-goldman-endorsement-mondaire-jones/
"Goldman won the prize without so much as a mention that he had broken the Times' cardinal rule."
https://theintercept.com/2022/08/17/new-york-times-dan-goldman-endorsement-mondaire-jones/
#16740940 at 2022-07-16 00:04:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21116: The Weekend Has Begun Edition
>>16740893
Musk is not fucking around, he hired this firm and some prior associates were in Chancery Courts
Firm Profile
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz is considered to be the top firm in the United States for major mergers and acquisitions, antitrust and shareholder litigation and corporate restructurings.[17] While many peer law firms have grown and become international brands, Wachtell has only a single, Manhattan office. It is one of the smallest firms in the AmLaw 100, but has the highest per partner profits of any law firm and pays significantly above the "Cravath scale" market rate for associates.[19] The firm pays its partners through a lockstep system, meaning that compensation is tied to firm seniority, rather than hours billed or business brought in.[20] The same is true for associate bonuses. This compensation model has led to the firm being called the "last true partnership."[20]
The firm is known for its work in mergers and acquisitions and been ranked #1 in Vault's M&A rankings for more than a decade.[17]
Along with Skadden, Arps, it was also cited in Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers.[21] Wachtell has been regarded as the "hardest firm in the U.S. to get a job in."[22] As of 2020, the U.S. News and World Report has ranked Wachtell as a tier 1 law firm in national and regional rankings in several practice areas: Banking and Finance Law, Corporate Law, Litigation, and Mergers & Acquisitions.[23]
Notable alumni
-William T. Allen, of counsel - former Chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery; New York University School of Law professor
- Anthony J. Casey, associate - University of Chicago Law School professor
- James Cole, partner - Acting Deputy Secretary of Education
- Allison Christians, associate - H. Heward Stikeman chair in Taxation, McGill University Faculty of Law
- George T. Conway III, associate and partner - lawyer for Paula Jones in sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton, founder of The Lincoln Project, husband of Kellyanne Conway
- Miguel Estrada - attorney and former judicial nominee
-Glenn Greenwald, associate?? - political activist, journalist, and Pulitzer Prize recipient[24]
- Maura R. Grossman, of counsel - research professor and director of Women in Computer Science at the University of Waterloo; electronic discovery attorney[25]
- Elizabeth Holtzman, associate - former U.S. Representative and Brooklyn District Attorney
- Robert J. Jackson Jr., associate - Commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
- David Lat, associate - blogger, Underneath Their Robes and Above the Law
- Kenneth K. Lee, associate - judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit[26]
- Matt Levine, associate - attorney, investment banker, and writer[27]
- Robert T. Miller, associate - University of Iowa College of Law professor
- Robert Morgenthau, of counsel - former New York County District Attorney[28]
- Bernard Nussbaum, partner - former White House Counsel to President Bill Clinton
- George Postolos, associate - former President and CEO of Houston Rockets
- Samuel Rascoff, associate - New York University School of Law professor
- Jed Rubenfeld, associate - Yale Law School professor
- Andrew Schlafly, associate - founder of Conservapedia, General Counsel for Association of American Physicians and Surgeons[29]
- Richard J. Sullivan, associate - judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit[30]
-Leo E. Strine, Jr., of counsel - former Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court, Chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery; University of Pennsylvania Law School professor
- Sheena Wright, associate - former CEO of United Way of New York City, Deputy Mayor of New York City under Eric Adams
#13885135 at 2021-06-12 10:53:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17577: Take To The Skies! Edition
>>13885022
Caught off-guard when the West Germans cleared Ru· dolph, in April 1985, Neal Sher leaked confidential Justice Department files to the WJC head Edgar Bronfman, who launched an all-out propaganda offensive against the West German authorities for "covering up" for Nazi war criminals
At a "World Gathering of Jewish Survivors of the Holocaust" sponsored by Bronfmanthe same month, Sher, still a U.S. official, wildly lied that NASAi had 600 Nazi scientists on the payroll and that the entire U. S. military scientific program was based on the work of "Nazi scientists." Four months earlier, at the WJC's annual board of governors' meeting in Vienna, Austria,Bronfman si$naled his personal detente with Moscow by calling upon !world Jewry to mobilize to stop President Reagan's SDI. Rankled over the bad turn in the Rudolph case, Sher and Bronfman turned to East Germ? mouthpiece Charles Allen. In April 1986, Allen released It book-length version of his Soviet-and East German-fed ptlopaganda, Nazi War Criminals In America: Facts … A4tion: The Basic Handbook. In that book, he denounced Lyndon LaRouche for defending a "Nazi war criminal," Krafft Ehricke, another leading Peenemiinde scientist, who werlt on to playa pivotal role in America's space program. Appearing on a New York City radio interview with a Jewish befense League member on April 18, 1986, Allen lied that Uyndon LaRouche had issued death threats against him, Neal Sher, and Elizabeth Holtzman
Case study 3: the 'getLaRouche' task force
Allen's smear job against Lyndon LaRouche was neither the first nor the last occasion ?hen the ADL and the Stasi would join forces to target the American political economist and statesman. In 1973, at the same time that Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman and Henry Kissinger were opening the Justice Department to Moscow and East Bierlin' s propagandists, another case of ADL-Stasi collusiori surfaced. This time,it was the FBI that played the role of behind-the-scenes partner. FBI documents partially decl?ified and released under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) reveal that the FBI's Counterintelligence Prograrn ("Cointelpro") targeted LaRouche for assassination in 11973. The FBI papers show that the FBI had encouraged BUreau "moles" inside the leadership of the Communist PartylUSA to undertake to "eliminate" LaRouche, in the belief that his death would destroy the National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC), the philosophical association he had folmded in the mid-1960s. At the same time, the East! German Stasi ran a parallel operation inside West Germany, targeting an American LaRouche colleague whose employment required him to periodically travel into East Berlinl The American was drugged by the Stasi, apparently grilled for details about the LaRouche movement, and then dumped \lack in the western zone. The FBI and Stasi efforts Wew up in their faces on New Year's Day 1974, as LaRoucheiand his colleagues uncovered critical details of the East-Wese covert operations
#3573468 at 2018-10-23 14:23:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4533: Beautiful Autumn Morning Edition
>>3573440
It was the American Jewish Committee (AJC) which first vigorously advocated for open immigration in America beginning in 1914 until the great watershed in 1965.
Jewish politicians Behind The Open Immigraton Law of 1965:
Jacob Javis
Elizabeth Holtzman
Charles Schumer
Emanuel Celler
Top of B'nai B'rith building in Seattle
This ADL office in Seattle is one of 30 offices in the US, gives some impression of the financial power behind this Jewish Mason Lodge. The main office is in New York.
Senator Jacob Javits (NY)
Congressman Emanuel Celler (NY)
Leo Pfeffer (Former President of American Jewish Congress (AJC)
Norman Podhoretz (Writer and Member of The Council on Foreign Relations - former leftist, now a Jewish neo-con)
http://balder.org/judea/Hate-Speech-Laws-Immigration-Jewish-Influence-USA.php
watch VIDEO!
* Senator Jacob Javits played a prominent role in the Senate hearings on the 1965 bill. Javits authored an article entitled 'Let's open the gates' that proposed immigration levels of 500,000 per year for 20 years with no restrictions on national origin.
* Congressman Emanuel Celler, who fought for unrestricted immigration for over 40 years in the House of Representatives, introduced similar legislation resulting in the "Cellar-Hart Immigration Bill," the precursor to the fatal bill of 1965.
* Leo Pfeffer, a so-called, "Jewish Intellect," (translate, "Christ-Hater"), wrote many treatises and books that propagandized for open immigration.
* Norman Podhoretz, a former leftist, now a Jewish "neo-con," (he's still a leftist), also wrote many articles promoting open immigration.
* Jewish organizations such as the American Jewish Congress, The Jewish Federation, the ACLU, and the B'nai B'rith, (there is no end to their organizations), filed briefs in support of open immigration before the Senate Subcommittee in the early sixties leading up to the passing of the 1965 law.
The main author of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was Jewish assistant attorney general Norbert A. Schlei | II (1929-2003). (Schlei also wrote the Voting Rights Act of 1965).
Jewish Arnold Aronson (1911-1998) was founder and leader of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR). The LCCR, a powerful coalition of political and religious groups, organized major, countrywide lobbying efforts to aid passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
#2192294 at 2018-07-17 23:26:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #2764: Dark to Light Edition
Four members of Trump's Homeland Security council step down to protest 'morally repugnant' family separation
The Trump administration's immigration policies and the "morally repugnant" practice of separating children from accompanying adults has prompted four people on the Homeland Security advisory council to step down, a new report said.
Former Clinton-era Secretary of the Navy Richard Danzig, former Democratic congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman, former DHS deputy attorney counsel in the Obama administration David Martin, and former Obama-era Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Matthew Olsen wrote in a letter Monday to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen that they were resigning.
They said the agency did not confer with the advisory council prior to executing a zero tolerance policy to prosecute all illegal immigrants, which led to the separation children from the adults who crossed with them into the U.S. "Were we consulted, we would have observed that routinely taking children from migrant parents was morally repugnant, counter-productive and ill-considered," they wrote, according to the Washington Post. "We cannot tolerate association with the immigration policies of this administration, nor the illusion that we are consulted on these matters."
Last month, Trump signed an executive order to prevent the splitting up of apprehended immigrant families. The government must reunite separated children between the ages of 5 and 17 with their families later this month, under a court order. Martin and Holtzman sent additional letters to Nielsen in which they condemned other aspects of the administration's immigration policies. This included the administration's attempt to secure a border wall. "These actions have fueled polarization, alienated state and local governments, and moved us much further from a sustainable, effective, and strategically sensible immigration enforcement program," Martin wrote. Holtzman also claimed that Trump's presidency has turned DHS "into an agency that is making war on immigrants and refugees."
The Homeland Security secretary selects advisory council members to fill two-year terms. The members meet periodically and participate in research and recommendations for the agency.
https:// www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/four-members-of-trumps-homeland-security-council-step-down-to-protest-morally-repugnant-family-separation
#2083265 at 2018-07-08 20:30:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #2627: Simulation
FLASHBACK: Democrats Tried To Block Thousands Of Vietnam War Refugees, Including Orphans
Despite today's outrage over President Donald Trump's refugee executive order, many liberals in 1975 were part of a chorus of big name Democrats who refused to accept any Vietnamese refugees when millions were trying to escape South Vietnam as it fell to the communists.
They even opposed orphans.
The group, led by California's Gov. Jerry Brown, included such liberal luminaries as Delaware's Democratic Sen. Joe Biden, former presidential "peace candidate" George McGovern, and New York Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman.
The Los Angeles Times reported Brown even attempted to prevent planes carrying Vietnamese refugees from landing at Travis Air Force Base outside San Francisco. About 500 people were arriving each day and eventually 131,000 arrived in the United States between 1975 and 1977.
These people arrived despite protests from liberal Democrats. In 2015, the Los Angeles Times recounted Brown's ugly attitude, reporting, "Brown has his own checkered history of demagoguery about refugees."
http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/29/flashback-when-liberal-democrats-opposed-refugees-and-even-orphans