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US targets Houthi sites in Sana'a for third straight day of attacks
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Government Corruption
Judge Slaps Fani Willis With Large Fine
[PJMedia] Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has been slapped with a $54,000 penalty for blatantly violating Georgia’s open records laws in her politically motivated prosecution of President Donald Trump
...Never got invited to a P.Diddy party...
"The county’s Superior Court Judge Rachel Krause formalized her ruling Friday and ordered Willis to pay $54,264 in attorneys' fees and litigation costs after ’intentionally’ failing to provide records requested by Ashleigh Merchant, the attorney who filed the motion to disqualify Willis from prosecuting Trump on charges of allegedly interfering with the 2020 presidential election," reports Fox News Digital.

Krause stated that Willis’ office failed to provide documents related to the employment of Nathan Wade, the former special assistant district attorney forced to resign from the Trump case due to his romantic relationship with Willis.

Merchant believed that Willis and Wade may have financially benefited from Wade’s appointment as the special prosecutor in the case.

"Defendants — through the Open Records custodian, Dexter Bond — were openly hostile to counsel for Plaintiff, Ms. Merchant, and testified that Ms. Merchant's requests were handled differently than other requests," the court order said.

Bond, who testified that his usual practice was to call a requestor to receive additional information to fulfill requests, indicated that he refused to communicate with Merchant by telephone, the court order stated.

"While there is no requirement under the ORA for Mr. Bond to call any requestor about a particular request, Mr. Bond's handling of Ms. Merchant's requests in this manner indicates a lack of good faith," the order said. "Defendants’ failures were intentional, not done in good faith, and were substantially groundless and vexatious."

Posted by: trailing wife || 03/18/2025 2025-03-18 03:34 || Comments || Link || [11172 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Slap on the wrist.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/18/2025 10:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Fani’s office was fined the nominal amount of her boyfriend’s expense report for a month. Fani’s personal mattress vault remains intact.

In a manner of speaking.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/18/2025 11:58 Comments || Top||

#3 
How about FULL RESTITUTION OF ALL EXPENSES Incurred by Trump & the GA TAXPAYERS?
That should several $ MILLION.

Given, this was a clear and obvious Political Abuse of the Legal system and violation of her Oath Of Office (OCGA 16-10-1, 2, 3) Put her in jail.

Plus, since she violated Trumps and other individuals Civil Rights (a Felony under) worth 3 to 5 year system. Again, put her in jail for few more years.

Plus, using 42 U.S.C. It allows those that have their civil rights violated to sue state actors for constitutional violations. Get her a room at GitMo or a Voter Plantation.

Plus, in light of her abuses, the ABA should consider Disbarment.

BTW: The $54K, more than likely won't come out of her pocket, but some slush fund arranged by the actual persons behind the attempted Railroad and abuses.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/18/2025 19:30 Comments || Top||


Appeals Court Rejects Trump''s Effort to Reverse Reinstatement of Federal Workers
[TOWNHALL] The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday ruled against a Trump administration request to halt a court order forcing the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to reinstate federal workers who had been fired.

This development comes amid efforts to shrink the size and scope of the government — especially in the executive branch.

The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) filed a lawsuit against the administration after six federal agencies terminated probationary employees in February. The district court ruled against the administration, claiming the firings were wrongful. It issued a preliminary injunction and ordered the agencies to ''immediately offer reinstatement to any and all probationary employees'' who lost their jobs.

The White House sought an emergency stay, arguing that reinstating the employees would create a significant administrative burden. However,
the hip bone's connected to the leg bone...
the appeals court denied the request, saying that issuing a stay on the order would ''disrupt the status quo and turn it on its head.''

The government sought an emergency stay, arguing that reinstating employees would impose a significant administrative burden, but the court rejected this, emphasizing that a stay would ''disrupt the status quo and turn it on its head.''

The majority decision, authored by Judges Barry Silverman and Ana de Alba, argued that keeping the district court's order in place was necessary to maintain stability in the proceedings. They cited National Urban League v. Ross and asserted that district court's decision was correct.
Posted by: Fred || 03/18/2025 03:06 || Comments || Link || [11145 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Lets see what the supreme court thinks of this. The war to control this nation between the unelected and the elected is getting to the punch line.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 03/18/2025 5:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Ninth Circus is Western US. Judge shopping much?
Posted by: Frank G || 03/18/2025 6:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Probationary workers. Of course, those who get a 'lifetime' employment may not grasp the concept. How does one dare call it a republic when the unelected willfully overturn the elected. Oh, that's right, as in Peoples Democratic Republic of....
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/18/2025 7:06 Comments || Top||

#4  The ninth circus never met a government overreach program they didn't like.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/18/2025 10:59 Comments || Top||

#5  Normally, probationary employees are let go at will.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/18/2025 11:54 Comments || Top||

#6  Declare ALL government unions insurrectionist organizations trying to control the government in a long term coup.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 03/18/2025 14:20 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Around 80,000 pages of JFK files to be released today: Trump
[GEO.TV] "People have been waiting for decades for this [....] It's going to be very interesting," says president.
Courtesy of Skidmark, the Jerusalem Post adds:
Earlier this year, Trump signed an executive order directing the federal government to present a plan to release records related to the assassinations of Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr.

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation said in early February it had found thousands of new documents related to the assassination of Kennedy.

Trump signed an order during his first week in office related to the release and promised to release also documents concerning the assassinations of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and Senator Robert Kennedy, both of whom were killed in 1968.
Posted by: Fred || 03/18/2025 02:30 || Comments || Link || [11135 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Given the Federal Gov and the DC Swamp Elite has hidden these files from the public for 60 years, should tell us there are bigger political & guilt issues at play here.

Because now we have 80,000 pages that only a few on this earth know what is actually real, lost, removed, or rewritten over the last 60+ years.

As support of this comment.
We have seen DC Swamp Elite arrested in the recent past for stealing, hiding, inserting, destroying, or illegally cleaning up their historical official documents.

We have even seen Presidential candidates openly erase data, close staff die to hide abuses, and cabinet level meet with plane crashes in foreign lands.

Meanwhile, the step after step series of delays between each release allows who knows what to take place with the Epstein, RFK, & MLK files?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/18/2025 5:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Check the font.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/18/2025 11:52 Comments || Top||


Trump seeks to remove judge who questioned deportation of Venezuelans
[GEO.TV] The US Justice Department on Monday sought to remove a judge who ordered the Trump administration to explain whether it defied a court order by deporting hundreds of Venezuela

...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south...

ns the White House says are violent mostly peaceful criminals, Rooters reported.

The Trump administration deported more than 200 Venezuelans it says were members of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang that has been linked to kidnapping, extortion and contract killings, to El Salvador over the weekend, even as a judge temporarily blocked it from using a wartime law to carry out the deportations.

Several legal experts interviewed by Rooters said the flights represented a direct challenge to the judicial branch's independence, although the White House denied that.

President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
has sought to push the boundaries of executive power since taking office in January, cutting spending authorized by Congress, dismantling agencies and firing thousands of federal workers.

On Monday, his Justice Department sought to remove the judge from the case.

The request to remove Judge James Boasberg came just before a hearing in his Washington courtroom began on the matter at 5 pm on Monday. Boasberg had instructed the government to provide details on the timing of the flights that transported the Venezuelans to El Salvador, including whether they took off after his order was issued.
Posted by: Fred || 03/18/2025 01:51 || Comments || Link || [11135 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: Frank G || 03/18/2025 2:12 Comments || Top||

#2  What would Andrew Jackson do?
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 03/18/2025 2:27 Comments || Top||

#3  It has gotten so ridiculous that a parody site just stares on in exasperation.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/18/2025 6:53 Comments || Top||


#5  So the judge never should have heard the case, due to conflict of interest and personal issues.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/18/2025 9:27 Comments || Top||


Trump revokes Secret Service protection for adult Biden children Hunter and Ashley
[FoxNews] President Donald Trump on Monday announced that former President Joe Biden's adult children will no longer receive U.S. Secret Service protection.

In a Truth Social post, Trump remarked that Hunter Biden has received Secret Service protection for an "extended period of time."

"There are as many as 18 people on this Detail, which is ridiculous!" Trump wrote. "Please be advised that, effective immediately, Hunter Biden will no longer receive Secret Service protection."
"See ya!"
"Wait. Where are you going?"

Ashley Biden, Hunter's sister, will have her Secret Service protection revoked as well. Trump noted that 13 agents were assigned to her security detail.

"We are aware of the President’s decision to terminate protection for Hunter and Ashley Biden," the Secret Service told Fox News Digital. "The Secret Service will comply and is actively working with the protective details and the White House to ensure compliance as soon as possible."

Fox News Digital has reached out to Hunter Biden's lawyers.

Former presidents and their spouses receive life-long Secret Service protection under federal law, but the protection afforded to their immediate families over the age of 16 ends when they leave office, though both Trump and Biden extended the details for their children for six months before leaving office, the Associated Press reported.

Former President Biden allowed Baron Trump to keep his Secret Service protection after his 16th birthday.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/18/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11144 views] Top|| File under:

#1  More good news! Thank you President Trump. Sanity is making a comeback.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 03/18/2025 5:09 Comments || Top||

#2 

Hunter in ANTI-White South Africa w/o protection and broke?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/18/2025 6:00 Comments || Top||

#3 
OBTW:

Say Hunter gets kidnapped by an Islamic Group or whom ever.

Will Dr. Jill (mama) pay the ransom from family stolen funds, or try and use the Media to demand the US Gov pay it, and go TV to blame Trump?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/18/2025 6:06 Comments || Top||

#4  The size of their detail was pretty excessive. Hunter just needs a dude with Narcan handy.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/18/2025 6:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Embrace the power of 'and', NN2N1.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 03/18/2025 8:38 Comments || Top||

#6  VIP dumping around SA looking for Parmesan cheese without protection or money?

Better break out the paint and canvas post haste.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/18/2025 13:13 Comments || Top||

#7  Even money he flies back with the detail. Alternative option, suddenly sprouts a Chinese protection detail?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 03/18/2025 14:24 Comments || Top||




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