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TNNurse (7,570 posts)
If you are in SC, please stop focusing on Graham's sister.
She is just a pawn in a plan. Please help people work and support Annie Andrews. She is the Democratic candidate who has been working hard to get the job. She is the one who needs attention.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221374775
Former Special Prosecutor Jack Smith spied on messages belonging to 44 members of Congress, according to new documents released on Tuesday, contrary to testimony he previously delivered under oath.
The Justice Department disclosed the bombshell revelation in a letter addressed to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), saying that Smith's team seized communication that included text messages between members of Congress and White House staffers who served during President Donald Trump's first term in office.
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According to the department, the full list included:
1. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)
2. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.)
3. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas)
4. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)
5. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.)
6. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah)
7. Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.)
8. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.)
9. Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska)
10. Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.)
11. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.)
12. Sen. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.)
13. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.)
14. Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.)
15. Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio)
16. Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.)
17. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine)
18. Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.)
19. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.)
20. Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.)
21. Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)
22. Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.)
23. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio)
24. Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.)
25. Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.)
26. Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.)
27. Rep. Mark Walker (R-N.C.)
28. Rep. Bryan Steil (R-Wis.)
29. Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.)
30. Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.)
31. Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.)
32. Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.)
33. Rep. John Katko (R-N.Y.)
34. Rep. Joshua Gottheimer (D-N.J.)
35. Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.)
36. Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.)
37. Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.)
38. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.)
39. Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.)
40. Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-Va.)
41. Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.)
42. Rep. Russ Fulcher (R-Idaho)
43. Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.)
44. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.)
The department said that Smith's office had been informed that records related to communication by members of Congress “could raise constitutional concerns and might be privileged” but still opted to move forward with mass surveillance.
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Tuesday's revelation comes less than a year after Smith denied in sworn testimony to the House Judiciary Committee that he had surveilled lawmakers. Asked if the toll records of phone calls and text messages — displaying metadata like time stamps — that he obtained had come with the content of messages, Smith tersely replied, “No.”
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In the latest disclosure, the Justice Department said Thomas Windom — a member of Smith's team — sought "all text messages" from phones “associated with a long list of White House personnel" between October 2020 and Jan. 20, 202, and he obtained “54 spreadsheets containing the requested White House custodians' text messages” in response.
CNN initially reported the Saturday assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump as if the former president had merely fallen off a stage – a characterization that swiftly earned condemnation from conservative lawmakers and those commenting on social media.
"Secret Service rushes Trump off stage after he falls at rally," CNN's headline read shortly after news broke that there was possible gunfire at a Pennsylvania Trump rally.
The headline angered conservative lawmakers, as well as others on social media, who described the headline as "conscious deception" and "disgraceful."
Amy mentioned earlier today that there was another officer-involved shooting in Maine. It took place during an ICE operation. According to preliminary reports, which lack many details, the incident happened in Biddeford, Maine. Some people have posted that it was another case of someone trying to run over an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent:
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And now, a leftist mob has gathered outside of Susan Collins’ Maine office, and they’re trying to storm the building:
Texas can continue to prohibit illegal immigrants from receiving in-state tuition rates at public universities, a federal court affirmed.
The ruling last Thursday by a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upholds an agreement between Trump administration and Texas, which ended the Lone Star State’s program. Federal law prohibits illegal immigrants from receiving better tuition rates than out-of-state American citizens.
According to the appeals court ruling, “two advocacy groups, a community college, and a student sought to intervene and undo the consent judgment. The district court denied intervention, reasoning that any attempt to intervene would be futile because the statute was preempted.”
The July 9 ruling upheld a district court decision.
