On Thursday, only days before the trial's closing arguments were set to begin, panels of judges from New York's Appellate Division ruled against Trump twice—denying separate requests to force New York State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan to recuse himself from the case and to move the trial out of Manhattan and into another county.

The denial of the request to change the location of the trial was issued with little explanation, with the judges only writing that they had denied Trump's motion for a venue change following "due deliberation" after "reading and filing the papers with respect to the motion."

Quote from: Herman on May 23, 2024, 09:44:15 PMIt's been a rough week for Fauci's inner circle — and things may get a lot worse

https://www.theblaze.com/news/its-been-a-rough-week-for-faucis-inner-circle-and-things-may-get-a-lot-worse?utm_source=theblaze-dailyPM&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Newsletter%20PM%20Premium%20Test%202024-05-23&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Daily%20PM&tpcc=email-premiumtest

And Fauci's old adviser has been accused of breaking the law.

It has been a rough week for scientists who were in Anthony Fauci's inner circle at the outset of the pandemic — particularly for Peter Daszak, head of the scandal-plagued EcoHealth Alliance, and for David M. Morens, senior scientific adviser to the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Where Daszak is concerned, all his years of protest and lab-leak denial were apparently for nought, given that he has finally been cut off from all federal funding.

The Department of Health and Human Services told the British zoologist in a letter Tuesday that it holds him personally responsible for EHA's egregious shortcomings, oversight failures, and opacity as it pertains to the dangerous coronavirus experiments at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Morens, who served as adviser to previous NIAID director Fauci, was accused Wednesday by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic of undermining the operations of the U.S. government; unlawfully deleting federal COVID-19 records; using a personal email to avoid the Freedom of Information Act; "acting unbecoming of a federal employee"; and "likely lying to Congress on multiple occasions."

Daszak makes a cameo in many of the emails that Morens may now be regretting.

The duo, who had a hand in helping Fauci downplay the likely lab origin of COVID-19, may soon face greater consequences than strongly worded letters and suspended funding.

"Dr. Daszak's impending debarment does not shield him from accountability to the American people," Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio), chairman of the coronavirus subcommittee, said in a statement Wednesday. "It appears that Dr. Daszak may have lied under oath about his relationship with the Wuhan Institute of Virology and his compliance with NIH grant procedures."

As for Morens, the subcommittee indicated that it now has "overwhelming evidence from Dr. Morens's own email that he engaged in serious misconduct and potentially illegal actions while serving as a Senior Advisor to Dr. Fauci during the COVID-19 pandemic."

Defunding the unaccountable
The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General blasted EHA in a January 2023 report for dropping the ball on oversight regarding the use of grant money on coronavirus research in China and for failing to comply with federal requirements.

On May 1, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic released its own report recommending that EHA be permanently cut off from taxpayer funding and that Daszak similarly be cut off as well as criminally investigated.

"Dr. Daszak and his organization conducted dangerous gain-of-function research at the WIV, willfully violated the terms of a multimillion-dollar National Institutes of Health grant, and placed U.S. national security at risk. This blatant contempt for the American people is reprehensible," Wenstrup said in a statement.

On May 15, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services suspended EHA from participating in federal procurement and nonprocurement programs and proposed its debarment "to protect the public interest."

I would like to see all of them held accountable, but that is probably hoping for too much.

Quote from: Herman on May 23, 2024, 09:53:36 PMBereft of sympathetic representation in Salem, rural Oregonians are willing to redraw the map.
The "Greater Idaho" movement continues to gain steam, promising to liberate conservative counties east of the Deschutes River from the ruinous policies and Democratic control all but ensured by residents in the more populous leftist areas nearer the coast, such as Mayor Ted Wheeler's crime-ravaged Portland.

On Tuesday, Crook County voters were presented with ballot measure 7-86, which asked: "Should Crook County represent that its citizens support efforts to move the Idaho state border to include Crook County?"

The majority signaled their support for moving the state border westward and joining their conservative compatriots in the Gem State.

Citizens for Greater Idaho president Mike McCarter, a firearms instructor from the town of LaPine, alternatively argued, "There is a way to get better governance for central and eastern Oregon. The current location of the Oregon/Idaho border was decided 165 years ago and is now outdated because it doesn't match the location of the dividing line between the counties that prefer Idaho's style of governance and counties that prefer Oregon's style of governance."

McCarter, whose organization has elsewhere suggested that "only 25% of Oregonians who are registered to vote are registered Republican," stressed that the alternative would be to continue living under the thumb of Oregon politicians who "don't understand how we make a living. Their decisions damage industries like timber, mining, trucking, ranching and farming."

I can understand why they would want to exit Oregon. But, does Idaho have tampons in boy's washrooms? That should be a human right.

Quote from: Conservative Perspective on Today at 03:23:00 AMGOP committee sounds alarm on document it says 'confirms' fears about Biden agency's activities in key state

A Republican-led committee has released a document they say shows the Biden administration improperly working to register voters in a key battleground state.

Source: GOP committee sounds alarm on document it says 'confirms' fears about Biden agency's activities in key state

The Small Business Administration (SBA) acting as Biden's Michigan campaign arm targeting Democrat bloc voters to get out out and vote instead of trying to help small businesses.

The Biden administration is corrupt to it's core.

Quote from: Herman on May 23, 2024, 10:13:14 PMThis has nothing to do with the federal electoral college, but you know that.

Can't you go play in your thread. Lokmar still reads your bullshit.

Joe has a calendar on the wall from 2008. His attention starved trolling is antiquated.

GOP committee sounds alarm on document it says 'confirms' fears about Biden agency's activities in key state

A Republican-led committee has released a document they say shows the Biden administration improperly working to register voters in a key battleground state.

Source: GOP committee sounds alarm on document it says 'confirms' fears about Biden agency's activities in key state

Quote from: JOE on May 23, 2024, 10:09:20 PMIts because Americans have a Winner take all electoral college.

They should allow the losing parties to get a share of them.

Of course it's unfair.

But it's also unfair when Republicans take all the EVs in a state as well. Democrats shouldn't get all of California either

This has nothing to do with the federal electoral college, but you know that.

Can't you go play in your thread. Lokmar still reads your bullshit.

Its because Americans have a Winner take all electoral college.

They should allow the losing parties to get a share of them.

Of course it's unfair.

But it's also unfair when Republicans take all the EVs in a state as well. Democrats shouldn't get all of California either

Greater Idaho suggested that the "yes" vote would likely have been more substantial were it not for the opposition campaign bankrolled by Portland groups.

Idaho Gov. Brad Little indicated in 2020 — as the first of the eastern Oregon counties began to vote in favor of leaving Oregon to its troubles — that he liked the idea of a "Greater Idaho."

Little told "Fox & Friends" that he understood "what takes place in the Portland area has a big impact on those rural parts of Oregon, and I understand they're looking at Idaho fondly because of our regulatory atmosphere, our values. That doesn't surprise me one bit."

Little noted, however, there would be various legal "hurdles" prospective western Idahoans would have to clear first. The U.S. Congress and both the Oregon and Idaho state legislatures would have to approve the border shift.

KOIN-TV noted that the Idaho legislature passed a measure last year to begin conversations with Oregon lawmakers about the initiative.