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Aide to Rep. Nadler Is Handcuffed Amid Confrontation With Federal Agents
Captured on video, the episode occurred in the congressman’s Manhattan office, shortly after the aide observed agents detaining immigrants outside a courtroom.
Aide to Rep. Nadler Is Handcuffed Amid Confrontation With Federal Agents
Captured on video, the episode occurred in the congressman’s Manhattan office, shortly after the aide observed agents detaining immigrants outside a courtroom.
“Federal officers entered Representative Jerry Nadler’s office in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday and handcuffed and briefly detained one of his aides. The confrontation happened shortly after the aide observed federal agents detaining migrants in a public hallway outside an immigration courtroom in the same building as the congressman’s office.
The episode was recorded by someone who was sitting in Mr. Nadler’s office.
… “You’re harboring rioters in the office,” the federal agent, whose name tag and officer number are not visible in the video, says to a member of Mr. Nadler’s staff.
There were no riots reported on Wednesday at the federal building on Varick Street, though protesters and immigrant rights advocates gathered inside and outside the building earlier in the day. The immigration court is on the fifth floor and Mr. Nadler’s office is on the sixth.
… In the video, a second aide standing at a door in the office asks one of the agents to show her a warrant. The agent says the officers do not need a warrant and walks past her….”
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Aide to Rep. Nadler Is Handcuffed Amid Confrontation With Federal Agents
Captured on video, the episode occurred in the congressman’s Manhattan office, shortly after the aide observed agents detaining immigrants outside a courtroom.
Aide to Rep. Nadler Is Handcuffed Amid Confrontation With Federal Agents
Captured on video, the episode occurred in the congressman’s Manhattan office, shortly after the aide observed agents detaining immigrants outside a courtroom.www.nytimes.com
“Federal officers entered Representative Jerry Nadler’s office in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday and handcuffed and briefly detained one of his aides. The confrontation happened shortly after the aide observed federal agents detaining migrants in a public hallway outside an immigration courtroom in the same building as the congressman’s office.
The episode was recorded by someone who was sitting in Mr. Nadler’s office.
… “You’re harboring rioters in the office,” the federal agent, whose name tag and officer number are not visible in the video, says to a member of Mr. Nadler’s staff.
There were no riots reported on Wednesday at the federal building on Varick Street, though protesters and immigrant rights advocates gathered inside and outside the building earlier in the day. The immigration court is on the fifth floor and Mr. Nadler’s office is on the sixth.
… In the video, a second aide standing at a door in the office asks one of the agents to show her a warrant. The agent says the officers do not need a warrant and walks past her….”
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I have a Carrboro, Paris of the Piedmont tee shirt. I bought it 50 years ago and wear it only a couple times a year on very special occasions
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Fascism is indeed here, folks. Scott Pelley was right in his commencement address when he spoke of successful right-wing attempts to suppress free speech and other rights in the Bill of Rights. The only reason Trumpers yelled so loud in response was because he was telling the truth and they knew it.
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From what I’ve read, this could be another turn of the screw in having Mexico fully embrace being a narcostate … but we’ll have to see. The judiciary was already widely seen as corrupt and this is supposed to be a reform. This includes electing/replacing their Supreme Court.
“… Following a controversial constitutional change that the outgoing president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, rammed through Congress in September, Mexicans are expected to go to the polls on Sunday and deliver an unprecedented vote to replace half the federal bench — 881 federal judges in all, including the nine justices on the Supreme Court — plus hundreds more in state courts. The other half of the judiciary will be replaced in a second round of voting in 2027.
The process is being sold as a mechanism to clean out an intensely corrupt justice system and bring more democracy to Mexico. But given the ruling Morena party’s overwhelming popularity among Mexican voters, the election will serve mostly to bring the judiciary in line with Morena’s interests.
Most of the roughly 3,400 candidates for federal judgeships were chosen by Morena — including about a third of those vying for positions on the new Judicial Discipline Tribunal, which will have the power to remove judges at all levels. Befuddled voters facing ballots with hundreds of names will probably take their cues from candidates’ known allegiances. Morena is already mobilizing its political machine to elect friendly judges. Members of the party have posted lists of preferred candidates on the internet — to help voters make up their minds.…”
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I know nothing about this. Could you unpack this statement? Are you saying that these elections are going to push Mexico into narco-stateness or that it will combat that. I'm not sure what "turn of the screw" means in this context.
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Turnout is expected to be low and actively suppressed in areas suffering the violence of the Sinola Cartel civil war — in the areas that are effectively controlled by cartels, the fear is that only cartel-backed judicial candidates will have a chance to win, while on the broader scale the governing party in Mexico is likely to capture most of the judiciary, replacing corrupt judges with probably equally corrupt judges who will work with the party. So this could undermine any checks on the governing party which has significant alleged ties to organized crime in Mexico.
Electing judges is seen as anti-democratic outside the United States because politics overwhelms qualifications in judicial elections and undermines blind justice.
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He may consider it, but I doubt even Trump is dumb enough to do it.
Diddy Pardon: Donald Trump “Certainly” Would Consider Clemency For Sean Combs As Old Pal Faces Sex-Trafficking Trial & Life Behind Bars
Diddy's sex-trafficking trial could all come down to Donald Trump. as POTUS made clear-ish in the Oval Office Friday.deadline.com
Donald Trump “Certainly” Would Consider Clemency For Sean Combs As Old Pal Faces Sex-Trafficking Trial & Life Behind Bars
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Sounds like his supervisor in Moscow is trying to get a bit more productivity out of him.
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Seems like an inflammatory way of expressing the idea.
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I learned long long ago to never bet against Trump being too stupid.
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I was more referring to the idea that nycfan has "fallen victim to it." In my experience with her, she's pretty savvy and doesn't fall victim to much. I should also add that a person who easily falls victim to propaganda would not be a very good transactional attorney. Literally her job is to make sure her clients don't fall victim to optimism, flim-flam, misrepresentations, etc.
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This is the one who needs to win but this is crazy early:
Despite the absolutely minimal projected margin of victory in the exit poll, Warsaw mayor Rafał Trzaskowski declares himself the winner.
“We’ve won!”, he starts his speech in Warsaw.
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While that's obviously true, it's also true that people of our generation have ample experience with claims about "propaganda." At various times, the horrors of the Khmer Rouge, Castro, Ortega and Chavez were considered propaganda, according to the left. That's one reason people reacted so strongly when Bernie continued to defend the Cuban health care system. We've been through this before, and we don't want it.
I would not go straight to "you've been propagandized" as an explanation for a single post.
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