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apparently a long dead Kinja press bot picked up a briefing for the media from "sources close to the president's defense team" laying out their strategy - the link is here:

https://publicpool.kinja.co...

don't tell a soul.

from the briefing: "The ground rules are as follows: Information on this call is on background, and can attributable to “sources close to the President’s legal team.” Again, that’s “sources close to the President’s legal team.” And the content will be embargoed until 5:00 p.m., Eastern Daylight Time.

As a reminder, by participating, you are agreeing to the ground rules I’ve set forth. With that, I’ll turn the call over to the [sources close to the President’s legal team]."

I repeat, NO ONE must know that this is information is coming from the President's legal team.

then one of the reporters asks why can't we name names, this is goofy, and the administrator is all hey I don't make the rules

and then [senior defense counsel who may or may not have committed pedophilia in Epstein's rape cave and who may or may not have been recorded doing so and who may or may not be defending Trump so vigorously because he knows Bill Barr is sitting on all that evidence and who may or may not be concerned that it will all come out if he doesn't bend the knee/kiss the ring/lick the boot] goes on to explain how he's going to explain away Trump's treason.

it's hilarious because the kinja bot (I used to use kinja when I commented at Gawker, it was even worse than Discus) is from a deceased Gawker site which was destroyed by Thiel the New Zealand bloodsucker

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Just clicked on the link and they already took it down, that was fast. but I kept a copy of the whole thing, let me know if you want it

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I thought I read somewhere that in urban, blue Florida the dems have arranged for rocket docket program which is getting various judges to reverse/eliminate those fines, with the result that rural, red Floridians are going to be relatively disadvantaged

but my google-fu fails me today, can't find the source of that information

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Slate had an article on that"Blue counties are restoring ex-felons’ voting rights. Red counties are leaving them disenfranchised."

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Yr and My Wonkette writes: "The Florida Supreme Court has the ultimate say over the meaning of the Florida Constitution." Is that in fact true? In Bush v. Gore didn't the Florida Supreme Court rule by a huge majority, interpreting their own constitution, that Gore won, but then the US Supreme Court overruled them, interpreting the Florida Constitution in the opposite way? (This is a real, not rhetorical, question. I honestly can't quite remember, and my doctor forbids me from re-reading the Bush v. Gore opinion because #bloodpressure.)

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Confederacy of dunces.

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Yep

Stupid and selfish for the most part, so lean con if they have political views at all, at least the career ones

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I really hope that Trump's nominees do the right thing in this case and strike this provision down, because contrary to what we may want, we're not going to be able to get rid of them for a long time unless they do something illegal.

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For many decades. Back in the 1970s there were big scale farmer/cattle guys in Florida known to have rented prisoners for farm labor. Mostly prisoners with no money or family, they were rarely returned. I imagine it happened throughout the deep South.Mississippi John Hurt Monday Morning Bluesjudge says "get you a pick and shovel, let's go down in the mines." I never heard of any State run mines.

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Right back at you, keep voting!

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Definitely better to monitor from the outside than from the inside.

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thank you! I never read Slate anymore but must have been directed there by someone I follow on twitter.

good linkage! excellent google-fu!

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While white male felons run for office.

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Idiocracy

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"Furthering your legal career by putting the fact you worked on the Trump legal team on your resume would be akin to putting an anchor around your neck and going for your first swim."

[George Conway reveals Trump is being shunned by law firms because their young lawyers ‘want nothing to do with him’Published 3 hours ago on January 19, 2020By David Edwards

“Any litigator will tell you that adding to your legal team on the eve of trial most likely will not produce better lawyering but, rather, chaos,” he concludes. “In that sense, at least, Trump will be getting the representation he deserves.”]

https://www.rawstory.com/20...

I know.... I know..... Mr. Kellyanne.... but

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