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OT: Say, did anybody notice that even with a panel of three female moderators, the issue of abortion didn't come up even once during last night's Republican "debate"? Odd, that.

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/07/1217753273/fourth-republican-debate-alabama

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For those of you just getting here after second breakfast - here is my early morning diatribe -

You are going to hear a lot about Hunter Biden in the next week so here is a legal type thing backgrounder -

‘A bill of attainder (also known as an act of attainder or writ of attainder or bill of penalties) is an act of a legislature declaring a person, or a group of people, guilty of some crime, and punishing them, often without a trial. As with attainder resulting from the normal judicial process, the effect of such a bill is to nullify the targeted person's civil rights, most notably the right to own property (and thus pass it on to heirs), the right to a title of nobility, and, in at least the original usage, the right to life itself.

An ex post facto law[1] is a law that retroactively changes the legal consequences (or status) of actions that were committed, or relationships that existed, before the enactment of the law.’

What?

Chairman Comer wants to change the relationship that existed with Hunter Biden to testify in public (what he said on TV) and instead force him under a new letter to make him testify in private.

Is that so MTG can look down into Hunter’s pants and declare;

‘You all know, I’ve seen a lot of big schlongs and that’s a big schlong.’

Well, is it?

It’s not some kind of UFO hearing where some stuff has to be said in a secret hearing at a later date.

Chairman Comer proves the point - he’s says one thing (you can testify in public) and then sends a letter (in private) saying the exact opposite under penalty of law.

That’s a Bill of Attainder prohibited by the Constitution - Article 1, Section 9 , Clause 3.

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