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#House votes overwhelmingly to compel release of #EpsteinFiles
The move sends the legislation to the #Senate, where pressure is growing to make the #DOJ release more documents.
#Congress #law #criminal #Trump #Epstein #BestFriendsForever #rape #SexualAssault #SexTrafficking #ChildSexCrimes #felon47 #CoverUp
#House votes overwhelmingly to compel release of #EpsteinFiles
The move sends the legislation to the #Senate, where pressure is growing to make the #DOJ release more documents.
#Congress #law #criminal #Trump #Epstein #BestFriendsForever #rape #SexualAssault #SexTrafficking #ChildSexCrimes #felon47 #CoverUp
Hmmm, what’s been purged since his last refusal?
#Trump says #House #Republicans should vote to release #EpsteinFiles, a startling reversal after previously fighting the proposal.
“We have nothing to hide, & it’s time to move on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics in order to deflect from the Great Success of the Republican Party,” Trump posted after landing at Joint Base Andrews following a weekend of golf in Florida.
#law #rape #CoverUp
https://apnews.com/article/epstein-files-house-sex-trafficking-investigation-c46716743f6f65f2f3b74906365da58b?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-16-Breaking+News
#Democrats & some #Republicans have been pushing a measure that would force the #DOJ to make public more documents from the case.
#Trump’s shift is an implicit acknowledgement that supporters of the measure have enough votes to pass the #House, although it has an unclear future in the #Senate.
#law #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #criminal #rape #SexualAssault #SexTrafficking #felon47 #CoverUp
…The Wall Street Journal reported this week that some #FannieMae #ethics & #oversight officials who were fired last month had been investigating whether #BillPulte improperly obtained #mortgage information for #LetitiaJames, who was charged last month with bank fraud after Pulte sent a criminal referral to the #DOJ. She said the charges, which she denies, are politically motivated.
#law #scammers #housing #HousingCrisis #affordability #CostOfLiving #WealthGap #Trump
#BillPulte ’s power over the #mortgage lending industry is unusual. Not long after his #Senate confirmation, he appointed himself chairman of both #FannieMae & #FreddieMac, which hold trillions of dollars in assets. The companies serve as a crucial backstop for the home lending industry by buying up mortgages from individual lenders, which are packaged together & sold to investors.
#law #scammers #housing #HousingCrisis #affordability #CostOfLiving #WealthGap #Trump
While Smith still holds her position, the senior #FannieMae officials who called her conduct into question were all forced out of their jobs late last month, along with internal #ethics #watchdogs who were investigating #BillPulte & his allies.
The dismissals rattled the #housing industry & drew condemnation from #Democrats. It also gave more evidence to support claims that Pulte has leveraged the nonpublic information available to him to further his own political aims.
“This is another example of #BillPulte weaponizing his role to do Donald Trump’s bidding, instead of working to lower costs amidst a #HousingCrisis,” said Sen. #ElizabethWarren, of Massachusetts, the ranking #Democrat on the #Senate #Banking Committee. “His behavior raises significant questions, & he needs to be brought in front of #Congress to answer them.”
#law #scammers #housing #affordability #CostOfLiving #WealthGap #Trump
Rep #JamieRaskin (D-MD) called the provision “one of the most blatantly #corrupt provisions for political self-dealing & the plunder of public resources ever proposed in #Congress.”
The provision, which is retroactive to 2022, only applies to members of the #Senate & would allow them to sue for $500,000 if data was sought without their being notified, as well as once it was obtained.
“That’s a cool one million per Senator,” Raskin said in a stmnt.
#law #Trump #Jan6
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5601358-senate-phone-record-legal-challenge-raskin/
“The Senators may not like being treated like the rest of America, but these phone-record subpoenas & non-disclosure orders are routine in grand jury investigations at the state & federal level. No one has an absolute right to be notified that their call records have been subpoenaed, much less the right to a million bucks if it happens. This provision would not give any Americans other than US Senators these rights,” #JamieRaskin said.
“If we believe that citizens should receive notice when the #government subpoenas their phone bill, great! Perhaps this revolutionary new policy—which #CivilLiberties groups would probably support—should be the law. But then the law should protect the civil liberties of all 320 million Americans, as the #EqualProtectionClause of the #Constitution demands, not just the 100 Americans in the #Senate,” #JamieRaskin added.
#law #Trump #Republicans #Jan6 #SeditiousConspiracy #shutdown
Rep #JamieRaskin (D-MD) called the provision “one of the most blatantly #corrupt provisions for political self-dealing & the plunder of public resources ever proposed in #Congress.”
The provision, which is retroactive to 2022, only applies to members of the #Senate & would allow them to sue for $500,000 if data was sought without their being notified, as well as once it was obtained.
“That’s a cool one million per Senator,” Raskin said in a stmnt.
#law #Trump #Jan6
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5601358-senate-phone-record-legal-challenge-raskin/
"I mean, there's a reason I don't subscribe to the New York Times anymore, and I don't listen to Ezra Klein. I can't—it doesn't work. It doesn't work."
#Democrats #shutdown #Senate #pushover #capitulation #surrender #centrism #NewYorkTimes #EzraKlein
/4
Noting that "centrism is dead in the water," Wajahat Ali asks Jess Craven to make the case for centrism for him. She replies:
"Please, you're asking the wrong person. It drives me crazy. I'll make the case for walking away from anybody who tells you that centrism is the answer."
~ Jess Craven
#Democrats #shutdown #Senate #pushover #capitulation #surrender #centrism #NewYorkTimes #EzraKlein
/3
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-age-of-democratic-centrism-must
"The denouement of the shutdown was 'inside politics' at its worst.
But we are facing a moment that transcends politics."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Democrats #shutdown #Senate #pushover #capitulation #surrender
/2
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/moving-past-the-shutdown-fight
"The absurd culture of the Senate has produced a Democratic caucus of wimpy pushovers."
~ Ryan Cooper
#Democrats #shutdown #Senate #pushover #capitulation #surrender
/1
https://zeteo.com/p/centrist-senate-democrats-dream-world-trump-shutdown
#Senate Passes Deal to Reopen Government
The Senate, with the help of Democratic defectors, passed a bill to end the longest government #shutdown WITHOUT the #HealthInsurance subsidies #Democrats long demanded. The earliest the House will vote is Wednesday.
#healthcare #ACA #Medicaid
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/10/us/trump-government-shutdown-news/heres-the-latest?smid=url-share
#Senate Passes Deal to Reopen Government
The Senate, with the help of Democratic defectors, passed a bill to end the longest government #shutdown WITHOUT the #HealthInsurance subsidies #Democrats long demanded. The earliest the House will vote is Wednesday.
#healthcare #ACA #Medicaid
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/10/us/trump-government-shutdown-news/heres-the-latest?smid=url-share
#JackSmith has told people in his orbit that he welcomes the opportunity to present the public case against #Trump denied to him by #SCOTUS decision asserting broad presidential #immunity from prosecution & adverse rulings from a Trump-appointed judge on the federal bench in Florida.
#law #SeditiousConspiracy #ElectionInterference #coup #Jan6 #insurrection
Whether #JackSmith gets the chance to confront his accusers on the biggest official stage available to him, a public #House or #Senate hearing, remains very much an open question. Some #Republicans have privately expressed concern that #Trump’s quest for vengeance could backfire by giving a credible anticorruption investigator an open mic.
#law #SeditiousConspiracy #ElectionInterference #coup #Jan6 #insurrection
#Senate #Democrats renewed their request for more info about the strikes in a [strongly worded] letter on Friday to Secy of State #MarcoRubio, DNI #TulsiGabbard & #Hegseth.
"We also request that you provide all legal opinions related to these strikes & a list of the groups or other entities the President has deemed targetable," the senators wrote.
#Trump #criminal #law #murder #ExtrajudicialKillings #InternationalLaw #Constitution #Congress #WarPowers #AbuseOfPower #Autocracy #MafiaState
The letter says that thus far the admin "has selectively shared what has at times been contradictory information" with some members, "while excluding others."
Earlier Fri, the Republican chair & ranking Democrat on the #Senate #ArmedServices Cmte released a pair of letters sent to #Hegseth written in late Sept & early Oct requesting DOD's legal rationale for the strikes & a list of drug cartels the #Trump admin has designated terrorist orgs in its justification for use of #military force.
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