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>>20022853 Posting Guidelines

>>19832150, >>19957123, >>19737197 SPAM Removal; >>20184855 Jim W. on spam

>>19089056 Ban lifts, video downloads, Q clock, Joe M's videos, Qagg Download

>>18024378, >>18561054 Updated PROTO Instructions

>>20186509 How to filter namefags

>>20756698 Planefag & Boatfag Reports Always Notable

Bakers: NEW & RETURNING BAKERS, PLZ READ BELOW

>>19089065 Baking Tools & Guidelines

>>20736492, >>18311579, >>20673838 "Baker on Duty" - what it means

>>17322509, >>17322518 How to bake/e-bake

>>17835052 Formatting Q posts

>>20186534 No "Muh Joos" in notes. Discrimination based on race or religion will be removed

Plz sign out clearly when e-baking or ghosting, use RED TEXT

NOTABLES ARE NOT ENDORSEMENTS

#25606 >>20877106

>>20877158, >>20877163 NOTAMS: Russian missile tests off the West Coast of the USA

>>20877205 On Friday 17 May 2024, at 12.00, a press conference will be held in the Holy See Press Office, Sala San Pio X, Via dell’Ospedale 1, to present the new provisions of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith for discerning between apparitions and other supernatural phenomena.

>>20877313, >>20877315 Fair arbiter? CNN’s Jake Tapper trashed Trump for years, now he’s moderating presidential debate

>>20877348 EU Actively Monitoring 'Fake News' On Slovak Prime Minister Assassination Attempt

>>20877474 Staggering 84 percent of measles cases in major Chicago outbreak linked to Venezuelan migrants, CDC report

>>20877484 The state of Massachusetts announced a gigantic new shelter for illegals in the tiny conservative town of Norfolk

>>20877540 Suspected gunshots near Israeli embassy in Stockholm prompt police cordon

>>20877918 @KensingtonRoyal - A conversation for #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek showing just how important the Duchy of Cornwall's Mental Health Strategy is. Featuring Duchy tenant Sam Stables and Farmer Will Young.

>>20877940 Ahoy! The Ship Show & Extra Gravy - 05/17/2024

>>20877945 Slovak prime minister underwent another operation, remains in serious condition

>>20877954 House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), and state attorneys general speak at the Republican National Lawyers Association conference in Arlington, Virginia

>>20877955 Trump will campaign in Minnesota after attending his son Barron’s graduation

>>20878051 #25606

#25605 >>20876352

>>20876411 Million Texans Without Power As Storm Topples Transmission Towers

>>20876419 Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems to lay off about 400 employees

>>20876447, >>20876450, >>20876566, >>20876948 MTG v AOC

>>20876474 Jefferies Risk Manager Balked at Archegos Cash Plea: ‘What’s the Emergency?’

>>20876513 Top Biden aide meets with ambassadors of 17 countries with citizens being held by Hamas

>>20876593, >>20876603 Baker change

>>20876671 PF Report: 64-14847 Rivet Joint crossed muh Korean peninsula and out of Kadena, Okinawa

>>20876939 @RepThomasMassie - One more reason to End the Fed. Today, SCOTUS held 7:2 that Congress uniquely authorized the CFPB to draw its funding directly from the Federal Reserve System, therefore allowing it to bypass the usual funding mechanisms laid out in the Appropriations Clause of the Constitution.

>>20877027 Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Accused of Flying Upside-Down Flag in Protest of Stolen 2020 Presidential Election

>>20877031 Russia Orders UK Defense Attaché Out Of The Country In Tit-For-Tat

>>20877038 Donald Trump’s son-in-law to redevelop NATO-bombed buildings

>>20877096 #25605

#25604 >>20875574

>>20875650, >>20875655 Former Breitbart Columnist, Geert Wilders, Forms Dutch Gov’t - Readies ‘Strictest Migration System Ever’

>>20875669 PF: AF2 C32A kneepads left Chicago O’hare Intl / CFC1 Trudope on final at Winnepeg from Beresford, NB for muh fundraiser

>>20875704, >>20875793 "The cocaine found in the White House was Joe Biden's to keep him alert"

>>20875709 The cabal refers to organ harvesting as "health tourism"

>>20875715 NIH official finally admits taxpayers funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan --- after years of denials

>>20875717, >>20875733 SLED has concluded its investigation into allegations that non-citizens are being provided with voter registration forms in South Carolina

>>20875719 Diversity exec scams Facebook, Nike out of millions in elaborate fraud scheme

>>20875727 DJT: I think it was a very interesting day, it was a fascinating day---and it shows what a SCAM this whole thing is…

>>20875731, >>20875935 Michael Cohen Gets Destroyed During Cross Examination, Leaving Anderson Cooper Stunned

>>20875739 The Treasury has already blown through all the revenue from Tax Day and its cash on hand is down $300 billion from a month ago

>>20875740 Despite Hamas Ties, Biden Removes Cuba From List of Terror States

>>20875751 Hopelessly corrupt and inhumane Washington Field Office brags about sending two women in their 70s to prison for protesting at an abortion clinic

>>20875754 With income from sale of Biden's influence cutoff, Biden may be insolvent

>>20875888 BLM founder is arrested at court after confronting cop with vile tirade and threats

>>20875937 PF: SPAR80 G5 departed JBA NE across the pond / AF2 C32A kneepads arriving at JBA from Chicago O’hare Intl depart

>>20875948 Chris Pratt's stunt double Tony McFarr has died aged 47

>>20875951 Trump talks future debate with Biden

>>20875978 Scientists have spotted 60 stars that appear to show signs of gigantic alien power plants

>>20876029 Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Muhammad bin Salman met today with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Manama, the capital of Bahrain

>>20876038 World First: Autonomous Robot "Scorpion" Blew Up Ukrainian Fortifications

>>20876047 FBI Seizes BreachForums Again

>>20876059 OpenAI strikes deal with Reddit to bring content to ChatGPT

>>20876088 Russia Federation AF RFF9016 Tupolev T204 back to Moscow from Beijing

>>20876104 ECW: For decades, prolific Cuban spies working in the U.S. government, serving in high-profile positions with top security clearances, have evaded American intelligence officials.

>>20876147 Joe Biden is carrying a MASSIVE personal debt

>>20876160 Michael Cohen is torn to shreds by Trump's attorneys in blistering cross-examination

>>20876166 "Thanks to our corporate partners like American Express for helping NYC to track and limit meat consumption"

>>20876337 #25604

#25603 >>20874743

>>20874754, >>20874960, >>20875071 Presidential Debates Qproof / Cult 93

>>20874821, >>20874996, >>20875303 Planefag

>>20874839 The UK Government is to ban the teaching of gender ideology in schools

>>20874867, >>20874951 Comer Finds New Biden Family Bank Accounts, Issues Subpoena For Hunter Bank Records

>>20874893 Joe Biden Invokes Executive Privilege Over Special Counsel Recordings

>>20874918 House Judiciary Committee Votes to Hold Corrupt Attorney General Merrick Garland in Contempt of Congress

>>20874924, >>20874940 Violent Anti-France Protests break out in its Territory of New Caledonia, France Bans TikTok Over Coverage

>>20874938, >>20875203 'Brothers Forever': Putin, Xi Agree That Deepened Ties Project Stability Against West

>>20874949 Dow tops 40,000 points for first time on Wall Street

>>20874961 Senator Bob Menendez Blames His Wife at ‘Gold Bars’ Corruption Trial

>>20874976, >>20874995 Schmuck Schmuckmer / Hilldawg tweets 'killed / eliminate'

>>20874984 @AGAndrewBailey: My office is demanding accountability after @KansasCity doxxed @buttkicker7 last night for daring to express his religious beliefs

>>20874999 Mike Davis On Garland Protecting His Boss, Biden, In An Election Year

>>20875022 Fire at a lithium-ion energy storage facility in a San Diego suburb

>>20875077, >>20875120 Truth Social CEO demands 'robust inquiry' into alleged stock manipulation

>>20875084, >>20875267, >>20875106, >>20875094 1/6 Phantom Warriors

>>20875086, >>20874854 Levels of illegal Chinese immigration are skyrocketing under President Biden, with little to no vetting of those entering

>>20875140, >>20875150 Bureau of Prisons thumbs its nose at Congress, taxpayers

>>20875146 George Soros is not only silencing Americans, he’s actively funding the collapse of our country

>>20875148 New James Comey book 'Westport' drops May 21, 2024

>>20875162, >>20874830 Justice Department Submits Proposed Regulation to Reschedule Marijuana

>>20875221 Trennert: Biden's Fiscal And Monetary Policy Has Set Us Up For Another Wave Of High Inflation Later

>>20875255, >>20875228 Steve Bannon Calls Out Merrick Garland For Betraying Country

>>20875270 Attorney, Ivan Raiklin, states there is about to be a significant development and takedown of the corrupt department of justice in the U.S.

>>20875296 Former State Official Indicted, Arrested for School Construction Extortion and Bribery Scheme

>>20875307 Catharine O’Neill Details Task Force Assembled To Fight Anti-Christian Agenda Bannons War Room

>>20875331 ‘My Jaw Hit the Floor’: Two Former Trump Staffers Argue Michael Cohen Is Lying Under Oath About Wanting a Job in the White House

>>20875335 Secret 1937 letter from the "The Central Conference of American Rabbis" revealed?

>>20875339 Canada's intelligence agency classifies opponents of LGBT gender ideology as a 'violent threat'

>>20875399, >>20875504 Thomas Massie: I just introduced "End the Fed" Titled 'Federal Reserve Board Abolition Act, HR 8421'

>>20875486 Pro-Trump artist releases 100 penis-shaped balloons with faces of Alvin Bragg, Judge Merchan on them

>>20875556 #25603

#25602 >>20873977

>>20874188, >>20874266, >>20874331, >>20874711 PF updates

>>20873987, >>20874196, >>20874504 Report Recommending U.S. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland for Contempt of Congress

>>20874083 Banks Remain Financially Committed to Oil Despite Transition Shift

>>20874140 The National Institutes of Health admits to funding gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China

>>20874145 72nd ISRS in line with SPAFORGEN model

>>20874157, >>20874174, >>20874252, >>20874447, >>20874451, >>20874456, >>20874603, >>20874641, >>20874690 Swamp Meets

>>20874164 A federal appeals court has ruled that parents in Montgomery County can’t remove their elementary school-age children from classes that include books on human sexuality and gender

>>20874176 UK: The future space environment

>>20874207, >>20874210 Study finds enlisted Asian Airmen are least likely to get in trouble and Blacks the most

>>20874218 Retired US Air Force general arrested for child sex crimes

>>20874245 Pope to hold press conference on aliens and the supernatural

>>20874259 The government quietly confirmed in a recent court filing the IRS whistleblowers in the Hunter Biden tax case did nothing illegal

>>20874263 Pfizer is ready to pay between $200-250 million as a result of over 10,000 U.S. lawsuits involving supposed cancer risks associated with the drug Zantac

>>20874349 NARA Gives Feds Instructions on UFO Records Classification

>>20874383 Q/Q+

>>20874418, >>20874358, >>20874472 Refresher: US military, not Pfizer/Moderna, was the origin of mRNA vaccines. DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)

>>20874419 Buckwheat up

>>20874463 Joe Biden repeatedly denied Trump’s claims of privilege

>>20874473 CALL FOR MEME BIDEN CANT STAND TRIAL FOR COGNITIVE DECLINE

>>20874483 Congressman Tim Burchett: The National Debt is growing by $1 Trillion every 100 day

>>20874521 @1stArmoredDiv Today we're celebrating the 116th Birthday of III Armored Corps!!! 🎂🎉

>>20874555 Jeff Clark Gives Updates On Cohen Case Live Outside The Courthouse

>>20874572 Mike Davis: Biden Put Our National Security At Risk For $8 Million Book Deal

>>20874729 #25602

Previously Collected

>>20872248 #25599, >>20873110 #25600, >>20873958 #25601

>>20869862 #25596, >>20870620 #25597, >>20871484 #25598

>>20867431 #25593, >>20868233 #25594, >>20869023 #25595

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Q Research Notables #22: This Is War >>20349940

>>20878060

TYB

>>20878080

Garland gets a censor. and AOC will crack jokes, while Steve Bannon will go to prison

Obama-Appointed Judge Smacks Down Marc Elias’ ‘Absurd’ Election Lawfare

BY: M.D. KITTLE. MAY 15, 2024.1/2

The firm of Democrats’ favorite lawfare artist — who was also the attorney behind the Russia-collusion hoax — was all but laughed out of court in a recentWisconsinelection integrity case.

D.C.-based Elias Law Group, founded by former Clinton campaign and Democrat National Committee lawyer Marc Elias, broughta “novel” absentee ballot complaintagainst the state that an Obama-appointed judge called“head-scratching.”

In dismissing the lawsuit against the Wisconsin Elections Commission, U.S District Court Chief Judge James D. Peterson summarily rejected the leftist law group’s outlandish claim that a state law requiring aU.S. citizen witnessand sign an absentee voter’s ballot is aviolation of voting and civil rights.

‘Absurd’ Interpretation

In a 37-page ruling, Peterson railed against thecomplaint’s core argument, concluding that “the most obvious problem with plaintiffs’ interpretation is that itsimply does not make any sense.”

“The absurd results to which plaintiffs’ interpretation would lead are reason enough to reject that interpretation. But the text, purpose, and history of [Wisconsin Statute] § 6.87 also support an interpretation that a witness is required to certify only the statements about the process of preparing the ballot,” Peterson wrote of the lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin.

“It is plaintiffs’ interpretation that leads to head-scratching results,” the federal judge wrote.

The Elias Law Group, practitioners of unbridled leftist lawfare,represent four Wisconsin residentswho “wish to vote by absentee ballot in the 2024 election,but they do not want to complywith the witness requirement,” according to the lawsuit. They insist the process of asking any U.S. citizen to witness them vote and to sign their absentee ballots “is difficult or inconvenient for them.”

“They contend that the requirement violates two federal statutes, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and they seek to permanently enjoin enforcement of the requirement,” Peterson writes in his ruling.

Basic Requirements

The statute requires absentee voters to certify on their ballot envelopes that they are residents of the district or ward in which they are voting, that they reside in the state and are entitled to vote, and that they are “unable or unwilling to appear at the polling place … on election day.” The law also requires the voter to certify that he followed the process for preparing the absentee ballot.

Witnesses are required to certify that they are U.S. citizensand that thevoting procedures were executed as stated. They must also affirm that they “did not solicit or advise the elector to vote for or against any candidate or measure.”

Pretty simple. Not much of a burden. And as Peterson notes, the law is “intended to serve legitimate and important purposes, such as deterring voter fraud, undue influence, and ballot harvesting.”

But the folks at theElias Law Group see the witness provision as an affront to civil rights. One of the plaintiffs, Anna Haas, “plans to be traveling overseas around the time of the November 2024 election.” She won’t have a U.S. citizen with her, so who will witness and sign her absentee ballot?! Well, any U.S. citizen traveling abroad could, or Haas could submit her ballot up to two weeks in advance, as Peterson notes. Plaintiff Anna Poi attends college in Minnesota.Poi prefers to use another Wisconsin voter as her witnessso that she “will be able to locate and rely on the witness if it becomes necessary to cure the certificate.”

Putting aside theplaintiffs’ laughable “burdens,” Peterson wrote that these poor, unfortunate souls “have not shown that either the Voting Rights Act of 1965 or the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits a state from requiring absentee voters to prepare their ballot in front of a witness.

HTTPS://THEFEDERALIST.COM/2024/05/15/OBAMA-APPOINTED-JUDGE-SMACKS-DOWN-MARC-ELIAS-ELECTION-LAWFARE/

>>20878060

Thank you.

They'll SMIRK when garland gets CENSORED.

CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS DOESN'T MEAN SHIT DEPENDING ON WHO YOU ARE.

>>20878080

DEI getto trash placeholder in the Capitol.

>>20878090

2/2

‘Inconsistent with the Law’

But it was the lawfare attorneys’ bizarre reading of the state’s absentee voting law that really had the federal judge scratching his head. Elias’ legal dream team argued that the statute requires a witness to do more than ensure that the voter followed procedure. According to their expanded interpretation, a witness would have to “certify that the voter is eligible to vote.”

“But that interpretation is inconsistent with the text and purpose of the statute, and it is inconsistent with how the law has been interpreted since it was enacted,” Peterson wrote.

TheElias Law Group’s interpretation, according to the ruling, would effectively force the witness to be a private investigator, determining the voter’s “age,residence, citizenship, criminal history, whether the voter is unable or unwilling to vote in person, whether the voter has voted at another location or is planning to do so, whether the voter is capable of understanding the objective of the voting process, whether the voter is under a guardianship, and, if so, whether a court has determined that the voter is competent.”

That’s not what the law asks, and an attorney who puts the law before politics would know that.

“Plaintiffs’ expansive interpretation of the law would lead to arbitrary restrictions on states’ authority to regulate elections and threaten any requirement on a voter to provide information on a ballot or related document, including a signature requirement or Wisconsin’s requirement that an absentee voter certify that he or she is not voting at another location,” Peterson wrote in his smackdown of the Elias attorneys’ absurd legal argument.

“Plaintiffs have not identified any reason why Congress would have restricted states in the way plaintiffs propose.”

With that, the judge directed the clerk to close the case.

Russia Hoax Architect

It’s what you might expect from a firm“committed to helping Democrats win” and headed by one of the chief architectsof the Russia-collusion hoax.

Marc Elias and his fellow Democrat election deniers insisted the 2016 election, in which Republican Donald Trump won the presidency, was rigged — thanks to supposed Russian collusion with the Trump campaign. They were so committed to that concept that they paid for and pushed a Russian-sourced dossier accusing Trump and his allies of all manner of corruption. But the dossier turned out to be phony opposition research, paid for by Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the DNC she controlled. That didn’t stop Elias and crew from peddling it to a willing deep state and a hungry accomplice media which employed the hoax to try to take down a president they loathed.

“The legal mastermind probably most responsible for the leftist push to subvert our democracy, overturn elections, and destroy election integrity is Marc E. Elias,” wrote John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky in their 2021 book Our Broken Elections. Elias “has grown astoundingly wealthy representing Democratic candidates, political action committees, and party organizations” and “seems to have a monopoly on the Democratic political machine.”

It was Elias, as a partner with Perkins Coie, the law firm that represented Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, who hired Fusion GPS to churn the dirt on her opponent.

“Fusion went on to solicit former MI6 agent Christopher Steele to create the infamous Steele dossier, which contained several salacious and since-debunked claims about Trump and his alleged ties to Russia,” Just The News reported in a pieceheadlined, “How a top Democrat lawyer undermined both sides’ confidence in U.S. elections.”

Eight years later, Elias’ law group is engaged in lawfare to rig election lawsin Democrats’ favor around the country, spending millions to weaken election integrity statutes in advance of November’s rematch between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

HTTPS://THEFEDERALIST.COM/2024/05/15/OBAMA-APPOINTED-JUDGE-SMACKS-DOWN-MARC-ELIAS-ELECTION-LAWFARE/

The Vatican doctrinal office will not declare if alleged apparitions are real

1.1K views · 3 hours ago#pope #vatican #francis…more

ROME REPORT

>>20878060 tyb

>>20877205 lb update

On Friday 17 May 2024, at 12.00, a press conference will be held in the Holy See Press Office, Sala San Pio X, Via dell’Ospedale 1, to present the new provisions of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith for discerning between apparitions and

>>20878085

Nice catch

>>20878093

theres a video of a mexican man shoving a gas pump up his ass whaddup sword groid

>>20877893 lb

Zero sauce on this. This is May now. Bond market is still alive, there were no early elections and this guy is full of shit. Then there is the other fuck who apparently dubbed this Nino vid and he is as coherent as a fucking democrat. I call Bullshit.

>>20878085

notable

…The X was at 2:14pm or 14:14hrs EDT

>>20878080

someone will please wake me up when they start the furniture tossing? tanks

>>20878095

kek

Remote Viewing you say?

So what is it called when i am remote viewing and enter another body?

pretty sure the "entity" was unaware I was there too.

FOUND IT WATCH THIS!!!!!

https://www.krudplug.net/m/video.php?vid=7065

What Netanyahu just did is HUGE

19K views · 1 day ago#MeaningfulLifeCenter #AppliedKabbalah…more

Rabbi Simon Jacobson at Meaningful Life Center

2 mins

>>20878129

STRAP ON THE BLACK BOX MADE OF PEOPLE AND BATTLE TOADZ

>>20878125

At what time of the subjects life did you go?

Be careful.

>>20878099

Yep.

>>20878071

Grats

>>20878125

Overstepping

One should know better

…This numeric gymnastics shit is fuckin' boring.

>>20878109

>>20878113

Tenks frens

(Phone faggin now…irl sh*t)

>>20878060

tyb

puff puff pass!

>>20878135

>>MADE OF PEOPLE

Kindly sauce if you are able

WHICH ONE OF YOU GROIDS SHOPPED THE GINGER MOUND ONTO TRUMPS UPPER LIP LIKE A MOUSTACHE ON THE BANNER PICTURE 2 DAYS AGO?

>>20878148

Well at least he is sitting down

Now do the shut up part

Just nother phony attempt at stirring trouble

>>20878153

i am fine with it, would!

>>20878148

>Q, please come back and smite these retards.

All GM and tyb faggots get filtered, Q.

Tada, most of the retards are gone.

>>20878157

>Q

Are you talking to Ghosts too.

* filtered

>>20878160

* gone

10:00 AM EDT

War Room With Steve Bannon AM Edition

Real America's Voice

https://rumble.com/v4vqphe-war-room-with-steve-bannon-am-edition.html

>>20878144

You say that as you hit dubs in post count and timestamp columns. KEK. Wish I had an explanation for the eerie consistency of the digits.

10:00 AM EDT

Road to Washington: General Christopher Cavoli on the NATO Summit

Atlantic Council

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/event/road-to-washington-general-christopher-cavoli-on-the-nato-summit-broadcast/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWeGf8IAagw

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Army Gen. Christopher G. Cavoli, commander, U.S. European Command, and Supreme Allied Commander Europe, speaks at 10 a.m. EDT at an online Atlantic Council event as part of the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security's Commander Series.

Department of Defense

https://www.defense.gov/News/Today-in-DOD/Date/2024-05-17/

>20878161

Sry, I can't see you, you are already filtered!

>>20878136

Q900

Look at his family.

Look at their positions.

Why are we giving him this much attention?

Why are we providing this much sensitive detail in a public [known] forum?

Everything has meaning.

Can ANYONE in the universe answer this question?

>>20878174

atlantic councial are scumbags RED ALERT

>>20878177

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAPYSeOGoD8

>>20878160

Q630

SPOOKY.

Happy Hunting Anonymous.

Set the TRUTH FREE.

"We ruined the world."

10:00 AM EDT

USS Constitution is scheduled to go underway this Friday, May 17th, from Charlestown Navy Yard at 10:00 a.m.

We will fire a 21-gun salute viewable from Fort Independence on Castle Island at approximately 11:30 a.m.

>>20865709 pb

https://twitter.com/USSConstitution/status/1790405981635010577

USS Constitution Museum

@USSConstMuseum

During today's Underway USS Constitution will pause for a 17-gun salute at U.S. Coast Guard Station Boston, located at the site of the former Hartt's Shipyard where "Old Ironsides" was launched into service on October 21, 1797. 🇺🇸 ⚓

📸 Greg M. Cooper Photography

9:03 AM · May 17, 2024

https://x.com/USSConstMuseum/status/1791454395231555911

Steve Bannon prison sentence would only ‘strengthen’ MAGA base: Attorney

Kaelan Deese May 16, 2024

Former Trump administration adviser and War Room podcast host Steve Bannon could soon find himself behind bars for his contempt of Congress conviction, a dire possibility his attorney said would only “strengthen” the former president’s base.

The Justice Department requested this week that the judge overseeing Bannon’s criminal contempt case start his four-month prison sentence after an appeals court last week upheld his conviction. Bannon’s attorney David Schoen told the Washington Examiner on Wednesday thefederal government’s request “reflects a completely political agenda.”

“It should tremendously strengthen the base,” Schoen said, adding that Bannon is willing to fight the case up to the Supreme Court.“It is unprecedented to prosecute such a case and now to try to send him to prison without having to prove any criminal intent.”

Bannon, 70, was convicted in 2022 for failing to appear for a deposition ordered by the now-defunct Jan. 6 committee, as well as refusing to turn over documents the committee subpoenaed. His legal team appealed, and a three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld his contempt conviction on May 10.

Now,DOJ prosecutors say there is no legal basisfor U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, Bannon’s trial court judge, tocontinue delaying his prison sentence.

Bannon said he was “shocked they want to silence the voice of MAGA” in response to the threat of prison time.

The one-time adviser to former President Donald Trump is a luminary for his base. The War Room podcast is considered an influential beacon for Republicans across the country, ranking in the top 40 podcasts in the “News” category for Apple Podcasts. A four-month prison sentence for Bannon in the heat of the 2024 election season would bring a marked change to the daily War Room show that draws hundreds of thousands of viewers each month.

For example, Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI) scolded House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) for holding a hearing on Wednesday in defense of Trump amid the former president’s criminal hush money trial, blaming Bannon and Fox News host Maria Bartiromo, among others, for pushing Jordan to hold the hearing.

“We’re here at the beck and call of Trump fanatics and talking heads on cable and internet talk shows in the MAGA world who, like Bartiromo and Bannon, have goaded this committee to act,” Plaskett said.

Article III Project founder Mike Davis, a frequent War Roomguest and former clerk to Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, told the Washington Examinerthat any prison time would “turn Bannon into a martyr.”

“Biden and these Biden Democrats are trying to illegally gag President Trump in a courtroom, and they’re trying to throw his most effective outside voice, Steve Bannon, in prison before the election,” Davis said.

The latest legal blow to Bannon followed a decision last month against former Trump adviser Peter Navarro, who is serving a four-month prison sentence in Florida for failing to comply with a subpoena from the decommissioned Jan. 6 committee as well.

Lawyers for Bannon initially argued at the trial court that his testimony was protected by Trump’s claim of executive privilege, but the DOJ argued that claim did not stand to muster because Trump fired Bannon from the White House in 2017.Schoen said they would seek a rehearing at the D.C. Circuit before all 11 judges, noting the case raises “important criminal law” questions, including advice of counsel and separation of powers matters.

Bannon’s Washington trial court judge, Nichols, a Trump appointee, cited a long-standing court decision called Licavoli in restricting Bannon from using an “advice of counsel” defense. Nichols said =Bannon’s appeal “raises a substantial question of law that is likely to result in a reversal or an order for a new trial==.”

But the D.C. Circuit ruled that “defense is no defense at all.” Bannon failed to “clear a high bar” in order to divert from that long-standing precedent, the panel said.

Nichols ordered Bannon to respond to prosecutors’ motion to modify his condition of release by May 20, and with a request for a rehearing before the appeals court and the remaining potential for him to seek Supreme Court relief, Bannon is unlikely to have to report to prison immediately.

“We don’t send people to jail without some finding of a belief that what he was doing was wrong,”Schoen said.

https://12ft.io/proxy

>>20878174

Genera Christopher Needs a National Security Background Check Audit in Anon's opinion.

to make sure he ain't pay-to-play or finger painting with commie marxist socialist globalist terrorist nazi leninist maoist fascist eugenicist pedoist zionist or identity frauds.

That Atlantic Council is a FOREIGN AGENT, and it's into all Government SEARCH ENGINE FILTERS.

>>20878189

KEK his eyes look like Gretas

Jim’s finger on button ready to stop transmission.

Look at his family.

Look at their positions.

Why are we giving him this much attention?

Why are we providing this much sensitive detail in a public [known] forum?

Everything has meaning.

SPOOKY.

Happy Hunting Anonymous.

Set the TRUTH FREE.

>>20878186

Wrong to whom?

“We don’t send people to jail without some finding of a belief that what he was doing was wrong"

>>20878137

>At what time of the subjects life did you go?

I would say adult, and it and them was plotting against humanity

>>20878142

>Overstepping

dint do it on purpose, just woke up there, hauled ass after starting to realize what was really going on

>>20878183

>"We ruined the world."

(((We)))? Yeah, Jews ruined the world!

>>20878083

>Becerra admits that hospitals with religious objections to transgender surgery on adults and children will lose federal funding.

time to summon the Q

Crockett got pretty upset with MTG for picking on her cumbrellas yesterday.

>>20878209

Q is here.

>>20878154

[IVAN] is literally promoting an insurrection and me thinking freely and concernfagging is causing trouble?

Kek

>>20878210

Special Day. Congratulations, Barron. WRWY.

LETS RE-IGNITE THE BATTERIES

https://fox5sandiego.com/news/local-news/fire-at-battery-storage-facility-reignites-in-otay-mesa-cal-fire/

Whew

Two crazies quote

Just another drama queen

Her new pentagram pendant next to the cross was a cute subtle touch JR

Is it her trying to record me or is it just her racial undertones towards everyone else

>>20878138

Mr. Coffee

Ftw

>>20878228

…crack smoking starts…

Well… that was strange. A blank PNG? Not sure how that happened.

Supreme Court lets CFPB funding

By Amy Howe May 16, 20241/2

The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a challenge to the constitutionality of the structure used to fund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the federal agency tasked with enforcing consumer finance laws. By a vote of 7-2, the justices reversed a decision by a federal appeals court in Louisiana, which had ruled thatthe agency’s funding violates the Constitution because it comes from the Federal Reserve rather than through the congressional appropriations process.

Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for the majority, in a decision that relied heavily on both the text of the Constitution and early English and U.S. history.

Justice Samuel Alito dissented, in an opinion joined by Justice Neil Gorsuch. He offered a dueling interpretation of history that he suggested, leads to theconclusion that the CFPB’s funding scheme “blatantly attempts to circumvent the Constitution.”

The case was one of several on the court’s docket this term involving the division of authority between the three branches of government, as well as the power of administrative agencies. It began as a challenge by two industry groups to a “payday lending” rule that the agency issued in 2017. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit rejected their argument that the rule violated the federal laws governing administrative agencies.

But the court of appeals agreed with the groups that theagency’s funding structure – which was intended to foster its independence – is inconsistent with Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution, which instructs that “[n]o money shall be withdrawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.” In fact, the 5th Circuit concluded, theCFPB’s funding is “double-insulated” from Congress’s powerunder the appropriations clause, because the agency not only receives its funding from the Federal Reserve, but it (rather than Congress) determines the amount of that funding, by requesting the amount that the CFPB director deems “reasonably necessary to carry out” the bureau’s duties.

In a 22-page opinion joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, and Ketanji Brown Jackson, Thomas explained that when the Constitution was ratified in the late 18th century, “appropriations were understood as a legislative means of authorizing expenditure from a source of public funds for designated purposes.”

That understanding, Thomas continued, is supported by both early English history and early American history in the years leading up to the ratification of the Constitution. And although “appropriations needed to designate particular revenue for identified purposes,” Thomas observed, legislatures in that era otherwise “exercised a wide range of discretion.”

That practice also continued in the years immediately following the ratification of the Constitution, Thomas added – for example, with Congress allocating funding for some purposes up to certain amounts and allowing other federal agencies (such as the Customs Service and the Post Office) to fund themselves through the money that they collected.

The CFPB’s funding scheme falls squarely within this definition of a congressional “appropriation,” Thomas concluded: Congress specified the source – the Federal Reserve – from which the CFPB can draw its funding, and it indicated how the CFPB is supposed to use that funding. The court therefore reversed the 5th Circuit’s decision striking down as unconstitutional the CFPB’s funding mechanism.

Although she joined the Thomas opinion for the court, Kagan also wrote separately – in a five-page opinion joined by Sotomayor, Kavanaugh, and Barrett – that looked at appropriations through a broader historical lens than the Thomas opinion.

Kagan agreed that the “CFPB’s funding scheme, if transplanted back to the late-18th century, would have fit right now.” However, she emphasized, “the same would have been true at any other time in our Nation’s history.” She described a “continuing tradition” in which “Congress has created a variety of mechanisms to pay for government operations.” Even if there was no “exact replica” for the CFPB in U.S. history, she stressed, “its essentials are nothing new. And it was devised more than two centuries into an unbroken congressional practice, beginning at the beginning, of innovation and adaptation in appropriating funds. The way our Government has actually worked, over our entire experience, thus provides another reason to uphold Congress’s decision about how to fund the CFPB.”..

https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/05/supreme-court-lets-cfpb-funding-stand/

>>20878239

2/2

By contrast, Jackson would have taken a narrower approach. In her own concurrence she wrote that she would have held that the CFPB’s funding scheme meets the “minimal requirements” of the appropriations clause, without more. “Indeed,” she suggested, “there are good reasons to go no further” – specifically, respect for the Constitution’s allocation of powers among the three branches of government. Congress decided to fund the CFPB outside the normal appropriations process, she stressed, because it wanted to insulate the bureau from “the risk that powerful regulated entities might capture” that process. The judicial branch should not, she contended, now second-guess Congress’s decisions “about how to respond to a pressing national concern.”

In his dissenting opinion, Alito rejected Thomas’ recounting of history, arguing that the drafters of the Constitution “would be shocked, even horrified, by” the CFPB’s funding scheme. Offering his own detailed version of history, Alito concluded that “centuries of historical practice show that theAppropriations Clause demands legislative control over the source and disposition of the money used to finance Government operations and projects.”

But theCFPB’s “unprecedented combination of funding features,” Alito wrote, “affords it the very kind of financial independence that the Appropriations Clause was designed to prevent. It is not an exaggeration to say that the CFPB enjoys a degree of financial autonomy that a Stuart king would envy.”

And thatautonomy, Alito continued,“has real-world consequences.” Alitonoted several “major” changes to consumer protection law that the CFPB has recently announced, including guidance indicating that financialinstitutions should not deny credit to consumers based on their immigration status, as well as aproposed rulemaking to cap overdraft fees and remove medical bills from credit reports. “These may or may not be wise policies,” Alito concluded, “but Congress did not specifically authorize any of them, and if the CFPB’s financing scheme is sustained,Congress cannot control or monitor the CFPB’s use of fundsto implement such changes.”

https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/05/supreme-court-lets-cfpb-funding-stand/

>>20878085

Do you remember where X.com took you before twatter?

>>20878126

>https://www.krudplug.net/m/video.php?vid=7065

Thats gotta sting

>>20878080

Crockett is a perfect example of why Blacks are stereotyped. These people are a fucking joke.

>>20878242

>Do you remember where X.com took you before twatter?

The initial plot centers on increased reports of UFO sightings as tales of abductions and rumors of attacks by mysterious aliens become widespread. The nations of the world come to perceive this as a threat and attempt to form their own forces – such as Japan's Kiryu-Kai force – to deal with the crisis, but these efforts are unsuccessful. On December 11, 1998, representatives from some of the most powerful nations in the world secretly meet in Geneva to discuss the issue. From this meeting is born the clandestine defense and research organization Extraterrestrial Combat (X-COM)

>>20878238

Itisdasting that the two moderators they chose just happen to be kosher. If they add another moderator that's kosher, it could make a coincidence.

>>20878240

strangely enough there was a local story man injuries after jumping from second story fire. odd part is that he bicycle battery was mentioned on air as cause.

>>20878238

Why would Tapper of all people be the moderator?

https://www.washingtonian.com/2015/02/06/jennifer-tapper/

Favorite restaurants with the kids:

American City Dinner and Comet Ping Pong.

Congrats Barron

MIT

>>20878250

no i dont smoke groid kryptonite only cannabis oil

>>20878257

Oil? Damn, son. How's them lungs feel?

fri keks

>>20878148

this dude is gay

not hating

just observing

>>20878212

Like Jake from State Farm

Red shirt khaki

Still a fag tho

Not a fed fag

No homo

>>20878259

lungs feel awesome its gorilla glue #4

tane extracted no gas left behind cleaner than budder and wax

3 North Koreans infiltrated US companies in 'staggering' alleged telework fraud: DOJ

Three North Korean workers and a U.S. citizen are charged in the indictment.

ByAlexander Mallin

May 16, 2024, 1:16 PM

The Justice Department on Thursday unsealed an indictment charging three North Korean workers and a United States citizen with allegedly engaging in "staggering fraud" through a complex scheme wherethey secured illicit work with a number of U.S. companies and government agencies.

The indictment against the North Korean IT workers using the aliases Jiho Han, Chunji Jin and Haoran Xu alleges thegroup used fraudulent identities belonging to 60 real Americansto secure telework positionsbetween October 2020 and 2023that ultimatelygenerated nearly $7 millionin profits for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Prosecutors further allege the group was assisted byU.S. national Christina Chapmanin their efforts to obtain remote work positions, who theyaccuse of stationing laptops belonging to U.S. companies at various residences that the North Koreanswere then able to access. She also allegedly received paychecks for the group and forged signatures of the intended beneficiaries in order to transfer the funds into her bank, later transferring the funds to the North Koreans while charging them monthly fees for her services, the indictment alleges.

"The conspiracy perpetrated a staggering fraud on a multitude of industries, at the expense of generally unknowing U.S. companies and persons," the indictment read."It impacted more than 300 U.S. companies, compromised the identities of U.S. persons, caused false information to be conveyed to DHS [Department Of Homeland Security] on more than 100 occasions, created false tax liabilities for more than 35 U.S. persons==, and resulted in at least $6.8 million of revenue for the overseas IT workers."

Included among the companies allegedly defrauded in the schemeare a "top-5 national television network and media company, apremier Silicon Valley technologycompany, anaerospace and defensemanufacturer, an iconicAmerican car manufacturer, a high-end retail chain, andone of the most recognizable media and entertainment companiesin the world, all of which were Fortune 500 companies," according to the indictment.

The workers also allegedlyattempted to gain employment and access to information at two unnamed U.S. government agencieson three different occasions, according to the indictment, though those attempts were identified and thwarted.

The three North Koreans are still at large, according to the DOJ. Chapman was arrested Wednesday in Arizona, according to a release from the Justice Department. She did not immediately have an attorney listed for her.

The State Department announced in a statement Thursday it is offering a reward of up to $5 million for information on the IT workers and the full-scale disruption of their scheme.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-unseals-indictment-alleging-staggering-fraud-north-koreans-telework-scheme/story?id=110304278

>>20878170

AG-47

>>20878276

Thought he died

>>20878268

>>20878280

He did

Killary ded too but that doesn’t stop memes

>>20878267

Can't do the oils or any of the new fancy shmancy extracts. Too harsh on the lungs and throat. Feels like smoking a pack of cigarettes in about 20 minutes and hack up a lung for about 10 minutes. Temps could've been too high though when I tried it. Truth be told, never been a fan of how loud burning flower is, always preferred hash for it's milder sound and mellow tone, but that stuff's pricey where I live. Anyway, should probably cut back on the banter regarding this subject. o7

>>20878286

im in colorado im on medical program and 100% LEGAL. YEAH GOTTA KEEP TEMPS LOWER

>>20878278

>BAN masks from being worn in public.

While I’m glad that my children won’t have to see these maskholes in public this isn’t the right way to do things. Government shouldn’t be interfering with people’s free will. Unless it’s harmful to other people. Free will matters retards.

>>20878284

>>20878284

TY anon

Who thinks “Eyelashes” & “Butch Body Yellow Hair-Died Bitch” conflagration yesterday eve be contrived display?

I do.

Q+ throw that cap as high as you can

Has anyone seen chem trails since the solar eclipse?

>>20878300

kek

>>20878299

Almost every day, horizon to horizon. Usually SE to NW, but sometimes NE to SW.

>>20878275

Not always.

is everybody watching the cat-fight on the House floor.

kekekkkkkkkekkk

starts at about 30 minutes in.

the Black American and AOC fight like Ghetto; just sayn;

>>20878306

Thanks Anon.

.>>20878305

>my mother would

Your Mother has made you hate all other women because nobody is good enough for her special little soldier.

>>20878300

pro tip for laughs microsoft copilot will speak ebonics kek

State Employment and Unemployment Summary

For release 10:00 a.m. (ET) Friday, May 17, 2024

STATE EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT – APRIL 2024

Unemployment rates were lower in April in 5 states, higher in 2 states, and stable in 43 states and the District of Columbia, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Thirty states had jobless rate increases from a year earlier, 1 state had a decrease, and 19 states and the District had little change. The national unemployment rate changed little at 3.9 percent but was 0.5 percentage point higher than in April 2023.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/laus.nr0.htm

Are Patriots in control?

>>20878320

>HHS Becerra

evil gonna evil

>>20878328

mebbe

>>20878299

yes, morning after SKY totally clear; the solar wind blew all the crap out of the atmosphere;

But they started in again, before noon that day…

kekek

not really funny.

but yeah, figures.

>>20878341

I like it.

>>20878335

>>20878328

The chaos can be a struggle

>>20878291

it's because criminals use masks to avoid identification.

Used to be illegal everywhere.

GM TO ME

GM TO YOU

GM TO ALL

GM TO Q

>>20878351

> the team of wizards at NASA do what is hard to achieve what is great

>>20878190

6 - Going to Barron’s High School Graduation.

2 - Great student,

2 - wonderful boy!

2 - Very exciting!!!

4/10/20 DJT

>>20878060

tyb

o7

>>20878356

2 - [Great student] , - 21

2 - [wonderful boy] ! - 21

2 - [Very exciting] !!! - 23

12 [Characters] 1 space

>>20878080

Best Springer episode ever.

DeskQview will officially make that fucker MANDELLA EFFECT…

>>20878364

Wadn’t it Mil?