[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #442 Infrastructure? "Easy Peasy!"

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EdKrassen twitterde op donderdag 28-12-2017 om 03:11:13 Stop making it out like this is your doing. Thanks Obama. reageer retweet

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Miriam2626 twitterde op donderdag 28-12-2017 om 03:43:00 They retreated when you became president because they figured you would kill our democracy without their help. reageer retweet

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Skitters1 twitterde op donderdag 28-12-2017 om 03:28:23 We heard you the first time you tweeted this. Stop tweeting in the third person reageer retweet

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Former Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore filed a lawsuit on Wednesday night contesting the outcome of the state’s special election.

According to The Associated Press, the suit was filed in Montgomery Circuit Court less than a day before the state will officially declare Moore’s opponent the winner. Moore wants the state to launch a fraud investigation and hold a new election.

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In a complaint filed in the circuit court here in Alabama's capital, Mr. Moore's campaign argued that such fraud had tainted the Dec. 12 special election, which Mr. Moore lost to Doug Jones by fewer than 22,000 votes, and that the Alabama authorities had inadequately investigated claims of misconduct.

If the election is prematurely certified, Mr. Moore's lawyers wrote, he will "suffer irreparable harm" and be "denied his full right as a candidate to a fair election."

In some ways Mr. Moore's lawsuit was not a surprise. He has a demonstrated penchant for last-minute legal theatrics -- in 2015, he tried, unsuccessfully, to block same-sex marriages from moving forward hours before they were to begin -- and he and his allies have spent the last several weeks signaling their unease with this month's voting process. Indeed, while saying little else publicly, Mr. Moore has been soliciting contributions for an "election integrity fund."

Mr. Moore's court filing ran for dozens of pages, and it argued that returns in Jefferson County, the state's most populous county, "confirmed election fraud." It also said that turnout in the county was suspiciously high; it suggested that Mr. Jones had benefited from voter intimidation; and it argued that Mr. Moore's opponents had spread "lies and fraudulent misrepresentations."

Mr. Moore has spent weeks ignoring calls that he concede the election, defying the wishes of President Trump, who endorsed his campaign, and other Republican leaders.

It was not immediately clear when a judge would consider Mr. Moore's complaint or the affidavits from several people his campaign described as experts in elections; one has claimed to have "mathematically proved a conspiracy to assassinate" President John F. Kennedy.

John H. Merrill, the Alabama secretary of state, has dismissed complaints, from Democratic and Republican critics, of election fraud. In an interview on Dec. 15, Mr. Merrill, a Republican who voted for Mr. Moore, flatly declared: "I have not seen any irregularities or any inconsistencies that are outside the norm."

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Op donderdag 28 december 2017 10:16 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:
Dus omdat de uitspraken in jouw straatje passen, is er plots sprake van 'fair and balanced' berichtgeving?

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WASHINGTON — The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, removed a top F.B.I. agent this summer from his investigation into Russian election meddling after the Justice Department’s inspector general began examining whether the agent had sent text messages that expressed anti-Trump political views, according to three people briefed on the matter.

The agent, Peter Strzok, is considered one of the most experienced and trusted F.B.I. counterintelligence investigators. He helped lead the investigation into whether Hillary Clinton had mishandled classified information on her private email account, and then played a major role in the investigation into links between President Trump’s campaign and Russia.

But Mr. Strzok was reassigned this summer from Mr. Mueller’s investigation to the F.B.I.’s human resources department, where he has been stationed since. The people briefed on the case said the transfer followed the discovery of text messages in which Mr. Strzok and a colleague reacted to news events, like presidential debates, in ways that could appear critical of Mr. Trump.

“Immediately upon learning of the allegations, the special counsel’s office removed Peter Strzok from the investigation,” said a spokesman for the special counsel’s office, Peter Carr.

https://www.nytimes.com/2(...)nti-trump-texts.html

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"The fact that Robert Mueller fired an investigator immediately when these texts came to light is evidence he's running a tight ship and lends credibility to his investigation -- not detracts from it," Lisa Gilbert, an expert on government ethics at the watchdog group Public Citizen, told me.

Furthermore, there is no reason to think that Strzok could've overridden Comey's own view of Clinton's conduct. Even if Strzok were in fact leading a partisan effort to tweak the language out of a personal desire to defend Clinton, he couldn't have done it against the will of his own boss. And Comey is famously hostile to political favoritism or chumminess with politicians.

Lawrence Noble, the general counsel of the Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan watchdog group, says that Strzok likely made a mistake, but that his actions, based on what's publicly known so far, fall short of contaminating the entire Mueller inquiry.

"That fact that it appears Mueller removed Strzok from the investigation as soon as he find out about the messages tends to underscore Mueller's seriousness about keeping the investigation free from even the appearance of bias," Noble told me.

Gilbert says that the timing of right-wing criticism of Mueller's probe is worth noting. It's ramping up "just as the investigation begins to bear fruit."

Given how fast Mueller is moving, that means you can expect to be hearing the name Peter Strzok a lot in the weeks ahead.