News: #Trump's former White House chief of staff Mark #Meadows just pleaded NOT GUILTY to multiple state-level felonies in #Arizona after he was indicted for alleged role in a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election. #legal
The GA Court of Appeals paused trial proceedings in Mark #Meadows’s Fulton County case.
But we could still see further litigation over Meadows’s efforts to move his case to federal court. Meadows’s deadline to ask SCOTUS to consider his appeal on that issue is June 27, 2024.
#Arizona AG Kris Mayes announces the State Grand Jury has returned indictments in the state's 2020 fake electors scheme.
The following individuals are named as defendants, per the AG: Kelli Ward, Tyler Bowyer, Nancy Cottle, Jacob Hoffman, Anthony Kern, James Lamon, Robert Montgomery, Samuel Moorhead, Lorraine Pellegrino, Gregory Safsten, and Michael Ward.
Charges include fraud, forgery, and conspiracy – class 2, 4, and 5 felonies. #legal
👀👀 👉🏼“#Trump,👈🏼 Rudy #Giuliani and Mark #Meadows are unindicted co-conspirators in the #Michigan attorney general's case against the state's so-called "fake electors" in the 2020 election, a state investigator revealed in court on Wednesday.” #legal https://trib.al/OpHzqi2
👀👀 “#Trump, Rudy #Giuliani and Mark #Meadows are unindicted co-conspirators in the #Michigan attorney general's case against the state's so-called "fake electors" in the 2020 election, a state investigator revealed in court on Wednesday.” #legal https://trib.al/OpHzqi2
"As transportation networks expand and urban areas grow, noise from sources such as vehicle engines is spreading into remote places. Human-caused noise has consequences for wildlife, entire #ecosystems and people. It reduces the ability to hear natural sounds, which can mean the difference between life and death for many animals, and degrade the calming effect that we feel when we spend time in wild places."
I'm planning on submitting a summary of these studies as part of my arguments against the #GorhamConnector. I grew up near a 4-lane highway, and the vibrations and noise pollution were constant -- I hadn't realized how bad it was until I went back home a few years ago and camped in my old backyard -- and felt every speeding tractor trailer truck going by.
Evidence of the impact of noise pollution on biodiversity: a systematic map
By Romain Sordello, Ophélie Ratel, Frédérique Flamerie De Lachapelle, Clément Leger, Alexis Dambry & Sylvie Vanpeene
"Ecological research now deals increasingly with the effects of #NoisePollution on #biodiversity. Indeed, many studies have shown the impacts of #AnthropogenicNoise and concluded that it is potentially a threat to the persistence of many species. The present work is a systematic map of the evidence of the impacts of all anthropogenic noises (industrial, urban, transportation, etc.) on biodiversity. This report describes the mapping process and the evidence base with summary figures and tables presenting the characteristics of the selected articles."
"No active judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit was interested in sitting en banc to rehear Mark Meadows’ case for moving his Georgia RICO case to federal court, the court said Wednesday in a brief denial."
‘Grifters and sycophants’: the radicals who would fill key posts if Trump is re-elected
“They’re trying to find lawyers who believe in dictatorship. You have to wonder what kind of people in good conscience could sign up for a Trump revenge tour. This appears to be a casting call for an American political horror movie.”
If Trump wins, some of the lawyers who may be candidates for key posts according to the New York Times include a few who work at either ♦️Stephen Miller’s group "America First Legal" or have worked for ♦️Texas’s attorney general, Ken Paxton, a close Trump and Miller ally who has faced several ethics and criminal inquiries.
Miller and his legal center did not respond to a request for comment for this story.
Miller’s lawyer search could benefit from his group’s contacts in Maga circles and rapid growth.
When America First Legal was launched in 2021, it soon garnered $1.3m from the Maga-allied ♦️Conservative Partnership Institute, where Trump’s ex-chief of staff Mark Meadows is a senior official. 👉Meadows and Vought have both served on the board of Miller’s group.
America First Legal’s deep pockets have helped fund an array of lawsuits against the Biden administration, states targeting immigration policies and what Miller has labeled “the equity cult”.
Just last month, America First Legal filed a brief opposing the limited gag order placed on Trump by a federal judge overseeing special counsel Jack Smith’s four-count criminal indictment of Trump for election subversion.
More broadly, the mission statement of Miller’s America First Legal reveals its ideological compatibility with Trump’s authoritarian-leaning agenda, of which hard-right lawyers would be assets in implementing should Trump get another term.
“Our security, our liberty, our sovereignty, and our most fundamental rights and values are being systematically dismantled by an unholy alliance of corrupt special interests, big tech titans, the fake news media, and liberal Washington politicians,” the mission statement reads.
Given Miller’s strong ties to Trump, some GOP congressional veterans are alarmed by his search for more ideological lawyers who would not question Trump’s emerging authoritarian agenda.
“They’re looking for grifters and sycophants like Jeffrey Clark and Ken Paxton,” said the former House member Charlie Dent.
In Dent’s eyes, these kinds of lawyers would “do whatever they’re told. This is absolutely dangerous.”
#Fulton county prosecutors do not intend to offer plea deals to #Trump and at least 2 co-defendants, #Meadows & #Giuliani, charged in connection with their efforts to overturn the 2020 election in #Georgia, preferring instead to force them to trial.
“The publisher of #MarkMeadow’s book is suing the former White House chief of staff, arguing in court filings Friday morning that he violated an agreement with All Seasons Press by including false statements about former President Trump’s claims surrounding the 2020 election.” #legal https://trib.al/4MiFbaH
If you publish a book by a well known liar, your reputation is going to suffer, deservedly so. All Seasons could have fact-checked the book in advance, if they'd been serious about telling the truth. Instead, they obviously thought they could make some money with a #fascist grifter.
"We knew he was lying to YOU, but we never dreamed he would lie to US." Can both sides lose?
The notion that #Meadows "evaded charges" is nifty. No one besides #Trump has yet been charged. And reports of Meadows' immunized testimony, at least as reported, is limited to stuff involving his book.