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In other governmental/administration legal news this week............
A federal judge on Wednesday rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to toss out a lawsuit over missing notes documenting President Donald Trump’s face-to-face meetings with President Vladimir Putin of Russia.
American Oversight and Democracy forward, a pair of left-leaning watchdog groups, filed suit against Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the State Department, the National Archives and Records Administration, and the archivist of the United States in June over the missing notes.
The groups charge that Pompeo violated the Federal Records Act by allowing Trump to reportedly confiscate meeting notes prepared by State Department employees and for failing to preserve them.
In a ruling from the bench on Wednesday, Judge Trevor McFadden of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia denied the government’s motion to dismiss the case.
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The order by McFadden, a Trump appointee, means that the lawsuit will be allowed to move forward and gives the government until Jan. 10 to say whether Pompeo complied with federal records law or show why he was not obligated to do so.
Pompeo will then have until the middle of March to produce the State Department’s record of evidence.
Democracy Forward’s senior counsel cheered the order. “President Trump clearly wishes to shield his interactions with foreign leaders even from those within his administration. But the law doesn’t allow Secretary Pompeo to turn a blind eye to those efforts,” Nitin Shah said in a statement, calling the ruling “a win for government transparency and accountability.”
The State Department declined to comment on pending litigation.
More: https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/11...tes-082600
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Our government listed the fictional nation of Wakanda as a trade partner. Holy fuck. Morons are governing America. MAGA. Get it? *snicker*
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(12-19-2019, 12:32 PM)Duchess Wrote: Our government listed the fictional nation of Wakanda as a trade partner. Holy fuck. Morons are governing America. MAGA. Get it? *snicker*  next we'll see Trump tweeting about what a great guy J Jonah Jameson is. And that he also hates Spiderman.
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(12-19-2019, 06:33 PM)Clang McFly Wrote: (12-19-2019, 12:32 PM)Duchess Wrote: Our government listed the fictional nation of Wakanda as a trade partner. Holy fuck. Morons are governing America. MAGA. Get it? *snicker* next we'll see Trump tweeting about what a great guy J Jonah Jameson is. And that he also hates Spiderman.
The Black Panther just took a huge dump. When he's done the shit will hit the fan.
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I suspect the Wakanda thing was just someone screwing around and no one noticed it.
When I was active duty, some twit changed my place of birth to Antarctica on my official records. That was fun.
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I may never have to ask why again.
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Okay genius.
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(12-19-2019, 07:57 PM)Rootilda Wrote: Okay genius.
It's not fun being conceived during a fractured fairy tale Missy!
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Part of Trump's speech at Turning Point USA this weekend:
“I never understood wind,” Trump said. “I know windmills very much, I have studied it better than anybody. I know it is very expensive. They are made in China and Germany mostly, very few made here, almost none, but they are manufactured, tremendous — if you are into this — tremendous fumes and gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we have a world, right?”
“So the world is tiny compared to the universe. So tremendous, tremendous amount of fumes and everything. You talk about the carbon footprint, fumes are spewing into the air, right spewing, whether it is China or Germany, is going into the air,” he continued.
“A windmill will kill many bald eagles,” Trump continued. “After a certain number, they make you turn the windmill off, that is true. By the way, they make you turn it off. And yet, if you killed one, they put you in jail. That is OK. But why is it OK for windmills to destroy the bird population?”
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Those aren't the comments of a well adjusted individual who has got their act together. It's still shocking that those comments, and many like them, are coming from the president of the United States.
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You know what else is shocking? His congregation either ignoring his obvious dementia or claiming he has such a great sense of humor and we're idiots for not understanding it. I saw someone bragging about all the "conservative" (aka anti-abortion) judges this admin has pushed through that we'll be stuck with far past my lifetime and a very high percentage of them are completely unqualified.
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(12-23-2019, 01:28 PM)Rootilda Wrote: very high percentage of them are completely unqualified.
Yup, and it's not just you & I saying it, it's the American Bar Association!
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home alone?
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Trump complained about Trudeau when he found out that a Canadian broadcasting channel deleted his 7 second appearance in Home Alone 2... which happened in 2014 but hey, he's not going to miss a chance to insult an "enemy" on twitter.
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He's been on more shows than I thought eh.
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(12-27-2019, 04:50 PM)Rootilda Wrote: which happened in 2014
I laughed, and laughed some more at the outrage. I've seen so many of them, including the dumb son, wailing about the injustice and calling people snowflakes (zero self awareness there). They aren't even paying attention to when it was done. 
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She has the same butt hole mouth that her father does.
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