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| Dr. David Marlett, Editor | theconservative@usa.net | Number 61 |
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| Dr. David Marlett, Editor | theconservative@usa.net | Number 61 |
http://www.wilderness-cry.net/tcn | ||
13 December 2000
In a dissenting report on the Supreme Court ruling ending the Florida recount, Justice John Paul Stevens said, "Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the nation's confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the law."
TCN - Gore has more of a legacy than Clinton and he didn't even get elected! Clinton just confirmed what we already knew about politicians. Gore has managed to bring the judicial system down to partisan wrangling and thereby destroy all confidence in our system of justice. A fine parting shot… I hope. - TCN
** It doesn't look like it.
*** A TCN Editorial ***
Republican activism during the past month has surprised just about everyone, except the average Republican.
It is certain that the Clinton/Gore machine has been surprised. The opposition has caused them to change game plans so many times that they are no longer making any attempt to disguise the changes. For many years the only Republicans the Dems have had to deal with were the limp-wristed career politicians in Washington that were thoroughly trained to sit-up and beg on cue… no treat required. This total lack of backbone has been considered the Republican norm, so finding "activists" among the street Republicans has completely thrown the Dems off of their game.
Many Republicans have started acting on the things they say they believe. It would seem in light of this new activism, Republican career politicians would realize they need to start doing the same thing. Since they haven't, it may be they are so far out of touch that they need to be replaced.
One evidence of just how far out-of-touch OUR representatives are (both House and Senate, but primarily Senate) is found in the feigned battle over putting polling places on stateside military installations. Senator Daschle, the ultimate lap-Dem of the Clinton/Gore regime, is being allowed to block the bill that would help insure that our military get to vote.
Clinton/Gore are the ones that were crying a few weeks ago because they wanted every vote counted… while at the same time sending out instructions on how to make sure the military absentee ballots were disqualified.
Clinton/Gore are the ones that for years have been under-funding and under-staffing the military, while at the same time sending them into harm's way all over the world without clear directive.
Clinton/Gore are the ones that have seen the military as nothing more than a social group with which to experiment, to test unproven and illogical sociological theories, having no more worth than so many laboratory rats.
It is Clinton/Gore that the House and the Senate MUST STOP NOW.
The bill to insure our military can vote in every election on their bases with a minimum of difficulty must be passed… NOW.
Al Gore's uncalled-for judicial assault on the electoral process must be condemned by Congress NOW so that he is fully aware that he will not be able to continue the battle in those hallowed halls.
Republicans in Congress must get the message and get it now. The conservatives of this country have found their voice and are going to use it until some slate of representatives in Congress understands.
While we are at it, the RNC had better be listening as well. There are OTHER parties that are much more conservative and quite willing to accept disenfranchised conservative Republicans.
It would also serve GW well to be listening… It is not moderate "reach across the aisle" types that are pounding the streets and carrying signs in his behalf. One sure way to guarantee that he is a one term president is to turn his back on those demonstrators once he is in office. Concessions on issues that conservatives see as important would seal his fate.
Rules Bruce Lindsey, Cheryl Mills, Doris Matsui, Others Can Be Deposed
Allows Search of White House E-Mail
(Washington, DC) Judge Royce C. Lamberth, in three orders last week, ruled that Judicial Watch can undertake significant new discovery in the withholding of documents concerning Clinton-Gore Commerce Department trade missions. Judicial Watch has uncovered evidence, including sworn testimony, that the Clinton-Gore Commerce Department, working in conjunction with the White House and Democratic National Committee, illegally sold taxpayer-financed trade missions seats in exchange for campaign contributions. In court testimony, Nolanda Hill, the business partner and confidante of the late Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, said that Hillary Clinton conceived of this fundraising scheme.
Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit in 1995 to uncover documents pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) about the Commerce Department trade missions. In December, 1998 (and reaffirmed yesterday), the Court ruled that the Clinton-Gore Commerce Department had illegally withheld and destroyed many responsive documents. (It was this lawsuit that helped uncover John Huang, which, according to Fox News, "got the ball rolling" on the Chinagate scandal. Huang now faces contempt of court for his refusal to answer questions about Bill and Hillary Clintons', Al Gore's and many Republicans' roles in this controversy.)
In his rulings, Judge Lamberth authorized Judicial Watch to take the deposition testimony of Bruce Lindsey, Cheryl Mills, and Doris Matsui. A sworn declaration by Commerce Department whistleblower Sonya Stewart points to Ms. Mills' involvement in improperly withholding documents from Judicial Watch. With respect to Mr. Lindsey and Ms. Matsui, the Court found, based on Ms. Stewart's testimony, that "it is logical to conclude that Lindsey and Matsui would have information related to the frustration of the plaintiff's FOIA requests" on the trade missions.
Judge Lamberth also authorized discovery into Clinton-Gore White House e-mail which may bear on the underlying issue of documents illegally withheld from Judicial Watch by the Commerce Department. In allowing e-mail discovery, Judge Lamberth cited Nolanda Hill's sworn testimony, ruling that "there is credible evidence that communications did occur between the (Commerce Department), the White House, and the DNC...[and that] it is logical to conclude that at least some of the communications were in electronic form."
"As Judge Lamberth said yesterday, 'this is not your average FOIA case.' Though Judge Lamberth did not grant Judicial Watch all the discovery it had requested, we are pleased by his rulings. This scandal goes to the highest levels of the Clinton-Gore White House," stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman.
[ Judicial Watch ]
TCN Editorial Comment
"All that we bled for and suffered for the last 25 years is now in the balance here today. This case is up there with the Dred Scott level of case; did the black man have a right the white was bound to respect?
"If this court rules against counting our vote, it will simply create a civil rights explosion. People will not surrender to this tyranny. We will fight back," said Jesse Jackson after the US Supreme Court hearing this week. We wonder if these words might not be compelling evidence if JJ should be charged for inciting a riot if his predictions come true.
JJ seems to be the only one convinced that voter machines are prejudiced somehow. His claims that blacks have been "disenfranchised" (the word of the year) fall on deaf ears except for the public media who care nothing for truth or for the results of their actions, only for eye-grabbing headlines. We hope it JJ's constituency stays that limited. Such nonsense talk can do no good, for the black man, or for the country.
Note to JJ: When the whole world stinks, it's time to take a shower. -TCN
Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, Washington Democrat and a lawyer who has argued before the Supreme Court, said she has faith in the court.
Mrs. Norton said questions from the justices were evenhanded and did not reflect bias for either side as to whether the recount of Florida votes should resume.
"I do believe there is more than a good-faith effort on the part of most of the justices to avoid actions that appear political," she said.
In a split 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court Saturday ordered a stay of the Florida Supreme Court's order to resume a recount.
The five justices in favor of halting the recounts were appointed by Republican presidents, but two of the dissenting justices John Paul Stevens and David H. Souter, were appointed by Republicans.
"This partisan thing is sometimes in the eye of the beholder, and sometimes a way to delegitimize what your opponent is doing," said James Bopp Jr., general counsel for the James Madison Center for Free Speech.
While this narrow majority is criticized as being political, liberals have overlooked the same split on causes they champion, said Todd Gaziano, constitutional scholar for the Heritage Foundations.
Other noted 5-4 split rulings include a June decision by the court to overturn Nebraska's partial-birth-abortion law. The court also struck down a Colorado law that overruled special protections for homosexual rights on a 5-4 split.
Mr. Gaziano said the same split occurred in a 1972 decision to overturn all state and federal death-penalty statues, and the 1966 Miranda vs. Arizona case that stated those arrested must be informed of certain constitutional rights upon arrest before they can be questioned.
[ From an article in the Washington Times ]
TCN - Roe v. Wade was also a 5-4 decision but you don't hear any liberal Dems discrediting the Supremes or the validity of the decision in that case.
The Florida House or Representatives passed its resolution naming a slate of GW Bush electors by one vote short of a two-thirds majority and the Dems will be calling that illegal, invalid and against the will of the people too. It really doesn't matter to them what the numbers are, only who they favor. -TCN
** Also Known As "Pay-Backs"
The state conviction of David Hale, a key witness in the Whitewater scandal, has been upheld by the Arkansas Supreme Court on a minor legal technicality.
Hale, one of special counsel Kenneth Starr's witnesses in the federal Whitewater trial of former Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, businessman Jim McDougal and McDougal's ex-wife, Susan, must spend 21 days in a state prison because his lawyers failed to make a timely motion, the court ruled in a 6-1 decision issued late last week.
Hale was the chief cooperating witness in the independent counsel probe of the Clintons known as "Whitewater."
Hale's testimony led to the convictions of the Arkansas trio on fraud and conspiracy charges.
Hale had received federal immunity from federal prosecutors.
But a quirk in the law allowed Arkansas state prosecutors to prosecute Hale on local charges.
In an apparent act of political retribution, Hale was convicted in 1999 of making false or misleading statements to state insurance regulators.
He appealed the conviction on the grounds that prosecutors had improperly questioned him about his role in the Whitewater matter.
He claimed that federal prosecutors had granted him immunity from future federal prosecutions in exchange for his cooperation with the Whitewater investigation.
Hales said that in using information from his federal case, the Arkansas prosecutors acted wrongly.
Without judging the merits of Hale's claim, the court held that he or his lawyers had failed to object to the questioning in a timely matter, and had waited too long to raise the point.
Justice Annabelle Clinton Imber wrote that Hale's lawyer failed to make timely objections to prosecutors' questioning of Hale about his role in the Whitewater scheme. She wrote that the questioning continued for a full 23 pages in the transcript before any objection was raised. Despite the court's rulings, the Arkansas legal action is unprecedented, according to legal experts. States, typically, honor federal immunity.
Defenders of Hale say the state action against him was meant to punish him for his testimony against the Clintons and other Arkansas Democrats.
Hale, a former Little Rock judge, charged publicly that Bill Clinton pressured him into making a fraudulent, federally backed $300,000 Small Business Administration loan to Susan McDougal. Starr, however, refused to consider bringing charges against the president unless Hale's claims were supported by another, credible witness.
One possible witness was Jim McDougal, who died in prison shortly after agreeing to cooperate with Starr.
Hale has already served a 24-month federal prison term after pleading guilty in 1994 to conspiracy and mail fraud.
Hale has had two heart attacks and uses a pacemaker. He continues taking life-sustaining medications.
The Arkansas court agreed to allow him to wait until there was room in a state prison for him to serve his 21-day sentence instead of making him wait in a local jail cell to begin serving his time, according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
[NewsMax.com ]
TCN--Anyone else wondering if his heart medicine will be properly administered? --TCN
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