Current events that liberals are unlikely to applaud

[Legion]

[Legion]

[Legion]

ORDERED TO PAY

Judicial Watch announced that a U.S. District Judge in California awarded Judicial Watch $22,000 in legal fees in a case filed by an Antifa organizer in an effort to block Judicial Watch from obtaining information about her activities.

Yvette Felarca, a middle school teacher in the Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD), and two co-plaintiffs were ordered to pay Judicial Watch $22,000 in attorney’s fees and $4,000 in litigation costs. Felarca had sued the BUSD in federal court to keep the school district from fulfilling its legal obligation to provide Judicial Watch with records of their communications mentioning: Felarca, Antifa, and/or BAMN. Judicial Watch also asked for Felarca’s personnel file.

Felarca is a prominent figure in By Any Means Necessary (BAMN), a group founded by the Marxist Revolutionary Workers League that protests conservative speaking engagements. In 2016, Felarca and two of her allies were arrested and charged with several crimes, including felony assault, for inciting a riot in Sacramento. Earlier this year, Felarca was ordered to stand trial for assault.

U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria, Northern District of California, who had previously ruled that Felarca’s lawsuit was “entirely frivolous,” wrote in his ruling awarding legal fees to Judicial Watch that Felarca and her co-plaintiffs’ First Amendment claims were “premised on the obviously baseless assumption” that the First Amendment condemns the speech of some while condoning the ideological missions of others.

Judge Chhabria added that “The plaintiffs also mischaracterized the documents under review” and that the plaintiffs “failed to grapple with the role Ms. Felarca played in making herself a topic of public discourse through her physical conduct at public rallies and her voluntary appearance on Fox News.”

Judge Chhabria’s order also states that “a significant portion of the documents the plaintiffs initially sued to protect from disclosure had been publicly disclosed months earlier in another suit brought by Ms. Felarca against BUSD, where she was represented by the same counsel. (See generally Felarca v. Berkeley Unified School District, No. 3:16-cv-06184-RS). The plaintiffs, therefore, had no reasonable argument to protect those documents from disclosure.”

Along with Felarca’s $20,000 payment, co-plaintiffs Lori Nixon and Larry Stefl were ordered by Judge Chhabria to pay Judicial Watch $1,000 each (Yvette Felarca, et al., v. Berekely Unified School District, et al. (No. 3:17-cv-06282-VC)).

“Judicial Watch is entitled to attorney’s fees because the plaintiffs’ lawsuit was frivolous, and their litigation conduct was unreasonable,” Judge Chhabria wrote in his order.

Additionally, Judge Chhabria’s order holds the plaintiffs “jointly and severally liable” to pay Judicial Watch $4,000 in litigation expenses.


https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judge-orders-antifa-activist-yvette-felarca-to-pay-judicial-watch-legal-fees-for-her-entirely-frivolous-lawsuit/

[Earl]

Excellent, excellent and excellent, Legion.

[RB 60]

Nadler vowed to hold McGahn in contempt of Congress, and to hold Trump accountable "one way or the other."



Hold Trump accountable "one way or the other" says Nadler? Sounds more like desperation. LOL!
McGahn flips Nadler the finger and doesn't show up, Nadler screams impeach! LMAO!

[Legion]

Nadler vowed to hold McGahn in contempt of Congress, and to hold Trump accountable "one way or the other."



Hold Trump accountable "one way or the other" says Nadler? Sounds more like desperation. LOL!
McGahn flips Nadler the finger and doesn't show up, Nadler screams impeach! LMAO!

The DEMOCRATS are shit out of luck, it seems.

"The immunity of the President’s immediate advisers from compelled congressional testimony on matters related to their official responsibilities has long been recognized and arises from the fundamental workings of the separation of powers.

This immunity applies to former senior advisers such as the former White House Counsel.

Accordingly, the former Counsel is not legally required to appear and testify about matters related to his official duties as Counsel to the President.

The President does not waive an adviser’s immunity from compelled congressional testimony by authorizing disclosure of any particular information.

The disclosure’s impact on executive privilege does not ultimately bear on any underlying immunity from compelled testimony.

Because Congress may not constitutionally compel the former Counsel to testify about his official duties, he may not be civilly or criminally penalized for following a presidential directive not to appear.

The same rationale applies equally to an exercise of inherent contempt powers against a senior aide who has complied with a presidential direction that he not provide testimony to a congressional committee.

On April 22, 2019, the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives subpoenaed Donald F. McGahn II, the former Counsel to the President, to testify about matters described in the report of Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller, III.

You have asked whether Mr. McGahn is legally required to appear.

We provide the same answer that the Department of Justice has repeatedly provided for nearly five decades: Congress may not constitutionally compel the President’s senior advisers to testify about their official duties.

This testimonial immunity is rooted in the constitutional separation of powers and derives from the President’s independence from Congress.

As Attorney General Janet Reno explained, “subjecting a senior presidential advisor to the congressional subpoena power would be akin to requiring the President himself to appear before Congress on matters relating to the performance of his constitutionally assigned executive functions.” Assertion of Executive Privilege with Respect to Clemency Decision, 23 Op. O.L.C. 1, 5 (1999) (“Reno Opinion”).

Congress may no more summon the President to a congressional committee room than the President may command Members of Congress to appear at the White House."


https://www.justice.gov/olc/file/1164186/download

[Legion]

HE DELETED THE POLL BECAUSE TRUMP WON

[Legion]

FEMOCRAT

DeKalb County Commissioner Sharon Barnes Sutton has been arrested by the FBI, Channel 2's Mark Winne has learned.

Channel 2's Aaron Diamant received the three-count indictment that showed Sutton was charged with bribery and two counts of extortion.

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/dekalb-county/former-dekalb-commissioner-sharon-barnes-sutton-arrested-by-fbi/951040605

[Legion]

American companies have maintained double-digit earnings growth while their Chinese peers have slowed sharply, with the U.S.-China trade war adding to the negative effect of Beijing's push to reduce corporate debt.

U.S.-headquartered companies' net profits rose 10% in fiscal 2018, based on a Nikkei analysis of QUICK-FactSet data on about 7,800 global companies with market capitalizations of at least $1 billion.

China-based companies' profit growth plunged to 3% from 22%.

Lower tax rates also provided a boost by lifting the economy and capital spending.

U.S.-headquartered businesses accounted for about 31% of a record $4.14 trillion in global corporate profits, up 2 percentage points from a year earlier, the data shows.

But China, which made up the second-largest share of corporate earnings, dragged down the global growth rate. The Chinese government's efforts to reduce the country's debt overhang have made it harder for the private sector to raise funds, weighing on economic activity.

This is on top of the uncertainty caused by the U.S.-China trade war.

Annual new-auto sales shrank in China for the first time in 28 years in 2018 amid deteriorating consumer sentiment, leading to profit declines or losses at a number of automakers.

Telecommunications equipment maker ZTE sank into the red after crippling U.S. sanctions last year.

The slump in global trade caused Cosco Shipping Holdings' net profit to drop by half.

Globally, the top 1% of companies generated roughly 30% of total net profits.

The four American companies in the top 10 -- Apple, Alphabet, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America -- all logged at least double-digit earnings growth. Each of the Chinese companies on the list -- Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, China Construction Bank, and Agricultural Bank of China -- reported increases of less than 10%.

America also outpaced China in profitability, in a reversal from fiscal 2017. The overall operating profit margin for U.S. companies came to 8.5%, improving 0.3 percentage point from that year, while the Chinese figure narrowed nearly 1 percentage point to 7.7%.








https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Business-trends/China-s-profit-growth-stumbles-while-US-moves-ahead

[Legion]