Showing posts with label death penalty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label death penalty. Show all posts

09 January 2017

Reject Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III U.S. Attorney General Nomination Urges A Statement From 1,424 Law Faculty At 180 Law Schools In 49 States

     Monday, 9 January 2017, WASHINGTON, D.C. - "STATEMENT FROM LAW SCHOOL FACULTY OPPOSING NOMINATION OF JEFF SESSIONS FOR THE POSITION OF ATTORNEY GENERAL" specifying the many grave concerns of the now listed 1,424 law professors from 180 law schools in 49 states compelling them to urge the United States Senate Committee On The Judiciary to reject the nomination of Jeff Sessions to be U.S. Attorney General for interested readers is at the first link below.
     Previously Jeff Sessions was only the second nominee for a federal judgeship in half a century to be rejected by the Senate Judiciary Committee for full Senate consideration due to what Senators deemed to be his blatantly racist history including his actions in his official capacity in an Alabama U.S. Attorney's office with at least one Senator on the Senate Judiciary Committee further calling for him immediately to resign that position as he was a "disgrace" unfit to represent the United States government in any capacity.
     Currently the Senate Republican majority leadership seeks to rush through vital proceedings for Jeff Sessions along with a rash of other highly suspect and controversial "Siberian Candidate" Trump nominees for other Senate "Advice and Consent" positions without legally required full vetting largely reportedly delayed by many of the nominees' own failures to timely fully complete required financial and other disclosure questionnaires, provide other required information and then be subject to passing required full rigorous FBI background and Office of Government ethics investigations.
     Jeff Sessions reportedly has returned to the Senate Judiciary Committee grossly incomplete and illegally untruthfully answered questionnaires apparently seeking to obfuscate and mischaracterize his long racist history rather as an untruthful one of a civil rights champion. He as well has reportedly senselessly failed to disclose where specifically asked his previous extraordinary rejection by the Committee for full Senate consideration even to hold a federal judgeship.
     All Senators of course anyway are well aware of that which should be disqualifying infamous rejection on his record especially considering that he has demonstrated no succeeding redemption but rather continued to act consistently with his prior disqualifying actions for which he had been ejected amplified by his further positions including Jeff Sessions abysmal record of objection to unjust mandatory sentencing reductions being retroactive as well as his absolute rejection of any realistic solution for the challenges posed by originally illegal aliens who have been fully positively integrated into U.S. society including serving in this country's armed forces all of which are set out for interested readers in the second link below.
     Finally Jeff Sessions has a a long record he also cannot hide shedding further light on his "conscience" such as it is of unbridled enthusiasm while an Alabama attorney general in seeking and largely succeeding in brutally having as many defendants put to death as quickly as possible even when they were known to him and often recognized by appellate courts to be mentally retarded, mentally incapable by legally recognized subnormal intelligence, obviously insane, and other such totally incapacitated defendants.
     Jeff Sessions enthusiastic pursuit of the death penalty in violation of the U.S. Constitution further included prosecution of those represented by clearly inadequate state appointed counsel including one with only one year of legal experience, another defense counsel appointed and paid by the state $4.95 an hour who provided a totally inadequate legal defense commensurate with that pay rate, and many other death penalty defendants inadequately represented by State appointed defense attorneys who should have been recognized pursuant to the U.S. Constitution as currently ineligible for the death penalty under such circumstances with Jeff Sessions nevertheless enthusiastically without regard for the U.S. Constitution pursuing the death of all such defendants knowing that in every case with the full resources of the government at his disposal Jeff Sessions could bravely and boldly face State appointed defense counsel including for defendants facing the death penalty which counsel were paid no more than $1,000 in total by the State for providing the full legal representation of any person facing the death penalty. All were nevertheless relentlessly pursued by Jeff Sessions in his ongoing crusade for death by State of as many people as quickly as possible. Readers interested in further details can go to the Jeff Sessions the "Grim Reaper of Alabama" third link below.
     UPDATE: Jeff Sessions according to the editorial board of the New York Times "smooth-talked" his way through his first day Tuesday, 10 December 2017, of his first before the Senate Judiciary Committee with that editorial urging that readers should be "outraged" at the prospect of Sessions' being put in charge of the Department of Justice enabling him to attempt to engage in a 4-year dismemberment of the Obama Administration's accomplishments there.
     Sessions spent a long day Tuesday starting before the proceeding began strategically holding his cute grandchild in his lap before being fed hours of mostly softball garbage questions by Republicans on the Committee interspersed with colloquies about their state college football rivalries focusing on the Alabama "Crimson Tide" and interspersed with compliments about how well-behaved his grandchildren were listening to them spew their completely worthless questions or just statements of vapid observations such as what a "friendly" and "polite" colleague to them he had been in the Senate.
     Meanwhile the Republican senators spent most of the rest of their time doing things such as conveniently overlooking or even attempting to rehabilitate Sessions' receipt of awards from many suspect organizations as far as "justice" is concerned as well as Sessions unremitting praise in the press which he for some unfathomable reason even continued to expound upon to the Senators in the hearing room even after his most vigorous Democratic questioner Senator Al Franken of Minnesota pointed out that the individual Sessions so enthusiastically endorsed was a leading figure in what was identified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a "hate group". Sessions blandly observed that that organization was not the "final arbiter" on what groups qualified as "hate groups". The Republicans and others also showed no interest in pursuing his lies (or at least extremely misleading responses) and omissions on his Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire answers starkly observed by Senator Franken.
     Other than Senator Franken mentioned above the minority Democrats on the Committee mostly toothlessly questioned Sessions on some matters of concern to them most of which he dismissed as "hypothetical" or with his endless repetition that he was committed to "enforcing existing laws" if confirmed as U.S. Attorney General. Reportedly rapidly up and coming Democratic Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey (apparently "outraged" per the Times recommendation) is expected to make history in Sessions' continuing hearing by taking the unprecedented step of testifying in a Cabinet confirmation hearing against fellow Senate colleague Sessions and may be joined in testifying against Senator Sessions by Democrat Rep. John Lewis who has been described as a "civil rights icon". Readers interested in more information on the New York Times editorial on Sessions mentioned above can go to the fourth link below.

https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/167Ci3pVqwzOUe7_e7itlpew1qGcTo0ZD5dNICIbLQWA/pub

http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/08/opinion/what-are-you-hiding-jeff-sessions.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region

http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/08/opinion/jeff-sessions-the-grim-reaper-of-alabama.html?ribbon-ad-idx=4&rref=opinion&module=Ribbon&version=context&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Opinion&pgtype=article

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/10/opinion/jeff-sessions-smooth-talks-the-senate.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region

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01 August 2013

Texas "Superstupid" U.S. Senator Ted Cruz Leading Force Of "Tea Party Revolt" Modeled On Disgraced Senator Joseph "Morphine-A-Go-Go" McCarthy

       Thursday, 1 August 2013, HAVANA - Readers your attention and patience please for the evolving prediction of the editorial board of the Ninth Amendment log that this current American century-span, roughly defined as commencing with the storming by the Allied Forces led from the West by the United States military racing into literal collision at Hitler's besieged Berlin Fuhrerbunker with the crush of Stalinist Russian masses from the East, soon eclipsed by the so-called "atomic" bombings of Nagasaki and within days Hiroshima, through the paroxysms of "McCarthyism" here at home from the Atlantic seaboard clear to sunny Hollywood on the Pacific Coast, the overseas global Cold War now known indeed to have brought our planet Earth to the very brink of extinction from a conflagration with the Communists off the shores of Cuba, and all that has since followed right up to the present with the United States heir apparent Superpower now its greatest towers smashed but feverishly rebuilt yet inexorably losing its grip on that mantle (F-35 "weapons system" or not we are afraid) to the undeniable gravitational force of the burgeoning population black hole of the Far East as the mid-East writhes in the seasons of its discontent, only that we now should suffer for some surely unfathomable reason the murmurings of another but this time self-inflicted, what?..... "Tea Party"!
       No mortal knows where this dizzying span will have led us in another quarter-century but the Ninth Amendment here predicts the historians of future eras certainly for no short time will puzzle, ponder, wonder, and no doubt make it their vocation to examine exactly what, went . . . .
       Something in the spy-filled air of late gripping our great Nation not altogether surprisingly compelled our editorial staff this evening past to revisit in a noticeably unpolished Wikepedia piece on the late (we rather took for granted) disgraced Wisconsin United States Senator Joseph McCarthy in some wonderment the similarities to which our country seemed to have so soon again allowed itself to succumb to inchoate fears and have kept our eye so obediently on the ball therefore as to more or less unwittingly let mechanism of the witch-hunt gear up, again. The human tragedies of that 1950's era need not be revisited here, the slim reeds upon which they by most accounts all too often rested, and what we took to be the generally accepted conclusion that when the heat of the moment (and the Senator increasingly undeniably . . . .unwell as in ill) and resultant dust died down indeed a few traitors most likely had been exposed, punished, paid the price for treason. But what of the other sometimes estimated ninety-five per cent or so who most likely just had the misfortune to be named because, well, they had a name, and one seemed needed for the moment, their talents, their livelihood, their family, their life.... be damned?
       Somehow the story when it unraveled really did seem to have become stranger than fiction to use that worn cliche. Senator McCarthy apparent champion of all American and not aberrant quite undeniably himself turning out to be, well, a heroin addict? Maybe not, but no one seemed to do much more than turn away in disgust as it really was beyond denying that he was at least a screaming alcoholic, even in his heydey, with at least a serious morphine addiction perhaps to relieve the effects of the alcohol. Somehow when the time came most apparently was more or less overlooked, or at least very downplayed.
       Downplayed n fact by the very one who first quite publicly revealed it in his early 1960's memoir, that is except for leaving out the Senator's name (as if too many personalities of that era fit the bill). But at this point the historians are all sure to find it rather just getting a little too odd to ignore. The person who of course revealed the Senator's addiction was none other than the Nation's universally acknowledged and still longest tenured drug czar in United States history. Commissioner Harry J. Anslinger of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (successor to the Prohibition era bureau) for an unprecedented and needless to say never repeated period of thirty-two years spanning from 1930 to 1962.
        And then the story becomes really strange. Commissioner Anslinger in fact it turns out had a while before become aware of Senator McCarthy's habits as he had acknowledged, and in the end agreed to make arrangements with a local Washington, D.C. pharmacist that the Senator would receive a steady supply of morphine. Apparently in the end the Commissioner was convinced by Senator McCarthy that should the truth come out it would mean the "end of the Free World" or roughly those words. It was thought better meanwhile to concentrate on blaming the opiate menace on the Communist nations abroad. Remarkably when this information more or less came to light including with the Commissioner's publication of his memoirs, no one really seemed to care that much at all about the matter, McCarthy having sometime ago fallen from grace. Or so it seemed. Meanwhile despite his apparent knowledge of this situation President John F. Kennedy actually appointed the Commissioner's to a further term even in light of the knowledge that he had been allegedly condoning the supply of drugs to McCarthy.
       And there readers we find ourselves more or less come up to the present day. Apparently Senator Joseph McCarthy has had a resurgence as a voice of today's Tea Party movement. The heroin rumor reportedly was never that well disseminated. Apparently if the Senator's heavy drinking at night necessitated the assistance of some other opiate to get through the hearings of the following day, that might even be understood for the sake of the country. Or so went the reasoning. After all it was for a good cause, or so the thinking of some has gone so far as to justify the casualties to others and to the Senator himself along the way.
     Finally as if to come perhaps full circle or full something in any case today there is in the growing movement of Senator McCarthy's resurgence a body of support amongst the Tea Party movement. And somehow, the  new junior Senator from Texas Ted Cruz has come to be associated with it.  The editorial board of the Ninth Amendment wishes to emphasize that there is no connection whatsoever suggested between the personal habits of Senators McCarthy and Cruz, however readers who care to delve into the subject of oddities in the remarkable life of Senator Cruz we believe will be most surprised at coincidences that seem again beyond imagining.
       Senator Ted Cruz is no Rick Perry. He is not brain dead still standing. Professor Allen Dershowitz reportedly has acknowledged that he is absolutely brilliant, no holds barred. He has held positions and for tenures that have been unheard of before for a person of his young age. He graduated Princeton University nearly a decade after some of the editorial staff of this log. Yet oddly his father fought with Castro for the Cuban Revolution, although he apparently had said he "did not know Castro was a Communist". Perhaps most oddly for us, Senator Cruz actually is a scholar of the last two of the Bill of Rights, believing in the same tenets as the editors of this log do as to the simple but compelling logic that the Ninth Amendment (and the Tenth as well) were not written as mere verbiage. The Founding Fathers did not write words in the Constitution for the sake of ornament.
       Please do not be complacent readers, however, there is no doubt that this Senator Ted Cruz is a force to be reckoned with. He has worked with Ed Meese. He has worked with others and for other causes about which many readers will have strong feelings, no doubt. Senator Cruz also clerked for Chief Justice Rehnquist of the United States Supreme Court. As Solicitor General of Texas he successfully argued to keep many, many prisoners on death row whom a World Court already had decided should be taken off of it because of human rights violations in their trial proceedings. Senator Ted Cruz is someone interested parties would be most well advised to watch and work to follow their beliefs in influencing Texas politics. Texans cries out for justice..
       Stranger stories there have been. And we have shared a few oddities here. But the world works in mysterious ways, and that is why we introduced this piece with the observation that the hundred year span we will be ending mid-century can well be expected to hold  a great many mysteries for the historians to try to unravel. A final conundrum we leave readers with here is this. Mr. Cruz was born in Canada. However his mother was a United States Citizen. Apparently on that basis the "consensus" analysis is that Mr. Cruz COULD serve as United States President because his mother's status qualifies him as a "natural born citizen". We have not researched this, but we do not follow. To the editorial board of the Ninth Amendment the words of the Constitution sound unambiguous. We always took it for granted that they meant the United States President actually had to be born on U.S. soil. We just do not want any more coup d'etats around here. The election 2000 debacle proved the enduring wisdom of the Founding Fathers.
        God Bless America and the United States Constitution..

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09 July 2013

BREAKING NEWS - Texas Idiot Governor Rick "Payback" Perry Calls It Quits - Texas Abortion Bill Dies In Senate

       Tuesday, 9 July 2013, CHINA GROVE, TEXAS - Texas Idiot Governor Rick "Payback" Perry the reputedly fearsome laser-sighted six-shooter coyote-killing stuck in the back of his running shorts longest-running Governor in Texas history unbelievably making him the apparent "strongest (huh?)" Texas Governor since Reconstruction just 17 hours ago called it quits after a numbingly long Governorship which took the State through the so-called "Texas Miracle" whatever that was through a remarkable series of idiotic self-destructive series of legislative blunders and executive fiascos and downright stupidly mean initiatives including attacks on nearly all really true Texans including working people ripping away their social services, denying billions of dollars in Federal aid earmarked for the State's health, education, welfare, environment and anything else that might have been good for its citizens in a relentless drive to the bottom leaving Texas full of dropouts and suffering in the dirtiest air in the nation where the mentally ill can look forward to not even being spared the death penalty which the state practices murdering more people than all the other states and the Federal government combined. Did we say that? "Well we must have meant it,"  in the words of gonzo outlaw journalist Dr. Hunter S. Thompson.
       Village idiot Perry unsupported by the citizens of the small Texas community where he grew up and unrecognized as having attended Texas Agriculture & Mining where he allegedly majored in "animal husbandry" in the words of Tom Lehrer left open the possibility of another U.S. Presidential Run in 2016 after an appalling showing in the last Presidential race where he pulled on his boots and shared his idiocy with the Nation in a primary campaign that started at the top and dove like a dead goose over a Texas Browning & Ferris "waste facility" and cancer thinktank and proving ground straight to the bottom ending with the infamous "Perry freeze" in a national televised debate where he stood frozen silent for nearly a minute after being asked a question about his revealed Presidential aspiration of closing down four of the Executive Branch's Departments and Agencies and then admitting he had forgotten two of the four he closed. One of the two, the Department of Energy is the one which when the War Department was split after World War Two was tasked with supplying the Department of Defense with the nuclear components of so-called "atomic weapons" (also known to the State of California to cause cancer). Perry presumably was unaware of this fact. In any case in his own words he really "stepped in it". Later his collapsed campaign revealed Perry had a leg that hurt and had not been sleeping well before the performance which concluded just seconds before 911 would have been called for "brain death still standing".
    To date despite obvious "payback" appointments littering State positions with incompetents placed by a relatively few in and out-of-state financial supporters and acquisitions perhaps unpublicized but including Perry's miraculous investment savvy (now there is your Texas miracle) in a purchase transaction of an apparently seriously under-priced presumably retirement-escape real property purchase in Texas' reportedly desirable Horseshoe Bay enclave.
    Meanwhile in the first minutes of this morning but fortunately a couple past the midnight deadline the Texas Senate belatedly passed another mean-spirited Texas abortion bill that we will not even waste the space on since this reportedly meant the bill is dead. Like Perry's brain. God Bless America, God Bless Texas the "Lone Star" state, and God Bless Texas women.

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