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Freedom Watch TV May 12, 2021
Analysis: Cheney shames colleagues who purged her for disloyalty to Trump By Analysis by Stephen Collinson CNN May 12, 2021 (CNN)Liz Cheney won’t move on and stop speaking about the threat to American democracy posed by Donald Trump for a simple reason: It hasn’t gone away. In a short, powerful speech late Tuesday, the lawmaker from Wyoming shamed colleagues who voted hours later to strip her of her No. 3 House GOP leadership post, showing the guts to speak truth to the ex-President’s malevolent power that most Republicans lack. History is likely to remember her remarks far longer…
Israel’s latest operation against Gaza is far from over – analysis By Anna Ahronheim The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com May 12, 2021 It’s been a year and a half since the last escalation between Israel and Hamas, Operation Black Belt, took place. And as expected, in that time neither side sat around to relax and watch Netflix. Instead, they increased their capabilities, on a daily basis, in order to inflict as much damage as they could in the opening salvo of the next round. The work put in by both Israel and terror groups in the Gaza Strip…
Biden failed the Israel-Palestinian rocket and riot test – analysis By Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com May 12, 2021 The policies of the Biden administration have inadvertently contributed to the lethal round of hostilities in Israel and Gaza, some Israeli analysts claimed on Wednesday. The escalation “is a test and [US President Joe Biden] has failed,” said Prof. Eytan Gilboa, an expert on US policy in the Middle East at Bar-Ilan University. Biden’s mistakes, he said, began before the first rocket was fired. Continue Reading…..
House, Justice Department report deal on McGahn testimony By Josh Gerstein POLITICO May 12, 2021 The House Judiciary Committee and the Biden administration have struck “an agreement in principle” to resolve a two-year-old fight over a subpoena for testimony from Don McGahn, a former White House counsel to President Donald Trump, lawyers said in a court filing on Tuesday evening. Trump has not signed off on the deal, however, according to the status report submitted to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. The former president could try to take legal action to block any testimony from McGahn, but…
Cheney in defiant floor speech: Trump on ‘crusade to undermine our democracy’ By Cristina Marcos TheHill May 12, 2021 Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) warned in a fiery floor speech on the eve of her expected ouster from House GOP leadership that the decision by many in her party to enable former President Trump’s falsehoods about his election loss risked undermining American democracy. Cheney, who currently serves as chair of the House Republican Conference, made clear in her Tuesday night floor speech that she isn’t backing down against the former president, despite the expected cost to her political ambitions…
Rep. Tlaib (D-MI) on Israel-Palestine tensions, Jan 6th commission MSNBC.com May 11, 2021 Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) comments on Israel-Palestine conflicts, the creation of a Jan 6th commission, and Michigan politics. Continue Reading…..
Israel Kills Hamas Commander Iyad Fathi Faik Sharir, IDF Says The Daily Wire May 11, 2021 Israel has killed a top Hamas commander in a strike against the terror group. “We just killed the commander of the Hamas anti-tank missile unit, Iyad Fathi Faik Sharir. He was in charge of carrying out anti-tank missile attacks on Israel. Our aircraft are currently striking additional terror targets in Gaza,” the Israel Defense Force tweeted Tuesday while carrying out attacks in the Gaza Strip. We just killed the commander of the Hamas anti-tank missile unit, Iyad Fathi Faik Sharir. He was…
Bad Briefing Begets Brutal Benchslap By David Lat Above the Law May 11, 2021 It seems that Judge Richard Cudahy of the Seventh Circuit has some competition for the greatest concurrence ever. Check out this one-sentence gem that Judge Laurence Silberman of the D.C. Circuit just filed in Aera Energy LLC v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC): SILBERMAN, Senior Circuit Judge, concurring: I wish FERC’s briefing was as clear as Judge Sentelle’s opinion. Continue Reading…..
Newsom wants to hand out cash before California recall election By Jeremy B. White Politico PRO May 11, 2021 California Gov. Gavin Newsom embarked on a cross-state road show Monday to trumpet the fruits of an astonishing $75.7 billion state surplus thanks to soaring capital gains during the pandemic. His first order of business: tell Californians he wants to give them cash and pay some of their utility bills and back rent. The stimulus play demonstrates how an unexpected windfall offers the Democratic governor a powerful tool to ward off a recall threat. Checks would arrive in voters’…