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  • Tucker Carlson Calls for Corrupt Judge Amy Berman Jackson to be Impeached

    Tonight's tucker Carlson commentary. Judge verbally attacks Tucker. How is this woman still a Judge?
  • Key juror questioned in Roger Stone case

    02/25/2020 4:27:17 PM PST · by yesthatjallen · 66 replies
    The Hill ^ | 02 25 2020 | Harper Neidig and John Kruzel
    A key juror from Roger Stone’s trial was questioned in court on Tuesday over allegations that she prejudiced the jury that convicted the longtime GOP political operative, with the juror also facing public attacks from President Trump on Twitter. In a lengthy hearing in a court in Washington, D.C., Judge Amy Berman Jackson brought in the juror, Tomeka Hart, to answer to accusations that she provided misleading answers about her political bias — a claim that Stone says justifies a new trial. Hart said she stood by the answers she gave during jury selection, in which she said she could...
  • Judge Amy Berman Jackson fires back at Roger Stone, denying request for her recusal

    02/23/2020 11:21:13 PM PST · by knighthawk · 30 replies
    Fox News ^ | February 23 2020 | Bradford Betz
    Judge Army Berman Jackson, who presided over the case of former Trump adviser Roger Stone, denied Stone’s request that she be removed from deciding whether he can have a new trial, writing Sunday that his motion seemed to be "nothing more than an attempt to use the court’s docket to disseminate a statement for public consumption that has the words 'judge' and 'biased' in it." Stone was sentenced to over three years in prison last Thursday following his conviction in November on charges of lying to Congress and intimidating a witness in connection with the Trump-Russia probe. Stone’s defense team...
  • Lee-Jackson Day Predicted to Be Removed From Va. After Passing House

    02/07/2020 10:11:21 AM PST · by nickcarraway · 76 replies
    A bill to scrap Lee-Jackson Day as a holiday in Virginia has now passed both the House and Senate. Lee-Jackson Day, established over 100 years ago, is observed annually on the Friday preceding the third Monday in January. It honors Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, both native Virginians. Critics of the Lee-Jackson holiday view it as a celebration of the state's slave-holding history that’s offensive to African Americans. Many cities and counties have opted not to observe it. The bill passed the Senate last month with a vote of 22-18. The bill then passed the House...
  • Grand Teton park to begin killing invasive Mountain Goats

    01/05/2020 11:32:55 AM PST · by LucyT · 46 replies
    Associated Press ^ | Jan 5, 2020 | Staff
    An operation to kill mountain goats that have invaded Grand Teton National Park and threaten the existence of the park’s struggling Bighorn Sheep herd is beginning Sunday, officials said.
  • Calogero Strikes Back: Removes Decorated Marine Corps Vietnam Veteran, Cancer Victim from All Posts in Whistle Blower Retaliation

    01/03/2020 3:39:24 PM PST · by Trump.Deplorable · 5 replies
    Shore News Network ^ | 01/03/2020 | Phil Stilton
    JACKSON-Days after Ken Bressi, a decorated Marine Corps Vietnam War combat veteran testified in a federal civil rights court case against the Township of Jackson, Council President Barry Calogero stripped Bressi of all of his authority in the township government. Calogero, who is a federal employee and the Executive Director of the USDA’s Farm Service Agency for New Jersey took revenge on Bressi at the township’s annual reorganization meeting by stripping him of all but one of his functions as an elected official in the Township of Jackson. Bressi, in sworn testimony to lawyers in a Jewish civil rights lawsuit...
  • ADVERTISEMENT POLITICS Timetable for Obama Presidential Center’s groundbreaking, opening still uncertain nearly four years after the Jackson Park project was announced

    12/25/2019 9:07:31 AM PST · by DUMBGRUNT · 29 replies
    Chicago Tribune ^ | 25 Dec 2019 | LOLLY BOWEAN
    Initially, Obama Foundation officials ambitiously predicted they would break ground on the construction in 2018 and said they expected the center to open in 2021. Then they had to push that timeline back. Most recently, the foundation has hesitated to publicly release an updated timeline.
  • OPINION: It's Not Easy Being a White Democrat in Mississippi

    12/08/2019 1:45:13 PM PST · by GuavaCheesePuff · 24 replies
    Jackson Free Press ^ | November 12, 2019 | Diana Montoya
    In a recent post-election post-mortem in the Jackson Free Press, editor Donna Ladd advances ideas about why Democrats lost almost all power in the Mississippi state government. One of her thoughts has to do with cowardice in the Mississippi Democratic Party, in the way that white men who control the party have been too timid to advance progressive values, or even uphold a plank in the national party platform for the bodily autonomy of women.
  • The Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park is not a done deal (locals don't want it)

    12/07/2019 5:35:40 AM PST · by Libloather · 28 replies
    Chicago Business ^ | 12/04/19 | RICHARD EPSTEIN, MICHAEL RACHLIS
    The decision to locate the Obama Presidential Center in historic Jackson Park has received strong backing from the Chicago establishment. No surprise. Former Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the City Council expressly, and unconstitutionally, delegated their authority over public lands to the Obama Foundation and the former president. Along with associated structures, they plan to build a 235-foot-high white obelisk that would arguably resemble a stake through the landscaped heart of a Frederick Law Olmsted masterpiece. And disregarding her applicable fiduciary duties, Mayor Lori Lightfoot appears poised to acquiesce. But the project is not a fait accompli. To build the discordant...
  • Obama center community benefits agreement gains traction as Jackson Park site controversy continues

    11/26/2019 6:36:19 PM PST · by Libloather · 6 replies
    Chicago Reporter ^ | 11/21/19 | Curtis Black
    In what one community leader called a “breakthrough,” the city’s law department will meet with aldermanic sponsors of a community benefits agreement for the area around the proposed Obama Presidential Center in order to iron out legal issues with their proposed ordinance. The city’s housing department agreed to facilitate the process at a meeting of community stakeholders Tuesday after members of the Obama CBA Coalition held a prayer vigil outside the meeting, said Alex Goldenberg, executive director of Southside Together Organizing for Power and a coalition leader. Goldenberg said he hopes legal guidance on the ordinance from city attorneys will...
  • If commercializing national parks is bad, so is building the Obama Center in Jackson Park

    11/15/2019 7:11:23 AM PST · by Libloather · 9 replies
    Chicago Suntimes ^ | 11/14/19 | Charlotte Adelman
    Why, in the words of a Sun-Times editorial, is it “hard to buy” the Trump administration rationale of “underused” to justify allowing businesses in the national parks when columnist Mary Mitchell has characterized Chicago’s Jackson Park as “underused” to justify construction there? Why object to the Trump administration’s commercialization of the national parks but support the construction of the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park, turning it into a tourist attraction? Why acquiesce to the Obama Center’s entrance and parking fees? Plenty of ordinary people can’t afford it.
  • Michelle Obama: Barack could build presidential library anywhere because 'so many people' feel [tr]

    11/02/2019 2:19:40 PM PDT · by simpson96 · 72 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | 11/2/2019 | Mike Brest
    (full article title: 'Michelle Obama: Barack could build presidential library anywhere because 'so many people' feel 'like he is their president') Former first lady Michelle Obama suggested that former President Barack Obama could build his presidential library anywhere around the world because people in foreign countries feel like he is their president. Michelle Obama explained at Tuesday's Obama Foundation Summit at the Illinois Institute of Technology that Chicago's Jackson Park was selected as the location for the Obama Presidential Center because it is close to the couple's old home and near her childhood home. “There’s power in the selection of...
  • Obamas defend Jackson Park site at Foundation Summit (locals don't want it)

    10/29/2019 7:59:27 PM PDT · by Libloather · 63 replies
    Chicago Business ^ | 10/29/19 | A.D. QUIG
    Former First Lady Michelle Obama stood in defense of the proposed Obama Presidential Center site in Jackson Park as an intentional, strategic, powerful decision. “Barack’s presidential library could have been anywhere in the world, because there’s so many people who feel like he is their president all over the world, alright?" she said at today's Obama Summit. "New York wanted it, Hawaii wants it, because it’s also an economic engine. It will be a visited presidential library, because it’s going to be alive. It’s a first. We had to think, where do we put this resource?” she said. “Well, what...
  • Stand up for nature and against climate change by keeping Obama Center out of Jackson Park

    10/13/2019 7:41:04 AM PDT · by Libloather · 16 replies
    Letters to the Chicago Sun Times ^ | 10/03/19 | Ross Petersen
    Lately, there has been much attention paid to the topic of climate change, and what we are doing about it. We can start by taking a stand to save Jackson Park. **SNIP** There are locations directly across the street on Stony Island. There are properties owned by the University of Chicago near Washington Park. These properties are outside of the parks themselves, and would both enlarge as well as bring businesses into the community. Parks like Jackson and Washington provide much-needed contact with nature and many benefits to the public, including trees, which are the lungs of a city.
  • City of Jackson (Mississippi) puts buffer zones in place to silence pro-life protesters

    10/07/2019 2:28:09 PM PDT · by Morgana · 23 replies
    LIVE ACTION NEWS ^ | October 6, 2019 | Laura Nicole |
    The city council of Jackson, Mississippi voted 3-1 to enact 15-foot “buffer zones” around all medical facilities, including abortion facilities, where police will also be required to enforce restrictions on noise, such as “shouting.” Although the buffer zones are supposedly intended to apply to any health facility in the area, there is broad consensus that the law is actually aimed at pro-lifers protesting outside the Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the state’s only abortion facility. Supporters of the law claim it gives women “personal space,” but opponents point out that such buffer zones are an unconstitutional violation of free speech on...
  • City of Jackson to discuss possible “buffer zone” for Mississippi’s only abortion-providing clinic

    09/26/2019 6:57:39 PM PDT · by Morgana · 7 replies
    WLBT ^ | SEPT. 25, 2019 | Chelsey Sellars
    JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Most mornings outside of the Jackson Women’s Health Organization start out with anti-abortion advocates picketing and making noise as patients make their way inside. “People scream at women coming in here that they are murderers, that they’re here to kill their baby. No one should have to be subjected to that. They walk right up to them, give them no space,” said Derenda Hancock, an organizer with Pinkhouse Defenders. She and the other members escort people in and out of the clinic. The City of Jackson is introducing an ordinance that would push these protesters back...
  • JESSE JACKSON: Can America Break Its Gun Addiction? (No puedes inventar esto)

    09/22/2019 12:36:55 PM PDT · by Eddie01 · 49 replies
    Washington Informer ^ | September 18, 2019 | JESSE JACKSON (his PR team really)
    After mass shootings in Southaven, Mississippi; Dayton, Ohio; and Midland, El Paso and Odessa, Texas, public demand for sensible gun reform once more soared. And once more, Republican politicians, led by President Donald Trump, were intimidated into inaction by the gun lobby, led by the National Rifle Association. Remarkably, it was America’s largest retailer — Walmart — that exhibited the courage politicians lacked. It was in a Walmart store in El Paso where a gunman armed with an assault-style rifle, roused by the hate-filled rhetoric about a Latino “invasion” of our country, shot 48 people, killing 22. Walmart CEO Doug...
  • Karma: Samuel L. Jackson Happy To lose Fans Over His Anti-Trump Rants – His Latest Movie Just Bombed

    09/05/2019 10:40:24 AM PDT · by Enterprise · 52 replies
    https://www.waynedupree.com ^ | 9-5-19 | Missy Crane
    Full title: Karma: Samuel L. Jackson Said He’s Happy To lose Fans Over His Anti-Trump Rants – His Latest Movie Just Bombed According to Observer.com, Shaft was a world wide flop. The movie cost about $35 million to make, and only grossed “world wide” a dismal $16 million and is listed as as one of the biggest box office flops of 2019.
  • Jackson Board Members Resign after Attending Meeting to Stop Jewish Development

    08/27/2019 5:13:36 PM PDT · by Trump.Deplorable · 38 replies
    Hamodia ^ | 8/26/2019 | Mordechai Wincorn
    Three members of Jackson Township boards dealing with development have tendered their resignations, following the release of recordings of their attendance at a meeting aimed at stopping the construction of a housing project geared towards Orthodox Jews. Controversy began after an anonymous leak to local officials and media surfaced that Richard Egan, who was a member of Jackson’s Planning Board, and Sheldon Hofstein and Joseph Sullivan who served on its Zoning Board, were present at what was labeled as the town’s inaugural CUPON meeting. CUPON (Citizens United to Protect Our Neighborhoods) has been active in New York’s Rockland County for...
  • Meeting on impact of Obama Presidential Center shows little has changed at City Hall...

    08/17/2019 2:08:41 AM PDT · by Libloather · 15 replies
    Chicago Sun Times ^ | 8/14/19 | Fran Spielman
    **SNIP** “Under the federally-mandated review process, there should be a full study and consideration of ways, first to avoid, then to minimize and then, as a last resort, to mitigate the adverse effects of the plans to build the OPC in historic Jackson Park,” the letter states. Instead, “virtually all the focus” of the City Hall presentation was on “how the city was looking at mitigation. ... They completely skipped consideration of avoidance and minimization,” the letter states. As a result, the meeting “felt a lot like meetings past: an engineered agenda with a pre-determined outcome, paying lip service only...