Even trump must be squirming from his shoes over these 2 Maxwell ads, considering George Conway is a driving force for the Lincoln Project I'm thinking Trump might finally loose it on Kellyanne.
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Local TV stations across the country set to air discredited 'Plandemic' researcher's conspiracy theory about Fauci
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Local television stations owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group are set to air a conspiracy theory over the weekend that suggests Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top expert on infectious diseases, was responsible for the creation of the coronavirus.
The baseless conspiracy theory is set to air on stations across the country in a segment during the program "America This Week" hosted by Eric Bolling. The show, which is posted online before it is broadcast over the weekend, is distributed to Sinclair Broadcast Group's network of local television stations, one of the largest in the country. A survey by Pew Research Group earlier this year showed that local news was a vital source of information on the coronavirus for many Americans, and more trusted than the media overall.
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Trump's obsession with trying to omit immigrants from the census count could have a pretty devastating effect on the election if it's allowed to go through. Thankfully there are multiple lawsuits and challenges being filed, which will hopefully tie it up in the courts for eternity.
The legal fight is heating up over President Trump's call to make an unprecedented change to the population numbers used to divide up seats in Congress among the states.
Trump now faces a total of three new federal lawsuits that are joining ongoing legal challenges surrounding the 2020 census.
A fourth lawsuit may be coming from California State Attorney General Xavier Becerra's office, which is planning to file a complaint against the Trump administration, Sarah Lovenheim, an adviser to Becerra, tells NPR.
Groups led by Common Cause, a government watchdog group, launchedthe first federal lawsuit this week. Their complaint was filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday, two days after Trump issued a memo calling to exclude unauthorized immigrants from the constitutionally mandated count of every person living in the country that is used to redistribute seats in the House of Representatives.
On Friday, a New York state-led coalition of 20 states, plus some cities and other localities, filed a challenge in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. In their complaint, which cites NPR's reporting, the challengers allege constitutional violations, as well as a claim that the administration violated the Administrative Procedure Act by making an "arbitrary and capricious" decision to exclude unauthorized immigrants from the apportionment count when they don't have the data to reliably do so.
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The Constitution — which empowers Congress, not the president, with final authority over the census — requires a once-a-decade count of the "whole number of persons in each state" to determine how to reapportion congressional seats and, by extension, Electoral College votes.
Trump, however, has ordered information to be produced that would allow him to exclude the number of immigrants living in the U.S. without authorization from the latest state population counts that the president is legally required to deliver to Congress after the census is complete.
"It's another election-year tactic to fire up his base by dehumanizing immigrants and using them as scapegoats for his failures as a leader," said New York State Attorney General Letitia James in a written statement. "No one ceases to be a person because they lack documentation, which is why we filed this lawsuit."
If unauthorized immigrants are left out of the apportionment count, California, Florida and Texas are each likely to end up with one less House seat, while Alabama, Minnesota and Ohio are each likely to hold onto a seat they would have otherwise lost after the 2020 census, according to estimates the Pew Research Center released on Friday.
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Among the other plaintiffs in Common Cause's lawsuit are the cities of Atlanta and Paterson, N.J., a refugee advocacy organization based in San Diego called Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans, and a group of individual U.S. citizens who live in New York and Florida — all of whom allege that because they are in areas with an "above-average number of undocumented immigrants," Trump's memo would hurt their rights to fair representation in Congress.
Ignoring Trump and the electoral implications it does raise an interesting question of how house seats should be divided.
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- all people
- all eligible voters
- all citizens
I think it would be pretty reasonable to make it all citizens when deciding how much representation each area gets. Why should the number of non-citizens living in an area change the amount of electoral influence an area gets
From a funding perspective you need to count legal and illegal immigrants because these people still require services and create costs so they definitely need to be counted. However from an electoral standpoint I would agree with Trump here.
Though the law being written as “Whole Persons” rather than specifically citizens should allow the congress to win along with the fact that congress desides the rules for the census not the president.
Sinclair Broadcasting on Saturday said it will delay its scheduled airing of a news segment featuring a viral conspiracy theory surrounding Anthony Fauci’s role in the Covid-19 pandemic.
“America This Week” host Eric Bolling was scheduled to air an interview with Judy Mikovits, a medical researcher featured in the “Plandemic” video that claims Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, was responsible for the creation of the coronavirus, Media Matters reported.
The report sparked an immediate outcry on social media, where the video has been largely banned on platforms including Facebook and YouTube.
“I recognize that this segment does need to be reworked to provide better context, and as such we are delaying the airing of the episode for one week,” Bolling said in a statement posted to his Twitter feed on Saturday afternoon.
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"After further review, we have decided to delay this episode's airing, Sinclair said in a statement Saturday. "We will spend the coming days bringing together other viewpoints and provide additional context. All stations have been notified not to air this and will instead be re-airing last week’s episode in its place."
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I think it would be pretty reasonable to make it all citizens when deciding how much representation each area gets. Why should the number of non-citizens living in an area change the amount of electoral influence an area gets
I would say it so that areas get proper "strength" of representation. Each rep tries in theory to make or support or change legislation in ways that represent the interests of their population regardless of if they voted or not. Kids can't vote but their interests should be considered. People in jail can't vote, people temporarily or permanently in the country but haven't got citizenship can't vote, and they all need their interests considered. In a way I think the argument about money applies here as well, in the same way that people who can't vote still incur costs, they also incur other needs that should be represented.
I can see both sides having some merit though.
And ultimately it's what the Constitution says that goes. The census doesn't include a citizenship question, I think it'll be really easy to challenge whatever Trump does to fudge the numbers on the process alone.
And the census data is given to Congress who does the rest, do they even have an obligation to consider his numbers, could they just use the numbers before his additions...
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How would this not bring a huge slander/libel suit against Sinclair?
Fauci is a prominent public figure, and I'm assuming it will be stylized in the same way "Plandemic" did it, eg. following the Glenn Beck school of JAQing Off (Just Asking Questions).
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How would this not bring a huge slander/libel suit against Sinclair?
Depends how they report it. If it's all "how did this story come about?" "who originated it?""what are people saying about it?" "is it generally possible to create a virus like this?" "who would have the means and the ability to do such a thing?" ... then it's not defamatory, because you haven't actually suggested that it's true. I wouldn't be shocked if that's the reason for the delay.
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Camera man's arguments are nonsensical. "You can't be American and wear that" is not a valid claim.
How about, "You can't be human and wear that"? Is that better? I can't believe ANYONE would defend some sack of #### wearing a swastika as a mask as being the more valid component of the argument. JFC.
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