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HOMB Takes Additional Hurricane Reserve Out of Abundance of CautionPresident-elect Donald Trump “should not be threatening his political opponents with jail time,” Sen. Adam Schiff — one of those being threatened — said Tuesday. During an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Trump said Sunday that members of the special House committee that investigated the January 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection should go to jail. He said the committee destroyed its records, which Vice Chair Liz Cheney said is a “ridiculous and false” charge. But in fact, Trump said, “Cheney was behind it. And so is Bennie Thompson and everybody on that committee,” he said. “For what they did, honestly, they should go to jail.” Trump told “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker he would not direct his FBI director or attorney general to send them to jail. “Not at all,” he said, but added, ‘They’ll have to look at that.” Schiff, then a Los Angeles-area congressman, was a member of the committee. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., was chairman and former Rep. Cheney, R-Wy., was vice chairman. The committee had two Republicans and seven Democrats, and it gained widespread publicity as it held hearings and revealed details about the involvement of Trump and his allies in their efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. It issued its final report two years ago. Schiff, sworn in as California’s junior U.S. senator Monday afternoon, was appearing at a news conference Tuesday with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who was introducing him. They were asked about Trump’s threats . Schumer was quick to defend Schiff. “Look, bottom line is we all know Sen. Schiff did a very good job on the hearings. He broke no laws whatsoever. The truth stands for itself,” Schumer said. Schiff weighed in, saying of Trump’s comments: “That’s not the kind of talk we should hear from the president in a democracy nor do I think that a pardon is necessary for members of the Jan. 6 committee.” The White House has been considering preemptive pardons for some who could be subject to Trump administration investigations. Schiff has said repeatedly he’s not interested in a pardon. He reiterated he was “proud of the work we did on that committee. It was a fundamental oversight obligation, to investigate the first attempt to interfere with the peaceful transfer of power in our history.” This story was originally published December 10, 2024, 12:57 PM.
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NoneIf last month's election wasn't painful enough for Florida Democrats , they're losing another state House seat after one of their members announced Monday that she's switching parties. State Rep. Susan Valdés, a former school board member who was reelected as a Democrat last month, said on X that she is “tired of being the party of protesting.” Valdés ran to be chairperson for her local county’s Democratic executive committee earlier this month. She won her current term by nearly 5 percentage points but can't run for reelection again because of term limits. Republicans have controlled the governor’s office and both branches of the Legislature since 1999. Valdés is serving her final two years before leaving office due to term limits. Republicans now have an 86-34 majority in the House. “I got into politics to be part of the party of progress,” Valdés wrote. “I know that I won’t agree with my fellow Republican House members on every issue, but I know that in their caucus, I will be welcomed and treated with respect.” House Speaker Daniel Perez reposted Valdés’ statement and welcomed her into the House, where Republicans have a supermajority of 86-34. House Democratic Leader Fentrice Driskell said she was surprised and disappointed by Valdés’ announcement. “It is sad that she has elevated her own aspirations above the needs of her district,” Driskell wrote in a statement on X.
A year with Javier MileiOTTAWA - Former foreign minister Lawrence Cannon says he denied an emergency passport to Abousfian Abdelrazik in 2009 because he considered the Montreal man a possible threat to national security. Cannon told a Federal Court hearing today he did not want Abdelrazik to return to Canada from Sudan and “put any Canadians in jeopardy.” The Sudanese-born Abdelrazik settled in Montreal as a refugee and became a Canadian citizen in 1995. During a 2003 visit to his native country to see his ailing mother, he was arrested, imprisoned and questioned about suspected extremist connections. Abdelrazik, who denies involvement in terrorism, says he was tortured by Sudanese authorities during two periods of detention. He is suing the Canadian government, claiming officials arranged for his arbitrary imprisonment, encouraged his detention by Sudanese authorities and obstructed his repatriation to Canada for several years. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 10, 2024."Populism is a rhetorical tool and a double-edged sword," Daniel Horowitz tweets. "It's not an end to itself. Beware of landing in a place where you are incurring all the progressive aspects of populism but not the right-leaning ones." Populism is a rhetorical tool and a double-edge sword. It's not an end to itself. Beware of landing in a place where you are incurring all the progressive aspects of populism but not the right-leaning ones. One thought of how to describe populism is sticking a political finger in the political wind and going where it is blowing. A populist is a standard-bearer of the populous, presumably catering to the highest and most concentrated constituent demands. While some politicians may find populist tendencies to be convenient, populist governance can be dangerous, reckless, and irresponsible. The holdings of a minority can be politically gored to impotence by an out-of-control populist movement. There must be an adherence to lawful standards by elected officeholders, for they are guardrails against tyranny. There must be defined policy positioning by candidates for office, for the measuring of elected officials against their pledges is a way to determine office integrity and competence for possible further officeholding. If a politician is not checked by legal standards and makes no definable policy declarations, that leaves few speedbumps or stop signs between him or her and nearly unlimited power. Governing by whatever polls well on Friday afternoon, or more dangerously, by whatever charms the whim of the one in power, replaces representative republic with unaccountable autocracy. Of such a danger to freedom, there is no mitigation.
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