Per Description from YouTube; “More than two years after the horrific mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School which left 17 students and staff dead, Broward County officials are requiring parents of the deceased submit documentation proving their mental anguish. RT Correspondent Brigida Santos joins Mike Papantonio to explain more”.

Florida is a REPUBLICAN dominated & ran state. This is another example of how HEARTLESS Republicans are.

Trump has a habit of walking out of interviews when reporters ask questions he doesn’t like. Here’s just a few he walked out on.

In the above video, Trump walks Out on Interview with CNN when asked about his finances.

Trump posted his full, combative ’60 Minutes’ interview with Lesley Stahl, which he abruptly ends after about 35 minutes of tough questioning.

Trump: The 60 Minutes 2020 Election Interview

In an interview that’s made headlines this week, Lesley Stahl presses Trump on once-again rising coronavirus cases and what his priorities would be if re-elected. Stahl also speaks with Mr. Trump’s running mate Mike Pence.

Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich explores three key ways we can restructure our democracy to level the playing field after Trump and Mitch McConnell’s shameless Supreme Court power grab.

Remove Brett Kavanaugh & Clarence Thomas from Supreme Court to Help Balance Stolen Seats by Republicans

Numerous articles claim Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas lied under Oath in their confirmation hearings so both should be removed as Justices from the Supreme Court.

In the above video, Ex-Federal Prosecutor Glenn Kirschner explains how when Democrats take over the White House, the new head of the DOJ could order the FBI to review the confirmation hearings of Kavanaugh, Thomas and every Trump appointment and check for false statements. Anyone who lied under oath could be charged with perjury, arrested, removed as a judge and disbarred. Each could face years behind bars. They could be given a choice to resign when confronted with evidence of perjury in exchange for dismissal of prosecution.

This would help balance Stolen Seats by Republicans… 2 from the 2000 Election which was stolen / rigged for George W. Bush and Obama’s stolen Supreme Court appointment in 2016.

In 2016, Mitch McConnell decided to violate the Constitution by declaring that the Senate wold refuse to abide by the “advice and consent” clause of Article 2, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution. McConnell claimed that there could be no confirmation hearing on a Supreme Court nominee during a the fourth year of a president’s term. This, of course, is blatantly unconstitutional. When we go to the polls to vote for a president we don’t vote with the expectation that the president will only act in his/her first three years. McConnell’s was a crassly partisan position that should have been challenged in court. Of course the question is, what know? And if McConnell tries to ram through a Trump nominee, what should be done about it?

Republicans rigged our democracy. Here’s how Democrats can fight back | David Faris

Republicans have been using the constitution’s flaws to wage a one-sided war against their political opponents. It’s time for Democrats to respond

Republicans have been using the constitution’s flaws to wage a one-sided war against their political opponents. It’s time for Democrats to respond

Per the article above; Donald Trump wasn’t elected because Democrats lost a policy fight in 2016. What Democrats did was lose a procedural fight that has been going on since the early 1990s, when Republicans began waging a relentless, brutal, and completely one-sided war, systematically using their lawmaking power to disadvantage their adversaries in elections and political mobilization.

Gerrymandering, the Citizens United atrocity that declared money is speech, blocking US supreme court nominations and obstructing legislation are some of the Republican party’s tactics. Depraved, racist voter ID laws that obviously target people who are likely to vote Democratic, and the cruel way that many states prevent current or former felons from voting, are others.

Standing in the way of reforms to our nonsensical, undemocratic electoral college system for electing the president helps the Republicans too, as does ensuring the United States remains the only country in the entire world that holds its critical national elections on a regular working Tuesday as if we literally couldn’t care less who is able take off work to cast a ballot.

the biggest problem is that it is underspecified. It doesn’t adequately describe the powers granted to the supreme court it created, or explain what a militia is in the second amendment, or outline what happens if the Senate decides it simply can’t be bothered to carry out its constitutional obligations by approving appointments made by the president. It contains no information about how elections should be funded. And the thing is well nigh impossible to amend.

Beginning with the Gingrich radicals who took over the House in 1994, the modern Republican party has been willing to exploit the constitution’s design flaws and the constitutional order’s reliance on informal understandings between political actors to sabotage the functioning of Congress, destroy the Obama presidency, and seize vastly more power than the American people would otherwise have granted it.

When they retake power, Democrats should use those same flaws to revive not the party, but our democracy.

First, they should grant statehood to Washington DC and Puerto Rico – long-suffering territories whose citizens are utterly deprived of voting rights and representation in federal elections. This can help rectify the Democrats’ structural imbalance in the US Senate. Breaking the deep-blue state of California into seven states can finish the job, by finally creating about as many blue-leaning as red-leaning states and delivering lasting power (or at least parity) to Senate Democrats and their allies.

The theft of Merrick Garland’s seat by Republicans and the deepening intensity of congressional battles over federal judicial appointments should lead the next Democratic administration to pack the supreme court, by adding liberal justices until progressives finally have their first majority in a long generation, as well as creating hundreds of new judgeships in the federal judiciary.
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The constitution does not stipulate the number of justices either on the supreme court or the lower courts, and Democrats should use the threat of court-packing to press for a constitutional amendment to end lifetime tenure in the federal judiciary as well as enacting other reforms that would finally remove destructive, ugly battles over the courts from our political landscape.

Progressives should also get behind a change in how we elect our representatives to the House, enacting proportional representation reforms that would not only eliminate the grotesque chicanery of gerrymandering but also make it possible for smaller parties to finally win a seat at the governing table. And they should double the size of the House to bring the constituent-to-legislator ratio more in line with what the founders envisioned”.

Two Ways Democrats Can Remove Kavanaugh – Without Impeaching Him

Two ways Democrats can remove Kavanaugh – without impeaching him

Before Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was sworn in, critics were calling for his impeachment. The political polarization over allegations that he had assaulted Christine Blasey Ford when they were teenagers doesn’t show much sign of abating. Impeachment is a polarizing process itself, though, one that even many Democrats appear uneasy about pursuing if they win control of Congress in next month’s elections.

Per the above article: “A Democratic Congress and a future Democratic president could remove Kavanaugh from the Supreme Court if they wanted without needing to impeach him. There are two other ways to kick a sitting justice off the court – neither of which requires a supermajority.

In the first, a new president would nominate and the Senate would confirm by majority vote a justice – in this case Kavanaugh – to a different post on an intermediate court of appeals (say the D.C. Circuit, where Kavanaugh formerly served). The justice would, in effect, be demoted.

It finds support in an 1803 Supreme Court case called Stuart v. Laird. The fading Federalist Party of John Adams had created 16 new federal judgeships in 1801 – in part to spare Supreme Court justices from having to “ride the circuit” and hear regional appellate cases. Thomas Jefferson’s Democratic-Republicans triumphed at the polls and abolished the new positions in 1802.

The second alternative method of relieving a justice of his or her duties. In a 2006 article in the Yale Law Journal, two scholars (conservatives, as it happens), Saikrishna Prakash and Steven D. Smith, amassed historical evidence that the Framers understood the “good behavior” standard to be judicially, rather than just politically, enforceable.

They pointed out that judicial removal proceedings were used in English law in the 1780s, and were included in the New York, South Carolina and Massachusetts pre-1787 constitutions. Moreover, they noted, “good behavior” was included by the Continental Congress as a standard in the 1787 Northwest Ordinance for courts in the territories – before there were a separate House and Senate to conduct an impeachment.

As (roughly) proposed in the Yale article, Congress could pass a statute authorizing a specially constituted bench of federal judges – say, five randomly drawn judges – to determine whether a particular judge (here, Kavanaugh) had violated the “good behavior” standard. That special bench could hold a hearing and, if convinced by the evidence, make the requisite finding to trigger exit from the bench. This approach wouldn’t require a congressional supermajority. It would need a presidential signature.

Current federal law contains a trace of this mechanism. When a judge is convicted of a felony, whether in state or federal court, the law now states that he or she “shall not hear or decide cases” unless a council of judges decides otherwise. To be sure, the judge keeps a salary in the interim. But the judge is effectively sidelined – as completely as if he or she were impeached.

The creation of a new vehicle for judicial peer review seems to be the optimal option, as it would create a nonpartisan, procedurally robust device for disciplining judges.

Supreme Court justices right now have no real supervisors when it comes to ethics, and impeachment has come to seem excessively partisan. A standing body, available for all cases of misconduct – not just a ticket for one ride only – would resolve that problem, no matter who the appointing president.

Description from YouTube: “Nebraska Republican Senator Ben Sasses hammered Donald Trump in a Washington Examiner Leaked Recording. Sasse said in his comments that: “The way he kisses dictators’ butts. “The United States now regularly sells out our allies under his leadership, the way he treats women, spends like a drunken sailor. The ways I criticize President Obama for that kind of spending; I’ve criticized President Trump for as well. He mocks evangelicals behind closed doors. His family has treated the presidency like a business opportunity.”

Per description of the above video “The Epoch Times is definitely not fair and balanced”.

Pro-Trump Conspiracy Theories Pay Off For Anti-China Group

Epoch Times Exec ARRESTED… Bonkers Details Emerge

VERIFY: The Epoch Times spreading many false COVID-19 claims

Some Canadians upset by Epoch Times claim China was behind coronavirus

Barr Tells DOJ Lawyers About New Rule ALLOWING Interference in Upcoming Election

Description from Youtube: “As a former career federal prosecutor, I always operated under a Department of Justice policy that demanded we must not do anything that could impact an election that was less than 60 days away. Bill Barr’s DOJ just announced that they are granting an exception to this policy this time around, allowing prosecutors to announce investigations into possible election interference in advance of the election. This is a transparent attempt by Barr to nefariously help Trump get elected. Here’s my take on why it will not work”.

Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen joins MSNBC’s Ari Melber to discuss Trump’s refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power and asserts he’s “reckless with power.” Cohen also discusses rival lawyer Michael Avenatti in this special interview.

Republican Senator Proposes Bill To Let Trump Steal Election

Description from Youtube: “Republican Florida Senator Rick Scott has a plan to help Donald Trump steal the Presidential Election, and he has put his plan into a piece of legislation. This legislation would prevent the counting of ballots beyond election day, a move that would eliminate countless absentee and vote-by-mail ballots that are still waiting to be counted. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this”.

Florida Republican senator proposes massive vote fraud

The Trumps visit with Rick Scott in 2018. White House photo by Andrea Hanks. The proposal, as Slate’s Jeremy Stahl explains: would require that mail-in ballots be counted within 24 hours of when voting closes on Election Day. Scott’s proposed legislation would also prevent mail-in ballots received prior to Election Day from being processed and counted until the morning of Nov.

With a Trump-crippled postal service, Rick Scott would nullify millions of votes

Per the above article; A new bill proposed by Republican Senator Rick Scott is “entirely unworkable,” Slate reported Thursday evening, but demonstrates the GOP’s intense desire to make sure millions of votes aren’t counted in the general election by severely restricting the time frame during which they can be tallied.

The Orwellian-named “Help America Vote Act of 2020,” which Scott proposed Thursday, would help to codify President Donald Trump’s desire, stated last week, to ensure that the preliminary tally of votes on Election Day will count as the final vote count in the election.

The preliminary count would leave out absentee ballots and a record number of mail-in ballots, which nearly half of voters plan to either send to election officials or place in a drop box before Election Day, according to a Washington Post/University of Maryland poll conducted earlier this month.

The proposal, as Slate’s Jeremy Stahl explains:

Would require that mail-in ballots be counted within 24 hours of when voting closes on Election Day. Scott’s proposed legislation would also prevent mail-in ballots received prior to Election Day from being processed and counted until the morning of Nov. 3, contradicting state election statutes across the country including one that he signed when he was governor of Florida. Basically, the bill would move back the date by which votes can start to be counted and move up the date by which the count must end. This would limit the count to a single less-than-48-hour window, shortening the count in some cases by weeks.

“Any conflicting state laws would be preempted,” Chris Hartline, communications director for Scott, told Slate—including rules in the senator’s own home state of Florida, where the counting of votes can legally begin 22 days before Election Day.

Officials would have about 48 hours to tally all the votes, but Scott’s proposal includes no funding that would help states make this possible by hiring more poll workers or providing them with personal protective equipment. The bill would shorten the time during which officials generally have to count votes by several weeks, and would leave out many absentee voters, who made up more than 17% of voters in 2016 and more than 20% in previous years.

Tallying every vote within 24 hours of polls closing would be “impossible” in many states, legal scholar Richard L. Hasen told Slate.

Critics on social media expressed shock at Scott’s blatant attempt to leave millions of American voters out of the democratic process.

It’s just wild that they’re introducing a bill like this in the light of day. https://t.co/V5sKHcZbds

— Jim Newell (@jim_newell) September 25, 2020

rick scott doesn’t want your vote to count. https://t.co/9hzTSHXivd

— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) September 25, 2020

The proposal by Florida’s own Rick Scott isn’t intended to guarantee that all votes will be counted within 24 hours.

It’s actually intended to stop the counting and toss out any ballot not properly tallied within 24 hours.

Sorry Florida. We saw this movie in 2000. Try again.

— Bryan Behar (@bryanbehar) September 24, 2020

the primary action underway by the administration, Senate Republicans, and their allied operatives right now is (a) make it harder to count all the votes in a timely way (b) secure five SCOTUS votes to make this election-night cutoff a de facto constitutional requirement https://t.co/PfjHJVW9w9

— Seth D. Michaels (@sethdmichaels) September 25, 2020

“I’m hung up on this stuff not because I necessarily think they’ll succeed—the more people vote, the harder it will be for them to nullify—but because the attempt should be, in itself, completely disqualifying,” tweeted Seth D. Michaels, communications official for the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Scott proposed the legislation on the same day that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), in an interview with Fox News, dismissed the notion that Republicans would not allow for a peaceful transition of power, as Trump said this week, by saying he would accept whatever decision the US Supreme Court — not the majority of US voters — reached.

this is insane, Graham just casually shredding any notion that ‘voters’ or ‘the people’ are the relevant body https://t.co/3SwhO42GgT pic.twitter.com/t1D4jEgFpo

— Taniel (@Taniel) September 25, 2020

Lindsey Graham, the Salacious Crumb of the Republican Party, is trial ballooning the Supreme Court overturning the decision of the electorate https://t.co/NIUmunvmT7

— Adam Serwer(@AdamSerwer) September 25, 2020

Such sentiments “betray a lack of confidence in Trump’s ability to win,” tweeted journalist Adam Serwer. “No idea if they are right; but they wouldn’t be saying things like this if they thought he was in good shape.”

While Scott’s bill is a “nonstarter,” as Jeremy Stahl wrote at Slate, because of the Democratic-controlled House, “it shows you exactly where the GOP’s head is at with 40 days left to go before the last votes are cast.”

More proof that Republicans like Rick Scott are Anti-Democratic Authoritarian Fascist

Trump predictably behaved like a unhinged bully at the 2020 Presidential Debate. It wasn’t really a debate at all… it was Trump spouting off non-stop BS and FOX conspiracy theories to beat down his opponent, never letting his opponent get a word in. That appeared to be the Trump teams strategy.

Biden behaved exactly like I thought he would… as a frail, milquetoast, wimp. He lived up to the concerns I voiced in the article I wrote Joe Biden: Democrats Worst Choice for President

As I stated, I think Biden was Democrats worst choice. He has more baggage than any other Democrat candidate and is the least motivating. Michael Moore called Biden 2020’s Hillary Clinton and I agree.

I do think Joe Biden is a good, decent man. But being good and decent is no match for someone like Trump who has no decency and who will do / say anything to win.

When Trump behaved like a unhinged bully and refused to shut up, Democrats should have had a candidate like Jesse Ventura would have said “Hey listen BUD… STFU or I’ll come over there & Deck Your Ass!” Democrats need to STOP being WIMPS and having WIMPY-ASS candidates.

Tim Ryan was my pick for the Democrat’s Presidential Candidate. Unfortunately, he received little notice. As you can see from the above speech (and others on youtube), Ryan could have DESTROYED Trump.

This old cartoon reminds me of how Republicans bully Democrats and how Trump bullied Biden during the 1st 2020 presidential debate. Democrats need FIGHTERS who will kick some ass!

Trump Bulldozes His Way Through First Debate

The Morning Joe panel recaps Tuesday’s first debate between the president and Joe Biden, saying the president brought shame to himself during his debate performance and he brought hope to racist groups. Aired on 9/30/2020.

Daniel Dale: ‘Almost every single thing Trump said during last segment of debate was inaccurate’.

Trump’s RNC Speech Had 1 False Statement Every 56 Seconds

Meacham: Trump Declared War On Decency, Democracy Last Night | Morning Joe

Historian Jon Meacham assesses Tuesday night’s debate, saying that Trump declared war on decency and democracy during the debate. Aired on 9/30/2020.

Trump Is Assassinating The Presidency

Washington Post journalist and author of the new book ‘Rage,’ Bob Woodward says Trump is assassinating the presidency. Aired on 9/30/2020.

Debate Was A ‘Performance Of Our National Catastrophe’—And Trump Is Solely To Blame

‘Dumpster fire’: See Jake Tapper and Dana Bash’s blunt reaction to debate

Steve Schmidt: Trump Gave A ‘Lock & Load Order’ To White Supremacist Groups During Debate

Trump telling the Proud Boys, a white supremacist organization, to ‘stand back and stand by,’ Steve Schmidt says “Donald Trump gave a lock and load order to heavily armed, paramilitary, white supremacist, militia organizations. The white supremacist organizations are reveling in the support of the president today. They’re celebrating.” Aired on 09/30/2020.

‘Appalling,’ ‘Dangerous’: Ex-Trump Officials React To Trump Debate Showing

Two former top Trump officials, Olivia Troye and Elizabeth Neumann, are now spending the weeks before the election warning voters about the President. “I think the President showed the nation exactly who he is last night. I’m just glad he put it on display to see what I’ve been watching behind closed doors in briefings,” says Troye. Aired on 09/30/2020.

Mary Trump and Senator Elizabeth Warren speak with Lawrence O’Donnell about 2020 debate

Trump’s Debate Lies DEBUNKED In Senate Hearing

All of Trump’s coronavirus failures have been laid to bare for all to see in the coronavirus Senate hearing.

Shepard Smith on last night’s debate: We’ve never seen this, not in America

Emerging at the top of the Supreme Court steps on Thursday, President Donald Trump heard something he doesn’t often hear — at least directed toward him: booing.

“Vote him out,” crowds began chanting when Trump appeared before the flag-draped coffin containing the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died last week after a long bout with cancer.

With his face concealed behind a mask — another rarity for the President, who does not often wear one in public — Trump glanced over to where the crowd had gathered nearby. His wife, first lady Melania Trump, looked straight ahead.

The chants grew louder as the Trumps stood before the coffin, framed by massive Corinthian columns. After a few moments standing silently, the pair returned to their limousine and drove back to the White House.

An excerpt from “The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden” examines how Donald Trump’s father and his time at military school shaped him.

Alabama City Remembered as Climactic Battle of Civil Rights Movement

Trump confronted by diverse, robust pushback on ‘a million’ different fronts

Maddow considers how the history of the Trump era will be written and how the defense of democracy and resistance to Trump authoritarianism will be seen as having a wide range of motivations, reflecting the breadth of Trump’s catastrophe but also the consistency of America’s defenders across demographics and interests.

This country was built upon protests. Those who protest the wrongs this country has done & are doing to improve this country are  TRUE Patriots.

Boston Tea Party Protests… uprisings from the Revolutionary War to the Civil Rights movement helped advance Democracy and fueled progress in the United States.

VIOLENCE and LOOTING defeats the entire purpose of protests and turns the public against the cause and purpose of protests.  Those who engage in illegal activities should be arrested and prosecuted.

Why Colin Kaepernick Took a Knee

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has refused to stand for the playing of the national anthem in protest of wrongdoings against African Americans and minorities in the United States. It was US Army veteran, Nate Boyer, who suggested to Kaepernick to take a knee as a sign of respect. This is their inspiring story of what can happen when people with different perspectives decide to sit down, have a conversation, and hear each other out.

POLICE BRUTALITY AND RACIAL INJUSTICE

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began refusing to stand for the national anthem to protest the wrongdoings against African Americans and minorities. Here’s just a few examples….

22 Years of Unarmed Black Men Killed by Police

Here’s How Many People Police Killed In 2015

Black Lives Matter: African-Americans killed by police in 2016