https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/13/supreme-court-jan-6-obstruction/

Supreme Court to weigh if Jan. 6 rioters can be charged with obstruction

Defense lawyers say prosecutors improperly stretched the law by charging hundreds with obstruction of an official proceeding

In the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, federal prosecutors had to decide what charges to bring against hundreds of participants in the pro-Trump mob that disrupted the certification of a presidential election for the first time in U.S. history.

In more than 350 cases, they included a federal charge that carries a hefty 20-year maximum penalty and is part of a law enacted after the exposure of massive fraud and shredding of documents during the collapse of the energy giant Enron.

As of this month, more than 100 rioters have been convicted and sentenced under that statute for obstructing or impeding an official proceeding — in this case the joint session of Congress that convened on Jan. 6 to formally certify Joe Biden’s 2020 victory.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments about whether prosecutors improperly stretched the law by charging people with that violation in the first place.

The court’s decision could have political implications for this year’s election, since Donald Trump — the likely Republican nominee — has made accusations of prosecutorial overreach a core part of his appeal to voters. The case could also directly impact Trump’s own trial for allegedly trying to remain in power after his 2020 defeat; two of the four charges he faces are based on the obstruction statute, and he could move to have those charges dismissed if the Supreme Court rules for the rioters.

When Trump tried to protect American Industry by placing tariffs on Chinese goods, everyone called it "Trump's Trade War".

Now Janet Yellen is proposing those same types of Tariffs.  Will this be called Yellen's Trade War?  Or will she be called a courageous protector of American industry?

Besides RFK Jr's new 3rd party running mate.

The main thing I know is that she grew up poor, was very pretty and got rich. (Funny how that 2nd thing often leads to that 3rd thing).

I'll keep looking but so far I have not found out too much on her positions (like the 2ndA).

We really need to fix our immigration system.  And I'm not just talking about securing the border and sending all illegals home, although that is step one.

But we need to make it easier for immigrants to come in legally.  And we need to be able to track them, put them to work, make them pay taxes and hold them accountable for their actions.

We need them.

I walk about 5 miles every morning.  There is a lot of growth and construction going on around here.  There are armies of guys with shovels laying fiber optic cable.  They are all hispanic.  There are huge McMansions going up in my neighborhood.  All the workers are hispanic.  I stopped to ask them a question and none of them could speak English.  But they were working really hard and doing a beautiful job.  A lot of docks on the intracoastal waterway have been decimated by the past several hurricanes.  There are many crews working on them.  They are all Hispanic.  Two houses on my block are getting new roofs.  Dozens of Hispanics with maybe one white guy as a supervisor.

And almost everyone I know that needs a repair man or contractor says they can't find one that can be booked for months or a year out.

When I go to restaurants it takes forever to be seated, even though there are obviously dozens of empty tables.  Not enough staff.  One restaurant owner told me he could hire as many as he needed, but they have to be able to speak English, thus not enough staff.

I wish we could trade our lazy free loading "natural born citizens"  in for hard working immigrants.  But they need to learn to speak the damn language.

I saw this in the airport restaurant at KVRB (Vero Beach, FL today).

I'm not sure of the process for a State Governor to propose Constituional Amendments, but these all sound like good ideas to me.

Naples Daily News USA TODAY NETWORK – FLORIDA

Citing how well the state of Florida is run, Gov. Ron DeSantis is proposing four amendments to the U.S. Constitution to fix what he says is a broken federal government.

The first would impose term limits for members of Congress and the second would require a balanced budget at the federal level.

The third proposal would give the president line-item veto power on budget items and the fourth would prohibit members of Congress from imposing laws on citizens that do not apply to themselves.

“Washington is never going to reform itself,” DeSantis said at a press conference in Naples Monday standing at a lectern with a sign that says “Hold Washington accountable.”

https://www.eurasiareview.com/18012024-speech-of-argentinas-president-javier-milei-at-davos-transcript/

Today I’m here to tell you that the Western world is in danger. And it is in danger because those who are supposed to have to defend the values of the West are co-opted by a vision of the world that inexorably leads to socialism and thereby to poverty.

Unfortunately, in recent decades, the main leaders of the Western world have abandoned the model of freedom for different versions of what we call collectivism. Some have been motivated by well-meaning individuals who are willing to help others, and others have been motivated by the wish to belong to a privileged caste.

We’re here to tell you that collectivist experiments are never the solution to the problems that afflict the citizens of the world. Rather, they are the root cause. Do believe me: no one is in better place than us, Argentines, to testify to these two points.

Thirty five years after we adopted the model of freedom, back in 1860, we became a leading world power. And when we embraced collectivism over the course of the last 100 years, we saw how our citizens started to become systematically impoverished, and we dropped to spot number 140 globally.

I know you guys don't like POA, but LDJones recently died in a gyrocopter crash.  He was a really nice guy with a great back story.

RIP Loren.