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From: Heather Cox Richardson from Letters from an American
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Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2022 08:50:23 +0000
Subject: December 1, 2022
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Some stories wrapped up today:
In Atlanta the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit said that
the district court had no jurisdiction to block the U.S. government
from using the records it seized in the criminal investigation of
former president Trump. That is, when U.S. District Judge Aileen M.
Cannon allowed Trump’s request for a special master to review the
documents seized by the FBI in its search of Mar-a-Lago on August 8,
she assumed power the district court did not have. Special Master
Raymond Dearie will be dismissed, and the criminal investigation of
the former president will go forward.
The panel noted in their decision that they were unwilling to “carve
out an unprecedented exception in our law for former presidents.” The
judges acknowledged that “[i]t is indeed extraordinary for a warrant
to be executed at the home of a former president,” but “[t]o create a
special exception here would defy our Nation’s foundational principle
that our law applies ‘to all, without regard to numbers, wealth, or
rank.’”
It continued: “The law is clear. We cannot write a rule that allows
any subject of a search warrant to block government investigations
after the execution of the warrant. Nor can we write a rule that
allows only former presidents to do so. Either approach would be a
radical reordering of our caselaw limiting the federal courts’
involvement in criminal investigations. And both would violate bedrock
separation-of-powers limitations.”
All three judges on the panel were nominated by Republican presidents:
Judge William H. Pryor by President George W. Bush; Judges Andrew L.
Brasher and Britt C. Grant, by Trump.
Today, Ye, also known as Kanye West, appeared with right-wing white
supremacist Nick Fuentes on Alex Jones’s show InfoWars, and was so
vile even Jones began to push back. Eventually, Ye praised Nazis and
Adolf Hitler. Then, and only then, did the Twitter account of the
Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee delete its tweet of
October 6, 2022, that read: “Kanye. Elon. Trump.”
Other stories began:
House minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) yesterday sent a letter to
the chair of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th
Attack on the U.S. Capitol telling the committee to preserve their
records in anticipation of an investigation in the committee once the
Republicans take control of the House next year. Of course, House
rules already require that preservation; the demand is simply a
performance to convince the far-right MAGA Republicans that he is on
their team. And, in fact, the committee has said it will release “all
the evidence” to the public before the end of the year.
Republican representative Ralph Norman (R-SC), who opposes electing
McCarthy speaker, told right-wing media that those opposing McCarthy
have a different candidate for the position. That candidate is not a
House member, and Norman said: “It will be apparent in the coming
weeks who that person will be. I will tell you, it will be
interesting.”
And still other stories showed their enduring power through centuries:
Today, President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden hosted French
president Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte Macron, for the first
state visit of Biden’s presidency.
In a lunch today at the State Department, hosted by Secretary of State
Antony Blinken and Vice President Kamala Harris along with their
respective spouses Ms. Evan Ryan and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff,
Blinken emphasized the close ties between France and the United States
throughout our shared history. He recalled that France was the first
international ally of the United States, recognizing the fledgling
nation’s independence from England and providing both military and
economic assistance after the two countries contracted a formal
alliance in 1778.
Vice President Harris reminded the audience that the close alliance
between France and the United States has continued ever since, with
the troops of both countries fighting together, and dying together, on
the battlefields of the two world wars, and with ties of culture, art,
and science. Harris recalled that her mother, Dr. Shyamala Harris,
worked at the Institut Pasteur with the legendary French professor
Étienne-Émile Baulieu.
The leaders reaffirmed that France and the United States have a
historic past and emphasized that our shared past is the basis for
shaping a joint future in which the old allies work to defend the
rules-based international order now under attack from autocrats who
hope to dominate their neighbors with force.
Not only are they defending the rules-based order, but also they are
working to make it reflect the realities of the present. In his
remarks at the arrival ceremony this morning, Macron explained: “This
spirit of fraternity must enable us to build an agenda of ambition and
hope, as our two countries share the same faith in freedom, in
democratic values, in empowerment through education and work, and in
progress through science and knowledge.”
“The post-Cold War era is over,” Blinken said today, “and we face a
global competition to define what comes next.” Macron and Biden, as
well as Blinken and Harris, all emphasized that the defense of Ukraine
as it resists the attempt of Russian president Vladimir Putin to
“redraw the borders of a sovereign, independent nation by force” is
key to that definition of the future.
They emphasized that those defending a rules-based order are “working
together to strengthen European security and advance a free and open
Indo-Pacific,” “taking urgent steps to save our planet for future
generations,” and “making investments in global health to stamp out
diseases like malaria and HIV/AIDS, to build greater capacity to
prevent and respond to future health emergencies.”
Vice President Harris quoted from Marquis de Lafayette, a French
aristocrat who fought in the American Revolutionary War, who wrote to
his wife in 1778 from Valley Forge, where the ragtag Continental Army
encamped in the bitter winter of 1777-1778. “My heart has always been
completely convinced that in serving the cause of humanity and
America,” he wrote, “I was fighting in the interests of France.”
Macron responded: “And when your soldiers came during the First and
the Second World War in our country, they had exactly the same
feeling. And we will never forget that a lot of your families lost
children on the soils they never knew before just because they were
fighting for liberty and for universal values.”
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