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northstar747 said:
Sorry but why would a judge say don't file it only to say file it in writing
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I believe the judge said so during the hearing. The latter part is him changing his mind, but saying he won’t consider it during said hearing. It’s not clear, but other outlets like CNN are reporting the same thing:
“Engoron has already signaled that he will deny the motion, initially advising Trump’s attorney that he shouldn’t file it but then saying he could file it in writing.”

 
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Good luck fighting the pro-Israel lobby. Seems like the "The Squad" will have to rely on their own donor networks and allies rather then any kind of pragmatic Democrat support.

AIPAC has a turbulent history with them, and progressives in general. In the 2022 midterms, the Israel lobby became the largest single-issue outside spender in Democratic primaries, pouring in nearly $30 million via the super PAC the United Democracy Project, and millions more via the Democratic Majority for Israel PAC. It was an astronomical amount of money, mostly directed at knocking progressives out of the primaries, largely in open and redrawn seats. Despite there being fewer vacancies in 2024, that money figure is expected to at least triple.

Israel policy was rarely ever mentioned in the ads those super PACs ran against progressives in the 2022 election cycle. But the lobbying group clearly sees Republicans (and conservative Democrats) as more likely to push for unconditional military aid from the U.S. to Israel, and has, in recent years, seen some mission creep toward the advancement of conservative policy priorities more broadly.
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Close watchers now expect AIPAC to spend at least $100 million in Democratic primaries, largely trained on eliminating incumbent Squad members from their seats. It’s likely that even more money will be spent by affiliated super PACs, including the Democratic Majority for Israel PAC and the Mainstream Democrats PAC, too. (These PACs have already launched six-figure ad buys against Bowman, Lee, and Tlaib, a year away from the election—an exorbitant, hardly strategic commitment largely meant to prove that money will not be in short supply.) Meanwhile, small-dollar fundraising numbers are way down across the board, making it even more difficult for those progressives to fund a defense.

So far, House Democratic leadership has been quiet about all this. Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries—who took more money from the Israel lobby in 2022 than from any other group and is featured prominently on the lobbying group’s website (alongside House Republican leadership)—hasn’t tried to dissuade the primarying of these progressive Democratic incumbents. He could easily publicly disavow such spending and make it clear to candidates that accepting such support is against caucus policy; in 2019, House Democrats made it an official policy to blacklist any Democratic consultant or political group who aided a progressive challenger against a sitting Democratic incumbent ahead of the 2020 elections. But so far Jeffries has only managed to say: “Outside groups are gonna do what outside groups are gonna do. I think House Democrats are going to continue to support each other.”

It’s strange. Sitting quietly by while a Republican-funded outside group lays waste to a popular group of incumbents would invite a host of disastrous risks, and would—crucially—jeopardize Jeffries’s own campaign to retake the House. He certainly can’t be House Majority Leader if AIPAC knocks Democrats out of their races. And it will try: In 2022, AIPAC spent millions on a conservative Democrat to oppose Summer Lee in her 2022 primary race. After failing to knock her out, the group continued to spend against her in the general election, helping her Republican opponent and nearly costing Democrats the seat.
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Terrifik said:
President Biden's Plan to Give the Administrative State Effective Control of all Internet Services and Infrastructure in the U.S.
vote has not been announced yet so we still have about 3hrs for afternoon news.
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It passed very unfortunately. Here come the legal challenges though. It's basically as I expected. The Republicans on the FCC voted against it while the Democrats voted for it 3-2.


 
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Drag-on Knight 91873 said:
Much as I like the Left fighting itself, American Jews should have been smart enough to realize a bunch of Muslim representatives do not represent their interests.
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If (((they))) had been smart they would have fully enabled and strengthened the American Christian base and promoted WASP Christian nuclear families as hard as they fucking could have.
 
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DicksOutForKiwigglers said:
It passed very unfortunately. Here come the legal challenges though. It's basically as I expected. The Republicans on the FCC voted against it while the Democrats voted for it 3-2.


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Soon every website shall know of the pain Joshua "Null" Moon has gone through, and they will cry in unison "I never thought it would happen to me!"
 
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Sithis said:
If (((they))) had been smart they would have fully enabled and strengthened the American Christian base and promoted WASP Christian nuclear families as hard as they fucking could have.
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The problem is that good Christian American families need a living wage in order to get married and have children. Imports don't need that.
 
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