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Netanyahu to CNN: Supreme Court overturning judicial reform? I hope we don't get to that
Prime Minister speaks to Wolf Blitzer, refuses to say if he would abide by any Supreme Court ruling striking down the law limiting the use of the judicial reasonableness standard.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Thursday and refused to say if he would abide by any potential Supreme Court ruling striking down the law limiting the use of the judicial reasonableness standard.
“What you’re talking about is a situation, or potential situation, where in American terms, the United States’ Supreme Court would take a constitutional amendment and say that it’s unconstitutional. That’s the kind of the kind of spiral that you’re talking about, and I hope we don’t get to that,” Netanyahu said, warning that the country could enter “uncharted territory.”
Asked if he was expecting consequences from the United States for the bill’s passing, Netanyahu stressed that relations remained strong between the Biden White House and his government.
“Look, we’re both interested in blocking Iran. We’re both interested in advancing peace. This is the reason I came back to serving for the sixth time as Israel’s Prime Minister. I think those goals are achievable, and they’re going to be achieved together between Israel and the United States. I think that will strengthen our alliances, not weaken,” Netanyahu told Blitzer.
Pointing to debate in the US over its own Supreme Court, the Prime Minister said, “You have an internal debate in the United States right now, about the powers of the Supreme Court about whether it’s abusing its power, whether you should curtail it.”
“Does that make the American democracy not a democracy? Does that make that debate unworthy? Does that make that issue, a symbol of the fact that you’re moving to some dictatorship personally?” he continued.
“We don’t want a subservient court. We want an independent court, not an all powerful court and that’s the correction that we’re doing,” Netanyahu explained to Blitzer, though he also acknowledged that the bill had sparked “a big debate.”
“I don’t want to minimize it. I also don’t want to minimize the concerns that people have, because many of them have been caught in this spiral of fear,” he said, stressing, “Israel is going to remain a democracy.”
In a separate interview with ABC earlier on Thursday, Netanyahu defended the government's planned judicial reform, calling it a "minor correction" to Israel's activist court.
"We had to restore Israeli democracy to its position on par with other democracies. The essence of democracy is the balance between the will of the majority and the rights of the minority, and this is achieved through the principle of separation of powers. This balance has been violated during the last 20 years, because we have the most activist court on Earth," he said.
"I pressed the 'stop' button for three months to get some sort of compromise from the opposition and I didn't get it from them. I don't think the arguments are real, but I think the concerns are real, because people are afraid. I understand them," Netanyahu added.
Later in the interview, the Prime Minister stated that US President Joe Biden has invited him to the White House for a meeting this fall, possibly as early as September.
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The attorney's for Hunter over reached and an honest and alert judge saw what they were trying to sneak through and called a halt.
The current Justice Dept has been dragging the case because they want to allow the statute of limits to kill any charges and appointing an independent prosecutor would allow the Justice Dept. to do just that so the current prosecutor, if he is legit, should bring charges immediately so as to buy time for further investigation.
And:
Hunter Biden’s Plea Deal Implodes
A wrist slap that was supposed to end the scandal backfires in federal court.
By The Editorial Board
The plea deal between federal prosecutors and Hunter Biden has always looked fishy, and on Wednesday it was exposed in court. The legal fireworks make it harder to ignore fundamental questions about the integrity of the five-year investigation.
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Federal Judge Maryellen Noreika didn’t reject the wrist-slap plea bargain outright, but she asked prosecutors and defense attorneys to clarify the terms of the deal on gun and tax charges. It says something that the deal collapsed under the most basic questions.
The June 20 plea never made sense except as a way to disguise and bury the political embarrassment of Hunter’s business shenanigans. The two misdemeanor tax charges and the deferred felony gun count could have been brought in the first few months of the investigation. Judge Noreika zeroed in on the diversion agreement on the gun count, which spared Mr. Biden jail time and would mean he would not be charged if he met certain conditions.
The critical point came when the judge asked if the deal meant Hunter could still be prosecuted on other charges, such as violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Prosecutor Leo Wise said he could. Defense attorney Chris Clark said that wasn’t his understanding. If the plea didn’t give his client such immunity, then there’s no deal, said Mr. Clark.
The hearing featured multiple recesses in which the prosecution and defense tried to clarify the terms of a revised deal. Judge Noreika said she felt that “you are telling me to rubber stamp the agreement.” In the end Hunter pleaded not guilty to the tax charges, and the judge gave the lawyers 30 days to provide further briefings before she reaches a decision.
Courtroom drama aside, the big issue isn’t whether any plea deal is too tough or lenient. The question hovering over the plea is whether Joe Biden was also in on his son’s sleazy influence-peddling. Is the President the “big guy” famously mentioned in an email to Hunter from one of his business partners?
The press has given the President a pass on his repeated claims that he knew nothing about Hunter’s business, and the White House continues to stonewall. Shortly after the hearing, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre refused to clarify whether her new official line—that “the President was never in business with his son”—was a change from his many previous public claims that he never even discussed his son’s overseas business dealings with him.
No doubt the change in the official line reflects White House recognition of the growing evidence that contradicts Mr. Biden’s earlier statements. Americans may learn even more next week, when his son’s former business associate, Devon Archer, is scheduled to testify behind closed doors to the House Oversight Committee about then-Vice President Biden’s attendance at dinners and talks on speakerphone with Hunter’s foreign business associates.
Voters may not care much about the shady dealings of a dissolute son. But they will care if President Biden is shown to have lied about his knowledge of his son’s multi-million-dollar payments to Biden family members—and if Mr. Biden’s Justice Department blocked IRS and FBI investigators from learning the truth.
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Predicting election results has left a lot of genius reporters with egg on their face. The NYT's suffered with their prediction of Truman's defeat. I believe we may be seeing the same thing happening because they are underplaying the effect of the bullying Trump has been experiencing for well over 7 plus years.
I have consistently acknowledged Trump is his own worst enemy but Democrats have engaged in serious overkill.
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Our pathetic Vice President either does not understand English or is purposely weaponizing Florida's new history curriculum. Actually it is a compliment that some slaves had the ability, under the worst of circumstances, to learn skills. It is called "entrepreneurship."
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The Snow White House press spokesperson proclaims Hunter 's situation is a private one and thus, she does not need to respond to questions. Yet, he is driven to the court house in Government Cars, is protected by The Secret Service in more ways than one, attends State Dinners, flies with his father in government planes, apparently leaves his cocaine in the nation's home and so it goes.
Not only do " We The People" pay for his private life as he rehabilitates but we are excluded by government protectors, whose salaries we pay, from explanations of what is occurring.
As the investigation of corruption brings forth more evidence and witnesses, the mass media will eventually be hard pressed to remain silent. Eventually the snow will melt and I suspect "The Big Man" will have some serious decisions to make like Nixon did so stay tuned.
Meanwhile:
Mini Madoff \'s charges have been dropped.
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Facts "Shifty Schff," Hakeem Jeffries and other radical Democrats continue to be in denial. They need to hear and/or read revealing documents that are readily available on Sen. Grassley and other's web pages.
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