In a normal world this would by itself would get a president impeached
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In America in 2020, we like to refer to it as “Thursday.”
A Manhattan federal judge on Thursday ordered Michael Cohen to be released from prison this week after finding that authorities “retaliated” against the former Trump lawyer for writing a tell-all book about the president.
“I make the finding that the purpose of transferring Mr. Cohen from furlough and home confinement to jail is retaliatory,” U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein stated Thursday, adding that “it’s retaliation because of his desire to exercise his First Amendment rights to publish a book and to discuss anything about the book or anything else he wants on social media and with others.”
Cohen, who was sentenced in 2018 to three years in prison after pleading guilty to lying to Congress about hush-money payments and plans to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, was allowed in May to serve the remainder of his time behind bars in home confinement due to concerns about the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
But on July 9, he was ordered back to prison after questioning an agreement that barred him from publishing a tell-all book, his legal team said. The order prompted Cohen to sue Attorney General William Barr and the Bureau of Prisons director last week.
During a virtual hearing, Hellerstein ruled that Cohen could return to home confinement without restrictions based on his First Amendment rights. The judge agreed with Cohen’s legal team that the former Trump lawyer was sent back to prison as an act of “retaliation” over his upcoming book.
Hellerstein said that during his 21 years on the bench, he had never “seen such a clause,” adding, “How can I take any other inference but that it was retaliatory?”
William Barr and the rest of his Opus Dei fascists need to be shipped off to the very same prisons they are using as political weapons against their opponents.
We need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission post-Trump, minus the reconciliation.
On a cheerier note:
Joe Biden is beating President Trump by 13 points in Florida — 51% to 38% — per a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday.
Why it matters: With its 29 electoral votes, Florida is a key state for the president to hang onto in order to win re-election.Respondents favored Trump on handling the economy (50% to 47%) but thought Biden would be better at handling issues like health care, the coronavirus response, a crisis and racial inequality.
Flashback: In late April, respondents put Biden ahead of Trump in the same poll by just four points (46% to 42%).
How did this happen?
An overwhelming majority of Florida voters want the state to require people to wear masks in public to combat the spread of the coronavirus.
A mask requirement has support of 79% of Florida voters, according to a Quinnipiac University Poll released Thursday. Just 20% oppose a mandate.
Turns out Grandma isn’t actually willing to die to protect the sacred constitutional right of every American to consume a Bloomin’ Onion inside an authentic Outback Steakhouse(tm).
. . . Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has something to say: