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A bankruptcy judge on Monday delayed a hearing in conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ effort to stop the satirical news outlet The Onion from buying Infowars, keeping the auction sale up in the air for at least another few weeks. Jones alleges fraud and collusion marred the bankruptcy auction that resulted in The Onion being named the winning bidder over a company affiliated with him. A trustee overseeing the auction denies the allegations and accuses Jones of launching a smear campaign because he didn't like the outcome. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez had been scheduled to hear an emergency motion to disqualify The Onion's bid on Monday, but put it off until either Dec. 9 or Dec. 17. That's also when the judge will hear arguments on the trustee's request to approve the sale of Infowars to The Onion. Lopez said it made sense to have one hearing on both requests. “I want a fair and transparent process and let’s just see where the process goes," Lopez said. Lopez could ultimately allow The Onion to move forward with its purchase, order a new auction or name the other bidder as the winner. At stake is whether Jones gets to stay at Infowars’ studio in Austin, Texas, under a new owner friendly to him, or whether he gets kicked out by The Onion. The other bidder, First United American Companies, runs a website in Jones’ name that sells nutritional supplements. Jones continues to broadcast his show from the Infowars studio, but he has set up a new location, websites and social media accounts as a precaution. The trustee shut down the Austin studio and Infowars' websites for about 24 hours last week after The Onion was announced as the winning bidder, but allowed them to resume the next day, drawing more complaints from Jones. Jones declared bankruptcy and liquidated his assets after he was ordered to pay nearly $1.5 billion to relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. He was ordered to pay damages for defamation and emotional distress in lawsuits in Connecticut and Texas after he repeatedly said the 2012 shooting that killed 20 first graders and six educators was a hoax staged by actors to increase gun control. Proceeds from the liquidation are to go to Jones’ creditors, including the Sandy Hook families who sued him. Last year, Lopez ruled that $1.1 billion of the Sandy Hook judgments could not be discharged in the bankruptcy. On Monday, he denied a request from Sandy Hook families to make the full $1.5 billion not dischargeable, meaning the debt cannot be wiped clean. Also Monday, lawyers for the social media platform X objected to any sale of the accounts of both Jones and Infowars, saying X is the owner of the accounts and it has not given consent for them to be sold or transferred. Jones' personal X account, with 3.3 million followers, was not part of the auction, but Lopez will be deciding if it should be included in the liquidation. Jones has praised X owner Elon Musk on his show and suggested that Musk should buy Infowars. Musk has not responded publicly to that suggestion and was not among the bidders. Jones was permanently banned from Twitter in 2018 for abusive behavior, but Musk restored Jones’ account on the platform he has since renamed X in December last year. Jones alleges The Onion’s bid was the result of fraud and collusion involving many of the Sandy Hook families, the humor site and the court-appointed trustee. First United American Companies submitted a $3.5 million sealed bid, while The Onion offered $1.75 million in cash. But The Onion's bid also included a pledge by Sandy Hook families to forgo some or all of the auction proceeds due to them to give other creditors a total of $100,000 more than they would receive under other bids. The trustee, Christopher Murray, said that made The Onion's proposal better for creditors and he named it the winning bid. Jones and First United American Companies claimed that the bid violated Lopez’s rules for the auction by including multiple entities and lacking a valid dollar amount. Jones also alleged Murray improperly canceled an expected round of live bidding and only selected from among the two sealed bids that were submitted. Jones called the auction “rigged” and a “fraud” on his show, which airs on the Infowars website, radio stations and Jones' X account. He filed a counter lawsuit last week against Murray, The Onion's parent company and the Sandy Hook families in the bankruptcy court. In a court filing on Sunday, Murray called the allegations a “desperate attempt” to delay the sale of Infowars to The Onion and accused Jones, his lawyers and attorneys for First United American Companies of a “vicious smear campaign lobbing patently false accusations.” He also alleged Jones collaborated with First United American Companies to try to buy Infowars. Lopez’s September order on the auction procedures made a live bidding round optional. And it gave broad authority to Murray to conduct the sale, including the power to reject any bid, no matter how high, that was “contrary to the best interests” of Jones, his company and their creditors. The assets of Infowars' parent company, Free Speech Systems, that were up for sale included the Austin studio, Infowars' video archive, video production equipment, product trademarks, and Infowars' websites and social media accounts. Another auction of remaining assets is set for Dec. 10. Jones is appealing the $1.5 billion in judgments citing free speech rights, but has acknowledged that the school shooting happened . Many of Jones’ personal assets, including real estate, guns and other belongings, also are being sold as part of the bankruptcy. Documents filed in court this year say Jones had about $9 million in personal assets, while Free Speech Systems had about $6 million in cash and more than $1 million worth of inventory.CHICAGO (WLS) -- U.S. Ambassador Rahm Emanuel is back home in Chicago, with a very blunt assessment of the election. But, he was also very coy about his own future after his time in Japan ends next year. ABC7 Chicago political reporter Craig Wall sat down with him for a one-on-one interview, during which Emanuel had some tough words for the Democratic Party. Former Mayor Emanuel came back to Chicago to celebrate Thanksgiving with his family over the holiday weekend. But, the results of the presidential election were nothing for the lifelong Democrat to be thankful for. He's not pulling punches in assessing what went wrong. Emanuel, a self-described political junkie, had a lot to say about the outcome of the election. When asked if he was surprised by the results, Emanuel said "yes and no." "That's the honest truth. I don't know if my head was one place, my heart was another place," he said. RELATED: IL Dem Rep. Casten introduces new resolution to force Ethics Committee to release Gaetz report But, his frustrations with Kamala Harris' campaign and the state of the Democratic Party were in many other places. He said the campaign's messaging was wrong. Former two-term Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama were pushed aside, and the Democratic Party became the establishment that voters rejected, he said. "We, as a party, go from the anti-establishment, in COVID, wear the coat of the establishment: Listen, put a mask on, close the schools, shut this down. And we become the establishment," Emanuel said. He said Donald Trump's victory was a vote against the establishment instead of a vote for change. And it should be a wake-up call for the Democratic Party, which he said is in disarray. "And here's what I would say to the Democrats: You have a YETI cup? Sit down and shut up. Stop telling people how to live their lives. Start listening to them a little more," Emanuel said. Emanuel will tender his resignation as ambassador to Japan when Trump takes office. He has served in that position since March of 2022. When asked if he was interested in being chair of the Democratic National Committee, which has been speculated in some political circles, Emanuel said, "That's not what I was thinking about for my life." "But, I think we're at a very crucial point, and there's a lot of different ways, doesn't have to be party chairman to contribute to the development and kind of 'regirding' the party for the future because we are on our back heels right now," he said. Emanuel also brushed off questions about whether he wants to run for Senate or governor. But, he made it clear he is not done with public service. When he gets back in six weeks, he will take a break, and then evaluate the possibilities.
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The 32-year-old's contract situation at Anfield has been a hot topic for debate since it became apparent that the Merseyside giants are in no rush to extend his terms past 2025. With Salah able to negotiate with foreign clubs from the start of January, the expectation has been that the situation will be resolved before the end of the year. However, after Sunday's 3-2 victory at Southampton , Salah surprisingly went in-depth regarding the situation that is currently ongoing behind the scenes. Salah claimed that he is "more out than in" when questioned over whether he will stay at Anfield, insisting that the situation is 'out of his hands'. © Imago The general consensus is that Liverpool officials should have prevented a situation where Salah will soon be entering the final seven months of his existing deal. Nevertheless, Carragher has chosen to criticise the versatile attacker, claiming that he has brought a distraction upon the club ahead of their upcoming fixtures against Real Madrid and Manchester City. Carragher told Sky Sports : "I must say I am very disappointed with Mo Salah. Liverpool have Real Madrid midweek and Man City at the weekend. That's the story right now." "If he keeps putting comments out, his agent puts out cryptic messages, that is selfish. That is thinking about themselves and not the football club." He added: "The most important thing for Liverpool Football Club this season isn't the future of Mo Salah, Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold . The most important thing is Liverpool winning the Premier League. "I hope they don't feel like this club would fall apart if they left. Steven Gerrard left the club and the next manager won the Premier League. Graeme Souness left and Liverpool won the double. "Salah, would we miss him? Of course we would. But Liverpool will move on." © Imago A report has already indicated that Salah's agent has held "positive" dialogue with the club's hierarchy that remains "ongoing". Despite Carragher's suggestions that Salah's comments could bring about a distraction, it could also have a galvanising effect during two mammoth occasions at Anfield. Salah has already contributed an incredible 11 goals and 10 assists from his 16 starts in the Premier League and Champions League, there being no doubt that the Egypt international will be wholeheartedly backed by the club's supporters when he takes to the pitch versus defending champions Real Madrid on Wednesday.
Alternative Energy Market Projected to Reach US$ 3.4 Trn by 2034, Growing at a 12.4% CAGRA bankruptcy judge on Monday delayed a hearing in conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ effort to stop the satirical news outlet The Onion from buying Infowars, keeping the auction sale up in the air for at least another few weeks. Jones alleges fraud and collusion marred the bankruptcy auction that resulted in The Onion being named the winning bidder over a company affiliated with him. A trustee overseeing the auction denies the allegations and accuses Jones of launching a smear campaign because he didn't like the outcome. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez had been scheduled to hear an emergency motion to disqualify The Onion's bid on Monday, but put it off until either Dec. 9 or Dec. 17. That's also when the judge will hear arguments on the trustee's request to approve the sale of Infowars to The Onion. Lopez said it made sense to have one hearing on both requests. “I want a fair and transparent process and let’s just see where the process goes," Lopez said. Lopez could ultimately allow The Onion to move forward with its purchase, order a new auction or name the other bidder as the winner. At stake is whether Jones gets to stay at Infowars’ studio in Austin, Texas, under a new owner friendly to him, or whether he gets kicked out by The Onion. The other bidder, First United American Companies, runs a website in Jones’ name that sells nutritional supplements. Jones continues to broadcast his show from the Infowars studio, but he has set up a new location, websites and social media accounts as a precaution. The trustee shut down the Austin studio and Infowars' websites for about 24 hours last week after The Onion was announced as the winning bidder, but allowed them to resume the next day, drawing more complaints from Jones. Jones declared bankruptcy and liquidated his assets after he was ordered to pay nearly $1.5 billion to relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. He was ordered to pay damages for defamation and emotional distress in lawsuits in Connecticut and Texas after he repeatedly said the 2012 shooting that killed 20 first graders and six educators was a hoax staged by actors to increase gun control. Proceeds from the liquidation are to go to Jones’ creditors, including the Sandy Hook families who sued him. Last year, Lopez ruled that $1.1 billion of the Sandy Hook judgments could not be discharged in the bankruptcy. On Monday, he denied a request from Sandy Hook families to make the full $1.5 billion not dischargeable, meaning the debt cannot be wiped clean. Also Monday, lawyers for the social media platform X objected to any sale of the accounts of both Jones and Infowars, saying X is the owner of the accounts and it has not given consent for them to be sold or transferred. Jones' personal X account, with 3.3 million followers, was not part of the auction, but Lopez will be deciding if it should be included in the liquidation. Jones has praised X owner Elon Musk on his show and suggested that Musk should buy Infowars. Musk has not responded publicly to that suggestion and was not among the bidders. Jones was permanently banned from Twitter in 2018 for abusive behavior, but Musk restored Jones’ account on the platform he has since renamed X in December last year. Jones alleges The Onion’s bid was the result of fraud and collusion involving many of the Sandy Hook families, the humor site and the court-appointed trustee. First United American Companies submitted a $3.5 million sealed bid, while The Onion offered $1.75 million in cash. But The Onion's bid also included a pledge by Sandy Hook families to forgo some or all of the auction proceeds due to them to give other creditors a total of $100,000 more than they would receive under other bids. The trustee, Christopher Murray, said that made The Onion's proposal better for creditors and he named it the winning bid. Jones and First United American Companies claimed that the bid violated Lopez’s rules for the auction by including multiple entities and lacking a valid dollar amount. Jones also alleged Murray improperly canceled an expected round of live bidding and only selected from among the two sealed bids that were submitted. Jones called the auction “rigged” and a “fraud” on his show, which airs on the Infowars website, radio stations and Jones' X account. He filed a counter lawsuit last week against Murray, The Onion's parent company and the Sandy Hook families in the bankruptcy court. In a court filing on Sunday, Murray called the allegations a “desperate attempt” to delay the sale of Infowars to The Onion and accused Jones, his lawyers and attorneys for First United American Companies of a “vicious smear campaign lobbing patently false accusations.” He also alleged Jones collaborated with First United American Companies to try to buy Infowars. Lopez’s September order on the auction procedures made a live bidding round optional. And it gave broad authority to Murray to conduct the sale, including the power to reject any bid, no matter how high, that was “contrary to the best interests” of Jones, his company and their creditors. The assets of Infowars' parent company, Free Speech Systems, that were up for sale included the Austin studio, Infowars' video archive, video production equipment, product trademarks, and Infowars' websites and social media accounts. Another auction of remaining assets is set for Dec. 10. Jones is appealing the $1.5 billion in judgments citing free speech rights, but has acknowledged that the school shooting happened . Many of Jones’ personal assets, including real estate, guns and other belongings, also are being sold as part of the bankruptcy. Documents filed in court this year say Jones had about $9 million in personal assets, while Free Speech Systems had about $6 million in cash and more than $1 million worth of inventory.
The US says it pushed retraction of a famine warning for north Gaza. Aid groups express concern.Robert Eggers Reveals ‘Demented’ Final Moment of Nosferatu Was Cut By ‘ recently opened up about a moment that he had to cut from the end of , revealing the situation was too “demented” to keep in the film. What did Robert Eggers have to cut from Nosferatu? Speaking to Variety on the adaptation that’s out in theaters now, Eggers opened up about the film’s ending, which takes a major deviation from the original film. Instead of being burned by the sun, the film ends with ‘s Ellen Hutter and Count Orlok locked in an embrace. According to Eggers, Orlok can be seen bleeding from various orifices in the film, but one “demented” thing they initially did was have him bleed from his anus. However, Eggers said the decision looked too “comical” after a while, and they had to literally plug it up. “Well, if you look very closely at that shot, Orlok is still bleeding out of his eyes, ears and nose,” said Eggers. “There are some maggot holes in his back. We also rigged it so that he would be bleeding out of his anus, but it was very comical. When we started rolling, we had to literally put a cork in it.” Nosferatu is a remake of the 1922 film of the same name, which itself is an unauthorized and unofficial adaptation of Bram Stoker’s legendary 1897 novel Dracula. The film is written and directed by Eggers, who previously made 2015’s The Witch, 2019’s The Lighthouse, and 2022’s The Northman. Along with Skarsgård, the film stars Nicholas Hoult as Thomas Hutter, Lily-Rose Depp as Ellen Hutter, Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Friedrich Harding, Emma Corrin as Hanna Harding, Willem Dafoe as Professor Albin Eberhart Von Franz, Simon McBurney as Herr Knock, Ralph Ineson as Dr. Wilhelm Sievers. “Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake,” the synopsis for the movie reads. (Source: ) Anthony Nash has been writing about games and the gaming industry for nearly a decade. When he’s not writing about games, he’s usually playing them. You can find him on Twitter talking about games or sports at @_anthonynash. Share article
TORONTO -- TORONTO (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump was joking when he suggested Canada become the 51st U.S. state during a dinner with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a Canadian minister who attended their recent dinner said Tuesday. Fox News reported that Trump made the comment in response to Trudeau raising concerns that Trump's threatened tariffs on Canada would damage Canada's economy. Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc, who attended the Friday dinner at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club, said Trump's comments were in jest. “The president was telling jokes. The president was teasing us. It was, of course, on that issue, in no way a serious comment,” LeBlanc told reporters in Ottawa. LeBlanc described it as a three-hour social evening at the president’s residence in Florida on a long weekend of American Thanksgiving. “The conversation was going to be light-hearted,” he said. He called the relations warm and cordial and said the fact that “the president is able to joke like that for us” indicates good relations. On Tuesday, Trump appeared to continue with the joke, posting on his Truth Social platform an AI-generated image of himself standing on a mountain with a Canadian flag next to him with the caption “Oh Canada!" Some Canadians had fun with it. “If I were President Trump, I’d think twice before invading Canada. The last time the U.S. tried something like that— back in the War of 1812 —it didn’t exactly end well. Canada even burned down the White House,” former Quebec Premier Jean Charest joked on X. Earlier last week, the Republican president-elect threatened to impose a 25% tax on all products entering the U.S. from Canada and Mexico unless they stem the flow of migrants and drugs. Trudeau requested the meeting in a bid to avoid the tariffs by convincing Trump that the northern border is nothing like the U.S. southern border with Mexico . Trudeau held a rare meeting with opposition leaders on Tuesday about U.S-Canada relations and later said that opposition Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre shouldn’t amplify the erroneous narratives that Americans are saying about the border. “Less than one percent of migrants coming into the United States irregularly come from Canada and 0.2 percent of the fentanyl coming into the United States comes from Canada,” Trudeau said in Parliament. Canadian officials have said there are plans to put more helicopters, drones and law enforcement officers at the border. At the dinner, Kristen Hillman, Canada's ambassador to the U.S., said America’s trade deficit with Canada was also raised. Hillman said the U.S. had a $75 billion trade deficit with Canada last year but noted a third of what Canada sells into the U.S. is energy exports and prices have been high. “Trade balances are something that he focuses on so it’s important to engage in that conversation but to put it into context,” Hillman told The Associated Press. “We are one-tenth the size of the United States so a balanced trade deal would mean per capita we are buying 10 times more from the U.S. than they are buying from us. If that’s his metric we will certainly engage on that.” Hillman said Canada sold $170 billion worth of energy products last year to the U.S. About 60% of U.S. crude oil imports are from Canada, and 85% of U.S. electricity imports as well. Canada is also the largest foreign supplier of steel, aluminum and uranium to the U.S. and has 34 critical minerals and metals that the Pentagon is eager for and investing for national security. About 77% of Canada’s exports go to the U.S. Trudeau's government successfully employed a “Team Canada” approach during Trump’s first term in office when the free trade deal between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico was renegotiated. But Trudeau’s minority government is in a much weaker position politically now and faces an election within a year. Poilievre, Canada's opposition leader, said the tariffs would harm Americans. “The president-elect was elected on a promise to make America richer. These tariffs would make America poorer,” Poilievre said after meeting with Trudeau. Poilievre said the U.S. would be wise to do more free trade with its best friend and closest ally. Canada is the top export destination for 36 U.S. states. Nearly 3.6 billion Canadian dollars ($2.7 billion) worth of goods and services cross the border each day. Trudeau returned home after the dinner at Mar-a-Lago club in Florida without assurances Trump would back away from threatened tariffs on all products from the major American trading partner. Trump called the talks “productive” but signaled no retreat from a pledge that Canada says unfairly lumps it in with Mexico over the flow of drugs and migrants into the United States. The flows of migrants and seizures of drugs are vastly different. U.S. customs agents seized 43 pounds of fentanyl at the Canadian border during the last fiscal year, compared with 21,100 pounds at the Mexican border. Most of the fentanyl reaching the U.S. — where it causes about 70,000 overdose deaths annually — is made by Mexican drug cartels using precursor chemicals smuggled from Asia. On immigration, the U.S. Border Patrol reported 1.53 million encounters with irregular migrants at the southwest border with Mexico between October 2023 and September 2024. That compares to 23,721 encounters at the Canadian border during that time.
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As bad as many of us believed a Trump 2.0 administration would be, President-elect Donald Trump ’s promises and actions since he won underscore that it will be even worse than we could have imagined. Look no further than the basket of deplorables he has put forward for Cabinet and White House posts: radical right-wing polemicist Stephen Miller as deputy White House chief of staff ; Russia sympathizer Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence ; defender of soldiers charged with war crimes Pete Hegseth for defense secretary (who paid off a woman who accused him of sexual assault but denies her allegations); former wrestling executive Linda McMahon for education ; pseudoscience promoter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Health and Human Services ; and snake-oil-peddling TV doctor Mehmet Oz for Medicare and Medicaid , to name a few. What can be done before Trump and his gang of delinquents start running the show? The first line of defense occurs over the next nine weeks. Joe Biden is still president until noon on Jan. 20. Democrats still have the majority in the Senate until Jan. 3. It is incumbent on them to use their powers to the maximum to lessen the damage that lies ahead, by highlighting the threats from unqualified and unacceptable nominees and from the dangerous policies that Trump and his team are set to implement. Let’s start with the president. Biden has already acted to protect Ukraine as much as he can from Trump’s virtual promise to sell Ukraine out to Vladimir Putin’s Russia . In addition to this week lifting restrictions on Ukraine so they can launch U.S. missiles into Russian territory, he has agreed to send U.S. land mines and allow U.S. military contractors to deploy to Ukraine . He can follow up by delivering as much aid and as many weapons as possible, and by releasing to Ukraine several billion dollars we hold in frozen Russian assets and convincing our allies to do the same. It is critical that Biden put Ukraine in the best standing and negotiation position before Trump takes over and presses the nation to accept any press deal. Neal Urwitz Nov. 21, 2024 Biden cannot prevent Trump from eviscerating NATO, withdrawing U.S. troops from South Korea, withholding support from Taiwan and creating a global trade war, but he can use his bully pulpit now to lay out why the political, security and economic framework crafted since World War II is far better than the hellscape Trump proposes with an alliance of vicious dictators and a regime of huge tariffs that will raise prices for all of us. Whatever pain America endured in fighting wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, a world where our allies in Europe, South Korea and Taiwan are threatened could drag America into bigger wars and create global economic catastrophe, a small version of which would occur with a trade war over tariffs. Whatever the limits of our global trade structure, it has avoided a global depression. Biden should also wield his pardon power to protect the innocent people whom Trump could target with bogus prosecutions – starting with retired members of the U.S. military whom Trump and his defense secretary nominee are threatening to charge with treason over the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Trump has vowed to prosecute a long list of his perceived political enemies , from the three Democrats against whom he ran for president – Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton – to Special counsel Jack Smith, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, former FBI Director James Comey and the Democrats in Congress who ran his impeachment hearings, among others. He’s also threatened Republicans who dared to challenge him, from outspoken former House GOP Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger to lawyer and Lincoln Project co-founder George Conway, as well as those closer to him – his niece Mary Trump and his former lawyer Michael Cohen. President Gerald Ford’s pardon of former President Richard Nixon on Sept. 8, 1974 occurred before any prosecution against Nixon, so we know it can be done. Of course, even with preemptive pardons for imagined offenses, that does not mean that Trump and his attorney general cannot invent new charges. But prosecutions of that sort would look even more punitive and illegitimate than what Trump has threatened so far. The fact that Trump could also use the pardon power for malignant ends should not stop Biden from employing it for legitimate ones. As for the Senate, its first and most urgent responsibility is to act as a judicial confirmation machine before the next Congress begins on Jan. 3, working night and day to fill every federal judicial vacancy for district and appeals courts. Senate Democrats have confirmed a slew of Biden-nominated judges , and they are confirming more. But the pace is still too slow, and the willingness to cut deals with Republicans is too great. Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin must not be swayed by the use of the so-called blue slip – a norm that allows senators to block the confirmation of judges in their home states. There is zero doubt that if Durbin allows seats to stay vacant for this reason, the GOP will ignore the blue slip when they take power, only to fill seats entirely with right-wing Trump loyalists. Albert R. Hunt Nov. 6, 2024 These judicial appointments are particularly important to ensure the legal system can be used after Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20 to impede maneuvers by Trump and his cronies to bypass laws and conventions. If lower court judges who can be appointed now put up some speed bumps and stop signs to slow down Trump’s reckless policies, even this pliant Supreme Court is unlikely to green-light all of them. The Senate can also act immediately to oppose Trump’s nominees and raise the alarm over White House officials and policy who are not subject to Senate approval. Once the GOP controls the chamber in early January, it is unlikely to give the president-elect’s picks the scrutiny they deserve. Some appointees, like anti-immigrant extremist Tom Homan for border czar ; tycoons and political dilettantes Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy for the made-up Department of Government Efficiency ; and Miller for a senior White House job, are not subject to Senate confirmation despite wielding enormous power. Trump’s destructive plans – from detaining and deporting immigrants and awarding ginormous tax cuts to the rich to eviscerating health protections and destroying the civil service – need to be spotlighted and stopped before they are inflicted on the country and the world. We need every Senate committee to mobilize for pre-confirmation hearings on this rogue’s gallery of Hegseth, Gabbard, Kennedy and Oz, not to mention Pam Bondi for attorney general , John Ratcliffe for the CIA and others. This isn’t what Democratic senators and their leader, Chuck Schumer, want to do over the holiday period. But it’s vital that they frame for America the very dangerous consequences of Trump’s victory, and the dire implications for all of us if his worst excesses aren’t blocked. This is no ordinary time, and it cannot be met by ordinary responses. Norman Ornstein is an emeritus scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and co-host of the podcast “Words Matter” on the DSR Network.PM Modi lauds \'Rashtriya Bal Puraskar Award\'-winning children, interacts with awardees
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