Joe Biden Can’t Defend His Own Legitimacy

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1. Hi, Peloni.

   “…the Biden DOJ is denying January 6th defendants their rights to due process and a speedy trial by not being able to provide access to the “discovery” — evidence possessed by the government relevant to the case against them — and then using that as an excuse to not set trial dates while some defendants remain in custody pending trial.”

   In normal contexts, this penomenon is called “holding political prisoners”.

2. Very big news out of Washington examined by shipwreckedcrew. The author of this article is a former member of the DOJ, and for those who are unfamiliar with him, some criticize him as a DOJ appologist to which he is quite adamant that he is not. This article would clearly support no inference of him holding back on his former employers.

   DOJ’s Handling of Evidence In January 6 Prosecutions Called Into Question By District Judge Barring Use by DOJ of an Outside Contractor To Assist
   Chief Judge Beryl Howell rules private company cannot be given access to Grand Jury materials.

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   My next story at Human Events is going to take a more in-depth look at how the Biden DOJ is denying January 6th defendants their rights to due process and a speedy trial by not being able to provide access to the “discovery” — evidence possessed by the government relevant to the case against them — and then using that as an excuse to not set trial dates while some defendants remain in custody pending trial.

   Many cases have now been pending for more than six months since the government made the decision to seek indictments and arrest many of those who had attended the January 6th protests and gone inside the Capitol. Problems persist across all the filed cases with the government’s inability to deliver to the defendants the evidence in the government’s possession — most notably video evidence — that might be relevant and material to their cases.

   The decision to move forward with a massive undertaking all on one time was a volitional choice made by the Justice Department — it was not compelled to do so. Even now, the government could move to dismiss charges without prejudice while it continues to process evidence and organize the cases it has already filed. The charges could be refiled at any point in time in the future prior to the statute of limitations expiring.

   In an effort to obtain assistance from a contractor with the type of experience needed to manage massive amounts of customer data — manage it in a way that allowed easy search and access regarding individual cases — the DOJ signed a multi-million dollar contract with the international accounting firm Deloitte Financial Management.

   The database that Deloitte was to create would have stored all the documentary, physical, and video evidence accumulated by the FBI, Capitol Police, and other federal agencies during the course of the investigation. From this database, the evidence regarding individual cases could be accessed and provided to charged defendants as required by the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.

   But one particular such rule, Rule 6(e), prohibits the disclosure of “grand jury” material outside the Department of Justice or the Court without prior authorization. The Justice Department filed a motion with the District Court seeking such permission to provide access to Deloitte employees. On Friday, Judge Howell ruled that the motion did not sufficiently justify the request made and prohibited DOJ from giving the Deloitte employees access to the material from the January 6 investigations for the purpose of creating the database.

   This leaves DOJ in the position it currently finds itself in having collected a massive volume of evidence on hundreds of persons already charged with crimes. It cannot sort through and produce the evidence for individual cases in a manner that complies with its obligations under the rules of procedure and its constitutional obligation to afford the defendants the “due process” to which they are entitled.
   ……

   The end of the article can be read at the link below:
   https://shipwreckedcrew.substack.com/p/dojs-handling-of-evidence-in-january?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter

3. This is NOT good news! The lawsuits are civil cases pursued by interested parties that are able to pursue the truth in civil court. Should the GBI or FBI or DOJ or any other alphabet soup characters become involved, it will only shuttle the evidence into a silo for as looooonnnnnngggggggg as the investigative body cares to take to produce their findings. I believe the example of Durham might be seen to support the notion that these investigations might be less helpful than any use might be gained from them. This is simply a way for the ‘authorities,’ who have only benefited from the election theft, to regain control of their lost narrative by sequestering the evidence and investigations into ‘official hands’ where a proper management of things might announce the proper interpretation of these matters, or more likely become the latest ship that once launched might never come to port. Which is likely the only motive for the corruptocrat Speaker of the GA house to take this step.

   Ralston Gets Religion On Election Fraud After Stopping Special Session
   July 16, 2021
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   Ralston Gets Religion On Election Fraud After Stopping Special Session
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   Yesterday we highlighted GA House Speaker David Ralston’s ethics problems over the years.

   Speaker Ralston also yesterday called for an investigation by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation into the election fraud committed across the Peach State during the 2020 election cycle.

   This is the same Speaker Ralston who prevented a special session from being called during November’s coup.

   Our concern is it is fairly well known the GBI is corrupt. Also, President Trump’s decisions on personnel has been shown to be horrible.

   So can we trust the GBI? Will this be a way to just paper over the fraud?

4. GA Secretary of State and Fulton County Board of Elections have taken to launching their attacks on each other – it should be interesting to see what might be gained from these attacks by former allies upon each other, as they each belong in adjoining cells, at least, for their roles in the greatest election heist in history.

   The Rats Start Fighting – Fulton’s Robb Pitts Goes After SoS Raffensperger For Calling For His Resignation/Takeover Of Fulton Elections
   July 15, 2021
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   Fulton County Commission Chairman Rob Pitts Says GA SoS Office Enacting A ‘Hostile Takeover’ For Probing Missing Chain Of Custody Forms For Thousands Of Nov 3 Ballots

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   Fulton County, GA Chairman Robb Pitts today fired back at GA SoS Brad Raffensperger over his call for Pitts to resign and for the GA SoS to take over elections in Atlanta’s ground zero of election fraud – Fulton County.

   It is obvious to even the most casual observer that both individuals were up to their necks in corruption during the 2020 election cycle. Now Raffensperger wants to make Pitts the fall guy.

   This is going to get interesting. We can’t wait to get to the part where they start ratting each other out in the press, or even better, to the state legislature.

   You can read Pitts’ angry email sent today below:
   Fulton Chairman Pitts Releases Statement Following Raffensperger’s Call To Fire Fulton Elections Director, Threat To Takeover Elections Board

   ATLANTA – On Thursday, more than eight months after the 2020 election, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger demanded the firing of the Fulton County Elections Director. The demand came one day after he reiterated his threat of a hostile takeover of Fulton County’s Board of Registration and Elections. In response, Fulton County Commission Chairman Robb Pitts released the following statement:

   “It’s clear now that Secretary of State Raffensperger is putting his partisan politics ahead of reality,” said Chairman Robb Pitts. “He’s engaged in a desperate high-wire act to appease the believers of the Big Lie – whose votes he needs to hold off a primary challenger – after declining to cave to their demands and overturn the results of our free and fair election.”

   Pitts continued, “Mr. Barron managed an election in unprecedented circumstances, dealing with a pandemic and the tragic death of an employee. Three counts of the votes, including those monitored by the Secretary of State’s office, shows that there was no intentional wrongdoing or fraud in the elections.”

   “Secretary of State Raffensperger knows this and it’s obvious he’s trying to set the stage for a hostile takeover of our elections system because he wants a political win, which has been my greatest fear since SB202 passed,” said Chairman Pitts. “He has already said he wants to do so and now he’s thrown his lot in with his conspiracy theorist comrades to manufacture any excuse. I will continue to fight for Fulton and against his attempts to cancel the voices of Fulton County voters.”

5. Call to recall AZ Electors by Sen. Rogers!!

   Following the explosive hearing on the Arizona 2020 election audit, Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers has now called for “the Biden electors to be recalled to Arizona,” adding that a “new election must be conducted” due to the insecurity of the November election.

   Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers took to Twitter to issue a statement calling for the Biden electors to be recalled and for the state to hold a new election following revelations stemming from the Maricopa County 2020 election audit hearing.
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   “I have heard enough. With the tens of thousands of ballots mailed without being requested, the over ten thousand people who voted after registering after November 3rd, the failure of Maricopa to turn over the 40% machines, the passwords that Dominion still refuses to turn over, & tens of thousands of unauthorized queries demonstrating how insecure the election was, I call for the Biden electors to be recalled to Arizona & a new election must be conducted. Arizona’s electors must not be awarded fraudulently & we need to get this right,” tweeted Rogers.

   Among many revelations, the audit hearing revealed that the Maricopa County election system was “compromised” during the 2020 election, following testimony from audit witness and Tech contractor Ben Cotton, who explained that an “element of the election system was actually compromised or breached during the course of the November 2020 election…The registration server that was public facing did have unauthorized access to that. In cybersecurity terms, it was breached…The county issued a letter,” as National File reported.

   Cotton also revealed that in March, there were more than 37,000 anonymous administrative queries to access the 2020 election system in Maricopa County that defied “normal Windows behavior,” reported National File. “What we are seeing here…is we’re seeing anonymous logins at the system level that do not follow that pattern of normal Windows behavior.” Cotton said.

   During the hearing former Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett, who served as the Republican state Senate liaison to the Maricopa County audit, confirmed that “thousands” of ballots, that were set aside to be duplicated, did not have a serial number on them, nor a very “light” unreadable serial number, making them impossible to accurately count during the election, reported National File Senior Reporter Patrick Howley.

   National File will continue to provide updates on the Maricopa County audit in Arizona and its potential implications regarding the legitimacy of the highly contested 2020 election.

   https://nationalfile.com/breaking-arizona-senator-calls-for-recalling-electors/

6. UNDENIABLE PROOF – IRREFUTABLE INFORMATION BIDEN CHEATED – released today at AZ Senate hearing!

   20,000 PEOPLE REMOVED FROM VOTER ROLES QUICKLY AFTER ELECTION.

   OVER 11,000 WHO VOTED NOT ON VOTER ROLES ON NOV 3RD, NOR ON NOV 7TH, APPEARED ON VOTER ROLES ON DEC 4.

   OVER 70,000 MORE MAIL-IN BALLOTS RECEIVED THAN MAILED OUT!

   NO SYSTEM LOGS PROVIDED TO AUDITORS AND SECURITY LOGS DELETED FROM MACHINES.

   NO SYSTEM UPDATES FOR YEARS ON DOMINION MACHINES.

   ALL MACHINES HAD THE SAME PASSWORD AND NEVER CHANGED.

   NON-SECURE VOTING PAPER USED AS OPPOSED TO MARICOPA COUNTY ELECTIONS BOARD STATEMENTS.

   4,000 REGISTERED TO VOTE AFTER OCT 15 AND VOTED ANY WAY – AGAINST AZ LAW AND COURT DECISION.

   BALLOT BOXES NOT SECURED – TRASH IN BOXES, MISLABELED, MISC PAPERS IN BOXES, NO LABEL AT ALL ON SOME. MACHINES NOT SECURED, NO UPDATES, SAME REMOTE LOGINS USED AROUND THE COUNTRY.

   CONTRACTORS RECOMMEND IN-PERSON CANVASS.

   TRUMP VINDICATED!

   http://creativedestructionmedia.com/news/politics/2021/07/15/guilty-arizona-senate-debunks-lefts-big-lie-undeniable-proof-irrefutable-information-biden-cheated/

7. Good article.

8. The fraudulent election is not the only thing that makes DP rule illegitimate.I think that the Democrats’ move to repeal Federal laws making cannibis a controlled substance, and similar laws in Democrat-controlled states, isuch as New York, also renders DP rule illegitimate.

   This is from NBC News, a pro-DP channel:

   We’ve been bombarded with the message that “medical marijuana” is good for your health. But read this:

   High potency weed linked to psychotic episodes, mysterious vomiting illness in young users
   July 11, 2021, 6:00 AM EDT
   By Laura Strickler and Steve Patterson

   BOULDER, Colo. — One day in fall 2018, Bo Gribbon began to vomit and couldn’t stop. He threw up multiple times an hour from morning to night before his mother drove him to the hospital near their home here.

   “It felt like Edward Scissorhands was trying to grab my intestines and pull them out,” said Gribbon, then 17.

   Over the next nine months, Gribbon went to the emergency room 11 times for the same problem: severe vomiting and screaming at the same time that lasted for hours. When a physician assistant told him the likely cause, Gribbon didn’t believe it at first. He had never heard of marijuana producing a side effect like that.

   Bo Gribbon
   Bo Gribbon, 20, went to the ER 11 times in 9 months for a condition that caused bouts of nonstop vomiting and screaming. Medical professionals told him it was from chronic cannabis use but he didn’t believe it until stopping cannabis finally made the vomiting stop.Robin Noble
   “The only thing that convinced me was that it stopped when I stopped smoking,” said Gribbon, now 20.

   Colorado and Washington became the first states to legalize recreational marijuana in 2012. Several years later, doctors in Colorado and other states are expressing alarm over the increasing potency of cannabis and the health risks it may pose for young users — from psychiatric issues, including violent psychotic episodes, to the mysterious condition that plagued Gribbon.

   The condition — officially called “cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome” but now known to health care workers as “scromiting,” a mashup of “screaming” and “vomiting” — has popped up with increasing frequency at hospitals in Colorado, doctors say.

   The ER at Parkview Medical Center in Pueblo saw only five scromiting cases in 2009. By 2018, the number had risen to more than 120, according to data compiled by Dr. Brad Roberts, an emergency room physician at the hospital.

   Reports of the syndrome doubled in two different ERs in the state shortly after legalization, according to one study.

   Roberts said the presence of these patients strains hospital resources. When faced with people suffering from bouts of nonstop vomiting, doctors often order up an array of diagnostic tests to rule out other underlying causes.

   “We use up a lot of medical resources to see if there is anything more seriously wrong with them,” Roberts said.

   A 2018 national research review called the syndrome “an increasingly prevalent and complicated problem for health care providers and patients.”

   Cannabis has been consumed by humans for thousands of years, but relatively little is known about cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome.

   The condition was first reported in scientific literature in 2004. The available research since then indicates that it stems from chronic use of especially powerful marijuana.

   A 2017 review of studies found that 97 percent of people who developed the condition reported using marijuana at least once a week. About 75 percent said they consumed cannabis regularly for over a year.

   “These patients often undergo expensive medical testing, may require hospital admission for symptom management, and often experience significant delays in diagnosis,” the authors wrote.

   The authors noted that it’s not yet known why some marijuana users develop cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome and others don’t. The fact that marijuana is used by many people to suppress nausea adds to the mystery.

   People who’ve had the syndrome say it can be alleviated with hot showers or baths, but the episodes often continue until the patient stops using marijuana altogether.

   Scromiting cases have increased as pot has become far more powerful, according to doctors. Experts say the marijuana consumed 20 years ago had levels of THC, the main psychoactive ingredient, of 2 percent to 3 percent, but cannabis products now sold in markets like Colorado can have THC levels as high as 90 percent.

   Dr. Timothy Meyers, the chair of the emergency department at Boulder Community Health, said when he first arrived at the hospital 18 years ago, it was a condition he never saw.

   “Now I see it practically every day,” he said.

   Psychiatric issues

   Four Colorado doctors interviewed by NBC News said they’ve also seen an increase in the number of patients with psychiatric issues after consuming powerful marijuana. A 2019 study found that consuming cannabis with THC levels exceeding 10 percent increased the odds of a psychotic episode.

   “Almost every day I see a patient in the ER who is having a psychotic break after taking high-potency THC,” Roberts said.

   Dr. Karen Randall worked in emergency rooms in Detroit for 19 years but she said she never saw anything like the acute violent psychotic reactions from high potency THC cannabis that she is seeing now in her emergency room in Pueblo, Colo.
   Dr. Karen Randall worked in emergency rooms in Detroit for 19 years but she said she never saw anything like the acute violent psychotic reactions from high potency THC cannabis that she is seeing now in her emergency room in Pueblo, Colo.Dr. Karen Randall
   Dr. Karen Randall, who works in the Parkview Medical Center emergency room with Roberts, said she spent 19 years working in a downtown Detroit emergency room, but that didn’t prepare her for what she characterized as the high volume of “acutely violent psychotic patients” in Colorado.

   “I never saw anything like this,” Randall said.

   Marijuana has long been considered a nonaddictive drug that causes few, if any, serious side effects. It’s still not clear if it causes more serious mental health problems, but a growing body of research suggests it can have damaging effects on adolescent brains.

   An increasing share of Colorado’s $2 billion cannabis market is made up of concentrates or other products with high levels of THC, according to Tim Ruybal Jr., who founded Dyspense, a company that tracks inventory for the industry. Ruybal said concentrates made up 43 percent of the market share in 2020, up from 32 percent in 2019.

   “Evidence for how cannabis, especially in higher concentrations, impacts mental health is growing and stronger, especially on how it relates to psychosis and schizophrenia-like symptoms,” said Dr. G. Sam Wang, an emergency room doctor and toxicologist at Children’s Hospital Colorado in Denver.

   “These impacts are seen more with higher-concentrated products and with more frequent use,” Wang said.

   Lawmakers take action

   Randall and Roberts were among a group of Colorado doctors who threw their support behind a state bill designed to close a loophole that allowed young people between the ages of 18 and 20 to get their hands on large quantities of high-potency pot.

   Cannabis is not legal in Colorado for people under 21, but prior to the bill’s passage in late May, 18-year-olds could get state medical cards after a brief call with a doctor, allowing them to buy up to 400 doses per day shopping from store to store.

   The new legislation requires those under 21 to visit two separate doctors in person to get a medical marijuana card and limits the amount they can buy from an individual store. It also restricts the amount of marijuana concentrates that people over 21 can purchase at medical dispensaries and mandates the creation of a tracking system to prevent people from going shop to shop to amass large quantities of pot.

   Image: Long Lines Form For Goods As Denver Mayor Calls For Residents To Shelter In Place
   People stand in freshly painted circles, six-feet-apart, as they wait in a two-hour line to buy marijuana products from Good Chemistry on March 23, 2020 in Denver.Michael Ciaglo / Getty Images file
   Rep. Judy Amabile, a state lawmaker who represents Boulder, supported the bill and gave an impassioned speech on the House floor linking her own son’s experience with schizophrenia to cannabis.

   “Everywhere he went, this product was available and in greater and greater concentrations and potency,” she said.

   “It’s too late for him,” she added. “Let’s talk instead about your children.”

   In an interview with NBC News, Amabile said she was surprised the bill passed with such wide margins.

   “To me that is a sea change, and I credit this group of activist moms who testified, who really put in the work to educate legislators,” she said.

   ‘My life was falling apart’

   The bill is directed at young people like Will Brown, 17.

   Brown told NBC News his mother would sometimes find him on his bedroom floor unable to speak after he inhaled concentrated cannabis oil vapors in a process called dabbing.

   “I knew I couldn’t stop,” Brown said. “My life was falling apart around me.”

   Jasmine Block, 18, said she got high-potency cannabis from dealers who obtained medical cards fraudulently.

   “They wanted to profit off of these younger kids, who don’t have access to this,” she said.

   “I am an advocate for stricter marijuana policies and stricter doctor-to-patient relationships and the qualifications you need to meet in order to get a medical marijuana card,” Block said. “Because [from] experience, it is so easy to get your hands on.”

   Both Block and Brown are now sober and attend 5280 High School, a Denver charter school for teens with substance issues. They said they’re alarmed to meet kids in their recovery groups who dabbed in middle school.

   “It’s kind of terrifying to just watch,” Brown said.

   Colorado’s cannabis industry supported the new legislation. Truman Bradley, executive director of the Marijuana Industry Group, said the trade association believes young people “should never use cannabis unless under the strict supervision of a medical professional.”

   Truman Bradley is the Executive Director of Colorado’s Marijuana Industry Group (MIG) that ultimately supported new regulations designed to reduce the amount of high potency cannabis someone can buy in Colorado.
   Truman Bradley is the Executive Director of Colorado’s Marijuana Industry Group (MIG) that ultimately supported new regulations designed to reduce the amount of high potency cannabis someone can buy in Colorado.NBC News
   “MIG has worked with a broad base of Colorado stakeholders for over a decade to provide young people with evidence based information in order to make good decisions,” he added.

   But Bradley said he doesn’t see the need for additional regulation on marijuana potency.

   “I guess I don’t see the correlation between a potency change and kids illegally consuming cannabis,” Bradley said. “It shouldn’t happen, whether it’s 60 percent, 50 percent, 40 percent. The issue is how is it getting there? And I feel like we took a major step to get there.”

   He said eliminating certain products altogether would encourage the black market. “Teenagers are going to do what teenagers are going to do,” he said.

   Bo Gribbon is now sober and headed to college this fall to study electronic music.

   He said he’s clear-eyed that what happened to him was a result of his own decisions, but he said the industry should also be held accountable.

   “I don’t know if anyone needs to go to jail, but I think they need to be sued,” he said.

   Gribbon’s mother, Robin Noble, said pot may work for some people, but “for my son, it stole his curiosity and interest in life.”

   Now that he has stopped, she said, “his general joy is back.”

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   Laura Strickler is an investigative producer in the NBC News Investigative Unit based in Washington.

   Steve Patterson

   Steve Patterson is a correspondent in Los Angeles for NBC News.