Trump’s Supreme top pick had his hand in the Vince Foster coverup

July 2, 2018 — bunkerville

 

The ghost of Vince Foster rises once again. The very investigation that Trump was critical of years ago. Yet we hear that Judge Kavanaugh is one of the leading picks. Why would Trump anyway want to go to the D.C. court for a pick? Here we go:

Judge Brett Kavanaugh sits on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.  Several news articles, including those here, here, and here, mention him as a leading contender to be nominated by President Donald Trump to replace retiring justice Anthony Kennedy on the United States Supreme Court.

The nomination of Kavanaugh would be ironic, given candidate Trump’s disparaging comment about a death investigation in which Kavanaugh played a major role.  On July 20, 1993, Hillary Clinton’s former law partner, and then deputy White House counsel for President Bill Clinton, Vincent Foster, was found dead in Virginia’s Fort Marcy Park.

The official U.S. government conclusion is that Foster committed suicide in the park.  In May of 2016, candidate Trump stated that the circumstances of the death were “very fishy.”  At the 2004 confirmation hearing for Kavanaugh, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) stated: “Mr. Kavanaugh served in the Office of Independent Counsel under Judge Starr, where he conducted the office’s investigation into the death of former Deputy White House Counsel Vincent W. Foster, Jr.”  A 1998 New York Times article also states that Kavanaugh “led the investigation into the death of the deputy White House counsel Vincent W. Foster Jr.”

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After my lawsuit ended, documents were discovered in the National Archives that were written by Rodriguez, including a 31-page memorandum to his fellow prosecutors in the OIC dated December 9-29, 1994 on the subject of “November 29, 1994 Meeting Concerning Foster Death Matter And Supplemental Investigation Prior to Grand Jury.”  The memorandum explains why the evidence does not support a conclusion of suicide in the park and states in its first paragraph that Kavanaugh was at the meeting.  At pages 18-20 of the memorandum, Rodriguez states that he has seen two photographs of Foster’s neck that show a wound on the neck.  The government’s official conclusion was that there was no wound on the neck.  Rodriguez states that one of the photos was an autopsy photo, and the other was taken when Foster was in the park.  As I stated in my AT article, Rodriguez’s memorandum:

… states that one of the Polaroid photos “clearly depicts a dark, burnt appearing, blood area on VF’s neck.”  The memorandum states that Rodriguez was “confident” that this was caused by a stun-gun or Taser.  The memorandum states that an autopsy photograph (not a Polaroid taken in the park) shows two puncture wounds on the right side of Foster’s neck, and that the District of Columbia Medical Examiner “observed the appearance of crater-like indentations on the right side of the neck.”

An article by Turley at Accuracy in Media cites an article at Turley’s website, which includes a link to an audio recording of the late Reed Irvine, founder of AIM, speaking with Kavanaugh about the Foster case.  In the conversation, Kavanaugh does a poor job defending the OIC’s Foster investigation.

Read the whole thing at American Thinker

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Obamacare’s greatest challenge ruling to come any day

July 2, 2014 — bunkerville

Jonathan Turley brings us possibly great news regarding Obamacare. We knew it would take some years for any legal challenge to wind its way through the courts. This case looks to be the heart stopper for this dreaded Bill. Turley is optimistic, and he is no GOPer. Of course, we have to consider the fact that Obama recently stacked the D.C Court, but if Turley thinks we have a chance, I will go for it. We have been on a winning streak in the courts, lets hope this one goes our way as well.  Here we go:

A far more fundamental challenge to Obamacare is about to be decided by the powerful U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Indeed,

“if Hobby Lobby will create complications for Obamacare, Halbig vs. Burwell could trigger a full cardiac arrest.”

The D.C. Circuit Court is expected to rule any day now on the Halbig case, and supporters of the Affordable Care Act are growing nervous. In January, an Obamacare advocate described the Halbig case to a reporter for the Hill as “probably the most significant existential threat to the Affordable Care Act. All the other lawsuits that have been filed really don’t go to the heart of the ACA, and this one would have.”

And in a fraught oral argument before the D.C. Circuit Court, the administration seemed to struggle to defend its interpretation.The Halbig case challenges the massive federal subsidies in the form of tax credits made available to people with financial need who enroll in the program. In crafting the act, Congress created incentives for states to set up health insurance exchanges and disincentives for them to opt out. The law, for example, made the subsidies available only to those enrolled in insurance plans through exchanges “established by the state.”

The administration attempted to solve the problem by simply declaring that even residents of states without their own exchanges were eligible for subsidies, even though the law seemed to specifically say they were not. The administration argues that although the statute’s language does limit subsidies to residents of places with exchanges “established by the state,” that wording actually referred to any exchange, including those established by the federal government. In January, a district court judge upheld that interpretation, allowing the subsidies to continue.

Read full story over at LA Times

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A List of Bush Nominees blocked by the Democrats

November 23, 2013 — bunkerville

For anyone who thinks that the GOP was the bad actor regarding approving Obama’s nominees, check out Wikipedia for all of the rest that the Democrats blocked during Bush’s years.

Just the D.C. Court below. Wait until you check out the hundreds others. I caught this late last night on a talkie. According to the program, the D.C. seats have long been empty. But the recent court decisions that struck down the recess labor appointments, the DC circuit court blocked EPA air pollution rules and put a hold on cases related to workers’ rights put this in Obama’s scope.

Of the DC circuit confirmation, Kendall says “There are few things more vital on the president’s second-term agenda.”

“With legislative priorities gridlocked in Congress, the president’s best hope for advancing his agenda is through executive action, and that runs through the D.C. Circuit,” Doug Kendall, president of the Constitutional Accountability Center, told the Washington Post Tuesday.

Blocked nominees by the Democrats.

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