Saturday, February 29, 2020

mcgahn joins nassau otb so he may testify as often as

arthur walsh






Appeals Court Won’t Force Ex-Trump Counsel to Comply With House Subpoena

Judges can’t resolve subpoena dispute between White House, Congress, according to divided decision

The House Judiciary Committee had subpoenaed former White House counsel Don McGahn over issues stemming from the Mueller report.

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WASHINGTON—A divided federal appeals court took a hands-off approach to a subpoena battle between Congress and the White House, ruling it wasn’t the judiciary’s place to decide whether former White House counsel Don McGahn must testify in a congressional investigation of President Trump.
“Letting political fights play out in the political branches might seem messy or impractical, but democracy can be a messy business, and federal courts are ill-equipped to micromanage sprawling and evolving interbranch information disputes,” Judge Thomas Griffith wrote for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. 
The decision came on a 2-to-1 vote. The ruling comes amid an array of ongoing clashes between the White House and House Democrats leading investigations into the Trump administration. It could set a new marker suggesting the courts won’t be willing to resolve those showdowns, at least in some circumstances. 

The precedent, if it stands, could also allow this administration and future ones more room to give Congress the cold shoulder when lawmakers make requests for information and testimony.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D., N.Y.) said in a statement that the ruling, if upheld, “would destroy the power of Congress to gather information and hold this or any future administration accountable.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) said the House would seek an en banc decision from the court, asking the full panel to review the case. The three-judge panel that ruled was made up mostly of conservative judges, while the full court leans liberal. Eventually the case could land before the Supreme Court. 
The Democratic-led Judiciary Committee issued the subpoena last year as it was examining possible misconduct by Mr. Trump, including whether he obstructed special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The White House instructed Mr. McGahn not to appear.
The subpoena came months before the House impeached Mr. Trump on other allegations of misconduct, related to his dealings with Ukraine. The Senate acquitted him on Feb. 5.
House lawyers had previously suggested to judges that the House could potentially consider an additional article of impeachment if Mr. McGahn provided new evidence regarding Mr. Trump and the Mueller probe.
Friday’s decision reverses a trial judge who ruled last November that Mr. McGahn had to comply.
Judge Griffith, a George W. Bush appointee, was joined in the decision by Judge Karen Henderson, a George H.W. Bush appointee. He said Congress had other tools to use against the White House, such as holding officials in contempt, withholding appropriations and disrupting the president’s legislative agenda.
In dissent, Judge Judith Rogers, a Clinton appointee, said the ruling “removes any incentive for the executive branch to engage in the negotiation process seeking accommodation, all but assures future presidential stonewalling of Congress, and further impairs the House’s ability to perform its constitutional duties.”
Because the appeals court avoided the merits of the dispute, it didn’t pass judgment on the White House’s broadest argument, that Mr. McGahn and other officials like him enjoy absolute immunity from appearing before Congress. Judge Henderson, however, in her concurring opinion said that assertion was “a step too far.”
The court encouraged the White House and Congress to negotiate and compromise, saying the constitutional design gave the executive and legislative branches “a duty to conduct themselves with autonomy but reciprocity and to integrate their dispersed powers into a workable government.”
The ruling could have immediate ramifications in other litigation. U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden had paused a lawsuit by the House Ways and Means Committee that seeks to obtain Mr. Trump’s tax returns, saying that similar issues were at stake in the McGahn case and that he wanted to wait to see how the D.C. Circuit ruled. Congress subpoenaed Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and the head of the Internal Revenue Service for the returns and audit records; the administration has refused to comply and is trying to get the committee’s lawsuit thrown out of court.
Write to Brent Kendall at brent.kendall@wsj.com

Friday, February 28, 2020

you can ask but we do not answer

you think this is the kremlin?


We just spoke on the phone a few minutes ago concerning Suffolk County Legislator’s health plans. I am going to refer your question to the Employee Benefits Unit. You can contact them at (631) 853-4866 or email ebu@suffolkcountyny.gov

and they do not answer inquiries

el cheapo corona virus traced to madison ave ad agency

seeking to show that professional pine bluff and fort  detrick professional murder agent developers


need not strivtly adhere to the tenets for agents


1 must incapacitate and or kill quickly


2 lack of treatment or antidote


3 easily transmissable


note that you cannot get bcg easily in the united states to  prevent the spread of  multidrug resistant TB or to treat autoimmune diseases including multiple sclerosis


high school students  are wirking feverishly to upgrade the el cheapo virus  to achieve historical status with bubonic plague, small pox, polio etc


el cheapo virus relies more upon  panic and fear than good old fashioned scientific ingenuity




Wandering Dago, Inc. v. Destito, No. 16-622 (2d Cir. 2018)

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Justia Opinion Summary
WD filed suit against OGS, alleging that defendants violated its rights under the First Amendment, the Equal Protection Clause, and the New York State Constitution by denying WD's applications to participate as a food truck vendor in the Lunch Program based on its ethnic-slur branding. The Second Circuit reversed the district court's grant of summary judgment for defendant, holding that defendants' action violated WD's equal protection rights and its rights under the New York State Constitution. In this case, it was undisputed that defendants denied WD's applications solely because of its ethnic-slur branding. In Matal v. Tam, 137 S. Ct. 1744 (2017), the Supreme Court clarified that this action amounted to viewpoint discrimination and, if not government speech or otherwise protected, was prohibited by the First Amendment. The court rejected defendants' argument that their actions were unobjectionable because they were either part of OGS's government speech or permissible regulation of a government contractor's speech.
Claude Solnik
Long Island Business News
2150 Smithtown Ave.
Ronkonkoma, NY 11779-7348 

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Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012


Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.

dear caroll bullock

bettors andsome employees of the holy church of nassau otb believe in ny const art 1 sec 3
note the obvious, that cardinal dolan is not a member of the orthodox  church and hence there are two easter sundays


the faithful of nassau otb want to pray, please help


Monday, February 24, 2020


Sunday, April 12, 2020
Track CodeTrack NameEntryScratch1st Post
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Stakes Race(s)Stakes GradeT.V.
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SASANTA ANITA PARK72483:00 PM12:00 PMPDT
SUNSUNLAND PARK168242:30 PM12:30 PMMDTMt. Cristo Rey H.
TAMTAMPA BAY DOWNS72012:35 PM12:35 PM






One St. Patrick’s Day Parade in New York Still Bans L.G.B.T. Groups in 

honor of andrew cuomo keeping the 


faithful out of the holy church of nassau otb. cuomo loves attacking woman too




Claude Solnik


Long Island Business News
2150 Smithtown Ave.
Ronkonkoma, NY 11779-7348 

Home > LI Confidential > Stop scratching on holidays

Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012



Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.



“It is not a political or sexual identification parade,” the organizers of the event said.



https://www.pridecentersi.org/mission


Wandering Dago, Inc. v. Destito, No. 16-622 (2d Cir. 2018)

Annotate this Case
Justia Opinion Summary
WD filed suit against OGS, alleging that defendants violated its rights under the First Amendment, the Equal Protection Clause, and the New York State Constitution by denying WD's applications to participate as a food truck vendor in the Lunch Program based on its ethnic-slur branding. The Second Circuit reversed the district court's grant of summary judgment for defendant, holding that defendants' action violated WD's equal protection rights and its rights under the New York State Constitution. In this case, it was undisputed that defendants denied WD's applications solely because of its ethnic-slur branding. In Matal v. Tam, 137 S. Ct. 1744 (2017), the Supreme Court clarified that this action amounted to viewpoint discrimination and, if not government speech or otherwise protected, was prohibited by the First Amendment. The court rejected defendants' argument that their actions were unobjectionable because they were either part of OGS's government speech or permissible regulation of a government contractor's speech.






Credit...Gareth Smit for The New York Times

Thursday, February 27, 2020

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

kevin mccaffrey on standby to show up harvey

the books and revotds of the teamsters local 707 pension fund are food fir federal lrosecutors and the SEC to show that team hoffa is ready to ride into the sunset , no election needed


the books and recirds will prive lethal


fixing elections is child's play

do notnlet continue to pay at the exprbse of many

HOFFA TAKES AIM AT TEAMSTER ELECTIONS because he thinks the books & records of the teamsters local 707'pension fund are invidible to the sec & federal prosecutors

Hoffa is retiring as General President at the end of next year, and he wants to take Teamster democracy with him. Last week, Hoffa told the press about a plan to block contested elections for International Union office, beginning in 2026. We can’t let that happen. 
The nominating rules for the 2021 Teamster Election cannot be changed. Candidates who are nominated by five percent of the delegates at the Teamster Convention are guaranteed to appear on the ballot.
But Hoffa told the press that “he’s sure” that a proposal will come up to raise the nomination threshold.
That might seem reasonable. But if you think a five percent threshold is too low, think again.
Every Teamster election has revealed that the vote by Convention Delegates does not reflect the will of the members.

The Lesson of 2016

In 2016, about 94 percent of the delegates in the Southern Region voted for the Hoffa Slate. The Teamsters United candidates in the South were nominated by just 6 and 8 percent of the delegates.
But when the members voted it was a completely different story. More than 57% of the members in the South voted for Teamsters United.
Nationally, over 90 percent of the delegates voted for Hoffa. But Teamsters United candidate Fred Zuckerman won 49 percent of the vote from the members.
A nomination threshold of just 10 percent would have meant no Teamster election in 2016, when a majority of U.S. Teamsters voted for Teamsters United over Hoffa.

Their Plan to Eliminate Elections

Hoffa and friends have made no secret that they want to eliminate Teamster elections.
At the last Teamster Convention, Hoffa called on Bernadette McCulloch Kelly, an International Rep on the Hoffa-Hall payroll, to denounce having an election as a waste of money
 “This Union is threatened by a small minority who will force the IBT to spend millions of dollars on an election,” Kelly said.
Members proved we are no “small minority.” Now, we have to organize a majority to save Teamster democracy.

Protect Teamster Democracy

The nominating rules for the 2021 Teamster Election cannot be changed. But the delegates at the 2021 Convention can vote to make it harder for candidates to get on the ballot beginning in 2026.
We can’t let that happen.
General President candidate Sean O’Brien and the Teamsters United Slate have pledged to oppose any attempt to raise the nominating threshold to make it harder for Teamsters to run for International Union office.
Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) will be helping members run for Convention Delegate to protect fair elections, including the current nominating rules.
We’ll also be helping members run for Convention Delegate to eliminate the Two-Thirds Rule from the Teamster Constitution. Hoffa used the Two-Thirds Rule to impose the UPS contract even after it was rejected by a majority of the members.
If you care about democratic elections and fair contract votes, get involved.

kevin mccaffrey gets a COLA Naaaau OTB employees

get the same collective bargsining agreement signed in 2008 retroactive to......

suffolk county legislature exports kevin mccaffrey to nassau county

Hello,

We just spoke on the phone a few minutes ago concerning Suffolk County Legislator’s health plans. I am going to refer your question to the Employee Benefits Unit. You can contact them at (631) 853-4866 or email ebu@suffolkcountyny.gov

Best regards,
Patrick Derenze
Office of Presiding Officer Robert Calarco
Suffolk County Legislator, 7th District
90 West Main Street, Suite 2N
Patchogue, New York 11772
Office: (631) 854-1400
Fax: (631) 854-1403

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Monday, February 24, 2020

Sunday, April 12, 2020
Track CodeTrack NameEntryScratch1st Post
ET
1st Post
Local
Time
Zone
Stakes Race(s)Stakes GradeT.V.
Indicator
SASANTA ANITA PARK72483:00 PM12:00 PMPDT
SUNSUNLAND PARK168242:30 PM12:30 PMMDTMt. Cristo Rey H.
TAMTAMPA BAY DOWNS72012:35 PM12:35 PM