#obstruction — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #obstruction, aggregated by home.social.
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Medical milestone: Spain’s first robot-assisted paediatric kidney surgery
A pioneering operation has just been carried out at the Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, as robot-assisted surgery…
#Spain #ES #Europe #Europa #EU #baby #first #hospital #Madrid #obstruction #octubre #operation #performed #renal #robotic #successfully #the #with
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Kudos 🇰🇷⚖️👏 but 6mths too lenient?🤔 #parasite #influencer
#American #YouTuber sentenced to 6 months in South Korean #prison
" #JohnnySomali, guilty of multiple charges, incl'g #obstruction of business & distributing fabricated #sexually #explicit content. Prosecutors sought a 3-year term for Ismael, who also faced accusations of #harassing staff & visitors at amusement park, disrupting a convenience store .. a bus & #subway, & distributing non-consensual #deepfake videos"
https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-johnny-somali-youtube-statue-prison-9491a8f50244798c27fa794a8f2b07e4 -
Kudos 🇰🇷⚖️👏 but 6mths too lenient?🤔 #parasite #influencer
#American #YouTuber sentenced to 6 months in South Korean #prison
" #JohnnySomali, guilty of multiple charges, incl'g #obstruction of business & distributing fabricated #sexually #explicit content. Prosecutors sought a 3-year term for Ismael, who also faced accusations of #harassing staff & visitors at amusement park, disrupting a convenience store .. a bus & #subway, & distributing non-consensual #deepfake videos"
https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-johnny-somali-youtube-statue-prison-9491a8f50244798c27fa794a8f2b07e4 -
Kudos 🇰🇷⚖️👏 but 6mths too lenient?🤔 #parasite #influencer
#American #YouTuber sentenced to 6 months in South Korean #prison
" #JohnnySomali, guilty of multiple charges, incl'g #obstruction of business & distributing fabricated #sexually #explicit content. Prosecutors sought a 3-year term for Ismael, who also faced accusations of #harassing staff & visitors at amusement park, disrupting a convenience store .. a bus & #subway, & distributing non-consensual #deepfake videos"
https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-johnny-somali-youtube-statue-prison-9491a8f50244798c27fa794a8f2b07e4 -
Kudos 🇰🇷⚖️👏 but 6mths too lenient?🤔 #parasite #influencer
#American #YouTuber sentenced to 6 months in South Korean #prison
" #JohnnySomali, guilty of multiple charges, incl'g #obstruction of business & distributing fabricated #sexually #explicit content. Prosecutors sought a 3-year term for Ismael, who also faced accusations of #harassing staff & visitors at amusement park, disrupting a convenience store .. a bus & #subway, & distributing non-consensual #deepfake videos"
https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-johnny-somali-youtube-statue-prison-9491a8f50244798c27fa794a8f2b07e4 -
Kudos 🇰🇷⚖️👏 but 6mths too lenient?🤔 #parasite #influencer
#American #YouTuber sentenced to 6 months in South Korean #prison
" #JohnnySomali, guilty of multiple charges, incl'g #obstruction of business & distributing fabricated #sexually #explicit content. Prosecutors sought a 3-year term for Ismael, who also faced accusations of #harassing staff & visitors at amusement park, disrupting a convenience store .. a bus & #subway, & distributing non-consensual #deepfake videos"
https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-johnny-somali-youtube-statue-prison-9491a8f50244798c27fa794a8f2b07e4 -
@thejapantimes
T̶a̶i̶w̶a̶n̶'̶s̶ ̶l̶a̶w̶m̶a̶k̶e̶r̶s̶ ̶a̶r̶e̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶r̶e̶s̶u̶m̶e̶ ̶t̶a̶l̶k̶s̶
*The #Chinese_Nationalist_Party (#KMT) is set to resume its #obstruction…
#中國國民黨
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The House of Lords is clearly NOT being used as a revising chamber. This needs to be stamped on to enable proper legislation and appropriate safeguards put in place
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/16/assisted-dying-bill-labour-mps-starmer-letter
#AssistedDying #UkPol #Obstruction #Wrecking #HouseOfLords #AbolishTheHOL #DemocracyInaction
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Yasiel Puig, former Dodgers star, is found guilty in gambling trial https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/558795/ #attorney #axel #Baseball #bet #CourtDeclaration #Dodgers #FalseStatement #FederalInvestigator #JeffMitchell #La #LADodgers #LADodgers #LosAngeles #LosAngelesDodgers #LosAngeles #LosAngelesDodgers #MLB #obstruction #prison #prosecutor #trial #VideoConferenceInterview #WayneNix #YasielPuig #year
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Yasiel Puig, former Dodgers star, is found guilty in gambling trial https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/558795/ #attorney #axel #Baseball #bet #CourtDeclaration #Dodgers #FalseStatement #FederalInvestigator #JeffMitchell #La #LADodgers #LADodgers #LosAngeles #LosAngelesDodgers #LosAngeles #LosAngelesDodgers #MLB #obstruction #prison #prosecutor #trial #VideoConferenceInterview #WayneNix #YasielPuig #year
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This just seems mindbogglingly insulting. Certain members of #Congress are statutorily required to report on any death in custody. The report on #Pretti from #ICE / #CBP doesn't answer most questions that only they, the investigating body, can answer. They have fenced out any other investigator and they essentially tell Congress what the questions, which_they_are_not_answering, are...
https://theintercept.com/2026/01/27/cbp-congress-dhs-death-report-alex-pretti/
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#Minnesota, & other #BlueStates, should also enact new laws that make #federal #obstruction harder. The #AlexPretti case shows that #ICE officials were willing to ignore a #state-court #warrant. Perhaps anticipating that, Minnesota officials went to federal court on Saturday, potentially after the scene of Pretti’s #shooting had been compromised, & obtained a temporary restraining order about #evidence preservation. The legal basis for such orders, however, may be fragile.
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When a #shooting victim then dies, penalties in #Minnesota for failing to aid the injured person can involve up to 2 yrs imprisonment.
In l #AlexPretti’s case, the #obstruction of key #evidence-gathering steps gives #state #prosecutors another potent opening, especially because #ICE agents acted in overt defiance of a #judicial #warrant. Minnesota has a #criminal #ObstructionOfJustice statute that applies to situations in which someone prevents officers from carrying out official duties.
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@cryptadamist For Cambodia, I made criticizing nicknames Concentration Campodia and Chingdom of Scambodia.
The UK and US embassies mentioned helping to release the journalist Mech Dara are in my opinion hypocritical:
1) When I visited British embassy in Phnom Penh, I remember they refused to let me in unless I have an appointment by phone or e-mail. How people, whose phone and money was stolen, are supposed to get in to ask for help?
2) An alleged US citizen complained that he allegedly run out of money and went to US embassy in Phnom Penh for help to pay him a ticket back and promise to pay back the ticket debt later. He claimed they required him to get detained in a foreigner detention centre first which he couldn't, because the detention center required paid COVID test and he had no money. I wrote the embassy a message urging them to stop rejecting the man.
3) When I visited the US embassy about Khmer-English machine translator I made, to ask if they want to support the work, and if they have large Khmer-English dictionaries in their library, I got a very authoritarian, prison-like impression from the embassy and I remember that they refused to let me in with a smartphone for alleged security reason, I had to keep it in a locker, so I couldn't show them the machine translator, and they also had no Internet inside so they couldn't look on their ownsmartphone, again alleged security reason.In my opinion these behaviours are authoritarian and passive aggressive obstructions.
#us #uk #usembassy #embassy #hypocrisy #authoritarianism #passiveaggressive #obstruction
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An interesting question, and interesting article, from DemocracyNow.org - reporting out a NY Times investigation
=> How Did Epstein Get Rich?
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/17/epstein_wealth
> The New York Times Investigates His “Scams, Schemes, Ruthless Cons"
#Epstein #FollowTheMoney #MoneyLaundering #TrumpVirus #TrumpOrg #MarALago #EpsteinFiles #truth #justice #coverup #obstruction
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Federal prosecutors charged Milwaukee County Circuit Judge #HannahDugan with obstruction, a felony, & concealing an individual to prevent arrest, a misdemeanor, in April. The jury acquitted her on the concealment count, but she still faces up to 5 years in #prison on the #obstruction count.
The jury returned the verdicts after deliberating for 6 hours. No sentencing date had been set as of late Thursday.
#Trump #law #immigration #SafeSpaces #Court #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #CivilRights
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#MikeJohnson #AdelitaGrijalvia #Epstein #Obstruction #Congress #Duties ##Democracy #Fascism #Alt
Heather Cox Richardson 10/10/25
MIKE JOHNSON KEEPING THE HOUSE CLOSED TO STOP THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS -
#Epstein #Reublicans #Distraction #Obstruction #Video #Hearings
ADMINISTRATION AND REPUBLICAN OBSTRUCTION AND DEFLECTION TIMELINE ON RELEASE OD EPSTEIN FILES
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A quotation from Samuel Johnson
The distance is commonly very great between actual performances and speculative possibility. It is natural to suppose, that as much as has been done to-day may be done to-morrow; but on the morrow some difficulty emerges, or some external impediment obstructs. Indolence, interruption, business, and pleasure, all take their turns of retardation; and every long work is lengthened by a thousand causes that can, and ten thousand that cannot, be recounted. Perhaps no extensive and multifarious performance was ever effected within the term originally fixed in the undertaker’s mind. He that runs against Time, has an antagonist not subject to casualties.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, “Pope” (1781)More info about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/78684…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #circumstance #delay #lateness #obstruction #projectmanagement #schedule #slowing #time #postponement
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#Journalists among at least 13 arrested during #immigration-related protest in #CincinnatiOH
Police in #CovingtonKY, said those arrested had refused to comply with orders to disperse.
By John Seewer | The Associated Press
"Police in Cincinnati arrested at least 13 people, including two journalists, after demonstrators protesting the #immigration #detention of a former hospital chaplain blocked a two-lane bridge carrying traffic over the #OhioRiver.
"A reporter and a photography intern who were arrested while covering the protest for #CityBeat, a Cincinnati news and entertainment outlet, were among those arraigned Friday morning in a Kentucky court.
"Other journalists reporting on protests around the U.S. have been have arrested and injured this year. More than two dozen were hurt or roughed up while covering protests against #ImmigrationRaids in #LosAngeles.
"A Spanish-language journalist was arrested in June while covering a #NoKings protest near #AtlantaGA. Police initially charged Mario Guevara, a native of El Salvador, with #UnlawfulAssembly, #obstruction of police and being a pedestrian on or along the roadway.
"A prosecutor dropped the charges, but Guevara had already been turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and is being held in a south Georgia immigration #DetentionCenter. His lawyers say he has been authorized to work and remain in the country, but #ICE is trying to deport him.
"Video from the demonstration in Cincinnati Thursday night shows several tense moments, including when an officer punches a protester several times as police wrestle him to the ground.
"Earlier, a black SUV drove slowly onto the Roebling Bridge while protesters walked along the roadway that connects Cincinnati with Kentucky. Another video shows a person in a neon-colored vest pushing against the SUV.
"Police in Covington, Kentucky, said those arrested had refused to comply with orders to disperse. The department said in a statement that officers who initially attempted to talk with the protest's organizer were threatened and met with hostility.
"Among the charges filed against those arrested were rioting, failing to disperse, obstructing emergency responders, criminal mischief and disorderly conduct.
"Reporter Madeline Fening and photo intern Lucas Griffith were charged with felony rioting and several other charges, said Ashley Moor, the editor in chief of CityBeat.
"A judge on Friday set a $2,500 bond for each of those arrested.
"The arrests happened during a protest in support of #AymanSoliman, an Egyptian immigrant who worked as a chaplain at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. He was detained last week after he showed up for a routine check-in with ICE officials at their office near Cincinnati.
"Protesters met in downtown Cincinnati on Thursday in support of Soliman, then walked across the bridge carrying a banner that read '#BuildBridgesNotWalls.'
"Covington police said that 'while the department supports the public’s right to peaceful assembly and expression, threatening officers and blocking #CriticalInfrastructure, such as a major bridge, presents a danger to all involved.' "
#ResistICE #CriminalizingDissent #CriminalizingJournalism #SilencingFreeSpeech #ProtestLawsKentucky #FirstAmendment #Authoritarianism #Fascism #ACAB #Clampdown #CriminalizingProtest #CharacteristicsOfFascism #USPol #AntiProtestLaws
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The #Wisconsin Judge #HannahDugan who was arrested last month & accused of helping an undocumented immigrant evade federal agents was #indicted by a federal #GrandJury on charges of concealing a person from arrest & #obstruction, a routine but significant step in #DOJ’s case against her. The #Trump admin has defended the prosecution as a warning that no one is above the #law, while many #Democrats, #lawyers & fmr #judges have denounced it as an assault on the #judiciary.
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State by State Pending and Recently Passed #AntiProtestLaws: #Louisiana
HB 737: #Vague ban on #ResidentialProtests
Broadly criminalizes participating in a protest within 50 feet of a residence that “threatens to disrupt, or harasses” an individual’s “right to control or use” their residence. The law does not make exceptions for protests that take place in #PublicParks or on #sidewalks—traditional public forums—that may be within 50 feet of residential buildings. Nor does the law require any intent on the part of protesters to target a specific residence or to harass or disturb specific residents. The law also does not require that a protest actually disrupt an individual's right to use their residence, only that it "threaten" to do so. It is also unclear what would constitute "harassing" an individual's right to use their residence, for the purpose of the law.
Full text of bill:
https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/BillInfo.aspx?s=24RS&b=HB737&sbi=yStatus: enacted
Introduced 18 Mar 2024; Approved by House 9 April 2024; Approved by Senate 20 May 2024; Signed by Governor Landry 18 June 2024
HB 383: Civil immunity for drivers who hit protesters
Limits the civil liability of drivers who injure or kill protesters who were unlawfully in the street. The law provides that if a driver hits someone who was illegally “blocking a roadway,” the driver cannot be sued for any injury, death, or damage if he “reasonably believe[d]” that he was in immediate danger of injury and was trying to “retreat or escape.” The sponsor cited a rise in protests across the country as motivation for the bill.
Full text of bill:
https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/BillInfo.aspx?s=24RS&b=HB383&sbi=yStatus: enacted
Introduced 29 Feb 2024; Approved by House 8 April 2024; Approved by Senate 20 May 2024; Signed by Governor Landry 11 June 2024
Issue(s): #DriverImmunity, #TrafficInterference
HB 205: New #racketeering penalties for protesters
Adds nonviolent protest-related offenses to the underlying crimes that can be prosecuted under Louisiana’s racketeering law, which carries steep penalties. Offenses that are now covered by the racketeering law include “simple #obstruction of a #highway of commerce,” “#riot,” “inciting to riot,” "institutional #vandalism," and “aiding and abetting others to enter or remain on premises where forbidden.” As such, individuals in a protest that merely makes movement on a #highway “more difficult” (a minor misdemeanor offense) could be charged with a violation of Louisiana’s racketeering law if they did so more than once and as part of an enterprise with others. Louisiana law defines “riot” broadly, requiring no actual violence or damage but three or more people engaged in a “#PublicDisturbance” that creates a “danger of injury or damage” by an “imminent threat of tumultuous and violent conduct,” so individuals who participate in tumultuous protests could likewise be charged with racketeering. The law also adds “criminal damage to a critical infrastructure” to the racketeering law, such that certain #CivilDisobedience actions near #pipelines and other #infrastructure, including sites under construction, could be covered as well. Racketeering violations are punishable by up to 50 years in #prison with #HardLabor and a one million dollar fine.
Full text of bill:
https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245811&sbi=yStatus: enacted
Introduced 26 Feb 2024; Approved by House 2 April 2024; Approved by Senate 14 May 2024; Signed by Governor Landry 10 June 2024
Issue(s): #ProtestSupporters or Funders, Infrastructure, Riot, #Trespass
HB 127: Heightened penalties for #StreetProtesters and organizers
Increases existing penalties for impeding traffic and creates a new offense that could cover individuals who plan or organize protests that would impede traffic. Under prior law in Louisiana, engaging in conduct that makes movement on any road “more difficult” was a misdemeanor, punishable by six months in jail and $200. The law adds an offense of “#conspiracy” or “aiding and abetting” of others to engage in such conduct. As written, the new offense does not require that that the protest or other act actually take place or that it actually impede traffic. The law also increases the fine for both offenses to $750.
Full text of bill:
https://legis.la.gov/legis/BillInfo.aspx?s=24RS&b=HB127&sbi=yStatus: enacted
Introduced 22 Feb 2024; Approved by House 15 April 2024; Approved by Senate 16 May 2024; Signed by Governor Landry 10 June 2024
Issue(s): Protest Supporters or Funders, Traffic Interference
HB 727: NEW PENALTIES FOR PROTESTS NEAR GAS AND OIL PIPELINES
Targets protests around gas and oil #pipelines by expanding the definition of "critical infrastructure" and providing for the offense of "unauthorized entry of a critical infrastructure." Under the law, "critical infrastructure" is amended to include "pipelines," "any site where the construction or improvement of [pipelines or any other listed infrastructure facility] is taking place," as well as "all structures, equipment, or other immovable or movable property located within or upon" such facilities. Unauthorized entry onto critical infrastructure property as defined above is punishable by imprisonment with or without hard labor for up to five years and a fine of $1,000. As originally introduced, the law included a new crime of "conspiracy to engage in unauthorized entry" of a critical infrastructure facility, punishable by imprisonment with or without hard labor for up to five years and a fine of $10,000, such that individuals who only planned to hold a peaceful protest on infrastructure property could be prosecuted. The amended and enacted version of the bill removed the provisions on conspiracy, however. In addition, prior to the law's enactment, provisions were added to mandate that the law would not apply to "[l]awful assembly and peaceful and orderly petition, picketing, or demonstration for the redress of grievances or to express ideas or views regarding legitimate matters of public interest."
Full text of bill:
https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/BillInfo.aspx?s=18RS&b=HB727&sbi=yStatus: enacted
Introduced 26 Mar 2018; Approved by House 12 April 2018; Approved by the Senate 8 May 2018; Signed into law by Governor Edwards 30 May 2018
Issue(s): Infrastructure, #Trespass
#FirstAmendment #CriminalizingDissent
#Authoritarianism #Fascism #Clampdown #CriminalizingProtest
#CharacteristicsOfFascism #USPol #AntiProtestLaws #PipelineProtests #HeatherHeyer #UniteTheRight #DrivingDownProtestors -
Networks of climate obstruction: Discourses of denial and delay in US fossil energy, plastic, and agrichemical industries
"An analysis of the nine top players in the U.S. fossil fuel-derived hydrocarbon industries (oil/gas, plastics, and agrichemicals) shows tight linkages across the three different sectors, with news media, other petrochemical industry players, and politicians also frequently tagged, according to a study published January 15, 2025 in the open-access journal PLOS Climate by Alaina Kinol from Northeastern University, United States, and colleagues...Our study suggests that climate obstruction in different industries is more coordinated than is generally recognized...these different companies in different sectors are using the same strategic messaging to promote a distorted image of their environmental responsibility.” >>
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1070135"The use of fossil-derived hydrocarbons in fossil energy, plastic production, and agriculture makes these three sectors mutually reinforcing and reliant on sustained fossil fuel extraction. In this paper, we examine the ways the fossil fuel energy, plastics, and agrichemicals industries interact on social media using Twitter (renamed X as of 2023) data analysis, and we explore the implications of these interactions for policy...."
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Kinol A, Si Y, Kinol J, Stephens JC (2025) Networks of climate obstruction: Discourses of denial and delay in US fossil energy, plastic, and agrichemical industries. PLOS Clim 4(1): e0000370. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000370
#Fossilfuel #extraction #climate #obstruction #denial #delay #energy #plastics #pertrochemicals #agrichemochals #Hydrocarbon Industries #harm #pollution #SocialMedia #PublicDiscourse #ExtremeHeat #PublicHealth #ClimateCrisis #responsibility -
In response, the #DOJ asked the #11thCircuit US Court of Appeals in Atl on Tues AM to overturn #AileenCannon’s order.
Acc/to the request, the #SpecialCounsel turned over the report on Tues PM to Garland, who decides what portions of the report should be released publicly.Prosecutors say the report is 2 volumes. One outlines the mishandling of #ClassifiedDocuments & #obstruction case, & the other details the findings in the DC #ElectionInterference case against #Trump.
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Trump’s 1st Choice for Attorney General
Investigation concludes #Gaetz made payments totalling tens of thousands of dollars to women for sex & drugs over at least 20 separate occasions
The committee found substantial evidence Representative Gaetz violated House Rules & other standards of conduct prohibiting:
- #Prostitution
- Statutory #rape
- Illicit #drugs use
- Impermissible gifts
- Special favors or privileges
- #Obstruction of Congresshttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/23/matt-gaetz-house-ethics-report-release
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As part of the #election-related investigation, #Trump was indicted by a #federal #GrandJury in August 2023 on four #criminal counts, including #conspiracy to #defraud the #UnitedStates; conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding; #obstruction of & attempting to obstruct an official proceeding; & conspiracy against #rights.
#ElectionSubversion #ElectionInterference #FakeElectors #Jan6 #Insurrection #law #USpol #HarrisWalz2024
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Judge Mark S. Norris, who will make the final sentencing judgment, is also overseeing the trials of the remaining 3 officers: Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley & Justin Smith. They are charged w/ use of #ExcessiveForce, conspiracy to commit #WitnessTampering , #obstruction of #justice & deliberate #indifference to #TyreNichols’s #medical condition.
#SocialJustice #law #BLM #BlackLivesMatter #PoliceViolence #AbuseOfPower #SystemicRacism #Memphis
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#AileenCannon ruled last month that #SpecialCounsel #JackSmith was unlawfully appointed because he was not confirmed for his position by the #Senate, tossing the 40-count #indictment against #Trump for allegedly keeping #ClassifiedDocuments & materials after leaving the WH & #obstruction of govt efforts to retrieve them. Smith & his team are finalizing their #appeal of that decision to the US Court of Appeals for the #11thCircuit, which is due Tues.
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Short-circuiting his #prosecutions or upending his #convictions would be the maddening capstone to a life of evading #responsibility for wrongdoing.
A sitting president can’t be prosecuted, under long-standing #DOJ policy, so the findings by special counsel Robert S. #Mueller III that #Trump might have committed 10 acts of #obstruction of #justice went nowhere.
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Count 14 – #Extortion – #RobertMenendez is found GUILTY
Count 15 – #Conspiracy For a Public Official to Act as a Foreign Agent – Menendez is found GUILTY
Count 16 – Public Official Acting as a #ForeignAgent – Menendez is found GUILTY
Count 17 – Conspiracy to Commit Obstruction of Justice – Menendez is found GUILTY
Count 18 – #Obstruction of Justice – Menendez is found GUILTY
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The majority of subscription apps and websites employ dark patterns
https://stackdiary.com/the-majority-of-subscription-apps-and-websites-employ-dark-patterns/
#DarkPatterns #Subscription #Deceptive #Manipulation #FTC #ConsumerRights #Privacy #Marketing #Apps #Websites #OnlineServices #AutoRenewal #Sneaking #Obstruction #Nagging #ForcedAction #SocialProof #UI #UX #UserExperience #DigitalTricks #ConsumerProtection #Transparency #DigitalMarketing #UserManipulation #TechEthics #DesignEthics #DarkDesign #SubscriptionServices #ConsumerAwareness #DigitalPrivacy
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In a 6-3 court split, Justice #KetanjiBrownJackson wrote a separate concurring opinion w/the majority, stating that in her view, *some* #Jan6 #insurrectionist prosecutions involving the #obstruction of an official proceeding statute could survive.
#lawlessness #Jan6 #SCOTUS #law #GinniThomas #MarthaAnnAlito #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #ExtremistCourt #CorruptCourt #DarkMoney #CourtReform -
In his opinion striking down the govt’s use of an “#obstruction of Congress” charge against #Jan6 defendants, Chief *Justice* #JohnRoberts repeatedly mentioned the law has a 20-yr max penalty—“one of the more severe potential punishments” for govt interference #crime.
#lawlessness #Jan6 #SCOTUS #GinniThomas #MarthaAnnAlito #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #ExtremistCourt #CorruptCourt #DarkMoney #CourtReform -
#SCOTUS’ ruling has the potential to affect the #convictions & #sentences of a small set of #insurrectionists — around 27 — who are serving time in #prison for only this #felony. It also could impact about 110 more who are awaiting #trial or sentencing, acc/to prosecutors. In addition, the ruling could affect #Trump’s stalled trial for illegally trying to remain in power after his 2020 defeat; 2 of the 4 charges he faces are based on the #obstruction statute, & he could move for dismissal.
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OMFG
#SCOTUS says prosecutors improperly charged hundreds of #Jan6 #insurrectionists
Federal prosecutors improperly charged hundreds of #J6 defendants w/ #obstruction, the #SupremeCourt ruled on Fri, upending many cases against #insurgents who #invaded, #vandalized & #terrorized the Capitol to disrupt the certification of the 2020 presidential election.
#law #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #ExtremistCourt
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Just when you thought you’d had enough…
Judge #AileenCannon said Thurs that she will hold a hearing for #Trump’s lawyers to challenge some of the #evidence gathered against him for alleged mishandling of #ClassifiedDocuments & #obstruction of government efforts to retrieve them.
In an 11-page order, the judge said that “further factual development is warranted” when it comes to Trump’s challenge to the #SearchWarrant for #MarALago.#law #NationalSecurity
https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/a7e46b7f-826c-4243-a148-4bf1a517674d.pdf -
#AileenCannon did not indicate when she would issue a formal ruling on #Trump’s bid to toss out the #evidence.
The #FBI agents who searched #MarALago in Aug 2022 found HUNDREDS of #ClassifiedDocuments strewn throughout Trump’s living area. Trump is charged w/ illegally hoarding #NationalSecrets after he left office & #obstructing the government’s efforts to retrieve them. [not that she cares about #NationalSecurity]
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“You had 12 #jurors come to a #unanimous conclusion, & the former president was #guilty of 34 #felonies, & that, that somehow is indication of weaponization when that was a #state prosecution that had nothing to do w/President #Biden or the Dept of #Justice,” Jeffries said. “The American people understand that we need more common sense & less chaos in Washington, DC.”
#ChaosCaucus #law #justice #obstruction #Congress #HouseRepublicans #Republicans #MAGA #Trump #CultOfPersonality
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BREAKING: #WitnessTAMPERING and #OBSTRUCTION by #TRUMP Through PAYOUTS?! | #ResistanceLive
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#Georgia Court Will Hear #Appeal of Ruling That Kept Prosecutor on #Trump Case
The decision to hear the appeal reopens the possibility that#FaniWillis, the Fulton County district attorney, could be disqualified from prosecuting Trump & 14 #CoConspirators over efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
#legal #law #criminal #conspiracy #Racketeering #RICO #obstruction #fraud #ElectionInterference
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/us/trump-fani-willis-appeals-court.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb -
#Senate #Republicans are making #fools of themselves. Seems as though they’re just fine w/ doing that too. #Pathetic.
Senate Dismisses 1st of 2 #Impeachment Charges Against #Mayorkas
Now wasting more time going through the same painful process again.
Democrats moved as quickly as possible—despite #GOP #obstruction & #delay tactics— to dismiss the #unconstitutional article of impeachment accusing the #DHS sec of refusing to enforce #immigration #law.
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Chief Justice #JohnRoberts ruled in favor of that narrower reading.But Justices #Alito & #ClarenceThomas, the only other 2justices who are still on the court today, did not.In a dissent written by Alito,they said reading “#otherwise” to mean “limited to”equally purposeful, aggressive acts “does not follow the statutory language.” When asked what earlier case best supported his argument that #obstruction of Congress only covers evidence tampering,Green responded:“Begay is our best case for sure.”
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But w/each #delay, the odds increase that #voters will not get a chance to hear the #evidence that #Trump sought to subvert the last election before they decide whether to back him in the current one.
If Trump is successful in delaying the #trial until after #Election Day & he wins, he could use the powers of his office to seek to #dismiss the #ElectionInterference #indictment altogether. Moreover, #DOJ policy precludes prosecuting a sitting #president,….
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Key figure in #FakeElectors plot concealed damning posts on secret #Twitter account from investigators
Kenneth #Chesebro, the #RightWing #attorney who helped devise the #Trump campaign’s fake electors plot in 2020, concealed a #SecretTwitterAccount from #Michigan prosecutors, hiding dozens of damning posts that undercut his statements to investigators about his role in the #ElectionSubversion scheme.
#law #obstruction
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/26/politics/kenneth-chesebro-secret-twitter-account-kfile?cid=ios_app -
Also today
Judge #AileenCannon denied #Trump's effort to #delay #pretrial deadlines instead kept that date set for Feb 22, but before you get excited, she said she'd consider late-filed matters if they can show they're necessary.
#law #legal #MarALago #ClassifiedDocuments #obstruction #crimibal #EspionageAct
https://newrepublic.com/post/179061/judge-cannon-shut-down-trump-delay-tactic-classified-documents-trial -
In the Way of Inquiry • Objections to Reflexive Inquiry 3
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/02/05/in-the-way-of-inquiry-objections-to-reflexive-inquiry-a/An episode of inquiry bears the stamp of an interlude — it begins and ends “in medias res” with respect to actions and circumstances neither fixed nor fully known. As easy as it may be to overlook the contingent character of the inquiry process it's just as essential to observe a couple of its consequences:
First, it means genuine inquiry does not touch on the inciting action at points of total doubt or absolute certainty. An incident of inquiry does not begin or end in absolute totalities but only in the differential and relative measures which actually occasion its departures and resolutions.
Inquiry as a process does not demand absolutely secure foundations from which to set out or any “place to stand” from which to examine the balance of onrushing events. It needs no more than it does in fact have at the outset — assumptions not in practice doubted just a moment before and a circumstance of conflict that will force the whole situation to be reviewed before returning to the normal course of affairs.
Second, the interruptive character or escapist interpretation of inquiry is especially significant when contemplating programs of inquiry with recursive definitions, as the motivating case of inquiry into inquiry. It means the termination criterion for an inquiry subprocess is whatever allows continuation of the calling process.
Overview
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Inquiry_Driven_Systems_%E2%80%A2_OverviewObstacles
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Inquiry_Driven_Systems_%E2%80%A2_Part_5#Obstacles#Peirce #Inquiry #InquiryIntoInquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems
#Recursion #Reflection #Refraction #InformationResistance
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In the Way of Inquiry • Objections to Reflexive Inquiry 2
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/02/05/in-the-way-of-inquiry-objections-to-reflexive-inquiry-a/Our agent of inquiry is brought to the threshold of two questions:
• What actions are available to achieve the aims of the present activity?
• What assumptions already accepted are advisable to amend or abandon?
The inquirer is faced in the object of inquiry with an obstinately oppositional state of affairs, a character marked by the Greek word “pragma” for “object”, whose manifold of senses and derivatives includes among its connotations the ideas of purposeful objectives and problematic objections, and not too incidentally both inquiries and expositions.
Overview
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Inquiry_Driven_Systems_%E2%80%A2_OverviewObstacles
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Inquiry_Driven_Systems_%E2%80%A2_Part_5#Obstacles#Peirce #Inquiry #InquiryIntoInquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems
#Anomaly #Doubt #Discrepancy #Dispersion #Entropy #Uncertainty
#Interruption #Obstruction #Information #Comprehension #Extension
#Pragma #Pragmata #Purpose #Objective #Problem #Objection #Praxis
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In the Way of Inquiry • Objections to Reflexive Inquiry 1
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/02/05/in-the-way-of-inquiry-objections-to-reflexive-inquiry-a/Inquiry begins when an automatic routine or normal course of activity is interrupted and agents are thrown into doubt concerning what is best to do next and what is really true of their situation. If this interruptive aspect of inquiry applies at the level of self‑application then occasions for inquiry into inquiry arise when an ongoing inquiry into any subject becomes obstructed and agents are obliged to initiate a new order of inquiry in order to overcome the obstacle.
At such moments agents need the ability to pause and reflect — to accept the interruption of the inquiry in progress, to acknowledge the higher order of uncertainty obstructing the current investigation, and finally to examine accepted conventions and prior convictions regarding the conduct of inquiry in general. The next order of inquiry requires agents to articulate the assumptions embodied in previous inquiries, to consider their practical effects in light of their objective intents, and to reconstruct forms of conduct which formerly proceeded through their paces untroubled by any articulate concern.
Overview
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Inquiry_Driven_Systems_%E2%80%A2_OverviewObstacles
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Inquiry_Driven_Systems_%E2%80%A2_Part_5#Obstacles#Peirce #Inquiry #InquiryIntoInquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems
#Anomaly #Doubt #Discrepancy #Dispersion #Entropy #Uncertainty
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Keep pushing back against draconian #AntiProtest laws! Though some progress has been made, there are a lot more laws on the books -- throughout #Australia!
#NSW Supreme Court finds NSW anti-protest laws partially unconstitutional
Australian Greens, 2023-12-13
"Today we have had a small win for our democracy. The NSW Supreme Court has found that NSW’s anti-protest laws are partially unconstitutional– striking down two key elements of the draconian legislation.
"While the decision today is welcome, #undemocratic laws remain in place criminalising street protests, with #protestors who take to the streets still facing up to two years jail for even a minor #obstruction.
"These draconian anti-protest laws should never have been passed. #Labor supported the legislation while they were in opposition. They allowed the laws to be rushed through Parliament in less than 72 hours, suspending the requirement for the House to have two weeks to consider new legislation, despite outcry from #unions, #HumanRights groups, and the legal sector.
"Unions have sounded alarm bells against these laws from the day they were introduced with calls for repeal from Unions NSW, CFMEU, Australian Manufacturing Workers Unions, Australian Services Union, Retail and Fast-Food Workers Union, Maritime Union of Australia and the National Tertiary Education Union. The laws have been widely condemned as anti-democratic by over 230 civil society and human rights groups. Labor should have committed to repealing them on their first day in office.
"#KobiShetty MP says: 'Everyone deserves to feel safe exercising their democratic right to protest. People should not have to worry about facing 2 years jail time or a $22,000 for attending a rally that temporarily blocks an entrance to a train station.'
"'These laws were a knee-jerk response driven by talk-back radio – their partial repeal is long overdue.'
"'Today’s finding that the anti-protest laws are partially unconstitutional should make the government pause and consider the impact of these laws on our democracy.
"'The upcoming legislative review of the laws in April 2024 must offer a real opportunity for broad community consultation on how these laws are impacting freedom of democratic expression in our state.'
"'We know that most of the freedoms and the good things that we enjoy about our lives today were won through protest – everything from the 8-hour day to women’s right to vote.'
"'The right to protest must be protected. I welcome the finding of the Supreme Court today and I hope to see further meaningful reform to protect the right to protest in 2024.'"
#DirectAction #CriminalizingDissent #EnvironmentalActivists #ClimateActivists #ClimateJustice #ACAB
#Fascism #SilencingDissent
#CorporateColonialism #EcoActivists #Censorship
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Also tonight from #SpecialCounsel #JackSmith’s office, but I agree wholly w/ this motion:
Smith’s team filed a motion for #pretrial #notice of any “advice of counsel” defense #Trump may assert. Smith cites a variety of reasons.
#law #criminal #conspiracy #obstruction #espionage #AileenCannon #ClassifiedDocuments
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24119026-adviceofcounsel