The case made by the amicus counsel was thoroughly and resoundingly destroyed by a DOJ attorney Hassim Mooppan who was, in my opinion, far and away the best advocate in the proceeding. But he was backed up quite nicely by Assistant United States Attorney Kenneth Kohl, who has the distinction of being the longest serving AUSA in the Distict of Columbia US Attorney’s Office, and his words are going to carry special weight with Judge Sullivan as a result. There is simply no honest way to discount Kohl as making an appearance in the case and arguing for dismissal of the action as a political move. AUSA Kohl laid out his active role in the leadership of the office in reaching the conclusion that the case should be dismissed based on evidence uncovered in the investigation being conducted by US Attorney Jensen, which AUSA Kohl called — on the record — “FBI misconduct.” //

you need to understand the “equities” of Judge Sullivan in this dispute. He’s fighting against the idea that a district court judge like himself does not have the authority to “check” what he might see as “abuses” in the decision-making process of the Executive branch AFTER they bring matters into his court. On this issue, I suspect he’d have broad support from district court judges all over the country. They are the gatekeepers to the federal court system. By asserting a strong role for the trial judge under Rule 48, Judge Sullivan — aided by Judge Gleeson — is saying to DOJ:

“You brought this case, you occupied my time, you made representations and arguments on the record to me and asked me to do certain things in my role as a district court judge, and you don’t get to just walk away from all that without an explanation that is to my satisfaction.”

The progressive left is so allergic to opposing views that they will even avoid having to engage with people on their side who don’t quite follow the prevailing narratives of the day. Their propensity for avoiding dissent is evident in the case of Glenn Greenwald, who stated that far-left news media outlet MSNBC has prohibited him from appearing on its network.

But it’s what the Times left out of their report that really gives the game away. While they breathlessly reported that Trump paid little income tax in 2016 and 2017, both years he has already admitted to losing money in, they conspicuously left out all the years before that in their write-up. //

In this case, it’s pretty obvious that Trump was making a lot of money and paying a lot of taxes in the decades that preceded his presidential run. This is especially true during the time he was doing The Apprentice. The reality is that he almost certainly paid tens of millions in taxes over many of the years from 2000-2015, for which the Times claims to have the returns.

When people think of Australia and planes, they usually think of Qantas. But there’s another equally iconic and arguably more important aircraft operator, the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS). //

The RFDS is one of the largest primary health aeromedical organizations in the world. Using 77 planes, the RFDS offers a 24-hour emergency air retrieval service to the people that live, work, and travel across the 7.7 million square kilometers of outback Australia. Best of all, it’s free. It does not matter where you come from. If you get injured in outback Australia, the RFDS will fly in, pick you up, and transport you to hospital.

Operating from over 40 bases around Australia, the RFDS sends its planes and medical teams into remote Australia to run fly-in fly-out GP and nurse clinics, mobile dental services, patient transfers, and emergency retrievals. The planes land on anything from dusty roads to capital city airports, with ATC pushing A380s and VIP jets out of the way. //

The RFDS has four aircraft types in its fleet. The fleet includes 34 Pilatus PC-12 turboprops, 30 King Air B200s and B200Cs, ten King Air B300Cs and B350s, and a trio of Pilatus PC–24 jets. All aircraft undergo an extensive refit after purchase, so they have the necessary medical equipment to deal with any emergency. The new Pilatus PC-24 jets are styled as emergency wards in the skies and can accommodate three stretchered patients and two medical teams consisting of four doctors and nurses.

The RFDS says it can get its planes almost anywhere in Australia within two hours. //

If you keep pushing past Broken Hill, you’ll hit the Eyre Highway, a 1,660-kilometer road link between South Australia and Western Australia. It’s well maintained but otherwise just a two-lane single carriageway. Along the highway, sections have been widened to allow RFDS planes to land. The runways are signposted, have runway pavement markings painted on the road, and turnaround bays for aircraft.

The runways don’t get a lot of use, but when there’s a vehicle accident or a serious injury among the few people who live out there, they become a vital resource.

Summary:

There are good reasons for Durham delaying indictments: Mueller SCO criminality and direct Clinton ties to Spygate.
Durham is almost certainly pursuing conspiracy and RICO charges against the Spygate conspirators and their funders.
The political implications of deferring indictments until after 3 November could actually favor the President.
As a chaser, a lack of indictments does not preclude a guilty plea or two before 3 November. That’s entirely possible, too.

The end.

This is where President Trump wins the support of this fairly traditional Catholic.

Martin Luther is reputed to have said he’d rather be ruled by a wise Turk than a foolish Christian. In that vein, I don’t need for Trump to approve of my religion or my faith practices, but I do need for him not to bring the force of the federal government to bear in order to stamp them out. Trump understands that things that are not terribly important to him are vital to others. I’d much rather have a president who could care less about my faith and leave me the hell alone than one who, like Biden, purports to share it and spends all of his waking hours undermining its practice and reducing what should be a central part of our lives to the Obama-esque “freedom of worship.” Making our reason for existence (see Matthew 22:35-40) into an arcane set of practices hauled out for a couple of hours during the week.

The left, on the other hand, has made secular politics its faith. As the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett progresses, the degree to which that has taken place will be undeniable. A little earlier today, a Joe Biden adviser said that eventually believing Christians and Jews and Muslims should be barred from holding government office because they are simply not sufficiently tolerant.

https://mobile.twitter.com/JeremyMcLellan/status/1310747940596654080

Over the weekend, I made the same argument about how Black America should respond to Trump’s newly announced Platinum Plan. (READ: Some Critics of President Trump’s Platinum Plan to Revive Black America Are Asking All the Wrong Questions.) I really don’t care what Trump says or thinks. I care very much about what he does. Like with abortion, President Trump has done more in four years to safeguard the ability of people of faith to live their lives based on that faith that George Bush did in eight. If The Atlantic thinks that this shabby hit piece will convince anyone voting for Trump to either vote for Biden or stay home, they are sorely mistaken. We know what is at stake, and we will crawl over broken glass to cast our votes for President Trump on November 3.
https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2020/09/26/critics-trump-platinum-plan-black-america/