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On March 10, the Senate Judiciary Committee received Donald Trump’s nomination of #Edward #Martin Jr. to be the United States attorney for the District of Columbia,
-- one of the most important federal prosecutorial jobs in the country.

Martin currently has a temporary appointment for that job,
and in that capacity he has proved himself manifestly unqualified.

Martin’s nomination tests how much (if any) life is left in the Senate’s important constitutional role
in ensuring adherence to the rule of law through its confirmation process.

U.S. attorney nominees typically do not get hearings;
they are typically considered and advanced by the Senate Judiciary Committee by voice vote.

But some nominations fail because the Judiciary Committee does not advance them.

🔥Martin even in his temporary role has proven to be the most openly politicizing and weaponizing figure in the most politicized and weaponizing department in our history.

If the Senate confirms him, it will be directly responsible for his foreseeably abusive actions as U.S. attorney.

executivefunctions.substack.co

Executive Functions · The Senate and the Edward Martin NominationBy Jack Goldsmith

Gabbard nomination puts Senate GOP in a bind

Former Hawaii Democratic Rep. #Tulsi #Gabbard, Donald Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence,
is on record calling for the U.S. government to “drop all charges” against #Edward #Snowden
wanting to repeal key intelligence-gathering tools
and sometimes embracing Russian talking points regarding the wars in Syria and Ukraine.

That’s even before examining Gabbard’s foreign policy views,
which are far outside the mainstream of American political discourse
— and even further away from the center of gravity in the Senate Republican Conference.
It’s presenting a unique challenge for Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee.
That panel — which is responsible for processing Gabbard’s nomination — is stacked with hawks on both sides of the dais.
Trump’s choice of Gabbard is in keeping with his desire to completely overhaul the federal bureaucracy.
But GOP senators are already indicating they’ll be interested in probing Gabbard’s controversial and often outright hostile posture toward the very intelligence apparatus she’d run if confirmed.

The Snowden praise is particularly troubling to lawmakers,
the vast majority of whom believe the NSA leaker caused irreparable damage to U.S. national security.
Snowden is now a Russian citizen

punchbowl.news/article/senate/

Punchbowl NewsGabbard nomination puts Senate GOP in a bindFormer Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, is on record calling for the U.S. government to “drop all charges” against Edward Snowden.

Calgary Flames: Forgotten Players From the 1990s

We're continuing our series highlighting former Calgary Flames players whose contributions may have been glossed over with time. After carefully selecting and analyzing five candidates from the 1980s, our next chronological stop is the 1990s. Many fans of the ...

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The Hockey Writers · Calgary Flames: Forgotten Players From the 1990s - The Hockey Writers Calgary Flames Latest News, Analysis & MoreWe are moving on in our "Forgotten Flames" series with our next stop being the 1990s. Can you remember any of these former Flames?

The Conservative Partnership Institute,
a nonprofit whose funding skyrocketed after it became a nerve center for President Donald J. Trump’s allies in Washington,
has paid at least $3.2 million since the start of 2021 to corporations led by its own leaders or their relatives, records show.

In its most recent tax filings, the nonprofit’s three highest-paid contractors were all connected to insiders.

One was led by the institute’s president, #Edward #Corrigan,
and another by its chief operating officer.
At a third contractor, the board members included the group’s senior legal fellow #Cleta #Mitchell, a lawyer who supported Mr. Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

The Conservative Partnership Institute applied to the Internal Revenue Service as a tax-exempt nonprofit, and the agency approved.
That means donations to the group are tax deductible, like gifts to a food bank or the American Red Cross.
It also means that, 🔸by law, its money must serve the public good rather than private interests.🔸
The nonprofit has pushed those limits by entwining itself with only one faction of American politics.
It pays high salaries to some of Mr. Trump’s former officials, hosts retreats for Republican lawmakers at a rural compound and funds efforts to vet people and ideas for a second Trump term.

nytimes.com/2024/05/06/us/poli

The New York Times · Trump-Allied Nonprofit Paid Millions to Companies Run by InsidersBy David A. Fahrenthold

#Edward #Fredkin, who despite never having graduated from college became an influential professor of #computer #science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a pioneer in #artificial #intelligence and a maverick #theorist who championed the idea that the entire universe might function like one big computer, died on June 13 in Brookline, Mass. He was 88.

Fueled by a seemingly limitless scientific imagination and a blithe indifference to conventional thinking, Professor Fredkin charged through an endlessly mutating career that could appear as mind-warping as the iconoclastic theories that made him a force in both computer science and physics.

“Ed Fredkin had more ideas per day than most people have in a month,” Gerald Sussman, a professor of electronic engineering and a longtime colleague at M.I.T., said in a phone interview. “Most of them were bad, and he would have agreed with me on that. But out of those, there were good ideas, too. So he had more good ideas in a lifetime than most people ever have.”.

nytimes.com/2023/07/04/science

The New York TimesEdward Fredkin, 88, Who Saw the Universe as One Big Computer, DiesBy Alex Williams

This unremarkable water gate is in St. Thomas tower and was one of the most important river entrances to the Tower of London. The gate was built by #Edward I in 1270 on #thames to provide entrance to the Tower. Origi­nally called the Water Gate became #Traitor’sGate since the gate became an entrance into the Tower for prisoners accused of treason, such as Anne Boleyn and Sir Thomas Moore. #travel #London #photos taken in 2016. #history