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Laconia School Board Accepts Adverse Blouin Ruling
Giuliani’s Fall From Grace Hits Rock Bottom
One way to cope with terrible news is to turn to humor, and that is what is needed after the corrupt US Supreme Court threw out the carefully crafted protections our founders put into the US Constitution to prevent the United States from ever having to live with a king or other leader with absolute power. So, a little satire:
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) — In his first official act since the Supreme Court granted him sweeping presidential immunity, on Tuesday President Biden replaced all six Republican justices on the Court with his wife, son, and the Obama family.
In a farewell message to the ex-justices, Biden thanked them for giving him virtually unlimited power and “for making people finally stop talking about the debate.”
The impact on the former justices was sudden and shocking, as both Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito were immediately disinvited from a lavish Mediterranean cruise aboard Harlan Crow’s superyacht.
Additionally, John Roberts confirmed he is relocating to North Korea to be the figurehead of a purely ceremonial tribunal that rubber-stamps the whims of Kim Jong Un.
Meanwhile, an irate Brett Kavanaugh was spotted moving his possessions out of the Court, rolling an unwieldy beer keg down the building’s front steps.
Laconia School Board Accepts Adverse Blouin Ruling
The Laconia School Board has ended its two-year legal battle with former Business Administrator Christine Blouin after being ordered to pay her $68,000 plus a portion of her legal fees in her challenge of its decision to withhold her pay for unused vacation time after her dismissal.
The New Hampshire Department of Labor agreed that her firing for alleged breach of contract was not “for cause” but in retaliation for her having participated in an investigative probe into Superintendent Steve Tucker’s leadership. The school district appealed the ruling to Belknap County Superior Court in part because, under state law, an employer who wrongfully withholds pay from a worker is required to pay that employee double the amount that was withheld. The district also disputed the labor department’s finding that, because the evidence against Blouin had been gathered after her dismissal, the district had illegally fired her.
The court disagreed and sent the case back to the Department of Labor, which still found Blouin’s arguments to be more compelling, and again ruled against the school district. The district again appealed to Superior Court but, on May 15, Judge Mark Attori released a decision to accept the new ruling, this time adding legal fees to the penalty for Laconia.
Discussion: Minutes of a nonpublic session on June 18 state that the Laconia School Board unanimously agreed to “not further appeal the Superior Court decision in the Christine Blouin matter and make appropriate payment in an amount sufficient to cover all damages awarded by the New Hampshire Department of Labor, including liquidated damages and relevant legal fees upon review by district council, the board chair, and the superintendent”.
Giuliani’s Fall From Grace Hits Rock Bottom
A Manhattan appeals court has disbarred Rudy Giuliani, 80, a former New York City mayor and US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, for his “demonstrably false and misleading statements” on behalf of former president Donald Trump while serving as his presidential advisor. “These false statements were made to improperly bolster respondent’s narrative that, due to widespread voter fraud, victory in the 2020 United States presidential election was stolen from his client,” the court said.
Giuliani’s New York law license already was under suspension, as was his license in Washington DC. In May, he pleaded not guilty to nine felony charges in connection with the “fake elector” scheme to falsely declare Trump the winner of the 2020 election in Arizona. He also has been indicted for allegedly operating a criminal enterprise that sought to overturn President Biden’s electoral victory in Georgia.
He filed for bankruptcy last year after losing a $148 million defamation lawsuit for his defamatory statements against Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, falsely accusing them of meddling with the 2020 presidential election results.
Discussion: Giuliani’s perjurious statements included “baselessly [attacking] and [undermining] the integrity of this country’s electoral process,” the court said. “In so doing, respondent not only deliberately violated some of the most fundamental tenets of the legal profession, but he also actively contributed to the national strife that has followed the 2020 Presidential election, for which he is entirely unrepentant.”
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And here we go again…. Trump should be called Teflon Don 2.0.…
This following exerpt from therealnhsteve@substack.com says it best:
“By pursuing multiple frivolous political prosecutions against Donald Trump, the Biden Administration and the Democrat Party (Shrill Corporate media, Deranged Never Trumpers, etc.) have opened every president (current or former) to the potential for legitimate prosecution for acts while in office or after if they fit the Supreme Court’s new three-tiered test.
Remember, prior to this week’s decision, no President had been prosecuted for any crime. Ever. There was no test to determine whether it could or should even be done. They were effectively untouchable — almost like kings. But Democrats just disabled what can only (and ironically) be referred to as long-standing historical precedent.
In other words, SCOTUS did not turn Trump into a King, as garment-rending progressive parrots now profess; the US Supreme Court took the crown away from “King” Joe, Barry, Bill, George, and the rest of them.
The immunity they enjoyed has been kneecapped.”
Tom continues to make this all about Trump and it is not, it’s about the presidency.
Also, Tom and others keep calling our form of government a democracy when in fact we are a Democratic Constitutional Republic (I pledge allegiance to the flag… and to the Republic for which it stands)! A straight democracy is when you vote for your representative at any level of government (one with the most votes wins). A Republic is when that Representative votes in your place on bills or other matters (five selectboard members voting and making decisions for the 2,100 Bristol voters, for example). The Constitutional part is in play when each representative from all levels of government who take the oath to uphold and follow it. The constitution limits them in making any laws, policy or rules that are unconstitutional (or at least that is how it is supposed to work).
What has happened to the Democrat party?
The recent EO Biden signed states, when the number of illegal aliens crossing the border is greater than 2,500 per day, they will be turned away! Really? That’s a staggering 912,500 each year with little or no documentation allowed to enter. During his presidency that’s at least 3.2 million that we know of crossing our border along with other nefarious actors who are costing us billions. Recently 320,000 illegal aliens were SECRETLY flown into our country and dumped into several cities by the BIDEN administration.
Biden and the Democrat party keep selling us bigger government, open borders, sanctuary cities, woke teaching in our schools, mutilation of children, taking away parental rights, transgenders playing in girls’ sports, potentially causing physical and sexual harm, billions of dollars for student loan forgiveness (this is 100% unconstitutional), higher costs for everything, including energy, just so we can say we are “green” — meanwhile China builds hundreds of coal-fired electrical plants. Oh, and let’s not forget abortions up until birth, euthanasia, stopping or limiting CO2 which is needed for plant growth. Is life not sacred anymore? This is the Democratic party of today.
Why are the real Democrats putting up with all this? Why?
It’s summer time, so keeping this short.
— John Sellers, Bristol