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Exclusive — Kevin McCarthy: GOP Aims to Retake House After Impeachment by Turning Out 8.5 Million Trump Voters who Stayed Home in 2018

House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy told Breitbart News exclusively that Republicans think they can retake the House majority in 2020 by turning out millions of voters who backed President Donald Trump in 2016 but stayed home in the 2018 midterm elections.

In fact, in his latest exclusive interview on Breitbart News Saturday on SiriusXM 125 the Patriot Channel, McCarthy explained that Republicans would currently be in the House majority had these voters turned out in 2018—and that the GOP would have held at least 28 more seats than the party currently has.

“There were 8.5 million Trump voters who voted in 2016 who did not turn out in 2018,” McCarthy said. They’re identified. If they turned out in 2018, and we know exactly where they live, we’d still be in the majority. We would have won 28 seats that we currently don’t have.”

Having the president atop the ticket in 2020, McCarthy said, will help the GOP turn those nearly nine million voters out who didn’t vote in 2018 but did in 2016.

“The one thing I’ve seen in intensity level and others, is they will show for the president,” McCarthy said. “They just don’t cross over to show up in the off years. It’s a challenge that President Obama, something that he had.

But what I think and see is they’re going to show up for this president and there’s going to be even more who show up. If you look at the rallies and who shows up at the rallies, the number of first-time voters and the number of minorities inside those rallies and others, proportionally much higher than showed up for the president the first time in his campaign in 2016. So I think the turnout is potentially even going to be greater.”

To retake the majority in 2020, Republicans need to, at this stage, win a net 19 seats back from the Democrats. There are currently 31 districts represented by Democrats that President Trump won in 2016, and another 20 or so that Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton won in 2016 that are considered battlegrounds.

With the likely embarrassing-for-Democrats defection of Rep. Jeff Van Drew (D-NJ)—an ardent opponent of impeachment who is reportedly quitting the Democrat Party to join the GOP—that drops the magic number for the GOP to flip to retake the majority down to 18.

A special election upcoming in California’s 25th congressional district from which Democrat Katie Hill resigned amid a sex scandal in her office offers the first major opportunity for the GOP to make progress on the road back to the majority.

In a coup for Republicans, former GOP Rep. Steve Knight—who lost in a close race in 2018 to Hill—is running again for that seat, which Clinton won in 2016 but was previously held by the GOP, in the special election. If Knight is successful in the spring, it would drop the magic number to 17 along with Van Drew’s defection.

McCarthy added that GOP recruitment of candidates is far ahead of schedule. After Breitbart News specifically mentioned former Oakland Raiders Super Bowl champion Burgess Owens—who is running in Utah’s fourth congressional district against vulnerable Democrat Rep. Ben McAdams (D-UT)—and Nicole Malliotakis, who’s running on Staten Island against Democrat Rep. Max Rose (D-NY), McCarthy cited several more rising GOP stars around the country.

“Just those two you named—then you look at Wesley Hunt in Houston, Young Kim and Michelle Steel in California, Ashley Hinson in Iowa, Maria Salazar in Florida—there’s so many,” McCarthy said. “If you measured our current recruitment based upon the 2010 class that ended up beating 63 Democrats, we’re so much further ahead.

We have more women, we have more minorities running. But more importantly, we have more candidates—about a hundred more candidates—running than we did before. I attribute a lot of that to what the Democrats promised they would do and the promises they have broken.

There’s no ‘Squad’ of AOC and others—look at Beth Van Duyne down in Texas, or Genevieve [Collins] down in Texas as well—we have such an amazing group of candidates. It’s so impressive. Look at Michelle Fischbach who’s running in Collin Peterson’s race, first woman ever to be a president of the Minnesota Senate and former Lieutenant Governor. There’s so many others. Tom Kean in New Jersey.

This is Leonard Lance’s old seat. This is a Republican seat, he’s raised over a million dollars. I think New Jersey is going to be a very good state for us.”

Impeachment, McCarthy said, has caused Democrat poll numbers to plummet and offered Republicans opportunities for pickups well beyond those original 31 Trump districts that Democrats currently hold.

“It’s not just me who thinks it, if you just look at the polling in their own districts,” McCarthy said when asked if the impeachment drive is hurting vulnerable Democrats. “You remember what Nancy Pelosi was telling these Democrats, that it was going to get more popular. They go into the press. They control the entire meeting.

They make it different than we’ve ever seen impeachment before. No due process. No ability for the minority to ask for witnesses. Controlling of the time. And it’s become less popular. If you look at the polling today, a number of these Democrats—Kendra Horn [from Oklahoma] and others, they’re going to become upside in their districts. New Mexico, 37 percent of the state only supports impeachment, where a majority does not support it. There is more places to play than just those 31 seats.”

McCarthy said that the reason impeachment is hurting the Democrats politically is because they do not have a case against the president, as George Washington University law school professor Jonathan Turley demonstrated in his testimony.

“If you listened to Jonathan Turley, who is a Democrat but more importantly is probably the highest respected constitutional attorney in the land, he says it’s the thinnest, weakest, and fastest impeachment in the history of America,” McCarthy said. “And it is. In history, when you look at him, now this is an individual who did not vote for President Trump but believes he should not be impeached based upon the Constitution.

He even goes as far as to say when you talk about abuse of power, the only abuse of power here really is the Democrats themselves by moving forward and not allowing the administration to go through the judicial branch on the subpoenas and what they’re saying. So, here we are, knowing that the Democrats—and the Speaker admitted she’s been planning this for two and a half years.

You got a chairman of the committee who ran for the position on he’d be the best to impeach the president, and you’ve got Democrats who captured the majority with freshmen who on their first day of being sworn in said they’d impeach the mother—. And then you got Al Green who started it, who goes on to say if they’re not successful now, they’ll just keep impeaching him. This is what the American public has to understand: If they are able to maintain the majority, this is more of what we’ll get. Through all of this, the president is so successful—pushing USMCA, pushing it with House GOP members. They mentioned it more than 91 percent of the time it’s been mentioned. Now, getting an agreement with China.

We got a stock market at an all-time high and an economy that’s the strongest it’s been in the last 50 years, and it’s nothing that the Democrats have accomplished. The only record they have is they’ve issued more subpoenas than they’ve produced laws.”

Republicans have a plus seven intensity level over the Democrats,” McCarthy said. “Their polling numbers have dropped. They’ve dropped with the independents. And what do they have to show that they’ve accomplished? Show me one thing they’ve accomplished. I think they’ve got a real problem.

Even when the Washington Post is now writing that they’re afraid of Democrats abandoning ship. We know that the only bipartisan vote will be against it. Remember what Speaker Pelosi told the entire nation this year in March: that impeachment is so divisive to the nation that, one, it has to be compelling. Two, it has to be so overwhelming. And three, it has to be bipartisan for them to move forward. They set the requirements to move forward, three items—and not one of them was met.”

McCarthy said that Republicans in the House will be unified against the impeachment vote, and will be joined by some Democrats for a bipartisan vote against Articles of Impeachment against Trump. Only Democrats will vote for the partisan impeachment push.

“We will be very strong, Republicans against this, simply because of the facts, not because we’re Republicans,” McCarthy said. “It’s because we put our hands up and swore that we would uphold the Constitution. This does not rise to the level of misdemeanors and high crimes. The other level too, this is purely what Alexander Hamilton warned us about.

That one party would get control to try to do this. What the Democrats have done has not only weakened the office of the presidency, making him release a transcript for any future president talking to any other world leader; the other item here too is: Is this going to be the new norm? If we use impeachment for the lowest levels of things for their own political gains.

So, in the future, yeah there will be a Democrat who wins the White House again and the Republicans will be in the majority. But is that the call, just to impeach him? To work for 22 months ahead of time to put a timeline together and then, if you have no facts, to just put it through anyway because it’s what you ran for the office for? I think it’s wrong.”

A U.S. Senate trial, he added, will be much fairer than the rigged process in the House.

“The thing that could happen in the Senate is you could have a fair process,” McCarthy said. “If you have a fair process, I think it’ll be a much bigger bipartisan vote over there. Could you only imagine if you had fairness and we had the Inspector General’s testimony be brought forth? If you didn’t have Adam Schiff lying continually in the process? This will be very, very interesting. If you were able to have the whistleblower and not have Adam Schiff protecting this individual? We could really get to the bottom of all this.”

McCarthy looks across the pond to the United Kingdom, where the Tories just won a historic majority for Prime Minister Boris Johnson a few years after the original Brexit vote. That majority win comes in the face of opposition from a socialist leftist movement in the Labour Party, but also came after the globalist power structures in the U.K. attempted multiple times to undermine the will of the British people’s votes to Leave the European Union, against those who sought to Remain.

A similar effort by deep state forces here in the United States has attempted to undermine the will of the people in the 2016 election through impeachment and other efforts to hurt President Trump, and McCarthy sees a potential rehash of 2016 where Brexit paved the way for Trump’s win. In 2020, it could be the historic Conservative Party majority in the U.K. that paves the way for a GOP and Trump victory in the U.S.

“It could because remember: what’s the underlying issue here,” McCarthy said. “The underlying message is about freedom. Those in the U.K., do they want to be a part of the E.U. or do they want to be a part of the U.K.? Do they want a better future for their own children? Do they want their own country to grow at an economic level where they can determine their own future? I think that answer is overwhelming yes—it’s the same thing that President Trump ran on, about America First and that we can have an economy that grows at more than three percent, whereas Barack Obama thought it needed a magic wand, yet here we are with the strongest economy we’ve had in over 50 years. Think about how much more we would achieve if we didn’t have a majority party in Congress only investigating but actually working and doing their jobs.”

Playing right into GOP hands, too, is the fact that Democrats have zero legislative accomplishments since they took the majority in the 2018 midterms—something McCarthy first noted in a summer Breitbart News radio special and again pointed out here this weekend—and that’s why they’re now rushing to pass the U.S.-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) trade agreement after initially holding it up for a year. But, McCarthy noted, it’s been a similar refrain on basically every other issue too: Speaker Nancy Pelosi has nuked deals that would result in policy wins for the country in order to push partisan priorities she and her far-left flank believe in.

“They get no credit for that [USMCA],” McCarthy said. “She waited more than a year. This is something that the president—people will study in business class, the art of the deal and the way he negotiated this. Another promise that he made in the campaign that he kept – and it’s only the Speaker that had the power to pull it up, but she held it making our country weaker.

She waited until we had an agreement with China, when Mexico and Canada are our number one and two trading partners. Had we had the USMCA already done, our negotiations with China would be stronger. For all the mishaps again, to show how the Speaker has mismanaged her ability.

Remember what she promised: That she would be different. That she would work with the other side. None of those issues have been kept. Any time we had a bill—we had a prescription drug bill, three times we had a bill come out of committee where every single Democrat and every single Republican voted for it.

But what did she do? She put a poison pill in it after it came out of committee before it came to the floor so it could not become law. These are the things that are happening that the American public has to know about.”

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Nós, presos/as, exilados (as) e familiares de mortos e desaparecidos políticos da época da ditadura civil, empresarial e militar, no Brasil, vimos de público declarar nossa ampla, geral e irrestrita solidariedade ao mais destacado preso político na atualidade, LUIZ INÁCIO LULA DA SILVA, por estar claramente constatado que a sua condenação foi fruto de uma ardilosa trama para proibi-lo de disputar – e, provavelmente, vencer –, a eleição presidencial de 2018.

No passado, fomos julgados/as e condenados/as por tribunais militares, recebendo sentenças ditadas pela parcialidade e pelo viés ideológico. Com os adventos da Anistia, em 1979, e, posteriormente, da Comissão Nacional da Verdade, fomos absolvidos pela Nação, e nossos algozes, condenados.

Pois, nesta hora tão difícil, vimos, perante a História, reafirmar que o ex-presidente da República do Brasil foi encarcerado mediante um processo vicioso. Na verdade, um conluio, no qual o juiz orientava, fornecia provas e comandava o Ministério Público na sua função acusatória.

Nesse caso, a força tarefa denominada Lava Jato demonstrou-se nada mais ser do que um projeto de poder político, visando interferir nas eleições presidenciais, que determinou a vitória do candidato Jair Bolsonaro.

Ato contínuo, o juiz Sergio Moro, ainda com as mãos sujas da sua ação criminosa, tornou-se ministro da Justiça e da Segurança do presidente eleito, tirando do rosto a máscara da (falsa) moralidade que usou durante a farsa do julgamento de Lula.

Em vista dessa situação gravíssima, nós, com a responsabilidade histórica de antigos presos/as políticos/as, vimos de maneira pública e pessoal na cidade de Curitiba em 07/11/2019, prestar a nossa inteira solidariedade ao ex-presidente. E nos colocamos ao seu lado na luta pela sua liberdade imediata.

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UK Tour May 6, 2005 Kerry Ellis (Fantine) Type: VOB, no smalls Quality: A- Broadway November 11, 2006 Victor Hawks (u/s Jean Valjean), Norm Lewis (Javert), Daphne Rubin-Vega (Fantine), Adam Jacobs (Marius), Ali Ewoldt (Cosette), Celia Keenan Bolger (Eponine), Aaron Lazar (Enjolras), Gary Beach (Thenardier), Jenny Galloway (Madame Thenardier), Drew Sarich (Grantaire), Jacob Levine (Gavroche) Type: VOB+smalls Quality: A- Broadway February 17, 2007 Alexander Gemignani (Jean Valjean), Norm Lewis (Javert), Daphne Rubin-Vega (Fantine), Ali Ewoldt (Cosette), Adam Jacobs (Marius), Celia Kennan Bolger (Eponine), Drew Sarich (Enjolras), Gary Beach (Thenardier), Jenny Galloway (Madame Thenardier) Type: VOB, no smalls Quality: A Broadway May 12, 2007 Alexander Gemignani (Jean Valjean), Drew Sarich (u/s Javert), Lea Salonga (Fantine), Ali Ewoldt (Cosette), Adam Jacobs (Marius), Mandy Bruno (Eponine), Max von Essen (Enjolras), Gary Beach (Thenardier), Ann Harada (Madame Thenardier), Stephen Trafton (u/s Grantaire) Type: WMV Quality: A- Broadway June 1, 2007 Alexander Gemignani (Jean Valjean), Ben Davis (Javert), Lea Salonga (Fantine), Ali Ewoldt (Cosette), Adam Jacob (Marius), Marissa McGowan (Eponine), Max Von Essen (Enjolras), Gary Beach (Thenardier), Ann Harada (Madame Thenarider) Type: VOB+smalls Quality: A- Broadway August 24, 2007 Drew Sarich (Jean Valjean), Robert Hunt (Javert), Nikki Renee Daniels (u/s Fantine), Ali Ewoldt (Cosette), Adam Jacobs (Marius), Megan McGinnis (Eponine), Max von Essen (Enjolras), Becca Ayers (u/s Madame Thenardier), Chip Zien (Thenardier) Type: VOB+smalls Quality: A North Shore Music Theatre October 23, 2007 Fred Inkley (Jean Valjean), Devin Richards (Javert), Jacquelyn Piro (Fantine), Renee Brna (Cosette), Charles Hagerty (Marius), Joanne Javien (Eponine), Charley Brady (Enjolras), Inga Ballard (Madame Thenardier), Ron Winski (Thenardier), Joanna Rosen (Young Cosette) Type: VOB+smalls Quality: A+ Note: Proshot from the dress rehearsal. Walnut Street Theatre May 17, 2008 Hugh Panaro (Jean Valjean), Paul Schoeffler (Javert), Jessica Bogart (Fantine), Julie Craig (Cosette), Christina DeCicco (Eponine), Jeffrey Coon (Enjolras), Scott Greer (Thenardier), Dawn Spence (Madame Thenardier), Gianna Bruzzese/Laurel Gwynne Yaros (Young Cosette), Danielle Rosenthal/Maggie Fitzgerald (Young Eponine), Brandon O'Rourke/Dante Mignucci (Gavroche), Peter Schmitz (The Bishop), Ben Dibble, Kelley Faulkner, Constantine Germanacos, Darren Michael Hengst, Danielle Herbert, Joe Jackson, Mary Martello, Michael Philip O'Brien, Katie O'Shaughnessey, Steve Pacek, Jennifer Page, Fran Prisco, Ilona Rubenstien, Nicholas F. Saverine, Abigail Sparrow, Denise Whelan Type: VOB+smalls Quality: A Notes: Non replica production. Hollywood Bowl August 9, 2008 J. Mark McVey (Jean Valjean), Brian Stokes Mitchell (Javert), Melora Hardin (Fantine), Michele Maike (Cosette), John Lloyd Young (Marius), Lea Michele (Eponine), Tom Lowe (Enjolras) Type: VOB+smalls Quality: A- West End September 2008 Drew Sarich (Jean Valjean), Richard Woodford (Javert), Allyson Brown (Fantine), Leanne Dobinson (Cosette), Jon Robyns (Marius), Nancy Sullivan (Eponine), David Thaxton (Enjolras), Jackie Marks (Madame Thernadier), Jimmy Johnstone (Thernadier) Type: VOB+smalls Quality: B+ Notes: Nice video with clear sound and good picture; camera gets lost sometimes as it is very dark and a railing blocks the bottom of the screen at times. Also includes highlights from another performance with Jonathan Williams, Earl Carpenter, Mark Dugdale, Greg Castiglioni. UK Tour Paris, France, June 20, 2010 John Owen-Jones (Jean Valjean), Earl Carpenter (Javert), Madalena Alberto (Fantine), Katie Hall (Cosette), Luke Kempner (u/s Marius), Rosalind James (Eponine), Jon Robyns (Enjolras), Ashley Artus (Thenardier), Lynne Wilmot (Madame Thenardier) Type: VOB+smalls Quality: A- Notes: The second act starts at "Drink with Me." Really shaky thorughout, spotlight washout, good zooms, blurry at times. Includes curtain call. UK Tour, London, Barbican theatre September 17, 2010 Christopher Jacobsen (Jean Valjean), Earl Carpenter (Javert), Madalena Alberto (Fantine), Katie Hall (Cosette), Gareth Gates (Marius), Rosalind James (Eponine), Ashely Artus (Thenardier), Lynne Wilmot (Madame Thenardier), Jon Robyns (Enjorlras) Type: VOB+smalls Quality: A National Tour Papermill Playhouse December 12, 2010 Ron Sharpe (alt. Jean Valjean), Andrew Varela (Javert), Betsy Morgan (Fantine), Jenny Latimer (Cosette), Justin Scott Brown (Marius), Chasten Harmon (Eponine), Jeremy Hays (Enjolras), John Rapson (u/s Thénardier), Shawna M. Hamic (Madame Thénardier), Josh Caggiano (Gavroche), Joseph Spieldenner (Grantaire), Benjamin Magnuson (Bishop of Digne/Babet), Richard Todd Adams (Foreman/Lesgles), Lucia Giannetta (Factory Girl), Jon Fletcher (Montparnasse), Joe Tokarz (Brujon), Cooper Grodin (Combeferre), Jason Forbach (Feuilly), Cole Burden (Courfeyrac), Alan Shaw (Joly), Ian Patrick Gibb (Jean Prouvaire), Heather Jane Rolff (Old Crone), Cornelia Luna (Wig Maker), Richard Barth/Cole Burden (u/s Bamatabois/Claquesous), Katherine Forrester (Young Cosette), Anastasia Korbal (Young Eponine), Cathryn Basile, Julie Benko, Casey Erin Clark, Briana Carlson-Goodman, Sarah Shahinian, Aliya Victoriya Type: VOB, no smalls Quality: A National Tour Chicago, IL February 3, 2011 Lawrence Clayton (Jean Valjean), Andrew Varela (Javert), Betsy Morgan (Fantine), Jenny Latimer (Cosette), Chasten Harmon (Eponine), Justin Scott Brown (Enjolras), Michael Kostroff (Thenardier), Shawna M. Hamic (Madame Thenardier) Type: VOB+smalls Quality: A West End 2011 Jonathan Williams (u/s Jean Valjean), Norm Lewis (Javert), Rebecca Seale (Fantine), AJ Callaghan (Cosette), Gareth Gates (Marius), Samantha Barks (Eponine), Killian Donnelly (Enjolras) Type: MP4 Quality: A West End 2012 *HIGHLIGHTS ONLY* Ramin Karimloo (Jean Valjean), Hadley Fraser (Javert) Type: MP4 Quality: B+ Notes: Valjean's Revenge and Javert's Suicide only. West End June 30, 2012 *HIGHLIGHTS ONLY* Geronimo Rauch (Jean Valjean), Tam Mutu (Javert), Sierra Boggess (Fantine), Samantha Dorsey (Cosette), Jonny Purchase (Marius), Danielle Hope (Eponine), Liam Tamne (Enjolras) Type: MP4 Quality: A- Notes: "Valjean's Soliloquy", "Fantine's Death", "Confrontation", "Stars", "Bring Him Home", and "Epilogue". National Tour Chicago, IL November 15, 2012 Peter Lockyer (Jean Valjean), Andrew Varela (Javert), Betsy Morgan (Fantine), Lauren Wiley (Cosette), Briana Carlson-Goodman (Eponine), Jason Forbach (Enjolras), Timothy Gulan (Thenardier), Shawna M. Hamic (Madame Thenardier), Jordan Nichols (u/s Marius), Joseph Spieldenner (Grantaire), Erin Cearlock (Little Cosette), Joshua Colley (Gavroche), Ben Gunderson (swing Montparnasse), Heather Jane Rolff (u/s Factory Girl) Type: VOB+smalls Quailty: A Notes: ACT ONE ONLY! West End 2013 Chris Holland (u/s Jean Valjean), Tam Mutu (Javert), AJ Callaghan (u/s Fantine), Samantha Dorsey (Cosette), Jamie Ward (Marius), Danielle Hope (Eponine), Christopher Jacobsen (Enjolras), Vicky Entwistle (Madame Thénardier), Cameron Blakely (Thénardier) Type: VOB+smalls Quality: A+ West End April 15, 2013 Chris Holland (u/s Jean Valjean), Shaun Dalton (u/s Javert), Celinde Schoenmaker (Fantine), Phoebe Street (u/s Cosette), Jamie Ward (Marius), Sarah O'Connor (u/s Eponine), Christopher Jacobsen (Enjolras), Cameron Blakely (Thenardier), Vicky Entwistle (Madame Thenardier) Type: VOB+smalls Quality: A The Muny July 19, 2013 Hugh Panaro (Jean Valjean), Norm Lewis (Javert), Charlotte Maltby, Alex Prakken, Lindsey Mader, Katie Travis, Bobby Conte Thornton, Michael McCormick, Tiffany Green, Ryan Vasquez Type: MPG Quality: A- Notes: Starts at "Who am I?". Act 2 starts at "On My Own". West End September 19, 2013 Daniel Koek (Jean Valjean), James Grant (u/s Javert), Na-Young Jeong (Fantine), Samantha Dorsey (Cosette), Rob Houchen (Marius), Carrie Hope Fletcher (Eponine), Anton Zetterholm (Enjolras), Wendy Ferguson (Madame Thenardier), Cameron Blakely (Thenarider) Type: VOB+smalls Quality: A- West End December 18, 2013 Daniel Koek (Jean Valjean), Tam Mutu (Javert), Na-Young Jeong (Fantine), Samantha Dorsey (Cosette), Dougie Carter (u/s Marius), Carrie Hope Fletcher (Eponine), Anton Zetterholm (Enjolras), Carl Mullaney (u/s Grantaire) Type: VOB, no smalls Quality: A Toronto January 11, 2014 Evening *HIGHLIGHTS ONLY* Ramin Karimloo (Jean Valjean), Andrew Love (u/s Javert), Genevieve Leclerc (Fantine), Samantha Hill (Cosette), Perry Sherman (Marius), Melissa O'Neil (Eponine), Mark Uhre (Enjolras), Cliff Saunders (Thenardier), Lisa Horner (Madame Thenardier), Colm Wilkinson (special guest The Bishop), Saara Chaudry (Little Cosette), Madison Oldroyd (Young Eponine), David Gregory Black (Gavroche), Chris Zonneville (Montparnasse/Labourer), Tyler Murree (Babet/Farmer), Aaron Walpole (Brujon/Chapmanthieu/Loud Hailer), Ashley Wright (Claquesous/Innkeeper/Factory Foreman), David Silvestri (Combeferre), Matt McMahan (Feuilly), Jonathan Winsby (Courfeyrac/Constable), Alan Shaw (Joly/Constable/Fauchelevent), John Rapson (Grantaire/Bamatabois/Major Domo), Jason Ostrowski (swing Lesgles), Matt Rosell (Jean Prouvaire), Caroline Colantonio (Innkeeper's Wife), Kristen Peace (Factory Girl/Old Woman), Cornelia Luna (Wigmaker), Richard Barth (swing), Katie Beetham, Andreane Bouladier, Brittney Johnson (Ensemble) *whereisyourredscaaahf's master* Type: MOV Quality: A- Notes: About an hour and thirty minutes of highlights from the Toronto production with special guest Colm Wilkinson as The Bishop. Include the encore performance of "Bring Him Home." Broadway March 1, 2014 *HIGHLIGHTS ONLY* Ramin Karimloo (Jean Valjean), Will Swenson (Javert), Caissie Levy (Faintine), Samantha Hill (Cosette), Andy Mientus (Marius), Nikki M. James (Eponine), Kyle Scatiliffe (Enjolras), Cliff Saunders (Thenardier), Keala Settle (Madame Thenardier), Gaten Matarazzo (Gavroche) Type: MP4 Quality: A *where is your red schaaaf's master* Notes: First preview. It includes most of the show. Loud excited audience. Blind shot from stage right third row, with no zooms. Keala Settle sprained her ankle at some point between The Robbery and One Day More, resulting in her not being in One Day More and using a cane during Wedding Chorale/Beggars at the Feast. Broadway March 8, 2014 Ramin Karimloo (Jean Valjean), Will Swenson (Javert), Caissie Levy (Fantine), Samantha Hill (Cosette), Andy Mientus (Marius), Nikki M. James (Eponine), Kyle Scatliffe (Enjolras), Cliff Saunders (Thenardier), Keala Settle (Madame Thenardier), Angeli Negron (Little Cosette) Type: VOB+smalls Quality: A Notes: Audience was full of excitement! The last 20 seconds are missing from the very end due to battery issues. Broadway May 13, 2014 Nathaniel Hackmann (u/s Jean Valjean), Will Swenson (Javert), Caissie Levy (Fantine), Nikki M. James (Eponine), Kyle Scatiffle (Enjolras), Cliff Saunders (Thenardier), Keala Settle (Madame Thenardier) *Turn of the scorpion's master* Type: MP4 Quality: A+ West End June 14, 2014 Daniel Koek (Jean Valjean), Tam Mutu (Javert), Na-Young Jeon (Fantine), Samantha Dorsey (Cosette), Rob Huchen (Marius), Carrie Hope Fletcher (Eponine), Anton Zetterholm (Enjolras), Cameron Blakely (Thenardier), Wendy Ferguson (Madame Thenardier), Adam Linstead (Grantaire) Type: VOB+smalls Quality: A+ Notes: Last performance for the 2013-2014 cast. La Mirada, CA June 22, 2014 James Barbour, Randall Dodge, Cassandra Murphy, Kimberly Hessler, Nathaniel Irvin, Anthony Fedorov, Valerie Rose Curiel, Jeff Skowron, Meeghan Holaway Type: VOB+smalls Quality: A Dallas, Texas August 5, 2014 *HIGHLIGHTS ONLY* Nehal Joshi (Jean Valjean), Edward Watts (Javert), Allison Blackwell (Fantine), Dorcas Leung (Cosette), Justin Keyes (Marius), Elizabeth Judd (Eponine), John Campione (Enjolras), Steven Michael Walters (Thenardier), Christia Mantzke (Madame Thenardier), Alex Organ (Grantaire), Salma Salinas (Little Cosette), Mark Hancock (Gavroche) *where is your red scaaf's master* Type: MP4 Quality: A Broadway August 21, 2014 Nathaniel Hackman (u/s Jean Valjean), Earl Carpenter (Javert), Caissie Levy (Fantine), Samantha Hill (Cosette), Andy Mientus (Marius), Nikki M. James (Eponine), Kyle Scatiffle (Enjolras), Cliff Saunders (Thenardier), Keala Settle (Madame Thenardier) Type: VOB, no smalls Quality: A Notes: Only video of Earl as Javert on Broadway. One of my personal favorite videos of Earl. Broadway November 6, 2014 Ramin Karimloo (Jean Valjean), John Rapson (u/s Javert), Caissie Levy (Fantine), Samantha Hill (Cosette), Matt Rosell (u/s Marius), Melissa O'Neil (u/s Eponine), Jason Forbach (u/s Enjolras),Cliff Saunders (Thénardier), Keala Settle (Madame Thénardier), Adam Monley (u/s Grantaire), McKayla Twiggs (Little Cosette), Joshua Colley (Gavroche), Weston Wells Olson (u/s Combeferre), Andrew Kober (u/s Foreman) Type: VOB+smalls Quality: A- Notes: ACT TWO ONLY! Starts after "On My Own". Heads in the way. Includes BC/EFA speech by John. Video mostly centered around John. Broadway July 23, 2015 *HIGHLIGHTS ONLY* Kyle Jean-Baptiste (u/s Jean Valjean), Erika Henningsen (Fantine), Samantha Hill (Cosette), Chris McCarrell (Marius), Brennyn Lark (Eponine) Type: MP4 Quality: A Notes: Kyle's first performance as Valjean. Includes Valjean’s Soliloquy, Bring Him Home, and Finale. Broadway August 5, 2015 *HIGHLIGHTS ONLY* Kyle Jean-Baptiste (u/s Jean Valjean), Erika Henningsen (Fantine), Samantha Hill (Cosette), Chris McCarrell (Marius), Brennyn Lark (Eponine) Type: MOV Quality: A+ Notes: Act 2 highlights. Includes On My Own, Bring Him Home, Empty Chairs, and Finale. Shot vertically. West End April 11, 2015 Matinee Peter Lockyer (Jean Valjean), David Thaxton (Javert), Celinde Schoenmaker (Fantine), Emilie Fleming (Cosette), Rob Houchen (Marius), Carrie Hope Fletcher (Eponine), Michael Colbourne (Enjolras), Tom Edden (Thenardier), Helen Walsh (u/s Madame Thenardier), Sophia Rickett (Little Cosette), Molly Hall (Little Eponine), Sonny Kirby (Gavroche) Type: MP4 Quality: C Notes: This was the children's last performance. The quality of the video is really bad. The master was seated in the restricted view and there are more blackouts then views. The remainder of act 1 is a video file, but the screen is black. Act 2 is an audio file. West End July 9, 2015 *HIGHLIGHTS ONLY* Peter Lockyer (Jean Valjean), Jeremy Secomb (Javert), Rachelle Ann Go (Fantine), Zoe Doano (Cosette), Rob Houchen (Marius), Carrie Hope Fletcher (Eponine), Bradley Jaden (Enjolras), Phil Daniels (Thenardier), Katy Secombe (Madame Thenardier) Type: MP4 Quality: A+ Notes: Shot from the front row. Most of Act 1 and first 20 minutes of Act 2. West End October 8, 2015 Peter Lockyer (Jean Valjean), Jeremy Secombe (Javert), Rachelle Ann Go (Fantine), Zoe Doano (Cosette), Rob Houchen (Marius), Carrie Hope Fletcher (Eponine), Bradley Jaden (Enjolras), Phil Daniels (Thenardier), Katy Secombe (Madame Thenardier) Type: MP4 Quality: A+ Notes: Proshot. NOT THE FULL SHOW. Encore performances only. 30th anniversary gala performance. Guests: Colm Wilkinson, Geronimo Rauch, John Owen Jones, Frances Ruffelle, Patti LuPone, Roger Allam and others. World Tour Manila April 23, 2016 Evening *HIGHLIGHTS ONLY* Simon Gleeson (Jean Valjean), Earl Carpenter (Javert), Rachelle Ann Go (Fantine), Emily Langridge (Cosette), Paul Wilkins (Marius), Kerrie Anne Greenland (Eponine), Chris Durling (Enjolras), Cameron Blakely (Thenardier), Helen Walsh (Madame Thenardier) Type: MP4 Quality: A- Notes: Includes Death of Gavroche/Final Battle, Drink With Me/Bring Him Home, Javert's Arrival/Little People, and On My Own. World Tour Singapore June 2, 2016 *HIGHLIGHTS ONLY* Simon Gleeson (Jean Valjean), Earl Carpenter (Javert), Patrice Tipoki (Fantine), Emily Langridge (Cosette), Paul Wilkins (Marius), Kerrie Anne Greenland (Eponine), Chris Durling (Enjolras), Cameron Blakely (Thenardier), Helen Walsh (Madame Thenardier) Type: MP4 Quality: A Notes: Includes On My Own, Upon these Stones, Bring Him Home, two versions of the same One Day More shot from different angles. Broadway June 15, 2016 Evening John Owen-Jones (Jean Valjean), Hayden Tee (Javert), Alison Luff (Fantine), Alex Finke (Cosette), Chris McCarrell (Marius), Brennyn Lark (Eponine), Mark Uhre (Enjolras), David Rossmer (Thénardier), Rachel Izen (Madame Thénardier), Marcus D’Angelo (Gavroche), Eleanor Koski (Young Cosette), Mia Sinclair Jenness (Young Eponine) *SJ Bernly's master* Type: VOB+smalls Quality: A Notes: The first 30 minutes of the show are missing; the video starts toward the end of Fantine’s Arrest. After that, the show is fully captured with no blackouts. There is some minor head obstruction on the left, but it really only affects a few seconds of the show when Valjean cuts Javert loose after The First Attack. There is also a little more washout than in most of my videos, especially in the full stage shots. It’s filmed in 16:9, with a mix of wides, mediums, and close-ups. The sound is excellent. Includes curtain call and playbill scans. Audio: The Little Mermaid (Alabama Shakespeare Festival) - July 26, 2015 Cast: Ariel - Michelle Pruiett, Prince Eric - Jeff Sears, Sebastian - J. Cameron Barnett, Triton - Kevyn Morrow, Ursula - Donna Migliaccio, Flounder - Henry Hodges, Grimsby - Rodney Clark, Scuttle - Billy Sharpe, Jetsam - Brandon Curry, Flotsam - Jeremy Pasha, Pilot/Chef Louis - Paul Hebron, Ensemble - Sari Alexander, Jennifer Molly Bell, Krystina M. Burton, Erin Chupinsky (u/s Ursula), Dean De Luna, Andrew Eckert (u/s Eric), Isabel Garcia (u/s Mersisters), Danielle Marie Gregoire, Jordan Fife Hunt, Alexis Marquardt, Emma C. Martin (u/s Ariel), Terrance Martin (u/s Sebastian), Narco Antonio Santiago, Tommy Scrivens (Dance Captain), Robbie Smith (u/s Flotsam and Jetsam), Clay Stefanki (us Flouder and Scuttle)

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'Quiet Skies' TSA Surveillance Program Targets Americans Without Warrant The Boston Globe reports TSA air marshals are surveilling ordinary Americans not suspected of any crime. NPR's Michel Martin asks law professor Jonathan Turley about the legality of such a program. Read more on NPR

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Un rêve à Napa

Avez-vous déjà rêvé de posséder un morceau de Napa Valley? Il ne suffit pas de rédiger un (très gros) chèque pour une cave Pour vraiment s'intégrer, les nouveaux arrivants doivent apprendre l'ensemble des règles et des mœurs de la vallée. (N ° 1: ne faites pas étalage de votre richesse.) Voici presque tout le reste qu'un débutant napa doit savoir. Meilleur architecte de Napa Howard Backen de Backen Gillam Architects a remporté presque toutes les commissions importantes de Napa Valley au cours des dernières années. Il a conçu des maisons pour Carmen Policy, l'ancien président des 49ers de San Francisco, ainsi que le vigneron Carl Doumani de Quixote Winery; des établissements vinicoles pour Cliff Lede et Larkmead; et d'innombrables restaurants, dont Press et Cyrus. Il a également conçu à peu près tout pour le vigneron Bill Harlan, y compris sa maison et ses vignobles: Harlan Estate, cours d'oenologie Napa Valley Reserve et Bond. Beaucoup de structures élégamment simples de Backen ressemblent à des fermes et des granges, avec des poutres apparentes et des bois indigènes. D'autres sont des designs contemporains avec des cuisines ouvertes reliées à de grandes pièces et des portes vitrées du sol au plafond qui brouillent la séparation entre l'intérieur et l'extérieur. D'une façon, il s'assure que ses cuisines ont une vue imprenable: il utilise rarement les armoires supérieures et place souvent le réfrigérateur principal dans un garde-manger fermé (707-967-1920 ou). Étoiles locales Robert Redford possède un domaine ici depuis des années et vient d'acheter 10 acres à Sainte-Hélène pour 3 millions de dollars. Joe Montana, le célèbre quart-arrière des 49ers, travaille avec le vigneron Beringer Ed Sbragia sur les vins de Montagia. La représentante Nancy Pelosi possède un vignoble à Sainte-Hélène et développe une cave. Tom Seaver, le lanceur du Hall of Fame, prévoit de sortir son premier millésime de son vignoble de trois acres sur Diamond Mountain l'année prochaine. Comment perdre des amis et exaspérer les gens La pire chose que vous puissiez faire dans la Napa Valley est de nuire à l'environnement. Ceux qui le font sont traités comme des parias dans la communauté. Le prix de l'appartenance (ou ce que vous devrez dépenser pour vous adapter à vos nouveaux voisins) 25 000 $ de frais d'initiation au Meadowood country club 7 500 $ paire de billets pour la vente aux enchères Napa Valley 2 500 $ pour 12 soupers pris en charge par Michelle Cheatham (415-922-3663 ou) 4 $ à 5 millions $ coût de la construction d'une cave pouvant gérer 3 000 caisses d'une demi-tonne de Cabernet raisins, assez pour produire un baril de vin de 55 gallons II. Trouver la maison parfaite Calculez votre fourchette de prix Quiconque commence à chercher une maison dans la vallée de Napa subit invariablement un choc autocollant. Un chalet d'une chambre avec une petite cour peut coûter un demi-million. Les maisons les plus intéressantes commencent à environ 3 millions de dollars, tandis que les bonnes propriétés peuvent aller pour plus de 20 millions de dollars. Le prix dépend bien sûr de nombreux facteurs, notamment si la propriété contient ou peut soutenir un vignoble. Trouvez votre quartier L'endroit le plus prestigieux à acheter est autour de Sainte-Hélène, et la propriété au sommet d'une montagne est naturellement souhaitable. La ville de Napa est une nouvelle option pour tous ceux qui ont un budget relativement modeste. En effet, une fois une ville cols bleus, Napa est maintenant le centre culturel et de divertissement de la vallée, avec l'ajout de Copia: l'American Center for Wine, Food & the Arts et l'opéra récemment restauré. Les maisons victoriennes du centre-ville se vendent rapidement. Embaucher un agent immobilier supérieur Les agents les plus expérimentés savent ce qui va devenir disponible presque avant les vendeurs. De nombreux habitants recommandent vivement Barry Berkowitz de St. Helena Real Estate ainsi que Chuck Sawday à Pacific Union, également à St. Helena, et Steve Gregory de Morgan Lane dans la ville de Napa. Choisissez votre pays viticole Une comparaison du prix à l'acre pour les terrains constructibles: Napa Valley 150 000 $ à 2 millions $ Paso Robles, Californie 150 000 $ à 500 000 $ Walla Walla, Washington 15 000 $ à 80 000 $ Sur le marché Les propriétés premium de Napa Valley ne sont jamais répertoriées; ils sont récupérés par des initiés qui ont développé des relations avec les meilleurs agents immobiliers. Mais voici trois propriétés à des prix différents, dont l'une pourrait être la maison de vos rêves. Prix de liste: 2,9 millions de dollars Cette maison de 3 600 pieds carrés, trois chambres et trois salles de bain et demi est située sur 25 acres au large de Dry Creek Road, dans les contreforts des montagnes Mayacamas au nord-ouest de la ville de Napa. La propriété comprend une maison d'hôtes et un petit vignoble Cabernet. À quelques minutes de Yountville et du Bistro Don Giovanni. AGENT D'INSCRIPTION: Grete Orsoe, Coldwell Banker Brokers of the Valley; 707-259-5252. Prix de liste: 10,5 millions de dollars Ce domaine de 7000 pieds carrés, avec quatre chambres et cinq salles de bain complètes et deux demi-bains, est perché dans les montagnes de Vaca, au-dessus du lac Hennessy, à environ 15 minutes du centre-ville de Sainte-Hélène. Les vignobles voisins incluent Chappellet, Colgin et Bryant Family. La propriété comprend une salle multimédia avec un wet-bar, une cave à vin nouvellement construite, ainsi que des terrasses sur chacun de ses trois niveaux. Il se trouve sur 40 hectares avec trois hectares de vignes. AGENT D'INSCRIPTION: Gail Lane, St. Helena Real Estate; 707-967-9570. Prix de liste: 22,5 millions de dollars Cette villa hispano-méditerranéenne de 32 chambres est sur 20 acres spectaculaires dans les contreforts au-dessus de Sainte-Hélène. Il comprend deux suites parentales, quatre suites d'invités et 10 salles de bain complètes dans la maison principale, plus un chalet d'invités de deux chambres et un pool house. Construite en 1941, la maison a été récemment rénovée et comprend de nombreux murs de carreaux et de verre mexicains. AGENT D'INSCRIPTION: Steve Gregory, Morgan Lane Real Estate; 707-252-5528. 10 éléments essentiels pour un domaine enviable Immense grande salle Un salon décontracté avec une cheminée à une extrémité et une cuisine ouverte à l'autre. Machine à expresso intégrée Un modèle commercial de Faema qui est raccordé à la conduite d'eau (à partir de 3 500 $; appelez le 800-348-6664 pour un distributeur local). Lave-verres à vin Un modèle commercial comme le Hobart LXiG (à partir de 5 800 $; 800-333-7447 ou). Armoires de cuisine en bois Les appareils sont recouverts de bois et non d'acier inoxydable pour donner à la cuisine un aspect rustique. Cave à vin Une alternative à une cave à vin au sous-sol: des chambres à vin creusées dans la colline. Terrain de pétanque La version italienne du bowling sur pelouse. Plus populaire que le golf dans la Napa Valley. Piscine de nage ou piscine intérieure En plus d'une piscine extérieure chauffée. Pool Cabana Les températures diurnes à Napa Valley peuvent être extrêmement chaudes; les cabanes sont devenues de rigueur. De plus, tout le monde se divertit à l'extérieur. Foyer extérieur et radiateurs Une nécessité pour la vie en plein air toute l'année, parce que les températures peuvent facilement chuter de 40 degrés le soir à partir des sommets de la journée. Les fours à pizza Mugnaini sont les plus populaires (à partir de 5 000 $; 831-761-1767 ou). Conduire la bonne voiture Les VUS sont les voitures de choix dans la Napa Valley, en particulier les BMW X5, Lexus LX 470 et Mercedes ML 500. Les berlines chères, généralement allemandes, comme les BMW 745 ou 750 ou un certain nombre de berlines Mercedes comparables (E 500, S 430 et S 500). De plus, la plupart des habitants ont une camionnette américaine sérieuse pour quand ils doivent faire un vrai travail, comme transporter du bois ou livrer des caisses de vin à un restaurant. III. Faire du vin comme un local Une partie importante du rêve Napa Valley est de faire votre propre vin. Pour ce faire, vous devrez embaucher des consultants comme Cary Gott, qui a fondé Monteviña Winery à l'âge de 24 ans et a été chef de la vinification chez Sterling Vineyards avant de former Vineyard & Winery Estates (707-942-1110). Il aide à tout, de la localisation de la propriété à la gestion des agences gouvernementales. Ensuite, vous devrez trouver un vigneron. Heidi Peterson Barrett (707-942-1105) est le vigneron consultant. Helen Turley (707-258-3608) et Mia Klein (707-258-8119) sont également recherchées. Le nouveau gars en ville est Philippe Melka (707-963-6008). Un vigneron consultant facture entre 3 000 $ et 10 000 $ par mois, les grands noms gagnant plus de 200 000 $ par an par client. Vous devrez également embaucher un gestionnaire de vignoble, qui sera chargé de planter des vignes et de diriger les travailleurs sur quoi et quand tailler. Le plus célèbre est David Abreu (707-963-7487), mais il coupe parfois un peu les réglementations environnementales et a mis des gens (et lui-même) en difficulté avec le comté. Parmi les autres gestionnaires populaires, citons Jim Barbour (707-963-0540) et Davie Piña (707-944-2229). La replantation de vignobles peut coûter entre 20 000 $ et 35 000 $ l'acre; 40 000 $ pour de nouveaux vignobles. La gestion annuelle coûte au moins 5 000 $ l'acre. Une fois les raisins cueillis, vous aurez besoin d'un endroit pour écraser les fruits, mettre le jus dans du chêne et mettre le vin en bouteille. Bien qu'il soit bien sûr le plus prestigieux d'avoir votre propre cave, le comté de Napa nécessite un minimum de 10 acres pour accorder un permis de cave. (Des villes comme Napa et Sainte-Hélène permettent parfois de construire sur un terrain plus petit.) Gott estime qu'il en coûte environ 4 à 5 millions de dollars, selon le site, pour une belle cave qui peut traiter 3000 cas par an. La construction d'une cave dans une grotte est récemment devenue populaire: cacher les machines dans une montagne a moins d'impact sur l'environnement, ce qui peut aider à obtenir l'approbation du comté. Les personnes qui ne possèdent pas de cave peuvent faire du vin dans un broyeur personnalisé comme Judd's Hill, une cave réputée avec une installation de "micro-écrasement". Il traitera aussi peu qu'un baril, ce qui produit 24 caisses de vin, pour 2 800 $. En plus de cela, vous devez acheter vos propres fûts, bouteilles et étiquettes en chêne (qui, selon la conception, peuvent devenir coûteux). Dans l'ensemble, vous finirez par dépenser de 25 $ à 35 $ la bouteille - et c'est avant de tenir compte du prix du terrain et du vigneron. Temps partagé du vignoble Une alternative à la propriété d'un vignoble appartient à la Napa Valley Reserve, le nouveau club du vigneron Bill Harlan. Un dépôt de 150 000 $ achète le droit d'acheter de la moitié à trois barils de vin. Vous pouvez faire autant de travail que vous le souhaitez, de la récolte des raisins à la dégustation en barrique. Environ 275 personnes se sont jointes jusqu'à présent, la moitié de l'extérieur de la Californie, et Harlan prévoit de supprimer le nombre de membres à 400 (707-968-3190 ou). IV. Sortir aux bons endroits Manger comme un initié La culture des restaurants dans la Napa Valley est une question de snobisme inversé: montrer votre statut VIP est considéré comme de mauvais goût. En général, même les habitués n'ont pas de tables pour eux, bien que les maîtres intelligents les traitent bien.

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Empirical SCOTUS: Supreme Court justice TV news coverage

Supreme Court justices live dual lives. On one hand they generally manage to stay out of the limelight while actually doing their jobs. Even with pressure to the contrary, the justices have managed to keep cameras out of the court and to limit the release of audio recordings of oral arguments to the Fridays after the arguments are heard. The justices’ other interactions with one another are held behind closed doors and details are only occasionally made public years after events transpire, in the event a justice chooses to release his or her personal papers after leaving the bench. (Justice Harry Blackmun was the last justice to do so.)

That said, the justices do quite a bit of posturing to stay relevant to the public. Some of this has to do with earning additional income through book publications and tours. (Justice Neil Gorsuch, for example, recently released “A Republic, If You Can Keep It” with the help of his former clerks David Feder and Jane Nitze.) The justices also go on speaking tours unrelated to books, teach at institutions of higher education both domestically and abroad during breaks from Supreme Court work and occasionally are covered in the mainstream media for occurrences wholly unrelated to their judicial decisions. An entire website, SCOTUS Map, is dedicated to tracking the justices’ extra-judicial pursuits.

Although the justices have been the subject of media attention for years, over the last decade several articles, including one by former Judge Richard Posner and another by law professor Rick Hasen, have examined the cult of celebrity surrounding Supreme Court justices. Part of the reason for these recent examinations has to do with the justices coming out of the shadows of their work more frequently (for example) and some has to do with their attempts to garner the public’s attention with publications and media appearances. This post primarily looks at news coverage of the justices since Chief Justice John Roberts took the bench in 2005.

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For a variety of reasons, both political and otherwise, recent coverage has been skewed towards President Donald Trump’s appointees: Gorsuch and Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The figures in this post are derived from LexisNexis’ data on television news coverage via news transcripts. The first set of graphs look at total news coverage of the justices across their careers (on top) and by year (on the bottom). Each mention refers to a program in which the justice was mentioned and not the number of mentions within a given program.

Although Justice Clarence Thomas, who has been on the court the longest, also has the most aggregate coverage, Kavanaugh, the newest justice, has the second-most total coverage. Much of the coverage for both was due to their high-profile (and widely televised) confirmation hearings in which they were accused of sexual harassment and sexual assault, respectively.

Gorsuch’s hearing garnered much public attention, as he became the successor to Justice Antonin Scalia after President Barack Obama’s nominee, Judge Merrick Garland, was never afforded a Senate confirmation hearing. After Kavanaugh and Gorsuch, the justices with the most coverage by year basis have been Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, along with Roberts. Justice Stephen Breyer has had the least news coverage overall as well as by year.

The following graph shows these numbers in greater detail by providing the number of times the justices were mentioned in the news between 2005 and the present. It also includes the number of mentions for Thomas, Breyer and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in each of their first two years on the court.

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The bulk of the coverage of the justices tends to occur during their first term on the bench. This is due to the focus on their confirmation hearings and speculation about how their presence will change the court’s dynamic. In several instances, though, the news media has focused on the justices for other reasons as well.

Thomas experienced the height of his news coverage in 2007. Much of this attention was focused on the release of his autobiography, “My Grandfather’s Son,” including this NBC News piece from September 29, 2007:

“PETE WILLIAMS reporting: Sixteen years after explosive Senate hearings nearly derailed his nomination, Clarence Thomas views the ordeal just as he did then.

Justice CLARENCE THOMAS: It is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves.

WILLIAMS: Justice Thomas speaks out in his new autobiography, “My Grandfather’s Son,” a reference to the man who raised him after he was abandoned by his father. Of the Democratic senators who aggressively questioned him, Thomas writes that he was pursued, quote, “not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony.”

Thomas found himself in the spotlight again in 2018 during Kavanaugh’s confirmation process, as many news outlets looked back at Thomas’ hearings and the Anita Hill allegations, including this instance from NPR on February 20, 2018:

“STEVE INSKEEP: A writer who’s closely followed the career of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas favors a second look at the allegations against him. Back in 1991, his former colleague Anita Hill accused Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment, a story broken by our own Nina Totenberg. In dramatic confirmation hearings, Thomas denied all the charges and was confirmed. Journalist Jill Abramson covered that story then and has now revisited the allegations in New York magazine. She lays out the case for Thomas’ impeachment. Abramson yesterday told us that Anita Hill was not the only woman who wanted to speak against Clarence Thomas.

Ginsburg garnered an unusual amount of attention in the news in 2009 due to her diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. An example of this coverage came from CBS News on February 6, 2009:

MICHELLE GIELAN, co-anchor: Good morning. I’m Michelle Gielan. There’s more ahead on The Early Show and this CBS station. First, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s cancer may have been caught early enough for her to recover, but her illness raises significant questions for President Obama. Wyatt Andrews reports.

WYATT ANDREWS reporting: The announcement describes Justice Ginsburg’s illness as apparently early-stage pancreatic cancer, and says a routine physical had revealed a small tumor of approximately one centimeter, which surgeons removed. The news sent a shock wave through Washington, beginning with the president.

Roberts also was the subject of significant coverage in 2009, when his confirmation hearing received renewed attention during Sotomayor’s confirmation hearing. Roberts also made headlines for a mistake he made while administering the oath of office to President Obama, as reported by NPR on January 21, 2009:

“NEAL CONAN: Well, it turned out the chief justice mixed up a few words, more than a few words, – to the pre – anyway, the Constitution specifies the 35 words that make up the presidential oath. If he does not speak them exactly, is he really president? Do Barack Obama and John Roberts need a do-over? Well, we’ve asked Constitution law expert Jonathan Turley to join us to sort this out, and nice to have you back on the program, Jonathan.

Professor JONATHAN TURLEY (Constitution Law, The George Washington University Law School): It’s great to be back.

CONAN: He’s with us here in Studio 3A. It seemed that Obama seemingly knew that the chief justice was off and paused a moment to give him an opportunity to restate it.

Prof. TURLEY: It seemed clear to me that he caught the error. You know, the interesting thing about the word “faithfully” is that it’s an anchor word for oaths. You know, people tend to break oaths up, and “faithfully” is one of those words that breaks the oath up. And it was clear that Obama realized that faithfully had come too soon, and he stopped. But unfortunately, it wasn’t rectified. He gave the oath in a fashion that is different from that in the Constitution, and the problem with the Constitution is that it has these words in quotes.

These instances make clear that the fodder for news coverage of the justices comes from a wide range of issues, some but not all of their own choosing.

Coverage of the justices differs across sources as well. The following graph looks at coverage of each of the justices by three main television news networks – CNN, Fox News and MSNBC – over the past two years.

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Because we are only about a month away from the end of the 2019 calendar year, the 2019 numbers should not change a great deal between now and the year’s end. This graph provides several interesting insights.

CNN provides more coverage of the justices than the other two networks, and Fox News provides more coverage than MSNBC. There were only a few exceptions to this general rule. The only anomaly to this trend in 2018 was that Fox News mentioned Breyer more often than CNN did (albeit a close 23 compared to 22 times). MSNBC has mentioned Breyer and Roberts more times than Fox News so far in 2019. Interestingly, in contrast to the numbers from 2018, Fox News has mentioned Kavanaugh 320 times in 2019, compared to CNN’s 318 mentions of him. This comes after CNN mentioned Kavanaugh 1,406 times in 2018, compared to Fox News’ 573 mentions. This may have to do with the transition in coverage from Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing to the Supreme Court’s current and future business.

Kavanaugh dominated the mention count in 2018 due to his confirmation hearing, but he has also been the most bandied-about justice in 2019. This has to do with both residual conversation about his confirmation and discussion of how his presence is reshaping the court. Although Gorsuch was the second-most mentioned justice in 2018, he has been less covered in 2019. Thomas maintained a high rate of mentions relative to the other justices across both years, as did Ginsburg and Roberts. Breyer and Justice Samuel Alito were talked about the least frequently.

The justices are sometimes focal figures in television news. They are not always the intentional instigators of this coverage, however. Although the bulk of the coverage has to do with their confirmation to the Supreme Court, much also has to do with their affairs outside of the court. As long as the justices keep cameras out of the courtroom, their presence in the news will never hit its full potential. But as the numbers show, there is great variation in news coverage of the justices over the years, and sometimes the coverage is quite prolific. If Trump has the opportunity to make another nomination to the court, we should expect to see another surge in coverage. Outside of this, coverage of the individual justices will likely continue to ebb and flow, mixing discussion of their decisions on the court with reports on their actions and interactions outside of their judicial duties.

This post was originally published at Empirical SCOTUS.

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“Elevation Change” -- A Review

By Rees Hughes

Naturally the fascination our culture has with records extends to the Pacific Crest Trail. Who has achieved the lightest base pack weight? Who has walked the trail the most times? Who holds the record for the fastest thru-hike? While I have long been an advocate for sucking the marrow from every inch of this glorious trail (with a few stretches I would be inclined to race through), I have published stories by David Horton, Josh Garrett and other former speed record holders, interviewed Heather "Anish" Anderson, and met Joe 'Stringbean' McConaughy on the trail. Clearly I share the fascination with just what inspires a hiker to push oneself that hard.

Director Marion Mauran’s film “Elevation Change”, a product some eight years in the making, addresses that question by examining the quest of Sam Fox to walk/run the PCT in 2011 with the intent of establishing a new supported speed record and raise money to support the effort to fight Parkinson’s (a devastating disease affecting his mother, Lucy, and over 6 million people globally). I have read countless books and trail journals about walking the PCT and watched a number of other films on the experience. I was absolutely fascinated by "Elevation Change" and its honest, candid treatment of Fox's attempt. I believe what sets "Elevation Change" apart from many of the other accounts are the layers of the story. As Mauran states in her initial Kickstarter promo, she was intrigued by Fox’s real motivation and the question of “what does it really mean to honor someone”. I felt that as the film was edited, Mauran also explored what it means to be a hero, what it really means to be prepared, and what does it take to pursue such a grueling test of endurance. It is not just another account about walking the PCT.

Fox began his assault on the record at the Canadian border and headed south several weeks after legendary and perennial PCT hiker Scott Williamson. As Eric Depalo (one of Fox’s support team) noted, a cocky Sam started as a “bad ass” with the attitude that “we’re coming for you Scott Williamson.” The reality quickly set in. Fox’s “despair, worry, and fear” was palpably displayed in the raw footage taken as he pushed through Washington. At one point, he reflects, “I wished I was the superman I thought I was.”

To his credit, he pushes forward through the physical pain and gets stronger moving through California. But, the experience seems joyless for Fox. He confesses that he thinks about the final day on the trail “every single day”. He comes across as perpetually angry, ungrateful, and, at times, mean. John Bernhardt (another of Fox’s support team) observes that just getting to the end was all consuming “rather than enjoying each leg for what it was.”

This stands in stark contrast to the perspective provided by Scott Williamson and, his wife, Michelle Turley, whose participation in the film enriches it immeasurably. I loved thru-hiker Kolby Kirk’s comment, “Hiking this trail has given me a renewed sense of the joys of being human.”

The film is beautifully shot with some stunning scenes of the trail. The seasoned PCT veteran will note that some locations are out of sequence (e.g., scenes of Scissors Crossing come before the I-10 crossing), but that is completely inconsequential. The soundtrack is both original and excellent. The pacing and editing are exceptional in the pantheon of PCT films.

Although Sam Fox may be a flawed hero (like all heroes), his efforts raised $150,000 that was contributed to the Michael J. Fox Foundation. And he followed his PCT hike with a 2015 bicycle journey through the lower 48 states climbing the high points in each state. In the process, he raised $2.5 million for the Michael J. Fox Foundation.

Sam’s mother, Lucy Fox, to his immediate right, and Jim Fox, is the second person to Sam’s left

I strongly encourage you make time to view “Elevation Change”. The film will be available on major streaming platforms, including iTunes, beginning today, October 1, 2019. Presales began September 15, and the easiest portal to get to those streaming locations will be via www.elevationchangedoc.com.

Rating: 9.0 Clif Bars

#speed record #Scott Williamson #SOBO #PCT film

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newyorktheater · 6 years ago

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Warhol portraits at Whitney exhibition, clockwise from top left: Liza Minnelli, Truman Capote, critic Henry Geldzahler, Andy Warhol self-portrait

Andy Warhol was a Broadway producer – the lead producer of a musical that opened at Broadway’s Little Theater (now called the Hayes) in 1975. It’s a mind-boggling story that live most Andy Warhol stories, involves a lot of name-dropping: Neil Armstrong, the Mamas and the Papas, Hair, A Chorus Line, Star Wars, and Clive Barnes – and we might as well throw in Elvis and Bowie. You won’t find any mention of the musical, entitled “Man on the Moon,” at the Whitney museum’s “Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again,” billed as his first retrospective in the United States in 30 years. It’s not even in the exhibition’s catalogue, a bulky book billed as “the first to examine Warhol’s work in its entirety.”

In the introductory panel at the exhibition, which closes Sunday, we read: “During a career spanning nearly four decades, he produced thousands of commercial illustrations, paintings, drawings, collages, prints, photographs, sculptures, books, magazines, films, videos, television shows, and multimedia installations…” – and, left unmentioned, one Broadway musical.

The idea for the musical began on July 20, 1969. That is when astronaut Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. Like millions of people around the world, John Phillips, a member of 60’s folk rock vocal group the Mamas and the Papas, was enthralled. According to an account by Phillips biographer Chris Campion, Phillips became set on creating a space opera. It began as a song cycle, but expanded and changed form over the next five years. At one point, Phillips had convinced Michael Butler, the producer of Hair, to back what was then called “Space,” with both a book and score by Phillips. Butler hired a young Broadway director and choreographer named Michael Bennett. Bennett and Phillips had a falling out. Phillips claimed it was over creative differences. Butler said it was because Phillips was coked up and impossible to work with. Bennett dropped out, focusing on other projects, such as a show that debuted on Broadway the same year as “Man on the Moon,” one that Bennett conceived, choreographed and directed: A Chorus Line. Phillips’ behavior reportedly drove Butler out as well. Phillips and his third wife Genevieve Waite decided to turn their science fiction musical comedy into a film instead. Through Phillips daughter Mackenzie, who had a role in the George Lucas-directed film American Graffiti, they passed along the script to Lucas. That is why Phillips, according to Campion’s account, claimed Lucas stole the idea from him for Star Wars. Phillips and his wife decided they would try the stage again, but it was tough going. Waite complained about their troubles to her friend, Andy Warhol. He volunteered to help out. He became the lead producer. He brought in as director Paul Morrissey, who had directed such Warhol underground films as Flesh and Trash and Heat. He also enlisted a young Wall Street lawyer named Richard Turley, whom Warhol had befriended after meeting him through an art dealer a few years earlier. (The credits would ultimately read: “Produced by Andy Warhol. Produced in association with Richard Turley.”) Monique van Vooren, who had starred in Warhol’s Flesh for Frankenstein, was cast as Venus. Rehearsals moved to Andy Warhol’s loft, The Factory. Phillips’ script, as it evolved, became a tale so convoluted that it is difficult to summarize. It involved Dr. Bomb, an evil scientist who is head of the U.S. space program, planning to blow up the moon, with the help of Leroy, half human, half bomb. To stop him, an American astronaut leads a mission of interplanetary dignitaries.

Phillips had hoped to cast Elvis Presley or Ricky Nelson. Neither agreed to do so. So Phillips cast himself in two roles.

Here is a video of a rehearsal at Warhol’s Factory (via, as you can see, by the Andy Warhol Museum of Pittsburgh), featuring John Phillips as Dr. Bomb’s brother King Can, Mark Lawhead as Leroy the human bomb, Geneviève Waïte as Dr. Bomb’s niece Angel, and Monique Van Vooren as Venus, Dr. Bomb’s brother-in-law. Phillips starts singing the song “My Name Is Can” at 1:25.

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A few weeks before the opening night, Phillips was replaced by his Mamas and Papas bandmate, Denis Dougherty, who was originally cast as Dr. Bomb. Reportedly, Richard Turley fired Morrissey two weeks before the opening and brought in a different director, uncredited, who changed everything around. Whether or not this improved or destroyed the show (opinions vary), “Man on the Moon” opened on January 29, 1975 to unkind reviews. Under the headline “‘Man in the Moon’, Warhol musical,” Clive Barnes, writing in the New York Times, began: “The Andy Warhol Factory of International Art Artifacts has at long last turned its attention to the theater…a musical, appropriate enough about bombs…Mr. Warhol’s artistic practice – if I have caught his drift alright – is to produce works of arts so inept that their ineptitude becomes their value.” The critic focused much of his snark on Warhol, although it’s unclear how much Warhol actually had to do with the content of the show. “For connoisseurs of the truly bad,” Barnes concluded, “‘Man on the Moon’ may be a small milestone.”

Writing in New York Magazine, John Simon quickly dismissed the musical (“a crashing, campy, lobotomized bore from beginning to end, with not even a decent song in it”) and spent most of his review describing the “Beautiful People” who “showed up during the half hour or more we waited for the curtain to rise (though less fervidly than we later waited for it to fall) and a good many of them kept coming in splashily even long after the show began.” After devoting several paragraphs to name-dropping those in attendance (Warren Beatty, Diane von Furstenberg, “copious Warhol-Morrissey non-actors a.k.a. Superstars…”), Simon complained: “Isn’t it pathetic that the chic crowd of New York pours in by the limousine-load for a piece of junk offered by Andy Warhol, but would let a legitimate opening (other than something British or involving big names) go by unnoticed and unsupported?”

Yoko Ono with Warhol at opening of Man on the Moon

Musician Michelle Phillips and actor Warren Beatty attend the opening night party for ‘Man in the Moon’ at Sardi’s

John Phillips Genevieve Waite and Mackenzie Phillips at Sardis

The show closed four days after it opened, after 42 previews and ten regular performances. Nine of the 11 members of the cast has been making their Broadway debuts, including Genevieve Waite, Phillips’ wife and Warhol’s friend. Ten of the 11 have not appeared on Broadway since. But the designers were pros, including lighting designer Jules Fisher, who had already won the first two of his nine Tony Awards. Monique Van Vooren put some of the songs from “Man in the Moon” in her cabaret act, such as this rendition of “I Call Your Name” in 1996 (The title is not one of the 22 listed in the program.)

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It wasn’t until 2009, when both Warhol and Phillips were dead, that the score for “Man on the Moon” was issued on a CD, as Andy Warhol Presents Man On The Moon (The John Phillips Space Musical)

The 35 songs of the album were mostly studio recordings by Phillips, and many had not even been in the Broadway show. It was not, in other words, a traditional Broadway cast album, although a few were sung by cast members. In what has to count as an irony, a couple of these songs, Boys from the South, and Love is Coming Back, were worked into Phillips’ next gig – the soundtrack for David Bowie’s film, “The Man Who Fell To Earth.” I listened to the album on Spotify, and I have to tell you, I found many of the songs quite tuneful.

I would love to attend a concert version of this show, and consider it a missed opportunity that the Whitney did not include a performance at the very least of the folksy ditty from the score entitled “Oh Andy My Assistant”:

Oh Andy, my assistant your mind is so consistently blank that I’m banking on you now so please so don’t try to comprehend the reason why I have to send you up or else, I’m sure that we, shall have a terrible row It’s either you or I must save the race So bye-bye Andy and off you’re goin’ to Space.

Andy Warhol from A To Broadway: That Time Warhol Produced a Broadway Musical Andy Warhol was a Broadway producer – the lead producer of a musical that opened at Broadway’s Little Theater (now called the Hayes) in 1975.

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Smollett and the Scourge of Celebrity Justice

Below is my column in The Hill newspaper on the dropping of charges against Jussie Smollett. The decision to give Smollett community service and an insulting $10,000 fine has outraged people around the world. Indeed, the City estimates that it spent $130,000 in pursuing the hoax. The costs belie the claim of the Chicago District Attorney that it was merely trying to save badly needed resources. Those resources were already spent in finding the hoax and securing 16 charges from a grand jury. The result is a travesty of justice that shocks the conscience.

Here is the column:

The sudden dismissal of all charges against “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett unleashed a torrent of outrage. Even Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel denounced the decision by the Cook County State’s Attorney Office as a “whitewash of justice.”

There is, however, a more accurate term: “celebrity justice.”

On trials ranging from O.J. Simpson to Michael Jackson to Martha Stewart, I have written on the notion of celebrity justice. Indeed, the objection to “celebrity justice” has been heard in the United States for decades, as people question if the law applies as equally to the rich and famous as it does to average citizens.

The answer is that, no, it does not. In most cases, celebrities actually receive harsher treatment and fewer benefits from the criminal justice system.

Yet, there is no other explanation for the absurd decision to drop all charges in the Smollett case. Smollett sent Chicago and the nation into pandemonium over his claim that two men jumped him on a public street, yelling racist and homophobic insults as well as “This is MAGA country!” The idea that Trump supporters beat a gay African American actor and then tied a rope around his neck, unleashed a torrent of condemnation and protest. Smollett appeared in public in apparent brave defiance of those who abused him.

Later, after a citywide search by Chicago police, Smollett’s story began to unravel. He was uncooperative with police and, soon, two brothers were found to have purchased the rope and other key items from a nearby store. They implicated Smollett in the hoax, and a grand jury handed down 16 charges against him.

Smollett seemed destined for a well-deserved prison stint — until the sudden decision to drop all charges for a token $10,000 fine and community service. Smollett promptly walked out of court and proclaimed he was innocent and the attack did occur.

So, there is videotape of Smollett’s co-conspirators buying the materials used for the hoax. There are two witnesses who reportedly implicated him. There is forensic and material evidence undermining his account. The only thing missing was a confession.

The decision to dismiss was announced by Joe Magats, Cook County’s first assistant state’s attorney, who explained that the county stood by the charges and the allegations of a hoax. He said prosecutors simply decided to prioritize “violent crime, gun crime and the drivers of violence” and that “I don’t see Jussie Smollett as a threat to public safety.” The explanation was as forced as it was false.

First, Cook County presumably has not decided to confine prosecutions to violent crimes, or everything from blackmail to bank fraud to tax evasion would be effectively immunized.

Second, this was not just any nonviolent offense. Smollett sent a city into crisis and caused the Chicago Police Department to direct huge resources into the search for racist, homophobic Trump supporters terrorizing innocent citizens. Magats said that the office did not want to use limited resources to go after nonviolent crime, but it already spent those resources in uncovering the hoax and securing 16 charges. All that remained was what looked like a perfunctory trial.

Third, Smollett not only used the hoax to try to improve his professional position, but he maintained his innocence after walking free, and his associates attacked his accusers.

Finally, and most importantly, this was framed as a hate crime. In Chicago, committing crimes from disorderly conduct to harassment “by reason of … race [or] … sexual orientation of an individual or group of individuals” is a hate crime. Smollett triggered fear of racist, homophobic attacks through a premeditated, coordinated hoax. His motivation was to use race and sexual orientation to commit a fraud on the city.

The view of the Cook County District Attorney’s office appears to be that if you use race or sexual orientation to terrorize or abuse an individual, you will face serious jail time, but if you fake the same attack to use race or sexual orientation to terrorize or abuse a city, you are forgiven with a small fine.

While Smollett can claim that his was not a hate crime because he did not specifically target a victim, his actions had the same impact on the city.

Magats could claim he was applying blind — not celebrity — justice by securing a plea as in any other false-report case. However, most false reports are not calculated to inflame unrest over racist or homosexual intolerance. Most do not involve an international outcry and an unrepentant defendant. Hopefully, the prosecutors at least scored an autograph, because they walked away with little else.

As someone who has long questioned the mantra of “celebrity justice,” this month is unsettling not only because of the Smollett decision but because of the ongoing controversy surrounding the treatment of sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein.

Epstein was given a ridiculously light plea deal for sexual abuse of underaged girls. The deal came as various powerful figures, including Bill Clinton, were named as travelers on Epstein’s infamous “Lolita Express” flights to his private estate on the Caribbean island of Little Saint James with young girls who allegedly were used as prostitutes. Epstein had the foresight to implicate powerful men in his activities and, when facing a public trial, then U.S. Attorney (and now Labor Secretary) Alexander Acosta cut him an absurd deal to avoid serious jail time and seal the record. The deal was recently declared unlawful — but Epstein avoided a long sentence, his friends avoided an embarrassing trial, and Acosta was later given a cabinet position.

Epstein received special treatment, and his victims were not only denied knowledge of the deal cut with Acosta but denied any semblance of justice.

Celebrity justice is often the ill-informed explanation of acquittals of famous persons. The first “Trial of the Century” in 1921 of film star Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, for allegedly raping and killing showgirl Virginia Rappe, resulted in acquittal, as did cases against stars like Michael Jackson and Robert Blake. However, these cases had critical flaws — and other celebrities, such as Martha Stewart, were convicted on cases that were overcharged.

Prosecutors often relish the opportunity to try a celebrity, and their concerns about “celebrity justice” criticism push them toward overcharging cases. Some cases, however, are distorted by the pull of influence and power before trial. That was the case with Epstein, which produced a grotesque result; he used backchannels to secure a secret deal with Acosta — a deal recently declared by a federal judge to have violated federal law.

Smollett may also have turned to such backchannel efforts. News reports have alleged that Michele Obama’s former chief of staff, Tina Tchen, and another Smollett associate contacted Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx to seek her intervention in the case soon after the scandal broke. Foxx is accused of keeping the Smollett team informed of developments, and she later had to recuse herself. That left the matter to her subordinate, Magats, who cut a deal for Smollett that drew a rare public rebuke from the mayor and the Chicago Police Department — as well as international outcry.

Smollett may have benefitted from a simple failure of prosecutorial judgment or a raw example of celebrity justice. Like the Epstein case, it is not clear if the problem was an absence of blind justice or of equal justice. What is clear, however, is that this represents a travesty of justice.

Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. You can follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley.

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Commons Vote

On: Public Authorities Bill: Second Reading

Ayes: 343 (99.4% Lab, 0.6% Ind) Noes: 87 (72.4% LD, 8.0% SNP, 5.7% Ind, 4.6% PC, 4.6% Green, 2.3% DUP, 1.1% UUP, 1.1% TUV) Absent: ~220

Day's business papers: 2025-02-03

Likely Referenced Bill: Armed Forces Covenant (Duty of Public Authorities) Bill

Description: A Bill to require public authorities to deliver services in accordance with the armed forces covenant; and for connected purposes.

Originating house: Commons Current house: Commons Bill Stage: 2nd reading

Individual Votes:

Ayes

Labour (338 votes)

Abtisam Mohamed Adam Jogee Adam Thompson Afzal Khan Al Carns Alan Campbell Alan Gemmell Alan Strickland Alex Baker Alex Ballinger Alex Barros-Curtis Alex Mayer Alex McIntyre Alex Norris Alex Sobel Alice Macdonald Alison Hume Alison McGovern Alistair Strathern Allison Gardner Amanda Hack Amanda Martin Andrew Cooper Andrew Gwynne Andrew Lewin Andrew Pakes Andrew Ranger Andrew Western Andy MacNae Andy McDonald Andy Slaughter Angela Eagle Anna Dixon Anna Gelderd Anna McMorrin Anna Turley Anneliese Dodds Anneliese Midgley Antonia Bance Ashley Dalton Baggy Shanker Bambos Charalambous Barry Gardiner Bayo Alaba Beccy Cooper Becky Gittins Ben Coleman Bill Esterson Blair McDougall Brian Leishman Callum Anderson Calvin Bailey Carolyn Harris Catherine Atkinson Catherine Fookes Catherine West Charlotte Nichols Chi Onwurah Chris Bloore Chris Bryant Chris Curtis Chris Elmore Chris Evans Chris Hinchliff Chris Kane Chris McDonald Chris Murray Chris Vince Chris Ward Chris Webb Christian Wakeford Claire Hazelgrove Claire Hughes Clive Betts Connor Naismith Connor Rand Damien Egan Dan Aldridge Dan Carden Dan Jarvis Daniel Francis Daniel Zeichner Danny Beales Darren Jones Dave Robertson David Baines David Burton-Sampson David Pinto-Duschinsky David Taylor David Williams Dawn Butler Debbie Abrahams Deirdre Costigan Derek Twigg Diana Johnson Douglas Alexander Douglas McAllister Elaine Stewart Elsie Blundell Emily Darlington Emma Foody Emma Hardy Emma Lewell-Buck Emma Reynolds Euan Stainbank Feryal Clark Florence Eshalomi Frank McNally Fred Thomas Gareth Snell Gareth Thomas Gen Kitchen Georgia Gould Gerald Jones Gill Furniss Gill German Gordon McKee Graeme Downie Graham Stringer Grahame Morris Gregor Poynton Gurinder Singh Josan Hamish Falconer Harpreet Uppal Heidi Alexander Helen Hayes Helena Dollimore Henry Tufnell Hilary Benn Ian Lavery Ian Murray Irene Campbell Jack Abbott Jade Botterill Jake Richards James Asser James Frith James Murray James Naish Janet Daby Jas Athwal Jayne Kirkham Jeevun Sandher Jeff Smith Jen Craft Jenny Riddell-Carpenter Jess Asato Jess Phillips Jessica Morden Jessica Toale Jim McMahon Jo Platt Jo Stevens Jo White Joani Reid Jodie Gosling Joe Morris Joe Powell Johanna Baxter John Grady John Healey John Slinger John Whitby Jon Pearce Jon Trickett Jonathan Brash Jonathan Davies Jonathan Hinder Josh Dean Josh Fenton-Glynn Josh Newbury Josh Simons Julia Buckley Julie Minns Juliet Campbell Justin Madders Kanishka Narayan Karin Smyth Kate Dearden Kate Osamor Kate Osborne Katrina Murray Keir Mather Kenneth Stevenson Kerry McCarthy Kevin Bonavia Kevin McKenna Kim Leadbeater Kirith Entwistle Kirsteen Sullivan Laura Kyrke-Smith Lauren Edwards Lauren Sullivan Laurence Turner Lee Barron Lee Pitcher Leigh Ingham Lewis Atkinson Liam Conlon Lilian Greenwood Lillian Jones Linsey Farnsworth Liz Kendall Liz Twist Lizzi Collinge Lloyd Hatton Lola McEvoy Lorraine Beavers Louise Jones Lucy Powell Lucy Rigby Luke Akehurst Luke Charters Luke Murphy Luke Myer Luke Pollard Margaret Mullane Marie Rimmer Marie Tidball Mark Tami Markus Campbell-Savours Martin Rhodes Mary Creagh Mary Glindon Matt Bishop Matt Rodda Matt Turmaine Matt Western Matthew Patrick Matthew Pennycook Maureen Burke Maya Ellis Meg Hillier Melanie Onn Miatta Fahnbulleh Michael Payne Michael Shanks Michael Wheeler Michelle Scrogham Michelle Welsh Mike Reader Mike Tapp Mohammad Yasin Natalie Fleet Natasha Irons Naushabah Khan Navendu Mishra Naz Shah Neil Coyle Neil Duncan-Jordan Nesil Caliskan Nia Griffith Nicholas Dakin Nick Smith Noah Law Olivia Bailey Olivia Blake Pam Cox Pamela Nash Patricia Ferguson Patrick Hurley Paul Davies Paul Foster Paul Waugh Paula Barker Paulette Hamilton Perran Moon Peter Dowd Peter Kyle Peter Lamb Peter Prinsley Peter Swallow Phil Brickell Polly Billington Preet Kaur Gill Rachael Maskell Rachel Blake Rachel Taylor Richard Baker Richard Quigley Rosena Allin-Khan Rosie Wrighting Rupa Huq Rushanara Ali Ruth Cadbury Ruth Jones Sadik Al-Hassan Sally Jameson Sam Carling Sam Rushworth Samantha Dixon Samantha Niblett Sarah Champion Sarah Coombes

Sarah Edwards Sarah Jones Sarah Russell Sarah Sackman Sarah Smith Satvir Kaur Scott Arthur Sean Woodcock Sharon Hodgson Shaun Davies Simon Lightwood Simon Opher Sojan Joseph Sonia Kumar Stella Creasy Stephanie Peacock Stephen Doughty Stephen Kinnock Stephen Morgan Stephen Timms Steve Race Steve Reed Steve Witherden Steve Yemm Tahir Ali Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi Terry Jermy Tim Roca Toby Perkins Tom Collins Tom Rutland Tonia Antoniazzi Tony Vaughan Torcuil Crichton Torsten Bell Tristan Osborne Tulip Siddiq Uma Kumaran Valerie Vaz Warinder Juss Will Stone Yuan Yang Yvette Cooper Zubir Ahmed

Independent (2 votes)

Mike Amesbury Rebecca Long Bailey

Noes

Liberal Democrat (63 votes)

Adam Dance Al Pinkerton Alex Brewer Alison Bennett Alistair Carmichael Andrew George Angus MacDonald Anna Sabine Ben Maguire Bobby Dean Brian Mathew Calum Miller Cameron Thomas Caroline Voaden Charlie Maynard Charlotte Cane Chris Coghlan Christine Jardine Claire Young Clive Jones Daisy Cooper Danny Chambers David Chadwick Edward Morello Gideon Amos Helen Maguire Helen Morgan Ian Roome Ian Sollom Jamie Stone Jess Brown-Fuller John Milne Josh Babarinde Joshua Reynolds Lee Dillon Lisa Smart Liz Jarvis Luke Taylor Manuela Perteghella Marie Goldman Martin Wrigley Max Wilkinson Mike Martin Monica Harding Munira Wilson Olly Glover Paul Kohler Pippa Heylings Roz Savage Sarah Dyke Sarah Gibson Sarah Green Sarah Olney Steve Darling Tessa Munt Tim Farron Tom Gordon Tom Morrison Victoria Collins Vikki Slade Wera Hobhouse Will Forster Zöe Franklin

Scottish National Party (7 votes)

Chris Law Dave Doogan Graham Leadbitter Kirsty Blackman Pete Wishart Seamus Logan Stephen Gethins

Independent (5 votes)

Alex Easton Ayoub Khan Iqbal Mohamed Rosie Duffield Shockat Adam

Plaid Cymru (4 votes)

Ann Davies Ben Lake Liz Saville Roberts Llinos Medi

Green Party (4 votes)

Adrian Ramsay Carla Denyer Ellie Chowns Siân Berry

Democratic Unionist Party (2 votes)

Gavin Robinson Jim Shannon

Ulster Unionist Party (1 vote)

Robin Swann

Traditional Unionist Voice (1 vote)

Jim Allister

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