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Trump appointees on appeals court question Biden’s moves to protect Obamacare mandates

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With access that millions of Americans have to preventive care at stake, a conservative federal appeals court on Monday picked apart how the Biden administration has tried to maneuver around the latest significant challenge to Obamacare.

The case concerns the Affordable Care Act provision that mandates insurers cover preventive care services – including screenings for certain cancers and HIV-prevention drugs – at no cost to patients. The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals is reviewing a district judge’s ruling that wiped away that requirement for certain preventive services – a ruling that was paused while the appeal plays out.

Very little of Monday’s 40-minute hearing in front of the 5th Circuit focused on the legal claim that started the case.

Instead, the appeals court dug into the actions that the Biden administration took after the lawsuit was filed to try to neutralize the challengers’ arguments. Members of the panel also showed skepticism towards Justice Department’s assertions that the lower court acted inappropriately by applying its ruling nationwide, rather than just to the individuals and business in Texas that brought the lawsuit.

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  Special counsel report concludes Biden willfully retained classified information but will not face charges-CNN

 Special counsel Robert Hur released a searing report Thursday that concluded President Joe Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified military and national security information but will not face charges after a year long investigation into his handling of classified documents.

“We concluded that no criminal charges are warranted in this matter,” Hur concluded. “We would reach the same conclusion even if Department of Justice policy did not foreclose criminal charges against a sitting president.”

Hur wrote that Biden believed he was allowed to keep the classified information that was contained in his personal notebooks, concluding that prosecutors wouldn’t be able to prove Biden intended to break the law at trial.

One of the reasons Hur chose not to bring charges, according to the report, was that it would be difficult to prosecute Biden, who could appear to a jury as a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”

Biden also cooperated with the investigation and returned the classified documents once they were discovered, Hur wrote — noting the significant differences between this case and the charges against former President Donald Trump.

The special counsel investigation found that Biden knew about the classified documents in his home as far back as 2017, when he was no longer vice president, and that he shared some of the information with the ghostwriter for his memoir published that year.

The public release of the 345-page report marks the conclusion of Hur’s investigation.

The report’s findings are likely to draw harsh criticism from Trump and his allies in the lead-up to the 2024 presidential election. Republicans have long drawn parallels between Hur’s investigation and that of special counsel Jack Smith, who last year brought charges against the former president related to his handling of classified documents after he left the White House, despite critical differences in the two cases.

According to the report, “FBI agents recovered these materials from the garage, offices, and basement den in Mr. Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware, home.”

The materials included “marked classified documents about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan and notebooks containing Mr. Biden’s handwritten entries about issues of national security and foreign policy implicating sensitive intelligence source and methods.”

According to the report, investigators found Biden’s “memory was significantly limited” in interviews they conducted with the then-president in 2023 as well as interviews with his ghostwriter.

Because of that, Hur wrote in the report, investigators concluded that it “would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him — by then a former president well into his eighties — of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.”

“Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” they wrote, adding that Biden “is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt.”

A White House official noted that Biden was interviewed just days after Israel was raided in October which was occupying his time.

Hur also wrote that the government did not believe it could prove that Biden “intended to do something the law forbids.”

Biden was “emphatic,” according to the report, that his handwritten notebooks containing classified information were his property, saying in his interview with the special counsel’s office that “every president before me has done the exact same thing.”

All they did was to prove that a double standard exists in our law system based on political party....

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You have to love the move by some Republicans pushing the idea that they won't invite President Biden to issue his State of the Union speech because "he's done nothing about border security."
Which we all know is complete nonsense.
If you ask me, it's because many of the don't want the president to have a national audience where he can factually:
- Talk about the records the stock market has hit
- Talk about the record oil production the U.S. has outputted
- Talk about the continuing low unemployment
- Talk about the monthly jobs reports that largely continue to exceed expectations
- Talk about the last two quarters of GDP that massively exceeded expectations
- Talk about the bipartisan border security bill, written by a Republican, and endorsed by the same border patrol organization that's endorsed Trump in 2016 and 2020 and called the failed bill one of the most comprehensive pieces of border security legislation they've ever seen, that was killed by Republicans, on the direction of Trump, so he can use it as a campaign issue heading into the 2024 election
In other words, what Republicans don't want is a large national audience able to hear President Biden tell them the truth.

Biden sucks and sucks and sucks....

What exactly HAS BIDEN DONE TO ADDRESS BORDER SECURITY?

They did claim Obama was a terrorist spy .. look what Biden is doing.. weird.. and Trumps mental.. ain’t looking good

They did claim Obama was a terrorist spy .. look what Biden is doing.. weird.. and Trumps mental.. ain’t looking good

I feel that way about all of them. That is why it should be term limits across the board.

American president.. should be something like that.. probably be wise for a President to stay away from social media platforms..

Especially on their Bosses' time... (the citizenry)...not sure if that is 24/7/365 though..

Not feeling it.