"Obama to serve as Illinois delegate, could upstage Biden at DNC..."

Upstage?
He's there to show leftist voters who they REALLY will be votin' for in November...

I think that is absolutely correct.

"Obama to serve as Illinois delegate, could upstage Biden at DNC..."

Upstage?
He's there to show leftist voters who they REALLY will be votin' for in November...

It will be online this year because of the pandemic/troubles.

A giant Zoom call?

Witnesses line up to slam Michael Cohen ahead of Trump trial star’s turn 

by Ella Lee and Zach Schonfeld - 05/01/24 11:16 AM ET

NEW YORK — In 2011, Stormy Daniels’s manager phoned a lawyer to complain that “some jerk” had called her up threatening to sue over a blog post claiming the porn actor slept with Donald Trump.

“I hate to ask it this way,” Joshua Steinglass, a prosecutor with the Manhattan district attorney’s office, said Tuesday while questioning the lawyer, “but who was that jerk?”

Keith Davidson, on the stand in Trump’s first criminal trial, frequently paused before answering Steinglass’s questions. But not this one.

“Michael Cohen,” Davidson replied without hesitation.

A onetime personal attorney and fixer to Trump, Cohen is expected to be a star witness for the district attorney’s office’s case against the former president on 34 counts of falsifying business records connected to hush money deals. Trump pleaded not guilty.

Cohen’s conduct is at the heart of the case. Prosecutors hope to convince a jury of 12 New Yorkers who will determine Trump’s fate that Cohen, now working against his former boss, is credible.

But the image of Cohen portrayed to jurors, at this point, is hardly one of valor.

Some of the prosecutors’ witnesses have torn into him, casting Cohen as difficult to work with to the point where they actively wanted to avoid him.

At one point, Davidson likened Cohen to the dog in Disney’s “Up” who repeatedly becomes distracted by squirrels.

“He was highly excitable, sort of a pants-on-fire kind of guy. He had a lot of things going on,” Davidson said. “I’d frequently be on the phone with him, he’d take another call, he’d be talking out of two ears.”

Cohen paid the hush money to Daniels that prosecutors say Trump unlawfully concealed and helped set up two other so-called catch-and-kill arrangements to keep quiet negative stories about Trump ahead of the 2016 election.

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https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4635754-witnesses-slam-michael-cohen-trump-trial/

 House passes bill to beef up protections against antisemitism as campus chaos rages on
By Social Links for Ryan King
Published May 1, 2024, 5:16 p.m. ET

Seventy House Democrats and 21 Republicans voted against a bill to bolster protections for Jewish students against the scourge of antisemitism ravaging campuses across the country.

The Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2023, also known as HR 6090, cleared the House of Representatives in a 320 to 91 vote and strengthens the definition of antisemitism used in federal anti-discrimination laws.

“This bill threads to chill constitutionally protected speech — speech that is critical of Israel alone does not constitute unlawful discrimination,” Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), who is Jewish, said on the House floor.

“It is imperative that we confront the scourge of anti-semitism and Congress can help. But this legislation is not the answer.”

Reps. who voted “nay” included Andy Biggs of Arizona, Cori Bush of Missouri, Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Pramila Jayapal of Washington, Jamaal Bowman of New York, Katie Porter of California, Ro Khanna of California, Matt Gaetz of Florida, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, and Marjorie Taylor Green of Georgia.

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Reps. who voted “nay” included Andy Biggs of Arizona, Cori Bush of Missouri, Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Pramila Jayapal of Washington, Jamaal Bowman of New York, Katie Porter of California, Ro Khanna of California, Matt Gaetz of Florida, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, and Marjorie Taylor Green of Georgia.