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GABRIEL GOMEZ? Another Wack-A-Ding Wannabe!

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GABRIEL GOMEZ?  NIP IT IN THE BUD!  Just a few posts below......anyone can run for office...do your research before you support a candidate who gets more media coverage than deserved.  Republicans: Hiding From the Reality They Created 10 Crazy Things the Right Did This Week Markey, Gomez, on Internet sales tax, immigration and EPA Ed Markey's Endorsement Gabriel Gomez's Tax Deduction What's Elizabeth Warren done? Gabriel Gomez: Repeating the Lies Gabriel Gomez: Repeating the Lies Truth is where you find it.....

Déjà Vu Arguments | Surprise Questions | Justice Sightings

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NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL Supreme Court Brief POWERED BY  LAW.COM Tony Mauro Marcia Coyle Jan 17, 2018 Good morning SCB readers! Today’s oral arguments are the last until the court’s long winter recess ends on February 20, so stop by if you want to see the justices before they come back looking sheepish with their winter suntans.  In today’s briefing, we preview today’s cases and speak with Ruthanne Deutsch, a former Ginsburg clerk who wrote an amicus brief that was mentioned during oral arguments Tuesday. There’s more, including a  new video  from Marcia and an addendum to last week’s item on “justice sightings.” As always, send your questions, suggestions and feedback to  mcoyle@alm.com  or  tmauro@alm.com . Encino Motorcars, Part Deux The first case up today,  Encino Motorcars v. Navarro , may seem like déjà vu all over again. Bearing the same name, the case went before the court in 2016 t...

In Speech Today Jeff Flake Will Compare Trump to Stalin

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17 January 18 AM It's Live on the HomePage Now:   Reader Supported News WE SERIOUSLY NEED A GOOD DAY OF FUNDRAISING - CAN YOU HELP? - All it takes to turn a very bad fundraising day into a reasonable one is a few decent donations. That’s it. This has been a month with very few reasonable fundraising days. Now we have a problem. Who can reasonably help? Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! In Speech Today Jeff Flake Will Compare Trump to Stalin    Ed O'Keefe, The Washington Post   O'Keefe writes: "Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) plans to give a speech in the coming days that compares President Trump's public criticism of the news media to similar comments once made by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin."   READ MORE Betsy Woodruff | Steve Bannon Will Tell All to Robert Mueller, Source Says   Betsy Woodruff, The Daily Beast   Woodruff writes: "Trump's one-time chief strategist and current frenemy may have been ti...

POLITICO Massachusetts Playbook: WARREN’s challengers’ cash — KENNEDY rips ‘broken’ energy market — SALES TAX history lesson

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01/17/2018 07:25 AM EDT By Lauren Dezenski  ( ldezenski@politico.com ; @LaurenDezenski) GOOD MORNING, MASSACHUSETTS.  Snow expected across the state with four inches  expected in Boston . Look for higher snow totals and difficult travel conditions in central and western Massachusetts. WARREN'S CHALLENGERS' CASH -  Sen. Elizabeth Warren has dropped her latest  bombshell fundraising report  - and while it was the senator's lowest-performing fundraising quarter of the year, it still blows her Republican challengers out of the water (at least of what we know so far). Rep.  Geoff Diehl  announced yesterday his campaign had raised $1 million - but the campaign didn't specify whether that sum was raised in the last three months of 2017 ... or over the last year. Neither of his fellow challengers,  Beth Lindstrom  nor  John Kingston , have yet released their latest numbers. Kingston made waves this fall announcing a $3.2 million...