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The whole point of a disclosure is to explain where you have conflicts, if you have stock and you’re not saying what it’s in and it’s this much of your personal wealth, that’s a conflict you have. The public deserves to know.

– Michael Lissner

Found on CNN
12 months ago

The redaction of his single largest investment in common stock makes it impossible to know if he’s complying with his recusal obligations, if the stock ownership isn’t disclosed, there’s no way to know.

– Steven Lubet

Found on CNN
12 months ago

He has successfully hidden his single largest reportable asset, we don’t know what it is … or what’s the justification for redacting it. It’s very strange.

– Kathleen Clark

Found on CNN
12 months ago

If it would reveal where a family member was working, you could make the argument (for redaction), but I think that would be one of the limited circumstances.

– Virginia Canter

Found on CNN
12 months ago

If the stock ownership isn’t disclosed, there’s no way to know.

– Steven Lubet

Found on CNN
12 months ago

None of the content was based on classified information and it was submitted for CIA prepublication review, as required by their authors’ secrecy agreements, to ensure the document did not contain classified information. They don’t weigh in on the accuracy or content of the letter.

– Mark Zaid

Found on CNN
12 months ago

That evidence could then be leveraged to … gain access to additional machines, georgia was the topic of discussion at that time.

– Derek Lyons

Found on CNN
12 months ago

His point of view was that in some way the campaign, I believe, was going to be able to secure access to voting machines in Georgia through means other than seizure.

– Derek Lyons

Found on CNN
12 months ago

I initiated a moratorium against the death penalty in Washington State in 2014, and our rationale for that decision was affirmed by our (state) Supreme Court decision in 2018, when they invalidated the death penalty statute, they made clear, and we know this to be true, that the penalty has been applied unequally and in a racially insensitive manner.

– Jay Inslee

Found on CNN
12 months ago

1992 was declared the year of the woman, and a number of women were elected to the Senate, but you were the leader of the group, and you’ve had an extraordinarily successful career.

– Mitch McConnell

Found on CNN
12 months ago

This kind of hateful rhetoric from an elected official is exactly why tragedies such as the Covenant Christian School shooting in Nashville occurred.

– Freedom Caucus

Found on CNN
12 months ago

Wars are the outcomes of battles and wars are the function of many, many variables, and in this case, you would have to make sure that your tanks are used in combined arms with mechanized infantry, artillery, all of that is synchronized with dismounted forces, etc. So there is no silver bullet in this case, but I do think the M1 tank when it’s delivered and it reaches its operational capability that it will be very effective on the battlefield.

– Mark Milley

Found on CNN
12 months ago

All of this is huge progress.

– Lloyd Austin

Found on CNN
12 months ago

Russia continues to pay severely for its war of choice, unlike Ukrainian forces, who are highly motivated to fight for their country, to fight for their freedom, their democracy and their way of life, the Russians lack of leadership, they lack will, the morale is poor, and the discipline is eroding.

– Mark Milley

Found on CNN
12 months ago

I expressed my hope that this would expedite political decisions regarding our country’s NATO integration.

– Mark Milley

Found on CNN
12 months ago

Putin thought that he could easily topple Kyiv’s democratically elected government. He thought that the wider world would let him get away with it. He thought that our unity would splinter, but he was wrong – on each and every count.

– Lloyd Austin

Found on CNN
12 months ago

We cannot hold America’s full faith and credit hostage, the debt ceiling is not something to be trifled with.

– Mitch Landrieu

Found on CNN
12 months ago

I’ve already made that calculus. We’ll announce it relatively soon.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Rich people spend crazy money on crazy things.

– David Kenner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Thousands of victims – particularly women and children – are at very serious risk because of the Fifth Circuit’s ruling in this case as are potential victims of future mass shootings, often perpetrated by domestic abusers.

– Douglas Letter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The more he’s out there talking to people, visiting states, doing retail events like he did in Manchester, all of that misinformation evaporates, whatever the real man is will come out and I think we saw some of that Friday night. It was said he wasn’t good at retail and didn’t connect with people. That’s the exact opposite of what I saw.

– Chris Ager

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The former president started early and we want the governor to be competitive and we’re building with that purpose so he’s not starting from a traditional day one, we have organizations of this movement put together in the early states and they can pick up and lead from there.

– Ken Cuccinelli

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you look at the letter that was issued by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, they point out that the category sexual orientation is problematic because it’s not defined, most Abrahamic faith traditions will draw a distinction between someone who experiences the same sex attraction but is willing to live celibate and somebody who experiences the same sex attraction and makes it a lifestyle and seeks to sexualize that lifestyle. Those are two different categories that most Abrahamic faith traditions recognize.

– Matthew Kacsmaryk

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Yeah, and I can speak from immediate firsthand experience, that is very much in vogue now in the federal government to characterize opposition to same sex marriage and related issues as irrational prejudice at best and a potential hate crime at worse.

– Matthew Kacsmaryk

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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