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BBN: The new narrative seems to be If Mays Deal isn't accepted then no BREXIT at all. Liam Fox: "The worst outcome would be no Brexit at all" International trade secretary says it would be "dangerous" for democracy if MPs vote down the #Brexit deal
The UK minister lied. The hard BREXIT come when time is up, as they offically triggered the article 50 of the Treaty of the European Union on March 2017.
Withdrawal from the European Union is the legal and political process whereby an EU member state ceases to be a member of the Union. Under Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU), "Any Member State may decide to withdraw from the Union in accordance with its own constitutional requirements".
No member state has as of yet withdrawn from the EU (or the EC); however, the Government of the United Kingdom has triggered Article 50 to begin the UK's withdrawal from the EU in March 2017 following a referendum, and the withdrawal is scheduled to occur on 29 March 2019.
HAPPENING NOW: Stacey Abrams is set to talk about the governor's race for the first time since Election Day. LIVE coverage RIGHT NOW on Channel 2 Action News. (DETAILS - 2wsb.tv/2PWUQHh)
ATLANTA - For the first time in nine days, we are going to hear from Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams about her fight in the election for governor.
Abrams has called for a news conference at 5 p.m., which is also the deadline a judge has set for the state to certify the election.
The news release said she will be delivering brief remarks at that time.
HAPPENING NOW: Democratic Gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams is speaking about her campaign's latest efforts as the state prepares to certify votes.
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Stacey Abrams' team prepares push for new vote
ATLANTA (AP) - Stacey Abrams' campaign and legal team is preparing an unprecedented legal challenge in the unresolved Georgia governor's race that could leave the state's Supreme Court deciding whether to force another round of voting.
The Democrat's longshot strategy relies on a statute that's never been used in such a high-stakes contest. It is being discussed as Georgia elections officials appear to be on the cusp of certifying Republican Brian Kemp as the winner of a bitterly fought campaign that's been marred by charges of electoral malfeasance.
Top Abrams advisers outlined her prospective case to The Associated Press, stressing that the Democratic candidate hasn't finalized a decision about whether to proceed once state officials certify Kemp as the victor. That could happen as early as Friday evening.
Allegra Lawrence-Hardy, Abrams' campaign chairwoman, is overseeing a team of almost three-dozen lawyers who in the coming days will draft the petition, along with a ream of affidavits from voters and would-be voters who say they were disenfranchised. Abrams would then decide whether to go to court under a provision of Georgia election law that allows losing candidates to challenge results based on "misconduct, fraud or irregularities ... sufficient to change or place in doubt the results."
The legal team is "considering all options," Lawrence-Hardy said, including federal court remedies. But the state challenge is the most drastic. And some Democratic legal observers note Abrams would be dependent on statutes that set a high bar for the court to intervene.
She already faces a narrow path to the governor's mansion. Unofficial returns show Kemp with about 50.2 percent of more than 3.9 million votes. That puts him about 18,000 votes above the threshold required to win by a majority and avoid a Dec. 4 runoff. The Associated Press is not calling the race until state officials certify the results.
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Abrams would assert that enough irregularities occurred to raise the possibility that at least 18,000 Georgians either had their ballots thrown out or were not allowed to vote.
Lawrence-Hardy told the AP that Abrams will weigh legal considerations alongside her belief that many of her backers - particularly minority and poorer voters who don't regularly go to the polls - heeded her call to participate and ran into barriers.
"These stories to me are such that they have to be addressed," said Lawrence-Hardy, who was among the army of lawyers who worked on the Bush v. Gore presidential election dispute in 2000. "It's just a much bigger responsibility. I feel like our mandate has blossomed. ... Maybe this is our moment."
Kemp, who served as the state's chief elections officer until two days after the election when he resigned as secretary of state and declared victory, has maintained that any uncounted ballots won't change the outcome. His campaign has called Abrams' legal maneuvers so far a "disgrace to democracy" and an attempt to "count illegal votes."
The circumstances leave Abrams, a 44-year-old rising Democratic star, with a tough decision. The former state lawmaker became a national political celebrity with her bid to become the first black woman in American history to be elected governor. Her strategy of running as an unapologetic liberal who attracts new voters to the polls resonated in a rapidly changing state. Yet Abrams also must consider her own political future and the consequences of a protracted legal fight she might not win.
All of that is playing out against the backdrop of Kemp's unabashed embrace of President Donald Trump's nationalism.
Since Election Day, Abrams campaign workers have transitioned from get-out-the-vote efforts to helping voters determine whether their ballots were counted and documenting reported problems. The idea is to assemble a body
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evidence to support the claim that the problems could account for Kemp's 18,000-vote margin above the runoff trigger.
Affidavits from poll workers reviewed by the AP describe long lines that discouraged people from voting, poll workers failing to offer provisional ballots to people who didn't show up on the rolls or were at the wrong polling place and election equipment that froze and had to be rebooted.
Cathy Cox, a Democrat who served as secretary of state from 1999 through 2007 and is now the dean of Mercer University's law school, said Georgia law puts a heavy burden on candidates such as Abrams who ask a court to intervene.
"I would say with pretty great confidence there has probably never been an election ... without some irregularity, where some poll worker did not make some mistake," Cox said in an interview. The key, she said, is proving someone erred to the point that it could change the outcome.
Lawrence-Hardy agreed the law requires a quantitative analysis. She said Abrams' team doesn't have a list of 18,000 disenfranchised voters. The evidence, she said, would consist of hundreds, if not thousands of such examples, along with data analysis of projected lost votes based on other problems, such as a lack of paper ballots at precincts where voting machines broke down and voters left long lines.
Cox said courts must attempt to apply a nonpartisan standard of "doubt" to the election. "Would a reasonable person have a reason to doubt this election? Not would a hard-core partisan Democrat doubt a partisan Republican opponent," she said.
Abrams and voting rights activists have argued for months that Kemp mismanaged the elections system as secretary of state, with Abrams often calling Kemp "an architect of suppression."
Under Georgia law, Abrams could file a challenge against Kemp or his successor as the secretary of state. The challenge must be filed within five days of certification in a trial court of the county where the chosen defendant resides. The defendant has between five and 10 days to respond, and the presiding judge sets a hearing within 20 days after that deadline, a calendar that could push a dispute well beyond what would have been a Dec. 4 runoff.
If the judge determines the election is so defective that it casts doubt on the results, the judge can declare the election invalid and call a new vote among the same candidates. Cox called that "the real extreme remedy."
A more "surgical" course, she said, would be to affirm irregularities but only order that certified results be reopened and recertified once those problems are remedied. The judge could then declare a winner or order a runoff if the results are close enough.
The judge could also declare a winner after hearing the evidence, but Cox said that's unlikely because the case will probably hinge on uncounted votes and there's no way to know before a count which candidate won those votes.
Once the judge rules, the loser has 10 days to appeal to the Georgia Supreme Court.
UPDATE: Clear Creed ISD gives all-clear; lockout at Clear Lake Intermediate and lockdowns at nearby schools are lifted; HPD says search is over; no suspicious person was found.
(Raw feed, no sound) https://on.khou.com/2RVZhPW
CLEAR LAKE, Texas -- Reports of a suspicious person near Clear Lake Intermediate caused some tense moments for students, staff and parents Friday morning.
But after a search by Houston police, Precinct 8 and Galveston County deputies, the all-clear was given by the Clear Creek Independent School District.
It all started when a witness reported seeing someone in all black clothing who was possibly carrying a gun near the Clear Lake Intermediate School campus, according to Precinct 8.
After an extensive search by several agencies, the search was called off.
"The male was not located and no further information about his identity has been obtained," said Chief Deputy Jason Finnen with Precinct 8. "Only one witness has been located who claims to have seen a gun."
The lockout at Clear Lake Intermediate has been lifted, along with lockdowns at Ward Elementary, Clear Lake Elementary, Falcon Pass Elementary, Armand Bayou Elementary and Space Center Intermediate.
HPD said their units would remain in the area, as a precaution.
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PAMPHLET -- THEY ARE FINALLY ACKNOWLEDGING THE SEALED INDICTMENTS - SOMETHING MIGHT BE READY TO DROP https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1063553763573669893
President Trump won again. The media now will have rules to follow or lose their press pass. They screwed each other.
Any of the Presidents staff that is treated with disrespect can walk out of press conference. There you go liberals. Take that.
Learn little children some respect.