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Steve Stockman’s Many ‘Friends’ Appeal to Supreme Court

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. . .Following an unnecessarily snarky and, in my opinion, legally flawed decision by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upholding his conviction, [Steve] Stockman has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to hear his appeal, docketed as case 20-103.

The chances of the Supreme Court taking any case are slim. Arguing the important constitutional and policy issues at stake, however, four different amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) briefs have been filed in support of Stockman’s petition. . .

Other briefs urging the Court to take the case were filed by noted constitutional law professor John Eastman on behalf of the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence; Eagle Forum Education and Legal Defense Fund; and the fourth filed by Joe Miller on behalf of Public Advocate of the United States, The Constitution Party National Committee, Restoring Liberty, and other amici.

Some years back, you may recall, Tea Party–backed Miller narrowly lost a challenge in Alaska against RINO Senator Lisa Murkowski, but only after a controversial recount overturned his initial win. Joe understands the perils of taking on the GOP establishment, and his brief is especially important.

Miller’s brief, which itself reads like an indictment of the Obama Justice Department, notes how “the troubling political context of Stockman’s prosecution was completely ignored by the Fifth Circuit” Court of Appeals. Stockman was targeted “[b]eginning in 2013 [when] it took Obama’s DOJ multiple grand juries, with at least three refusing to return a true bill [of indictment] against” him.

Stockman, after all, was “one of the first congressmen to call for President Obama’s impeachment,” writes Miller, noting that Stockman “also called for Attorney General Eric Holder’s impeachment, and led the fight to publicize Lois Lerner’s abuse of power as the head of the exempt organizations division of the Internal Revenue Service.”

While Stockman’s petition and the other three amicus briefs focused on why the conviction was wrong as a matter of law, Joe uses nearly twelve pages of his brief to brilliantly lay out the Obama administration’s lawlessness and lawbreaking, which was “the troubling political context” of how Stockman was targeted to be put away and silenced, as political prisoners are. (Read more from “Steve Stockman’s Many ‘Friends’ Appeal to Supreme Court” HERE)

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Rep. Stockman introduces ‘The Dog Ate My Tax Receipts Act’

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Photo Credit: AFP“Taxpayers should be allowed to offer the same flimsy, obviously made-up excuses the Obama Administration uses,” Stockman declared, offering legislation that would require the IRS to accept any of the following reasons when we can’t meet their demands for documentation…

1. The dog ate my tax receipts
2. Convenient, unexplained, miscellaneous computer malfunction
3. Traded documents for five terrorists
4. Burned for warmth while lost in the Yukon
5. Left on table in Hillary’s Book Room

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Congressman’s Bill Stops Federal Funds for Medical Centers Targeting Kids Like Justina Pelletier (+video)

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Photo Credit: LifeNews

Congressman Steve Stockman will introduce legislation cutting off funds to medical institutions that conduct greater than minimal risk research on wards of the state, deny First Amendment rights to parents and wards of the state, and take children away from their parents over disagreements on subjective medical diagnoses.

Such medical institutions include the National Institute of Health, state agencies, medical facilities, and hospitals. This bill would direct the Inspector General of Health and Human Services to withhold funds from these institutions for the aforementioned reasons.

he story of Justina Pelletier, who has mitochondrial disease and was declared a ward of the state over a custody battle regarding a subjective psychotropic drug diagnosis, motivated Congressman Stockman to introduce the legislation.

Lou and Linda Pelletier brought their daughter, Justina, to Boston Children’s Hospital for flu-like symptoms in February 2013. Justina had been diagnosed with and receiving treatment for Mitochondrial Disease, a genetic medical condition, since 2011. Less than 24 hours after being admitted to Boston Children’s Hospital, mental health workers disagreed with the Mitochondrial Disease diagnosis and insisted she had a psychiatric disorder called Somatoform (though there are no fool-proof medical or genetic tests to validate this as a legitimate medical condition).

Upon learning of the psychiatric diagnosis, the Pelletiers attempted to discharge Justina from the hospital. In response, the Hospital filed an allegation of medical child abuse against them. Justina has now been removed from her parents’ care, and has been under psychiatric treatment for over a year.

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Tea Party Leader Sets the Record Straight about Supposed CPAC Controversy

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Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore In case you missed it, Texas Congressman Steve Stockman supposedly hosted an “awesome” hot tub party on the Saturday night after CPAC concluded.

The Washington Post characterized it this way: “The real-life CPAC party, held at a suite in the Gaylord Hotel, where the conference was taking place, featured an expletive-spewing congressman, Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Tex.), offering $20 to whoever would jump into the bathroom’s hot tub, according to Slate’s Dave Weigel. Weigel witnessed Stockman, the quirky challenger who was just crushed by Sen. John Cornyn in the state’s senate Republican primary, offer this eloquent toast: ‘F*** the left!’”

But truthfully, the party story is just another media hit job based on fabricated facts. And since Stockman launched his quirky and (according to some) ill-fated campaign against Senator John Cornyn (the reigning RINO of Texas politics and a close pal of Karl Rove), the media has been in a feeding frenzy.

Mainstream newspapers around the country are quick to publish any negative story about a Tea Party leader without even bothering to check the facts. Take the Houston Chronicle, for example. Numerous Chronicle stories would be considered libel if Stockman wasn’t a public figure.

The thing is, Stockman is misunderstood because he never cared about the perks of being in Congress. He isn’t obsessed with power like so many of the little people that populate the GOP caucus on the Hill. Instead, he’s frustrated by John Boehner’s do-nothing attitude and the pathetic leaders obsessed with protecting their jobs, the country be damned.

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Congressman Stockman Closing in on RINO Cornyn

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Photo Credit: JP Updates In the latest poll out of Texas by Human Events-Gravis Marketing, there’s some trouble for current Senator John Cornyn who is running for re-election.

When asked “if the election were held today, would you vote for Republican Steve Stockman or Republican John Cornyn?” Cornyn holds a 15-point lead, 43% to 28% Stockman, while 29% of the voters are still undecided.

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‘Missing’ Congressman Stockman In Russia as Part of Congressional Delegation; Rips Media for False Reporting

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Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore/Flickr

Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore/Flickr

By Brandon Darby and Jonathan Strong.

Missing Texas Congressman Steve Stockman told an associate he was headed to Russia to meet with Vladimir Putin, according to an electronic communication reviewed by Breitbart News, and now says he is in London…

Stockman broke his silence on the matter in a text message sent to Breitbart News at 3:26am central time.

“I am on a bipartisan codel. I’m on foreign affairs. Part of my work,” Stockman said, adding that he doesn’t know why a Houston Chronicle reporter said “I’m missing” because “we met with the press every day.”

Stockman also said “I am in a meeting now – London.”

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Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore/Flickr

Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore/Flickr

Steve Stockman details overseas travels, rips media

By Brandon Darby and Jonathan Strong.

Rep. Steve Stockman told Breitbart News he traveled to Russia, Egypt, Israel and England as part of an official congressional delegation and ripped the media for what he described as a made-up story about his absence from Congress and his Texas district.

The Texas Congressman said members of the delegation held press conferences in each city they visited and that a reporter for the Associated Press – the news organization which most prominently raised questions about Stockman’s whereabouts – had a reporter at one such event in Egypt.

Stockman said the purpose of the trip was to discuss issues relating to terrorism with foreign governments and said the group of lawmakers met with the President of Egypt and a top-ranking general in Israel.

Though the group of five House members had been scheduled to meet with Vladimir Putin, the Russian President canceled because of meetings in Davos, Stockman said.

Stockman said the group had also wanted to meet with former NSA contractor and whistle-blower Edward Snowden but did not have enough time because of urgent meetings about terrorist threats to the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi.

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Steve Stockman Can’t Lose: The Political Genius of the Texas Firebrand

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Photo Credit: Politico

John Cornyn saw it coming. Even with no real competition on the horizon, the senior senator from Texas had been hiring staff, building his network and choking his state’s Internet bandwidth with ads that hinted darkly at Texas’s political future without him. Cornyn, an 11-year veteran of the Senate, may have been named the body’s second most conservative member by National Journal, but after criticizing Tea Party hero Sen. Ted Cruz during the prelude to the government shutdown this fall, he had good reason to fear a threat from his party’s far-right fringe. As chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Cornyn had told sitting senators to be prepared for primary challenges—and he took his own advice.

There were rumblings of a challenge from several corners. Tea Party leaders had tried to draft Rep. Louie Gohmert, and evangelical historian David Barton had flirted with running. When conservative activists in Texas spoke privately, other names cropped up—like Ted Cruz’s father, Rafael, and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst. So when a challenger came—even if he came, like an undergraduate with a term paper, less than half an hour before the filing deadline—Cornyn’s team was prepared.

But still, Steve Stockman?

Yes, that Stockman, the Republican congressman most famous outside Texas for his bombastic use of social media (his Twitter account is legendary, thanks to declarations like “Obamacare is less popular than Chlamydia” ) and outrageous proclamations (like his now-infamous “If babies had guns they wouldn’t be aborted” bumper sticker). For the most part, other Republicans here in Texas seem merely to tolerate him—or, at best, appreciate his ability to fire up the grassroots while maintaining their distance. (One long-time Republican strategist told me the Texas congressional delegation had adopted what he termed the “rabid dog approach” to handling Stockman.) Edward Chen, former vice chairman of the Harris County Republican Party, once summed up Stockman’s place in the GOP for Texas Monthly thus: “He’s a Republican. As a Republican, he’s on our ballot. And that’s about the situation.”

Just to be clear: Nobody in Texas thinks Stockman has a snowball’s chance of winning against Cornyn, and they’re probably right. “This is going to be an irritant,” says Matt Mackowiak, an Austin-based Republican strategist. “But it’s only an irritant.” Some argue that a failed primary challenge from Stockman will help burnish Cornyn’s credentials and distance him from his party’s far right. That may be true—and it may be true, as well, that Stockman’s campaign will help break the populist fever afflicting the state’s GOP.

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Steve Stockman Campaign: For Small Donation, Receive “Official Obama Barf Bag”

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Photo Credit: Free Beacon

Photo Credit: Free Beacon

2014 Senate candidate Steve Stockman has an offer you can’t refuse: Donate $10 to his campaign and receive “the official Obama Barf Bag.”

“Dear liberty patriot, Obama’s socialism makes me sick!” Stockman’s campaign website declares. “And I have the barf bag to prove it!”

Rep. Stockman (R., Texas) promises to send donors one barf bag for every $10 they donate. The paper vomit receptacles prominently feature President Barack Obama’s face, with “NO 2” next to it.

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Tea Party Favorite Taking on Cornyn in Texas-Sized Showdown

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SteveStockmanOne of Washington’s most reliably conservative lawmakers is breaking the news that he will challenge a mainstay of the Republican establishment – all because the incumbent GOP senator “undermined Sen. Ted Cruz’s fight to stop Obamacare.”

Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas, told WND exclusively that he will run against against Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, in the state’s primary race. Cornyn is running for re-election to the U.S. Senate in 2014.

With his campaign little more than an hour old, Stockman had already picked up some major support.

Jenny Beth Martin, president and co-founder of Tea Party Patriots, told WND, “Congressman Stockman has proven himself to be a fighter for freedom who votes in the House of Representatives based on constitutional principles. We need more senators who will do the same.”

Martin added, “The campaign will be interesting to watch unfold over the next few months as Stockman campaigns on these values, reminding Texans why they value their freedom and independence and why they need to change Washington, D.C., where the government has grown too big and too powerful.”

Read more from this story HERE.