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The Supreme Court stopped Florida’s ballot recounts, relying on a cooked-up judicial rationale that even the deciding justices said should not be invoked again.

Women had to navigate: “Some cheerfully deflected advances, defusing the moment with humor. Others willingly participated, having flings for the fun of it, a no-harm-no-foul mentality. Some leveraged the situation, accommodating a supervisor’s desires for the sake of their careers. Still others objected and risked being marginalized, demoted, even fired for some cooked-up reason.”

The Canadians were freed from Beijing’s harsh detention Friday, more than 1,000 days after they were arrested on cooked-up charges.

Thus did the Canadians, held by China as hostages on cooked-up charges, become human bargaining chips in the escalating superpower tensions between Beijing and Washington.

He would be the chairman of the Judiciary Committee if GOP takes back the House next year and able to conduct any investigation he wanted into the 2020 election on the basis of any number of cooked-up conspiracy theories.