Student Loan Repayments To Restart After A 3 Year Moratorium

Borrowers are reassessing their budgets as student loan payments resume after pandemic pause – ABC News, 2023/09/30

Millions of Americans must start repaying their federal student loans again in October, with monthly payments averaging hundreds of dollars. To get ready, borrowers are cutting expenses, taking on additional work, and looking for options to reduce their monthly payments.

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The Supreme Court in July rejected a plan by President Joe Biden’s administration to wipe away $400 billion in student loan debt.

The Supreme Court rejecting the Biden plan was a no-brainer since issues of spending and the budget have to go through Congress.

University Of Minnesota Scraps Affirmative Action Criteria

University of Minnesota drops affirmative action for race and legacy admissions after SCOTUS ruling – Fox News, 2023/07/19

The University of Minnesota says it will no longer consider race or family legacy for admissions after the U.S. Supreme Court declared affirmative action unconstitutional.

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“The application will ask for this optional information for recruitment and communication purposes about programs and services offered,” the university says. “The information will not be provided to application reviewers and will not be considered at any point during the University of Minnesota admissions decision process.”

I believe the Supreme Court only ruled Affirmative Action was unconstitutional regarding higher education. Otherwise, let me know when black students with the appropriate credentials aren’t being admitted.

Justice Sotomayor’s Wealth Skyrockets Since Joining The Supreme Court

Sotomayor’s wealth has skyrocketed since joining Supreme Court, raising ethics concerns – Fox News, 2023/07/12

In 2007, the sum of Sotomayor’s total investments was between $50,001 and $115,000, according to her financial disclosure form for that year. She reported only two assets: a checking account and a savings account, both at Citibank.

In 2008, Sotomayor’s financial disclosures show she had the same two assets, this time totaling $15,001 to $65,000. The following year, during which Sotomayor was both nominated and confirmed to the Supreme Court, she held the same investments for the same range of value.

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Since then, Sotomayor’s net worth has skyrocketed, putting her among the ranks of the nation’s millionaires. In 2021, her investments totaled somewhere between $1.5 million and $6.4 million, according to financial disclosure forms. Last year, investments were roughly the same, in between $1.6 million and $6.6 million.

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Currently, members of the high court make $285,400 except for the chief justice, who earns just under $300,000.

One reason for the sharp increase in Sotomayor’s investments and overall wealth is the money she’s made from writing books. On Tuesday, the Associated Press reported that her staff has often “prodded” public institutions that have hosted the justice to buy her memoir or children’s books — works that have made her at least $3.7 million since joining the Supreme Court and continue to rake in six-figure royalty payments annually.

Hunter sells art… she sells books – well public institutions buy books (I wonder if that’s with tax payer money)…

On the other hand, she has been on the court 14 years. She could have saved her money. Probably a little bit of both is involved.

There are worse issues out there… let it go unless there is something obvious. You can’t chase everything.

California: Truckers Protest AB5 Law After Supreme Courts Refuses Case

Independent California truckers scramble after Supreme Court refuses to hear AB5 case – CBS News San Francisco, 2022/07/05

A law designed to force gig-economy companies like Uber, Lyft and DoorDash to accept workers as employees is also having a profound impact on the trucking industry. AB5 was intended to give transport workers more workplace protections, but for truckers who own and operate their own rigs, they said it may be the end of the road.

On Thursday, June 28th, the U.S. Supreme Court made news again, this time by refusing to hear a challenge by California truckers to the new law that requires truck drivers to be employees of the trucking companies they do business with.

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The problem is, nearly all of the state’s goods are transported by truck, many of which are owned and operated by individual drivers.

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“There’s 9,000 trucks that serve the port on a daily basis, and 90% of them are independent contractors. So, this is a big, big impact,” said Bill Aboudi, owner of AB Trucking in Oakland.

Aboudi employs his own drivers, but also uses independent contractors to handle overflow business, which he just said became illegal. Aboudi says he won’t be able to use trucks owned by the drivers anymore.

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Ironically, companies like Uber and Lyft were exempted from AB5 with the subsequent passage of Proposition 22. But Brashier said he believes AB5 was always intended to force independent truckers into trucking companies, making them easier to unionize.

I think that last statement is accurate. Uber and Lyft were the original focus of the AB5 law, but they received exemptions.

The atory above was from 2-3 weeks ago. The latest is below.

Trucker protest over gig worker law shuts down operations at California port – NBC News, 2022/07/21

Truckers protesting a state labor law effectively shut down cargo operations at the Port of Oakland, it was announced Wednesday.

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The protest that began Monday involves hundreds of independent big-rig truckers that have blocked the movement of cargo in and out of terminals at the port, which is one of the 10 busiest container ports in the country, according to its website.

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The truckers are protesting Assembly Bill 5, a gig economy law passed in 2019 that made it harder for companies to classify workers as independent contractors instead of employees, who are entitled to minimum wage and benefits such as workers compensation, overtime and sick pay.

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The International Brotherhood of Teamsters called it a “massive victory” for exploited truckers. But the California Trucking Association, which sued over the law, had argued the law could make it harder for independent drivers who own their own trucks and operate on their own hours to make a living by forcing them to be classified as employees.

Supreme Court Decides To Overturn Roe v Wade

Supreme Court overturns constitutional right to abortion – SCOTUS Blog, 2022/06/22

The Supreme Court on Friday eliminated the constitutional right to obtain an abortion, casting aside 49 years of precedent that began with Roe v. Wade.

The decision by Justice Samuel Alito will set off a seismic shift in reproductive rights across the United States. It will allow states to ban abortion, and experts expect about half the states to do so.

In one of the most anticipated rulings in decades, the court overturned Roe, which first declared a constitutional right to abortion in 1973, and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which re-affirmed that right in 1992. The decision followed the leak in early May of a draft opinion showing that a majority of the justices were privately poised to take that step. On Friday, they made it official.

The vote to overturn Roe was 5-4. Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett joined Alito’s opinion. Chief Justice John Roberts did not join the opinion. He agreed with the majority that the Mississippi abortion restriction at issue in the case should be upheld, but in a separate opinion, he argued that the court should not have overturned Roe.

I know it occurred last week, but wanted to make sure I have the link here.

Chief Justice Roberts continues to be on a different planet and chose to have an entirely different viewpoint.

Roe v Wade 2022: Supreme Court Vote And Opinions Leaked

Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows – Politico, 2022/05/02

The Supreme Court has voted to strike down the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, according to an initial draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito circulated inside the court and obtained by POLITICO.

The draft opinion is a full-throated, unflinching repudiation of the 1973 decision which guaranteed federal constitutional protections of abortion rights and a subsequent 1992 decision — Planned Parenthood v. Casey — that largely maintained the right. “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Alito writes.

“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” he writes in the document, labeled as the “Opinion of the Court.” “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”

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The immediate impact of the ruling as drafted in February would be to end a half-century guarantee of federal constitutional protection of abortion rights and allow each state to decide whether to restrict or ban abortion. It’s unclear if there have been subsequent changes to the draft.

No draft decision in the modern history of the court has been disclosed publicly while a case was still pending. The unprecedented revelation is bound to intensify the debate over what was already the most controversial case on the docket this term.

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POLITICO received a copy of the draft opinion from a person familiar with the court’s proceedings in the Mississippi case along with other details supporting the authenticity of the document.

I will say up front that I against abortion in general because of my belief in God and His Son Jesus Christ, and I consider it as life in the womb once it has a heartbeat – which means the baby has its own blood and circulatory system. But I do give people room that don’t believe that. And I understand our country is generally based on freedom, and we have a system where the people can choose representatives to make the laws that they desire.

I just don’t want to pay for them through the tax code. I don’t believe in them, so I shouldn’t have to pay for them. My motto adopted from the famous chant is… your body, your choice, your money. There’s the argument for low income women and what they would do… 1- I say don’t put yourself in the position to need an abortion. 2- There are plenty of rich abortion supporters that can start a private fund to help out low income women.

Other situations regarding rape and health issues – take on a case by case basis. Those are my points. I am not trying to make life hard for women… I want to avoid future women (and men) being killed in the womb. People are the nation’s most important resource.

Regarding this issue as a nation, OMG – this is going to be a mess. Hopefully calm heads will prevail in this national discussion, but I am not optimistic.

No one is even wondering about who leaked the documents. That’s a huge issue, and hopefully they find out who did it, and they are punished. I won’t hold my breath on that one either.

When Biden Blocked A Black Woman For The Supreme Court

Remembering the Black woman Biden blocked from the Supreme Court – AEI/Washington Post Opinion, 2022/02/01

President Biden wants credit for nominating the first Black woman to the Supreme Court. But here is the shameful irony: As a senator, Biden warned President George W. Bush that if he nominated the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court, he would filibuster and kill her nomination.

The story begins in 2003, when Bush nominated Judge Janice Rogers Brown to serve on the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The D.C. Circuit is considered the country’s second-most important court, and has produced more Supreme Court justices than any other federal court. Brown was immediately hailed as a potential Supreme Court nominee. She was highly qualified, having served for seven years as an associate justice of the California Supreme Court — the first Black woman to do so. She was the daughter and granddaughter of sharecroppers, and grew up in rural Alabama during the dark days of segregation, when her family refused to enter restaurants or theaters with separate entrances for Black customers. She rose from poverty and put herself through college and UCLA law school as a working single mother. She was a self-made African American legal star. But she was an outspoken conservative — so Biden set out to destroy her.

Biden and his fellow Democrats filibustered her nomination, along with several other Bush circuit court nominees, all of whom had majority support in the Senate.

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when Justice Sandra Day O’Connor announced her retirement, Brown was on Bush’s shortlist to replace her. She would have been the first Black woman ever nominated to serve as an associate justice of the Supreme Court. But Biden appeared on CBS’s “Face the Nation” to warn that if Bush nominated Brown, she would face a filibuster. “I can assure you that would be a very, very, very difficult fight and she probably would be filibustered,” Biden said. Asked by moderator John Roberts “Wasn’t she just confirmed?,” Biden replied that the Supreme Court is a “totally different ballgame” because “a circuit court judge is bound by stare decisis. They don’t get to make new law.”

What Biden threatened was unprecedented. There has never been a successful filibuster of a nominee for associate justice in the history of the republic. Biden wanted to make a Black woman the first in history to have her nomination killed by filibuster. Bush eventually nominated Samuel A. Alito Jr.

Today, Biden calls the filibuster a “relic of the Jim Crow era.” But he threatened to use that relic as a tool to keep a Black woman who actually lived under Jim Crow off the highest court in the land. The irony is that now he wants to get rid of the filibuster, and claim credit for putting the first Black woman on the court.

It has never been about “black”. It has always been political favoritism.  Race relations would be so much better if we could just admit that.

Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh Tests Positive For COVID

Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh tests positive for Covid, days before new term begins – CNBC, 2021/10/01

Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh has tested positive for the coronavirus, the court said Friday, just three days before its next term is set to begin.

Kavanaugh, 56, is showing no symptoms of the virus, the court said. He has been fully vaccinated against Covid since January.

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All justices, including Kavanaugh, on Monday morning had tested negative prior to a private conference in which they discussed adding new cases to the docket, the court said.

Kavanaugh’s wife and daughters also tested negative on Thursday, according to the court.

This is the new normal. Higher rates of COVID cases and vaccine incidents.

For the healthy – they will be OK.

For those with compromised health – You are at risk with or without the vaccine

For the authoritarians & Communists – Christmas has come.

Supreme Court Says Arizona Can Limit Ballot Harvesting

SCOTUS Defends Election Integrity, Dems Panic – American Spectator, 2021/07/03

On Thursday, the Supreme Court upheld two longstanding provisions of Arizona election law, provoking widespread trepidation among the Democrats. In a 6-3 ruling authored by Justice Samuel Alito, the Court held that it was permissible for the state to limit ballot harvesting and out-of-precinct voting. Such limitations are commonplace throughout the country, but the Democratic National Committee (DNC) took Arizona to court arguing that these two violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). The DNC lost but appealed to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled against Arizona. SCOTUS overturned that ruling and the panicked Democrats inevitably denounced the Supreme Court’s decision as a brazen assault on democracy.

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Predictably, congressional Democrats are attempting to use the Court’s ruling in Brnovich v. DNC as Exhibit A in their case for passage of federal legislation that would usurp the constitutional prerogative of states to make their own election laws.

The Democrats answer to everything is federal control. They can’t control 50 separate entities.

One of the arguments mentioned often is voter suppression. I have mentioned using our senses. Can anyone recall when there has been any voter suppression against black or brown citizens of this country? We absolutely should have voter suppression of people in the country illegally.

The ruling is here.
BRNOVICH, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF ARIZONA v. DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE – U.S. Supreme Court, 2021/07/01

Supreme Court Rules Unanimously Against The NCAA

Supreme Court says NCAA can’t limit some benefits to student athletes – NBC News, 2021/06/21

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that the National Collegiate Athletic Association went too far in blocking some education-related aid for student athletes, a decision that comes as college athletics struggles with the issue of how to preserve its amateur status.

The court said the NCAA violated antitrust laws when it limited the amount students could receive for musical instruments, scientific equipment, postgraduate scholarships, tutoring, academic awards and paid internships.

Writing for the court, Justice Neil Gorsuch said U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken was correct in dismissing the organization’s argument that antitrust law doesn’t apply to the case.

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In a concurring opinion, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said the “NCAA and its member colleges are suppressing the pay of student athletes who collectively generate billions of dollars in revenues for colleges every year. Those enormous sums of money flow to seemingly everyone except for student athletes.”

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“The NCAA’s business model would be flatly illegal in almost any other industry in America,” Kavanaugh wrote. “All of the restaurants in a region cannot come together to cut cooks’ wages on the theory that ‘customers prefer’ to eat food from low-paid cooks.”

The Supreme Court’s ruling did not, however, address the contentious issue of whether student athletes can be paid salaries or get other forms of compensation. The NCAA said it would consider this month whether student athletes can be compensated for the use of their names and images, which could allow them to benefit from endorsements and social media marketing.

I like to make note of unanimous Supreme Court rulings. Anytime that happens, it usually means it’s common sense and it should have happened a long time ago.

Supreme Court Unanimous In 4th Amendment Case

Supreme Court Blocks Police From Entering Homes Without A Warrant For ‘Caretaking’—Siding Against Biden, Law Enforcement – Forbes, 2021/05/17

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that law enforcement cannot legally enter homes without a warrant even in cases where doing so may benefit the public interest, striking down the suggestion from law enforcement and the Biden administration that doing so under a “community caretaking” exception would be justified.

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The case, Caniglia v. Strom, considered whether police acted lawfully by entering a man’s home and removing his firearms without a warrant after he had expressed thoughts of suicide and was taken to the hospital for a psychiatric evaluation.

Police entered the home under a “community caretaking” exception that allows entry in cases where doing so benefits the public interest, which has traditionally applied to incidents regarding vehicles but not in homes.

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The court ruled that the exception could not be extended to the home without violating the Fourth Amendment, overturning two lower courts that sided with the police officers and their argument that the amendment “does not prohibit law enforcement officers from diffusing a volatile situation in a home to protect the residents or others.”

Take note whenever there is a unanimous decision from the Supreme Court.

Supreme Court Denies Texas Election Lawsuit

U.S. Supreme Court rejects Texas challenge to election – Just The News, 2020/12/11

“The State of Texas’s motion for leave to file a bill of complaint is denied for lack of standing under Article III of the Constitution,” the justices ruled. “Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another State conducts its elections. All other pending motions are dismissed as moot.”

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Justice Samuel Alito filed a dissenting statement, joined by Justice Clarence Thomas.

“In my view, we do not have discretion to deny the filing of a bill of complaint in a case that falls within our original jurisdiction,” Alito wrote. “…I would therefore grant the motion to file the bill of complaint but would not grant other relief, and I express no view on any other issue.”

Supreme Court Allows the USFS To Issue Permit Gas Pipeline Under the Appalachian Trail

Supreme Court upholds permit for $8 billion pipeline under Appalachian Trail – The Hill, 2020/06/15

The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a permit for a controversial $8 billion gas pipeline that would tunnel below the famed Appalachian Trail.

The 7-2 opinion handed a defeat to environmental groups who challenged the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP), which would carry natural gas some 600 miles from West Virginia to North Carolina.

The decision to uphold the permit resolves a complex bureaucratic dispute involving multiple U.S. environmental agencies and overlapping legal authorities.

The justices held that the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) had been duly authorized to greenlight the project, rejecting the challengers’ claim that power over the affected land lay elsewhere.

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The case came before the justices on appeal from a 2018 ruling by the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, which sided with environmentalists.

The lower court ruled that the Appalachian Trail fell under the authority of the NPS, which it said was barred by law from granting land access, known as a right-of-way, for energy development.

The Supreme Court’s Monday ruling reverses that decision, finding that one of the laws in question — the Mineral Leasing Act — authorized the permit issued by the USFS.

Supreme Courts Rules in Favor of LGBT Employees

Supreme Court rules LGBTQ workers can’t be discriminated against – Consumer Reports, 2020/06/15

In a landmark ruling on Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court voted to make it illegal for gay, lesbian, and transgender workers to be discriminated against.

The Trump administration previously argued that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, under which discrimination based on sex is illegal, didn’t apply to claims of gender identity and sexual orientation.

By a vote of 6-3, the court ruled that the federal law does cover sexual orientation and transgender status. The ruling represents a victory for millions of LGBTQ workers and advocates nationwide.

The historic ruling was written by President Trump’s first Supreme Court appointee, Justice Neil Gorsuch. Comprising the rest of the majority was Chief Justice John Roberts and the court’s four liberal justices.

“An employer who fires an individual for being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex. Sex plays a necessary and undisguisable role in the decision, exactly what Title VII forbids,” Gorsuch wrote.

“There is simply no escaping the role intent plays here: Just as sex is necessarily a but-for cause when an employer discriminates against homosexual or transgender employees, an employer who discriminates on these grounds inescapably intends to rely on sex in its decision making,” the opinion read.

Supreme Court’s Ginsberg Continues Going To Gym Despite Shelter Orders

Two sets of rules…

Supreme Court Gives RBG Space For ‘Essential’ Workouts – Law360, 2020/03/31

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been enjoying exclusive access to a private workout space at the court during the coronavirus pandemic, as her doctors have deemed her training sessions “essential to her well-being.”

The court said Wednesday that, at the 87-year-old justice’s request, it set aside “limited private space” by its health facility for her to use for her famous exercise regimen. In a statement, the court said “[t]he space is being used exclusively by the justice. No other justices are using the space, and the employee gym is closed to all users.”

The statement comes after Law360 reported Tuesday that Justice Ginsburg had still been holding her in-person worykout sessions with longtime personal trainer Bryant Johnson during the coronavirus crisis, at a time when the Supreme Court has been closed to the public and oral arguments indefinitely postponed.

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News that Justice Ginsburg — an octogenarian, four-time cancer survivor — was still doing in-person sessions with a trainer sparked criticism from progressives who fear that the justice could be replaced by President Donald Trump if she dies or becomes incapacitated by illness. Some appellate lawyers on Twitter urged the justices’ former clerks to intervene and get her to stop the workouts.

They are more concerned about what Trump is doing than her health as a person, or anyone else’s health.

In Context: Senate Impeachment Trial of President Trump

I am trying to figure out a way to take notes for the impeachment trial amidst all of the nonsense, bickering, and partisan gossip and somehow grab what’s relevant – which probably isn’t much. I will offer a brief summary of the latest, and just accumulate links below for further reference and a history of the process.

The rules were set by the Senate on 1/21/20.

2020/01/21 – Senate sets rules for Trump impeachment trial, won’t subpoena witnesses – UPI

More Fallout from the Kavanaugh Hearings

From the Kavanaugh debacle, we know the Kavanaugh family’s lives have been damaged… as well as the accuser, Ms. Ford, who seemed to have no intent in getting the level of attention her complaint received.

Here is victim number 3…

Kavanaugh Pal Mark Judge Struggles to Put His Life Back Together After Dem Smear – PJ Media, 2018/10/18

The Kavanaugh confirmation circus is over and the fighters have gone back to their corners, but not before drawing massive amounts of blood. The Kavanaughs were injured, but they now have Secret Service protection and secure employment for life. There’s someone else, though, who was beaten and bloodied and left for dead on the side of the road.

Mark Judge, the other man accused by Christine Blasey Ford, has lost his job and his home. He is raising money on a GoFundMe alternative site called Funding Morality and has received $48,549 to date.

The random perils of our politicized culture.

Kavanaugh Epilogue

The Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination is thankfully wrapping up today, as it has hijacked most of the news for the last 4-6 weeks. Congratulations to the Kavanaugh family in achieving a position at the top level of his profession.

Like is the case with most disasters, it’s good to review what happened and maybe learn some things.

The bedrock principle of being innocent until proven guilty is on life support. Consider that there has been no formal report brought to any of the local police. There has been no one under penalty of perjury who has corroborated Ms. Ford’s account. This is basically a he-said, she-said issue which is not enough to convict anyone of a crime. Despite the fact that most of the people familiar with what took place had no recollection of Ms. Ford’s account, many assumed Kavanaugh to be guilty. This is not the way the justice system is supposed to work in this country. Guilt of a crime must be proven, and it wasn’t in this case. The problem is that for many, is about political advancement and not justice or truth. Which brings me to the second thing to learn…

Truth is not relevant for a sizable segment of the American population. Kavanaugh was considered guilty of sexual assault by many people and for various reasons. It did not matter that there was no corroborating evidence of her claim. Without the standard of truth, we basically turn into a society led my mob rule. We got a good idea of what that looks like in this case.

Both Kavanaugh and Ford were the victimized. Kavanaugh because he was nominated by Trump. Ford, was talked into do this, she did not want it to become public, and was used by those in the political machine. Both of them will be affected long term because of political radicals. To Ford’s credit, now that it’s over, she said through her lawyer that she will no longer pursue the case and does not want Kavanaugh to be impeached down the road.

If this is going to be the standard going forward, where we continue to devour each other and the foundations of truth and innocent until proven guilty continue to erode, America will be in trouble.

Kavanaugh Hearings… They Will Tell Us What Happens

I understand this is soaking up much of the attention in the news, but I will not allow it to take over my time. I have no control over the outcome, but hopefully it will be based on truth.

There is a bunch of political gamesmanship taking place with the Supreme Court position being a lifetime position and there’s a bunch of fear about legal decisions that may never even come into play. I am taking my cue from the Bible – today has enough trouble on its own. Why dream up more future troubles that may not even happen?

I will be honest and say that on the surface, I think it’s a political hit job on Kavanaugh to keep him off the court. I just find it hard to believe that the FBI scoured his background on six different occasions and did not see any of this and there has never been a report made to the local police. But if he did any of what is being charged, then he needs to be dealt with.

That’s all I am going to say on it. We will all find out how it shakes out. I am just not going to be held captive because numerous others are consumed by this. It has made it harder to find other relevant news out there.

Money Flow from George Soros to a Supreme Court Hearing Protester

It’s start with this video. Eyewitness account of protesters getting paid to protest.

 

 

The person who did the video also took some pictures of a woman getting paid, and the same woman getting arrested in the hearing.

 

 

He did some research to find out who is paying the money.

 

You see in LinkedIn that he is with the Center for Popular Democracy, who happens to have received $80 million from George Soros.

New $80M Anti-Trump Network Spearheaded by Soros-Funded Org With Former ACORN Employees – Washington Free Beacon, 2017/05/27

The Center for Popular Democracy Action Fund, the 501(c)(4) sister organization of the Center for Popular Democracy (CPD), a New York-based nonprofit that receives the bulk of its funding from George Soros, announced at their spring gala Tuesday that they will be heading up the new $80 million anti-Trump network that will span 32 states and have 48 local partners, CNN reported.

This is the complete flow of money from George Soros to fake protesters.

Supreme Court Justice Kennedy Retiring

Justice Anthony Kennedy Is Retiring and All Hell Is About to Break Loose – Reason, 2018/06/27

Appointed to the Supreme Court in 1987 by President Ronald Reagan, Kennedy’s impact on American law and politics is almost beyond reckoning. From the battles over gay rights, abortion, and affirmative action, to the clashes over gun control, campaign finance, and health care reform, Kennedy’s fingerprints are everywhere. He is perhaps the single most influential jurist alive today and he will surely go down in American legal history as one of the most influential justices to serve on the high court.

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As a moderate conservative with liberal tendencies, Kennedy often found himself casting the tie-breaking vote in such closely divided cases. That gave him tremendous influence over the direction of American law.

Regardless of your political viewpoint, the nomination process is going to be terrible for the country.

Supreme Court Justice Scalia Found Dead – In Context

2/15/2016 – Justice Antonin Scalia said to have died of ‘natural causes’ – AP
2/15/2016 – Cibolo Creek Ranch owner recalls Scalia’s last hours in Texas – MySanAntonio
2/14/2016 – The death of Antonin Scalia: Chaos, confusion and conflicting reports – Washington Post
2/14/2016 – Read Justice Ginsburg’s moving tribute to her “best buddy” Justice Scalia – VOX
2/14/2016 – Latest: Airport says plane with Scalia’s body has left Texas – AP
2/13/2016 – Inside Cibolo Creek Ranch, the luxury resort where Scalia died – Washington Post
2/13/2016 – President Obama’s Statement on the Death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia – Voice of America
2/13/2016 – Justice Antonin Scalia Found Dead at a West Texas Ranch – New American
2/13/2016 – The Latest: Sanders criticizes GOP position on court nominee – AP

Chief Justice Denies Groups Attempt to Block ObamaCare

The Association of American Physicians & Surgeons, Inc. and the Alliance for Natural Health USA attempted to block implementation of the nation’s new health care law.

John Roberts refuses to grant Obamacare emergency stay – Washington Examiner

They asked the chief justice Friday to temporarily block the law, saying Congress had passed it incorrectly by starting it in the Senate instead of the House. Revenue-raising bills are supposed to originate in the lower chamber. They also wanted blocked doctor registration requirements they say will make it harder for independent non-Medicare physicians to treat Medicare-eligible patients.

ACORN Appeal Buried

Court won’t hear ACORN lawsuit over gov’t funding

The Supreme Court won’t hear an appeal from ACORN, the activist group driven to ruin by scandal and financial woes, over being banned from getting federal funds.

The high court on Monday refused to review a federal court’s decision to uphold Congress’s ban on federal funds for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

This is back page news, but any good news should be noted.

Wisconsin Supreme Court Recount is Complete

Prosser wins recount in Wisconsin Supreme Court race

Final recount numbers submitted to the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board show Prosser with 7,006 more votes than Kloppenburg.

The opportunity for a lawsuit still remains until August 1.