The Gold Medal for spin may have to go to the New Republic. After revealing millions of dollars being filtered through 17 LLCs to nine Biden family members from foreign sources, the TNR headlined:"Republicans Finally Admit They Have No Incriminating Evidence on Joe Biden."
...Soon to be followed by "Media Finally Admits That They Have No Journalistic Interest in Democratic Corruption." As noted earlier, nothing will make the media see the elephant on the stage. jonathanturley.org/2021/10/19/joe…
... Joe Biden was the object of the influence peddling and the proceeds were allegedly distributed to family members from his brother to his grandchildren. Yet, the media is insisting that no level of corruption is newsworthy short of a confession...
...Yet, it is impressive to see the media doing a virtual victory lap around a multimillion corruption scandal because everyone in the Biden family but the President are named in dozens of shady transfers. Welcome to the Big Julie school of ethics: clip.cafe/guys-dolls-195…
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It is 6-3 in upholding the constitutionality of the board that issued rules for the covering of preventative case. This avoids a massive potential disruption on covered health care services.
...Justice Thomas dissents with Alito and Gorsuch. Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Barrett join with the liberal justices...
Five-minute warning. Once again, we have ten cases in the pipeline. We will be watching for any retirement announcements. Justices Thomas and Alito are the most obvious. Thomas may want to extend his time as one of the longest sitting justices, so the best money may be on Alito.
...Both Thomas and Alito would likely want to retire when they can be replaced with a like-minded nominee...
...Alito could well have the Mahmoud case out of Maryland on parental rights and LGBTQ material in public schools...
President Trump just announced that the United States has attacked the nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow. As discussed in today's column, Trump has history on his side in taking this action without congressional approval... thehill.com/opinion/white-…
...Since Iran has threatened to attack the United States in response to such an operation, it could trigger a series of cascading decisions. For example, under Article Five of the NATO treaty, an attack on one member is an attack on all...
...That is just one of the issues that could arise in a more prolonged conflict if Iran carries out its threat of retaliating against U.S. assets.
Today's decision upholding the Tennessee law restricting gender transition care for minors has enormous implications for a variety of transgender cases. Chief Justice Roberts declared "The Equal Protection Clause does not resolve these disagreements."...
...The Court rejected the use of intermediate scrutiny that was just used by a judge in Boston to bar the Trump administration from requiring either male or female designations on passports...
...There is still room here for future challenges. The Court found that there was no discrimination on the basis of transgender status and noted that "absent a showing that SB1’s prohibitions are pretexts designed to effect invidious discrimination against transgender individuals, the law does not classify on the basis of transgender status."...