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SCOTUS is scheduled to release the final three opinions for the October 2022 term today at 10:00 a.m. I'll post information as to those decisions and a link to the opinions as soon as they are made available. The three remaining cases are the two student loan forgiveness cases and the 303 Creative First Amendment case. Below is the issues to be decided on this cases as compiled by Amy Howe (attorney at scotusblog). Just a reminder, scotusblog is a website maintained by court-watchers and is not affiliated with the Court itself. 303 Creative v. Elenis (argued Dec. 5, 2022):...

During a discussion reacting to the Supreme Court’s ruling that affirmative action policies in college admissions violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears called out Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson for being a diversity hire. The comment came during an interview on Fox News’s “The Story,” after host Martha MacCallum read viewers Jackson’s dissent. “This is the dissent from Justice Jackson, she said, ‘With let them eat cake obliviousness today, the majority pulls the ripcord and announces color blindness for all by legal fiat. But deeming race irrelevant in law does not make...

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Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said former President Trump “admires strongmen” and wishes he could be “Putin in America” in a newly published interview with the Financial Times. The presidential candidates and one-time allies have been feuding since well before Christie officially entered the race in early June, and Christie’s attacks come as Trump claims he could finish the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. “He’d give Ukraine to the Russians. He wouldn’t care less,” Christie said in the FT interview. “Trump is someone who believes: fill the moat, pull up the drawbridge,” he added.

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<p>The Governor has just 14% support among GOP voters younger than 45 years of age.</p><p>New polling points to trouble for Ron DeSantis with one particular demographic in the 2024 presidential race.</p><p>A Fox News poll conducted from June 23 through June 26 shows the Florida Governor 50 points behind former President Donald Trump, 64% to 14%, with Republican voters under the age of 45.</p>

The Bible In Paintings ~ Encouragement for Applying and Appreciating God's Word ~ •Drawings•Engravings•Facades•Frescoes•Illuminations•Miniatures•Mosaics•Photographs•Reliefs•Statues•Tapestries•Windows• THE SISTINE CHAPEL’S CEILING 1 MICHELANGELO BUONAROTTI "Ceiling" [CORNER] PENDENTIVES 2 "PENDENTIVES" 3 "Judith Carrying Away the Head of Holofernes" 4 "The Israelites' Deliverance from the Plague of Serpents by the Creation of the Bronze Serpent" 5 "Punishment of Haman" 6 "David and Goliath" SYBILS & PROPHETS 7 "SIBYLS AND PROPHETS" 8 "Delphic Sibyl" 9 "Prophet Isaiah" 10 "Cumaean Sibyl" 11 "Prophet Daniel" 12 "Libyan Sibyl" 13 "Prophet Jonah" 14 "Prophet Jeremiah" 15 "Persian Sibyl" 16 "Prophet Ezekiel" 17 "Ezekiel, detail" 18 "Erythraean Sibyl" 19...

President Trump on Thursday reacted to the Supreme Court’s decision to crush the racist ‘Affirmative Action’ policies at Harvard and the University of North Carolina.The US Supreme Court ruled 6-2 in the Harvard case with liberal justice Ketanji Brown Jackson opting out.The high court ruled 6-3 in the University of North Carolina case.The conservative justices said the race-based affirmative action policies violated the equal protection clause of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment, CNBC reported. “We have never permitted admissions programs to work in that way, and we will not do so today,” Chief Justice Roberts wrote.“Two discriminatory wrongs can not make...

Whether Illinois' gun and magazine bans are constitutional is now up to a federal appeals court. The consolidated cases challenging state and local gun and magazine bans in Illinois were heard Thursday by a three-judge panel of the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. Defendants asked the court to affirm the Northern District Court upholding the bans while reversing a Southern District Court injunction against the law. Using U.S. Supreme Court precedent from an opinion released last year, plaintiffs argue the gun ban violates the Second Amendment plain text and there’s no history or tradition of governments banning commonly owned...

Ron DeSantis is in free fall in New Hampshire’s Republican primary, with support for the Florida Governor tumbling from 29 percent in March to just 19 percent in June. Support for his leading rival, Donald Trump, has risen from 42 percent to 47 percent. The Floridian has had a bad week in the Granite State, with his team recently branded “just stupid” for picking a fight with its leading conservative women’s group.The data comes from a Saint Anselm College Survey Center poll based on surveys of 1,065 New Hampshire registered voters between June 21st and 23rd, 2023, with a margin...

President Biden is “very focused on details,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg insisted — after the 80-year-old commander in chief confused Ukraine and Iraq twice in 12 hours. The Cabinet member defended Biden after being asked, “What do you say to people who are concerned about his age, and slip-ups like the one he had today?” by CNN host Kaitlan Collins. “Well, what I’d say is I wish you could be in a room with him, the way I often am, seeing how he is simultaneously focused, on a big-picture vision, and very focused on details,” Buttigieg said. “Look, this is...

The perpetual crisis at the U.S. southern border behooves a reminder of President Donald J. Trump’s policy achievements – and an exhaustive list of actions taken over just four years – which led to one of the most secure periods of time in the region for decades.In 2015, Trump declared “the U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else’s problems.” Surely enough, those problems have come home to roost in variety of ways, be it related to infrastructure, crime, jobs, or otherwise.Now, Trump’s opponents including candidates such as Ron DeSantis and the pro open border Koch network are attempting...

One of the first audience members to speak at Thursday’s California Reparations Task Force meeting suggested Secretary of State Shirley Weber receive a Nobel Prize. A few hours later, Weber, who three years ago wrote the piece of legislation that set California on its historic reparations journey, addressed the crowd.

30 June 2023Friday of week 12 in Ordinary TimeSalzburg cathedral, AustriaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingGenesis 17:1,9-10,15-22 ©The Lord make a covenant and gives Abram and Sarai new namesWhen Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to him and said, ‘I am El Shaddai. Bear yourself blameless in my presence, and I will make a Covenant between myself and you. You on your part shall maintain my Covenant, yourself and your descendants after you, generation after generation. Now this is my Covenant which you are to maintain between myself and you, and your descendants after you: all...

“I’m happy to call it ‘Bidenomics.’ And guess what? Bidenomics is working.”In a 30-minute speech in Chicago this week, President Joe Biden declared that his economic policies — which can charitably be summed up as “borrow and spend, tax and regulate” — are doing wonders for the nation’s economy. Never mind that just 38% of Americans approve of the job Biden has been doing on the economy. No. The only risk we face, Biden argued, was a return of that bogeyman known as “trickle-down economics.” “Folks, let me say this as clearly as I can,” Biden said. “The trickle-down approach...

Since the coldest winter weather ended in Chicago this year, groups of hundreds of teens have been carousing through various Chicago neighborhoods, reportedly vandalizing cars, stealing from businesses, and physically assaulting people on the streets. The most recent gathering of hundreds of marauding teenagers and young adults occurred on Monday evening in the Lakeview neighborhood, an area just north of downtown. The mob of violent teens used the Chicago “L” train at the Belmont Red Line to gather in the Lakeview neighborhood, swarming out of the station in numbers big enough to shut down traffic adjacent to the station, according...

Now you would think in the light of this that I'd be pretty happy - I mean, you know, 'news presenter of the year' award was pretty cool and a massive thanks to all of those people out there that voted for me. The establishment were of course appalled because they in their little London bubble think that I'm incredibly unpopular. Well in Notting Hill I might be maybe, not quite so in the rest of the country. But actually truth is, I'm not full of the joys of spring. I've been living with something for the last couple of...

On the eve of the first indictment, the night before the former president flew to Manhattan to be fingerprinted and arraigned, Donald Trump’s pollster told RealClearPolitics a paradox: Historic legal trouble would “really help us in the primary.” At least, the pollster added, “in the short term.” Allies of Ron DeSantis expected as much. Top officials with a group supporting the Florida governor’s campaign, a super PAC called Never Back Down, started a real-time experiment to quantify the fallout from the indictment while testing their ability to conserve DeSantis’ support, maintain his positive image, and reach new voters. Among those...

Three-quarters of bosses find Generation Z workers a trifle difficult, a corporate survey has found. A poll of 1,344 managers and business leaders by ResumeBuilder.com found that 74 percent consider Gen Z employees more challenging than older staffers. Pressed for specifics, employers did not mince words. “They think they’re better than you, smarter than you, more capable than you, and they will tell you to your face,” said Akpan Ukeme, head of human resources at SGK Global Shipping Services. Generation Z is the youngest cohort in the American workforce, with birth years starting around 1997. Many surveys and studies have...