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Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis wants the Legislature to hold a special session to redraw the state’s congressional districts. But this move would be illegal, some state Democrats say. “They are willing to do an illegal unconstitutional act by doing mid-decade redistricting,” Rep. Ashley Gantt, D-Miami, said during an April 8 conference call reported by the Florida Phoenix. “That is literally nullifying a section of the constitution that is unambiguous.” “This is illegal,” Orlando Democratic Rep. RaShon Young said. “It is against the constitution to redraw maps in favor of a party.” Is it? Mid-decade redistricting wouldn’t be illegal, but…
As he was running for another term in the White House in 2024, President Donald Trump made it clear that he was not a fan of the government’s electronic spying powers contained within the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). “KILL FISA,” he wrote in an all-caps message on Truth Social. “IT WAS ILLEGALLY USED AGAINST ME, AND MANY OTHERS.” It’s been two years and five days since Trump wrote that, but it might as well have been another lifetime. On Wednesday, Trump again took to Truth Social as Congress was debating a possible extension to Section 702 of FISA, which…
Iran war: A Grand Imperial Fantasy? | Vanessa Beeley, The Last American Vagabond & Myriam Charabaty by vanessa beeleyRead on Substack We all sit down with BettBeat Media to add invaluable context to the genocidal project in West Asia and Persia, led by Washington and the Zionist cult, with British puppeteers in the shadows. We discuss the portrayal of the wars for survival in this region from Western outlets, the lack of cultural perspective and civilisational understanding with some of the conclusions being reached. This was an open minded debate from people who are on the same page but who disagree on…
The chief judge of the D.C. district court just won back-to-back writs of mandamus, a rare feat. No green jacket but rather another black mark for Judge James Boasberg. Source link
Sen. Mike Lee (R–Utah) wrote in a social media post Wednesday that an employee at a federal prison hung up on him when he called to check on the health of an incarcerated man. Lee’s experience is a particularly pointed example of an issue that families and criminal justice advocacy groups have complained about for years: It’s next to impossible to get information about inmates’ health from the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), and the agency frequently fails to notify families when their incarcerated loved ones are sick or even dying. This cruelty led lawmakers in Congress to introduce legislation…
Download Audio. Jason Jones of the Vulnerable People Project returns to the show to give Scott an update on how his organization is working to rescue and rehabilitate the people impacted directly by the escalating violence the Israeli government and Israeli settlers are unleashing across the Middle East. Discussed on the show: “Iran was nowhere close to a nuclear bomb, experts say” (Scientific American) Jason Jones is a film producer, author, activist, popular podcast host, and dedicated human rights worker. And he is the founder and president of The Vulnerable People Project. Subscribe to his Substack. Audio cleaned up…
Tax Code Rewards Generosity. But Probably Not Yours Source link
Former Rep. Madison Cawthorn –who resigned after accusations of ” sexually aggressive behavior” in 2020– told Jack Posobiec on RAV’s “Human Events” that “honeytrapping” and blackmail are very common in Congress. JACK POSOBIEC: What’s it like—you’re in Congress, and then you get invited to something like this, you hear about this. What’s the reputation of these types of things? How does it start?MADISON CAWTHORN: Normally, the way I found that these things start getting off the ground is that it starts out—you’re maybe at a donor dinner or getting dinner after a late night of votes. Then, you know, everyone…
AI may replace narrow technical skills, but the liberal arts equip students with the critical thinking employers increasingly demand. Source link
An unrelenting winter and circumstance dictated a most uncustomary form of interview with Gay Talese: a phone call. Another ice storm in New York kept Talese in his Upper East Side townhouse, where he first occupied a bachelor pad as a New York Times reporter at 26 and then bought the whole property with his wife, Nan, by 1973, when he was a writer – and subject – at Esquire. On a January late afternoon, when the call arrived, Talese was pushing 95, and I was in Pennsylvania, laid up on crutches and recovering from a knee injury. There was…