Liberal governor demands Supreme Court allow him more power to remove homeless camps as San Francisco business exodus gathers pace
Comes after 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that removals break the Eight Amendment ban on 'cruel and unusual punishment'
Supreme Court agreed on Friday to examine whether the ruling goes too far
It comes after the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals declared that anti-camping ordinances in San Francisco, violate the Eighth Amendment ban on 'cruel and unusual punishment'.
Newsom has repeatedly promised to 'own the issue' as the city faces an exodus of businesses from a city blighted by drug use, and has urged the nation's top court not to 'tie his hands'.
'California has invested billions to address homelessness, but rulings from the bench have tied the hands of state and local governments to address this issue,' he said on Friday.
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...proving our neo-Marxist donks fully believe in the old saying "from each according to their ability, to each according to their need" with the taxpayers providing the 'ability', and the politicians the unabated 'need' to spend other peoples money.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] London's shocking wave of homicides since Sadiq Khan was elected mayor are revealed today in MailOnline's new interactive map.
The graphic reveals the extent of the violence gripping the capital, with more than 1,000 homicides having taken place since Mr Khan began his stint in City Hall in 2016.
Croydon was the borough with the highest homicide rate under Mr Khan's leadership with a total of 55 killings, amounting to just over 5 per cent of the total number of homicides in the capital.
Alongside the south London borough - the areas of Southwark, Brent, Greenwich and Newham were the locations for 25 per cent of all homicides in the last seven years, each contributing above 5 per cent of the total.
Mr Khan lives in Tooting, Wandsworth, which has seen 32 homicides since 2016, making it 17th on the list.
Former Met Police officer Norman Brennan said it was 'shameful and staggering' that so many people had lost their lives to an 'epidemic'.
The ex-policeman said Mr Khan 'needed to get a grip of the situation', which has left families living in fear of leaving their house after daylight hours and getting on buses and tubes.
Sutton and Merton were statistically the safest places, with both boroughs recording ten killings since Mr Khan became mayor, less than 1 per cent of the city's overall rate.
Police estimates show 1,008 homicides were recorded in the 2,773 days since Mr Khan was first elected - leaving 132 families ripped apart every year of his tenure.
This includes 1,003 before 2023 ended - including Harry Pitman on December 31 - and another five in the first ten days of January 2024.
It comes as the mayor is refusing to supply the Met Police with £70million in funds for its crucial 'New Met For London' reforms, yet offered a bumper £30million pay deal to unions to avert crippling Tube strikes.
The data sparked accusations that Mr Khan had only made the situation worse while in the job - although his office claimed that homicide levels had fallen to their lowest since 2014.
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Good news, everyone! Gun violence has fallen to near zero. True that knives, clubs, and machetes have become the fashionable instruments for crimes of violence which suggests that the impulse to murder is both unabated and in a sense, fungible. But credit where credit is due, right?
[Wire] Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) predicted this week that President Joe Biden is going to pardon his son Hunter Biden this December regardless of the outcome of the presidential election in November.
Cruz made the prediction during the most recent broadcast of his "Verdict" podcast with co-host Ben Ferguson as Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty this week in a California federal court to nine criminal counts related to alleged tax crimes. Hunter Biden also faces federal gun charges, which he already pleaded not guilty to late last year.
"My prediction is in December of 2024, Joe Biden will pardon Hunter Biden," Cruz said. "Win or lose. If Biden were to win, I think he’ll delay the pardon until right before Hunter goes to jail. But if Biden is losing, I’d put the odds at 95% that in December of this year, if Biden has just lost the general election, that he pardons his son, and he gives him a scot free get-out-of-jail pass."
"And so, understand Hunter’s legal strategy is delay 11 months, don’t go to jail for 11 months, and then daddy gives you a get-out-of-jail free card — and it’s why the House needs to keep their eye on the ball and bring Hunter for the public hearing," he continued.
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It’s sort of like predicting explosive diarrhea after starting a cleanse for a colonoscopy. I was going to say a trip to Taco Bell but that leaves more to chance. The cleanse is going to come and get you like a freight train on a schedule.
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Yeah, that jug they give you to drink the prior to a colonoscopy is an example of man's inhumanity to man.
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[NYPOST] Hunter Biden caved Friday and agreed to sit for a deposition in the House impeachment inquiry into his father — moving to avoid a vote as soon as next week to hold him in contempt of Congress.
Hunter, 53, waved a white flag in a letter to Congress from his attorney Abbe Lowell.
"If you issue a new proper subpoena, now that there is a duly authorized impeachment inquiry, Mr. Biden will comply for a hearing or deposition. We will accept such a subpoena on Mr. Biden’s behalf," Lowell wrote.
The House Judiciary and Oversight committees voted separately Wednesday to hold Hunter in contempt — after the first son crashed the Oversight hearing, infuriating Republicans after he ducked his scheduled Dec. 13 interview.
Contempt of Congress is punishable by a minimum of 30 days behind bars, "Thirty days or thirty dollars! Bailiff, search his pockets!"
though a decision to prosecute would be made by President Biden’s Justice Department appointees if the full House clears the sanction.
It was not immediately clear Friday whether Republicans will shelve the contempt legislation.
Lowell’s letter reflects a significant shift in Hunter Biden’s posture after the high-priced lawyer and other Democrats previously claimed Hunter couldn’t sit for a deposition because he preferred to testify publicly.
[WallStreetPR] The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) didn’t report a staggering $7 billion in award-level obligations and outlays during fiscal year 2022, according to an inspector general audit released this week.
The EPA Office of the Inspector General (OIG) determined that the agency underreported its award-level outlays by $5.8 billion, or 99.9%, and its award-level obligations by $1.2 billion, or 12.9% during FY22, the period between October 2021 and September 2022. The agency further failed to report any of its Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act outlays and under-reported its coronavirus pandemic-related outlays.
The EPA ultimately corrected its FY22 figures in May 2023 as a result of the OIG audit while making configuration changes a month later. Overall, the inspector general made five recommendations which it said the agency agreed to make.
The report, meanwhile, comes as the EPA both manages a massive green energy fund and continues to request a larger budget. The Inflation Reduction, Democrats’ massive climate and tax bill passed in 2022, created the $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, which in turn establishes a national green bank to fund green projects nationwide.
And the White House is requesting that Congress approve a FY24 EPA budget of more than $12 billion, a record level. Republicans have aimed to reduce the EPA budget to about $6 billion, which would be the agency’s smallest budget since the early 1990s.
“The Biden administration is using EPA as a pass through for taxpayer dollars to fund left-wing groups that aim to get Democrats elected, not improve the environment,” Mandy Gunasekara, a Heritage Foundation visiting fellow who served as the EPA’s chief of staff during the Trump administration, told Fox News Digital.
[Breitbart] President Joe Biden, 81, reportedly tried to soothe the fears of donors and supporters about his age, energy level, and his chances of defeating former President Donald Trump.
Democrats, for months, raised concerns about Biden’s 2024 chances due to poor polling about his age and physical stamina:
Redfield & Wilton Strategies: A majority of Democrats are “concerned” about Biden’s ability.
YouGov: Fifty-five percent say Biden’s health and age “severely” limit his ability to do the job.
NBC News: Most registered voters have “major” concerns about Biden’s age and health.
“Biden has held roughly a half-dozen meetings, in groups ranging from four to eight people, since he launched his campaign in April, but many of them occurred just before the holidays,” three sources told the Washington Post Wednesday on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations:
People familiar with the meetings say there is no set agenda, and the conversations have covered a range of topics, including how to take on former president Donald Trump, the Israel-Gaza conflict and abortion rights. Jeffrey Katzenberg, the movie mogul who is a national co-chair of Biden’s campaign and a longtime Democratic fundraiser, has been organizing the meetings.
Biden’s meetings with the donors at the White House might not be legal.
“There are certain rooms in the White House, particularly in the residence, that are not covered under the Hatch Act,” Kedric Payne, ethics director at the Campaign Legal Center, told Axios.
“The president is allowed to legally meet with and entertain donors at the White House,” Payne added. “But you cannot give campaign contributions or solicit for campaign contributions while in the White House.”
White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates said Biden’s meetings are totally “typical.”
“It is typical for any president, regardless of party, to host supporters at the White House complex, which is both a working office as well as a personal residence,” he told Axios. “President Biden and his team take all rules concerning the White House and re-elections seriously, and we’re proud of that.”
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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