The U.S. Supreme Court in a divided decision late Friday ruled in favor of lifting restrictions on in-home religious gatherings, overturning a lower court ruling that upheld Gov. Gavin Newsom's limits on people from different homes.
The 5-4 unsigned ruling follows other similar decisions recently regarding churches and the coronavirus pandemic. The decision noted it was the fifth time the court has rejected the Ninth Circuit's analysis of California coronavirus restrictions.
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Seriously isn't time to purge the 9th and pick judges that actually read the US Constitution and the US Law. Instead of trying to create law from the bench?
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Roberts may have been seduced by the conceit that the Chief Justice must make "Peace" in the Court his highest goal (to provide for a peaceful nation). It is hard to be peaceful when the Left only appoints ideologues that don't believe in peace or taking prisoners.
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The 9th Circuit is much more evenly balanced that it was before President Trump and Senator McConnell colluded to fill all the vacant judgeships around the country. The Supreme Court isn’t having to reverse nearly as many 9th Circus rulings as they used to.
Scare quotes in headline mine. As described in this Ay Pee article that Al Ahram thinks important enough to share with their Egyptian readers. these so-called reforms do nothing to prevent a repeat of the deaths that resulted from Governor Cuomo’s orders that nursing homes must accept elderly patients ill with Covid, rather than keeping them in the hospital like everyone else. Instead, the new rules require that all nursing home profits above the limit must be spent in certain ways or turned over to the great State of New York.
[AlAhram] Rules passed in recent days as part of a state budget deal would require for-profit homes to spend at least 70% of their revenue on direct patient care, including 40% on staffers who work directly with residents
After a deadly year in New York's nursing homes, state politicians have passed legislation intended to hold facility operators more accountable for neglect and potentially force them to spend more on patient care.
Under the deal, set to be signed by Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo, a Democrat, home operators will also face limits on their profit margins. Any profits in excess of 5% would have to be sent to the state.
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A nation that puts a Minneapolis officer in prison for doing his job while ignoring the crimes of a proven killer who holds high office, the NY Governor, is a sick nation on the verge of collapse
[EpochTimes] Wisconsin’s Supreme Court, in siding with Democrats, ruled that the state should not purge voters from rolls after they were flagged as possibly having moved out of the state.
The court’s 5-2 ruling (pdf) means about 69,000 people on the list of likely movers will not have their voter registrations deactivated. Republicans had sought to purge the voter roles for years.
The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL), a conservative group, argued that Wisconsin’s election commission broke the law when it didn’t remove voters from rolls after they did not respond within 30 days to a mailing effort in 2019 that indicated they were identified as someone who potentially moved out-of-state.
The lawsuit was first brought in 2019, and at that time, about 234,000 were on the list. Of those who remain, none voted in the 2016 presidential election, said the Wisconsin Elections Commission.
The court ruled that the job of removing voters from rolls is up to local election officials, not the state election commission.
"There is no credible argument that it does" apply to the commission, Justice Brian Hagedorn wrote for the majority.
Dissenting judges said that both state and local officials are responsible for clearing up voter rolls for people who have moved.
"The majority’s decision leaves the administration of Wisconsin’s election law in flux, at least with respect to ensuring the accuracy of the voter rolls," Justice Rebecca Bradley wrote for the minority.
[Washington Examiner] More than two months after taking office, President Joe Biden has yet to nominate a national cybersecurity director, even as the federal government deals with the massive SolarWinds breach announced late last year.
Several lawmakers and cybersecurity experts are pushing the Biden administration to name a cybersecurity director to be in charge of federal cybersecurity policy and strategy. The new job, created in the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act passed on Jan. 1, would take on some of the White House cybersecurity coordinator's responsibilities, a position eliminated in 2018 during former President Donald Trump's administration.
The nomination, however, is complicated because Congress hasn't yet provided funding for the 75-person office that the director would lead. Also, the Biden administration is working to ensure that the director has authority to lead an interagency response to cybersecurity issues that would include the intelligence community and the military, said a person with knowledge of the administration's efforts.
Still, it is "incredibly important" for the Biden administration to appoint a new cybersecurity director, said Rep. Jim Langevin, a Rhode Island Democrat, who had sponsored a bill to create the position.
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Focus should be on hardening systems. All systems. Not just prosecuting the occasional hacker who walks in through a wide open door. Especially since the hackers we are primarily worried about work for foreign governments. But hardening systems is the opposite of what our government wants.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg ...the testicleless former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, since 2012. Buttigieg graduated from Harvard College and, on a Rhodes Scholarship, from Pembroke College, Oxford. From 2007 to 2010, he worked at McKinsey and Company, a consulting firm. From 2009 to 2017 Buttigieg served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant and deploying to Afghanistan in 2014. Buttigieg was first elected mayor of South Bend in 2011 and was reelected in 2015. During his second term, he announced he was gay, which surprised no one. Buttigieg also campaigned for Indiana state treasurer in 2010 and for chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2017, losing both elections. He ran for the Dem nomination in 2020 on the theory that being mayor of a nondescript medium sized city is qualification to run the country. He lost that one too... suggested in a recent interview that racism is built into the country's highway system. That's why asphalt is black, you know..,.
And if Mr. Buttigieg, in his role as mayor of wherever it was, arranged for streets to be paved or pot holes to be filled, that proves he, too, is a racist.
"There is racism physically built into some of our highways, and that’s why the jobs plan has specifically committed to reconnect some of the communities that were divided by these dollars," the former South Bend, Indiana, mayor told news hound April Ryan this week in an interview discussing President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem mschine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family... ’s proposed $2 trillion infrastructure plan.
Buttigieg explained that several major highways in the United States negatively affect minority communities.
"Well, if you’re in Washington, I’m told that the history of that highway is one that was built at the expense of communities of color in the D.C. area," he said. "There are stories, and I think Philadelphia and Pittsburgh [and] in New York, Robert Moses famously saw through the construction of a lot of highways."
Buttigieg added that there has been a lack of federal infrastructure projects in black communities throughout history and said it "wasn’t just an act of neglect" but rather a "conscious choice" that the Biden administration hopes to rectify in the new spending package.
Biden touted his plan on Wednesday, saying, "We don’t just fix for today. We build for tomorrow."
"Two hundred years ago, trains weren’t traditional infrastructure either until America made a choice to lay down tracks across the country," he added. "Highways weren’t traditional infrastructure until we allowed ourselves to imagine that roads could connect our nation across state lines."
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buttigieg says that there wasn't enough money invested in black communities and also that highways in black communities are racist.
this is what is called a contradiction in logic but in woke politics it is called an axiom
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My main objection to affirmative action is not that it advances the members of previously "oppressed" groups at the expense of the majority. It is that it seems to advance the worst members of these groups.
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It's a logical extension that cars are racist in order to isolate and demonize the non-urban areas. "If you don't have cars, you don't need a highway" way of (not) thinking.
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The great urban renewal projects (many of them involve road projects) of the 60's and 70's tore apart the poorer districts of major Democratic-run cities. But the Racist outcomes are all Republican efforts, you see.
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[Washington Examiner] More than two months after taking office, President Joe Biden has yet to nominate a national cybersecurity director, even as the federal government deals with the massive SolarWinds breach announced late last year.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Transportation Secretary 
...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem mschine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family...
