Thursday, June 28, 2018
We've had so much SCOTUS news lately, why not revisit one of the
court's most talked about decisions from the past week? On Tuesday, the
Supreme Court ruled that President Trump's travel ban was
constitutional. It was a close 5-4 vote, with all four liberal justices
dissenting. Yet, it was Sonia Sotomayor's dissent that really outraged
Chief Justice John Roberts. In her rebuttal, Sotomayor tried invoking Korematsu vs. United States
to throw a wrench in the Court's decision. Korematsu considered the
constitutionality of an executive order that ordered Japanese Americans
into internment camps during World War II.Sotomayor charged that, just as in Korematsu, their travel ban decision "invoked an ill-defined national security threat to justify an exclusionary policy of sweeping proportion."
FBI's Strzok Denies Anti-Trump Texts Showed Plot, Lawmakers Say
The FBI agent whose anti-Trump text exchanges in
2016 fed Republican allegations of bias in the bureau said Wednesday
that he regrets those messages but denied political favoritism,
according to lawmakers who heard him defend his actions.
“Just an intimate conversation between intimate friends" that he now regrets, was how Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, a Texas Democrat, quoted Peter Strzok’s description of a controversial exchange with Lisa Page, an FBI attorney with whom he was romantically involved at the time. Strzok was interviewed behind closed doors Wednesday by members and staff of two House committees.
In the most explosive of the text exchanges, Page expressed concern
that Trump might win the presidency and Strzok responded “we’ll stop
it.” But lawmakers said Strzok repeatedly denied any plotting to elevate
the FBI’s nascent investigation into Russian contacts with Republican
Donald Trump’s campaign over its separate inquiry into Democrat Hillary
Clinton’s use of a private email server.
“Just an intimate conversation between intimate friends" that he now regrets, was how Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, a Texas Democrat, quoted Peter Strzok’s description of a controversial exchange with Lisa Page, an FBI attorney with whom he was romantically involved at the time. Strzok was interviewed behind closed doors Wednesday by members and staff of two House committees.
President Trump Gets 2nd SCOTUS Pick: Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy Retiring
The news just gets better and better. At least we will be able to
offset the far-left and unhinged Obama picks, Justices Sotomayor and
Kagan. Life is good.Justice Anthony Kennedy announces retirement, giving Trump 2nd Supreme Court pick
By Bill Mears, Shannon Bream | Fox News, June 28, 2018:
Justice Anthony Kennedy announced Wednesday that he is retiring, giving President Trump a critical opportunity to move the Supreme Court more solidly to the right in what promises to be an epic confirmation fight.
The 81-year-old senior associate justice informed the White House in a letter of his intention to step down from the high court after 30 years, effective July 31. Rumors of another vacancy have reverberated across Washington in recent months, and it comes a year after Kennedy’s former law clerk Justice Neil Gorsuch, took over the seat occupied by the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
Read the entire article here: https://gellerreport.com/2018/06/scotus-trump-2nd-pick.html/
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Developing now, Thursday, June 28, 2018
- Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced Wednesday that he’ll retire July 31, giving President Donald Trump an opportunity to shift the high court to the right for decades to come and setting up a guaranteed confirmation battle in the Senate. Democrats vow to block the confirmation of Trump's 'handpicked political ideologues'
- White House and Kremlin officials are expected Thursday to announce details of a planned summit between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin
- Embattled FBI agent Peter Strzok testified for hours behind closed doors Wednesday about anti-Trump text messages he sent to his lovebird colleague during the 2016 presidential campaign
- The Health and Human Services watchdog says it will investigate the conditions of shelters housing migrant children as a GOP compromise immigration bill fails in the House
- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi appears to downplay the significance of top House Democrat Joe Crowley's primary loss to political upstart and socialist, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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