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Supreme Court lets Pentagon limit transgender military service while lawsuits proceed (FOX News)
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the Pentagon to restrict military service for transgenderindividuals while the Trump administration’s policy is litigated in the lower courts.
The ruling reversed the orders implemented by lower courts, which had prevented the Pentagon from proceeding with the plan. The issue brought a 5-4 conservative-liberal split, with Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan voting to keep the block on enforcement in place, while the five conservative justices, including Justice Brett Kavanaugh, voted to allow the policy to go into effect. [Read More]
Supreme Court takes up gun rights case for first time in a decade (NBC)
The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear a challenge to New York City’s restriction on transporting handguns outside the city limits.
It’s the first time in a decade that the court has agreed to hear a case on the nature of gun rights, this time on the nature of the rights outside the home.
Under a city law, residents who have a permit to own a handgun can take it outside the home to a city shooting range, provided the weapon is unloaded and in a locked container. But they cannot take their guns outside the city limits. [Read More]
The Kentucky high school whose students are at the center of a viral video controversy after last week’s March for Life Rally says it will stay closed Tuesday due to safety concerns.
The announcement by Covington High School Principal Robert Rowe was made in a letter sent to parents, students and staff. Students from the Catholic school are said to be facing death threats – and have been widely maligned and vilified online – after a video clip emerged Saturday that gave some commenters an inaccurate impression that the teens were harassing a Native American man, Nathan Phillips, following the pro-life demonstration. [Read More]
Oscars: ‘Roma,’ ‘Favourite’ Top Nominations With 10 Apiece (The Hollywood Reporter)
The Academy unveiled its 2019 Oscar nominations early Tuesday morning, with The Favourite andRoma leading all films with 10 nods apiece.
Both movies are nominated for best picture for the 91st Oscars alongside BlacKkKlansman, Black Panther, Bohemian Rhapsody, Green Book, A Star Is Born and Vice.
A Star Is Born and Vice also were dominant in the 2019 Oscar nominations, earning eight apiece, followed by Black Pantherwith seven, BlacKkKlansman with six and Bohemian Rhapsody and Green Book with five each. [Read More]
Joni Ernst says she turned down chance to be Donald Trump’s vice-president (The Guardian)
The Iowa senator Joni Ernst has stated she turned down the opportunity to be Donald Trump’s vice-president because she believed her husband Gail “hated any successes I have”.
In an affidavit filed as part of divorce proceedings with her husband of 26 years, Ernst states: “in the summer of 2016, I was interviewed by Candidate Trump to be vice president of the United States. I turned Candidate Trump down, knowing it wasn’t the right thing for me or my family.
“I continued to make sacrifices and not soar higher out of concern for Gail and our family,” she added. [Read More]
Bernie Sanders: President Trump is a ‘racist’ (NBC News)
Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders blasted President Trump as a “racist” during an event commentating Martin Luther King Jr. Day in South Carolina.
The possible presidential candidate candidate pivoted from a discussion about the holiday to his feelings on Trump.
“Today we talked about justice and today we talked about racism. And I must tell you it gives me no pleasure to tell you that we now have a President of the United States who is a racist,” Sanders said. [Read More]
Leftist Activism 101: Get in someone’s face and then play victim for the cameras
The recent interaction in DC between high school students (one in particular) and an older activist who is Native American reminded me of a warning I once received from a colleague as to how I needed to prepare myself if I ever was in a hostile crowd or confronted.
A classic leftist/occupy activist tactic, I was warned, was to confront a target and immediately start screaming that the target was being aggressive even though that was not true. [Read More]
Whoopi Goldberg on the media smearing the Covington Catholic boys: “So many people admitted they made snap judgments before all these other facts came in. … Why is that? Why do we keep making the same mistake?”
Joy Behar: “Because we’re desperate to get Trump out of office.” pic.twitter.com/wlwwaxfZRx
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) January 22, 2019
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