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Post by soonernvolved on Sept 26, 2020 15:48:38 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/26/its-our-time-americans-for-life-and-faith-celebrate-trumps-choice-of-amy-coney-barrett/‘It’s Our Time’: Americans for Life and Faith Celebrate Trump’s Choice of Amy Coney Barrett Americans dedicated to protecting life and religious freedom are celebrating President Donald Trump’s choice of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill the vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court. Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood manager-turned pro-life activist, said: This is the moment that the pro-life movement and those who hold all life to be dear and treasured have been waiting for. This is the fight we are more than prepared to win. And this is a movement led in large part by strong, faithful women, just like Amy Coney Barrett, who have fought hard to get to where they are now. It’s our time.” Pro-life and faith leaders say Barrett’s reputation as having both a sharp legal mind that focuses intently on the Constitution as the framers intended, and a personal life that reflects her commitment to respect for the dignity of all human life, is a winning combination. “She is the perfect combination of brilliant jurist and a woman who brings the argument to the court that is potentially the contrary to the views of the sitting women justices,” Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List, told the New York Times. Respect for Barrett as a law professor and legal scholar has already been immense. Amy Howe wrote at SCOTUSblog about the acclaim Barrett received when Trump nominated her in 2017 to the Chicago-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit: A group of 450 former students signed a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee, telling senators that their support was “driven not by politics, but by the belief that Professor Barrett is supremely qualified.” And she had the unanimous support of her 49 Notre Dame colleagues, who wrote that they had a “wide range of political views” but were “united however in our judgment about Amy.” The National Catholic Register’s Joan Frawley Desmond interviewed Notre Dame law professor O. Carter Snead, a friend of Barrett’s, when it became clear she was among the top candidates for the open Supreme Court seat. “There is no one more qualified to be on the Supreme Court in terms of her accomplishments, intellect, and integrity,” he said. “That is a widely shared view at Notre Dame.” Anticipating more of the hostility already expressed by some on the left, however, Snead added, “People are anxious, and they don’t want their friend to go through a savage process. It is a politically fraught moment.” Mat Staver, chairman of Christian litigation firm Liberty Counsel, asserted Trump’s nomination of Barrett “is the right choice for the U.S. Supreme Court because she applies the intent and text of the Constitution to the statutes she reviews.” “A judge should be a neutral interpreter of the Constitution who knows what it means to interpret and apply the law rather than an activist legislator who tries to create the law,” he said. Prior to the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg last week, the issue of abortion was already central to the 2020 election. Trump’s pro-life administration has made significant headway in stemming the radical feminist view that ending unborn lives at will is acceptable. With the nomination of Barrett, however, the issue of abortion will likely be magnified further. Since her appointment to the court of appeals, Barrett has dealt with state abortion law on two occasions, both by supporting appeals for the full bench to rehear a case decided by a three-judge panel. In 2018, Barrett joined Judge Frank Easterbrook’s dissent from the denial of rehearing by the full court of appeals in the case of a challenge to an Indiana law that would both ban abortions based on race, sex, or disability, and also require fetal remains to be either buried or cremated following an abortion. The U.S. Supreme Court ultimately heard the case of a challenge to the law by Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky (PPINK) and the ACLU. Planned Parenthood claimed the new law placed undue burden on a woman’s right to choose an abortion and that it violated women’s privacy since the group does not ask women the reason for seeking an abortion. Regarding the mandate to bury or cremate aborted babies, Planned Parenthood said such a requirement introduces further costs for medical waste. The High Court affirmed the Indiana fetal remains provision, but declined to weigh in on the ban on abortions based on race, sex, or disability, which Judge Easterbrook referred to, in the dissent, as a means of preventing prospective parents from “ sing abortion as a way to promote eugenic goals.”
Thus, the Seventh Circuit’s ruling that struck down the ban on abortions for reasons of race, sex, or disability left the state unable to enforce that part of the law.
In 2019, Barrett again wanted the full Seventh Circuit to hear the challenge to an Indiana law that required parental notification for minors who wished to have an abortion, after a three-judge panel said the law was unconstitutional.
Barrett joined the dissent from the denial of rehearing, in which Judge Michael Kanne wrote, “reventing a state statute from taking effect is a judicial act of extraordinary gravity in our federal structure.”
When Indiana asked the Supreme Court to weigh in, the case was sent back to the lower courts.
While she was teaching law at Notre Dame, Barrett also publicly disagreed with the contraceptive mandate, the provision of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) that required birth control to be freely accessible to all women without copay.
As HuffPo reported, in 2012, Barrett was among the signatories of a public statement of protest against the birth control benefit.
The statement protested what the Obama administration said was an “accommodation” for those who claimed the contraceptive mandate violated their faith beliefs. The signers, however, asserted the “‘accommodation’ changes nothing of moral substance and fails to remove the assault on religious liberty and the rights of conscience which gave rise to the controversy”:
The simple fact is that the Obama administration is compelling religious people and institutions who are employers to purchase a health-insurance contract that provides abortion-inducing drugs, contraception and sterilization. This is a grave violation of religious freedom and cannot stand. It is an insult to the intelligence of Catholics, Protestants, Eastern Orthodox Christians, Jews, Muslims and other people of faith and conscience to imagine that they will accept an assault on their religious liberty if only it is covered up by a cheap accounting trick.
Appearing as a guest at Family Research Council Action’s Values Voter Summit Friday evening, Carrie Severino, chief counsel and policy director of the Judicial Crisis Network, said Barrett is “an incredible role model for me as a mother and a lawyer to see all that she has accomplished in her life.”
“She’s been a clerk to Justice Scalia – by many accounts one of his favorite clerks – right in her style and approach to the law, really follows after his commitment to the law as it’s written in the text,” she explained.
Severino went on about Barrett’s personal life, which, to many, appears to bear out her own commitment to life:
She is a mother of seven children … And two of those children were adopted from Haiti, and … she’s told the story of how this happened she adopted one child, they thought maybe they were trying to work through another adoption they didn’t think they were going to be able to have any more children biologically, and then just as they learned that this adoption was finally going to go through … she learned that, against all odds, she was pregnant … She said later she was praying about it, ‘You know, there’s nothing more important in my life that I could do than raise these children,” and then went on to do so. One of her biological children also has Down syndrome. So, she has been really living her life in an act of generosity and in kind of just showing again she’s just such a role model for young women.
Pro-life activist Johnson, who delivered a groundbreaking address in August at the Republican National Convention that bared the violence of abortion and the stark choice facing Americans in the upcoming election, said the president’s nomination of Barrett shows he is continuing to fulfill “the promises he made during his first campaign to nominate justices that would be faithful to the Constitution.”
Anticipating attacks on Barrett’s faith from the left, Johnson added:
For those who plan to make Barrett’s faith a matter of disqualification, that line of attack is not only inappropriate and bigoted, but bases the nominee’s entire judicial career on everything but her merits and solid qualifications for the position. Americans will recognize when those who claim to fight for women turn around and attack and bully Amy Coney Barrett because they don’t like what she stands for.
Dannenfelser reflected on the meaning of Barrett’s nomination during Family Research Council Action’s Values Voter Summit this week.
“We are at the precipice of the overturning of Roe v. Wade,” the pro-life leader said, adding Trump is “so proud of that and we should be proud of that too”:
It means that the unraveling and the overturning of Roe v. Wade could lead to states being emboldened to allow the consensus in those states on abortion, to make their way into law. Of course, there should always be a national consensus on this, there is a national consensus, but the first step right now is the unraveling of Roe and saving millions of children for decades. It is just that important, and it will be decided in 41 days.
Dannenfelser summarized there are “two really important pieces” when it comes to the choice of Supreme Court justices. She explained:
One is that they have a sound jurisprudence of fealty to the Constitution and the fundamentals of the Constitution. Number two, and one that has generally been ignored by many Republican presidents in the past, but not this one so far … is that there be a steel backbone, a courage of fortitude and ability to go against the tide that is really rushing towards them in these hearings.
“The pride, the vanity, the comfort that comes with being a Supreme Court justice, is not to be underestimated,” she said. “We’ve seen too many justices be attracted by that. That almost irresistible pull, and the only way to handle that is to believe in something far deeper and more transcendent.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Sept 26, 2020 16:02:49 GMT -6
thefederalist.com/2020/09/26/trump-nominates-federal-judge-amy-coney-barrett-to-supreme-court/Trump Nominates Federal Judge Amy Coney Barrett To Supreme Court SEPTEMBER 26, 2020 By Tristan Justice President Donald Trump today nominated federal Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death more than a week ago. Ginsburg left a vacancy on the Supreme Court after passing away last week at the age of 87 due to complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer. The opening less than two months from the November election as the nation grapples with an historic level of cultural unrest has raised the stakes of the contentious contest. Barrett has been considered a frontrunner for the seat even before Ginsburg’s death after being narrowly passed up for the open seat left by retired Justice Anthony Kennedy in 2018. That was filled by Justice Brett Kavanaugh following a grossly divisive and unfair confirmation battle featuring unsubstantiated allegations of sexual assault launched right before the vote on his nomination. Barrett, a Catholic, has already faced grueling attacks targeting her faith. Despite Barrett’s highly successful public career managed while being the mother of seven children, two adopted, Newsweek and Reuters compared Barrett’s religious community to the dystopian society depicted in the “Handmaid’s Tale.” Trump reportedly met Barrett, a seventh circuit federal Court of Appeals judge, Monday and Tuesday this week. Trump will also be holding a campaign rally in Pennsylvania later in the evening.
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Post by soonernvolved on Sept 26, 2020 16:05:25 GMT -6
thefederalist.com/2020/09/26/there-is-simply-no-good-reason-to-not-immediately-confirm-amy-coney-barrett/There Is Simply No Good Reason To Not Immediately Confirm Amy Coney BarrettBarrett isn’t some fire-breathing religious zealot. She’s an accomplished jurist who believes in the Constitution and the duty of judges to uphold the law.By John Daniel Davidson SEPTEMBER 26, 2020 OK, let’s do this. President Trump has nominated Amy Coney Barrett to fill the Supreme Court seat left vacant by the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and there is no reasonable or principled argument why she should not be confirmed as soon as possible. There is absolutely no question that the 48-year-old Barrett, a constitutional scholar who clerked for the late Justice Antonin Scalia and is now a judge on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, is qualified. She is highly qualified, and everyone knows it. Every single Supreme Court law clerk who clerked the same term that she worked for Scalia in 1998 signed a letter supporting her nomination to the federal appellate bench in 2017, including liberal academics at Harvard, Yale, and Stanford. They praised her as a “woman of remarkable intellect and character,” who was “fair-minded” and “able to work collaboratively with her colleagues (even those with whom she disagreed) on challenging legal questions.” Every full-time member of the Notre Dame Law School faculty, where she taught for years, endorsed her nomination to the Seventh Circuit, calling her “a brilliant teacher and scholar,” who “possesses in abundance all of the other qualities that shape extraordinary jurists: discipline, intellect, wisdom, impeccable temperament, and above all, fundamental decency and humanity.” Hundreds of former student had similar things to say, as did dozens of other law professors. I could go on, but you get the idea. She is as qualified to serve on the Supreme Court as it is possible to be without actually serving on it. No one can dispute this, and probably no one will. Democrats Will Come After Barrett’s FaithWhat Barrett’s detractors in the media and on the Senate Judiciary Committee will almost certainly seize on are not the details of her professional life or her impeccable credentials, but her personal life and her religious beliefs. We know this because it already happened during her confirmation hearing for the Seventh Circuit in 2017, when Sen. Dianne Feinstein indulged in a bit of anti-Christian bigotry and seemed to impose an unconstitutional religious test, infamously telling Barrett, “the dogma lives loudly within you, and that’s of concern.” Barrett is a Catholic—and not a Joe Biden-style Catholic but the sort of Catholic who takes seriously the church’s teachings on matters like abortion and gay marriage. She is the mother of seven, including a son, her youngest, who has Down’s syndrome, and two children she and her husband adopted from Haiti. She is also a member of a charismatic faith community, People of Praise, for which she has already been viciously and slanderously attacked in the press. Among the absurdities bandied about by the media concerning People of Praise is the contention that the group is some sort of real-life version of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” in which women are ruled by men and confined to the home. The assumption that this must be so led Newsweek to publish a biased and erroneous article, since corrected, claiming that People of Praise was in fact Margaret Atwood’s inspiration for “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Smearing Barrett and her faith community in this way would be a great angle of attack for the left, confirming all their priors about conservatives and their view of women, except for the fact that Barrett is a legal scholar, a federal judge and, you know, a nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court. Nevertheless, Democrats will doubtless come after her because she takes her faith at least as seriously as she takes the law. Barrett co-authored a scholarly paper that grapples with the possibility of tension between the two, examining the question of how Catholic judges should respond to cases involving the death penalty, which the church opposes. Senate Democrats are likely to fixate on this paper, as they did in her earlier confirmation hearing, as proof-positive that Barrett cannot possibly be trusted to set aside her religious convictions in the discharge of her duties as a judge. But in the paper, Barrett and her co-author, John Garvey, argue the exact opposite, writing that “judges cannot—nor should they try to—align our legal system with the Church’s moral teaching whenever the two diverge.” Anything less would betray the public trust, they argue. What’s more, they concluded that the instances when a Catholic judge’s religious commitments so conflict with the law that the judge must be recused are exceedingly rare, and that in most cases Catholic judges can faithfully discharge their duties without violating their consciences. At her hearing in 2017, Barrett was at pains to explain this to Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee like Feinstein and Sen. Mazie Hirono, who bent over backwards to misunderstand Barrett, even when she was clear as could be. The core argument of the article, Barrett said, “is that a judge may never subvert the law or twist it in any way to match the judge’s convictions.” No matter. “You have a long history of believing that your religious beliefs should prevail,” Feinstein declared. “It seems to me that your testimony today is at variance with your earlier writings,” said Hirono. Nothing Barrett said, and certainly nothing she had actually written in that paper, could change their minds. Barrett Has Been Consistent In Her View of a Judge’s Role
Barrett wasn’t just trying to tell the senators what they wanted to hear. She has said the same thing about a judge’s duty to uphold the law despite personal preferences more recently. At a Hillsdale College-sponsored talk in Washington, D.C., last year, she spoke at length on the obligations of duty in the face of private moral convictions and public pressure, using the example of John Adams’ representation of the British soldiers involved in the Boston massacre: Adhering to duty in the face of a contrary personal or political preference, and in the face of public pressure to the contrary, has particular resonance for the job of a judge. A judge is obligated to apply the law as it is and not as she wishes it would be. She is obliged to follow the law even when her personal preferences cut the other way, or when she will experience great public criticism for doing so.Later in that same talk, she reiterated the point: You are not there to decide cases as you may prefer. You are not there to decide cases as the public or as the press may want you to. You’re not there to win a popularity contest. You are there to do your duty and to follow the law wherever it may take you… The law simply does not align with a judge’s political preference or personal preference in every case. And so it will be the case that judges have to make hard decisions and that they have to decide cases in ways that yield outcomes that are not the outcomes they would prefer.During a brief Q&A after her remarks, Barrett was asked what role, if any, the faith of a judicial nominee should have in the confirmation process. “None,” she answered. The premise of the question, she added, is that people of faith somehow have a “uniquely difficult time” separating their moral commitments from their obligation to apply the law. “People of faith should reject that premise,” she said, because of course almost everyone has deeply held moral convictions, whether or not they derive them from a religious faith. Even judges with no faith at all, Barrett explained, need to be sure that their deeply held moral convictions don’t interfere with their duty to uphold the law. The public should always be concerned whether judicial nominees will be able and willing to set aside their personal preferences and moral (or political) convictions and follow the law, “but that’s not a challenge just for religious people, that’s a challenge for everyone.” So there’s your answer, Feinstein. Now let’s get on with it, and confirm Barrett without delay.
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Post by soonernvolved on Sept 26, 2020 16:06:32 GMT -6
thefederalist.com/2020/09/26/trump-no-one-is-better-than-amy-coney-barrett-to-preserve-our-priceless-heritage-as-a-nation-of-laws/Trump: ‘No One Is Better’ Than Amy Coney Barrett To Preserve ‘Our Priceless Heritage As A Nation Of Laws’ SEPTEMBER 26, 2020 By Jordan Davidson President Trump formally nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court on Saturday in the White House Rose Garden to fill the seat left vacant by Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death. “I stand before you today to fulfill one of my highest and most important duties under the United States Constitution, the nomination of a Supreme Court justice,” Trump stated. Trump praised Barrett’s track record as a federal judge as well as her history working with deceased Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. He also urged Democrat lawmakers and the media to provide a “respectful and dignified hearing that she deserves and, frankly, that our country deserves.” “I urge lawmakers and members of the media to refrain from personal or partisan attacks, and the stakes for our country are incredibly high. Rulings that the Supreme Court will issue in the coming years will decide the survival of our Second Amendment, our religious liberty, our public safety, and so much more,” Trump said. “To maintain security and liberty and prosperity, we must preserve our priceless heritage of a nation of laws, and there is no one better to do that.” Even before Trump’s formal nomination of Barrett, Democrats and the media targeted her faith and pro-life record. Barrett’s nomination, Trump noted, is historical for not just his presidency but also for the United States. Not only is Barrett Trump’s third nomination to the Supreme Court, but she will be the first mother of school-aged children to serve on the court if she is confirmed. “Thank you for sharing your incredible mom with our country,” Trump told Barrett’s children, who were seated on the front row. Barrett and her husband have seven children, all younger than age 20. Two are adopted from Haiti. Trump also assured the American public that Barrett will be devoted to her duties as a judge in the highest court of the land and will take seriously her responsibility to apply the Constitution faithfully. “Amy Coney Barrett will decide cases based on the text of the Constitution as written,” Trump said. “As Amy has said, being a judge takes courage. You are not there to decide cases as you may prefer you are there to do your duty, and to follow the law, wherever it may take you. That is exactly what Judge Barrett will do on the U.S. Supreme Court.” Barrett accepted the nomination and promised to protect the Constitution and “be mindful” of Ginsburg and Scalia’s legacies. “I love the United States and I love the United States Constitution. I am truly humbled by the prospect of serving on the Supreme Court,” she said.
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Post by soonernvolved on Sept 26, 2020 16:08:48 GMT -6
theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/09/26/vice-president-mike-pence-delivers-remarks-during-2020-prayer-march-in-washington-dc/Tens-of-thousands traveled to Washington, D.C., today to participate in the 2020 Prayer March with Franklin Graham. People from all 50 states assembled in prayer for our divided nation. Vice-President Mike Pence delivered remarks on behalf of the administration. www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/presidential-message-national-day-prayer-return-2020/On this inaugural National Day of Prayer and Return, the First Lady and I join millions of Christians here in the United States and around the world in prayer, as we turn our hearts to our Lord and Savior.
Our great Nation was founded by men and women of deep and abiding faith—a faith that has stood the test of time. Four hundred years ago, early American settlers trusted their lives to His providence and braved a voyage to a New World. From the pilgrims who sought His protection aboard the Mayflower to the countless believers who today bow their heads to ask for His guidance during these unprecedented times, our country continues to turn to the Lord. Following in our ancestors’ footsteps we continue the “firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence” that provides us enduring strength and reassurance in our times of need.
The trials and tribulations the American people have faced over the past several months have been great. Yet, as we have seen time and again, the resolve of our citizenry—fortified by our faith in God—has guided us through these hardships and helped to unite us as one Nation under God. As we continue to combat the challenges ahead of us, we must remember the sage words of President George Washington during his first Presidential Address: “propitious smiles of heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained.” As a country and a people, let us renew our commitment to these abiding and timeless principles.
Today, I am pleased to join my voice to yours in thanking God for blessing this nation with great power and responsibility. With reverence, humility, and thanksgiving, we beg for His continued guidance and protection.
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Post by soonernvolved on Sept 26, 2020 16:34:19 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/26/senators-react-to-amy-coney-barretts-nomination-an-excellent-nominee-who-will-safeguard-our-religious-liberties/Senators React to Amy Coney Barrett’s Nomination: An ‘Excellent Nominee’ Who Will ‘Safeguard Our Religious Liberties’ GOP senators praised President Trump’s nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, calling her an “excellent” and “outstanding” nominee who will “safeguard our religious liberties.” President Trump formally nominated Amy Coney Barrett to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Saturday evening. “I love the United States and I love the United States Constitution,” she said after President Trump introduced her. GOP senators quickly offered high praise for the president’s selection: “Amy Coney Barrett is a respected constitutionalist and an excellent nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court. Much like her mentor, the late Justice Antonin Scalia, she will be a textualist and originalist devoted to upholding the rule of law,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said in a statement, describing Barrett as a “jurist we can trust to safeguard our religious liberties at a time when these freedoms are increasingly under attack.” “Americans saw firsthand Judge Barrett’s commitment to her values and principles during her confirmation hearing for the U.S Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit in 2017. Since taking the bench, she has authored nearly 100 opinions,” Blackburn continued. “Beyond her experience on the bench, Judge Barrett is a mother of seven with an impressive legal career. After graduating from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, she received her law degree from Notre Dame Law School, where she is now a professor,” she said, adding that she looks forward to hearing the nominee’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Sen. David Purdue (R-GA) described Barrett as “an outstanding choice to serve on our nation’s highest court” who has remained an “ardent defender of the Constitution and steadfast supporter of the rule of law.” Like Blackburn, Purdue referred to Barrett’s experience with the late Justice Antonin Scalia. “Having clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia, Judge Barrett understands the importance of protecting our nation’s founding principles,” he said. “The Senate will now move with due haste to consider Judge Barrett’s nomination. This is about more than one seat. This is about saving our Republic by maintaining the balance of power between our three branches of government,” he added. Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) also pointed to Barrett’s background as a former clerk to Scalia. She said: I am so proud to support Amy Coney Barrett as President Trump’s nominee for associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. With her background as a former clerk to the late Justice Scalia and an originalist, Judge Barrett will protect individual liberties including the right to life, the Second Amendment and religious liberties by ensuring the Constitution, and our laws, are applied as written. Loeffler warned that the left will target Barrett and “come after” her “with everything they have” but expressed confidence that she will power through. “But as someone who has stood up to the radical left’s cancel culture and won, my advice for a fellow strong conservative woman is this: Keep going, keep pushing, keep fighting, and keep winning,” she said. “Our Constitution, the right to life and the future of our country are all worth fighting for. My Republican colleagues and I will have your back, and we will confirm you as the next female United States Supreme Court associate justice,” Loeffler vowed. Like his Republican colleagues, Florida Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) applauded the nomination, emphasizing his belief in “selecting candidates who respect the separation of powers and the proper role of the judiciary in our democratic system.” “Their job isn’t to make policy – it is to uphold the rule of law,” he said, adding that Barrett “respects the separate roles of our three branches of government and will apply and follow the law as written, not legislate from the bench.” Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) praised Barrett as an “outstanding judge and an even better person” and noted the “unfair attacks on her religious faith and judicial philosophy during her previous confirmation process.” More:
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Post by soonernvolved on Sept 27, 2020 7:18:26 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Sept 28, 2020 16:18:20 GMT -6
Another day, another Nobel Peace Prize nomination. For those keeping score at home, this makes his third one: www.independentsentinel.com/president-trump-nominated-for-3rd-nobel-peace-prize-for-the-trump-doctrine/President Trump will be nominated for a third Nobel Peace Prize by for his extraordinary peace doctrine. It was expounded upon last night by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Sky News Australia reports: www.skynews.com.au/details/_6195238657001Eminent law professor David Flint is among four Australian law professors who are nominating US President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize on the basis of the “Trump Doctrine”. Only members of a national parliament or law professors are able to nominate others for the Nobel Peace Prize with President Trump already receiving two nominations for his promotion of peace in the Middle-East. Professor Flint told Sky News host Alan Jones the Trump Doctrine is “something extraordinary” and is emblematic of the two things which guide the president. “He has, firstly, common sense, and he is only guided by national interest … and therefore an interest in the western alliance,” he said.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 2, 2020 6:44:47 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/economy/2020/10/02/u-s-created-661000-jobs-in-september-unemployment-falls-to-7-9/The U.S. economy added 660,000 jobs in September and the unemployment rate fell to 7.9 percent, indicating that the economy continued to add jobs even as coronavirus infections rose across many states. Economists had forecast an addition of around 800,0000 million jobs and a decline in the unemployment rate to 8.2 percent from 8.4 percent last month. There was a huge decline in education employment and government jobs. Government employment declined by 216,000 in September. Employment in local government education fell by 231,000 and state government education fell by 49,000. A decrease of 34,000 in federal government was driven by a decline in the number of temporary Census 2020 workers. Manufacturing added 66,000 jobs over the month, the fifth straight monthly gain and a respectable showing for this sector. Durable goods accounted for about two-thirds of the gain, led by motor vehicles and parts and machinery. Despite gains over the past 5 months, employment in manufacturing is 647,000 below February’s level. The economy has added around 11 million jobs in the past five months, a record breaking pace. The increase in the ranks of employed workers shows that companies ramped up hiring as the economy reopened and consumers came back to stores, restaurants, and other businesses that had been shuttered in March and April. Despite the gains, total employment in August was lower than its February level, highlighting just how deep the pandemic cut into what had been the strongest jobs markets in decades. Unemployment is rising in Europe, where government programs had kept may workers in their jobs in the early weeks and months of the pandemic. In August, the unemployment rate rose to 8.1 percent, the fifth straight monthly increase. A report on private payrolls from ADP and Moody’s Analytics on Wednesday estimated that businesses increased their workforces by just 749,000 million in September, better than the consensus forecast. The ADP reports have been wildly off in recent months, apparently unable to correctly anticipate the impact of the reopening of the economy. The Trump administration’s aid programs appear to have worked to stave off economic disaster in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. Direct relief payments to taxpayers and enhanced unemployment kept up incomes despite the huge rise in unemployment, which in turn has boosted demand for consumer products. The Paycheck Protection Program, which provides forgivable loans to small businesses that avoid layoffs, also seems to have supported employment and rehiring. Those programs, however, have largely run their course. The $600 a week enhancement to unemployment benefits expired a month ago. The Paycheck Protection Program was meant to support employment for just a few months and most of the funds are now exhausted. Negotiations to re-up the programs stalled on Capitol Hill due to fierce resistance by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats to reaching any deal with the Trump administration and House Republicans. President Donald Trump has used executive orders to maintain federal support for unemployment benefits and the CDC has announced an emergency ban on evictions.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 7, 2020 4:06:14 GMT -6
Trump’s tweet comes after DNI John Ratcliffe declassified and released documents on Tuesday revealing former CIA Director John Brennan briefed Barack Obama on Hillary Clinton’s plot to ‘stir up’ a scandal to tie Trump to Russia in order to distract from her email scandal ahead of the 2016 election.
This declassification comes after Ratcliffe released a Russian intel assessment in which he asserted that Hillary Clinton hatched the Russia hoax in order to pin the DNC ‘hacking’ on President Trump.
“In late July 2016, US intelligence agencies obtained insight into Russian intelligence analysis alleging that US Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had approved a campaign plan to stir up a scandal against US Presidential candidate Donald Trump by tying him to Putin and the Russians’ hacking of the DNC. The IC does not know the accuracy of this allegation of the extent to which the Russian intelligence analysis may reflect exaggerations or fabrication,” Ratcliffe wrote to Lindsey Graham.
The Obama-Biden White House was briefed on it by then-CIA Director John Brennan.
Brennan’s handwritten notes were exclusively obtained by Fox News:
“We’re getting additional insight into Russian activities from [REDACTED],” Brennan notes read. “CITE [summarizing] alleged approved by Hillary Clinton a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisers to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security service,” Brennan’s notes read.
The memos, notes and documents released by Ratcliffe however are heavily redacted.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 11, 2020 17:33:09 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2020/10/11/trump-declassification-russia-crossfire-hurricane/Trump Teases Release Of ‘Breathtaking’ Russia Probe Documents President Donald Trump on Sunday teased the release of information related to the Russia investigation, which he described as “breathtaking.” “Documents are being released at a level now that nobody’s ever seen before. Things that nobody were going to get released are now being released,” Trump said in an interview on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures.” The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Justice Department and FBI have declassified a slew of documents related to U.S. agencies’ intelligence-gathering activities against Trump and his associates in 2016. Several of the documents were related to the Steele dossier, which the FBI used to obtain surveillance warrants against former Trump campaign aide Carter Page. (RELATED: Time Is Running Out For Revelations About Trump-Russia Probe) Trump did not specify which documents will be declassified. But he said on Tuesday in another Fox News interview that he had ordered the “total” declassification of documents related to what he called the “Russia hoax.” “Other documents are going to be released…which are breathtaking,” Trump told “Sunday Morning Futures” anchor Maria Bartiromo on Sunday. “Wait until you see what’s coming out. Breathtaking,” the president said. Asked whether the documents are about FBI or Hillary Clinton, Trump responded: “It’s about everything.” “We have found things that nobody can believe,” he said, adding later that “people are shocked” by the information awaiting declassification. “We caught them cold. We have them cold,” Trump said. On Tuesday, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe declassified CIA documents which showed that the spy agency obtained intelligence in July 2016 that Hillary Clinton may have authorized a plan to link Trump to Russia’s hacking of Democrats in order to distract from the ongoing scandal involving her private use of an email server. The details of the intelligence remain classified, making it difficult to know whether the intelligence about Clinton was accurate. Clinton’s campaign did hire the opposition research firm that hired Christopher Steele, the former British spy who compiled the anti-Trump dossier. Congressional Republicans have recently called on Ratcliffe and Trump to declassify other documents related to the FBI and CIA’s Trump-related activities. Rep. Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, urged Ratcliffe last week to release notes from FBI interviews with Igor Danchenko, the primary source for Steele’s dossier. Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson called on CIA Director Gina Haspel to turn over the agency’s documents related to several Trump campaign associates, as well as Steele and FBI informant Stefan Halper.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 13, 2020 7:03:20 GMT -6
President Trump picks up his fourth Nobel Peace Prize nomination: www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-nobel-peace-prize-europe-diplomaticTrump picks up another Nobel Peace Prize nomination from Europe after diplomatic victories Laura Huhtasaari hailed Trump's efforts to 'build peace in the world.' President Trump has picked up another nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize, after a Finnish member of the European Parliament (MEP) called for the American president to receive the honor. Laura Huhtasaari, an MEP and a member of the right-wing Finns Party, wrote to the Nobel Committee to nominate Trump for the 2021 prize “in recognition of his endeavors to end the era of endless wars, construct peace by encouraging conflicting parties for dialogue and negotiations, as well as underpin internal cohesion and stability of his country.” Huhtasaari said Trump has nearly completed a presidential term without involving the U.S. in a new foreign conflict, while withdrawing troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. She also cited the Abraham Accords -- peace deals between two Arab Gulf nations and Israel. Additionally, she said Trump has “maintained national cohesion and secured law and order” at home.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 15, 2020 5:30:20 GMT -6
www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-release-american-hostages-yemenTrump administration secures release of two American hostages from Yemen President Donald Trump has secured the release of two American hostages held captive by Houthis in Yemen, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday. We join all Americans in welcoming their newly regained freedom,” he tweeted. The two Americans, Sandra Loli and Mikael Gidada, and the remains of a third, Bilal Fateen, were released in exchange for the return of about 250 of the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels from Oman, according to the White House. Oman’s state news said the American captives were flown out of Yemen on an Omani plane. It said 250 “Yemeni brothers” who received treatment in Oman have been returned to Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, on two flights as part of the exchange. Kieran Ramsey, director of the administration’s hostage recovery cell, said Loli and Gidada would soon be on their way back to the United States.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 16, 2020 17:23:43 GMT -6
www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/president-donald-trump-sends-signed-maga-hat-15-year-old-utah-student-bullied-assaulted-supporting/President Donald Trump has sent an upgraded ‘Make America Great Again’ hat to Braxton McElhaney, the 15-year-old student at West Jordan High School in Utah who was brutally bullied by two girls for wearing his hat supporting the president to school. After seeing the video uploaded anonymously on Instagram, the Gateway Pundit tracked down the family of the teenager who told us that the incident happened at the beginning of the school year. Once we found the family, calls for the president to send him an autographed hat came from all over the internet — and Trump came through! “All thanks to President Donald Trump for the support all the way from the White House,” Braxton told TGP of his new and improved hat. His mom added, “We are overwhelmed by the support & love we have received from around the world. We never would have thought it would have made it all the way to the President. Thank you all who made this happen.” McElhaney said that the girl in the red shirt is going to be charged with a felony and the other will be facing either a misdemeanor or felony, it is still unclear. Both of the girls were also in tenth grade.
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Post by redrex on Oct 16, 2020 17:56:41 GMT -6
I bet the chick in the red shirts parent's are very proud
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 16, 2020 17:57:28 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/health/2020/10/16/donald-trump-teams-cvs-walgreens-send-free-coronavirus-vaccines-seniors/Donald Trump Teams with CVS and Walgreens to Send Free Coronavirus Vaccines to Seniors President Donald Trump on Friday announced a deal between his administration, CVS, and Walgreens to distribute free coronavirus vaccines to nursing homes and long-term care facilities for seniors. “I’m thrilled to announce that we have just finalized a partnership with CVS and Walgreens,” Trump said at an event in Florida. “Two places you know pretty well, I guess.” The vaccine will be available for residents in all long-term care facilities, such as nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and residential care homes. “You devoted yourself to this country and I am devoting my life to you,” Trump said in an event highlighting his commitments to America’s seniors. CVS and Walgreens will coordinate the delivery of the vaccine and administration of the shots to each facility, according to a release from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Trump said he would continue focusing his administration’s efforts on protecting high-risk patients and seniors during the pandemic while allowing younger Americans to go back to work and school. “So whether you’re Republican or Democrat we must use facts over fear. We have to. Science over hysteria, hope over despair, and the common good over partisan politics,” he said. Trump criticized Democrats and corporate media for fueling panic and fear in the country. “Their plan to delay the vaccine, delay therapies, and prolong the pandemic will cost thousands and thousands of lives,” he warned. “It will be horrifying for our country,” He urged seniors to remain protected in their home if that’s where they felt safe and promised to end the pandemic as soon as possible. “Don’t listen to the cynics and angry partisans and professional pessimists, we are Americans and we will prevail. We are prevailing,” he said.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 18, 2020 21:14:39 GMT -6
thehill.com/homenews/administration/521623-top-white-house-official-held-secret-talks-with-syria-on-hostagesAn assistant to President Trump recently met with Syrian officials in Damascus as part of efforts to secure the release of American hostages, the first known talks between the U.S. and Bashar al-Assad’s regime in years, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Deputy assistant to the president Kash Patel met with officials with Assad’s government during his trip, officials familiar with Patel’s work told the Journal, though the identities of those whom Patel met with were not released.
The White House and State Department did not immediately return requests for comment from the Journal or The Hill. The talks would represent the first known communication between the White House and the Syrian government since the end of U.S.-Syria relations in 2012 under the Obama administration, which came during the height of the Syrian Civil War
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 20, 2020 7:02:43 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/10/20/report-justice-department-to-file-landmark-antitrust-case-against-google/Report: Justice Department to File Landmark Antitrust Case Against Google WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is expected to file a lawsuit Tuesday alleging that Google has been abusing its online dominance in online search to stifle competition and harm consumers, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. The litigation marks the government’s most significant act to protect competition since its groundbreaking case against Microsoft more than 20 years ago. The suit could be an opening salvo ahead of other major government antitrust actions, given ongoing investigations of major tech companies including Apple, Amazon and Facebook at both the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission. Google controls about 90% of global web searches. The company has been bracing for the government’s action and is expected to fiercely oppose any attempt to force it to spin off its services into separate businesses. The company, based in Mountain View, California, has long denied the claims of unfair competition. Google argues that although its businesses are large, they are useful and beneficial to consumers. It maintains that its services face ample competition and have unleashed innovations that help people manage their lives.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 20, 2020 11:47:03 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/10/20/trump-sudan-to-pay-335-million-to-u-s-victims-of-terrorism/President Donald Trump on Monday announced a deal with the government of Sudan to pay $335 million in compensation to the victims of terrorism and their families. In return, Trump promised to remove Sudan from the U.S. government’s list of state sponsors of terrorism. Trump made the announcement on Twitter, where he specified that Sudan will not be delisted as a state sponsor of terrorism until those compensation checks clear:The East African on Tuesday reported that “African leaders, including President Uhuru Kenyatta and South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa, had several times called for the lifting of sanctions to help the transitional government correct mistakes of the previous regime of Omar al-Bashir.” Sudan’s current Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok welcomed Trump’s announcement. He blamed Sudan’s past support for terrorism, including Al-Qaeda under Osama bin Laden and violence in Darfur, entirely on the Bashir regime. Bashir’s three decades of rule ended in April 2019 when he was ousted after months of protests. “As we’re about to get rid of the heaviest legacy of Sudan’s previous, defunct regime, I should reiterate that we are peace-loving people and have never supported terrorism. We very much look forward to your official notification to Congress rescinding the designation of Sudan as a state-sponsor of terrorism, which has cost Sudan too much,” Hamdok wrote in tweets of his own. A U.S. official told Reuters the delisting of Sudan as a state sponsor of terrorism could begin the process of normalizing diplomatic relations between Sudan and Israel. According to this source, “the details and timing were still being worked out” for such a diplomatic breakthrough. “A key sticking point in the negotiations was Sudan’s insistence that any announcement of Khartoum’s de-listing not be explicitly linked to normalization with Israel. Differences remain between Sudanese political and military officials on how far and how fast to go in warming of relations with Israel,” Reuters noted. Hamdok himself reportedly told Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in August that delisting should not be directly linked to normalizing relations with Israel. Sudanese officials said three weeks ago that negotiations to recognize Israel stalled because Sudan’s transitional government feared popular unrest unless it secured financial relief first – at least double the amount the U.S., Israel, and the United Arab Emirates were offering – and the only way to provide the desired economic security was to begin lifting sanctions against Sudan. Sudan is still a few years away from real democracy, as Hamdok governs alongside a military junta that holds the chairmanship and half of the seats on the “Sovereign Council” established after Bashir’s ouster. The Sovereign Council is supposed to transition to civilian control next year, then cede power to an elected government in 2022. General Abdel-Farrah Burhan, the head of the Sovereign Council, also hailed President Trump’s announcement as a “constructive step” and proper “recognition of the historic change that has taken place in Sudan.” The Associated Press reported on Tuesday that not all victims of Sudan-sponsored terrorism are pleased with the settlement deal brokered by the Trump administration. “More than 500 of the 700 victims of the 1998 bombings at the U.S. embassies signed a letter rejecting Sudan’s settlement offer, partly because it would award more money to Americans than Africans who worked there,” the AP noted. “The letter said the plan offers compensation dependent on a victim’s nation of birth, rather than the severity of injuries.” Other representatives for the families of victims said the settlement deal was reasonable and should be implemented swiftly by the U.S. Congress to stabilize Sudan and secure its continued cooperation in regional anti-terrorism efforts. Advocates of the deal said Sudan has been especially helpful at restraining the malevolent influence of Iran. An important remaining order of business for Sudan will be restoring its sovereign immunity to prevent future terrorism lawsuits from being filed against it. Sudan’s claims to sovereign immunity were most recently rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court in May 2020, allowing a case filed by victims of the 1998 bombings at the embassies in Kenya and Tanzania to move forward. 224 people were killed in those attacks, including 12 Americans. The attacks were linked to al-Qaeda, whose operatives were harbored by the Sudanese government at the time. The Bashir regime in Sudan was also accused of helping al-Qaeda move personnel, weapons, and money into Kenya to prepare for the attack on the U.S. embassy there.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 20, 2020 11:48:45 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2020/10/20/study-comedians-stephen-colbert-jimmy-fallon-target-trump-97-percent-over-biden/Study: Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon Trash Trump 97 Percent Over Biden Left-wing late-night hosts Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon have targeted President Donald Trump in their jokes 97 percent of the time over his Democratic rival Joe Biden, according to a new study from the Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University. The study found that NBC’s Fallon and and CBS’s Colbert told 455 jokes about Trump and 64 jokes about his family and the workings of his administration. Meanwhile, the pair cracked just 14 jokes about Biden, despite the 77-year-old also being a ripe target for humor, from his almost daily gaffes and brain freezes. “When Trump’s onstage, everyone else is blacked out,” Robert Lichter, a communications professor at George Mason, told the AP. “I think they will find a way to keep making jokes about Trump, even after he leaves office.” Researchers found that although late-night hosts typically target Republicans more than Democrats, the difference has never been so stark. During the 2016 presidential election, Trump was the target of around 78 percent of the jokes, compared to Hillary Clinton on 28 percent. Fallon used to attempt to portray himself as more of a neutral political actor, although he appears to have all have given up on that image over the past few years, throwing his weight behind numerous left-wing causes. Colbert, meanwhile, has never made any secret of his Democratic Party leanings and his disdain for Trump. Earlier this year Colbert described Trump as a “monster” over his response to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. On Monday, Colbert even hosted a fundraiser with Sen. Kamala Harris in aid of the Biden Victory Fund, where the pair discussed the “importance of this election, clean energy, and the plan to build back better.” Tickets for the virtual event topped out at a staggering $100,000. Although no such figures were provided for other late-night comedians such as Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel, Samantha Bee, and Conan O’Brien, all of them similarly disdain the president and use their platform to lampoon him on nightly basis.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 20, 2020 16:32:03 GMT -6
The Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday the opening of a Center for Countering Human Trafficking. “Human trafficking is modern day slavery. There is no other way to say it,” said DHS Acting Secretary Chad Wolf. “The words are strong because the actions are evil. The forms of exploitation, sex trafficking, forced labor, and domestic servitude that constitute human trafficking are antithetical in every way to the principles of human dignity that Americans hold dear. The launch of this Center for Countering Human Trafficking represents the investment of resources, attention, and time by President Trump to combat and dismantle all forms of human trafficking.” www.dhs.gov/news/2020/10/20/dhs-launches-new-center-countering-human-traffickingU.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Acting Secretary Chad Wolf announced Tuesday the opening of the DHS Center for Countering Human Trafficking, the U.S. government’s first-ever integrated law enforcement operations center directly supporting federal criminal investigations, victim assistance efforts, intelligence analysis, and outreach and training activities related to human trafficking and forced labor.
The center, which has been operational since early September, is based in Washington and led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a global leader of criminal investigations into human trafficking and sexual exploitation. The center will be staffed with law enforcement officials from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and across DHS, as well as subject matter experts and support staff from 16 DHS components—all focused on the “4 Ps” of the center’s mission: prevention, protection, prosecution and partnerships.Reporters asked ZERO questions today after it was announced that the DHS opened a Center for Human Trafficking. Literally crickets. WATCH:
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 20, 2020 16:35:24 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2020/10/20/us-russia-nuclear-warhead-treaty-trump-putin/REPORT: US, Russia ‘On The Verge’ Of Renewing Nuclear Warhead Treaty The United States and Russia are “on the verge” of agreeing to extend existing nuclear treaties and freeze the number of warheads on both sides, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Tuesday. The potential deal comes after Russian diplomats offered the extension of the existing New START nuclear treaty first signed in 2010 under former President Barack Obama. The deal is scheduled to expire February 2021, unless Russia and the Trump administration come to an extension agreement. The U.S. State Department said Tuesday that such an agreement is likely, according to the Washington Post. “We appreciate the Russian Federation’s willingness to make progress on the issue of nuclear arms control,” State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said in a statement to reporters, per the Post. “The United States is prepared to meet immediately to finalize a verifiable agreement. We expect Russia to empower its diplomats to do the same.” The offer from Russian negotiators comes after President Donald Trump’s administration rejected the previous offer on Friday, which featured only an extension of the New START deal. U.S. negotiators said a freeze on existing nuclear warhead numbers was a non-negotiable feature of any potential deal, and it now appears Russia is willing to accept those terms. (RELATED: Saudi Arabia Allows Flights To And From UAE To Pass Through Its Airspace, Including Israeli Flights) In addition to the New START extension, the Russian Foreign Ministry said it is ready “to assume a political obligation on freezing a number of the nuclear warheads possessed by the parties for this period,” according to the Post. “This item can be put into effect strictly and exclusively with the understanding that the freezing of warheads would not involve any extra requirements on the part of the U.S.,” the ministry statement continued. The news comes on the heels of a series of foreign policy wins for the Trump administration, which has recently seen success in brokering peace agreements between Israel and various Arab Middle Eastern nations. Trump hosted representatives from Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain at the White House in mid-September to sign the Abraham Accords, which normalize diplomatic relations between the predominantly Muslim countries and the Jewish state. The Trump administration says it expects several other Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia, to join the treaty.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 22, 2020 7:09:18 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2020/10/22/new-unemployment-claims-fall-787000-beat-expectations/New Unemployment Claims Fall To 787,000, Lowest Level Since March The number of Americans filing new unemployment claims decreased to 787,000 last week as the economy continues to suffer the effects of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, according to the Department of Labor. The Bureau of Labor and Statistics figure released Thursday represented a decrease of new jobless claims compared to the week ending Oct. 10, in which there were 898,000 new jobless claims reported. Thursday’s figure was the lowest since March, according to CNBC. Economists expected Thursday’s jobless claims number to come in around 875,000 CNBC reported. New jobless claims fell below 1 million in the first week of August, which was the first time the weekly claims had fallen below 1 million since March. (RELATED: US Economy Plunges At Record Rate, Rebound Likely Next Quarter, Economists Say) “The economy has been allowed to open back up,” Alfredo A. Romero, an economist at North Carolina A&T State University, told The Wall Street Journal. “But the question remains if people will be willing to come back, to eat a restaurant or shop at a mall, especially now that the colder weather is coming and cases are rising.” President Donald Trump makes remarks to a crowd of several thousand rally goers at Gastonia Municipal Airport on Wednesday in Gastonia, North Carolina. (Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images) President Donald Trump makes remarks to a crowd of several thousand rally goers at Gastonia Municipal Airport on Wednesday in Gastonia, North Carolina. (Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images) Average coronavirus cases and deaths per million have been increasing steadily in the U.S. since around Oct. 17, according to The COVID Tracking Project and The Financial Times. Jobless claims hovered around 200,000 per week before the pandemic, according to WSJ. President Donald Trump declared a national emergency in March as coronavirus spread rapidly around the world. The U.S. added 661,000 jobs in September, while unemployment fell to 7.9%, according to the Department of Labor data released Oct. 2. The U.S. economy plunged by a record 31.4% in the second quarter due to the pandemic. The third-quarter report, which will be released on Oct. 29, is expected to show significant growth, according to the Associated Press.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 22, 2020 7:59:20 GMT -6
The US Senate will vote on Amy Coney Barrett on Monday — eight days before the US election.
Earlier this week Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts joined the liberal members of the court to allow Pennsylvania to collect ballots three days after the election.
In order to save the country from Roberts and the far left justices Amy Coney Barrett must be confirmed before election day.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 22, 2020 12:46:15 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 23, 2020 11:58:30 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/relentless-trump-names-judge-to-replace-barretts-vacant-seat-on-seventh-circuitRelentless Trump: Names Judge To Replace Barrett’s Vacant Seat On Seventh Circuit President Trump, determined to use his power while in office to strengthen the conservative tenor in the judiciary around the nation, is wasting no time finding a replacement for the seat likely to be vacated by the ascension of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. Trump has nominated a replacement for the soon-to-be empty seat on the Seventh Circuit Court Appeals: Thomas Kirsch, 46, presently the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana. Kirsch graduated from Harvard Law School and served as counsel to the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the DOJ’s Office of Legal Policy, Powerline notes. “The Senate approved Kirsch’s nomination for U.S. Attorney by a voice vote,” the site adds. “This time around, he will face fierce opposition from Democrats. However, Republicans have the votes to confirm Kirsch and enough time (approximately two months) in which to get it done.” The Chicago Tribune reported that Kirsch has “built a reputation for aggressively pursuing public corruption and gang crimes. Earlier this year, Kirsch announced wire fraud charges against longtime Whiting Mayor Joseph Stahura alleging he misused campaign funds for personal gain. In 2019, his office brought sweeping racketeering charges against 17 members of the Latin Dragons street gang alleging they were responsible for 11 murders and dozens of other shootings, stabbings and assaults.” Trump has been joined in his mammoth effort to change the judiciary by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. In February, after the Senate acquitted President Trump in his impeachment trail, McConnell immediately filed cloture on a number of judges as he continued his relentless march toward remaking America’s judiciary. The judges included Andrew Lynn Brasher to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Eleventh Circuit, Joshua M. Kindred to be U.S. District Judge for the District of Alaska, Matthew Thomas Schelp to be U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri, John Fitzgerald Kness to be U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois, and Philip M. Halpern to be U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York. In March 2019, Politico reported that McConnell was intent on moving as quickly as he could to get conservative judges confirmed: The Senate is on track to confirm the 34th Circuit Court judge of Trump’s presidency in the next week and the GOP has three more ready for floor action; that would give Trump roughly 20 percent of the Circuit Court seats in the country after just two years in office. At this rate, McConnell and Trump could leave few, if any, vacancies there for a potential Democratic president in 2021. Even more alarming for Democrats, the GOP is also preparing to pull the trigger on the “nuclear option” and change Senate rules once again with a simple majority to allow much quicker confirmation of lower court judges in the coming months. … Trump currently has 128 District Court vacancies to fill, and each one can take multiple days under current rules if any senator demands a delay; if Republicans change the rules, Trump could conceivably fill most of those over the next 20 months.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 24, 2020 4:14:12 GMT -6
english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2020/10/23/Israel-Sudan-expected-to-announce-deal-normalizing-ties-Senior-US-official-US President Donald Trump announces that Sudan will normalize relations with Israel, a landmark step after two Gulf Arab nations moved to recognize Israel. Moments after Trump formally moved to remove Sudan from a US list of state sponsors of terrorism, reporters were escorted to the Oval Office where he was on the phone with leaders of Israel and Sudan. “Sudan and Israel have agreed to the normalization of relations — another major step toward building peace in the Middle East with another nation joining the Abraham Accords” that involve Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, Trump aide Judd Deere wrote on Twitter. Trump on Friday also formally moved to delist Sudan as a state sponsor of terrorism, a step long sought by the Arab nation which faces US pressure to normalize relations with Israel.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 24, 2020 11:37:21 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/10/24/revealed-president-trump-presided-over-the-largest-manufacturing-boom-in-a-first-term-since-the-1970s/Revealed: President Trump Presided Over the Largest Manufacturing Boom in a First Term Since the 1970s President Donald Trump constantly committed to reviving American industry during his 2016 presidential campaign, promising that he’d bring back jobs that the country lost due to unfair trade deals. His loud appeals to blue-collar laborers went a long way toward putting him in the White House, even though they garnered ceaseless skepticism from the establishment media, mainstream economists, and his predecessor. New York Times columnist Paul Krugman said weeks after Trump’s election that the president would never bring back lost manufacturing jobs. Krugman declared that “nothing policy can do will bring back those lost jobs. The service sector is the future of work; but nobody wants to hear it.” At a PBS town hall in June 2016, former President Barack Obama poured cold water on Trump’s promise to restore a manufacturing jobs sector that’d been slowly picked apart for decades. Obama contended that decades of America’s diminished dominance in manufacturing was proof of a larger global trend. “Well, how exactly are you going to do that?” Obama asked rhetorically. “What exactly are you going to do? There’s no answer to it. He just says, ‘Well, I’m going to negotiate a better deal.’ Well, what, how exactly are you going to negotiate that? What magic wand do you have? And usually the answer is, he doesn’t have an answer.” It was Barack Obama who oversaw a stagnant and declining manufacturing sector during his eight years in office. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Obama’s economy produced less than 100,000 manufacturing jobs across the nation during his last two years in office. In contrast to Obama, manufacturing jobs started soaring shortly after Trump assumed office in January 2017. Since the Trump Administration’s red-tape–cutting policies and the tax cut and reform law passed in December 2017, manufacturers added 467,000 jobs, more than six times the 73,000 manufacturing jobs added in Obama’s last two years. Looking at Trump’s first two years, the revised BLS data shows that more than two manufacturing jobs were added for every one job added in government at the federal, state, and local level. In contrast, under Obama, almost five government jobs were added for every one manufacturing job. Since President Trump took office in January 2017, employment in manufacturing has increased 3.7 percent. Over the same period during the last two years under President Obama, manufacturing payrolls grew by only 0.6 percent. Justin Haskins, the editorial director and a research fellow at the Heartland Institute, noted in an op-ed in The Hill in January 2020 that Democratic lawmakers fundamentally misunderstand job creation. Instead, Haskins argues that what’s necessary for the economy to flourish is to allow business owners to operate with minimal government interference. “What Obama and others in the Democratic Party didn’t understand—and judging by the rhetoric coming from the current batch of presidential candidates, still don’t understand—is that you don’t need a magic wand to grow the economy,” Haskins wrote. “All that is required are policies that give individuals and businesses more power to operate freely and that limit efforts by inept, greedy government bureaucrats in Washington to meddle and manipulate markets they don’t fully understand.” Haskins noted that the Trump administration had signed 16 bills to slash regulation and eliminated 8 and a half rules for every new statute instituted. “Since January 2017, more than 480,000 manufacturing jobs have been added to the U.S. economy, following two decades of sharp losses,” Haskins wrote. The Heartland Institute editorial director explained that during President Clinton’s final three years in office, the country lost more than 430,000 manufacturing jobs, and during George W. Bush’s time in office, Americans lost millions of manufacturing jobs, even before the 2008 financial crisis. “Roughly 300,000 manufacturing jobs were lost during the eight years of the Obama administration, including minor losses in Obama’s final year in office.” Haskins emphasized, “In terms of the percentage of manufacturing job increases, the gains made thus far under the Trump administration surpass the performance in the first term of every president since the 1970s.” So much of Trump’s manufacturing renaissance has occurred in the Rust Belt of Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin—a critical swath of states that proved crucial to the working-class coalition President Trump relied on in November 2016. Pennsylvania has also experienced much of the manufacturing boom under Trump. Under Obama, the Keystone State, a big blue-collar bastion, lost more than 45,000 manufacturing jobs. During the early years of Trump’s presidency, Pennsylvania gained roughly 23,000 manufacturing jobs. Trump’s appeal to blue-collar workers led to his 2016 win in Pennsylvania, which a Republican president had not won since George H.W. Bush’s 1988 presidential election nearly three decades earlier. Haskins described the manufacturing boom as “Trump’s big reelection weapon.” “It turns out that you don’t need incantations or even a ‘magic wand’ to improve manufacturing job growth. You do, however, need public policies in place that promote U.S. businesses, instead of punishing them with ever-higher taxes, regulations, and mandates,” Haskins noted. “President Trump understands this reality, and he’s poised to reap the benefits in 2020 as a result.” Trump and other Republicans have mocked Obama because Trump revived the economy that Obama could not, and went so far as to say could not be revived. Donald Trump, Jr., the president’s son, said in September 2018, “Okay, remember when Obama said you need a magic wand to make that happen? Well, abracadabra, Obama. We’re doing it.” “I guess I have a magic wand, 4.2 percent [GDP], and we will do MUCH better than this! We have just begun.” President Trump fired back in September 2018.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 24, 2020 15:12:15 GMT -6
www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/under-trump-black-prison-rate-lowest-in-31-years-hispanics-down-24America’s imprisonment rate has dropped to its lowest level since 1995, led by a dive in the percentage of blacks and Hispanics sent to jail during the Trump administration, according to a new Justice Department tally.
For minorities, the focus of President Trump’s First Step Act prison and criminal reform plan, the rate is the lowest in years.
For blacks, the imprisonment rate in state and federal prisons is the lowest in 31 years, and for Hispanics, it is down 24%.
“Across the decade from 2009 to 2019, the imprisonment rate fell 29% among black residents, 24% among Hispanic residents and 12% among white residents. In 2019, the imprisonment rate of black residents was the lowest it has been in 30 years, since 1989,” said the report.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 25, 2020 15:59:16 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/10/25/under-trump-america-became-a-net-exporter-of-natural-gas-and-crude-oil-for-the-first-time-in-more-than-fifty-years/Under Trump, America Became a Net Exporter of Natural Gas and Crude Oil for the First Time in More than Fifty Years The following is an excerpt from 50 Things They Don’t Want You to Know About Trump, the new book by Breitbart News Entertainment Editor Jerome Hudson. 50 Things They Don’t Want You to Know About Trump is available for purchase here. The excerpt is from pages 151-155. The Trump administration has championed the responsible cultivation of America’s plentiful energy resources, including oil and natural gas. The president’s policy positions, as such, have been geared toward expanding oil drilling and natural gas exploitation as a means to boost the country’s economy, save Americans money through lower energy prices, and increase America’s national security through reduced dependence on foreign oil. Much of America’s energy boom during Trump’s tenure can be attributed to his stated strategy of “energy dominance.” The White House’s Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) 2020 report found that in 2017 the United States became a net exporter of natural gas. It was a feat not seen since 1958. Further amplifying Trump’s success in boosting America’s energy boom, the United States became a net exporter of crude oil and petroleum products and will likely remain a net exporter for all of 2020 for the first time since 1949. The CEA contended that the country’s growth and dominance in the fossil fuel sector has boosted the economy and has fortified national security. “The innovation-driven surge in production and exports has made the U.S. economy more resilient to global price spikes. It has also improved the country’s geopolitical flexibility and influence, as evidenced by concurrent sanctions on two major oil-producing countries, Iran and Venezuela,” the CEA report said. The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasted in January 2020 that American natural gas exports will almost double by 2021 to an average of 7.3 billion cubic feet per day. The EIA said that the growth in U.S. net exports has been led primarily by increases in liquified natural gas (LNG) and pipeline exports to Mexico. The federal energy agency also noted that in 2019 “growth in demand for U.S. natural gas exports exceeded growth in natural gas consumption in the U.S. electric power sector.” The explosion in natural gas has lowered American energy prices, leaving more Americans with more money to save and invest in their future. The CEA found that the shale revolution in natural gas has saved American consumers $203 billion every year, which amounts to an average of $2,500 in savings for a family of four. “Nearly 80 percent of the savings stem from a substantially lower price for natural gas, of which more than half comes through lower electricity prices,” the CEA said. The economic adviser group also noted that the reduction in energy prices has especially helped America’s lower-income families. “Because lower-income households spend a larger share of their income on energy bills, the savings have greater relative importance for them,” the Council of Economic Advisers wrote. “Energy savings represent 6.8 percent of income for the lowest fifth of households, compared with 1.3 percent for the highest fifth. In other words, lower energy prices are like a progressive tax cut that helps the lowest households the most.” The explosion in natural gas exports has not only helped American economic well-being and national security, but it has also helped the country reduce its carbon dioxide emissions at a level not previously thought possible. “In its 2006 Annual Energy Outlook, the EIA projected a 16.5 percent increase in carbon dioxide emissions from 2005 to 2018 Actual emissions decreased by about 12 percent. Actual energy-related carbon emissions for 2018 were 24 percent lower than projected in 2006,” the CEA explained. “Some of the decline is because projections assumed greater GDP growth and therefore greater electricity demand than what actually occurred, in part because of the Great Recession and slow recovery. An important part of the decline, however, stems from lower natural gas prices reducing reliance on electricity generated from coal. Over the period, the proportion of generation from coal-fired power plants fell from 50 percent to 28 percent, while the share from natural gas increased from 19 percent to 35 percent.” The United States’ production in natural gas has even enabled the country to reduce total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions faster than the entire European Union (EU). This is even more outstanding considering that the EU developed and expanded an “increasingly stringent cap-and-trade” climate change program across the bloc of nations. “Although it substantially raised electricity prices for consumers . . . the system helped the European Union achieve a 20 percent decline in GDP-adjusted emissions from 2005 to 2017, the most recent year of data,” the White House CEA revealed. “Over the same period, emissions fell by 28 percent in the United States, which did not implement a national cap-and-trade system, although various States have pursued policies to cap emissions.” The expansion of natural gas production has largely been a product of hydraulic fracturing, or more commonly known as fracking. Most states allow fracking; however, Maryland, Vermont, and New York have banned it. New York and Pennsylvania have shale natural gas resources; however, New York has not benefitted from the nationwide fracking shale revolution. “The difference in energy-related outcomes in the two States is stark. Development of the Marcellus and Utica Shale in Pennsylvania caused natural gas production to increase 10-fold from 2010 to 2017. Over the same period, New York’s production fell by nearly 70 percent. Pennsylvania leads the country in net exports of electricity to other States and produces more than twice the amount of energy it consumes,” a CEA report noted. “New York, in contrast, has grown more dependent on electricity generated elsewhere; and in 2017, the State consumed four times as much energy as it produced. Despite the growth in energy production in Pennsylvania, total energy-related carbon dioxide emissions fell 15 percent from 2010 to 2016, the most recent year of data, twice as much as in New York (7 percent). The greater decline in Pennsylvania stems from larger reductions in the electric power sector.” Further, the Trump administration has doubled the volume of LNG for export, which has nearly doubled the capacity to sell across the world as of October 2019. “The Trump Administration’s deregulatory policies aim to support private sector innovation and initiative by reducing excessively prescriptive government regulation. In doing so, the Administration seeks to further unleash the country’s abundant human and energy resources,” the CEA said.
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