In a mother lode opinion coming after years of litigation, the Ninth Circuit denied Idaho's bid to cloak its new court filings in darkness and gave powerful backing to the free discussion of government affairs. read more
A federal appeals court panel rejected the Trump administration's bid to lift a ban on using a federal immigration database to check the accuracy of citizenship records on states' voter rolls.
A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to identify the people who came up with the structure for the nearly $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization fund" that Attorney General Todd Blanche has said is now "dead."
Not long ago, I rented an SUV from a well-known car rental company. Within hours of an employee scanning my driver's license, a high-resolution scan of my ID was available for sale on the dark web. read more
The UN General Assembly backed a resolution promoting the Equal Earth map projection, with 164 countries voting in favour. The map gives a more accurate representation of the relative sizes of continents, making Africa and South America appear larger than on the Mercator projection. The US opposed the resolution, while France said it would abandon the Mercator map in favour of Equal Earth.
Maybe not "the" Supreme Court, but "a" Supreme Court.
Greenhouse CEO's double-voting convicted overturned by NH Supreme Court (April 2026)
www.conwaydailysun.com
... The New Hampshire Supreme Court on April 9 overturned businessman Richard Rosen's illegal voting conviction, ruling the trial court judge was wrong to suppress evidence that another man confessed to casting the illegal vote.
Rosen, 87, was found guilty of a class B felony in May 2024 for allegedly voting in the 2016 general election in both New Hampshire and Massachusetts. But the Supreme Court ruled Grafton Superior Court Judge Lawrence MacLeod erred by not allowing jurors to know that Rosen's Massachusetts groundskeeper, Billy Botelho, confessed to investigators that he had voted in Rosen's name.
"Botelho's statements either impliedly or expressly constitute confessions to voting in the defendant's name during the November 2016 election " the same election for which the defendant was charged with double voting," Associate Justice Patrick Donovan wrote in the unanimous decision.
Rosen is the CEO of the commercial greenhouse North Country Growers in Berlin. The company has suspended its operations pending new financing for the business. Employee payroll at the end of March could not be made and workers were sent home, according to The Berlin Sun.
Rosen has homes in Holderness and Belmont, Massachusetts, and there were absentee ballots cast in his name in both communities for the 2016 election. But when New Hampshire investigators talked to Botelho he told them he sent an absentee ballot in Rosen's name for the 2016 election, as he had a number of times over the years.
"Botelho again admitted to voting in the defendant's name three, maybe four times.' He stated that he first voted in the defendant's name in the 1970s and had most recently done so in the 2020 election," Donovan wrote. ...
There seems to be an election involved. So... crazy stuff and also (but not excluding from the crazy stuff) Pres Trump's apparent eye on that oil ...
What to know about the UK.-controlled Falkland Islands after Argentina's president stakes claim
www.msn.com
... In a prime-time rallying call to the nation, President Javier Milei has resurrected Argentina's long-standing claim to the nearby U.K.-held Falkland Islands and in the process conjured up memories of the bitter war the two countries fought 44 years ago.
With an election in Argentina scheduled for October 2027, Milei did what many Argentine leaders have done over the years -- bang the drum in support of his country's claim to what Argentines call the Malvinas.
In his speech Thursday, Milei welcomed a seeming change of tone from the U.S. and vowed to introduce measures to block plans to drill for oil near the small British overseas territory of about 3,500 people, which lies around 300 miles east of the southeast coast of Argentina.
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Without threatening a military incursion, he insisted the "winds of change" were with Argentina. ...
The Most Transparent Administration in History! (March 2025)
www.whitehouse.gov
[unfortunately, video-only]
Trump administration is truthful and transparent (January 2016)
factually.co
... The Trump administration's repeated public claim that it was "the most transparent" contrasts sharply with a substantial body of reporting and legal work documenting patterns of secrecy, resistance to information requests, and restrictions on traditional channels of oversight [1] [2].
Independent watchdogs, news outlets and advocacy groups conclude the record is mixed at best: notable policy and archival efforts exist, but the weight of evidence shows systemic obstacles to transparency [3] [4]. ...
2 ICE agents on leave for lying under oath in Minneapolis shooting investigation, agency says (February 2026)
www.cbsnews.com
@#6 ... It looks like Pres Putin is testing NATO's responses to non-traditional warfare. Especially now with [Pres] Trump at the helm in the US. ...
Trump brushes off accusations of Russian sabotage against NATO allies
www.politico.com
... President Donald Trump dodged a chance Friday to condemn President Vladimir Putin over allegations that Russia has conducted espionage attacks on NATO nations.
Trump, speaking to reporters at the White House, brushed off a question about one such apparent incident -- the discovery of explosive-laden drones Aug. 4 at the Leipzig airport in Germany that officials have linked to Russia.
"I speak to him," Trump said of the Russian leader. "I know him very well. Putin is not looking to attack NATO territory."
Trump did not elaborate further on the attack or why he would be so quick to dismiss an apparent attack on a fellow member of NATO, an alliance rooted in the concept of a shared defense against Moscow. ...
@#14 ... The damage he is doing now is irreparable. ...
Trump Admits Real Reason He's Building Monuments to Himself
www.thedailybeast.com
... President Donald Trump has made a stunning admission while revealing why he's obsessed with remodeling Washington.
Trump, 80, has candidly told New York magazine that he is building monuments for himself and slapping his name everywhere because he knows that nobody else will do so when he is gone. ...
@#5 ... Jailbirds of a feather flock together ...
Looks that way ...
The Venezuelan billionaire the US investigated for money laundering now has a Pentagon oil deal
www.reuters.com
... Florida prosecutors earlier this year paused a money-laundering investigation into Alejandro Betancourt, say eight people familiar with the matter. Switzerland withdrew UK extradition request in May but Zurich prosecutor says criminal case still proceeds. U.S. official said most of Betancourt's legal challenges are nearly a decade old - and that he is the best partner to boost Venezuela's oil output.
Gene Loves Jezebel - Motion of Love (1987)
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