The California prop will be put on the ballot and voted on by the people.

The Utah maps were not.

This what they voted for. When they miss the next emergency broadcast alert it'll be their own fault.

More: Trump's attempt to remove a sitting Fed governor is unprecedented " and almost certainly illegal, according to legal scholars. Governors are appointed to 14-year terms and can only be fired "for cause," such as misconduct or failure to perform official duties. Personal financial claims " especially from before the appointment " don't meet that bar.

"This is a procedurally invalid removal under the statute," said Columbia law professor Lev Menand. "This is not someone convicted of a crime. This is not someone who is not carrying out their duties."

Cook, who was appointed by President Joe Biden in 2022, is the first Black woman to serve on the Fed's Board of Governors. She's now fighting back with a legal team led by high-powered attorney Abbe Lowell.

"His reflex to bully is flawed and his demands lack any proper process, basis or legal authority," Lowell said of Trump. "We will take whatever actions are needed to prevent his attempted illegal action."

More: "Proposition 4 is the law in Utah on redistricting. H.B. 2004, the 2021 Congressional Map, which was not enacted under S.B. 200 and not Proposition 4, cannot lawfully govern future elections in Utah," Gibson wrote. "Use of H.B. 2004, the 2021 Congressional Map, in any future elections is hereby ENJOINED."

The ruling permanently blocks use of the GOP-drawn 2021 congressional map that split Salt Lake County into four districts, diluting the power of non-Republican voters.

"The Legislature intentionally stripped away all of Proposition 4's core redistricting standards and procedures that were mandatory and binding on it," Gibson added. "To permit the 2021 Congressional Plan to remain in place would reward the very constitutional violation this Court has already identified and would nullify the people's 2018 redistricting reform."

The court ordered lawmakers to redraw Utah's congressional districts under the rules of Proposition 4. They have until September 24 to deliver a compliant plan.

If they fail " or if the new map doesn't meet the law's standards " plaintiffs and other groups may submit their own maps for the court to consider.

More: Grand juries decline to indict, known as a "no true bill," in only a small fraction of federal cases. To secure an indictment prosecutors need only show probable cause a crime was committed. That's much lower than the standard in criminal trials. A grand jury declining to indict three times on the same case is a warning the evidence may not stand up at trial, according to attorney Christopher Macchiaroli, a partner at Silverman Thompson Slutkin White who previously served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the federal prosecutor's office in D.C.

"Seeking an indictment for a third time is extremely rare and usually only reserved for the most serious of crimes," Macchiaroli said. "If a governmental entity cannot convince a super majority of grand jurors that there is a fair probability that a crime was committed, it is virtually impossible to believe that twelve jurors in the same relevant jurisdiction could unanimously at a future date find guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, the highest standard of proof under the law."

Reid was arrested in July for allegedly resisting attempts to restrain her after she refused to back away from ICE officers who were conducting arrests outside the D.C. Jail. In the process, they said, an FBI agent received scrapes to the back of her hand.

Becoming? America, built on slavery and the genocide of Native Americans, has always been amoral.

We made some progress in the latter half of the last century but we're backsliding.

No wonder you never did anything with your life other than cruise bath houses looking for dope money.
#11 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Every accusation is a confession.

No one fears -----.
#24 | Posted by boaz

No one fears their what? Purchasing power? Decorating ability? Fashion sense? Tight grip on the zeitgeist? Deep penetration of American culture? Throbbing, pulsating dance music?

Yeah, let us know how well that works out.

I dont think

#1 | Posted by boaz

We know.

Conservatives are a problem in every religion. Is this obvious fact supposed to be considered new or shocking?

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

More: Instead of spending about 18 weeks training at the academy in Quantico, Va., the group of agents, tentatively scheduled to start in October, will receive eight weeks, according to the people. And the agents will no longer need to fulfill a longstanding requisite for joining the bureau: a bachelor's degree.

Lowering recruiting standards will allow the F.B.I. to draw deeper from the ranks of other federal law enforcement agencies, specifically a category of criminal investigators classified in the federal system as 1811s. Investigators with that designation work at dozens of agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement, inspector general offices and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

The new plan, current and former agents say, seems to be part of a larger effort by Mr. Patel to have the bureau focus more on street crime, rather than on complicated cases touching on financial fraud, public corruption and national security. Doing so, they added, will erode the bureau's reputation as an elite law enforcement agency, known for its selectiveness about its recruits.

Tiffany Trumpf's husband, Michael Boulos, arranged for oligarch Jared Kushner to buy a mega yacht at a steeply inflated price.

Sorry but mega yachts cost hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars, not a paltry $15 million.

People still eat at Cracker Barrel? Their "food" is consistently awful.

First, boaz, Axios doesn't have a paywall.

The others weren't allowed flee the country, just this one Israeli government official.

Trump's government could have stopped it but chose to let him return to a country that does not have an extradition treaty with us instead.

When has religion not killed?

Whats wrong, can't count to four?

More: Data from an internal Israeli intelligence database indicates that at least 83 percent of Palestinians killed in Israel's onslaught on Gaza were civilians, an investigation by +972 Magazine, Local Call, and the Guardian can reveal.

Figures obtained from the classified database " which records the deaths of militants from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) " contradict by a huge margin the public statements of Israeli army and government officials throughout the war, which have generally claimed a 1:1 or 2:1 ratio of civilian to militant casualties. Instead, the classified data backs up the findings of several studies suggesting Israel's bombardment of Gaza has killed civilians at a rate with few parallels in modern warfare.

The Israeli army confirmed the existence of the database, which is managed by the Military Intelligence Directorate (known by the Hebrew acronym "Aman"). Multiple intelligence sources familiar with the database said the army views it as the only authoritative tally of militant casualty figures. In the words of one of them: "There's no other place to check."

It's four posts below this one.

Now tell us about the Israeli pedo they let off scot-free, boaz.

How much will this meaningless act of cruelty cost?

More: "Empathy becomes toxic when it encourages you to affirm sin, validate lies or support destructive policies," said Allie Beth Stuckey, author of "Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion."

Stuckey, host of the popular podcast "Relatable," is one of two evangelicals who published books within the past year making Christian arguments against some forms of empathy.

The other is Joe Rigney, a professor and pastor who wrote "The Sin of Empathy: Compassion and its Counterfeits." It was published by Canon Press, an affiliate of Rigney's conservative denomination, which counts Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth among its members.

...

While their anti-empathy arguments have differences, Stuckey and Rigney have audiences that are firmly among Trump's Christian base.

"Could someone use my arguments to justify callous indifference to human suffering? Of course," Rigney said, countering that he still supports measured Christ-like compassion. "I think I've put enough qualifications."

Historian Susan Lanzoni traced a century of empathy's uses and definitions in her 2018 book "Empathy: A History." Though it's had its critics, she has never seen the aspirational term so derided as it is now.

It's been particularly jarring to watch Christians take down empathy, said Lanzoni, a graduate of Harvard Divinity School.

"That's the whole message of Jesus, right?"

From the artile: "If Trump is genuinely concerned about the safety of D.C. residents," one resident said, "I would see National Guard in my neighborhood. I'm not seeing it, and I don't expect to see it. I don't think Trump is bringing in the National Guard to protect Black babies in Southeast."

You won't find the National Guard in any of the city's high-crime areas. A vast majority of soldiers and agents deployed to Washington are stationed in the vicinity of the White House and other high-profile sections of the city. There are soldiers patrolling the National Mall; armored vehicles parked at Union Station; and ICE agents manning checkpoints on U Street, an area known for its bars, restaurants and nightlife. They're not there for safety, but for show.

It is a truth of this administration, in fact, that much of it is for show. Hardly a day goes by without a new transgression against democratic norms or a fresh assault on the constitutional order. Each represents a serious threat to the American experiment in self-government, and yet each is also highly performative.