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Post by mhbruin on Mar 29, 2024 8:06:01 GMT -8
I tried working in a Muffler Factory, but that was too exhausting.
Get Off Your Asses, and Start Killing Gazans!
Israel's Supreme Court on Thursday ordered an end to state funding for ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students who do not serve in the army, a blockbuster ruling that could imperil the leadership of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he wages war with Hamas in Gaza and clashes with key ally the United States.
The government faces a separate Monday deadline to come up with a new military conscription plan, as the war stirs mainstream public anger over exemptions for the ultra-Orthodox — a longstanding point of tension that could now bring political upheaval.
The court has placed new pressure on Netanyahu, whose fragile governing coalition partly relies on two ultra-Orthodox parties that have demanded the exemptions remain in place. A collapse of Netanyahu’s government would thrust Israel into new elections, which polls suggest he would likely lose.
Netanyahu's War Cabinet, meanwhile, features centrist former military generals who have given voice to mounting frustrations among the Jewish Israeli public over the fact that the ultra-Orthodox have been exempt from service even in the midst of the Israel-Hamas war.
Most Jewish men in Israel are required to serve nearly three years in the military, along with years of reserve duty, while Jewish women must serve two mandatory years. But for decades, exemptions have existed for the ultra-Orthodox, who make up about 13% of Israeli society, to allow them to study full time in religious seminaries.
The Supreme Court previously ruled that the exemptions are discriminatory and gave the Israeli government until Monday to present a new plan that addresses those concerns, and until June 30 to pass it.
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Post by mhbruin on Mar 29, 2024 8:07:56 GMT -8
Guess Which One's White and Which One's Black
A judge ruled this week that a top Georgia Republican Party official, who has promoted former President Donald Trump's claims of widespread voter fraud affecting the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, has repeatedly voted illegally.
Brian Pritchard, first vice chairman of the Georgia Republican Party and a conservative talk show host, was fined $5,000 for voting illegally and registering to vote while serving a sentence for a felony conviction. Pritchard was also ordered not to commit further violations, to face public reprimand for his conduct and to pay the State Election Board's investigative costs.
In a 25-page ruling Wednesday, Administrative Law Judge Lisa Boggs affirmed the board's finding that Pritchard had voted illegally nine times in defiance of his extended probation in connection with a pair of felony convictions dating back nearly 30 years.
Pritchard was initially sentenced in 1996 to three years’ probation in connection with felony forgery charges in Pennsylvania, according to the ruling.
Pritchard's probation was revoked three times: in 1999, when he moved to Georgia, and again in 2002 and 2004. A judge in 2004 imposed a new seven-year probationary sentence, which made Pritchard illegible to vote in the state until 2011. --------------------------- A Texas appeals court on Thursday overturned the illegal voting conviction of Crystal Mason, who was given a five-year prison sentence for casting a provisional ballot in the 2016 election while on supervised release for federal tax evasion.
The decision by the Tarrant County-based Second Court of Appeals means she is formally acquitted of the felony voting charge. The court said in the decision that there was no evidence Mason knew she was ineligible to vote when she cast her ballot—which is a condition that must be met in order to convict her of illegal voting.
Mason has maintained throughout the seven-year case that she did not know she was ineligible and would not have risked her freedom if she had. She said Thursday in a statement that her long legal fight, which gained international attention, was devastating.
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Post by mhbruin on Mar 29, 2024 8:09:50 GMT -8
Movin' On Up
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Post by mhbruin on Mar 29, 2024 8:11:40 GMT -8
Mississippi Finally Almost Gets It
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Post by mhbruin on Mar 29, 2024 8:12:57 GMT -8
I Wouldn't Touch This with a Ten-Foot Poll
Wake Me About Two Weeks After the Conventions, and We Can Talk About Polls
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Post by mhbruin on Mar 29, 2024 8:17:02 GMT -8
My Momma Told Me, You'd Better Shop Around
A Texas federal judge on Thursday accused the major banking industry groups and U.S. Chamber of Commerce of venue shopping in their lawsuit against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a major win for the federal regulator.
The bureau had argued the only reason banks filed their lawsuit in Texas was to increase their chance of a favorable ruling. Judge Mark Pittman ruled that the lawsuit should be transferred to Washington, where the banking lobby has armies of lawyers able to handle this case.
“Venue is not a continental breakfast; you cannot pick and choose on a Plaintiff’s whim where and how a lawsuit is filed," Pittman wrote.
The lawsuit deals with the CFPB's new regulations over credit card late fees, where the average late fee of a customer would be capped at $8, down from the average late fee of $32. The major banking groups had filed their lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Texas. Industry and interest groups have often filed lawsuits against the Biden administration there, due to its historically conservative judges.
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Post by mhbruin on Mar 29, 2024 8:21:16 GMT -8
Bond, Large Bond
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Post by mhbruin on Mar 29, 2024 8:25:00 GMT -8
Hailing Haley Voters
President Biden’s reelection campaign launched a digital ad Friday aimed at supporters of Nikki Haley, who dropped out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination this month. The ad is part of an effort by the president’s team to win over Republicans who may be disinclined to vote for Donald Trump.
The Biden campaign, which is spending more than $1 million on the ad across digital platforms, will run the spot for three weeks in battleground states, campaign officials said. It is part of a six-week, $30 million ad buy the campaign launched after the State of the Union.
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Post by mhbruin on Mar 29, 2024 8:32:36 GMT -8
Uncovering the Real Crimes
James Comer announced today that next week, the GOP will begin another round of impeachment hearings to uncover the truth behind these new, serious allegations against Joe Biden:
Biden once shot a man in Reno — just to watch him die. He also shot his baby. He did it down by the river. And he shot the sheriff too, which is a capital offense. (But there is no evidence that he also shot the deputy.) He was once spotted coming into Los Angeles carrying a couple of keys, and he was caught on camera saying “Don’t touch my bags if you please, Mr. Customs Man.” Witnesses (including Tony Bobulinski) reported that “Billy Joe Biden was seen throwin' something off the Tallahatchee Bridge." He’s always got his mind on his money and his money on his mind. Biden has no alibi for that night that the lights went out in Georgia. It has been reported that he frequently told Hunter to “C’mon, take the money and run.”
These allegations cannot be ignored. Where there’s smoke on the water, there’s fire on the mountain!
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