Today’s featured image is of Nick’s Lake. The Lake is located near Old Forge in the Town of Webb in Herkimer county NY.
The President is due to be released from Walter Reed at 1830 today. His doctors feel it’s safe for him to continue his convalescence at the White House.
So much for what Chuck Schumer wants. Lindsay Graham has officially scheduled the hearings for ACB. The hearings will start at 0900 on 12 OCT and run till the 15th.
Ever wonder what it takes to open an ice cream shop in San Francisco? Yeah, me neither. But for those who might, it takes more than a year and about a quarter million in on-hand cash. Jason Yu decided he wanted to open one, found a location, signed a lease, hired an architect to make whatever changes needed to be made, and is still waiting. Oh, he signed that lease in June of 2019. Screw that. . . .
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is being accused of bribery and abuse of power by some of his employees. A letter signed by seven staff members, was addressed to the human resources director in Paxton’s office. Though it does not outline any specific allegations against Paxton, the letter does claim that Paxton has “violated federal and/or state law, including prohibitions relating to improper influence, abuse of office, bribery, and other potential criminal offenses”.
In Joe’s defense, he may not actually know what he’s saying. . . .
The Supreme Court declined to take up the case of Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis. Davis refused to issue marriage licences to same sex couples. But that isn’t the big news coming out of that case. Justices Thomas and Alito indicated they were all for revisiting Obergefell, the decision that wrote same-sex marriage into law. In his concurrence, signed by Alito, Thomas wrote:
“This petition implicates important questions about the scope of our decision in Obergefell, but it does not cleanly present them. For that reason, I concur in the denial of certiorari. Nevertheless, this petition provides a stark reminder of the consequences of Obergefell. By choosing to privilege a novel constitutional right over the religious liberty interests explicitly protected in the First Amendment, and by doing so undemocratically, the Court has created a problem that only it can fix. Until then, Obergefell will continue to have “ruinous consequences for religious liberty.” 576 U. S., at 734 (THOMAS, J., dissenting).”
Buckle up kids, the next few years are gonna be a wild ride at SCOTUS. . . .
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