Random News and Notes

Today is the first day of the October term at SCOTUS. I’d give you an overview of the important cases for this term, but my usual source is down this morning. It looks like a relatively recent thing.

Perhaps tomorrow? Let me know if you want me to spend the effort on what is what this term.

Now on to something that will likely end up in front of the Supremes. A federal district court judge in Oregon has enjoined the Trump administration from deploying the National Guard to Portland. In a late Sunday ruling Karin Immergut amended her initial ruling to include Guard troops from anywhere, not just Oregon.

. . . taking place to justify the president’s order.
If you read carefully how Immergut described illegal immigrants, you might pick up a slight bias…as well as her claims of “mostly peaceful” protests:

Immergut is apparently a Trump appointee, but given the ‘blue slip’ process in the Senate it is likely she was put forward by Oregon’s commie Senators.

I should note that SCOTUS has already weighed in on this very issue in the use of Guard troops in California. They removed all the lower court stays pending appeal saying the district courts did not have the authority to enjoin the Executive in that capacity.

A long rumored merger/acquisition was finalized today. Skydance – the parent company of CBS and Paramount – closed the deal on the Free Press. As part of that deal, Bari Weiss, one-time NYT opinion page editor, has become the Editor-in-Chief of the CBS news division. Weiss was forced out at the Times because she wasn’t sufficiently loyal to the leftist causes the rest of the staff there espoused. She went on to form the Free Press and grow that organization into one of the largest and most respected online news and opinion outlets.

I expect the shrieking and gnashing of teeth from the staff will be amazing. I can’t wait to see how many retards cosplaying as journalists quit over this.

It’s day 6 of the Schumer Shutdown. Dollar Store Obama went on Meet the Press yesterday. It did not go well. Host Kristen Welker – who regularly and reliably carries water for the Dems – called out the hypocrisy of our friends on the left. Watch:

I really don’t know what leverage the Dems think they have. Nearly all the polling I’ve seen places the blame for the shutdown squarely at the feet of the Dems. I mean, they lost NBC. My best guess is this is about internal New York Dem politics. Right now, Chuck Schumer loses a primary to Alexandria Occasional Cortex and it isn’t close. Apparently, the Dem leadership seems to think that having the reliably Dem voting federal bureaucracy gutted nearly permanently is worth it. We’ll see I guess.

Today marks the 52nd anniversary of the start of the 1973 Yom Kippur war also known as the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, the fourth Arab–Israeli War or the October War. An Arab coalition launched a surprise attack across their respective frontiers during the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur.

. . . urged Israel to stop – to spare Arab pride and open the door for peace. Four years later, Israel gave up territory three times its own size for that peace.

50 years and one day later Hamas would try the same thing. But that is a story for tomorrow.