“There is no precedent to support this claimed unreviewability, which runs contrary to the fundamental structure of our constitutional democracy,” the court said in the ruling. The three judges who participated in the appeal ― U.S. Circuit Judges Richard Clifton, William Canby and Michelle Fri[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Ongoing Presidential Campaign’
January 20th, 2017 - 1:34 am § in Misc.
The Inauguration: Memories of Weimar
“This hardening of attitude was symbolised by the election in late 1928 of Alfred Hugenberg as chairman of the DNVP. Hugenburg had been managing director of Krupps steel works before the war, and was now a wealthy press baron, with a string of newspapers and news agencies, as well as interests[...]
Is Austria on The Edge of Neofascism? A Warning
Auschwitz survivor asks Austrians to remember the past A holocaust survivor has issued an appeal – now going viral – to young people in Austria urging them to think carefully about who they vote for in the upcoming presidential election, to stop history from repeating itself. FPÖ comp[...]
The Know Nothing Party
‘There’s No Such Thing as Facts’ “Well, I think it’s also an idea of an opinion. And that’s—on one hand, I hear half the media saying that these are lies. But on the other half, there are many people that go, ‘No, it’s true.’ And so one thing t[...]
Jews as Nazis
A Long Island neurologist, who delivered the dvar torah at the ZOA’s gala, regaled the ballroom with tales of the ancient Israelites who witnessed miraculous interventions into the natural order. “Well, so did we,” bellowed Alan Mazurek. He declared that the election had been “divinely direc[...]
November 29th, 2016 - 9:00 pm § in Politics
Post-election hate incidents mapped
Since Trump’s surprise election victory, there has been a surge of “celebratory” hate incidents committed by his supporters, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which compiled 867 such incidents in 10 days. And those are only the reported incidents, which SPLC estimates a[...]