Immunity Ruling Escalates Long Rise of Presidential Power

(Dick Cheney's Unitary Executive Theory)

from NYT

The Supreme Court’s decision to bestow presidents with immunity from prosecution over official actions is an extraordinary expansion of executive power that will reverberate long after Donald J. Trump is gone.

Beyond its immediate implications for the election subversion case against Mr. Trump and the prospect that he may feel less constrained by law if he returns to power, the ruling also adds to the nearly relentless rise of presidential power since the mid-20th century.

It had seemed like a constitutional truism in recent years when more than one lower-court opinion addressing novel legal issues raised by Mr. Trump’s norm-breaking behavior observed that presidents are not kings. But suddenly, they do enjoy a kind of monarchical prerogative.

“The relationship between the president and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in an outraged dissent joined by the court’s other two liberals. “In every use of official power, the president is now a king above the law.”...

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Rights advocate condemns Israeli NYC consul's anti-Muslim call

from Daily Sabah

A U.S.-based rights advocacy group condemned anti-Muslim comments made by Israel's new consul-general in New York, who urged New Yorkers to "wake up" against what he called an alleged "radical Muslim occupation."

The New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY) condemned Ofir Akunis's statement made in an interview with the New York Post.

Akunis likened New York’s situation to cities like London, Malmo and Paris, which he described as being under the occupation of "radical Muslims," urging New Yorkers to act before it was too late.

In a statement, CAIR-NY Executive Director Afaf Nasher said: "This false ‘wake up’ call is in reality a call to hatred and violence targeting New York Muslims and Arabs, and those perceived to be Muslim and Arab-American."

Nasher emphasized that Akunis' "false and hate-filled remarks should be repudiated by all political and religious leaders."...

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Israeli minister threatens countries against recognizing Palestine

from Daily Sabah

Israel's far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich threatened to set up a new settlement after each country recognized Palestinian statehood.

"For every country that unilaterally recognizes a Palestinian state, we will establish a new town (settlement) and thus bring about the demise of the delusional idea of establishing a Palestinian state that will endanger the existence of the State of Israel," Israeli daily Haaretz cited Smotrich telling a news conference.

Smotrich, who heads the extremist Religious Zionism Party, said last week’s decision to legalize five settlement outposts was "a response to the unilateral recognition of five countries" of Palestine as a state.

Last week, the Israeli Cabinet approved steps proposed by Smotrich aimed at "legalizing" five settlement outposts in the West Bank...

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Patients forced out of Gaza’s European hospital after Israel's evacuation order

from PressTV

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says patients at the European hospital near Khan Yunis are being transferred to nearby medical centers following an Israeli evacuation order covering much of the Gaza Strip’s second-largest city.

The PRCS made the announcement on Tuesday, a day after the Israeli military ordered Palestinians in the eastern half of Khan Yunis and a large swath of Gaza’s south-eastern corner to leave.

The order suggested that the occupation troops are likely to launch a new ground assault in Khan Yunis.

Israeli forces fought for weeks in the southern Gaza city earlier this year but withdrew, claiming to have destroyed battalions of the Hamas resistance group there.

Jeremy Hickey, an anesthesiologist with the charity Fajr Scientific who was working at the European Hospital, told Al Jazeera TV news channel that staff were notified that the facility needed to evacuate...

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Israeli attack kills father of Hind Rajab, symbol of Gaza's suffering

from PressTV

The father of Hind Rajab, the 6-year old Palestinian girl whose murder awakened the world to the suffering of Gaza’s children in Israel’s genocidal war, has reportedly been killed by the regime’s military.

A new report, quoting Palestinian journalist Ashraf Mashharawi, said that Hind’s mother had received a text message saying that her husband had been killed in an Israeli attack.

Ashraf Mashharawi had reportedly spoken to Hind's mother recently.

On January 29, Hind had been traveling in a car with her uncle, his wife and their four children, fleeing fighting in the neighborhood of Tel Al-Hawa in Gaza City, when they came under Israeli fire.

Trapped in the bullet-ridden vehicle and surrounded by her dead relatives, the little girl phoned emergency services and, over a period of more than three hours begged for help, saying that an Israeli tank appeared to be closing in.

“Come take me. Will you come and take me? I’m so scared, please come!” she can be heard saying in a recording of the call to responders, released by the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS).

Two first responders, Yousef Zeino and Ahmed al-Madhoun, were deployed in a bid to save Hind, but the PRCS soon lost contact with them, along with the little girl.

On February 10, the bodies of Hind and her relatives were found lying in the car. Just meters away, a burned-out ambulance was found with the remains of the two paramedics who tried to save the girl...

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It’s Not Up to Jill Biden (or crackhead Hunter either for that matter)

(Looks like everyone has figured it out)

from Slate

... It wasn’t just traditional news media. Right-wing content farms quickly started churning out takes about how “Lady Mac-Biden” was “desperately clinging to power.” The National Review referred to Jill Biden as “the Decider.”

Some of this can be written off as sexism. There’s been a lot of wife-blaming going around this election cycle, on both sides of the aisle.

But there’s an element of much deeper concern in all this coverage. It’s not just that these outlets are hand-wringing about what role Dr. Jill Biden could play in Biden’s decision. The question is: Why the hell would this decision be up to Dr. Jill Biden, even in part, at all?...

This is, to put it bluntly, not Jill Biden’s job...

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The REAL REASON Biden's Not Dropping Out of The 2024 Presidential Race

 The Young Turks figured it out. It's crackhead Hunter and his power-wife Jill. Now, if I could just explain to them what the Nakba Pier was all about from the start, they'll be getting somewhere.

Bidens Say Joe is Fine, Ultra-Orthodox in Israel and Private Equity's War on You

Bidens Say Joe is Fine, Ultra-Orthodox in Israel and Private Equity's War on You 

Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men protest having to serve in Israeli military

from al Jazeera

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Protesters Attack Israeli Minister’s Car Amid Anger At Military Ruling

from CNN

Biden’s family backs his re-election bid – CNN

'BACK OFF OUR MEAL TICKET!!!!'
 

(President Biden's unhinged user wife and crack-head criminal son have decided SleepyJoe 'wants' to remain president as long as he can (despite the fact that Dem donors want him replaced) What an obvious case of senior abuse. I said in a previous video that his wife is desperate to cling to power in the White House as the gate-keeper to a diminished Joe Biden and obviously his son wants mommy and daddy to keep him out of jail and flush with kick-backs and crack. Apparently they have settled on 'it's his aids' fault' line of spin. They are saying his granddaughter can handle his campaign better than Ron Klain, Anita Dunn and Bob Bauer for reasons or something. This is obscene. An entire family of grifters and hangers-on willing to sacrifice him and the election this year in order to remain relevant. Disgusting.)

from RT

The family of US President Joe Biden has urged him not to end his campaign for reelection despite the widespread disappointment following his debate against Republican challenger Donald Trump, CNN has reported.

Biden’s performance in his first face-off with Trump on Thursday was widely viewed as a disaster, with CNN describing it as “stunningly poor” on Monday. The 81-year-old appeared frail and confused, struggling to finish his sentences and mixing up words. Public calls have been made for the Democrats to replace the president on their ticket for the November 5 election, including from the New York Times editorial board, with media reports claiming that the idea is backed by some of the party’s major donors.

On Sunday, Biden’s family, including First Lady Jill Biden, son and convicted felon Hunter Biden, and their grandchildren, convened at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland for a previously scheduled photo shoot with photographer, Annie Leibovitz.

Senior Biden advisers who talked to CNN stressed that discussing the future of the president’s campaign was not the intended goal of the meeting. But the question was brought up, with family members offering their “unequivocal support” for Biden remaining in the race, according to one adviser...

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Israeli military runs over injured mother by tank, uses family as human shields

from PressTV

A Geneva-based rights group has documented a new Israeli war crime in the Gaza Strip, where an occupation tank deliberately ran over an injured Palestinian mother in front of her son.

In a statement released on Sunday, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med) said an Israeli tank ran over 65-year-old Safiya Hassan Musa al-Jamal after she was injured in a raid by the regime forces on her house in Gaza City’s Shuja’iyya neighborhood on Thursday.

Safiya’s son, Muhannad al-Jamal, also witnessed the killing, it added.

Muhannad, 28, told Euro-Med that he, along with his mother, three sisters and niece, hid in the house after Israeli troops attacked Shuja’iyya on Thursday morning.

“After sunset, we heard gunfire … and realized that the soldiers had stormed the house,” he said.

“When they found us in the room, they started firing at the walls randomly and threw five bombs amid gunfire… I was hit by shrapnel in my back, along with my sisters. My mother was struck by a large piece of shrapnel in her chest.”...

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Israeli forces release director of al-Shifa Hospital

from al Jazeera

British MP Candidate DETAINED Over Gaza Statements

(His pro-Assange stance didn't get him locked up while his pro-Palestinian resistance statements did. Says a lot doesn't it? I agree with him on two fronts, that Palestine has the right to resist and that it's good to see the mood in America shift so dramatically toward supporting the people of Palestine. He however thinks Israel has no right to exist, while I believe the June 1967 borders makes clear the majority of the world agrees with me that they both can exist in harmony in the future.)

(He talks about the use of the anti-Terrorism Bill in the U.K. being used now mainly against journalists to get to their electronics and read their notes and possibly uncover various whistle-blowers they can go after. What he fails to understand or at least doesn't say is, it was always designed for such use.)

from Katie Halper