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REUTERS/Lucy NicholsonWASHINGTON, Nov 29 (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday struggled over a bid by President Joe Biden's administration to implement guidelines - challenged by two conservative-leaning states - shifting immigration enforcement toward countering public safety threats. The justices voted 5-4 vote in July not to block Tipton's ruling halting the guidelines, announced last year by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. When the Supreme Court also declined to stay Tipton's ruling, conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined liberal justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson in dissent. Prelogar called the states' claims of indirect harms insufficient to allow them to sue and urged the Supreme Court to limit the ability of states more generally to challenge federal policies in court. Reporting by Nate Raymond in Boston and Andrew Chung in Washington; Editing by Will DunhamOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

The court on a 5-4 vote declined in July to put U.S. District Judge Drew Tipton's ruling hold. On Tuesday, some of the conservative justices who were in the majority in that decision signaled that they were likely to rule against the administration again. Republican state attorneys general in Texas and Louisiana sued to block the guidelines after Republican-led legal challenges successfully thwarted other Biden administration attempts to ease enforcement. When the Supreme Court declined to stay Tipton's ruling, conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined liberal justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson in dissent. Prelogar called those indirect harms insufficient and urged the Supreme Court to limit the ability of states more generally to challenge federal policies.

WASHINGTON, Nov 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday is set to consider whether President Joe Biden's administration can implement guidelines - challenged by two conservative-leaning states - shifting immigration enforcement toward public safety threats in a case testing executive branch power to set enforcement priorities. Biden campaigned on a more humane approach to immigration but has been faced with large numbers of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. Republican state attorneys general in Texas and Louisiana sued to block the guidelines after Republican-led legal challenges successfully thwarted other Biden administration attempts to ease enforcement. Circuit Court of Appeals in July declined to put that ruling on hold, Biden's administration turned to the Supreme Court. The administration also told the justices that the guidelines do not violate federal immigration law and that the mandatory language of those statutes does not supersede the longstanding principle of law enforcement discretion.

[1/2] The U.S. Supreme Court building is seen in Washington, U.S., June 26, 2022. The Supreme Court in recent years has limited the latitude of prosecutors in political corruption cases. The charges against Percoco and Ciminelli were brought in 2016 by former Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who also pursued corruption cases against top state lawmakers including former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. They also have asked the Supreme Court to reverse their convictions. A trial judge in July allowed him to be released from prison on bail after the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case.

The committee on Oct. 22 sent Trump himself a subpoena to testify under oath and provide documents. Trump, who is considering another run for the presidency in 2024, has accused the panel of waging unfair political attacks on him. Circuit Court of Appeals on Oct. 22 declined to put the subpoena on hold while Ward appealed. Ward and her husband, Michael Ward, both signed their names on one of the slates of alternate electors for Trump. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan had temporarily put the subpoena on hold on Oct. 28 while the full court decided how to proceed.

☆ Ex-NYPD officer guilty of murder in freezing death of 8-year-old son
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-06 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Michael Valva was found guilty of four counts of child endangerment and faces a maximum potential sentence of 25 years to life. Thomas Valva died in January 2020, the day after sleeping in the garage in the family’s Long Island home in temperatures that dropped under 20 degrees. A medical examiner ruled the boy’s death a homicide and found that hypothermia was a major contributing factor. According to prosecutors, the boys spent 16 consecutive hours in the freezing garage leading up to the 8-year-old’s death, Newsday reported. The child endangerment counts stemmed from the beating and starving of both boys.

The court confronts this divisive issue four months after its major rulings curtailing abortion rights and widening gun rights. The court's 6-3 conservative majority is expected to be sympathetic toward the challenges to Harvard and UNC. The cases give the court an opportunity to overturn its prior rulings allowing race-conscious admissions policies. Blum's group said UNC discriminates against white and Asian American applicants and Harvard discriminates against Asian American applicants. UNC said there is a difference between a racist policy like segregation that separates people based on race and race-conscious policies that bring students together.

☆ ‘Dying Inside’: Chaos and Cruelty in Louisiana Juvenile Detention
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-29 | by ( Megan Shutzer | Rachel Lauren Mueller | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +47 min

But inside the walls at Ware, one of the state’s largest juvenile detention facilities, children have been trying to kill themselves with stunning regularity. In Louisiana, where brutal conditions prompted juvenile justice reform two decades ago, the system is again in crisis. Most Ware guards are Black, as well, though nearly all of its leaders are white, as are the local judge, sheriff and district attorney. “Of course, they still do.” In reports to the state, Ware’s nurses described carpet burns on children’s faces and head-to-toe bruises from restraints. In fact, of the four guards convicted of sexually assaulting children at Ware, Mr. Peace would be the only one imprisoned.

Kagan issued an order effectively putting the litigation on hold and preventing enforcement of the subpoena pending a further order by her or the full court. Kagan is the justice designated to handle emergency appeals from a group of states including Arizona. The panel sought the records as part of its investigation into events surrounding the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol by Trump supporters who sought to block Congress from certifying his election loss to Democrat Joe Biden. Trump, who is considering another run for the presidency in 2024, has accused the panel of waging unfair political attacks on him. The panel had already been in the process of seeking records concerning Ward, who the panel said participated in multiple aspects of the attempts to interfere with the electoral count.

☆ A Home Built Into the Hawaiian Hillside Asks $14.8 Million
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Sarah Paynter | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Vladimir Tismăneanu, 03 noiembrie 2020
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-03 | by ( ) moldova.europalibera.org time to read: +6 min

Ideologia etnocentrică, la fel de amăgitoare precum cea comunistă, a devenit noul crez salvaționist, o sursă cvasi-mitică de identificare. Ea oferă ființelor umane iluzia identității, a demnității și a moralității în același timp cu înlesnirea ruperii de toate acestea”. Mai mult ca orice altceva, marxismul a reprezentat o grandioasă invitație făcută ființelor umane de a se angaja într-o căutare pasionată a Cetății lui Dumnezeu și de a o construi hic et nunc. Potrivit lui Leszek Kołakowski, „marxismul a fost cea mai mare fantasmă a secolului XX”. O filosofie care a proclamat praxisul drept criteriu al adevărului și a insistat că realitatea concretă reprezintă testul propriei validități, a fost în mod dramatic gonflată de imposibilitatea practică a propriei implementări potrivit planurilor originale.

Persons: György Konrad, Havel, Dumnezeu, Leninismul, Eric Weitz, Leszek, Andrzej Walicki, Marx, Claude Lefort, Rachel Walker, Jan, Werner Müller, Müller, Jurek Becker, Becker, Uwe Timm, Raymond Aron conchidea Organizations: Genocide Locations: RDG, RFG

☆ Vladimir Tismăneanu, 27 octombrie 2020
▼ + stars: | 2020-10-27 | by ( ) moldova.europalibera.org time to read: +6 min

Fiică a unui influent intelectual interbelic, Eugen Lovinescu, și a unei mame care avea să moară în închisorile comuniste, Monica Lovinescu a ajuns să se bucure de un extraordinar prestigiu în România nativă. Pentru mine și mulți alți intelectuali români, Monica Lovinescu și soțul ei, Virgil Ierunca, au fost vocile clarității morale. Vreme de ani de zile, pozițiile ei deschise întru apărarea scriitorilor disidenți și a rezistenței morale la totalitarism au provocat iritarea propagandiștilor de partid și a asociaților lor securiști. Datorită Monicăi Lovinescu și Europei Libere, românii au avut un acces direct la paginile iconoclaste ale Literarny Listy. După 1990, Monica Lovinescu și Virgil Ierunca și-au văzut multe dintre predicții (inclusiv cele sumbre) îndeplinite.

Persons: Arthur Koestler, francez Raymond Aron, Monica Lovinescu, Eugen Lovinescu, Nicolae Ceaușescu, Ceaușescu, Virgil Ierunca, Arendt, Lovinescu, Solidaritatea, Monicăi Lovinescu, soților Lovinescu, Ierunca, Camus, Orwell, Soljenițîn, Cioran, Revel, Aron, Lionel Trilling, Gabriel Liiceanu, Andrei Pleșu, Horia, Horia - Roman Patapievici, Andrei Cornea, Mircea Mihăieș, marxiști, Václav Havel, Ivan Sviták, Ladislav, Eduard Goldstücker, Antonín Liehm, Pavel Kohout, Ivan Klíma, Monica, Immanuel Kant Organizations: Congresul, Libertatea, Comuniste, Radio Europa Liberă, Europei, Europa Liberă Locations: Rece, Encounter, Preuves, Bloc, francez, Paris, București, România, Kołakowski, Miłosz, Horia -, Europei

☆ Vladimir Tismăneanu, 22 octombrie 2020
▼ + stars: | 2020-10-26 | by ( ) moldova.europalibera.org time to read: +4 min

A înțeles rolul mitului în lumea noastră secularizată, ne-a avertizat însă împotriva ispitei de a construi noi religii politice. Atunci când nu puțini au renunțat să mai vorbească despre totalitarism—conceptul a fost „denunțat” drept înfeudat logicii Războiului Rece—, a scris texte excepționale pe acest subiect. Kołakowski a înțeles că minciuna totalitară este diferită de ceea ce el numea minciună convențională. Marxismul a eșuat la nivelul propriilor sale ambiții: s-a dorit filosofia eliberării universale și a creat o sclavie fără precedent. Kołakowski a practicat mai întâi o critică de la stânga a marxismului osificat al aparatelor ideologice oficiale.

Persons: Leszek Kołakowski, Jan Patočka, Jacques Barzun, Jaroslav Pelikán, Sidney Hook, Raymond Aron, Paz, Cornelius Castoriadis, Ágnes Heller, Richard Pipes, Zbigniew Brzezinski, George Steiner, Ioan Paul al II - lea, Kołakowski, Soljenițîn, Rosa Luxemburg, Antonio, Adorno, Benjamin, Fromm, Stalin, - lea al PCUS, Marx, Lukács Organizations: Isaiah Berlin Locations: socialist, Rece, Havel, Europa Răsăriteană, Frankfurt

☆ The Tucker Carlson origin story
▼ + stars: | 1998-01-28 | by ( Aaron Short | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +57 min

Tucker Carlson is remembered as a provocateur and gleeful contrarian by those who knew him in his early days. It was Tucker Carlson. (Note on style: Tucker Carlson and the members of his family are referred to here by their first names to avoid confusion.) In 1979, Richard Carlson married Patricia Swanson, heiress to the Swanson frozen foods empire that perfected the frozen Salisbury steak for hassle-free dinners. Tucker Carlson attended St. George’s School, a boarding school starting at age 14.

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