This is very special.

I have never seen a head of state and the Pope celebrate together.

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ABA - Ya hafta trust somebody.

Basically, the legal society of the USA recognize the Robert's Court as corruptive of the Rule of Law. You have to know if the Supreme Court isn't demanding ethical treatment of the political mechanisms that protect the USA Constitution, they are corrupt to the core.

The Supreme Court has sanctioned PARTISAN gerrymandering. Got that? Let's review that one time.

The Supreme Court has sanctioned PARTISAN gerrymandering.

The Supreme Court has sanctioned PARTISAN gerrymandering. 

Yep. It is called corruption.

Since the Supreme Court has decided gerrymandering, currently called redistricting is the way political advantages are won in the USA, it is time for all Democratic Governors to get down and dirty. Sorry, but, there is no real ethical way to play fair anymore. 

The Supreme Court, Gerrymandering, and the Rule of Law (click here)

Summary

Constitutionally, gerrymandering is the equivalent of giving every Republican in the state two votes while giving only one to every Democrat.

In Baker v. Carr, Justice William J. Brennan notes two basic situations in which a constitutional claim should be treated as a non-justiciable political question.

Rucho v. Common Cause is the first case after the decision in Carr in which the U.S. Supreme Court held that it could not develop manageable standards and concluded that there was no way to establish standards for identifying unconstitutional maps.

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Although the U.S. Supreme Court has undermined the rule of law in a whole variety of areas, its treatment of partisan gerrymandering is arguably the most destructive. The reason is that gerrymandering is the one area of the law where the Court itself acknowledges that state and local officials are regularly violating the Constitution, but it has refused to allow any federal judicial remedy. And it has done that based solely on the highly debatable suggestion that it is just too difficult to establish standards for separating lawful from unlawful conduct. The Court created this problem by ruling, in Rucho v. Common Cause in 2019, that any federal constitutional challenge to a district map, based on the theory that it is a partisan gerrymander, presents a non-justiciable “political question.” As a result, in this one field, there is literally no “rule of law” because the Constitution can be violated with no consequences.

What Is a Gerrymander?

A partisan gerrymander is a district map—for Congress, or for a state legislature, county commission, and the like—that is intentionally designed to enhance the power of one political party at the expense of the other, regardless of how the people of the jurisdiction may choose to vote in a given election. This is a uniquely American problem because we are the only democracy in the world with two features—(1) the use of single-member “first past the post” districts (an inheritance from the British), and (2) systems that allow partisan legislators to draw the maps that we use (in most states). In other countries, if districts are used, they are drawn by non-partisan officials. And in most of the world’s democracies, there are mechanisms to ensure that seats in the legislative body are proportional to the votes cast by the people....

There was a time when gerrymandering was a bad word.

Now, because of a politicized Supreme Court, redistricting, AKA gerrymandering, is a method to protect the USA Constitution from the Republican Oligarchy.

Politics refers to the study and practice of organizing and managing a state or community. It involves various activities related to governance and the administration of public affairs.

Gerrymandering is a problem. It has always been a problem. Now, the Republican Party wants all Americans to think gerrymandering isn't happening, but, simply redistricting 5 years early. It is called corruption.

There is a difference between redistricting and gerrymandering. Neither are illegal, but, gerrymandering is unethical, until it has now become a strategy to protect the USA democracy. See, Trump has a lot on the line in the 2026 elections. The criminal president is working overtime to attempt to once again steal the election. Yes, the election of 2024 was stolen by Elon Musk who has profited widely and immediately after Trump's inauguration.

Redistricting has now become a survival of this democracy.

September 29, 2025

Efforts to redraw (click here) U.S. House districts for partisan advantage are spreading to more states ahead of next year’s elections.

Lawmakers in three states have approved new congressional districts since President Donald Trump began pushing for mid-decade redistricting.

The trend began in Texas, where the Republican-led Legislature passed a plan backed by Trump. California Democrats responded with their own map to help their party, though it still requires voter approval. On Sunday, Republican Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe signed a revised congressional map into law.

Redistricting typically occurs once a decade, immediately after a census. But in some states, there is no prohibition on a mid-cycle map makeover. The U.S. Supreme Court also has said there is no federal prohibition on political gerrymandering, in which districts are intentionally drawn to one party’s advantage.

Nationally, Democrats need to gain three seats next year to take control of the House. The party of the president typically loses seats in the midterm congressional elections.

Here is a rundown of what states are doing:...

The six Supreme Court politicos have corrupted decency.

October 22, 2025

By Eleanor Klibanoff

Marc Campos holds a copy of the lawsuit won by his father, Tony Campos, in his Heights home on Oct. 21, 2025, in Houston. In 1987, Tony Campos sued the city of Baytown in a landmark case that opened the door for Black and Hispanic voters to join together to bring voting rights challenges across the country.

...Tony Campos died in 2023, (click here) the year before his case was overturned and two years before the Texas Legislature cited that new court precedent as Republicans positioned themselves to grab as many as five new seats.

“It was painful to see my dad’s name in the news, for the wrong reasons,” said Marc, a longtime political consultant for Houston-area Democrats. “He was having memory issues the last few years, but he always remembered that suit.”

Forty miles away, Mark Henry watched the same proceedings and saw a very different story. As Galveston County judge, Henry helped overturn Campos’ ruling, getting the same court to approve of his dismantling of the county’s one majority non-white district, and rule that “coalition districts” couldn’t be allowed as a remedy to discriminatory maps.

This sharp reversal of four decades of court precedent was a seismic shift in voting rights, as celebrated in conservative legal circles as it was vilified in liberal ones. It will now be harder to challenge new voting maps in court, especially in multiracial urban areas where no one racial group dominates, and opens the door to redraw diverse, Democratic-leaning districts previously sanctioned by the courts....

He was attempting to drive the car through a crowd.

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I look forward to Governor Pritzker’s Human Rights Commission’s findings.

Proof of citizenship can be a passport. Passports are issued federally. State IDs requiring a birth certificate is as good as passports. 

Citizens carrying IDs should also be in possession of long form birth certificates tucked into their wallets, backpacks, and purses.

States agencies can be helpful, too.

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There are proper channels to report cheating.

Does every aspect of civilized behavior have to be under attack in this country? This is outrageous. Charges must be filed. 

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No Respect President

It is called defacing government property. Congress is hideously silent as Trump walks all over and shits on the American people. 

I am quite certain it is illegal. This assault against history started when he destroyed The Rose Garden. This is more of the same. Isn’t the East Wing where the First Lady has her Executive Offices? 

Trump has no right to destroy the house the American people treasure for their First Family. Trump needs to be personally sued for restoration of the original Rose Garden and now the East Wing. This is not his property. It is supposed to be an honor to live among the history of the White House. 

Wasn’t it Former Bill Clinton that caught hell from Republicans for allowing guests to sleep in the Lincoln Bedroom? Look, Trump is a sick man, this is more of the same. The White House from here going forward must be returned to its ORIGINAL structure and stature. It is our history Trump hates and does not have permission to rewrite it.

The White House is the First Family residence but is a museum where thousands come to visit every year. This is not allowed.  Trump is turning the USA into a banana republic that transforms into insults everyday. It is an outrageous expression of nouveau riche power and outside appropriate demeanor for a president of this country.

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Chris Mayes sued for Arizona representation in the U.S. House.

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Climate change lawsuits are intended as a tax on oil companies and consumers is a lie.

There is dearly nothing more toxic to the climate of Earth than the petroleum industry and attempting to put fear into consumers that their demand for alternative energies and the past polluting habits of petroleum is some kind of huge conspiracy theory is a lie. There is a strong moral content to all the people seeking to hold the petroleum industry responsible for the damage to Earth's climate when they knew full well it was very dangerous and deadly.

October 20, 2025
By Kamden Mulder

...As environmental activists (click here) across the country increasingly turn to the legal system to target oil and gas companies, a key attorney behind a case that may end up before the Supreme Court is saying the quiet part out loud: Climate change lawsuits are intended as a tax on oil companies and consumers, their legal merits notwithstanding.

David Bookbinder, director of law & policy at the Environmental Integrity Project, worked for years on the legal team that brought a suit on behalf of the county of Boulder, Colo., alleging that two major energy companies concealed the impact their products would have on climate change and are therefore liable for the resulting damage to the county....

In less than six months Zuckerberg is consolidating any idea that might be affiliated with AI.

It is a national security issue.

April 3, 2025

By Mimi Montgomery

Mark Zuckerberg (click here) will be spending more time in D.C. after he paid $23 million in cash for a home in the tony Woodland Normanstone neighborhood, Politico reports.

Why it matters: The purchase indicates a heightened interest in D.C. from the private sector, with bigwig CEOs seeing a Beltway property as a "personal embassy" from which they can court the Trump administration, Politico's Michael Schaffer writes.

The big picture: Zuckerberg is one of several tech titans to buy D.C. digs — a cohort that featured prominently in President Trump's latest inauguration....

October 22, 2025

From Facebook

Meta just announced it’s cutting ≈ 600 jobs in its Meta Superintelligence Labs AI division.
Meanwhile, the company has been on a massive hiring spree, poaching top talent from OpenAI and others with compensation packages reaching hundreds of millions.
Meta didn't have to do this.
They posted $62 billion in net profit in 2024.
Layoffs come with a massive cost.
They should be a LAST resort for companies.
For many people, especially those on visas, it’s not just a job loss.
It’s a life upheaval.
Layoffs like these are short-sighted.
Meta’s mission is to “build community and bring the world closer together.”
You don’t build community by cutting people loose.
You don’t bring the world closer together by laying off 600 people in one of the most profitable years in company history.

Putin

People have to stop taking every word Trump says as law. President Zelenskyy was a pawn to Trump’s propaganda volley. That is highly unethical contributing to an uncertain path. 

Are the Ukrainian children returned yet? There is no success there either? Does any of this have validity or do the Trump’s like to appear to have the world on a leash?

Arrogance

There is a huge difference between governance and arrogance. The Trump administration does not govern, it has an arrogant attitude to cover up the fact they don’t know what they are doing.

The reason no one is stopping Hegseth from killing innocent people fishing in their sovereign waters is because the experienced leaders are gone. Those that are not gone have been insulted so they aren’t helpful so much as contained.

Pam Bondi is probably the best example of arrogant attitude as demonstrated at the Senate hearing. RFK, Jr. is no different.

Arrogance is the appearance of competency others simplify don’t understand. So, considered the Trump presidency is based on lies, no one needs to understand anything except the truth. 

The arrogance of the Trump administration is getting the USA into a lot of trouble. The Congress needs to identify the trouble and act to close that gap of authority based in truth. Trump himself is such an arrogant man he boasts victory over Russia while the JCPOA expires and Iran is being empowered by Putin. 

There are many problems being stirred up by Trump. It is time this administration finds remorse and brings military leadership back to the Pentagon. 

More of the same (click here). Savaya delivered Michigan and now with Russia’s proxy Iran coming back into view, he is given the status of special envoy to Iraq. 

It is all a lot of mischief without benevolent policies. Well. Syria is in play again. Or should I say, still.

Congress needs to stop blatant aggression

Colombia has been an ally of the USA and NATO for a very long time. It has waged anti-narcotic campaigns along side the USA. Strategically Colombia has acted as resistance to the Northern Triad. Colombia’s history is one of cooperation in maintaining near shore peace.

The killing of a fisherman was a mistake that needs to end with better legislated policies by the USA dealing with narcotic trafficking. The USA needs to mitigate the loss of this fisherman to his family. An apology to Colombia is in order.

The strike occurred in Colombia’s territorial waters. This had to have been a mistake. Such action would be obvious and should have been avoided. Diplomatic solutions would have been a reasonable action to resolve suspicions. 

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Affordability

is not

Socialism.

Interesting. Johnson can’t see it clearly. Isn’t it? And exactly what side is he on?

Kirk is still part of Republican propaganda?

It is all circumstantial evidence.

I doubt if the country knows who killed Kirk. The accused gunman currently charged with Kirk’s murder shows no viable method of carrying a single bolt gun on the stairs or exiting the grounds. A backpack will never hold a single shot bolt gun. A single shot bolt gun will never fold down that far to allow covert possession in a backpack.

False confessions for committing a murder occurs up to 25 percent (click here). We frequently hear how those investigating a murder are swamped with information to sort through. The Kirk murder is circumstantial. 

Besides that, open discussion of murder can contaminate the jury pool. No one should be seeking a mistrial because of social media posts.

Single shot bolt guns are used a great deal during accuracy contests. Those guns are rarely used, even in hunting. But, they can be accurate if game animals are not elusive. It takes a while to set up an accurate shot.

Johnson is a fear monger.

I have given up on expecting a USA House Speaker from the Republican Party that actually cares about the country and the people. 

Johnson was put into the speakership in the US house by Trump. Johnson shines up nice and looks like somebody who is reasonable and responsible. In fact, he is more of the deadly rhetoric we are seeing come out of the Republican Party that causes deaths among democratically elected officials.

Today Johnson is saying, there is a problem with the protests currently being conducted in the country in that they’re full of hateful rhetoric. He goes on to say there’s all sorts of violent messages coming out of the protest. What Johnson is saying today is remarkably similar to the statements by Ohio‘s Moreno, after the assassinations of Democratic lawmakers.

It is safe to say this is now the message of the Republican establishment. Anyone who chooses to have a voice in their democracy and protests to the high levels of violence practiced by the Trump administration is going to be stated to be rhetorically violent by Republican lawmakers. This is the Republican politics. This is the message they’re going to continue to deliver. Johnson is no more interested in calling the house back for votes in order to carry out governance, than Trump is. A sincerely interested president would be seeking to resolve the divide and not enhance it.

Today Johnson stands as an obstruction to a freely, elected woman that wants to go forward with votes that benefit the American people. He is freely obstructing her swearing in because it would mean the U.S. House is back to work to provide medical insurance for low income Americans.

Is obstructing the needed work for the American people hate? I believe it is. Johnson is continuing the message of hate as noted by Ohio’s Moreno and still today the very same statements about Americans asserting their First Amendment Rights.

The Republicans hate the American people and their demands for freedom and equity. The USA Constitution demands freedom and equal treatment under the law. Americans are not asking for much, they want to be heard, they want to be safe, and they want their health insurance intact for all the generations now in this country. Is there something unreasonable about any of that?

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Johnson just doesn’t get it.

Johnson is whining and crying about a budget and how politics is the problem while Trump is out of control and attempting to silence the First Amendment rights of a free press. There is a lot wrong and it has absolutely nothing to do with politics. Politics is their excuse for everything. They are unwilling to see the forest for the trees. 

The DOJ and Trump are ignoring judge’s orders as well as ignoring the statements of military leaders. This isn’t about politics. It really isn’t.

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The President of Ukraine was told to come to

Washington to receive upgraded munitions and Trump says he is worried about the supply of missiles in our defense department. Now, Trump is going to pow-wow with Putin for what? If Ukraine were stronger than ever we might get somewhere. 

Hegseth flew a B-52 bomber within 150

miles of Venezuela and the commander of the entire theater is resigning because of the radical tactics of the administration. 

The Alaskan coastal plain is disappearing and Lambert Glacier is flooding Juneau again because it is collapsing because of the climate crisis. 

Midwest farmers are very worried because of cancelled contracts with China. Their income is dwindling. This isn’t about a budget anymore. This is about the runaway train called Donald Trump and the sincere harm he is causing this country. 

There is a reason Democrats are opposing the current budget. It is about loss of federal emoyeees and their ability to find work and take care of their families, including health care. That is not politics. Those are Americans now unemployed because they were lied to about private employment with a buyout package. 

Republicans need to wake up to the sad state of affairs in this country. It has nothing to

do with politics.

The President of the United States of America cannot throw down the gauntlet in a 90 day window, be ignored for the brevity of it, and simply call it a day to discuss politics. That is not just a radical decision, it is down right stupid. No Democrats were involved!

Mr. Johnson, your military commanders are walking away as fast as they can. No Democrats were involved!

Congressional Republican aren’t very bright.

They keep pointing fingers at Democrats while Trump escalates military tensions in the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico. Then they look the other way while the American people are assaulted by their president. Either they are colluding with savagery of the White House or they are as lazy as the day is long.

“Nero fiddled while Rome burned.”

There is a lot wrong and the Republicans are stuck in a corner pointing fingers to attempt to protect what they believe are their politics. 

Trump is harassing educational institutions and media outlets. Bondi isn’t even interested in the country so much as retribution politics. I thought Thune had a conscience. He doesn’t really seem to care about deteriorating situations. There are major military commanders turning their back on the wrong direction of the military and walking away and it means nothing to the Congressional Republicans? There is something really wrong when half the Congress appears to be content in being ignorant to facts and regarding politics as the challenge of the day. Republicans are drowning in their own delusion about the level of harm they are allowing.