(Natural News) Joe Biden’s displays of mental incompetence have become so egregious that his team is now calling on Big Tech firms to censor video clips in which his confusion is on full display.…

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Clarence Thomas accepted vacations paid by a rich guy. Therefore he should be disqualified as a Supreme Court justice? Samuel Alito’s wife hangs flags that may carry implied political messages. Therefore he should be disqualified as a Supreme Court justice? Brett M. Kavanaugh? We know the lie by which he was persecuted in front of his wife and daughters by a liar. So he should be disqualified as a Supreme Court justice? Amy Coney Barrett has the “dogma liv[ing] inside” her? So she should be disqualified as a Supreme Court justice? It never ends. The Left has no end of vile and despicable tactics up their sleeves to corrupt the law and justice — and just plain fairness. They destroyed the reputations of Robert Bork, G. Harrold Carswell, and Clement Haynsworth. And it worked. They sought to sully, stain, and crush the reputation and dignity of Clarence Thomas. That almost worked. They intimidated Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush into throwing their hands to the sky, giving up on their conservative Supreme Court selections, and moving to the leftist milquetoasts the Democrats wanted: left-liberal judges like Harry Blackmun, Sandra Day O’Connor, Anthony Kennedy, and David Souter. The Democrats’ strategy always works. They have no qualms or consciences about fair play or destroying fine and decent people. Had it not been for miracles, by now they would have added Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., as states (giving them four more U.S. senators), would have expanded the Supreme Court to 15 justices (the current nine plus six extra Obama-Biden judges), and soon would try adding 10 million or more Illegals as Democrat voters to guarantee their ultimate dream of fixing elections. Republicans in Washington take it and take it and take it, like human piñatas. That is why so many conservative everyday citizens have turned to Donald Trump and Tea Party–type U.S. senators and Freedom Caucus–type congressional representatives. There is no way to have justice and fairness in America other than by fighting back, punch by punch, until the viciousness stops. Why was there never a Republican concerted effort to have Ruth Ginsburg barred from all cases that had even an indirect tie to Donald Trump after she went on record just randomly calling him a liar, a “faker” In her words, “He has no consistency about him. He says whatever comes into his head at the moment. He really has an ego.” She shamelessly proclaimed her bias as to all things Trumpian explicitly, just as publicly as Hunter Biden proclaimed to the world that he is a drug addict. That was a simple matter of case closed. The Left challenges Alito’s right to sit on any “January 6 appeal,” while no one ever argued that Ginsburg had prejudiced herself so much more frontally as to Trump. Why was Ketanji Jackson — the one who could not define what a woman is — let through so easily, particularly after that person could not define that term under oath? What, she has a Harvard degree? So do dozens of people who create encampments, fight cops, and threaten fellow students there. What, that person is different? Did the Republicans seek her law school transcripts? Was that person a straight-A student? If not, how much not? (We know they inflate all the grades there anyway.) But why no grilling, like Schumer with cheese on a raw hamburger? Does that person consider that person’s self to be a female, a male, or nondescript? If that person regards that person’s self as female, why can she not define it? We know she was selected because that person was deemed an Affirmative Action/DEI “two-fer”: black and female. Yet, although benefiting from being classified as DEI-eligible “female,” that person cannot define it. Moreover, that person’s prior service as a district judge was undistinguished. Her opinions even were overruled by liberal Democrat judges, sometimes unanimously. And Sotomayor. How did she slither through unscratched? Even a darling Harvard Law School judicial scholar of the Left wrote a private letter to Obama, calling her utterly unworthy of being named to the Supreme Court. She herself admits she got into Princeton college with low standardized testing scores and again into the coveted Yale Law School via “Affirmative Action” despite her low scores again in standardized admission testing. She called herself “the perfect affirmative action baby” and blamed her consistently low testing on “cultural biases” of the tests. She “was not considered among the star students of her class.” She was given a try-out as a summer associate at the prominent law firm of Paul, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison, and she herself admitted that her “performance was lacking.” Remarkably, contrary to standard practice at such firms, Paul, Rifkind did not invite her back after her 2L summer and did not offer her a position. The following year, she filed a complaint against the law firm of Shaw, Pittman, Potts, and Trowbridge for saying at a recruitment dinner that she got into Yale as an affirmative action student. Got that? She attacked them for saying about her what she herself has said about herself! When Obama named her for the Supreme Court, extreme leftist Harvard professor Laurence Tribe urged Obama not to appoint Sotomayor, writing that “she’s not nearly as smart as she seems to think she is,” and that “her reputation for being something of a bully could well make her liberal impulses backfire and simply add to the fire power of the Roberts/Alito/Scalia/Thomas wing of the court.” How effete the Republicans have been repeatedly as their own outstanding Supreme Court candidates have been savaged mercilessly by Democrat character assassins, while truly compromised Democrat nominees have sailed through untouched! So now the Democrat character assassins go after Justices Alito and Thomas. Republicans have to stand up. The only way this ever will end is if and when the GOP does it right back. Hopefully, though, the next opportunity will be several presidential terms from now. To attend any or all of Rav Fischer’s weekly 60-minute live Zoom classes on the Weekly Torah Portion, the Biblical Prophets, the Mishnah, Rambam Mishneh Torah, or Advanced Judaic Texts, send an email to: shulstuff@yioc.org His 10-part exciting and fact-based series of one-hour classes on the Jewish Underground liberation movement (Irgun, Lechi, and Haganah) and the Rise of Modern Israel can be found here. In it, he uses historic video clips of Irgun, Lechi, and Haganah actions, decades of past Arab terrorist atrocities, as well as stirring musical selections from the Underground and video’d interviews of participants, to augment data, statistics, maps, and additional historical records to create a fascinating, often gripping, and scholarly enriching educational experience about issues that remain deeply relevant today as Israel engages in an existential war in Gaza against Hamas terrorism. His latest deeply moving weekly series of informational and inspirational programs on the Hamas Gaza war may be found here. His 40-part Bible Study series covering all of I Samuel (First Samuel) intensively with Talmudic and Midrashic commentaries is now up here. READ MORE: The Supreme Court Defends Free Speech Sleazy Recording of Alito and Roberts Totally Backfired The post The Left’s Never-Ending War to Disqualify Justices appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

This fall, California voters will get the chance to rebuke Gov. Gavin Newsom and the lenient crime policies that he established. Their chance will come in the form of a ballot measure to overturn parts of Proposition 47, a 2014 initiative that reduced theft and drug possession offenses from felonies to misdemeanors. Last week, California’s secretary of state certified that the measure will appear on the November ballot. Newsom was critical to the passage of Proposition 47, as he was the only statewide public official to endorse it when it was passed 10 years ago. He has only doubled down on his support since then. Under Proposition 47, people can steal goods worth up to $950 and face only a misdemeanor charge. This has led astute criminals to become repeat shoplifting offenders, escalating shoplifting into a full-scale crisis in California. The issue was put on display last year when reports of shoplifting in Los Angeles nearly doubled compared to the previous year. When I traveled to San Francisco to research my new book, Newsom Unleashed: The Progressive Lust for Unbridled Power, a local recounted witnessing a criminal walk through a store with a calculator app pulled up on his phone to ensure that the value of the goods he stole stayed under $950. (READ MORE: Gavin Newsom Wants to Be an Emperor) To get a further sense of the mayhem resulting from Newsom’s crime policies in California, consider what happened when Whole Foods tried to open up its “flagship store” in the middle of San Francisco, ground zero for Newsom’s soft-on-crime disaster. Even the New York Times couldn’t downplay the severity of the situation. It reported of that Whole Foods location’s problems: “People threatened employees with guns, knives and sticks. They flung food, screamed, fought and tried to defecate on the floor, according to records of 568 emergency calls over 13 months, many depicting scenes of mayhem.” Under Newsom’s policies, a grocery store was rendered incapable of functioning. The lenient drug enforcement caused by Proposition 47 has unleashed death. In 2022, the most recent year for which there is data, there were 7,385 deaths caused by opioid overdoses in California. In 2014, there were 497. Despite Proposition 47’s abject failure, Newsom is using all the hardball tactics he can to keep the anti–Proposition 47 initiative off the ballot. Newsom created his own alternative legislative framework to address property crime that served as a supposedly superior solution. The framework postures at decreasing crime while aiming to maintain as many protections for criminals as possible. Newsom then attempted to use negotiations over his legislative package to force anti-crime activists to pull their measure off the ballot until 2026. The activists were not going to fall for that. They instead told Newsom’s staffers, per CBS News: “[T]he consultants you’re working with haven’t won anything in a decade. Good luck.” Next, Newsom’s allies in the Legislature inserted “poison pills” into Newsom’s legislative framework that would invalidate those bills if voters succeed in overturning Proposition 47. Essentially, his allies are trying to deceive Californians into voting against the ballot measure by making them think that doing so will have an adverse effect on public safety. If only Newsom could be this aggressive toward criminals. Voters will be fooled by none of this. Everyday life in California is plagued by the consequences of Proposition 47. Come November, they will end it. Ellie Gardey Holmes is the author of Newsom Unleashed: The Progressive Lust for Unbridled Power, which was published this week by Bombardier Books.  The post Will California Voters Finally Rebuke Newsom? appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.