President Trump lent some support Wednesday to former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, saying he “would love to see him get another shot” if he still has the skills to play in the league.
During an interview with Sinclair correspondent Scott Thuman, Trump was asked about Kaepernick, the then-San Francisco 49er who sparked a national debate in 2016 when he protested police brutality by kneeling during the national anthem, and whether or not the president believes Kaepernick “should get another shot in the NFL.”
“If he deserves it, he should. If he has the playing ability,” Trump said. “He started off great and then he didn’t end up very great in terms of as a player. He was terrific in his rookie year, I think he was very good in his second year, and then something happened. So his playing wasn’t up to snuff.”
The president continued: “The answer is absolutely I would. As far as kneeling — I would love to see him get another shot, but obviously he has to play well. If he can’t play well, I think it would be very unfair.”
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By News Day. The Trump administration was on the losing side as the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a momentous victory for LGBT rights on Monday. The court ruled that a landmark 1964 civil rights law also protects gay and transgender employees against workplace discrimination.
The 6-3 decision centered on three cases — including one lawsuit filed by a Long Island skydiver who didn’t live to see the milestone ruling, reports Newsday’s Yancey Roy. The two justices picked by Trump were split, with Neil Gorsuch writing the majority opinion, joined by four liberal colleagues and Chief Justice John Roberts. Brett Kavanaugh dissented, saying it should be up to Congress to decide on expanding protections.
Trump’s administration backed the employers being sued. It argued that Congress hadn’t intended to stop discrimination based on sexual orientation when it enacted the civil rights law.
Trump’s position was in sync with religious conservatives in his base, but the president’s reaction after the decision was on the mild side. “They’ve ruled and we live with their decision,” he told reporters. “That’s what it’s all about … Very powerful — very powerful decision, actually.” (Read more from “Trump on Transgender SCOTUS Ruling: We Have to Live With It” HERE)
Gorsuch Applied a Perverse and Upside Down Type of Hermenutics to Statutory Text: A Demonic Twist to Textualism and Originalism
By Senator Josh Hawley. This decision, and the majority who wrote it, represents the end of something. It represents the end of the conservative legal movement, or the conservative legal project, as we know it. After Bostock, that effort, as it has existed up to now, is over. I say this because if textualism and originalism give you this decision, if you can invoke textualism and originalism in order to reach such a decision—an outcome that fundamentally changes the scope and meaning and application of statutory law—then textualism and originalism and all of those phrases don’t mean much at all.
And if those are the things that we’ve been fighting for—it’s what I thought we had been fighting for, those of us who call ourselves legal conservatives—if we’ve been fighting for originalism and textualism, and this is the result of that, then I have to say it turns out we haven’t been fighting for very much.
Or maybe we’ve been fighting for quite a lot, but it’s been exactly the opposite of what we thought we were fighting for.
Now, this is a very significant decision and it marks a turning point for every conservative. And it marks a turning point for the legal conservative movement.
The legal conservative project has always depended on one group of people in particular in order to carry the weight of the votes to actually support this out in public, to get out there and make it possible electorally. And those are religious conservatives. I am one myself. Evangelicals, conservative Catholics, conservative Jews: let’s be honest, they’re the ones who have been the core of the legal conservative effort.
Workers Can’t Be Fired for Being Gay or Transgender, Supreme Court Rules
By The Hill. The Supreme Court on Monday ruled 6-3 in a landmark decision that gay and transgender employees are protected by civil rights laws against employer discrimination.
A set of cases that came before the court had asked the justices to decide whether Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which forbids discrimination on the basis of “sex,” applies to gay and transgender people.
Justice Neil Gorsuch, who wrote the opinion for the six-member majority, said that it does.
Today, we must decide whether an employer can fire someone simply for being homosexual or transgender,” Gorsuch wrote. “The answer is clear. An employer who fires an individual for being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex. Sex plays a necessary and undisguisable role in the decision, exactly what Title VII forbids.”
Gorsuch was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor. Justices Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas dissented from the decision. (Read more from “Workers Can’t Be Fired for Being Gay or Transgender, Supreme Court Rules” HERE)
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday aimed at reforming police practices in America after a series of high-profile police killings sparked nationwide protests and riots, CNBC reported.
Trump, who is opposed to growing calls to defund police departments, is calling for increased transparency and accountability for police misconduct, a limit on the use of chokeholds, and increased use of non-police personnel to deal with issues related to mental health or drug addiction.
The order, titled, “Safe Policing for Safe Communities,” acknowledges instances of police abuse and brutality and the negative impact that has had on community relationships with police.
It establishes a national certification and credentialing system for law enforcement agencies; creates a federal database to track officers credibly accused of wrongdoing; discourages the use of chokeholds unless an officer’s life is in danger; and encourages Congress to pass further police reforms. (Read more from “President Trump Signs Police Reform Executive Order — Here’s What It Will Do” HERE)
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By Fox News. A recently resurfaced video clip shows Joe Biden calling members of a Confederate heritage group “fine people” in 1993 — nearly mirroring President Trump’s 2017 remarks that some protesters opposing the removal of Confederate statues in Charlottesville, Va., were “very fine people.”
Biden declared his 2020 presidential candidacy last year by charging that Trump, in those controversial comments made after white supremacists also joined those protests, had “assigned a moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it.” Although Trump noted at the time that he was “not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists because they should be condemned totally,” Democrats and some top Republicans criticized him for not speaking out more forcefully from the start.
However, speaking at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on July 22, 1993, during the confirmation process for Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Biden himself offered something of a positive endorsement for the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), which has been linked to the Ku Klux Klan.
“I, too, heard that speech and, for the public listening to this, the senator made a very moving and eloquent speech,” Biden said, referring to remarks by then-Alabama Democratic Sen. Howell Thomas Heflin. “As a son of the Confederacy, acknowledging that it was time to change and yield to a position that Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun raised on the Senate floor, not granting a federal charter to an organization made up of many fine people who continue to display the Confederate flag as a symbol.”
Joe Biden called the United Daughters Of The Confederacy "an organization made up of many fine people who continue to display the Confederate flag."pic.twitter.com/uWRNUCU4sO
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(Read more from “Biden Used This Controversial Phrase About Confederate Heritage Group in ’90s” HERE)
New petition advocates replacing confederate monuments with Dolly Parton statues
By Clarksville Now. A new petition suggesting that confederate monuments be replaced with statues of country music icon Dolly Parton have begun circulating throughout Tennessee, gathering thousands of signatures.
“History should not be forgotten, but we need not glamorize those who do not deserve our praise. Instead, let us honor a true Tennessee hero, Dolly Parton…Let’s replace the statues of men who sought to tear this country apart with a monument to the woman who has worked her entire life to bring us closer together,” says Alex Parsons, who started the petition.
The debate over confederate monuments and their removal from public spaces has become a hot topic in the past week as protests over police brutality and systemic racism continue across the country.
Wednesday, June 10, a committee of Tennessee lawmakers voted down a resolution (11-5) to remove the bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest, founder and first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, from the state capitol building. (Read more from “New petition advocates replacing confederate monuments with Dolly Parton statues” HERE)
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For those concerned that there won’t be enough salacious gossip in the run up to the 2020 presidential election, fear not, a disgruntled Trump family member has a tell-all book due out in August.
Mary Trump, the daughter of President Donald Trump’s brother, Fred Trump Jr., will reportedly release “Too Much And Never Enough” on Aug. 11, which is just before the Republican National Convention.
The book will detail “harrowing and salacious” stories about the president, according to Daily Beast — after all, how else would it sell?
Citing people with knowledge of the matter, Daily Beast said the book is expected to include conversations with President Trump’s sister, retired federal judge Maryanne Trump Barry, that contain intimate and damning thoughts about the president.
As the news outlet reported, Mary Trump was the primary source behind a 2018 New York Times story about Trump’s “dubious tax schemes.” (Read more from “Trump’s Niece, Bitter Over Contested Will, Set to Release ‘Salacious’ Tell-All Book About POTUS” HERE)
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The Republican-led Senate Armed Services Committee has voted to require the Pentagon to rename military bases named after Confederate officers, amid growing calls to do so in the wake of the death of George Floyd last month.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D) tweeted Tuesday, “As a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, I filed an amendment to the annual defense bill last week to rename all bases named for Confederate generals. It’s long past time to end the tribute to white supremacy on our military installations.”
The senator linked to an op-ed by retired Army Gen. David Petraeus, who argued that Army installations bearing the names of such rebel “traitors” should be renamed. . .
As a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, I filed an amendment to the annual defense bill last week to rename all bases named for Confederate generals. It's long past time to end the tribute to white supremacy on our military installations. https://t.co/eP6ktRWK8C
The president tweeted Tuesday, “It has been suggested that we should rename as many as 10 of our Legendary Military Bases, such as Fort Bragg in North Carolina, Fort Hood in Texas, Fort Benning in Georgia, etc. These Monumental and very Powerful Bases have become part of a Great American Heritage, and a history of Winning, Victory, and Freedom. The United States of America trained and deployed our HEROES on these Hallowed Grounds, and won two World Wars. Therefore, my Administration will not even consider the renaming of these Magnificent and Fabled Military Installations.”
…history of Winning, Victory, and Freedom. The United States of America trained and deployed our HEROES on these Hallowed Grounds, and won two World Wars. Therefore, my Administration will not even consider the renaming of these Magnificent and Fabled Military Installations…
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The White House on Monday disputed an NBC report claiming that President Donald Trump would claim that systemic raciscm infected local police departments, during an executive order signing on Monday.
“I think there was some misreporting on this earlier,” a senior administration official said Monday on background in a briefing with reporters, when asked about a report that the executive order would ultimately side with Black Lives Matter protesters on the issue of systemic racism in police departments.
The official repeated that the majority of police officers were good and that the event would bring together members of law enforcement and families who lost loved ones to police shootings for the ceremony.
The executive order, expected to be signed on Tuesday, incentivizes local police departments to improve their use of force standards, in response to the George Floyd protests.
A senior administration official blamed the failure of local police departments to modernize and update use of force standards in areas that experienced violent protests, looting, and rioting. (Read more from “White House Claims ‘Misreporting’ That Trump Will Claim ‘Systemic Racism’ in Police Departments” HERE)
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White House allies believe Joe Biden could be laying the groundwork for a Stacey Abrams-style challenge to a Trump victory in November with his repeated claims that the president is preparing to steal the election.
In an interview with Trevor Noah on The Daily Show, the presumptive Democratic nominee said he was worried Trump would refuse to leave the White House if he lost.
The president has said repeatedly he would accept the results, leaving advisers and allies to conclude that Biden may be preparing public opinion for a protracted tussle over the outcome.
“We all know that Biden isn’t all there these days, but in the infamous words of the Mooch, he’s beginning to sound like a paranoiac,” said a former White House official, referring to Anthony Scaramucci, the short-lived White House communications director. “Is he getting these crazed talking points from ‘Governor’ Stacey Abrams?”
Abrams challenged the outcome of the 2018 Georgia governor’s race, in which she lost narrowly to the Republican candidate, Brian Kemp. That sparked a bitter 10-day battle as Abrams argued that “deliberate and intentional” voter suppression had delivered victory to her rival. (Read more from “Trump Allies See Biden Plotting to Challenge Defeat in November Election” HERE)
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Evidence continues to mount that Biden’s staff is sabotaging his slim hope of being elected president. That is the only reasonable explanation for his attack on President Donald John Trump’s economy.
The script they gave Biden was that Obama handed over a perfect economy with a 4.9% unemployment rate.
In a press release, Biden said, “Trump inherited the longest economic expansion in history from the Obama-Biden administration, but like everything else he’s inherited, he has squandered it.”
Fact-check: President Trump dropped taxes and dropped unemployment to 3.5%, its lowest in 50 years. (Read more from “Biden Reminds Voters Trump Made America Great Again” HERE)
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In a letter appearing online Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan write that President Trump’s “divisive and incendiary rhetoric” has left them “deeply shaken and disgusted” in a volatile time that they say requires “unity” in the U.S.
Writing under the letterhead of their Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, which focuses on technology solutions to social problems, the couple were responding to last week’s call by more than 270 scientists that Facebook address what the scientists described as “misinformation” appearing on social media. . .
NEW —
Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan have responded to the 270+ scientists at the @ChanZuckerberg Initiative who called on Zuckerberg to curb misinformation.
Zuckerberg says he and Chan are "deeply shaken and disgusted by President Trump’s divisive and incendiary rhetoric." pic.twitter.com/j5ziU15Ik9
The scientists, many of them funded by the initiative, accused President Trump of being a source of the misinformation.
“Social media platforms, like Facebook, have emerged as primary ways of communicating information,” the scientists wrote to Zuckerberg last Saturday. “While they have allowed dissemination of information across the globe, they also facilitate the spread of misinformation. The spread of news that is not vetted for factual accuracy leads to confusion and a mistrust of experts.”
Later, the scientists wrote, “(W)e were disconcerted to see that Facebook has not followed their own policies in regards to President Trump, who has used the Facebook platform to spread both misinformation and incendiary statements. For example, his statement ‘when the looting starts, the shooting starts” is a clear statement of inciting violence.” (Read more from “Mark Zuckerberg Blasts Trump for ‘Incendiary Rhetoric’” HERE)
