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US Moves to Recover Chinese Balloon While Weighing Retaliation
(Bloomberg) -- The US sent divers to salvage what they believe is spy equipment from the Chinese balloon shot down off South Carolina, as pressure mounted on President Joe Biden to hit back at Beijing with new export controls on sensitive technology.
The government anticipates finding equipment capable of taking detailed photographs, along with other sensors, one person familiar with the matter said. US lawmakers are already demanding to know if the balloon’s payload contains technology from the US or its allies, another person said. Both asked not to be identified because the administration doesn’t want to reveal exactly what it suspects the balloon was carrying.
The balloon, said to be the size of at least two school buses, and its sensors are lying in 50 feet (15 meters) of water and scattered over a seven-mile (11-kilometer) area off Myrtle Beach. Divers and cranes operating from the surface were expected to haul it up in the coming days, potentially giving intelligence analysts crucial insight into Chinese spying capabilities.
While China says the device was a climate-research “airship” that strayed off course, the US argues it was part of a broader spying program by Beijing. With that in mind, Biden administration was calibrating how severely and swiftly to retaliate, people familiar with the matter said.
In a sign of more tension to come, the Chinese Foreign Ministry sharpened its tone Sunday after an American F-22 fighter jet popped the balloon with a Sidewinder missile and sent its payload crashing into the Atlantic Ocean. Beijing called the decision a “clear overreaction” and said it reserved the right to respond.
China is not the f.orce the world perceives it to be... They won't retaliate, not militarily, anyway.
millions of republican voting records from Ma. found in China balloon
Good news, DeSantis is not racist.
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Miami Black leaders apologize to Gov. Ron DeSantis after a member called him racist
Black leaders in Miami apologized to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis after one of their board members called him a racist in response to his actions related to content in schools.
GOP leaders left literally speechless by Biden-era job growth
For those rooting for the U.S economy, Friday morning’s report on job growth was worth celebrating. Not only did we learn that the economy created over 4.8 million jobs in 2022, we also learned that 2023 is off to a robust start: The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ preliminary tally showed 517,000 new jobs in January alone.Adding to the good news was the unemployment rate: In January 2021, when President Joe Biden was inaugurated, the unemployment rate was 6.3%. It now stands at 3.4% — a level the United States did not reach at any point throughout the 1970s, 1980s, or 1990s. In fact, as we discussed on Friday, the last time the jobless rate was this low was May 1969. (We hadn’t yet landed on the moon and Woodstock was still a few months away.)
All told, according to the latest data, the U.S. economy has created over 12 million jobs since January 2021 — nearly double the combined total of the first three years of Donald Trump’s term, when Republicans insisted we were experiencing the single greatest economy in the history of Western Civilization.
It was against this backdrop that Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel released a written statement in response to the January jobs report. “The Biden-Harris economic agenda has caused nothing but pain and misery for American families,” the RNC chair said.
In other words, the RNC was confronted with evidence that the unemployment rate has fallen to a 54-year low. McDaniel, who was born in 1973, has literally never seen a jobless rate this good. Her first instinct, however, was to respond to the good news by focusing on “pain and misery.”
But as odd as the RNC’s statement was, at least the part was willing to acknowledge the existence of the jobs report — which is more than we can say about congressional Republican leaders.
In keeping with the recent trend, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell responded to the job numbers by saying literally nothing about the good news. No news releases, no tweets and no public comments. They literally found themselves speechless.
This wasn’t the first time. Revisiting our recent coverage, GOP leaders have spent nearly all of the Biden era pretending not to notice extraordinarily good job growth.
Four years ago, when the unemployment rate reached 3.6%, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy saw it as a triumph. Now that the unemployment rate is 3.4%, and the California Republican seems reluctant to even recognize the good news.
Imagine that.
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What "job growth"?? There's NO JOB GROWTH...
Jobs that were here before that are coming back is not growth...
You'll believe anything, won't you?
Lol, that-a-boi, ole' buttdlurp drooling first thing in morn ... "duh, c'mon floppin' git up, webe havin' lottsa crap to spread around ...". Dopes.Course since Biden became President who knows
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Lol, that-a-boi, ole' buttdlurp drooling first thing in morn ... "duh, c'mon floppin' git up, webe havin' lottsa crap to spread around ...". Dopes.
I LUV Dem gibberish in the morning - thanx C&J
A new Supreme Court spousal controversy is bringing back up a bad solution
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. There are concerns that the professional activities of the spouse of one of our Supreme Court justices represent a conflict of interest for that justice. No, not that spouse. This time we aren’t talking about Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife, Ginni Thomas, and her efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. This time we’re talking about Chief Justice John Roberts’ wife, Jane Sullivan Roberts, and her work as a legal recruiter. Here, the concern is that Sullivan Roberts’ work raises ethical questions because she has placed lawyers at firms that have cases before the Supreme Court.
There are once again calls for Congress to subject the Supreme Court to a mandatory code of conduct. All but nine of the federal jurists in our country are subject to such a code, which amounts to a series of ethical canons. And the nine who aren’t are the nine most powerful we have. But not only would a mandatory code of ethics for the Supreme Court be difficult to impose, it also wouldn’t solve the main reason that confidence in the court has waned. Something is rotten at the Supreme Court. But it’s not what many seem to think it is.
First things first: When it comes to the activities of the spouses of Supreme Court justices, there is a huge gulf between seeking to undermine a valid election, as Ginni Thomas did, and placing lawyers in high-powered law firms with business before the Supreme Court, as Jane Sullivan Roberts did. It’s worth mentioning that Sullivan Roberts voluntarily stepped down from her partnership position at a law firm when the chief justice joined the Supreme Court, because of built-in concerns about the awkwardness of practicing law while her husband served on the nation’s highest court
This brings me to my main point: When people complain that the Supreme Court lacks integrity or legitimacy, I believe what most of them are upset about are the court’s rulings, not what the justices’ spouses are doing. Of course, some people are genuinely concerned about the potential ethical issues facing the high court, no matter how the court rules, but I suspect many are really troubled, and legitimately so, by something else.
At least five members of this court seem comfortable ignoring its past decisions and manipulating the law to reach more conservative goals. This particular conservative strategy didn’t begin, nor will it end with, its decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. In 2010, the conservative majority of the court famously overturned two of its past decisions when it ruled in Citizens United that corporations have a First Amendment right to spend unlimited sums of money to elect or defeat candidates, as long as that spending is independent of a candidate’s campaign.
Judges, and Supreme Court justices, are supposed to respect their past decisions, unless there is a serious problem with those previous decisions, such as their being fundamentally unworkable or wrong (wrongness, of course, being in the eye of the beholder). Whether or not those with judicial authorities follow the doctrine of stare decisis, which cautions courts to adhere to their prior rulings, is one of the ways we can tell whether the people in the robes are acting as judges or politicians. Following the doctrine of stare decisis helps to ensure that when judges and Supreme Court justices are making decisions, they’re evenhandedly applying the facts of the case to the law. This would be in contrast to simply making decisions because they want a certain outcome, regardless of what previous decisions might say. It intuitively makes sense that people are more likely to respect jurists, and find that courts have integrity, if it actually appears that they are sticking to precedents and not hunting for ways to get to desired political outcomes.
At bottom, the point of a code of ethics is actually similar to stare decisis. The point of both is to make sure we can trust judges to judge. The purpose of a code of conduct is to make sure that jurists make decisions based solely on the law, and not what might benefit them, their spouses or others in their close orbit. When they fail to respect past decisions, or take actions calling into question their ethics, it can undermine the public’s trust.
There is another reason that leaning on a code of conduct to solve what ails the court is not desirable. It’s not entirely clear that it would be legal to impose a mandatory code of conduct on the Supreme Court. Such a code would raise separation of powers issues. The federal judiciary operates independently from the two political branches of our federal government. If Congress created a mandatory code for the Supreme Court, there’s an argument to be made that it would amount to a legislative takeover of judicial authority. Awkwardly, the Supreme Court itself would ultimately rule on the legality of any such code.
There’s no question that in an ideal world federal judges, and Supreme Court justices, would conduct themselves in ways that avoid ethical questions. Justices enjoy lifetime appointments and can only be removed through an arduous and rarely used impeachment process. They are hugely powerful and largely operate in a world that offers them enormous discretion and precious few negative consequences for their decisions. They owe us ethical behavior.
But if we’re really worried about justices erasing a woman’s right to an abortion from the Constitution and granting First Amendment rights to corporations by ignoring precedent, then our argument should be for them to act like justices instead of politicians. Even if a code of conduct restricting conflicts of interest could be enforced, it wouldn’t be as significant as a commitment from justices to stick to the law.
Lmao, Tardo ... "duh, dars NO JUB GROWFF ... Imma know dez tings and nuttin' tis happening ... Imma mad when dis stuff gets out.". Once a RepTard ....
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You really believe that debacle Joe has created a single job??Lmao, Tardo ... "duh, dars NO JUB GROWFF ... Imma know dez tings and nuttin' tis happening ... Imma mad when dis stuff gets out.". Once a RepTard ....
Name just one job he created (outside of Hunter's job in the Ukraine)...
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You think you're intelligent? Your man couldn't even take down a fucking balloon!
Lmao, Tardo ... "duh, dars NO JUB GROWFF ... Imma know dez tings and nuttin' tis happening ... Imma mad when dis stuff gets out.". Once a RepTard ....
YEAH - keep it coming
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