Category: Communities of Practice

On October 5, the U.S. Supreme Court heard Carney v Adams, 19-309. This is the case over Delaware’s Constitution, which says that no one is eligible to be a member of the three most important state courts unless that individual is a registered member of a party that has voter registration of at least 5%. This means that an independent, or a member of a minor party (qualified or not) can never qualify for a seat on the State Supreme Court, Superior Court, or Court of Chancery.   . . .

After hearing yet another response, Kavanaugh said, “Well, I guess there’s a mismatch, arguably, between the State’s interest and excluding independents altogether from being judges, because independents could certainly – wouldn’t you agree that independents could serve the purpose of achieving a balanced nonpartisan or bipartisan judiciary.”

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Andrew Feinberg appears to be a globalist who worries that this could lead to America First rather than Israel First being the policy of the land.

Trump just quietly passed an executive order that could destroy a future Biden administration

The order, which the White House released late Wednesday evening, would strip civil service protections from a broad swath of career civil servants if it is decided that they are in “confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating positions” — a description previously reserved for the political appointees who come and go with each change in administration. It does that by creating a new category for such positions that do not turn over from administration to administration and reclassifying them as part of that category.

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