Monday, May 22, 2017 10:59:40 PM
Trump seeks huge disease prevention and medical research cuts
[full title: "Trump budget seeks huge cuts to disease prevention and medical research departments"]
President Trump and first lady Melania Trump walk in a procession to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on May 22.
May 22, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/05/22/trump-budget-seeks-huge-cuts-to-disease-prevention-and-medical-research-departments/ [with comments]
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Church Militant: A Right-Wing Media Empire in the Making
Atlantic Documentaries
May 09, 2017
Video by The Atlantic
Author: Daniel Lombroso
https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/525231/church-militant-a-right-wing-media-empire-in-the-making/ [with comments], https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3Y3LeUtqJw [with comments]
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Mississippi lawmaker apologizes for calling for lynching
In this Friday, May 19, 2017, file photo, workers prepare to take down the statue of former Confederate general Robert E. Lee, which stands over 100 feet tall, in Lee Circle in New Orleans. Mississippi Rep. Karl Oliver of Winona apologized on Monday, May 22, for saying Louisiana leaders should be lynched for removing Confederate monuments, only after his comment sparked broad condemnation in both states. The post was made after three Confederate monuments and a monument to white supremacy were removed in New Orleans.
(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS
May 22, 2017
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi lawmaker has apologized for saying Louisiana leaders should be lynched for removing Confederate monuments, only after his comment sparked broad condemnation in both states.
“The destruction of these monuments, erected in the loving memory of our family and fellow Southern Americans, is both heinous and horrific,” Republican state Rep. Karl Oliver of Winona said in a post Saturday night, which was removed from his page Monday. “If the, and I use this term extremely loosely, ‘leadership’ of Louisiana wishes to, in a Nazi-ish fashion, burn books or destroy historical monuments of OUR HISTORY, they should be LYNCHED! Let it be known, I will do all in my power to prevent this from happening in our State.”
The post was made after three Confederate monuments and a monument to white supremacy were removed in New Orleans.
Oliver issued a statement Monday apologizing.
“I, first and foremost, wish to extend this apology for any embarrassment I have caused to both my colleagues and fellow Mississippians,” Oliver said. “In an effort to express my passion for preserving all historical monuments, I acknowledge the word ‘lynched’ was wrong. I am very sorry. It is in no way, ever, an appropriate term. I deeply regret that I chose this word, and I do not condone the actions I referenced, nor do I believe them in my heart. I freely admit my choice of words was horribly wrong, and I humbly ask your forgiveness.”
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, a Democrat, was among the officials criticizing Oliver’s original post.
“Now that everyone can see Mississippi state Rep. Oliver’s position on the matter clearly, his message proves our fight to tackle the issue of race head-on is both right and necessary,” Landrieu said.
Oliver is a funeral director and first-term lawmaker who represents a district that includes the tiny town of Money, where black teenager Emmett Till was kidnapped before being lynched in 1955, allegedly for whistling at a white woman in a grocery store. Till was from Chicago and was visiting relatives in Mississippi. His disfigured body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River, and his mother held an open-casket funeral in Chicago. Outrage over his lynching helped spark the civil rights movement.
Lynching was used in Mississippi and other states not only to kill people by hanging but also to intimidate African-Americans who sought equal treatment under the law.
Mississippi NAACP President Derrick Johnson said Oliver’s apology is not enough and the lawmaker should step down.
“Anyone who champions a fond remembrance of such a violent, racist history is unworthy of elected office,” Johnson said.
New Orleans City Councilman James A. Gray II, who represents a majority African-American district, supported the removal of the Confederate monuments and said he thinks Oliver committed a crime.
“Calling for a lynching, calling for everyone involved to be hanged, is inciting the murder of American citizens, and that’s a crime that ought to be prosecuted,” Gray said Monday. “We are a nation of laws. We need to enforce our laws.”
Oliver’s post drew bipartisan criticism in Mississippi.
Gov. Phil Bryant and House Speaker Philip Gunn, both Republicans, condemned Oliver’s post.
“Rep. Oliver’s language is unacceptable and has no place in civil discourse,” Bryant said in a statement.
Gunn said he heard about Oliver’s Facebook post late Sunday and called Oliver early Monday and told him to apologize.
“I was just shocked. I was dismayed. I was disappointed,” Gunn told reporters Monday at the Capitol. “The first two words out of my mouth and my statements are ‘I condemn’ his statements. That’s the strongest word I could come up with is condemnation. If there’s a stronger word, I’ll keep searching for it.”
Gunn said he removed Oliver as vice chairman of the House Forestry Committee because of Oliver’s original Facebook post.
Gunn said Oliver’s remarks “do not reflect the views of the Republican party, the leadership of the House of Representatives or the House as a whole.”
The chairmen of the Mississippi House and Senate Democratic caucus — Sen. Bill Stone of Holly Springs and Rep. David Baria of Bay St. Louis — issued a joint statement condemning Oliver’s post.
“The use of such inflammatory rhetoric in the context of public discourse is repugnant and does damage to the considerable advances that have been made in healing wounds caused by state-supported racism of the past,” the Democrats said. “In 2017, no elected official in the State of Mississippi should be speaking in this manner regardless of any strongly held opinions concerning Confederate statues.”
The Associated Press’ Kevin McGill contributed from New Orleans.
© Copyright 2017 Associated Press
https://www.apnews.com/d0f6a4bed9724fac9aa585ee91a842dc/Mississippi-lawmaker-apologizes-for-calling-for-lynching
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Neil Gorsuch Shows His Hand On Money In Politics As Court Turns Down Big Case
It looks like Gorsuch sides with Justice Clarence Thomas, a noted opponent of restrictions on big donors.
05/22/2017
WASHINGTON - Newly minted Supreme Court [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/topic/supreme-court ] Justice Neil Gorsuch showed his hand Monday on where he will likely stand on cases that would increase the amount of power held by large political donors.
As the Supreme Court declined to hear a major campaign finance case [ https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/052217zor_4gd5.pdf ] that could have led to the lifting of campaign contribution limits to political parties, Gorsuch joined Justice Clarence Thomas in an unwritten dissent. That means Gorsuch and Thomas wanted the court to hear the case, and likely wanted to vote to overturn yet another limit on big money in politics.
The case, Republican Party of Louisiana v. Federal Election Commission [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/campaign-finance-supreme-court-soft-money_us_565ca969e4b079b2818b3c57 ], challenged contribution limits placed on state-level political parties by the 2002 McCain-Feingold reform law. These are the limits on “soft money,” unlimited contributions to the parties for supposedly non-electoral activities, imposed in the wake of scandals related to both how the money was raised and how it was spent.
Gorsuch’s decision to join Thomas, a noted opponent of campaign finance restriction with a written record opposed to all campaign contribution limits and some disclosure rules, suggests that he, too, will be an outspoken critic of restrictions on money in politics.
During his confirmation hearings, Gorsuch refused to answer questions about his views on this subject ? as he did with nearly every other topic [ http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/03/behind-neil-gorsuchs-non-answers ] presented to him.
Rick Hasen, election law professor at the University of California, Irvine, wrote [ http://electionlawblog.org/?p=92665 ] of Gorsuch’s dissenting vote: “He was not shy at all — not only about being willing to wade into this very controversial area, but about announcing publicly his vote to hear the case (something he did not need to do). It could well be that he will be as conservative as Justice Thomas is in these cases.”
The conservative Supreme Court majority that came into being after Justice Sandra Day O’Connor retired from the bench has struck down numerous campaign money limitations. It struck down a key pillar of the McCain-Feingold law in its 2010 Citizens United decision by allowing independent spending by corporations and unions. In the 2014 McCutcheon case, the conservative majority killed limits on the aggregate amount a single donor can give in a two-year election cycle.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/neil-gorsuch-campaign-finance_us_59231990e4b034684b0e7c63 [with embedded video]
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Justices Reject 2 Gerrymandered North Carolina Districts, Citing Racial Bias
North Carolina state senators reviewing congressional district maps during a legislative session in February 2016 in Raleigh. The session was called after a Federal District Court decision ordering that the maps be redrawn to address racial gerrymandering in the previous versions drawn after the 2010 census.
MAY 22, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/us/politics/supreme-court-north-carolina-congressional-districts.html [with comments]
The Supreme Court Finds North Carolina's Racial Gerrymandering Unconstitutional
The justices end a six-year fight over 2011 congressional maps that diluted black voting strength in the state.
MAY 22, 2017
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/north-carolina-gerrymandering/527592/ [with comments]
Supreme Court rules race improperly dominated N.C. redistricting efforts
MAY 22, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-rules-race-improperly-dominated-nc-redistricting-efforts/2017/05/22/c159fc70-3efa-11e7-8c25-44d09ff5a4a8_story.html [with embedded video, and comments]
Republican redistricting is taking a beating in the courts (again)
MAY 22, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/22/republican-redistricting-is-taking-a-beating-in-the-courts-again/ [with embedded video, and comments]
The Supreme Court may just have given voting rights activists a powerful new tool
MAY 22, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/voting-rights-activists-should-love-todays-supreme-court-ruling/2017/05/22/9443d726-3f2f-11e7-9869-bac8b446820a_story.html [with comments]
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The Daily 202: Trump hypocrisy continues at home and abroad
MAY 22, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2017/05/22/daily-202-trump-hypocrisy-continues-at-home-and-abroad/59222105e9b69b2fb981db65/ [with embedded videos, and comments]
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[full title: "Trump budget seeks huge cuts to disease prevention and medical research departments"]
President Trump and first lady Melania Trump walk in a procession to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on May 22.
May 22, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/05/22/trump-budget-seeks-huge-cuts-to-disease-prevention-and-medical-research-departments/ [with comments]
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Church Militant: A Right-Wing Media Empire in the Making
Atlantic Documentaries
May 09, 2017
Video by The Atlantic
Just outside Detroit, a group of radical Catholics run a rapidly growing news organization. Since being established nine years ago, ChurchMilitant.com (then St. Michaels Media) has grown from a tiny media outfit on the fringes of the Catholic world to a 35-person powerhouse reaching an estimated 1.5 million viewers a month. Michael Voris, the founder of Church Militant, is fighting what he sees as the “tyranny” of a liberal America. But, Voris—charismatic, pious, untiring—is grappling with his own complicated past.
Author: Daniel Lombroso
https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/525231/church-militant-a-right-wing-media-empire-in-the-making/ [with comments], https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3Y3LeUtqJw [with comments]
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Mississippi lawmaker apologizes for calling for lynching
In this Friday, May 19, 2017, file photo, workers prepare to take down the statue of former Confederate general Robert E. Lee, which stands over 100 feet tall, in Lee Circle in New Orleans. Mississippi Rep. Karl Oliver of Winona apologized on Monday, May 22, for saying Louisiana leaders should be lynched for removing Confederate monuments, only after his comment sparked broad condemnation in both states. The post was made after three Confederate monuments and a monument to white supremacy were removed in New Orleans.
(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS
May 22, 2017
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi lawmaker has apologized for saying Louisiana leaders should be lynched for removing Confederate monuments, only after his comment sparked broad condemnation in both states.
“The destruction of these monuments, erected in the loving memory of our family and fellow Southern Americans, is both heinous and horrific,” Republican state Rep. Karl Oliver of Winona said in a post Saturday night, which was removed from his page Monday. “If the, and I use this term extremely loosely, ‘leadership’ of Louisiana wishes to, in a Nazi-ish fashion, burn books or destroy historical monuments of OUR HISTORY, they should be LYNCHED! Let it be known, I will do all in my power to prevent this from happening in our State.”
The post was made after three Confederate monuments and a monument to white supremacy were removed in New Orleans.
Oliver issued a statement Monday apologizing.
“I, first and foremost, wish to extend this apology for any embarrassment I have caused to both my colleagues and fellow Mississippians,” Oliver said. “In an effort to express my passion for preserving all historical monuments, I acknowledge the word ‘lynched’ was wrong. I am very sorry. It is in no way, ever, an appropriate term. I deeply regret that I chose this word, and I do not condone the actions I referenced, nor do I believe them in my heart. I freely admit my choice of words was horribly wrong, and I humbly ask your forgiveness.”
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, a Democrat, was among the officials criticizing Oliver’s original post.
“Now that everyone can see Mississippi state Rep. Oliver’s position on the matter clearly, his message proves our fight to tackle the issue of race head-on is both right and necessary,” Landrieu said.
Oliver is a funeral director and first-term lawmaker who represents a district that includes the tiny town of Money, where black teenager Emmett Till was kidnapped before being lynched in 1955, allegedly for whistling at a white woman in a grocery store. Till was from Chicago and was visiting relatives in Mississippi. His disfigured body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River, and his mother held an open-casket funeral in Chicago. Outrage over his lynching helped spark the civil rights movement.
Lynching was used in Mississippi and other states not only to kill people by hanging but also to intimidate African-Americans who sought equal treatment under the law.
Mississippi NAACP President Derrick Johnson said Oliver’s apology is not enough and the lawmaker should step down.
“Anyone who champions a fond remembrance of such a violent, racist history is unworthy of elected office,” Johnson said.
New Orleans City Councilman James A. Gray II, who represents a majority African-American district, supported the removal of the Confederate monuments and said he thinks Oliver committed a crime.
“Calling for a lynching, calling for everyone involved to be hanged, is inciting the murder of American citizens, and that’s a crime that ought to be prosecuted,” Gray said Monday. “We are a nation of laws. We need to enforce our laws.”
Oliver’s post drew bipartisan criticism in Mississippi.
Gov. Phil Bryant and House Speaker Philip Gunn, both Republicans, condemned Oliver’s post.
“Rep. Oliver’s language is unacceptable and has no place in civil discourse,” Bryant said in a statement.
Gunn said he heard about Oliver’s Facebook post late Sunday and called Oliver early Monday and told him to apologize.
“I was just shocked. I was dismayed. I was disappointed,” Gunn told reporters Monday at the Capitol. “The first two words out of my mouth and my statements are ‘I condemn’ his statements. That’s the strongest word I could come up with is condemnation. If there’s a stronger word, I’ll keep searching for it.”
Gunn said he removed Oliver as vice chairman of the House Forestry Committee because of Oliver’s original Facebook post.
Gunn said Oliver’s remarks “do not reflect the views of the Republican party, the leadership of the House of Representatives or the House as a whole.”
The chairmen of the Mississippi House and Senate Democratic caucus — Sen. Bill Stone of Holly Springs and Rep. David Baria of Bay St. Louis — issued a joint statement condemning Oliver’s post.
“The use of such inflammatory rhetoric in the context of public discourse is repugnant and does damage to the considerable advances that have been made in healing wounds caused by state-supported racism of the past,” the Democrats said. “In 2017, no elected official in the State of Mississippi should be speaking in this manner regardless of any strongly held opinions concerning Confederate statues.”
The Associated Press’ Kevin McGill contributed from New Orleans.
© Copyright 2017 Associated Press
https://www.apnews.com/d0f6a4bed9724fac9aa585ee91a842dc/Mississippi-lawmaker-apologizes-for-calling-for-lynching
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Neil Gorsuch Shows His Hand On Money In Politics As Court Turns Down Big Case
It looks like Gorsuch sides with Justice Clarence Thomas, a noted opponent of restrictions on big donors.
05/22/2017
WASHINGTON - Newly minted Supreme Court [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/topic/supreme-court ] Justice Neil Gorsuch showed his hand Monday on where he will likely stand on cases that would increase the amount of power held by large political donors.
As the Supreme Court declined to hear a major campaign finance case [ https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/052217zor_4gd5.pdf ] that could have led to the lifting of campaign contribution limits to political parties, Gorsuch joined Justice Clarence Thomas in an unwritten dissent. That means Gorsuch and Thomas wanted the court to hear the case, and likely wanted to vote to overturn yet another limit on big money in politics.
The case, Republican Party of Louisiana v. Federal Election Commission [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/campaign-finance-supreme-court-soft-money_us_565ca969e4b079b2818b3c57 ], challenged contribution limits placed on state-level political parties by the 2002 McCain-Feingold reform law. These are the limits on “soft money,” unlimited contributions to the parties for supposedly non-electoral activities, imposed in the wake of scandals related to both how the money was raised and how it was spent.
Gorsuch’s decision to join Thomas, a noted opponent of campaign finance restriction with a written record opposed to all campaign contribution limits and some disclosure rules, suggests that he, too, will be an outspoken critic of restrictions on money in politics.
During his confirmation hearings, Gorsuch refused to answer questions about his views on this subject ? as he did with nearly every other topic [ http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/03/behind-neil-gorsuchs-non-answers ] presented to him.
Rick Hasen, election law professor at the University of California, Irvine, wrote [ http://electionlawblog.org/?p=92665 ] of Gorsuch’s dissenting vote: “He was not shy at all — not only about being willing to wade into this very controversial area, but about announcing publicly his vote to hear the case (something he did not need to do). It could well be that he will be as conservative as Justice Thomas is in these cases.”
The conservative Supreme Court majority that came into being after Justice Sandra Day O’Connor retired from the bench has struck down numerous campaign money limitations. It struck down a key pillar of the McCain-Feingold law in its 2010 Citizens United decision by allowing independent spending by corporations and unions. In the 2014 McCutcheon case, the conservative majority killed limits on the aggregate amount a single donor can give in a two-year election cycle.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/neil-gorsuch-campaign-finance_us_59231990e4b034684b0e7c63 [with embedded video]
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Justices Reject 2 Gerrymandered North Carolina Districts, Citing Racial Bias
North Carolina state senators reviewing congressional district maps during a legislative session in February 2016 in Raleigh. The session was called after a Federal District Court decision ordering that the maps be redrawn to address racial gerrymandering in the previous versions drawn after the 2010 census.
MAY 22, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/us/politics/supreme-court-north-carolina-congressional-districts.html [with comments]
The Supreme Court Finds North Carolina's Racial Gerrymandering Unconstitutional
The justices end a six-year fight over 2011 congressional maps that diluted black voting strength in the state.
MAY 22, 2017
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/north-carolina-gerrymandering/527592/ [with comments]
Supreme Court rules race improperly dominated N.C. redistricting efforts
MAY 22, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-rules-race-improperly-dominated-nc-redistricting-efforts/2017/05/22/c159fc70-3efa-11e7-8c25-44d09ff5a4a8_story.html [with embedded video, and comments]
Republican redistricting is taking a beating in the courts (again)
MAY 22, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/22/republican-redistricting-is-taking-a-beating-in-the-courts-again/ [with embedded video, and comments]
The Supreme Court may just have given voting rights activists a powerful new tool
MAY 22, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/voting-rights-activists-should-love-todays-supreme-court-ruling/2017/05/22/9443d726-3f2f-11e7-9869-bac8b446820a_story.html [with comments]
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The Daily 202: Trump hypocrisy continues at home and abroad
MAY 22, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2017/05/22/daily-202-trump-hypocrisy-continues-at-home-and-abroad/59222105e9b69b2fb981db65/ [with embedded videos, and comments]
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