ACLU sues Donald Trump over census Executive Order
Earlier this week Donald Trump signed an Executive Order which prohibited the counting of illegal aliens on the census for the purpose of apportioning House representation. The ACLU has now filed a lawsuit against the Executive Order, seeking to have illegal immigrants counted when apportioning House seats. Here is more:
On Friday, the ACLU dropped a lawsuit against the Trump administration on behalf of a number of open borders lobbying groups — including New York Immigration Coalition, Make the Road New York, CASA, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, ADC Research Institute, and FIEL Houston — demanding that illegal aliens be counted in congressional apportionment.
The ACLU lawsuit claims not counting illegal aliens in congressional apportionment is unconstitutional.
“The new policy of excluding undocumented immigrants from the Census conveys a xenophobic message aimed at suppressing Census participation from households containing immigrants and noncitizens,” the lawsuit states.
“Unless enjoined, the policy undoubtedly will undermine the effectiveness of the Census Bureau’s operations and deter members of immigrant communities — including undocumented immigrants, noncitizen immigrants with legal status, and United States citizens — from participating in the Census,” the lawsuit continues.
With one Supreme Court loss on the books already over the issue of illegal immigrants and the census I believe Donald Trump is fighting a losing battle. The 14th amendment to the Constitution says “the whole number of persons in each State” shall be counted when apportioning representation, and while we know the intent of this amendment was to ensure former slaves were counted the language only makes one exception and that is to Indians who pay no taxes. I see no way the President can win this one in the end.
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Andrew Cuomo blames political opponents and the media for his COVID-19 nursing home policy
Andrew Cuomo may have investigated himself and found that he was not responsible for the results of his nursing home policy which to date has left over 6,000 dead, but he is having a hard time convincing others.
If you are not familiar with this story, Andrew Cuomo forced nursing homes (which have the population most susceptible to COVID-19) take in 4,500 COVID patients which has led to 6,000 deaths and counting. This man then had the audacity to blame the nursing homes for these deaths for not refusing his order, even though at the time he issued the order he stated emphatically that the nursing homes did not have that option.
Nobody bought the findings of Andrew Cuomo’s self-investigation and nobody bought the lame blame-the-nurses excuse either so Andrew Cuomo, rather than taking responsibility for his own deadly actions, has had to come up with another excuse and this time he is blaming his political opponents and the media.
Here is more:
Cuomo responded to a question on the New York Department of Health’s nursing home report and whether he would have an independent investigator do a report by saying, “I don’t believe your characterization is correct. I believe it is a political issue. I think it’s the New York Post. I think it’s Michael Goodwin. I think it’s Bob McManus. I think it’s Fox TV. I think it is all politically motivated. If anybody looked at the facts, they would know that it was wholly absurd on its face. People died in nursing homes. That’s very unfortunate. Just on the top line, we have — we are number 35th in the nation in percentage of deaths in nursing homes. Go talk to 34 other states first. Go talk to the Republican states now, Florida, Texas, Arizona, ask them what is happening in nursing homes. It’s all politics.”
This coming from the man who has done nothing but play politics from the beginning, from crying for ventilators he never needed at the expense of sending them to other states which did need them, to refusing to use the military hospital ships that the Federal government sent him he has used this as a political tool in the hopes it will carry him in to the White House someday.
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Governor Newsom bans home Bible studies
We have seen different States issue varying degrees of totalitarian measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. I would argue that most, if not all, of the measures are unconstitutional but even if we grant extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures some of these Governor are still pushing the envelope. A couple of quick examples come to mind such as Governor Cuomo deploying enforcement teams to check the papers of out-of-state travelers to New York, the couple under house arrest in Kentucky, but in California Governor Newsom might have taken the cake.
In addition to banning worship services this man has taken it to the next level by banning in home Bible studies. The State is now being sued over this outrageous order, here is more:
A California church is suing Gov. Gavin Newsom for banning all indoor worship services, including Bible studies, and singing, saying the restrictions violate their religious freedom.
Pasadena-based Harvest Rock Church and Harvest International Ministry filed the lawsuit in an attempt to block enforcement of Newsom’s orders which target churches.
The church has many “Life Groups” which are home Bible studies and fellowship groups where people come together to share and learn about the Word of God. These are now forbidden under Gov. Newsom’s recent orders.
“Governor Gavin Newsom cannot disregard the First Amendment and ban all in-person worship in private homes and churches,” said Liberty Counsel Founder and Chairman Mat Staver. “Nor can the state micromanage the form of worship by banning singing or chanting. The governor is not the High Priest over all religions.”
“There is not two First Amendments – one for protests and one for houses of worship. Gov. Newsom encourages thousands of protesters to gather in the streets but bans in-person worship and home Bible studies and fellowship. This discriminatory treatment is unconstitutional,” Staver added.
I am glad to see he is calling out the hypocrisy of encouraging large crowds of protesters while banning worship services, it is clear Governor Newsom has an agenda here. Allowing the protesters while banning worship is a deliberate attempt at dividing the people in order to control them. Some of these Governors are drunk with power and they do not like anybody pushing back against the unconstitutionality of any of this and so they take more and more in an effort to condition the plebeians not to talk back.
But banning singing and chanting as well as the Bible studies? That is something that really caught my attention in this article, how can the Governor of a State stop people from singing? This is getting way out of hand, first you lock people up in their homes and then you tell them what they are allowed to do in those homes until you free them again. This is all about eliminating anything that can even be associated with worship.
In a communist State the authority has to be the highest power if the people are to be controlled, any belief in God is forbidden because God would be a higher power than the State and man would be answerable to God first. So God must be eliminated from the minds and hearts of the people, and what better way to do that than stop the people from even talking about the Word of God? Governor Newsom is trying his hardest to accomplish that goal.
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Donald Trump signs Executive Order preventing illegal immigrants from being counted in the census
Donald Trump has been trying to make sure that illegal aliens are not counted on the 2020 census but he suffered a major setback in his quest back in July when the Supreme Court ruled he could not add a citizenship question to the census.
Not willing to give up so easily, today the President signed an Executive Order which will prevent illegal immigrants from being counted in the census for the purpose of apportioning representation in the House. Here is more:
President Trump on Tuesday issued an order that blocks undocumented immigrants from being counted in the 2020 census for the purpose of allocating congressional representation.
The rationale for the memo rests on the argument that the president has final say over transmitting the final census report to Congress and that the Constitution does not explicitly define which persons must be included in determining apportionment.
“The discretion delegated to the executive branch to determine who qualifies as an ‘inhabitant’ includes authority to exclude from the apportionment base aliens who are not in a lawful immigration status,” the order states. “Excluding these illegal aliens from the apportionment base is more consonant with the principles of representative democracy underpinning our system of Government.
According to the above-linked article Donald Trump specifically calls out California as an example, as well as the vast left wing conspiracy (my words, not his) which I think was a terrible idea because it makes it look like political revenge and I can see it coming back to haunt him when this makes it back to the Supreme Court.
The challenges are already lining up and with the Supreme Court holding a 5-4 liberal majority and with the previous ruling on this issue I have to believe this has no chance of standing.
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Back in March when the American people were bought off with $1,200 bribes the Congress signed a $2 trillion COVID-19 aid package which was quickly signed by Donald Trump.
While the average American citizen was given a paltry stipend to shut them many wondered whom exactly were the recipients of the trillions of dollars in aid. This was apparently a closely guarded secret until Donald Trump finally caved to the pressure and released the names of the loan recipients and of course it turns out that members of the Congress and their families were on the list.
Here is more:
At least a dozen lawmakers have ties to organizations that received federal coronavirus aid, according to newly released government data, highlighting how Washington insiders were both author and beneficiary of one of the biggest government programs in U.S. history.
Under pressure from Congress and outside groups, the Trump administration this week disclosed the names of some loan recipients in the $659 billion Paycheck Protection Program, launched in April to help smaller businesses keep Americans employed during the pandemic. Connections to lawmakers, and the organizations that work to influence them, were quickly apparent.
Among businesses that received money was a California hotel partially owned by the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, as well as a shipping business started by Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao’s family. Chao is married to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Car dealerships owned by at least three Republican House members — Reps. Roger Williams of Texas, Vern Buchanan of Florida and Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania — received money. So, too, did fast-food franchises owned by Rep. Kevin Hern, R-Okla., a law firm owned by the husband of Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and the former law firm of Rep. Matt Cartwright, D-Pa., which employs his wife.
Money also flowed to a farming and equipment business owned by the family of Rep. Vicky Hartzler, R-Mo., and a regional casino company led by the husband of Rep. Susie Lee, D-Nev.
I have no problem with a little temporary relief for small businesses, especially when it is the government which forced them into this situation for no good reason, however when you are talking about car dealerships, casinos, and hotels I would like to see how “small” these businesses with ties to the oligarchy really are.
But let us take a huge leap of faith and grant that all these were legit, there is still this and I think it is even more egregious:
Hundreds of millions of dollars also flowed to political consultants, opposition research shops, law firms, advocacy organizations and trade associations whose work is based around influencing government and politics.
The article goes on to report that none of this, neither filling the coffers of businesses with ties to the oligarchy nor funneling money into organizations that amount to lobbying firms or lobbyists, is illegal and that is the biggest sin of all in this whole story.
Republican supporters are going to latch onto Nancy Pelosi’s name being on this list, and Democratic supporters are going to use this story to show how corrupt the Republicans are when the truth is there is systemic legalized corruption in the entire system and this is just the latest example.
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Sunday, July 19th open thread: ‘JFK/Defector’
This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” (Psalm 118:24 KJV)
Here is this week’s open thread. Please feel free to post links to interesting articles and to discuss whatever issues arise during the course of the day. Nothing is off-topic here.
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Here is “JFK/Defector” by Muse:
Can we see your papers? Governor Cuomo to deploy ‘enforcement teams’ at airports to crack down on out of state visitors
If you are an out of stater planning on traveling to New York any time soon you best be prepared to be greeted by an “enforcement team” which include police officers whose job it is to violate your Constitutional rights to make sure you are filling out a “contact information form” under the guise of stopping the spread of COVID-19. Do you have your papers in order? They will also be taking measures to ensure you hole yourself up in a hotel room for 14 days before you go anywhere in fascist state.
Here is more:
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is deploying “enforcement teams” that include police officers to airports to keep track of visitors to New York as officials enforce the Democrat’s out-of-state travel advisory, which mandates that all travelers from coronavirus hot-spot states must quarantine for 14 days upon arrival.
On Monday, the governor issued an executive order that requires travelers from designated states — at least 22 at last count — to fill out a “contact information form” established by the N.Y. Department of Health. The mandate applies to all visitors traveling by plane, train or car and require contacts phone numbers and addresses for where the visitors will be staying.
I would imagine this means they will be pulling people over on the roads simply for having out of state plate as well, if they are not doing so already. More still:
The enforcement teams will “meet arriving aircrafts at gates and greet disembarking passengers to request proof of completion” of the form, according to the state’s website. Among the team members will be peace officers as well as Port Authority and State Police officers.
Travelers who leave the airport without completing the form can be fined $2,000 fine — and could even be ordered to complete a mandatory quarantine. If anyone violates the quarantine order, they face a fine of up to $10,000.
Did you ever think you would see the day in this country when a person could be ordered under house arrest or fined $10,000 simply because they wanted to do some sight-seeing? This is insane, while some governors are finally starting to let their subjects have a little more freedom others, like Andrew Cuomo, are really starting to enjoy the totalitarianism.
And this is all over a virus which has a two week incubation period. How quickly the house arrest orders went from two weeks to a month, from a month to three months, and from three months into the foreseeable future and the Democrats were sounding the alarm for three years that Donald Trump was the one who wanted to be a dictator…
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Florida COVID-19 test results are skewed
Over the last week or so Florida has become the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. The media was all aflutter with the news that the Sunshine State had the highest number of single day positive tests and the Democrats were thrilled at the prospect that they might be able to cripple the economy once again.
However, if this story is correct there are errors with the reporting and the numbers are being skewed. Here is more:
After FOX 35 News noticed errors in the state’s report on positivity rates, the Florida Department of Health said that some laboratories have not been reporting negative test result data to the state.
FOX 35 News went on to speak with the Florida Department of Health on Tuesday. They confirmed that although private and public laboratories are required to report positive and negative results to the state immediately, some have not. Specifically, they said that some smaller, private labs were not reporting negative test result data to the state.
You will note here that Florida’s Health Department admitted not all negative test results were not reported. That seems very odd, why would you not report certain results, but that is not all:
Countless labs have reported a 100 percent positivity rate, which means every single person tested was positive.
Timeout. Did the article really just explain to the readers what a 100% positive rate mean? Anyway, I digress, let me start that over.
Countless labs have reported a 100 percent positivity rate, which means every single person tested was positive. Other labs had very high positivity rates. FOX 35 News found that testing sites like one local Centra Care reported that 83 people were tested and all tested positive. Then, NCF Diagnostics in Alachua reported 88 percent of tests were positive.
How could that be? FOX 35 News investigated these astronomical numbers, contacting every local location mentioned in the report.
The report showed that Orlando Health had a 98 percent positivity rate. However, when FOX 35 News contacted the hospital, they confirmed errors in the report. Orlando Health’s positivity rate is only 9.4 percent, not 98 percent as in the report.
That is quite a difference is it not! And here is more:
The report also showed that the Orlando Veteran’s Medical Center had a positivity rate of 76 percent. A spokesperson for the VA told FOX 35 News on Tuesday that this does not reflect their numbers and that the positivity rate for the center is actually 6 percent.
So some labs are not reporting the negative test results even though they are required to do so, while other labs are over-reporting the positive test results by a factor of ten and we are supposed to believe that these are just honest mistakes and the data is not being purposely manipulated for political gain?
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Sunday, June 12th open thread: ‘Apocalypse Please’
This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” (Psalm 118:24 KJV)
Here is this week’s open thread. Please feel free to post links to interesting articles and to discuss whatever issues arise during the course of the day. Nothing is off-topic here.
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Here is Muse performing “Apocalypse Please” live:
Come on and spread a sense of urgency
And pull us through
And pull us through
This is the end
Of the world”
NBC contributor/doctor who chronicled his COVID-19 struggle from his hospital bed never had COVID-19
We have seen the depths the mainstream media will sink to in order to scare the daylights out of people over the COVID-19 virus–for example CBS used footage from an Italian hospital to show how overwhelmed New York hospitals were–but NBC has taken first prize.
Apparently back in May NBC had a doctor on several times who was hospitalized with COVID-19 so they could chronicle his struggle with the virus and show people how dangerous it was.
Fair appeared on Today from a New Orleans hospital bed in May 14, where he speculated he got the virus through his eyes while on a packed flight two weeks earlier. This happened, he said, despite taking precautions like wearing a mask and gloves.
Today host Hoda Kotb noted during the interview that Fair had received four negative tests for the virus but said, “clearly you have it.” Fellow host Craig Melvin called Fair’s “false negative” tests “scary,” and cohost Savannah Guthrie called it a “cautionary tale.”
Fair speculated his tests came back negative because he delayed going to the hospital for more than week when he first felt ill, and he said his doctors felt he must have the virus.
“I was a very healthy person. I exercise five to six days a week,” he said. “If it can take even me down, it can take anybody down.”
As you just read this “doctor” tested negative for COVID-19 four times and yet the NBC host still stated “clearly you have it” as if she herself knew more than the people administering the tests. NBC continued to push the narrative despite the negative tests and then went on to use these four “false negatives” to make the COVID-19 pandemic even more scary. How many people who tested negative for the virus are actually walking around with it and infecting people?
But it turns out that despite Hoda Kotb’s declaration that “clearly you have it” the doctor is now admitting that no he did not ever have COVID-19.
An NBC medical expert who was brought on air nearly a dozen times to detail his struggle with COVID-19 never had the virus, he revealed this week.
After believing he had the coronavirus in spite of getting negative tests, virologist and NBC News science contributor Dr. Joseph Fair tweeted Tuesday that he had tested negative for the antibodies and that the illness that hospitalized him in May “remains an undiagnosed mystery.” Steve Krakauer reported on the developments for his Fourth Watch newsletter.
Clearly both this doctor and NBC knew the man did not have COVID-19, they admitted as such with the “false negative” narrative and yet they used this doctor at least a dozen times under the false pretense that he was suffering from the virus.
It would be one thing if this doctor received a positive test which later turned out to be wrong, but he went on the television from his hospital bed and spread fear about COVID-19 all the while knowing he did not have it, and NBC gave him the platform to do so while also knowing this doctor did not have it. This truly is journalistic malpractice and probably medical negligence and this cannot go unpunished.
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