Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Justice Kennedy To Retire, And Other Stories

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has announced his retirement, effective on July 31st.  He has been a member of the court for 30 years, and has 43 years total judicial experience.  He will turn 82 during July, the second oldest of the current nine justices.  Nominated by President Reagan in 1988, Kennedy has been called a "moderate" and a "swing vote".

Naturally, my fellow righties note that this gives President Trump his second SCOTUS nomination.  Read more at The Hill, USA Today, CNN, CBS News and ABC News.
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In other stories:

From The Daily Signal, the Senate farm bill is really a food stamps bill.

From The American Conservative, Saudi Arabia bombs a cholera treatment center in Yemen.

From NewsBusters, two media outlets offer up their red herrings for the Red Hen.

From the Gateway Pundit, how Trump's immigration order could prevent child sex trafficking.

From BizPac Review, five Fox News hosts read their results from 23andMe.

From Voice Of Europe, according to Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, French President Macron has no lessons for Italy.

From the Express, according to French politician Nicolas Dupont-Aignon, recent events could spell the end of Schengen.  (If this happens and you get to travel in Europe, get ready to have you passport stamped more than once.)

From Sputnik International, how real is the threat of an armed conflict between Muslims and the French far-right?

From Breitbart London, French butchers ask the government to protect them from militant vegans.  (As I've said before, deport them back to Alpha Lyrae.)

From Total Croatia News, Bosnia will establish a migrant camp near the border with Croatia.

From the Daily Mail, the Libyan Coast Guard intercepts 200 migrants off the coast of Tripoli.

From Russia Today, Hungary's interior minister rebuffs accusations by a BBC reporter.

From ZeroHedge, the E.U. wages war against "what makes the Internet great".

From The Local FR, France will take in some migrants from the ship Lifeline.

From the Evening Standard, fire chiefs call in the army to help fight a wildfire near Manchester, England.

From The Journal, the migration crisis could bring about "the end of the European dream".  (The writer is the president of the European parliament.)

From Ekathimerini, the U.K. has pledged increased support for Greece over the increased flow of refugees and migrants.

From Reuters, the Bavarian party Christian Social Union wants tighter border controls for migrants.

From the NL Times, Russia and Ukraine reportedly spied on Dutch officials investigating the crash of flight MH17.

From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, a French imam predicts Israel's destruction in a sermon.

From The Times Of Israel, Israeli police seize cash from the family of a dead terrorist.

From Anadolu Agency, American Muslim leaders are happy with the Turkish election results.

From The Daily Star, three women's rights groups protest in front of the Bangladesh National Museum in Dhaka against two alleged gang rapes.

From ABC News (where "A" means "Australian"), an Australian court lifts the identity suppression order on a student accused of being a member of ISIS.

From Gatestone Institute, the "Batman Syndrome" of terrorism in Europe.

From FrontpageMag, a video from Robert Spencer about the New York truck jihadi.

From National Review, the Supreme Court delivers another rebuke to compelled speech authoritarians in Janus v. AFSCME.

From the New York Post, emails show a "lack of leadership" during the fake missile alert in Hawaii.

From Fox News, the man accused of driving his car into a crowd at Charlottesville faces federal charges.

And from TMZ, Joe Jackson, the father of nine musical siblings, has passed away at age 89.  (via People)

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