Flotsam and Jetsam - The Battle of the ' One Big, Beautiful Bill' Begins

But, but, but before that, Althouse, First, he just exclaims "HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY!" but then he thinks again, and by "thinks again," I don't mean he questioned whether "HAPPY" is the right word. "I mean he decided it would be better to say "HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY TO ALL, INCLUDING THE SCUM....":" Sundance at CTH hosts President Donald Trump Delivering a Memorial Day Speech from Arlington Cemetary (sic). Drew Berquist, Trump Pardons ‘Century Men’ During West Point Commencement Speech. 'Century Men' are cadets with 100 or more hours of punishment tours for minor infractions.

The battle to get Trump's 'Big, Beautiful Bill' through congress is starting to heat up. At NewsMax, Sen. Schmitt: Senate Aims to Polish Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' and Sen. Paul: Big Beautiful Bill Spending Cuts 'Wimpy,' 'Anemic'. True enough, but way better than you would get from the Democrats. LifeZette, Senator Ron Johnson: GOP Has the Votes to Stall Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful’ Bill. "Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) said Sunday that there are enough Republican senators prepared to halt President Donald Trump’s budget reconciliation package until concerns over federal spending and the national deficit are addressed." Meanwhile NewsMax reports Schumer: Dems to Unanimously Oppose Trump Mega Bill until all their graft is restored.

Sundance reports British King Charles Arrives in Canada to Coordinate Defense Against U.S. Economic Positioning. From ET, European Markets Rally as Trump Delays EU Tariffs Until July 9. From Da Caller, President Trump Is Powering America’s Economic Comeback.

From NewsMax, Trump: Putin Gone 'Absolutely Crazy'. Gone? And in response, Russia: Trump's Criticism of Putin 'Emotional Overload'. Atop Da Hill, Grassley urges Trump to impose sanctions on Russia. Sanctions just seem to add to Putin's paranoia. At Hat Hair, Capt. Ed hears Hamas Agrees to US Hostage-Release Proposal, But ... UPDATE: 'Hamas Spin,' Says Witkoff. "The new proposal, which sees the release of 10 hostages and 70 days of truce, was reportedly received by Hamas through mediators." JTN, White House envoy Witkoff says Hamas misrepresents US ceasefire proposal, calls it 'unacceptable' "Witkoff has been in direct negotiations with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his top adviser, Ron Dermer, and with Hamas leadership through Palestinian American businessman Bishara Bahbah." In the meantime, keep killing them off.

At Hat Hair, Dave Strom on Biden's Brain: It Wasn't a Cover Up; It Was a Hoax and Larry Elder, The Astonishing Chutzpah of CNN's Jake Tapper. "You co-wrote a new book in which you brazenly accuse the Biden administration of orchestrating a "cover-up" to conceal the former president's cognitive decline. But you were complicit. You played a major role." PJM's Matt Margolis say Now We Know the Real Reason Tapper and Thompson Wrote About Biden, so they can attack Trump over his age. The money is just a bonus. Adam Carolla @adamcarolla, "He wanted Biden to win, so he lied to himself." Quote Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald, "Jake Tapper -- at the age of 56 and after 30 years in what one may loosely call "journalism" -- pretends to have just woken up and realized what is, in fact, the first axiom of Journalism 101: politicians and governments lie and journalists shouldn't blindly believe them. Clyp Keeper @DGrayTexas45 "Remember when “Dr” Jill Biden told Jake Tapper he couldn’t talk or mention any of Biden’s Gaffes anymore “because of Donald Trump”? Maybe this is why Tapper stayed quiet for four years while anyone with a functioning brain could see Biden was toast." At RedState, Mike Miller hears a PBS Host Says People Who Blast Media Cover-Up of Biden Decline Don't Understand 'How Reporting Works' and Sister Toldja says Here We Go: Democrats Begin Unraveling After Floodgates Open on Joe Biden's Decline. At NewsBusters, Before Tapper’s Book, Washington Week Host Mocked Warnings from Rep. Phillips, Hur. At Althouse, "I think there was a feeling — like, a lot of members of the Democratic Party that were seeing this or saw moments um of him seeming out of it — um that going public was not going to change [Biden's] mind." ""It was only going to help Donald Trump, um, and I think that's how a lot of them rationalized it. Now whether or not history will judge them, you know, as being right for doing that, um, you know, we will see, but this is also part of the reason why the White House was shielding him from as many people as possible including Cabinet secretaries because sometimes, you know, you see him once maybe it's just a bad day you can just say, like, you know, maybe I just had one bad meeting. You're not really sure..." Said Alex Thompson, co-author of "Original Sin," on "Fox News Sunday" yesterday." "It's like fighting fire with fire — fighting the destruction of the democracy with the destruction of democracy. You had to destroy the village to save it. Noted." JTN reports a Majority of registered voters now think Biden wasn’t fit enough to run US in final year, poll finds "Poll found 58% of American voters across party lines didn't think Biden was fit to run the country."

At RedState, Nick Arama thinks Kamala's Interview in Australia Reminds Us How Lucky We Are That She Lost. Sarah Hoyt at Insty, YEAH, REMEMBER THE GOVERNMENT’S IMPOSITION OF COLLECTIVIST POLICIES DIMINISHING OUR FREEDOM AND EXTENDING THE DEPRESSION: "Kamala Harris takes swipe at Elon Musk and Trump admin: ‘Remember the 1930s’." Matt Margolis asserts The Democrats Are Doomed, and They Have No Idea. Amanda Head at JTN, Despite decades of Democrat health initiatives, Americans are sicker than ever "Over the last 15 years, Democrats have reared multiple failed health initiatives that could be reversed or altered under the Trump administration’s health leadership, leading to better overall health and a reduction in chronic diseases." Democrat initiatives are designed to hand money over to friends. Actual results are optional. WaPoo whines Millions of Americans hit with bad credit after missed student loan payments. "The credit score drop is akin to filing for bankruptcy, and some borrowers are finding out when they try to get car loans or rent apartments."

From the Center Square IL, SCOTUS asked to decide challenge to IL’s post election ballot counts. I'd be surprised if they take it. They'll bend heaven and earth to get a El Salvadoran criminal back to Maryland, but actually make sure a US election was run fairly? Fuget about it! Josh Blackmun at The Volokh Conspiracy, Circuit Justice Kagan Never Bothered Calling For A Reply In Trump v. AFGE. "I think I figured out what happened here. Justice Kagan realized that the District Court would almost certainly replace the unappealable TRO with an appealable PI. So she didn't lift a finger. She would rather wait for the normal appellate process to play out in the Ninth Circuit. Apparently, Justice Kagan did not think much of the government's urgent desire for a ruling." Insty at his NYPo gig, Courts are infected with ‘injunctivitis’ — and tempting Trump’s defiance. 'Roberts has made his ruling, now let him enforce it.' Charlotte Hazard at JTN, Famed law professor Alan Dershowitz offers Trump path for resuming mass deportations after setbacks "The Supreme Court last week blocked President Donald Trump from invoking the Alien Enemies Act to deport illegal migrants in Texas. "Due Process," says Alan Dershowitz, "doesn't have a singular meaning.""

Sundance hears Deputy Director Dan Bongino State He and Kash Patel will Begin FBI Reform “by Next Week” "FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino announces the FBI “reform teams” will likely be in place next week. From there, they will begin reviewing subjects of interest to the American people, including: (1) the J6 pipe bomber, (2) the White House cocaine user, and (3) the Dobbs leaker." ET, FBI Deputy Director Bongino Says Bureau Looking at Several Cases Involving ‘Potential Public Corruption.’ At NewsMax, Bongino: FBI Investigating Cocaine in Biden White House, More. Pop Times, James Comey’s Chilling Warning to Trump Supporters: “You’ll Be Sorry”. When we get back in power we're coming after you, again!

At Twitchy, Seattle Police Officers Guild Lays Down the Law on Antifa, Seattle Police Officers Guild @SPOG1952 "PRESS RELEASE Public Safety in the City of Seattle continues to be politicized and violent ANTIFA criminals once again dominate Seattle’s public safety conversation with their insane use of political violence. This is Seattle’s public safety political reality. Over seven hundred police officers have fled this city in the past decade. This is due to the public safety political decisions by our elected leaders, activist pressure, and for their lack of action against ANTIFA criminals who continue to dictate public safety political terms. The remaining police officers in this city are tired. Our community is tired. This is Seattle’s public safety political reality. . . "

EJ @Ejmiller25, Ultimately, almost all the gnashing of teeth can be boiled down to Trump 2.0 being the first GOP admin in 40 years to actually ensure the electorate is represented throughout executive branch. Everything else is noise." Quote recusant#@neorecusant, "Rubio testified at a Senate hearing about how he intended to get back control of foreign policy for the State Department from the National Security Council and now he's taken a big step firing 100 from NSC which had grown enormously in number and influence under Bush Jr and Obama x.com/sentdefender/s…"

PJM's Mark Tapscott wonders Why Do We Put Up With Social Media's 'Censorship Without Due Process'?

At NewsMax, Trump says Harvard Grant Money Could Go to Trade Schools. Boy, would that piss tenm off. JD Vance@JDVance "There is an extraordinary "reproducibility crisis" in the sciences, particularly in biology, where most published papers fail to replicate. Most universities have massive bureaucracies that inhibit the translation of basic research into commercial adoption. The voting patterns of university professors are so one-sided that they look like the election results of North Korea. And on top of all of this, many universities explicitly engage in racial discrimination (mostly against whites and asians) that violates the civil rights laws of this country. Our universities could see the policies of the Trump administration as a necessary corrective to these problems, change their policies, and work with the administration to reform. Or, they could yell "fascism" at basic democratic accountability and drift further into irrelevance."

Tyler O'Neil at Da Signal reports Lockheed Martin Phases Out Key DEI Policy After Questions About Anti-Christian Double Standard. Do you now, or have you ever gone to church?

Jim Hanson@JimHansonDC "Auf Wiedersehen" Quote Anti Woke Memes @AntiWokeMemes, "'TRANS' people are fleeing the US for Germany because of TRUMP. Do you have any LAST WORDS for them before they leave?" 

The Wombat has FMJRA 2.0: The Agony of Defeat ready on time and under budget at The Other McCain.

Flotsam and Jetsam - More Primaries, Chinese Predict EV Bloodbath

Ho hum, a bunch of primaries happened yesterday. If you should happen to care about them, now that both Biden and Trump are shoo-ins for their nominations, you can find the results at PJM from Chris Queen, LIVE RESULTS: Primaries in Ohio, Arizona, Florida, Illinois, and Kansas. The only race that people seem to be seriously interested in was the Ohio Senatorial seat where Secretary of State Frank LaRose, state Senator Matt Dolan, and Trump-endorsed businessman Bernie Moreno were contending for the opportunity to take retiring Democrat Sherrod Brown's seat. Spencer Brown at TownHall, BREAKING: The Results Are in for Ohio's Senate Republican Primary. Moreno won convincingly with 50.5% of the vote. Ben Whedon at JTN, Trump-backed Bernie Moreno projected to win Ohio GOP Senate primary."The Ohio race is considered one of the Republican Party's best chances to flip a seat in the 2024 battle for the upper chamber." 

Breitbart reports a Chinese Auto Executive: ‘Bloodbath’ Coming for American Auto Industry "He Xiaopeng, the CEO of XPeng Motors, predicts a “bloodbath” against America’s auto industry with the help of cheap China-made electric vehicles (EVs) " and Experts, Executives, and Auto Workers Agree with Trump: China Hoping to Annihilate American Auto Industry in ‘Bloodbath’ on Joe Biden’s Watch. Althouse, "Former President Donald J. Trump says that his recent warning of a 'blood bath'.... was made in the context of electric vehicles..." "... and that he was not talking about political violence generally. But if discussing a type of automotive technology in bloody terms seems odd to some, it fits in the increasingly brutal language Mr. Trump has been applying to electric vehicles, one of his favorite foils. He has long claimed electric cars will 'kill' America’s auto industry. He has called them an 'assassination' of jobs." TNP, Biden Govt Set To Roll Out Industry Crippling Auto Emission Standards. "President Joe Biden is pushing forward with his green agenda, reportedly preparing to introduce strict emissions restrictions that could — in essence — compel electric vehicle (EV) sales. The Environmental Protection Agency looks set to implement regulations the Biden government surmises could propel EVs to account for roughly two-thirds of new car and light truck sales by 2032, a notable increase from less than 10 percent last year." Matt Schmidt at Compact, Trump Is Right About the Auto ‘Bloodbath’ At Am Think, Blaine L. Pardoe thinks about When a Bloodbath Isn’t. WaEx's Paul Bedard hears the Liberal Media Scream: ‘Bloodbath’ is what media are doing to Trump. PJM's Paula Bolyard would rather focus on Biden's Bloodbath. At TNP it's REVEALED: Epstein Island’s Reid Hoffman, Megadonor to E. Jean Carroll, Nikki Haley Funds MeidasTouch Group Behind ‘Bloodbath’ Hoax.    

At Hat Hair Larry has a video, Trump Says Voting for Dems Is Anti-Israel. Could This Be Why? "MSNBC guest Donny Deutsch was rather upset to hear Donald Trump say Jewish Democrats are voting against their religion and Israel. But has Deutsch listened to Chuck Schumer lately?" Twitchy is amused that Sen. Chuck Schumer is Upset That Donald Trump Is Making Israel a Partisan Issue. Hat Hair's Dave Strom notes that Nigel Farage Confirms the Obvious. "

Lara Logan@laralogan "URGENT Michigan Lawyer Stefanie Lambert Arrested by US Marshals in DC Following Court Appearance — After Submitting "Evidence of Numerous Crimes" Including Internal Emails from Dominion Voting Systems to Law Enforcement | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hᴏft". So now it's illegal to produce evidence of Democrat's tampering with election? At Am Spec Dave Catron wonders Will the 2024 Election Get Lost in the Mail? "The vast and rapid expansion of mail-in balloting facilitates election skulduggery." Yep, and that's why Democrats want more. Hayden Ludwig at ROA, BREAKING: Milwaukee Takes Arabella “Dark Money” to Count Your Ballots in Zuck Bucks Scandal Repeat.

Kind of a wild ride at SCOTUS yesterday, first, from TNP, SCOTUS Blocks Texas From Securing the Border. OTP, TX Gov. Abbott Says Buoys Will Stay In River Following Supreme Court Ruling. Then Capt. Ed at Hat Hair, SCOTUS Says Game on *Again*, Allows Texas Immigration Law to Take Effect. Greg Byrnes at PJM, Supreme Court Refuses to Block Texas From Arresting Illegal Immigrants. Ace, Supreme Court Lifts Stay on Enforcement of Texas Law Criminalizing Illegal Border-Crossing. Later, WaPoo whines Supreme Court clears way, for now, for Texas to arrest and deport migrants. Then the 5th Circuit promptly blocked it, "The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit blocked enforcement of the law, known as S.B. 4, ahead of oral arguments scheduled for Wednesday morning."

Fox reports a Judge rules illegal immigrants have gun rights protected by 2nd Amendment "Decision on gun rights for illegal immigrants has divided 2nd Amendment community." An Obama judge, who could ordinarily rule against gun rights. From Da Caller, Laken Riley’s Father Speaks Out For First Time, Accuses Biden Of Using His Daughter. At Da Wire, Dan Chaitin reports House Republicans Expand Laken Riley Probe Seeking Immigration Details On Alleged Murderer’s Brothers and African Illegal Alien On Terror Watchlist Arrested After Allegedly Opening Fire At Business. Rasmussen reports 62% OK With ‘Illegal’ to Describe Border-Crossers.

At WaEx, Biden campaign concedes race against Trump will be ‘tough’ before Southwest swing. Da Caller, ‘He G*ddamn Well Better’: Reality Finally Setting In For Democrats That Biden Could Lose To Trump. Da Blaze reports Biden is left 'seething,' outraged, and cursing when confronted with reality over re-election polls. Da Fetched Democrats Sound the Alarm: Biden Has No Chance of Beating Trump. At Front Page, Dan Greenfield hears Biden’s Staffers Want Him to Walk Faster to Convince Everyone He’s Not Old "That'll fix everything," and Watch Trump Troll Biden With ‘White House Senior Living’ Ad. "A place where anyone can feel like a president." Nick Arama at RedState, Joe and Jill Gaffe at WH Event, She Tries to Direct Joe Off Stage but It Goes South and Biden Loses to the Teleprompter and Steals Trump's Slogan, but Still Can't Get Things Right in Las Vegas.

Hat Hair's Dave Strom cites Larry Summers: Inflation Much Worse Than Government Says. The government is not very good at reporting facts not in their favor and Jazz Shaw exposes Joe Biden's 'Rent-Gouging Landlords' Fantasy. WaPoo, echoed at MSN worries that In Wisconsin, a vote for Biden or Trump could come down to grocery prices.

Ace, Biden Administration Plots to Save The Iranian Terror-Proxy Hamas By Refusing to Sell Israel Arms and Ammunition "The US is now a sponsor of terror, thanks to Obama/Biden." The TN Start reports Former U.S. Special Envoy for Haiti Dan Foote: Victoria Nuland and the U.S. Ambassador to Haiti Cut the 2021 Deal with Now Deposed Haiti Strongman Ariel Henry to Repatriate Del Rio Camp Migrants in Return for Scuttled Elections. Biden continues his unsullied reputation for being wrong about everything in foreign policy.

At NTD, Eric Schwerin Testifies Joe Biden and the Biden Family Used Alias Email Accounts During Vice Presidency. Bob Spencer at Front Page notes Hunter Refuses to Appear at House Hearing, Calls It a ‘Carnival Sideshow’ "Coming from a man whose entire life is a carnival sideshow." Meanwhile, former Trump advisor Peter Navarro reports to jail for defying a subpoena from the J6 committee, after asserting executive privilege. Sundance at CTH, Peter Navarro Delivers Remarks Before Reporting to Federal Prison for Contempt of a Congressional J6 Subpoena. Insty, AT THIS POINT, ANY HONORABLE CITIZEN SHOULD HOLD CONGRESS IN CONTEMPT: Ex-Trump adviser Peter Navarro reports to prison on contempt of Congress conviction. "I want a GOP president and a GOP congress who will feed this stuff right back to the Democrats. I suppose the statute of limitations has run on Eric Holder’s contempt of congress, but . . . And of course, despite what Judge Amit Mehta said, he is in fact the victim of a political persecution, and he’s not the only one. The perversion of the justice system — and the Department of Justice — is far advanced under this Administration." 

At Flopping Aces, The Trump persecution is the standard for how dems will use lawfare as a means to eliminate political opposition "Imagine your complete personal financial destruction. All it takes is a deranged District Attorney and a deranged judge who hold a different political view, i.e. the democrat view. We have." At Am Con, An Open Letter to Lawfare-Loving Democrats, "You’re going to have to win this one the old-fashioned way." Da Caller, Jonathan Turley Says Prosecutions Of Trump Prove Him ‘Right’ About Weaponization Of Government

“It’s becoming increasingly difficult to deny that we have a legal system now that is being heavily distorted by politics and you cannot look at all of these cases and see blind justice, you see the opposite,” Turley told Fox Business host Larry Kudlow, a former Trump administration official. “You see a justice that is being weaponized, and in many ways the Democrats fulfill the narrative of President Trump. He is now right. No matter what they thought about it at the beginning, they proved him to be right with this pile-on from Florida to Georgia, to Washington, D.C., to New York and most of the public gets it.”

Margot Cleveland at Da Fed thinks It’s A Miscarriage Of Justice To Let Fani Willis Keep Prosecuting Trump. At NYPo, Attorney who blew whistle on Fani Willis affair blasts DA over speech claiming ‘Jesus’ told her to prosecute Trump. Capt. Ed comments "Some politicians will claim to have been called to pursue office, but even that raises eyebrows these days. It's quite another for a prosecutor to claim that Jesus told her to indict a political opponent, especially in a venue where the jury pool is listening." From Da Fetched Joe Rogan States the Obvious on Trump Indictments: ‘Looks Like You’re Trying to Prosecute Your Political Opponents.’ At Da Blaze, Fani Willis isn't out of the woods yet: Trump's attorney seeks to appeal judge's disqualification ruling. Liz Stauffer at WaEx finds The Left turns on Fani Willis after judge finds ‘an odor of mendacity remains’ in her case against Trump.

Hat Hair's KT reports Defamation: Trump Sues ABC News and George Stephanopoulos "Trump was found guilty of sexual assault of Carroll by a jury, not of rape. He was also found guilty of defaming her. The key here is that Trump was not found guilty of rape. Stephanopoulos repeatedly said that Trump was found guilty of rape and Nancy Mace pushed back to correct him. She said it was a case of sexual assault, not rape, with Trump. Nonetheless, Stephanopoulos persisted." Ace, Trump Files Suit Against George Stephanopolous and Disney Frontgroup ABC "News," "This is the way." Althouse, "Trump sues ABC and Stephanopoulos, alleging defamation over Mace interview." "The Hill reports. ... Stephanopoulos... said Trump had been found “liable for rape.” The jury had found Trump liable for sexual abuse under New York law, but not rape.... The complaint quotes 12 times that Stephanopoulos said "rape," so he really leaned into what he had to know was wrong. . . " The bar to leap to accuse one public figure of defaming another is quite high, and correctly so, but I think that showing actual malice here should be quite easy, given all of Stuffinenvelope's public statements on Trump. However, getting a jury in any big city to agree is quite difficult. I do think $84 million ought to cover it, though.

Isabella DeLuca

From TNP, Feds Charge MAGA Influencer Isabella DeLuca for TOUCHING A TABLE on Jan 6. "According to the FBI, DeLuca touched a table as it was being passed from office within the Capitol to rioters outside through a shattered window. The bureau alleges the table was later used to assault law enforcement officers." At the TN Star, Wife of Unjustly Imprisoned J6 Defendant and Former Williamson County Deputy Sheriff Ronald McAbee Incarcerated Since 2021 Says Tennessee Congressional Delegation Is Ignoring His Case. Law and Crime, Judge Disqualifies New Mexico County Commissioner and ‘Cowboys for Trump’ Founder for Having ‘Engaged in’ the Jan. 6 ‘Insurrection’. Jeff Charles, Supreme Court Decides Whether It Will Hear 14th Amendment Case Against Former New Mexico Commissioner, and . . . "However, it appears that Democrats seeking to leverage the amendment’s “insurrection clause” against their political opposition can still use it against those running at the state level. The Supreme Court declined to take up the case of Couy Griffin, former Otero County, New Mexico Commissioner and the founder of Cowboys for Trump. He was barred from holding public office again after he was convicted of trespassing on U.S. Capitol grounds."

Ben Weingarten at NYPo worries The Supreme Court hints it may give away our free-speech rights in social-media-censorship case. I do too. Tristan Justice at Da Fed, Federal Government Claims ‘Once-In-A-Lifetime Pandemic’ Excuses First Amendment Violations. At Da Caller, SCOTUS Must Protect The 1st Amendment. The Biden Admin Certainly Won’t. Stephen Kruiser at PJM, Now More Than Ever, the Left Is Terrified of Free Speech.NewsBusters, OLD GRAY KAREN: NYT Publishes 3,984-Word Eulogy Decrying Death of Gov’t-Big Tech Collusion. Dan O'Donnell at Da Fed, CNN’s Aaron Rodgers Hit Piece Proves Corporate Media Works For Democrats.

Ace, Ex-Google Employees: The Brain-Damaged Woke AI Is No Mistake. The AI Is Accurately Promoting the Mentally-Ill Worldview of the Google Megacorporation. "The Free Press . . ." Tom Knighton at Tilting At Windmills thinks Heads. Should. Roll. I&I, hope for a Media Bloodbath: Elon Musk Is Now More Trustworthy Than Every Major News Outlet.

James Nault at LI sees a Groundswell of Second Amendment Cases Seems Destined for the Supreme Court "Federal courts in blue states seem to be upholding the majority of gun control laws, even after landmark Supreme Court decisions upholding the fundamental right to keep and bear arms."

From the Free Bacon, TikTok Supporters Blame Jews for Congressional Ban "'There is 0 doubt in my mind pro-Israel lobbying groups are behind the pressure.'" At Da Wire, a Principal Lied To Punish Jewish Teacher Who Reported Muslim Student For Praising Hitler. From Campus Reform, Anti-DEI movement mirrors rise of societal pushback to leftism: ANALYSIS. PJM's VodkaPundit finds SCIENCE! to show The Woke Are Just Trying to Inflict Their Misery on Everyone Else. It's working, at least in part. The James Martin Center notes “Kangaroo Courts” Aren’t Dead at UNC "Chapel Hill has blundered into a lawsuit by trampling on the rights of a professor." From the College Fix, Outrage erupts over Kyle Rittenhouse campus tour.

"Shangela"

Lou Aguilar at Da Spec calls it Midway in the Culture War "Transgenderism may be the hill the Left has chosen to die on." As in the Battle of Midway. Da Caller,  Blue State Dems Soundly Lost Debate On Radical Trans Bill — So Now They Want To Sneak It Past You. At Hat Hair Dave Strom wonders If An Illegal Alien Shoots a Trans Illegal Sexworker, Is It a Crime? Liberals Say No. Da Wire, EXCLUSIVE: 82-Year-Old Woman Threatens Lawsuit After Trans Incident At YMCA Pool. "An 82-year-old woman is demanding access to a local YMCA-operated pool after being banned from the facility for speaking out against a man using the women’s locker room, according to a letter obtained exclusively by The Daily Wire." Capt. Ed says "Let's hope they get shellacked. Only severe financial penalties will incentivize a change to the insanity adopted by government officials and their partners in the embrace of trans-queer ideology." At Da Fetched, Trans Medical Association Scrubs Child Sex Change Guidelines from Website. "The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) removed its transgender medical guidelines from its website following criticism over child sex changes."  Does this auger anything, or is it just a glitch? mrcTV reports Media’s Favorite Drag Queen Accused of Multiple Sexual Assaults "Darius Pierce, also known as Shangela from "RuPaul's Drag Race."

At Da Wire, Biden’s Top Intelligence Agency Says Crossdressing Makes Man ‘Better Intelligence Officer,’ Internal Docs Show "DW INVESTIGATES: 'I am an intelligence officer, and I am a man who likes to wear women’s clothes sometimes,' reads testimony from inside intel community." 'Citizen Soldier' at RCP, Duty, Honor, Nothing West Point is dropping “Duty, Honor, Country” from its mission statement, to be replaced with the nebulous phrase, “Army Values.” 

The Wombat has Rule 5 Sunday: Blast From The Past and FMJRA 2.0: Opening Day & Other Disasters up and ready for your digital pleasure.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito extended an order Monday blocking Texas officials from executing a new state immigration law authorized by Governor Greg Abbott.

SCOTUS Slaps Down EPA Power Plant Regulations

Supreme Court overturns landmark EPA air pollution rule

The Supreme Court dealt a blow to the Obama administration’s landmark air quality rule on Monday, ruling the Environmental Protection Agency did not properly consider the costs of the regulation.

In a 5-4 ruling, the justices ruled that the EPA should have taken into account the costs to utilities and others in the power sector before even deciding whether to set limits for the toxic air pollutants it regulated in 2011.

The case, Michigan v. EPA, centers on the EPA’s first limits on mercury, arsenic and acid gases emitted by coal-fired power plants, known as mercury and air toxics (MATS). Opponents, including the National Federation of Independent Business, say it's among the costliest regulations ever issued.

The EPA estimated its rule, which took effect for some plants in April, would cost $9.6 billion, produce between $37 billion and $90 billion in benefits and prevent up to 11,000 premature deaths and 130,000 asthma cases annually.

EPA's estimations can be totally discounted as the fantasies of true believers. But even so. . .

But the agency concluded that its regulatory impact analysis should have “no bearing on” the determination of whether regulations are appropriate, as set forth in the Clean Air Act.

In the majority ruling, Justice Antonin Scalia concluded that the EPA “unreasonably” interpreted the Clean Air Act when it decided not to consider industry compliance costs and whether regulating the pollutants is “appropriate and necessary.”

While the agency is afforded a certain level of power to interpret the law, the court wrote, “EPA strayed well beyond the bounds of reasonable interpretation in concluding that cost is not a factor relevant to the appropriateness of regulating power plants.”

Expect weeping and wailing on the scale of Citizens United over this ruling.

Mind you, I wouldn't mind at all if every coal power plant in the US were replaced with an equivalent sized nuke. But the people who want to kill coal aren't interest in that.

SCOTUS Stops Human Genome Patents

SCOTUS: No, you cannot patent naturally-occuring human genes

In Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, all nine SCOTUS justices ruled that scientists cannot patent naturally-occurring human DNA, but struck some middle ground by adding that synthetically-created DNA — or cDNA — does indeed fall into the realm of patentable material. Via the NYT, the case concerned patents held by Utah-based Myriad Genetics for genes that correlate with the increased risk of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer that were being challenged by rights groups arguing that companies should not be able to lock up the uses of new DNA that could benefits patients if it was made widely available...

The Supreme Court long ago ruled that an inventor who discovers a phenomenon in nature, or figures out a “law of nature,” cannot get an exclusive right to use or sell that by obtaining a patent from the federal government. Natural phenomena are the basic tools with which every would-be inventor starts, so locking up the right to use them in a monopoly held by a specific patent owner will frustrate others who might want to look for new ways to interpret that phenomena, the Court has said.

The exclusion of natural substances from eligibility for patents was the theory on which the Court relied Thursday in its unanimous ruling that a company cannot get a patent monopoly on the use and study of human genes that it isolates in the bloodstream, and them takes them out — without changing their natural character — for research.

I think this is a pretty good decision; it encourages research into human DNA without allowing people to "lock up" whole sections of it for their proprietary use, but if they create something new out of it, that can be patented, a proper stimulus for research and invention.  The unanimous decision was authored by Justice Thomas. But then, it was also supported by the Obama administration.  Some things really are beyond politics.