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Today is another opinion day at SCOTUS. Wil we finally get an opinion in Callais?
Callais is the only case left from the October argument list. It challenges a provision in the 1965 Voting Rights Act that been used to create congressional districts in which a group that is a racial minority in the state is a majority in that district. The plaintiffs claim this violates the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause.
If the Court strikes down this provision of the VRA, one expects there would be a lot of lawsuits challenging districting in which these minority-majority districts were created. This could really upend all the redistricting being done in several states, and not just in blue states.
Callais is not only the one case from the October list that has not been decided, but Justice Alito is the only justice who has not written a majority opinion from October. Make of that what you will.
Sean Spicer recently claimed in “The Huddle” podcast that the Callais decision has been written, that the racially-defined district provision has been struck down, and the liberals are slow-walking their dissents to make it too late for the states to redistrict. No one else appears to have heard this rumor. However, Mollie Hemingway of the Federalist just revealed that the liberals in Dobbs slow-walked their dissents, so Spicer’s claim may be accurate.
https://thefederalist.com/2026/04/18/explosive-report-as-dobbs-majority-faced-death-threats-liberal-justices-slow-walked-release/
Opinions start at 10 EDT. Live-blogging at http://www.scotusblog.com (not affiliated with the Court).
(And in case you’re wondering, Roberts probably does have the authority to release the majority opinion and tell the dissenters their dissents will be published later. But it would take character and backbone to stand up to the liberals….)
Amen
Amen
China is right where Trump can call the shots due to the collapse of the Chinese real estate market which has erased all the gains made in the past 20 years. When Trump meets with Xi later this year China’s bargaining position will IMO be very weak to the disappointment and detriment of the propaganda machine in the US media and Canada.
I’m posting something recent from Canada’s Carney because i want the Great PDJT to assess the outcome.
Trump might take great pleasure in this one.
Two days ago, Carney announced he was setting a government investment fund for Canadian citizens. IMO, everything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
Me, as so many others, are waiting to see how many Canadians will fall into this trap.
Kirk Lubimov@KirkLubimov
Mark Carneyoff; I have an investment opportunity for you! I’m launching a new fund.
> we going to borrow $25B from you. > you will be responsible for the interest cost.
> your initial investment will be guaranteed by…you.
> you will also be responsible for the interest for the capital that will back your initial investment.
And we going to invest it where no one else wants to invest because of bureaucracy, red tape and carbon taxes.
How much you in for??
https://x.com/KirkLubimov/status/2049177625965609429?s=20
To ensure that nobody will be hould accountable: Extended Probes and slow-walking the process leads to termination due statute of limitations
When I read Chairman Grassley’s six-page letter to AG from 4/27/26 about 2010 “Uranium One et al” [2] and skimmed through the 85 pages of attachments, I perceived the many episodes as Kafkaesque [2].
For those who have time, I recommend skimming through the following documents, most of them created during POTUS Trump’s first term:
What the Chairman missed: Statute of limitations is five years!
[1] Grassley to DOJ FBI – Uranium One et al.
[2] Peter Schweizer: Clinton Cash, 2015
[3] AUSA Michael Atkinson, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia (USAO-DC) and Ray Hulser, Public Integrity Section (PIN), DOJ have been briefed on the facts and circumstances to support the initiation of a Preliminary Investigation.
[4] FBI-HJC119-SL-000001-000266_Redacted_FINAL.pdf
[5] “One last matter: I also think there are some issues that we need an update from FBI WFO regarding the Weiner laptop as well as some possible other sources of Foundation emails.
Good Morning America, how are ya?
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