Israel, America's favourite of the multi-directional proxy-buffer states. Seems like.
Thank you for posting this.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/03/supreme-court-puts-states-into-their-place.html
Supreme Court Puts States Into Their Place
This is a good decision:
States can’t remove Trump from ballot, Supreme Court says - Politico, Mar 4 2024
States have no authority to remove Donald Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday, short-circuiting efforts by his detractors to declare him disqualified over his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
The justices did not weigh in on the fraught question of whether Trump engaged in an insurrection by attempting to subvert the 2020 election results or stoking the violence on Jan. 6. But the high court ruled in an unsigned opinion that only Congress, not the states, can disqualify a presidential candidate under the Constitution’s “insurrection clause.”
Having the states judge over the legitimacy of a candidate would create a chaos in which federal elections would become a states against states court race, not a way to find some common representative.
It is good to see that librul and conservative judges agreed on that.
The judgment will hopefully help to tone down the shrill voices of the democratic commentators about Donald Trump.
One may not like him, ore even despise him, but he is a legitimate choice on the ballot.
Posted by b on March 4, 2024 at 16:48 UTC | Permalink
This Campaign Ad Should End Traitor Joe's Career
https://rumble.com/v4h7bbb-this-campaign-ad-should-end-traitor-joes-career.html
Well, being on a ballot and being elected are two different things, also does this not reign supreme?
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Age: The candidate must be at least 35 years old.
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Citizenship: The candidate must be a natural-born citizen of the United States.
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Residency: The candidate must have been a resident of the United States for at least 14 years.
https://archive.is/HcfQR
As DEI gets more divisive, companies are ditching their (DEI) teams
By Taylor Telford
February 18, 2024 at 8:00 a.m. EST
Zoom and Snap are among companies that have cut (DEI) roles in recent weeks.
After George Floyd’s murder in 2020, companies made big pledges about racial equity, hiring teams dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion. Now corporate America is pulling back — cutting DEI jobs and outsourcing the work to consultants.
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DEI jobs peaked in early 2023 before falling 5 percent that year and shrinking by 8 percent so far in 2024, according to Revelio Labs data shared with The Washington Post. The attrition rate for DEI roles has been about double that of non-DEI jobs, says Revelio, which tracks workforce dynamics.
In recent weeks, Zoom axed its internal DEI team amid broader layoffs, and Snap cut workers who worked on retention and engagement efforts for employees from underrepresented groups. Meta, Tesla, DoorDash, Lyft, Home Depot, Wayfair and X were among major corporations making steep cuts in 2023, slashing the size of their DEI teams by 50 percent or more, Revelio’s data shows.
“The overall number of DEI officers has decreased,” said Lisa Simon, Revelio’s senior economist, “but it’s not enough to destroy all the strides that happened after 2020.”
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At Zoom, chief operating officer Aparna Bawa told employees that the company would replace its internal DEI team with DEI consultants who would “champion inclusion by embedding our values … directly into our people programs rather than as a separate initiative,” according to a Jan. 29 memo seen by The Post.
Colleen Rodriguez, the company’s head of global corporate communications, said Zoom “remains committed” to DEI work.
Snap made a similar decision in February, according to reporting from Business Insider. Snap did not respond to a request for comment.
Corporate America’s retreat from DEI has coincided with increased legal risk and political animosity toward systemic efforts to boost racial equity. State legislators have introduced at least 65 anti-DEI bills since 2023, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education. The resignation of Claudine Gay, Harvard University’s first Black president, amid plagiarism allegations in January was billed as “the beginning of the end for DEI in America’s institutions” by the conservative activist who led the campaign to oust her. Mentions of DEI on corporate earnings calls have plunged in the past year, according to the Wall Street Journal.
For companies that were never really committed, “this is the perfect air cover for backing off diversity,” said Joelle Emerson, CEO of DEI consultancy Paradigm.
Not all companies downsizing teams are giving up on the work, Emerson said, noting that some employers overhired when they established their DEI teams.
“I don’t know that it ever made sense to have a 25-person diversity team sitting to the side of a core business function,” Emerson said. “Companies should be able to say, ‘We’ve tried this, it didn’t have an impact, we’re going to try something different.’”
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The recalibration is happening under serious legal pressure. Last year, when the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in college admissions, the decision didn’t apply directly to employers. But the ruling kicked off an effort, driven largely by conservative activists, to dismantle race-conscious policies in other domains of American life.