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Boeing Dismantles Diversity Department

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/boeing-dei-department/2024/10/31/id/1186234/

 

Boeing has dismantled its global diversity, equity and inclusion department, Bloomberg news reported Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.

 

The report said the staff from Boeing's DEI office would be combined with another human resources team focused on talent and employee experience.

 

Sara Liang Bowen, who was a vice president in the department, announced earlier in the day on LinkedIn that she had left the company.

 

"It has been the privilege of my lifetime to lead Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at the Boeing company these past 5+ years. Our team strived every day to support the evolving brilliance and creativity of our workforce," she said in the post.

 

On Tuesday, Boeing launched a stock offering that could raise up to $24.3 billion as the planemaker looks to strengthen its finances, pressured by a more than six-week strike by factory workers. Earlier this month, the company also said that it planned to cut 17,000 jobs, which represent 10% of its global workforce.

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Supreme Court Keeps Cornel West Off Pennsylvania Ballot

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/supreme-court-cornel-west-pennsylvania/2024/10/31/id/1186244/

 

 

Third-party presidential candidate Cornel West on Thursday lost a Supreme Court bid to be included on the presidential ballot in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania.

 

Justice Samuel Alito refused West's emergency appeal in a brief order. Alito handles appeals originating in Pennsylvania.

 

West, a liberal academic serving as professor of philosophy and Christian practice at Union Theological Seminary in New York, likely would draw more votes away from Democrat Vice President Kamala Harris than from Republican Donald Trump.

 

The refusal comes after a rejection by U.S. District Judge J. Nicholas Ranjan, a Donald Trump appointee who expressed sympathy for West's claim earlier this month but found it was too late to reprint ballots and retest election machines without increasing the risk of error.

 

Ranjan cited federal precedent that courts should not disrupt imminent elections without a powerful reason for doing so.

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Republicans Ask Pa. Court to Pause Decision on Ballot Envelope Rules

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/pennsylvania-mail-ballots-envelope-dates-2024-election/2024/10/31/id/1186239/

 

 

Republicans wasted no time in appealing a Pennsylvania court decision that would relax the rules for mail ballots, asking the state Supreme Court on Thursday to reverse a lower-court opinion issued one day earlier.

 

The state and national GOP filed an emergency request that that justices put on hold a Commonwealth Court ruling that envelopes voters use to send in mail ballots don't need to have been accurately hand-dated, as required under state law.

 

The Republican groups said that if the high court does not stay the order it should at least modify it to say it's not in force for the voting that concludes on Tuesday.

 

Commonwealth Court, in a 3-2 decision, said 69 mail ballots that lacked dates or had inaccurate dates should be counted in two Philadelphia state House of Representatives special elections held in September.

 

The judges emphasized they were ruling on an election that has already occurred โ€” and involved unopposed candidates โ€” but there's uncertainty about how it might apply to the election underway. Pennsylvania is the largest swing state in the close presidential race, and its voters are also filling a U.S. Senate seat, three statewide row offices and most of the legislature.

 

The rules for mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania have been frequently litigated in state and federal courts since absentee and mail-in ballots were allowed for all registered voters by the Legislature in 2019, on the eve of the pandemic. In March, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the requirement of an accurate, handwritten date was enforceable, and in April the state redesigned the envelopes to make it harder for voters to make dating mistakes. The state Supreme Court last month turned down an effort to throw out the dating requirement, and said on Oct. 5 it would not revisit the issue.

 

The Republican National Committee and the Republican Party of Pennsylvania argued the decision came down too close to Election Day, county boards of elections should have been allowed to weigh in, and the state Supreme Court has recently ruled the other way about the same topic.

 

โ€œWithout this court's intervention, county boards will thus likely count undated ballots the General Assembly has said must not be counted,โ€ they wrote in the filing made Thursday. They warned that the uniform date requirement may be applied in different ways across the state.

 

โ€œThere is no excuse โ€” none โ€” for the majority rushing to invalidate the General Assembly's date requirement less than a week before the 2024 General Election,โ€ they wrote in the emergency application for extraordinary relief.

 

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court gave other parties until early Friday to respond.

 

In two decisions over the past two months, the state Supreme Court left the exterior envelope date mandate in place and indicated the high court did not want existing laws or procedures changed in substantial ways โ€œduring the pendency of an ongoing election.โ€

 

The Commonwealth Court majority said the requirement for accurate exterior envelope dates, which are not needed to determine if a ballot has arrived in time, runs afoul of the state constitutional provision that elections must be free and equal and no civil or military power can interfere with the โ€œfree exercise of the right of suffrage.โ€