Gorsuch sides with liberal justices in 5-4 decision

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch broke with conservatives and joined four other liberal justices in a 5-4 tribal rights decision Monday. The Supreme Court upheld a Native American man’s hunting rights under a 150-year-old treaty. Crow tribe member Clayvin Herrera was charged in 2014 for off-season hunting in the Bighorn National Forest in Wyoming but argued that a treaty signed in 1868 between the tribe and Wyoming allowed him to hunt any time of the year.

The state argued the treaty was nullified in 1890 when Wyoming achieved statehood, lower courts agreed, and the case made its way to the Supreme Court. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, one of four on the court appointed by Democratic presidents, wrote in the majority opinion there isn’t “any evidence in the treaty itself that Congress intended the hunting right to expire at statehood, or that the Crow Tribe would have understood it to do so.”

Gorsuch, who was nominated for the Supreme Court by President Trump in 2017, sided with liberal-leaning justices on another case involving Native American rights in March, writing a concurring opinion in the case. Gorsuch, 51, is from Colorado and received support from Native American organizations during his nomination. The groups cited his judicial record and his opinions on tribal sovereignty.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/gorsuch-sides-with-liberal-justices-in-5-4-decision

Something, BIG must be coming…the breads are quite shilly today!

>>6543522

Thinking that you need to calm down..No where did I indicate that I was against this vote, nor do I believe its a bad thing…He followed the Rule of Law, which is what we want our Judges to do don't we? As for posting this..Positive outcomes are important to post as well as the Negative! This shows that he is doing exactly what he was hired to do!

>>6543575

Post history would indicate otherwise…so if you think you know so much why don't you have a look and while your at it, point your accusations somewhere else!

>>6543618

Indeed!

>>6543633

Hmmm, and what have you contributed other than criticism… oh that's right, NOTHING

>>6543686

>I've got plenty of notables, digs, and even a Q under my belt you fuckstick. Napa valley and Arizona underground railroads were good ones too. No sense in dropping any real digs or new shit anymoar because you faggot fucks call it shilling and rather focus on what the fucking media is pushing out while claiming to be the goddamn news. Normies have turned this place into a fucking joke, which is why the real digs aren't even posted here anymoar.

Are you Bragging or complaining…Many of us here do this everyday! AS I told you before, look up my post history. If you are not happy… Then why are you even here?

Palestinians to shun U.S.-led economic conference, prelude to Trump peace plan

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinians will stay away from a U.S.-led conference in Bahrain next month that the Trump administration has cast as an overture to its own plan for peace between them and Israel, a Palestinian cabinet minister said on Monday. Washington announced the conference on Sunday, describing it as an opportunity to drum up international investment for the Israeli-occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The Palestinians, who have boycotted the Trump administration since it recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in December 2017, have shown little interest in discussing a plan on which they had no input and that they anticipate will fall far short of their core demands. Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said on Monday that his government had not been consulted on the June 25-26 gathering in Manama.

After the cabinet met, Ahhmed Majdalani, the social development minister and a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization executive committee, said: “There will be no Palestinian participation in the Manama workshop.” “Any Palestinian who would take part would be nothing but a collaborator for the Americans and Israel,” he said. Shtayyeh reiterated Palestinians’ aspirations for a two-state peace agreement with Israel entailing control of the occupied West Bank and Gaza - currently run by the Islamist group Hamas - as well as East Jerusalem as their future capital. Internationally-mediated talks to that end have been stalemated for years.

Israel calls Jerusalem its indivisible capital and has said it might declare sovereignty in its West Bank settlements, which are deemed illegal by the United Nations and most foreign governments. U.S. officials have predicted the Manama event will include representatives and business executives from Europe, the Middle East and Asia, as well as some finance ministers. The economic component discussed will constitute an announcement on the first part of the Trump peace plan, U.S. officials have said.

But Bashar Masri, a Palestinian businessman and the founder of Rawabi, the first Palestinian planned city in the West Bank, said he had turned down an invitation to speak at the conference. “We will not engage in any event outside the Palestinian national consensus,” Masri wrote on social media. “The idea of an economic peace is an old one now being asked in a different way, and just as our people have rejected it in the past, we reject it now.” Israel’s finance minister, Moshe Kahlon, said on Sunday he had yet to receive any invitation to the Bahrain meeting.

On Monday, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely said Israel was open to attending. “We have no problem sending representatives to Bahrain, but the problem, as always, is that the Palestinian side is not genuinely interested in economic benefits,” said Hotovely, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party.

The Trump administration has said its still-secret peace plan would require compromise by both sides. Since being boycotted by the Palestinians, it has cut back on U.S. aid for them, contributing to economic hardship in the West Bank and Gaza. Gaza’s ruling Hamas movement, shunned in the West for its hostility to Israel and locked in a power struggle with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s secular Fatah party, also condemned the Bahrain conference.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-mideast-economy-palestinians/palestinians-to-shun-u-s-led-economic-conference-prelude-to-trump-peace-plan-idUSKCN1SQ0MU?il=0

>>6543748

>Lifelog faggot, nobody gives a shit about you bruh. I'm in Ga too so if you wanna run. that mouth let's meet up.

If you were truly anon, then I would have to tell you that anon's don't adhere to violence. Outed yourself. Thanks for Playing!

>>6543824

You highly underestimate anons you coward.

>Seems you don't want to be held accountable for running your mouth and pushing an agenda of "do nothing and sit on your ass".

Hmmm…I seem to recall that you were the one who poked me… Here's a refresher… Looks like you are the one running your mouth

Highly doubtful…..go

>>6543890

Indeed, they deserve at least that imho!

Russian reporters resign en masse in row over Putin ally report

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A senior editor and 10 journalists at Russian daily newspaper Kommersant said on Monday they were resigning to protest against the firing of two colleagues over an article about a possible reshuffle of President Vladimir Putin’s close allies. The resignations, involving Kommersant’s entire political staff, highlight tensions between publishers and newspaper staff in Russia’s closely-controlled media landscape, which is dominated by pro-Kremlin state outlets.

The two reporters, Ivan Safronov and Maxim Ivanov, said they had been forced to quit after Kommersant’s publishing house - owned by billionaire businessman Alisher Usmanov - took umbrage at an article they authored last month. Kommersant, a leading business broadsheet acquired by Usmanov in 2006, said it was not immediately able to respond to a Reuters request for comment. A representative for Usmanov said separately that “the shareholder does not interfere in editorial policy let alone make decisions on dismissing or employing journalists.” Usmanov had learned about the firing of the journalists from media reports, the representative said.

The article in question, published on April 17, cited unnamed sources as saying that Valentina Matviyenko, speaker of the upper house of parliament, could be replaced by Sergei Naryshkin, head of the SVR Foreign Intelligence Service, in the coming months. It was not clear what the disagreement over the article was. Spokesmen for Matviyenko and Naryshkin at the time dismissed the report, which is still available on Kommersant’s website, as “rumors”.

Gleb Cherkasov, Kommersant’s politics editor, said he and 10 colleagues were quitting out of solidarity with Safronov and Ivanov, an exodus that outgoing reporter Vsevolod Inutin said amounted to the newspaper’s entire political section. “The shareholder has the right to take personnel decisions, employees have the right to not agree with them in only one way - by changing their job,” Cherkasov wrote on Facebook. Renata Yambaeva, a deputy chief editor overseeing business news who did not resign, blamed the firings on Usmanov and one of his representatives, Ivan Streshinsky, denouncing the sackings as outside pressure on the newspaper. “Maybe there is someone among our readers who can explain to … Usmanov and Streshinsky that right now they are destroying one of Russia’s best media,” she said.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-politics-kommersant/russian-reporters-resign-en-masse-in-row-over-putin-ally-report-idUSKCN1SQ1JV

U.S. lawmakers call on spy chief to rein in spread of hacking tools

(Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers want the State Department and intelligence community to help rein in the sale of surveillance tools by private companies to repressive regimes, according to a letter signed by a bipartisan group of congressmen released on Monday. The effort, led by Democratic Representative Tom Malinowski, is the second request in the last week asking the State Department to provide information about its approval process for U.S. companies that sell offensive cyber capabilities and other surveillance services to foreign governments.

The letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats references a Reuters report in January which showed a U.S. defense contractor provided staff to a United Arab Emirates hacking unit called Project Raven. The UAE program utilized former U.S. intelligence operatives to target militants, human rights activists and journalists in the Middle East as well as American citizens.

“As your investigation and a lot of others have made clear, this is a totally unregulated place,” Malinowski said in a phone interview on Monday. “Most Americans would be disturbed that highly advanced hacking tools that are used by intelligence agencies to catch terrorists are sold on the open market to governments that use them against ordinary Americans as well as dissidents in their own countries.”

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence confirmed receiving the letter and had no further comment. The State Department does not comment on congressional correspondence. Lawmakers say they are increasingly concerned about the spread of advanced surveillance technologies which can be used by authoritarian governments to hunt down political opponents. The letter, sent on Friday, recommended that the U.S. government “enhance its ability” to prevent former U.S. intelligence officials from becoming mercenaries for foreign intelligence services. It also encouraged American allies to similarly investigate the issue within their own countries.

“Repressive governments are obviously interested in using these capabilities to hunt down their political opponents but we shouldn’t forget the United States is full of people who are critical of governments overseas, who are refugees of dictatorships,” said Malinowski, who is a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Under U.S. law, companies selling cyber offensive products or services to foreign governments require State Department permission under certain circumstances. Reuters previously reported that State Department officials granted permission to a U.S. contractor, Maryland-based CyberPoint International, to assist an Emirates intelligence agency in surveillance operations, but it is unclear how much they knew about its activities in the UAE.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-congress/u-s-lawmakers-call-on-spy-chief-to-rein-in-spread-of-hacking-tools-idUSKCN1SQ1ZK?il=0

>>6544050

Indeed, I believe your are correct

>>6543620

Well said Anon, I was there! These are great words of encouragement!