“[W]hy would Congress want to deny a bond hearing to individuals who reasonably fear persecution or torture, and who, as a result, face proceedings that may last for many months or years (while their withholding-only proceedings wend their way toward completion)? I can find no satisfactory answer to this question.”

A seemingly perplexed Justice Stephen Breyer wrote this (and was predictably joined in bewilderment by the Court’s two other liberal justices, Sotomayor and Kagan) in his June 29 dissenting opinion in Johnson v. Guzman Chavez, the recent case in which the majority found that, in layman’s terms, deported aliens who re-enter the U.S. illegally are not entitled to a bond hearing while they await their current adjudication. Read Full Story

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Officials in Maricopa County announced they will replace the voting machines that were subpoenaed during the forensic audit of the 2020 election, alleging concerns about “security and integrity.”

“The voters of Maricopa County can rest assured the County will never use equipment that could pose a risk to free and fair elections. The County recognizes Secretary Hobbs’ authority under A.R.S. § 16-442 to certify equipment for use in Arizona’s elections. As a result, the County will not use the subpoenaed equipment in any future elections,” the county said in a statement on Monday.

County officials, who have always opposed the audit, have long alleged, without any evidence, that subpoenaed machines could be compromised by the auditors and, in fact, acquired new machines for local elections held this year. The county also reportedly refused to provide subpoenaed routers. Read Full Story 

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• Townhall: There Is a Massive Roadblock to Biden’s Infrastructure Plan and It Isn’t Republicans
• AP: Supreme Court Says No Right to Hearing for Some Immigrants

In November 2020, over 80% of Marin County, California, residents voted for Joe Biden. This was to be expected. In 2018, 64% of Marin’s residents voted for Gavin Newsom. Only 12% voted for John Cox, the Republican candidate. Another 8% of votes went to yet another Democrat.  

Now that Marinites have gotten their solid Democrat governance, though, they’re not happy with one of the main Democrat goals: turning expensive suburbs into densely populated urban areas. Welcome to the new NIMBYs (“not in my backyard”). Read Full Story

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