Wednesday, May 20, 2026

“KBJ has become the equivalent of a hand grenade that Joe Biden threw into the Supreme Court”

 Legal Insurrection  

"This is not the sort of sniping you’re used to seeing on the Supreme Court. I don’t think she’s going to be impeached. I disagree with you. There is no way she’s going to be impeached in my estimation. But she’s unfit for the court. I mean, she really is."

"Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has been issuing increasingly vitriolic solo dissents directed at the majority on the Supreme Court. The issue is not so much her simplistic and ideologically driven substance, but that she insults her colleagues.

"We have covered multiple prior instances:

"Her most recent outburst came in the Louisiana redistricting case, where she lashed out after all the other Justices granted a request to expedite entry of judgment in light of the election calendar. She was so over the top that a rebuke was issued from Justice Alito, joined by Thomas and Gorsuch. We covered it in Alito Obliterates Jackson’s Dissent: ‘Groundless and Utterly Irresponsible’." . . .

"I had a chance to discuss KBJ’s  tactics on the Tony Katz show (transcript excerpt, may contain transcription errors, lightly edited for transcript clarity): . . ." More...


The San Diego mosques unsavory history and a demographic detail

Exclusive | San Diego mosque shooter Caleb Vasquez encouraged Cain Clark to kill him after mass shooting  . . . "During the attack, both men were decked out in Nazi gear, including a Black Sun symbol, which is associated with Nazi Germany. Nazi SS commander Heinrich Himmler had the symbol inlaid into the floor of the Wewelsburg castle, which was built in the early 1600s.

"The two had hate speech written on their weapons, including the phrase “Race War Now.” The two also left behind a shocking, hate-fueled manifesto before the terrorist attack — which praised Adolf Hitler and a slew of mass murderers." . . .


This article below notwithstanding, there must be much more than "not condoning". We must condemn the shooting outright. TD

 Andrea Widburg - American Thinker  

In December 2023, Taher Herzallah of the Hamas-linked American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) spoke at the ICSD and told the congregation to make Zionists feel “very uncomfortable on campus.”

San Diego mosque shooters ID’d as Cain Clark & Caleb Velasquez

"Here are the bare bones of yesterday’s story: Two teens traveled to a well-known mosque in San Diego, shot three people to death, and then took their own lives. I’m sorry that they avoided justice before the law for what they did, and they certainly would have gotten it, given that in California, their target was a protected class. A civilized society cannot survive extremists engaging in targeted assassinations.

"Still, that’s not the focus of this post. Instead, I want to point out two interesting things that won’t be highlighted in media reports.

"First, this mosque was not a nice place in terms of traditional American norms. Amy Mek has been tracking the Islamic Center of San Diego for a long time and notes that it has an interesting history when it comes to its practices and parishioners (emphasis in original):

"I have long covered this mosque and am very familiar with its shocking, decades-long track record of terror ties (9/11 hijackers) and extremism.

🔺A 2005 investigation by the Center for Religious Freedom (Freedom House) identified the ICSD as one of only a handful of U.S. mosques found in possession of Saudi government-published “hate ideology” materials, extremist Wahhabi literature filled with calls for intolerance, hatred of non-Muslims, and jihad.

🔺A congressional inquiry into the 9/11 attacks revealed the FBI believed the San Diego mosque was responsible for laundering millions of dollars in cash from Saudi Arabia to the Al Barakat Trading Company and other businesses tied directly to Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda.

🚨Two of the 9/11 hijackers, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, regularly worshipped at the ICSD before they helped crash American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon.

Fellow worshippers assisted them in obtaining Social Security cards, driver’s licenses, purchasing a car, and securing local housing."

The pair even accessed funds wired from the nephew of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed through a personal bank account belonging to an ICSD administrator." . . .   More at the link above, and a demographic detail

AFT boss Randi Weingarten tapped union resources worth over $1.4M to write ‘manifesto’ book

NY Post


"American Federation of Teachers boss Randi Weingarten tapped hundreds of thousands in union resources to help write her controversial book — working with a team that raked in more than $1.4 million from the labor group, a new analysis found.
"Weingarten used the abundance of union-fueled resources for the liberal agenda-pushing “Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and the Future of Democracy,” then pocketed a portion of the proceeds, the Freedom Foundation claimed in a new report.
"Her team included an attorney who supposedly worked on the book pro bono but whose firm raked in $977,000 for various work for AFT, as well as a supposed “ghost writer” who earned over $400,000 overall from the union, the report said.
"The union also forked over more than $11,000 to two people who “fact-checked” and apparently took photos of the labor big for the tome — which was heralded by the publisher as a “manifesto for our time.”
"'Most AFT members pay dues in exchange for workplace representation, not to fund the union president’s literary pursuits,” said Maxford Nelsen, the Freedom Foundation’s director of research and government affairs.
"'However, AFT appears to have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in members’ dues on top-tier consultants, lawyers, and agents to get WFFT published,” Nelson went on. “Indeed, the wide range of expenses borne by AFT suggests that Weingarten may not have contributed anything at all financially to the enterprise.”.  More...


. . . "The intent is defensive but also clarifying. In the 1970s and 1980s, Shanker became the public face of a newly muscular teachers’ labor movement, attacked for protecting mediocre teachers, resisting evaluations, and treating public schools like an employment system first and a learning system second. His retort refuses the sentimental premise that unions should function like child advocacy nonprofits. He’s insisting that collective bargaining is about power, not purity.

"The subtext is sharper: if the public wants children’s interests represented inside the machinery of education politics, it needs institutions with comparable leverage - parents organized at scale, student voices with formal standing, governance structures that don’t rely on labor peace as the primary metric of success. Until then, Shanker implies, expect unions to behave like unions." . . .