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Democrats are trying everything they can to hold onto judicial power in case Trump wins in November. //

Texas’s firebrand attorney general, Ken Paxton, has been particularly successful in procuring injunctions in certain Texas-based federal courts against Biden’s myriad overreaches. Furious, leftists are now seeking to thwart Paxton by taking away a tool he has utilized to great effect: the single-judge division. //

Push to Randomly Assign Cases

Nevertheless, left-wing activists are now attempting to use the Judicial Conference, the supervisory body that essentially acts as the federal judiciary’s own Deep State, to end the use of single-judge divisions in all cases of injunctions against the federal or state government. Earlier this year, the Judicial Conference issued “advisory guidelines” to all the nation’s district courts, recommending that all cases be randomly assigned throughout the district in which they are filed — regardless of the division that actually receives the filing. //

Now, just weeks before a monumental election, leftists have once again ramped up their efforts to ram through a rule in the Rules Committee of the Judicial Conference that would make the previously “advisory” guidance outright mandatory, thus caving to the demands of, among others, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and the Biden Justice Department. The Judicial Conference purports to locate such authority in the Rules Enabling Act, the 1930s-era statute that authorizes the Judicial Conference to prescribe rules of civil and criminal procedure for the federal judiciary.

But Congress — not the judiciary — has the ultimate power to reject any rule promulgated by the Rules Enabling Act. Congress should not hesitate to exercise such power, should the Judicial Conference succeed in pushing through its single-judge division edict. //

But regardless of the election result, it is crucial to flag the left’s latest effort to decimate long-standing judicial norms simply because leftists are furious that they are not consistently getting their way in case outcomes. This attempt mirrors Justice Elena Kagan’s desperate and ludicrous call for lower federal courts to supervise the Supreme Court when it comes to recusal decisions. The proposal now before the Judicial Conference’s Rules Committee caves to the whining of leftist commentators upset over politically charged rulings. It is a nakedly political power grab.

Should the Rules Committee adopt the proposal, the Supreme Court needs to put its foot down. Because the justices have been issuing many decisions that leftists detest, the court in recent years has been subject to numerous high-profile political and physical attacks. //

Congress can also act — and has the leverage to do so. Right now, the Judicial Conference wants the U.S. House to pass two separate judge-related bills. One of those bills would authorize about 66 new federal judgeships; the other would extend some temporary judgeships. The House Judiciary Committee should refuse to act on either bill until the Judicial Conference agrees it will not alter the case-assignment process through its Deep State committees. Congress should demand that if the Judicial Conference wants changes to case-assignment procedure, it will seek new authorizing legislation so as to not create a conflict with 28 U.S.C. § 137. Congress, which alone writes federal law under our Constitution, must shut down the Judicial Conference’s highly dubious Rules Enabling Act legal theory of delegated power.

CBS News has really differentiated itself lately, and not in a good way. Fresh off an editing scandal involving "60 Minutes" and Vice President Kamala Harris, the left-wing broadcast network has now been caught red-handed deceptively editing an interview with House Speaker Mike Johnson. //

It'd be one thing if the entirety of the above exchanges were cut out for time. At least then, nothing is misconstrued. It's a completely different thing, though, to start chopping up individual answers and omitting key context. That's what CBS News is doing, but to hurt Republicans and help Harris.

Americans started their Sunday morning this week celebrating the fantastic accomplishment of the SpaceX team’s fifth Starship test launch, as the spacecraft’s 232-foot Falcon Super Heavy booster rocket returned to the launchpad and was “caught” by a pair of enormous mechanical arms nicknamed “Mechazilla.” //

John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre
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The SpaceX Starship team that sent a skyscraper into space, and then caught it with giant chopsticks.

Meanwhile, Boeing's space program has 50,000 employees and stranded 2 astronauts in space.

But, at least they received a 100% DEI rating and the designation of “2022 Best… Show more
3:48 PM · Oct 13, 2024 //

This catch was one short moment for SpaceX and one critical moment for Americans. //

Unfortunately for SpaceX, part of its operations involves contending with innovation-killing bureaucrats, this time at the California Coastal Commission.

Apparently, they have denied permits to the company because commission members are unhappy with CEO Elon Musk’s comments on “X.”

Elon Musk @elonmusk
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Incredibly inappropriate. What I post on this platform has nothing to do with a “coastal commission” in California!

Filing suit against them on Monday for violating the First Amendment.

The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole84
This is Political Discrimination
"California officials cite Elon Musk's politics in rejecting SpaceX launches"
1:52 AM · Oct 13, 2024. //

TargaGTS in reply to Sanddog. | October 13, 2024 at 8:41 pm
It’s at moments like this – pure Marxism on display in Kalifornia – to remind people that before Reagan signed the 1986 Amnesty Act, California was a reasonably reliable RED state, only voting for the Democrat presidential nominee a handful of times in the 20th century. They had 13 GOP governors and only THREE DNC governors in the 86-years of the 20th century, prior to passing that act. Then, in 1992 – the first year those who received amnesty were becoming eligible to vote – California only voted for DNC president & senators and eventually governors. Now, it’s tone off the most reliably blue state in the Union.

Illegal immigration is the Kryptonite to limited-government.

Goldman noted that Ranson relying on Copilot for "what was essentially a numerical computation was especially puzzling because of generative AI's known hallucinatory tendencies, which makes numerical computations untrustworthy." //

Because Ranson was so bad at explaining how Copilot works, Schopf took the extra time to actually try to use Copilot to generate the estimates that Ranson got—and he could not.

Each time, the court entered the same query into Copilot—"Can you calculate the value of $250,000 invested in the Vanguard Balanced Index Fund from December 31, 2004 through January 31, 2021?"—and each time Copilot generated a slightly different answer.

This "calls into question the reliability and accuracy of Copilot to generate evidence to be relied upon in a court proceeding," Schopf wrote. //

Until a bright-line rule exists telling courts when to accept AI-generated testimony, Schopf suggested that courts should require disclosures from lawyers to stop chatbot-spouted inadmissible testimony from disrupting the legal system. //

Goldman suggested that Ranson did not seemingly spare much effort by employing Copilot in a way that seemed to damage his credibility in court.

"It would not have been difficult for the expert to pull the necessary data directly from primary sources, so the process didn't even save much time—but that shortcut came at the cost of the expert's credibility," Goldman told Ars.

IDF soldiers located an underground compound stretching across 800 meters that served as a command center for Hezbollah’s Radwan Forces.

Inside the underground compound, the IDF found helicopter-fired missiles, mortar shells, motorcycles, living quarters, and means for long-term stays, including a kitchen stocked with food and supplies.

Hezbollah intended to mobilize these weapons as part of their “Conquer the Galilee” invasion plan and deliberately embedded this underground command center below a civilian area in southern Lebanon. //

ThePrimordialOrderedPair | October 14, 2024 at 10:19 pm
IDF Discovers Expansive Hezbollah Underground Compound Stocked With Weapons

Deja vu …

Back in 1982, when Israel had to go after the PLO in southern Lebanon, they found large caches of Soviet weapons. I seem to remember something about a gigantic cache found in a soccer stadium.

Back then, Israel was capturing so much Soviet weaponry from arab armies and terror groups that Israel had become the largest(?) exporter of Soviet weaponry outside of the Soviet Union, itself.

The years pass … and the names change … but it’s all still the same.

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