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supreme court
January 18, 2024
Wake Up Right
News

Trump’s SCOTUS Is On the Verge of DeFanging The Deep State.

The Supreme Court (SCOTUS) heard oral arguments yesterday for two cases that may result in a significant clawback of abuse by the executive – particularly Joe Biden’s energy and climate regulations.

At the core of both legal challenges is what’s known as the “Chevron Doctrine” – essentially the idea that if a law is ambiguous, the executive branch gets to interpret it however they’d like (within reason).

  • The two cases being heard [Relentless v. Department of Commerce and Loper Bright v. Raimondo] raised identical legal questions.
  • In the case of Loper Bright, They’re a family-owned herring fishing company that the U.S. Commerce Department is forcing to pay the salary of a federal monitor to sail with them and police their practices.

The central argument against Chevron is that it violates the separation of powers because Congress, not the executive branch, must write laws.

History of the Chevron Doctrine: SCOTUS created it back in 1984 in a case called Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. Essentially, the Court said that if a law is unclear or ambiguous, then courts should defer to that interpretation of the federal agency as long as it’s within the agency’s authority.

Put in context today; the Chevron Doctrine has been used and abused by the Biden regime to force through their job-killing radical climate agenda without Congressional approval.

What went down during oral arguments? According to SCOTUS Blog, they showed the Court is “likely to disregard Chevron.” While the three liberal justices expressed support for the existing interpretation, the conservatives made statements critical of the status quo:

  • Justice Brett Kavanaugh argued: “It’s the role of the judiciary historically under the Constitution to police the line between the legislature and the executive to make sure that the executive is not operating as a king.”
  • Justice Neil Gorsuch argued that Chevron virtually always works for federal agencies and against the “little guy.”

Big picture: If Chevron is overturned, it will be a big win for conservatives and former President Trump, who appointed three of the justices.

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The Supreme Court (SCOTUS) heard oral arguments yesterday for two cases that may result in a significant clawback of abuse by the executive - particularly Joe Biden’s energy and climate regulations. show more

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January 17, 2024
William Upton
Election 2024

Top DeSantis Aide Has Meltdown on X: Bemoans Low Pay and Lack of Vacation Time Working for Ron.

Christina Pushaw, the Rapid Response Director for the DeSantis campaign, is not taking the Florida Governor’s landslide defeat in Iowa in stride. The campaign flack posted a lengthy rant on X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday portraying her dedication to the collapsing campaign as a selfless act.

“I personally would have a better life outside of politics,” Pushaw wrote. “I would probably be able to earn more money at a private sector job and have more free time and maybe even take a vacation once in a while,” she added, in what appeared to be a dig at her own negotiated salary and allowed time off. During a major incident in her boss’s state last year, Pushaw took time away from her desk to attend yoga classes.

Pushaw’s most recent outburst was in response to calls for her and other DeSantis campaign officials to be ‘blacklisted’ from Republican political circles. The Florida Governor’s refusal to drop out of the primary contest after Donald Trump’s historic margin of victory in the Iowa Caucus drew criticism from numerous Republican Party officials and activists.

The DeSantis campaign’s communication team members—including Pushaw, Jeremy Redfern, and Bryan Griffin — have repeatedly come under fire for their erratic social media outbursts. This past September, Pushaw attacked pro-life stalwart Frank Pavone over his endorsement of former President Donald Trump. She suggested the Vatican’s decision to defrock the former Catholic priest made sense given his support for Trump. When Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity (AFP) endorsed Nimarata ‘Nikki’ Haley for the Republican presidential nomination, Pushaw took to social media to denounce the organization as “the establishment” — despite having previously worked for AFP herself.

Last month, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson blasted the online behavior of the DeSantis team during an interview at Turning Point Action’s AmericaFest. “The people who represent him online are the nastiest, the stupidest, and the most zero-sum people I’ve ever seen in my life,” Carlson said.

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Christina Pushaw, the Rapid Response Director for the DeSantis campaign, is not taking the Florida Governor's landslide defeat in Iowa in stride. The campaign flack posted a lengthy rant on X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday portraying her dedication to the collapsing campaign as a selfless act. show more
January 17, 2024
Election 2024

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon: Trump ‘Wasn’t Wrong’ On Critical Issues.

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said during an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday that former President Donald Trump “wasn’t wrong” about a number of critical issues.

“He was kind of right about NATO, he was kind of right about immigration, he grew the economy quite well, tax reform worked, he was right about some of China,” Dimon said in the interview with CNBC. “He wasn’t wrong about some of these critical issues, and that’s why they’re voting for him.”

A Democrat, Dimon made the comments while explaining that his Party is too quick to vilify the MAGA movement and its supporters. “I wish the Democrats would think a little bit more carefully when they talk about MAGA,” he said. “When people say MAGA, they’re actually looking at people who voted for Trump, and they’re basically scapegoating them, that you are like him,” Dimon continued. “I think this negative talk about MAGA is going to hurt Biden’s reelection campaign.”

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JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said during an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday that former President Donald Trump “wasn’t wrong” about a number of critical issues. show more
January 17, 2024
William Upton
TECH

IBM CEO: ‘Either Embrace AI Or Lose Your Job.

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna told attendees at the 2024 World Economic Forum’s annual meeting that companies and nations who embrace artificial intelligence (AI) “are going to be advantaged forever.” For those who don’t embrace AI, Krishna warned, “you’re going to find that you may not have a job.”

The Indian-American technology executive took over as CEO of IBM in 2020 and was named chairman in January 2021. “Artificial intelligence, today’s form, is going to generate $4 trillion of annual productivity before the end of the decade,” Krishna said. Despite evidence to the contrary — and his own warning — he insisted that the increase in productivity would not be in the form of “job displacement.”

U.S. policy regarding AI is increasingly a concern to voters and government officials alike. Former President Donald Trump warned recently that the technology could be “very dangerous for our country” in a post on Truth Social. He pointed to the use of fake — but incredibly realistic — images generated by AI tools which could be used to influence U.S. elections.

AI’s military and commercial applications also pose a potential existential threat to U.S. interests. The National Pulse reported that the Pentagon supplied Song-Chun Zhu — an AI specialist who works with the Chinese Communist Party – with $30 million in federal grants. Zhu described the AI technology race as the “equivalent to [developing] the ‘atomic bomb’ in the information technology field.”

Former President Barack Obama has overseen AI policy in the Biden government. The former President met with Big Tech and West Wing officials over Zoom on behalf of the 80-year-old incumbent as he was piecing together an executive order on AI. The order lays the groundwork for federal oversight and funding for the technology and a slew of government hirings related to it.

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IBM CEO Arvind Krishna told attendees at the 2024 World Economic Forum's annual meeting that companies and nations who embrace artificial intelligence (AI) "are going to be advantaged forever." For those who don't embrace AI, Krishna warned, "you're going to find that you may not have a job." show more
trump eu
January 17, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Politics
World

BlackRock Chief: 2nd Trump Term Pushes Europe Away from Dependency on US or China.

Philipp Hildebrand, vice chairman of the nine-trillion-dollar asset management firm BlackRock, says Donald Trump’s reelection in 2024 could help the European Union learn to stand on its own feet.

Hildebrand made the remarks at the World Economic Forum (WEF) summit in Davos, Switzerland, when asked if he agreed with European Central Bank (ECB) chief Christine Lagarde that Trump is “clearly a threat” to the EU.

“Christine speaks for herself. I think the flip side of it is that this is perhaps also a wake-up call for Europe,” said Hildebrand, suggesting a second Trump administration might prompt the EU to decide whether it wants “to be a kind of independent sovereign” or to have “great dependencies, whether on China or on the U.S.”

“I see it as an opportunity for the construction of Europe,” he continued. “Clearly, if [Trump’s election] were to lead to a rupture, which I think is what President Lagarde has in mind as a risk, then that would challenge Europe fundamentally.”

He was particularly critical of the EU’s weakness in the field of defense, despite having a significantly larger combined economy and population than the U.S.

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Philipp Hildebrand, vice chairman of the nine-trillion-dollar asset management firm BlackRock, says Donald Trump's reelection in 2024 could help the European Union learn to stand on its own feet. show more
January 17, 2024
William Upton
Data
Election 2024

DATA: Trump’s Great Turnaround With College-Educated Voters.

Former President Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign has seen a marked turn-around among college-educated voters who arguably cost Trump critical votes in swing states in 2020. New data indicates Trump’s surging popularity amongst college-educated voters is mainly driven by voter opinion that Trump is the better-suited candidate to revive the U.S. economy and put an end to the illegal immigration crisis at the U.S. southern border.

In 2021, over 75 percent of college-educated Republicans said they wanted a candidate other than Trump to run in 2024. By the start of this year, Trump’s negative trend among college-educated Republicans had reversed entirely. An early January Suffolk University/USA poll found about 60 percent of Republican college-educated voters now support Trump for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. Entrance polls conducted by CNN during the 2024 Iowa Republican Caucus found former President Trump had made a 16-point gain among college-educated voters compared to 2016’s entrance polling.

Nearly three years of President Joe Biden’s radical left-wing government have led college-educated voters to reconsider Trump. University New Hampshire professor of political science Dante Scala emphasized the importance of voters being able to compare presidential administrations in a recent interview, saying: “I think issues that we hear … immigration, the economy, inflation, all those things I think leads a lot of those voters to say, ‘You know, things were actually pretty good during that Trump presidency. Can we go back to that?’”

Prof. Scala points to the perceived weakness and inaction of the Biden government both at home and abroad as a key drive behind Trump’s recovery among college-educated voters. “I think a lot of college-educated Republicans say, ‘Yeah, he tweeted too much, he was out of control sometimes, but there was strength there,” Scala said.

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Former President Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign has seen a marked turn-around among college-educated voters who arguably cost Trump critical votes in swing states in 2020. New data indicates Trump’s surging popularity amongst college-educated voters is mainly driven by voter opinion that Trump is the better-suited candidate to revive the U.S. economy and put an end to the illegal immigration crisis at the U.S. southern border. show more
January 17, 2024
William Upton
Election 2024
Media

NYT: New Hampshire is ‘High Water Mark’ for Haley, Who ‘Can’t Win’ Due to Positions on Immigration, Social Security, and Foreign Wars.

On Wednesday, the New York Times opinion page admitted the political reality for ex-South Carolina Governor Nimrata ‘Nikki’ Haley: she lacks a realistic path to victory for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

“But even if Ms. Haley does well in New Hampshire, it won’t matter,” Damon Linker writes, adding: “That’s because Ms. Haley is starkly out of step with the evolution of her party over the past decade.”

Former President Donald Trump’s appeal among non-college-educated voters poses an insurmountable hurdle for Haley, according to the Linker, a senior lecturer in the department of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. These voters have “grown weary of candidates emphasizing cuts to entitlements and taxes on the wealthy while also favoring liberal rates of immigration, free-trade agreements that resulted in manufacturing jobs being shipped abroad.”

Haley’s vocal support for raising the retirement age, slashing social security, and cutting other entitlements has been a persistent point of criticism against the former South Carolina Governor on the campaign trail. Her embrace of U.S. interventionism abroad, especially in Ukraine, has also proven to be out of step with much of the Republican electorate — though not with Democrat mega-donors.

Haley finished third place in Monday’s Iowa Republican Caucus, gaining only eight Republican convention delegates to former President Donald Trump’s twenty delegates. The former President won the Caucus by a historic margin with 51 percent of the vote to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s 21.2 percent and Haley’s 19.1 percent.

“New Hampshire is overwhelmingly likely to end up as the high-water mark for her campaign,” the Times says of the Haley campaign, noting that Republicans will still prefer Trump as “they’d rather go into the general election with someone they feel they can trust.”

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On Wednesday, the New York Times opinion page admitted the political reality for ex-South Carolina Governor Nimrata 'Nikki' Haley: she lacks a realistic path to victory for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. show more

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nikki haley
January 17, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Election 2024

Trump Leads Haley by 16 Points in New Hampshire.

Donald Trump is leading Nimrata ‘Nikki’ Haley by 16 points in New Hampshire, 50 percent to 34 percent, while Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is in an abysmal third place with just five percent, slightly behind respondents who said they were undecided.

New Hampshire allows so-called “undeclared” voters to vote in its primaries as well as Republicans, meaning the contest is open to some interference by leftists. If only Republicans are taken into account, Trump’s lead over Haley increases to 37, with the former president at 61 percent and Haley at just 24 percent.

“Haley’s had a tough week: underperforming in Iowa, trying to answer Trump’s attacks on her positions on Social Security and immigration, and the recent [Vivek] Ramaswamy endorsement of Trump helping him with younger GOP voters,” commented Suffolk University Political Research Center director David Paleologos.

The pollster suggested there was some hope of Haley “pull[ing] Trump below 50 [points]” by winning over undecideds, but most respondents who have picked a candidate – 87 percent – say they are “not at all likely” or “not very likely” to change their minds at this point in the race.

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Donald Trump is leading Nimrata 'Nikki' Haley by 16 points in New Hampshire, 50 percent to 34 percent, while Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is in an abysmal third place with just five percent, slightly behind respondents who said they were undecided. show more
January 16, 2024
William Upton
News

Trump Trial Judge Screened For Jurors Who Believe 2020 Election Stolen, Posted on Truth Social or Rumble.

The judge presiding over the second E. Jean Carroll defamation trial against former President Donald Trump is screening any potential juror for a hint of right-leaning political beliefs. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan pressed potential jurors if they believed the 2020 election was stolen, if they have affiliations with groups like the Proud Boys, and if they’ve ever posted on Truth Social or Rumble. Potential jurors who answered in the affirmative are likely to be removed from the jury pool.

Five potential jurors have already been excused — three admitted they could not be fair in delivering a verdict, and two others said their ability to be impartial was impaired by what they’ve already heard or read regarding the several ongoing prosecutions of former President Donald Trump.

Attorneys for Ms. Carroll are expected to move to strike jurors identified by Judge Kaplan as having right-leaning political beliefs. While striking potentially unfavorable jurors is standard for the jury selection process, the active involvement of the presiding judge is uncommon — but not unheard of.

The ongoing law-fare campaign by the Biden government against Trump makes the selection of a fair jury difficult — as the ongoing prosecutions continue to receive a high level of media attention. Before the start of the second defamation trial, Judge Kaplan ruled Trump cannot challenge Carroll’s rape claim against him.

Last year, a judge ruled the former President had defamed Ms. Carroll and awarded a $5 million civil judgment against Trump regarding an alleged encounter in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in the mid-1990s. This second trial will determine additional damages for defamation linked to a statement Trump made in 2019 while he was still president, denying he knew Carroll and asserting that she invented the rape allegation to promote her book.

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The judge presiding over the second E. Jean Carroll defamation trial against former President Donald Trump is screening any potential juror for a hint of right-leaning political beliefs. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan pressed potential jurors if they believed the 2020 election was stolen, if they have affiliations with groups like the Proud Boys, and if they've ever posted on Truth Social or Rumble. Potential jurors who answered in the affirmative are likely to be removed from the jury pool. show more
January 16, 2024
News

Trump Already Back in NY Court for Second E. Jean Carroll Trial.

Donald Trump returns to court on Tuesday to begin the hearing in the second defamation case brought against him by E. Jean Carroll.

Carroll previously brought a civil suit against Trump alleging that he raped her in the mid-1990s and then defamed her when he denied that the incident ever happened. Last year, a jury in that case found that Trump did sexually abuse Carroll and defame her, and awarded her $5 million in damages.

The current defamation trial centers on comments Trump made in 2019, once again denying Carroll’s story, which the former President maintains is a fabrication. The focus of this week’s hearings is to ascertain the amount of damages Trump, who is appealing the previous verdict, should pay Carroll for his 2019 statements.

As to the potential damages, Judge Lewis Kaplan dismissed the former President’s proposition to cap any future damages. Carroll is seeking more than an additional $10 million in damages. Trump, staunchly maintaining his innocence, has appealed all verdicts and rulings against him. The former president is expected to testify on his own behalf on Monday.

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Donald Trump returns to court on Tuesday to begin the hearing in the second defamation case brought against him by E. Jean Carroll. show more