Strike down...

Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the liberal justices on the Supreme Court on Monday to block a controversial Louisiana abortion law that critics said would have closed nearly every clinic in the state.

The 5-4 ruling is a win for supporters of abortion rights who argued that the law was not medically necessary and amounted to a veiled attempt to restrict abortion. The law barred doctors from performing the procedure unless they had admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.

The majority opinion was penned by Justice Stephen Breyer, who wrote that the majority "consequently hold that the Louisiana statute is unconstitutional."

Breyer added later: "The evidence also shows that opposition to abortion played a significant role in some hospitals' decisions to deny admitting privileges."

The ruling continues a trend of Roberts siding with liberals in major cases.  

Sway...

Much of the election’s impact on the stock market will depend on whether the Republicans retain control of the Senate as Democrats would then be less likely to enact major economic changes.

Some finance executives and analysts are warning that if the Democrats sweep the White House and the Senate in November, increased regulation and higher taxes would be bad for businesses and could negatively impact the stock market.

“If it looks like the Senate stays Republican than there’s less to worry about in terms of policy changes,” Liz Ann Sonders, chief investment strategist for Charles Schwab, told CNBC.

So it is a sway process. Tax or no tax.

Syphoning...

Several Minneapolis City Council members who have received death threats following their calls to defund the police have been assigned private security details -- reportedly costing the city $4,500 a day in taxpayer dollars.

The city has spent $63,000 on private security over the last three weeks.

On the other hand the NYPD was tight lipped about the mayor’s protection, when the mayor threw his hat into the presidential ring, he normally travels with eight to 10 officers. Five or six usually go with him out of town, and when first lady Chirlane McCray goes along she has her own security detail.

Syphoning the tax payer's money. Just a thought.

Whada...

While former Vice President Joe Biden has been limited in his campaign efforts, the presumptive Democratic nominee has continued to hold virtual town halls.

Here's a look at several incorrect and misleading claims Biden has made during these events and interviews over the past several weeks.   

*The jobs report showed that Hispanic unemployment decreased, not increased as Biden Claimed.

*After Biden claimed endorsement, the organization issued a statement "to clarify that the NAACP is a non-partisan organization and does not endorse candidates for political office at any level."

Millions...

“People don’t have a job, people don’t know where to go, they don’t know what to do,” Biden said Thursday. “Now we have over 120 million dead from COVID.”

As of Thursday, there have been more than 122,000 – not million -- coronavirus deaths in the United States, according to Johns Hopkins figures.  Biden appears to immediately catch himself after his gaffe -- the pool video of Biden’s comments cuts off after he made the remark.

Comments: Biden just want to talk. He made his own stats and own facts right or wrong. He can't say what he is going to do since he didn't do it before. Moreover, he is not all up there. Just a thought

Keep...

Birds...

Sigh...

PEWooooo...

A new Pew Research Center analysis of data on official reports of COVID-19 deaths, collected by the Johns Hopkins University  finds that, nearly a quarter of all the deaths in the United States attributed to the coronavirus have been in just 12 congressional districts – all located in New York City and represented by Democrats in Congress.

Of the more than 92,000 Americans who had died of COVID-19 as of May 20 , nearly 75,000 were in Democratic congressional districts.

Of the 44 hardest-hit congressional districts – the top 10% in terms of deaths – 41 are represented by Democrats, while three are represented by Republicans. These include the New York-area districts, as well as those in the Boston, Detroit and New Orleans metropolitan areas. The average death toll in each of these hardest-hit districts was 1,122 as of May 20.

The next 100 hardest-hit districts, which represent the remainder of the top third of districts, with an average of 270 deaths, also are disproportionately represented by Democrats: 75 are represented by Democrats, 25 by Republicans.

Best wishes to the blue States. You want more money/taxes .... Just a thought.

Flynn...

A federal appeals court ordered Judge Emmet Sullivan to dismiss the case against former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn.

Despite Flynn twice pleading guilty for lying to the FBI about his conversations with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the presidential transition, the Justice Department moved last month to dismiss the case against him.

The ruling exonerates Flynn after he sought to change his plea and claimed innocence.

The three-judge panel on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals decided the trial judge, Sullivan, didn't have enough reason to question the DOJ's prosecution decisions in this case. They also said Sullivan having a third-party attorney weigh in on Flynn's case, the former judge John Gleeson, isn't needed anymore.

Sullivan "fails to justify the district court's unprecedented intrusions on individual liberty and the Executive's charging authority," DC appeals court Judge Neomi Rao, wrote in the majority opinion.