Noteworthy News

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Mel Brooks turns 100 today.

Took him long enough.

Boru

[AFTT47]

May the Schwartz be with him.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Boru

[AFTT47]

Only Mel Brooks could make something as classless and insensitive as this, funny. Well, Mel Brooks and Monty Python.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Only Mel Brooks could make something as classless and insensitive as this, funny. Well, Mel Brooks and Monty Python.

Another admirable thing about Mel - he successfully resisted studio pressure to work with both Chevy Chase and Jerry Lewis.

Boru

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Supreme Court Declines To Trash The 14th Amendment

The Supreme Court has ruled that babies born in the US have a constitutional right to citizenship, rejecting Donald Trump's bid to end the 150-year-old policy.

In a 6-3 decision, Chief Justice John Roberts ruled that children born in the US "to parents unlawfully or temporarily present" are "citizens at birth" under the 14th amendment.

Five of the justices, including Chief Justice Roberts, agreed that Trump's executive order violates the Constitution's 14th Amendment. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote separately to say believes the order is in violation of federal law.
On Truth Social, Trump said that the court's decision was "too bad" and vowed to continue to fight to end birthright citizenship through legislation.

Boru

[Jackalope]

To Boofboy, somehow the statutory law bars the order, where the same text in the constitution does not.

Make this shit make sense.

[Angrboda]

During the oral arguments in the Trump v Barbara case in April, the government’s lawyer D John Sauer conceded that “no one knows for sure” how significant a problem so-called birth tourism actually is. The Center for Immigration Studies, an anti-immigration thinktank, said that there are between 20,000 to 26,000 births by women on tourist visas annually. This is less than 1% of all babies born in the US each year.

Nonetheless, the practice has been the bedrock of the Trump administration’s argument against birthright citizenship. Many Republicans and allies of the president have repeated concerns with limited evidence that shows birth tourism to be a sizable problem.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...trump-cuts

[AFTT47]

Apparently, Mitch McConnell suffered a cardiac arrest at his home more than two weeks ago.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congres...rcna352660

They aren't saying a whole lot but my understanding is that cardiac arrest outside a hospital environment rarely ends well.

[The Valkyrie]

Apparently, Mitch McConnell suffered a cardiac arrest at his home more than two weeks ago.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congres...rcna352660

They aren't saying a whole lot but my understanding is that cardiac arrest outside a hospital environment rarely ends well.

So, how many lives are turtles supposed to have?