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Neil Gorsuch Breaks Precedent, Opts
Out Of Supreme Court Labor Pool
by Andrew Kerr

. Jobs Report Returns to Normal in April
If April showers bring May flowers (and most of the U.S. should have plenty of color this year), what does a strong April jobs report foretell? Hopefully, a blossoming economy that can finally put liar-nObamanomics behind it. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the economy added 211,000 new jobs in April, which helped reduce the headline unemployment rate to a 10-year low of 4.4%. The fuller measure U-6 rate dropped to 8.6%, the best since November 2007.
Recall that March's jobs report was ugly, plain and simple. The BLS's already paltry estimate of 98,000 new jobs that month was reduced even further today, with BLS now calculating just 79,000 jobs. On the flip side, February's report actually improved, with BLS estimating 232,000 new jobs (the previous figure was 219,000). The consensus seems to be that bad weather served as an economic bludgeon in March. And that is most certainly a factor.
Remember too that first quarter GDP (0.7% growth) was in many ways a paradox. Consumer spending was not on par with other positive economic signals, and there are a few theories behind this disparity. But the Leftmedia's interpretation of it — that low GDP is a possible repudiation of Trumpnomics — doesn't exactly add up. March's jobs report gave ammunition to this view. But February's and April's reports don't. The truth is that liar-nObama spent all your money. Trump wants to let you keep it. While GDP might be low, businesses are hiring. The question is what happens from here. It could be the consumers are being cautious, waiting to see what Congress does on important matters before flooding the economy with hard-earned cash. liar-nObamaCare repeal and tax reform are huge factors for the economy, and the outcome of both remains to be seen. But reforming those two issues would do more than anything else to jumpstart the economy. In other words: Dear Senate, the ball's in your court. Don't blow it. ~The Patriot Post
State Dept. Told To Release New Benghazi
Emails From liar-Hillary’s Server
by Ethan Barton
{dailycaller.com} ~ A federal judge ordered the Department of State to release new emails stored on former Secretary of State liar-Hillary Clinton’s private server regarding the 2012 attack in Benghazi... a nonprofit government watchdog group announced Friday. Two previously unreleased emails have a subject line “Quick Summary of POTUS Calls to Presidents of Libya and Egypt” and were sent two days after terrorists attacked the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012, according to Judicial Watch. “The full emails may reveal what former Secretary of State liar-Hillary Clinton and President liar-nObama knew about the Sept. 11, 2012, terror attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi,” the nonprofit said in a statement... http://dailycaller.com/2017/05/05/state-dept-told-to-release-new-benghazi-emails-from-hillarys-server/?utm_source=WhatCountsEmail&utm_medium=TheDC%20Morning&utm_campaign=TheDC%20Evening.Cruz Nails Comey Obstruction
On Lerner, Abedin, liar-Clinton
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) questioned FBI Director James Comey on Thursday, May 4th, 2017, almost three years after he similarly asked the obstructionist running interference at the FBI... some of the same questions and was likewise stonewalled, particularly on the matter of the IRS targeting conservatives. The telling of a new lie regarding that cover up he directed closed out Comey’s Thursday farce, but there’s much more deception to be had along the way. One of those inconsistent statements made by Comey is the subject of the first question Senator Cruz puts to the FBI Director, telling him it’s puzzling “in that you described the reason why the case was closed against Ms Abedin as that you could not determine she was aware her conduct was unlawful. Senator Cruz says, “If I understand you correctly you said Ms Abedin forwarded hundreds or thousands of classified emails to her husband on a non-government, non-classified computer. How does that conduct not directly violate that statute?”... http://rickwells.us/cruz-nails-comey-obstruction-lerner-abedin-clinton-runs-fbi-sessions/ .Cecile Richards Comes Unglued After House
Defunds Planned Parenthood
by Steven Ertelt
{lifenews.com} ~ Planned Parenthood abortion business president Cecile Richards it’s not happy that the House of Representatives voted yesterday to defund Planned Parenthood... The main response of the CEO of the nation’s biggest abortion conglomerate can be summed up in three words: Republicans hate women. Even though the legislation has nothing to do with women’s health care or its access and even though Planned Parenthood is predominately an abortion business that provides no legitimate medical care or health services to pregnant women, that didn’t stop Cecile Richards from falsely characterizing the vote as one denying women appropriate health care... http://www.lifenews.com/2017/05/05/cecile-richards-comes-unglued-after-house-defunds-planned-parenthood-republicans-hate-women/
.Saudis Hire Controversial PR Firm To Push
Legitimacy Of 34 Nation ‘Muslim NATO’
by Whitney Webb
{thesleuthjournal.com} ~ An infamous PR firm that specializes in damage control during “crisis situations” has been hired by Saudi Arabia to improve the image of the Wahhabist military alliance that is led by the Gulf state... The New York-based company, known as one of the world’s most controversial public relations firms, has now become the latest Western PR firm to land on Saudi Arabia’s payroll. They’ve been hired with the specific intent of improving the image of the so-called Islamic Military Alliance to Fight Terrorism – an alliance occasionally referred to by the nickname “Muslim NATO,” as it is modeled after the North Atlantic Treaty Organization... http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/saudis-hire-controversial-pr-firm-push-legitimacy-34-nation-muslim-nato/ .Leftist Globalist Media Disinfo...
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ If Marine Le Pen fails to become the President of France on Sunday, it will likely be due in no small part to the same mind control efforts by the press... that were supposed to burden the Americans with liar-Hillary Clinton and likewise condemn the Brits to an existence as mere peasants under the feet of their EU globalist masters. Reading a propaganda piece by the globalist owned media organization “Reuters” from Friday, what is edging into the Saturday before Election Day in France, reveals the same bias that exists in the US with the mainstream establishment Fake News media. Of course the bias exists, the same or similar elitists use mass media to control what are the accepted thoughts and beliefs for the population of the world, their subjects, regardless of whether they live in Europe, the United States or elsewhere...http://rickwells.us/leftist-globalist-media-disinfo-portrays-eu-puppet-macron-centrist-patriot-le-pen-extreme/ .

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Neil Gorsuch Breaks Precedent, Opts
Out Of Supreme Court Labor Pool

by Andrew Kerr
{westernjournalism.com} ~ Neil Gorsuch has been a justice of the Supreme Court for less than a month, but he’s already breaking precedent.
He has decided against joining the Supreme Court’s “cert pool,” a shared team of law clerks that produce “pool memos” for each of the more than 7,000 petitions seeking review annually. Justices who subscribe to the pool make their decision on whether to hear a case based on the recommendation made by the labor pool.
Gorsuch’s own team of law clerks will review the thousands of filed petitions and will make recommendations directly to Gorsuch on the roughly 75 petitions that should be considered by the nation’s highest court each year.
Gorsuch joins Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. as the only other Supreme Court justice who is not part of the pool. Alito dropped out of the pool in 2008.
The pool was created to help ease the workload for Supreme Court Justices but has been criticized for giving too much power to the young law clerks of the pool.
“I’m convinced that when each of the justices had his or her clerks read the cert petitions, you had nine sets of eyes,” said Duke University law professor Erwin Chemerinsky.
Chemerinsky noted that the number of cases heard each year by the Supreme Court has dropped substantially since the cert pool became the precedent.
“Now you only have one set of eyes, and that really decreases the likelihood of cert being granted,” he said. “Also, it used to be that clerks knew what their justices wanted and what they might be interested in. You really lose that when you have the cert pool.”
In a 2007 article in the Texas Law Review, University of Minnesota law professor David R. Stras examined every cert pool memo from 1984, 1985, 1991 and 1992. He found that the cert pool has a direct impact on the number of cases heard by the Supreme Court.
“One of the things that the data did show was that consistently from term to term, the cert pool is stingier in the number of grants it recommends than the court itself,” Stras wrote in the article. “The court ends up taking more cases than the cert pool recommends.”
“This explanation has considerable facial plausibility as some justices, including the late Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, have admitted that they do not look at every petition for certiorari that is filed with the court,” Stras wrote.
He added that the “stinginess has increased over time,” with the Supreme Court’s caseload dropping from 159 in 1985 to just 114 in 1992.
Furthermore, notes University of Virginia law professor Stephen F. Smith, clerks on the pool are incentivized against recommending cases for Supreme Court review out of fear they will be dismissed by the courts, otherwise known as a DIG.
“You want to avoid getting DIGs because it hurts,” said Smith, a former clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas in 1993. “You want the most powerful justices in the country to think well of you.”
“You’re really putting your neck out on the line” by recommending a case for Supreme Court review, Smith said. “And what if the court disagrees with you? The incentive in the cert pool is to deny.”
“Your justice will remember you, but not for how many grants you recommended. The other justices will not remember at all whether you recommended a DIG,” he added. “You sort of have this idea of self-importance that goes away after you’re done.”
The result of the widespread use of the cert pool is the “proliferation of long fractured opinions” on the Supreme Court, wrote Douglas Berman of The Ohio State University Mortiz College of Law in 2007.
“Perhaps if the Justices spent more time personally reading cert petitions and lower court rulings — and not just summaries from one clerk in the pool — they might directly discover areas of the law in need of extra attention and also might better appreciate the mess they sometimes make by issuing fractured rulings.”
Gorsuch’s decision to opt out of the cert pool means he won’t be subjected to its inherent faults. Gorsuch’s team will be subject to a greater workload, but as a result, he will have much greater say in what cases he believes should be heard by the nation’s highest court.
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