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- Iran war pushes oil prices to 4-year high as Hegseth faces lawmakers
Oil prices hit a 4-year high as Axios reports Trump will hear new options to try to break the Strait of Hormuz standoff with Iran with a new wave of attacks. [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago - Callais Right Away!
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court decided Callais. The last paragraph of the opinion stated: The judgment of the District Court is affirmed, and thesecases are remanded for proceedings consistent with this opinion. It is so ordered. Well, it is not ordered right away. Under the Court's rules, the remand does not happen immediately. In this 2020 post, I described the process by which judgments are actually entered. Conflicts over the timing of the judgments have arisen in high profile cases, including Bush v. Gore, Boumediene, Trump v. Vance, Trump v. Mazars, DHS v. Regents, Whole Woman's Health v. Jackson, and others. Of course, after Obergefell was decided, jurisdictions outside the Sixth Circuit immediately issued marriage licenses to gay couples, even though they were bound by injunctions. Whatever, love won! The private plaintiffs in Trump v. Callais have asked the Supreme Court to issue the judgment forthwith. Louisiana has taken no position on the request, because the issuance of the judgment is irrelevant: The State notes that the Court's May 15, 2024 Order also states that, "[i]n the event jurisdiction is noted or postponed, this order will remain in effect pending the sending down of the judgment of this Court." That language can be read to conflict with the cited language above, which requires automatic termination of the Order if the lower court's judgment is affirmed. That potential conflict, however, has no bearing here because, whether the Order is already terminated or will be terminated when this Court sends down the judgment, nothing prevents Louisiana from adopting a constitutional map and process consistent with this Court's decision right now. Louisiana is correct. The District Court did not issue an injunction. The Supreme Court affirmed the District Court's judgment. Nothing prohibits Louisiana from following the Supreme Court's decision as a precedent, even if there is no issued judgment. Moreover, once Louisiana adopts new maps in the next week or so, this entire dispute will be mooted. The Supreme Court can safely do nothing here. The post <i>Callais</i> Right Away! appeared first on Reason.com. [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago - Trump-Owned Company Scores Defense Contract From Trump Administration
AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin The U.S. Air Force will buy interceptor drones from a company that is partly owned by President Donald Trump’s two eldest sons, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump are part owners of Powerus, a company based in West Palm Beach, Florida. The government will purchase an undisclosed number of drone interceptors after a demonstration in Arizona, Powerus president and co-founder Brett Velicovich said. Bloomberg reported: The deal represents the first sale of this kind of weapon — which can zip into the sky and blow up enemy drones — by Powerus to the US military. The company declined to detail the terms of the deal or the size of the contract, but the military frequently enters into such deals as it weighs whether to adopt a new weapons system. The arrangement fits with a broader US push to counter cheap Iranian attack drones with similarly inexpensive interceptors instead of far pricier missiles. The US Army has already sent 10,000 AI-enabled Merops interceptor drones developed in Ukraine to the Middle East. Last month, before securing the contract, one ethics scholar pointed out the issue with a defense contractor being partly owned by the president’s children. “It’s corruption,” Kathleen Clark of Washington University School of Law told the Associated Press last month. “Government decision makers will feel pressure to use contract awards to enrich the president’s family.” Last week, Eric Trump appeared on Fox Business after Foundation Industries, where he is an adviser and investor, won a $24 million Department of Defense contract to make humanoid robots for use on the battlefield. “We have to win this race,” Eric Trump said at the time. “We have to win a lot of races, right? I got involved with crypto in a very big way because we had to win that digital revolution.” Eric Trump was referring to World Liberty Financial, in which the Trumps have a majority stake. Last week, billionaire investor Justin Sun sued the company, alleging breach of contract.The post Trump-Owned Company Scores Defense Contract From Trump Administration first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago - Fantaspoa, Latin America’s Largest Genre Film Festival, Wraps After Screening ...
Fantaspoa, the Porto Alegre, Brazil-based genre film festival, brought together a record 550,000-plus attendees through in-person and online programming. The 22nd edition of the festival, which took place over 19 days and wrapped with an April 26 award ceremony, brought in more than 80 domestic and international guests and hosted 24 world premieres. Additionally, this […] [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago - 2 employees killed in Kentucky bank robbery, suspect at large, police sayKentucky State Police said a man went to a U.S. Bank in Brea, Kentucky, and shot and killed a man and a woman, both employees at the bank. [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago
- 5 wounded in possible stabbing attack at Washington high schoolThe suspect, a student, was detained at the scene, police said. [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago
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