News Briefing - June 8, 2022

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Sen. Mike Lee’s Report Offers Scathing Critique of Biden’s Leftist Economic Policies

Although required by law to submit a budget and Economic Report of the President to Congress no later than the first Monday in February, President Joe Biden waited until March 28 to turn in his homework, a nearly two-month extension many students would envy.

Now, in a scathing rebuttal Friday to Biden’s report on the economy, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, the ranking member of the Joint Economic Committee, dissects and refutes each component of the left’s diversion from the true source of inflation.

Lee found four policy decisions specifically caused by Biden—not Russian President Vladimir Putin—that amplified today’s mounting inflationary pressure.

While Russia’s invasion of Ukraine exacerbated inflation and gas prices, inflation was already at 7.5% before the conflict. In fact, inflation was below 2% before Biden was inaugurated in January 2021.

Factoring in the federal government’s reckless inflationary actions and the current international energy shortages, the Joint Economic Committee estimated that the average American household will shoulder a burden of more than $6,800 in inflationary pressure over just the next year, assuming prices do not increase further.

The first policy decision cited was the disastrous American Rescue Plan, passed in March 2021. Over $1.9 trillion of borrowed money was thrown into an already overheated economy, fueling the conflagration of inflation we are experiencing today.

Second, the excessive monetary response to the pandemic continued to flood the economy with cheap credit well past the point of necessity. Afraid of letting the markets take the reins, the Federal Reserve pressed the gas pedal on consumer demand by keeping interest rates near 0%.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/06/24/sen-mike-lees-report-offers-scathing-critique-of-bidens-leftist-economic-policies/

Judge grants temporary restraining order, blocking Utah's abortion ban

SALT LAKE CITY — A judge has granted a restraining order that will temporarily block Utah's abortion "trigger law" for 14 days.

3rd District Court Judge Andrew Stone scheduled a hearing Monday afternoon to consider a request from Planned Parenthood of Utah and the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah for an emergency injunction to block the law from being enforced.

After hearing from attorneys from Planned Parenthood of Utah and the Utah Attorney General's Office, Judge Stone granted the temporary restraining order — effective immediately and lasting 14 days.

"The immediate effects that will occur outweigh any policy issues of the state," Judge Stone says.

The judge acknowledges Utah is in new territory when it comes to the law (this is new to the state). @fox13 #utpol #Utah.....

https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/judge-sets-emergency-hearing-in-lawsuit-over-utahs-abortion-trigger-law

NATIONAL & WORLD

Mark Alexander: Three Historic SCOTUS Decisions on Liberty and Life

Democrats have not been this angry since Republicans freed their slaves, and those protesting for “women’s rights” today couldn’t define a woman yesterday.

There were three SCOTUS decisions last week — one on First Amendment religious freedom, one on the affirmation of Second Amendment freedom, and one on restoring protection for the most vulnerable and precious among us, babies before birth.

For those decisions, we owe a debt of gratitude to Sen. Mitch McConnell and former President Donald Trump, who paved the path to these decisions.

McConnell stood fast in 2016, refusing to allow Barack Obama’s leftist nominee, Merrick Garland, to go forward. With Garland now Joe Biden’s attorney general, we get a clear picture of how unqualified he was as a jurist.

For his part, Trump, as promised, nominated three of the nine Supreme Court members, which decisively moved the Court toward those who correctly advocate constitutional Rule of Law versus those who arrogantly and errantly advocate for the rule of men.

On the first decision, as Doug Andrews noted, “The High Court ruled in favor of religious freedom and school choice.” In a case that challenged the State of Maine from withholding funds from schools with religious curriculums, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote: “[The state] requires rural communities without public secondary schools to either sign contracts with nearby public schools or to pay tuition at a private school chosen by parents that is a 'nonsectarian school in accordance with the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.’” Roberts wrote in the majority opinion that while “a state need not subsidize private education,” “once a state decides to do so, it cannot disqualify some private schools solely because they are religious.”I met with faith-based school leaders a day later, and they indicated the decision could have far-reaching implications for funding of private and charter schools nationwide.

https://patriotpost.us/alexander/89356-three-historic-scotus-decisions-on-liberty-and-life-2022-06-27

Federal Judge Orders Biden Administration to Continue Title 42

On May 20, a federal judge paused President Biden’s plans to resume permitting migrants and asylum-seekers to enter the United States by ending a Trump-era rule known as Title 42. Under the rule, noncitizens stopped at or near the border without proper travel documents are expelled pending a hearing on their case, often requiring them to wait in Mexico or Canada. The Title 42 rule has been enforced for two years, during which time more than 1.8 million people have been required to remain outside the U.S.

When the Biden administration began the process of ending the Title 42 rule in April, several states sued to halt the termination, arguing the new rule ending the program failed to comply with the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). In that May 20 ruling, Judge Robert Summerhays of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana agreed with the plaintiff states and issued a preliminary injunction preventing the termination of Title 42 until the final ruling in the case. The Department of Justice has pledged to appeal the injunction.

https://www.lawfareblog.com/federal-judge-orders-biden-administration-continue-title-42

Biden’s Scheme to Rig the 2022 Midterms

“More than 1 million voters switch to GOP in warning for Dems,” blares the Associated Press headline. The story then goes on to describe, in delicious detail, how a political shift is taking place across the country and especially in the suburbs.

To this we say: It’s about damned time.

But anyone who thinks the Biden administration is just going to sit back and take their midterm shellacking in November is sorely mistaken. Between now and then, the people who brought us the 2020 election fiasco will do everything they can to rig the electoral process in their favor. As The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway writes:......

President Biden really does not want the public to know about his federal takeover of election administration. Dozens of members of Congress have repeatedly asked for details, to no avail. Good government groups, members of the media, and private citizens have filed requests under the Freedom of Information Act. Not a single one has been responded to. All signs indicate a concerted effort to keep the public in the dark until at least after the November midterm elections.

https://patriotpost.us/articles/89362-bidens-scheme-to-rig-the-2022-midterms-2022-06-27

The Inconvenient Truth About COVID-19 Relief Scandals

Raise your hand if you’re surprised that the trillions of dollars spent on COVID-19 relief gave way to billions of dollars in government waste, fraud and abuses. I’m not, but based on recent reporting, you might think this type of carelessness with taxpayers’ money has never before happened. Sadly, such waste and fraud are normal byproducts of most government programs.

Too much focus on waste and fraud misses a more important problem: Lots of the COVID-19 spending that doesn’t qualify as wasteful or fraudulent was nonetheless misspent.

When the pandemic hit the United States in March 2020, people all over the country panicked. Everyone seemed to agree that the right thing to do was pump the nation full of as much money as possible, as fast as possible. As a result, nearly everyone—married, unmarried, employed, unemployed, through businesses small and large—got cash through the $2 trillion CARES Act.

Some people did raise the potential for fraud. We were told that there was no time to put in place measures sufficient to prevent it. However, the CARES Act did create an oversight mechanism called the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee. The committee had a difficult task due to the enormous size of the relief bill, a hardship compounded by the ....

https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/06/26/the-inconvenient-truth-about-covid-19-relief-scandals/

From Airbnb to Zillow, You Subsidize Abortion When You Patronize These Companies

At the end of last summer, as the Texas heartbeat bill took effect, corporations began to assure their affected employees that travel expenses incurred while procuring abortions would be covered. This trend accelerated after the May leak of the draft SCOTUS opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson. Now, you get to pay an abortion subsidy “tax” every time you shop for many goods and services.

I’ve been irked since the ’90s, when Big PR decided consumers preferred to spend their money at companies that undertook “social responsibility.” Not me — I’d rather pay five bucks less for that dress than bask in the virtuous glow of knowing I’d been coerced into funding the purchase and planting of a sapling or the rehabilitation of a gimpy sea turtle, or whatever. When I want to shop, I want to shop; when I want to donate to charity, I want to donate to a charity that I choose. Why should corporations force me to subsidize their favorite woke causes every time I do business with them?

But after the Dobbs decision, companies are in a lather to promote abortion — and consequently, there’s an employee abortion-travel premium built into their pricing.

https://pjmedia.com/culture/athena-thorne/2022/06/26/from-airbnb-to-zillow-you-subsidize-abortion-when-you-patronize-these-companies-n1608175

One Uvalde Responder Showed What Real Masculinity Is

It was the last conversation they would ever have. On May 24, sometime between 11:44 a.m. and 12:50 p.m., 44-year-old Eva Mireles called her husband, Ruben Ruiz, and told him “she had been shot and was dying,” in the words of Texas Department of Public Safety Director Colonel Steven McCraw, who testified at a Texas Senate hearing on June 21. No one knows what else passed in that last, private moment between husband and wife—were there tears? Did he say, “I love you?” Did they recall their favorite memory?—and it’s best to leave it that way.

“And what happened to him, is he tried to move forward into the hallway,” narrated McCraw. “He was detained, and they took his gun away from him and escorted him off the scene.”

https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/06/26/one-uvalde-responder-showed-what-real-masculinity-is/

Devastating Updates From Uvalde

The horrific shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, is the stuff of nightmares. The shooter was able to breech the school through an unlocked back door and carry out his evil intentions on 19 defenseless children and two teachers. The heartache and deep anger that accompanies such evil acts is almost impossible to bear because, even though the evildoer is dead, the devastation he left in his wake cannot be undone.

Sadly, his actions are not the only ones that need to be addressed.

The Uvalde Police Department’s actions were under scrupulous review after several details emerged about the active shooter situation. The police station is not far away from the school, and yet the shooter was permitted to massacre his victims over the course.....

https://patriotpost.us/articles/89363-devastating-updates-from-uvalde-2022-06-27

SCOTUS & ROE FILE

National Security News

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1. RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JUNE 26 (PUTIN'S WAR)

2. Paralysis in Moscow: Why Putin persists with established strategy, accepting test of endurance

3. Russia’s “Demonstration Army” Is a Red Flag for U.S. Security Force Assistance

4. Obese Russian general, 67, called up to fight in Ukraine as Putin 'scrapes the barrel'

5. Russia will soon exhaust its combat capabilities, Western assessments predict

6. U.S. Special Forces and CIA Working to Get Ukraine Weapons

7. U.S. Reverses East Asia Withdrawal Plan (from the archives in 1995)

8. Putin's Next Ukraine Disaster: The Russian Army Is Running Out of Ammo

9. Concerns that India is ‘back door’ into Europe for Russian oil

10. Putin's Inner Circle Plotting Coup, Former CIA Official Says: 'It'll Happen All Of A Sudden And He'll Be Dead'

11. Russia's 'Shadow Mobilization' Accelerates With New Ethnic Units From The North Caucasus

12. U.S. Foreign Policy Restraint Doesn't Mean Dumping Ukraine

13. Amid deepening divisions, US no longer seen as beacon of light around the world

14. How drones will transform battlefield medicine – and save lives

15. Five things to watch for at this week’s NATO meeting

16. The Other Big Lessons That the U.S. Army Should Learn From Ukraine

17. Time Is Not on Kyiv’s Side: Training, Weapons, and Attrition in Ukraine by Andrew Milburn

18. Ukraine has the HIMARS and is putting them to use

19. G-7 leaders to commit to Ukraine, US sending anti-air system

20. Here is what foreign-policy experts are discussing ahead of the G7 meeting.

21. G-7 leaders confer with Zelenskyy, prep new aid for Ukraine

22. Japan Is Getting Real on Security After Ukraine

23. Is US playing chicken with China in Taiwan Strait?

24. US steps up airfield construction on Tinian

Ukraine Conflict Updates

by The Institute for the Study of War

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Key Takeaways:

Russian forces conducted a missile strike against Kyiv for the first time since April 29, likely to coincide with the ongoing G7 leadership summit.
Russian Colonel-General Gennday Zhidko has likely taken over the role of theatre commander of operations in Ukraine.
Russian forces continued attacks against the southern outskirts of Lysychansk and consolidated control of Severodonetsk and surrounding settlements.
Russian forces are conducting operations to the east of Bakhmut to maintain control of the T1302 Bakhmut-Lysychansk highway.
Russian forces conducted unsuccessful ground assaults to the northwest of Slovyansk.
Russian forces intensified artillery strikes against Ukrainian positions along the Southern Axis.
Russian occupation authorities are escalating measures to stem Ukrainian partisan activity in occupied areas through increased filtration measures and the abduction of civilians

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Thought & Opinion

The Return To Constitutionalism Is Hidden In Plain Sight

The Supreme Court has just released two monumental decisions. Predictable responses have ensued from the expected interested parties. And the widely publicized legal analysis goes something like this

Bruen overturned New York’s century-old Sullivan Law. The Court held that the Second Amendment requires that states must allow law-abiding citizens to carry firearms, with the possible exception of courthouses and other “sensitive” locations. High population density does not make Manhattan a sensitive location. Thus, New York can ban either open or concealed carry, but not both. And New York (and DC, HI, MD, MA, NJ, etc.) cannot demand that a citizen demonstrate “proper cause.” Carrying arms is a right, not a privilege.

Dobbs overturned Roe v Wade. Basically, there is no right to abortion in the Constitution. Never was. It’s an issue for the states to handle.

Beyond these bare declarations of final conclusions lies a cornucopia of incredibly important legal foundations. And those foundations may, once and for all (near future) time, severely restrict the various federal District Courts of Appeals from twisting into pretzels to avoid the plain meaning of the Constitution. The first is a direct slap in the face of the Ninth Circus, the Amber Alert poster child for Missing Legal Reasoning.

Leftist Courts (yes, Justice Roberts, they do exist…) typically do a legal two-step dance to get to the decisions they want. First, (see McDougall v. County of Ventura) they happily admit that the particular law is contrary to the Constitution. Then, contrary to Heller, they adopt a second step that “balances” the interests of the state against the rights of the citizen. This balancing act is infinitely malleable and provides no prior standard for what the state can and cannot do. In short, it becomes a way for tyrants to “pass legal muster.” Bruen shuts this door:

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/06/the_return_to_constitutionalism_is_hidden_in_plain_sight.html#.YrlrwCIxVEI.twitter

Experimental Wargaming at the Tactical Level: An Example

Examples of wargaming at the tactical level are scarce in the military literature and army manuals (Hodge, 2012). Courses of action are tested at the strategic and operational level using a paradigm based on a three-legged stool for “What If” analysis: computer simulation, experimentation, and wargaming (Alberts & Hayes, 2002). The legs of the stool represent different approaches to What If analysis that are useful in different situations. Unfortunately, this paradigm might become limiting as the legs turn into silos. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that tactical wargaming is feasible by crossing the barriers between simulation, wargaming and experimentation. Fair warning: this demonstration involves dice despite objections to their use in military wargaming (Guyer, Rovzar, & Sprang, 2021).

https://smallwarsjournal.com/index.php/jrnl/art/experimental-wargaming-tactical-level-example

A First Circuit Decision and the Future of Telephone Pole Camera Surveillance

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) agents suspected that Nia Moore-Bush was involved in illegal drug and firearm sales. So, without obtaining a warrant, they mounted a sophisticated camera on a telephone pole and surveilled her Massachusetts home for eight months in 2017. The camera recorded the front part of Moore-Bush’s house and yard and her full driveway, day and night. It could zoom in to capture facial expressions, small objects in a person’s hands, details on clothing, license plates, and more. Over the course of eight months, it captured her comings, goings, guests, and activities in the front curtilage of the residence, which ranged from the mundane to the personal to the potentially incriminating. And ultimately, it helped law enforcement make their arrest.

Moore-Bush’s motion to suppress this....

https://www.lawfareblog.com/first-circuit-decision-and-future-telephone-pole-camera-surveillance

Education

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