Bob Huggins says he never resigned as West Virginia’s men’s basketball coach following a drunken-driving arrest and wants his job back, according to a letter from his attorney to the university.
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The ruling Thursday on affirmative action, the rulings Friday for a web designer to refuse to design same-sex websites and the decision to strike down President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan will likely ignite calls by the left to expand or “pack” the composition of the High Court and impose terms for Supreme Court justices.
Calls to change the makeup of the Supreme Court have come from the left following appointments of more conservative justices under former President Trump. Though Congress has taken no concrete steps to dilute the power of justices appointed by Republican presidents, recent high profile rulings against the Biden administration have already inspired renewed calls to add more justices to the bench.
“People don’t have to live under constant fear of the Supreme Court. We can’t sit on our hands while these justices carry out the bidding of right wing organizations,” wrote Democratic Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith in a tweet Friday. “Expand the Court.”
Biden has not endorsed the idea of expanding the court, even after establishing a commission to study the proposal. He told MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace Thursday that expanding the court would “politicize it, maybe forever, in a way that’s not healthy.”
However, he also stated his view that the current court is “too young and too conservative,” and could harm the country with its rulings.
The left’s grievances against the makeup of the Supreme Court have roots in recent and distant history. Liberals accuse conservatives and Trump of “stealing” at least two seats and perhaps the Supreme Court, tipping the balance of power among the nine justices.
When Trump surprised Democrats with his 2016 election win, the stage was set to change the ideological makeup of the high court.
Senate Minority Leader — then Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) — had refused to allow former President Obama’s pick for the Supreme Court to even have a hearing in 2016 after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. Obama had nominated current Attorney General Merrick Garland to succeed Scalia, but McConnell and then-Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, blocked Garland.
McConnell argued that the Senate should not confirm a justice in a presidential election year.
After Trump won in 2016, McConnell then shepherded to confirmation Justice Neil Gorsuch to succeed Scalia in the spring of 2017. In fact, McConnell used the “nuclear option” in the Senate to avoid a Democratic filibuster of Gorsuch. Democrats first used the nuclear option to sidestep filibusters for nominations besides Supreme Court justices in 2013. However, McConnell then detonated the nuclear option, just to muscle Gorsuch onto the High Court. Otherwise, Democrats — still smarting from the Garland experience — could have filibustered Gorsuch’s nomination.
The Senate had never filibustered a Supreme Court nomination. However, the Senate did filibuster the promotion of late Justice Abe Fortas from Associate Justice to U.S. Chief Justice in the late 1960s.
McConnell again relied on the nuclear option to confirm Justice Brett Kavanaugh in the fall of 2018.
After the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, McConnell ignored what he said in 2016 about confirming justices in a presidential election year, and pushed through the confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett days before the 2020 presidential election.
So, liberals are livid over the composition of the Supreme Court and thus the rulings. That is why they are pushing for changing the fundamental makeup of the Court. The size of the Supreme Court is set by statute, not the Constitution, and theoretically could be expanded.
Liberals are still upset that the Supreme Court ruled in favor of former President George W. Bush over Democratic nominee Al Gore in the disputed election of 2000. Because of that, Bush was able to secure two seats on the Supreme Court: U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts in 2005 and Justice Samuel Alito in 2006.
The Judiciary Act of 1789 created a Supreme Court comprised of six justices. Congress added a seventh justice in 1807. The Court grew to nine justices in 1837.
The size of the Supreme Court has always been political. In 1863, Congress added a 10th seat to the Supreme Court for President Lincoln. Lincoln never filled that seat, but there was fear that President Johnson may alter the court. So, Congress shrunk the size of the Supreme Court to seven justices in 1867. Once Johnson was gone, Congress switched the number back to nine for President Grant.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried to “pack” the Court in 1937 — adding justices for every member of the Supreme Court who was over the age of 70. Thus, FDR hoped to install six of his own justices on the Court, but the public was opposed, and the Senate Judiciary Committee emphatically torpedoed the plan.
A former crime boss convicted of ordering several murders is appealing for “compassionate release” from federal prison after serving more than 31 years behind bars. Vittorio “Little Vic” Amuso’s defense attorneys noted in a court filing last week that the 88-year-old’s “advanced age and severe chronic medical conditions, along with his long imprisonment and perfect … Continue reading Former Mafia boss, 88, convicted of ordering several murders pleads for 'compassionate release' from prison
LSU women’s basketball head coach Kim Mulkey says she hasn’t spoken to Brittney Griner since Griner was released from a Russian prison and returned to the United States. However, Mulkey did have a message for her former Baylor Bears players. “I’m glad she’s back,” Mulkey said during her Final Four news conference, per The Associated … Continue reading LSU's Kim Mulkey has not contacted Brittney Griner since Griner's release from Russian prison
The office manager for a Northern California police union allegedly imported illegal synthetic opioids from India and other countries and at least once used her work computer and address and the union’s UPS account to ship the drugs within the country, federal prosecutors said.
Joanne Marian Segovia, executive director of the San Jose Police Officers’ Association, was charged with attempting to unlawfully import valeryl fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, federal prosecutors said in a statement Wednesday. If convicted, she faces up to 20 years in prison.
Starting in 2015, Segovia had at least 61 drug shipments mailed to her San Jose home from India, Hong Kong, Hungary and Singapore with manifests that listed their contents as “wedding party favors,” “gift makeup,” “chocolate and sweets” and “food supplement,” according to a federal criminal complaint unsealed Tuesday.
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It was not immediately known if Segovia, 64, has an attorney who can speak on her behalf.
Tom Saggau, a spokesperson for the police union in San Jose, said Segovia, a civilian, has worked for the union since 2003, planning funerals for officers who die in the line of duty, being the liaison between the department and the officers’ families and organizing office festivities and fundraisers.
He said that federal officials informed the union last Friday that Segovia was under investigation and that no one else at the union was involved or knew about Segovia’s alleged acts.
The revelation shocked her colleagues, Saggau said.
“We didn’t have any reason to suspect her,” he said, adding that the union’s board of directors has pledged to fully support the federal investigation.
Federal prosecutors said that in 2019, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers intercepted a parcel being sent to her home address that contained $5,000 worth of Tramadol, a synthetic opioid, and sent her a letter telling her they were seizing the pills. The next year, the CBP again intercepted a shipment of Tramadol valued at $700 and sent her a seizure letter, court records showed.
But federal officials didn’t start investigating Segovia until last year when investigators found her name and home address on the cellphone of a suspected drug dealer who is part of a network that ships controlled substances made in India to the San Francisco Bay Area, according to the complaint. That drug trafficking network has distributed hundreds of thousands of pills in 48 states, federal prosecutors said.
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Segovia used WhatsApp messaging service and her personal and office computers to order thousands of opioid tablets and other pills to her home and agreed to distribute the drugs elsewhere in the United States, prosecutors said.
On at least one occasion in 2021, Segovia shipped the illicit drugs to a North Carolina address by using the police union’s UPS account, prosecutors said. That address is linked to at least five illicit drug seizures, they said.
Investigators found hundreds of photographs in a WhatsApp chat on Segovai’s cellphone, including an image of the UPS shipping slip and another one of a computer screen showing a PayPal payment to an Indian name and Segovia’s police union business cards under it.
“Based on my training and experience, I know that shippers of controlled substances often send receipts and tracking numbers as proof that they in fact sent a package. I believe that the receipt provided by SEGOVIA was offered by her as proof that she sent a package to the North Carolina addressee,” David Vargas, a special agent for Homeland Security Investigation, wrote in the affidavit.
According to the complaint, Segovia continued to order controlled substances even after being interviewed by federal investigators in February. On March 13, federal agents seized a parcel in Kentucky, containing valeryl fentanyl, addressed to Segovia. The package allegedly originated from China three days earlier and declared its contents as a “clock,” prosecutors said.
Skeletal remains found in a severely dry Lake Mead near Las Vegas last year have been identified as those of a man who vanished from the area in the 1970s, officials say. Donald P. Smith of North Las Vegas was 39 at the time of his reported drowning in April 1974, according to a news … Continue reading Human remains found in Lake Mead are from Las Vegas man who drowned in 1974, officials say
A murder suspect is back behind bars in Georgia Tuesday night after an accidental release from jail in November left him on the run for months. Kaiser Suggs, who is facing an array of charges in Fulton County, was booked at the Clayton County Jail on aggravated assault charges, the Clayton County Sheriff’s Office reported. … Continue reading Georgia murder suspect accidentally released from jail months ago turns self in
The charred remains of the Formula One car Romain Grosjean crashed at the 2020 Bahrain Grand Prix will go on display at a new exhibition in Madrid next month.
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FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem, head of motorsport’s governing body, has stepped back from overseeing Formula One in a day-to-day capacity.
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A video has captured a group of Good Samaritans rescuing a woman from a car that burst into flames following a crash on the Long Island Expressway in New York.
The Suffolk County Police Department told Fox5 NY the single-vehicle crash happened in Holtsville around noon on Monday.
Police say Susan Denise, a 56-year-old from Farmingville, was driving a 2022 Jeep Liberty when she struck the center median and the vehicle flipped onto its side, catching fire.
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Video taken from the scene by Todd Miranda shows several people dragging away the woman from the burning wreckage.
One man is seen holding up his arm in an attempt to slow down oncoming traffic.
Denise was taken to a local hospital by police helicopter, where she was listed in critical condition, according to Fox5 NY.