Reader’s Links for June 29, 2024

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Each day at just after midnight Eastern, a post like this one is created for contributors and readers of this site to upload news links and video links on the issues that concern this site. Most notably, Islam and its effects on Classical Civilization, and various forms of leftism from Soviet era communism, to postmodernism and all the flavours of galloping statism and totalitarianism such as Nazism and Fascism which are increasingly snuffing out the classical liberalism which created our near, miraculous civilization the West has been building since the time of Socrates.

This document was written around the time this site was created, for those who wish to understand what this site is about. And while our understanding of the world and events has grown since then, the basic ideas remain sound and true to the purpose.

So please post all links, thoughts and ideas that you feel will benefit the readers of this site to the comments under this post each day. And thank you all for your contributions.

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  2. WASHINGTON, DC – Federal agencies suffered a massive blow to their regulatory power on Friday, when the Supreme Court overruled Chevron, a case under which federal courts have deferred for decades to agency interpretations of the laws they enforce.

    As Chief Justice John Roberts began in his majority opinion, if a court determines that a federal law “is silent or ambiguous with respect to the specific issue at hand, the court must, at Chevron’s second step, defer to the agency’s interpretation if it is based on a permissible construction of the statute.”

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/06/28/supreme-court-deals-massive-blow-federal-agencies-overrules-chevron-deference-loper-bright/

  3. The Texas Supreme Court upheld on Friday the state’s ban on puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and other so-called gender-affirming care for children.

    In an 8-1 ruling, the state’s Supreme Court rejected arguments from parents who claimed that a Texas law that went into effect in September 2023, went against their right to decide whether or not to seek out medical care for their children.

    The Supreme Court wrote that lawmakers had “made a permissible, rational policy choice.”

    “We conclude the Legislature made a permissible, rational policy choice to limit the types of available medical procedures for children, particularly in light of the relative nascency of both gender dysphoria and its various modes of treatment and the Legislature’s express constitutional authority to regulate the practice of medicine,” the ruling says.

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/06/28/texas-supreme-court-upholds-states-ban-sex-changes-minors/

  4. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson sided with conservatives in a crucial decision Friday that could see many prosecutions of participants in the January 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol overturned, or dropped.
    As Breitbart News reported, the 6-3 majority decision in the Fischer case held that the Department of Justice had taken too broad a view of 1512(c)(2), a law that prohibits destruction of evidence but was not intended for protests.

    Unless the defendants could be shown to have interfered with the delivery of documents to Congress, they could not be prosecuted under the statute — as hundreds of people, including former President Donald Trump, have been.

    Justice Jackson, a left-wing judge nominated by President Joe Biden, wrote a concurring opinion in which she argued that the law could not be stretched for “patriotic” reason:

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/06/28/ketanji-brown-jackson-sides-with-conservatives-in-jan-6-case/

  5. The Congress of Argentina passed President Javier Milei’s omnibus bill on Thursday evening, paving the way for sweeping reforms to the Argentine state.

    Thursday’s Congressional session, which lasted more than 12 hours, saw the members of Argentina’s Chamber of Deputies cast the final vote required on the bill’s final details after the Argentine Senate voted to approve the bill on June 12. The bill had the support of 147 deputies against 107 who voted to reject it. Two lawmakers abstained from voting.

    The bill, titled the “Law of Bases and Starting Points for the Freedom of Argentines,” was first presented by Milei roughly two weeks after he took office on December 10 and contains reforms and deregulation measures across a wide variety of sectors. The bill also codifies the contents of the Necessity and Urgency Decree (DNU) executive order signed by Milei in December, which undid more than 350 socialist policies.

    The bill’s title is a reference to a book written by Argentine politician and diplomat Juan Bautista Alberdi in 1852 that saw many of its contents eventually incorporated into Argentina’s original 1853 constitution.

    https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2024/06/28/big-victory-for-javier-milei-argentine-congress-passes-massive-reform-bill/

  6. Canada’s Globe and Mail dropped another bombshell on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s faltering government on Thursday, revealing that Trudeau’s former Defense Minister Harjit Sajjan prioritized rescuing Afghan Sikhs ahead of Canadians after the Taliban stormed Kabul in August 2021.

    According to three military sources who spoke with the Globe and Mail, Sajjan intervened after the Canadian military decided its top “operational priority” was to rescue Canadian citizens from the chaos unleashed by U.S. President Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.

    The original priority list of Canadian special operators like Joint Task Force 2 (JTF-2) was to go after Canadian citizens and Afghans who worked directly for the Canadian government before the Taliban captured Kabul. “Vulnerable groups, such as feminists, human-rights activists, minorities and LGBTQ people” came next, and then anyone else who could be saved.

    Sajjan stepped in and moved a group of 225 Afghan Sikhs to the top of the list and actively participated in their rescue, relaying “local information and other details about the Sikhs” to Canadian special operations forces.

    “The way it was presented to us at first was: If we can do this and pay attention to it, great, but not stopping doing everything else. But a day or so later, it came back to us as a firm order. Our leadership was furious. They were very upset,” one special forces officer said of the order to rescue Sikhs first.

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/06/28/report-trudeau-admin-prioritized-rescuing-afghan-sikhs-over-canadians-from-taliban-failed-both/

  7. The Supreme Court ruled Friday that the government cannot prosecute January 6 defendants under 1512(c)(2), the “Enron” statute, for generally obstructing “an official proceeding” unless they interfered with objects or documents.

    The bombshell decision could result in hundreds of convictions against non-violent January 6 defendants being overturned — and could result in at least some charges being dropped against President Donald Trump as well.

    1512(c)(2) was passed after the Enron scandal, when it was discovered that federal law had a loophole: it was illegal to instruct others to destroy evidence, but not illegal to destroy evidence oneself. Consequently, Congress passed a law prohibiting tampering with witnesses or evidence that is to be used in an “official proceeding.” The Department of Justice used that law to prosecute participants in the Capitol riot based on the idea that they had “obstructed” an official proceeding — i.e. the certification of the Electoral College vote in the 2020 presidential election. But critics said that 1512(c)(2) had never been intended to apply to protests or other First Amendment-connected activities.

    In a 6-3 decision, with the majority opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts, the Court overruled the (heavily anti-Trump) D.C. Circuit and said that 1512(c)(2) could not be used as broadly as the Department of Justice had done.

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/06/28/supreme-court-says-government-cannot-abuse-enron-law-to-prosecute-jan-6-defendants-including-trump/

  8. The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Friday that it is not “cruel and unusual punishment” under the Eighth Amendment to remove homeless people from encampments and to imprison them for repeatedly violating anti-camping laws.

    The case, City of Grants Pass v. Johnson, was watched closely by civic leaders nationwide who are struggling to deal with homelessness — especially in Los Angeles, California, where the homeless population has continued to grow.

    Justice Neil Gorsuch, writing for the majority, expressed sympathy for the homeless, and acknowledged that the issue is complex and difficult to resolve. But he noted that laws against encampments were “commonplace,” and said that the Eighth Amendment was a “poor foundation” on which to mount a challenge against them. The right forum in which to debate responses to homelessness was in democratically-elected governments, not in the federal courts.

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/06/28/supreme-court-its-not-cruel-and-unusual-punishment-to-clear-homeless-encampments/

  11. After IDF soldiers discovered Hezbollah terrorists entering a military structure in the Houla area of southern Lebanon, the Israel Air Force attacked the building, the IDF reported on Saturday afternoon.

    The IAF also targeted another Hezbollah structure in southern Lebanon, the military stated, adding that an additional Hezbollah terrorist in the Houla area was eliminated.

    https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-808246

  12. Iran smuggled two planes out of Lithuania, the country’s public broadcaster announced on Thursday. The planes were due to fly to Sri Lanka and the Philippines.

    The two Airbus A340s, leased by the Gambian company Macka Invest, were due to fly to South Asia in February but reportedly ended up in Iran. The aircraft’s transponders—which enable them to be identified on air traffic control radars—were turned off upon entry into Iranian airspace. The aviation data site ch-aviation reported that one plane had landed at Mehrabad airport in Tehran and another at Konarak airport in Chabahar.

    https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-807265

  13. I think in the recent past on here, there was talk of the Pope not following Roman Church doctrine. If it was about his involvement with the Islamic world and its faith leaders paying their respects to the Pope, like his predecessor John Paul 2; well here is a quote from the Roman Church doctrine – the catechism:

    841 The Church’s relationship with the Muslims. “The plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place amongst whom are the Muslims; these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind’s judge on the last day.”330

    https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P29.HTM

      • The Pope is actually Soros boss. There isn’t a leader in the world that doesn’t have his permission, including merchant leaders.

        Wish I could find the quote of the Papacy explaining it sets up kings and disposes of them as it wishes.

        Rev 18 shows her relationship with the merchants of the world. “The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her,…”

        She controls the world through secret societies since 1798 and USA will soon enforce her dogmas on the world.