The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) blocked a sex discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart which was sought by hungry trial attorneys who make a killing off of class action law suits. As reported by GOPUSA and the AP: "The justices all agreed that the lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. could not proceed as a class action in its current form, reversing a decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. By a 5-4 vote along ideological lines, the court said there were too many women in too many jobs at Wal-Mart to wrap into one lawsuit." Now, instead of a lawsuit claiming to represent all 1.6 million women employed by Wal-Mart, the few women who have claimed job discrimination may pursue their claims on their own. And once again the 9th Circuit Court has been reverses. Action by the US Congress should be taken to impeach the over zealous justices on the 9th Circuit Court or to exercise their option to abolish this radical court or to reduce the geographic area of its jurisdiction.
Senate Activity: No votes are scheduled in the US Senate. On Tuesday the Senate will take up an Oregon district judge nominee, followed by the nomination of CIA Director Leon Panetta to be Secretary of Defense. Panetta is expected to be confirmed without much, if any opposition. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has filed cloture on S. 782, the bill reauthorizing the Economic Development Act, and a cloture vote is scheduled for Tuesday afternoon. If cloture is not invoked on the EDA bill, there will be a cloture vote on the motion to proceed to S. 679, the nominations reform bill, which streamlines nominations and removes some low-level non-policy making positions like press secretaries from the confirmation process.
House Activity: The House Judiciary Committee has passed H.J. Res. 1, a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which is a vital step in our Cut, Cap, Balance debt limit solution. Rep. David Schweikert (R-AZ-05) has introduced H.R. 2167, the Private Company Flexibility and Growth Act, which unwinds red-tape and regulation on small businesses to allow for growth, more innovation, and most importantly—job creation.
Last Tuesday, the House passed H.R. 2055, the FY 2012 Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, which provides a spending level of $72.5 billion, $615 million (0.8%) less than last year. And on Thursday, the House passed H.R. 2112, the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, which provides a spending level of $17.25 billion, $2.7 billion (13.4%) less than last year.
On Wednesday, the House will potentially begin debate on H.R. 1249, the America Invents Act, and H.R. 2021, the Jobs and Energy Permitting Act. Also, on Wednesday or Thursday, the House is expected to begin debate on H.R. 2219, the Department of Defense Appropriations Act.
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DOJ Seeking to Hold Terrorist Trails in Kentucky: As more people in Kentucky become aware that the Justice Department is holding foreign fighters in Bowling Green with the intention to try them in civilian courts, more state and local officials are echoing Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell’s call to move these terror suspects to Guantanamo Bay and try them via a military commission.
The AP reported Friday, “Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear says he supports having two Iraqis face terrorism-related charges at Guantanamo Bay rather than in his state's courts. The Democrat's comments on Thursday come after some leading Kentucky Republicans, including his opponent in the November election, urged federal officials to send the two men to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.” And even Democrat Attorney General Jack Conway told the Louisville Courier-Journal, “I wouldn't want to see them in Kentucky . . . .”
Local officials in Bowling Green are similarly unenthusiastic at the idea of trying foreign terror suspects in Kentucky. On Friday night, the Bowling Green Daily News wrote, “Several local officials on Friday joined U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and other state figures in calling for two suspected Iraqi terrorists arrested in Bowling Green last month to be tried before a military commission at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, instead of in federal court in Kentucky. Previously, Gov. Steve Beshear, state Senate President David Williams, R-Burkesville, state House Speaker Greg Stumbo, D-Prestonsburg, and Republican candidate for Kentucky attorney general Todd P’Pool had voiced support for moving the suspects to Guantanamo Bay.”
According to the Bowling Green Daily News, state Sen. Mike Wilson (R-Bowling Green) said, “My number one concern is the safety of our local residents. . . . We must do what we can to ensure there will be no retaliatory attacks in Kentucky and moving these detainees to Guantanamo Bay will help lower that risk.” State Rep. Jim DeCesare (R-Bowling Green) said, “We need to put the safety of Bowling Green ahead of Washington politics on this issue. . . . Suspected terrorists should be considered enemy combatants and moved out of Kentucky immediately.” And Warren County Judge-Executive Mike Buchanon, head of the county government in Bowling Green, said, “The only thing I hear from citizens locally is that they would like to see this tried elsewhere. . . . Their concerns are safety, their security and disruption of their lives and the security and safety of the community.”
Residents were just as concerned. WBKO in Bowling Green reported last week, “When it comes to the two suspected terrorists arrested here in Bowling Green, Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell believes they should be tried far away from U.S. citizens. ‘These men don't belong in a courtroom in Kentucky,’ McConnell says. . . . In Bowling Green people agree. Ronnie Hopper of Bowling Green says, ‘We should send them to Guantanamo or worse.’
While Richard Wirekerson says, ‘If someone is trying to harm people from U.S. soil, they should be sent away. Period,’ and Amy Moore says, ‘I agree, people like that should be sent away.’”
As the Bowling Green Daily News editorialized last week, in a column titled, “McConnell is right about trials at Gitmo,” “[W]e believe that unlawful enemy combatants should be tried by a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay and not in the United States. We echo that call once again in the case of the two alleged terrorists who were recently arrested in Bowling Green, accused of trying to aide the insurgency against our troops in Iraq. . . . [H]olding the trial in Kentucky could potentially bring retaliatory attacks against jurors, judges and citizens in the city where the trial is held or the entire state. . . . These men came here with intentions to harm our soldiers in the field. We believe, like [Senator McConnell] does, that they are enemy combatants and should be treated as such. They shouldn’t be granted the same rights and privileges as U.S. citizens and ultimately must be tried at Guantanamo by a military tribunal.”
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