Trump's Supreme Court pick will decide critical tech issues for decades – so what are the views of the contenders? On Monday, President Trump is expected to announce his pick for the next US Supreme Court Justice – a decision that will come with huge implications for technology and privacy. Given the current make-up of the court – and the fact that departing Justice Kennedy was often the swing vote in Supreme Court decisions – whoever is …
Judge Gorsuch actually voted against the recent police cell phone tracking decision, because he felt it didn't go far enough in protecting cell phone owners. So hopefully we will see a bit more of that in the new nominee.
(Mine is not the black judicial robe on the hook over there.)
Yes, while actively striking down workers' rights. Corporations are taking, over the administration - just look at the ridiculous opposition against breast feeding because it impacts some big corp profits.
But may also because people like Trump believe god create the female breast just as a toy for men...
Workers rights? You mean the right of unions to steal from workers without them being able to opt out.
Union rights =/= workers rights no matter how much some people may wish they were.
New guy seems pretty good on the 1st and 2nd, meh on the 4th. Can't have everything I suppose.
While the above statement is logically true, a quick look into the history books tells us that worker unionization is strongly correlated to worker's rights. Before unionization, workers had almost no power to influence their own working conditions and this correlation is still very strong today.
So in the big picture of things, union rights == worker's rights.
Has corporate american learned to ride Trump, or have the GOP decided not to fight the abortion fight before the mid-terms?
So far as I can see anything that comes out of the current administration is opportunism, so I think the abortion fight allowed corporate america a way in to buy their own seat in the court.
They won't change abortion laws - even the most conservative Republican usually has a mistress who may need one to cover up. Sure, the wealthy one can send them abroad, but it's more complicated.
Moreover, it's something that they can promise at each poll to get votes. If they no longer can show that bait, voters will think about other matters, and that can become dangerous.
The biggest issue with democracy is it gives people the tools to kill itself - extreme partisanship can do it, for example. The partitioning of powers was designed to balance them and allow checks - partisanship and collusion of course kill that design, and there's little you can do when people get blind and can't see the abyss they're opening.
Remember than nothing and no one can save you from yourself....
Well you got the one you least wanted. No surprise was it?
One thing I disliked about the article was the casual way you let your anti Pres Trump bias cloud your judgement. In the second last paragraph you wrote "....because she's a woman and it's fair to say Trump seems to have a big problem with women in positions of power." Which is b******t.
So far he's appointed:
Nikki Haley - UN Ambassador
Ivanka Trump - Special Advisor to the President
KellyAnne Conway - Counselor to the President
Sarah Sanders - WH Press Secretary
Gina Hasel - CIA Director
Elaine Chao - Transportation Secretary
Betsy Davos - Education Secretary
Kirstjen Nielsen - Homeland and Security Secretary
Linda McMahon - Small Business Administrator
Mercedes Schalpp - WH Commuincation Director
For a guy that "doesn't like women in positions of power" he's not doing very well at keeping them out of positions of power is he?
Maybe you should think harder about your casual bias in future.
Don't forget that 66m Americans voted for Pres Trump and many more folk around the world think he's doing a pretty good job getting his country back on track. In contrast, be honest, we don't exactly have much to boast about here in the UK do we?
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