It’s Friday, July 2nd, 2021…but before beginning, we present a trio of inextricably intertwined tales which evidence a government totally out of control: First, writing at Best of the Web, Jim Freeman relates the appalling history of…
“Chinese researchers directed the U.S. National Institutes of Health to delete gene sequences of early Covid-19 cases from a key scientific database, raising concerns that scientists studying the origin of the pandemic may lack access to key pieces of information. The NIH confirmed that it deleted the sequences after receiving a request from a Chinese researcher who had submitted them three months earlier. “Submitting investigators hold the rights to their data and can request withdrawal of the data,” the NIH said in a statement. (Pray tell what law requires the NIH to honor such a request?!?)
…The missing sequences are unlikely to change researchers’ current understanding of the early weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic in Wuhan. But Dr. [Jesse] Bloom said their removal sows doubts about China’s transparency in the continuing investigation into the origin of the pandemic…”
Welcome to Washington…
We can’t say if the NSA is chasing Tucker. What we CAN say is the federal government, from the White House, Capitol Hill and the Pentagon to the highest and lowest levels of the federal bureaucracy, is seeking to eradicate any dissent to the politically-correct goals of Black Lies Matter and #Wokeness.
They may not be coming for YOU today, but rest assured you’ll eventually be in their crosshairs.
Now, here’s The Gouge!
We lead off the month with a forward from George Lawlor, as the New York Post rep0rts a…
“A Manhattan federal judge dismissed a case against a reputed gang member in a shooting last year — because the suburban grand jury that indicted him wasn’t diverse enough. In a 36-page ruling, Judge Analisa Torres said defendant William “Ill Will” Scott “produced clear statistical evidence” that he was indicted by members of a grand jury pool in White Plains with an “underrepresentation of Black and Latinx individuals.”
Torres, who was nominated to the bench in 2013 by then-President Barack Obama, also said Scott had shown that the grand jury selection process “was susceptible to abuse.” “The Government has failed to meet its burden by coming forward with evidence rebutting the presumption that such underrepresentation was the result of purposeful discrimination,” she wrote Monday.
“Therefore, Defendant has established a violation of his Fifth Amendment right to a race-neutral jury selection process.”…”
For the record, here’s the text of the Fifth Amendment:
“No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.“
We know we’re just a sea lawyer rather than a JD, but we somehow missed the part where it says a gangbanger…or anyone else…has the right to a race-neutral jury selection process, a concept which in no uncertain terms predetermines a Caucasian incapable of fairly weighing the facts in a case involving a Black.
Then again, we’ve yet to find the mythical right to privacy emanating from a penumbra in the Constitution which issued from Harry Blackmun’s a*s guaranteeing a woman’s right to slaughter her unborn child.
In a related item of judges allowing their feelings to trump the Constitution and the rule of law, we learn Brett Kavanaugh is fast becoming part of the problem rather than the solution as the WSJ informs us the…
“…The issue split the high court on a 5-4 vote, with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh joining with the court’s three liberal justices to leave the moratorium in place. The court’s action came in a brief order. As is typical in emergency appeals, the court didn’t explain its reasoning.
Justice Kavanaugh issued a one-paragraph concurrence explaining his views, saying he believed the moratorium was unlawful but was willing to leave it in place for July. He said the moratorium would allow for “additional and more orderly distribution” of rental-assistance funds appropriated by Congress…”
Sorry, but Kavanaugh’s disregard for the law leaves inquiring Conservative minds wondering…
And since we’re on the subject of inquiring Conservative minds, here’s a quintet of items specially selected for same:
(1). Speaking of the highest court in the land, the WSJ‘s Kim Strassel suggests when a SCOTUS decision makes Sheldon “Whites Only” Whitehouse, Rhode Island’s most infamous beach clubber, unhappy, it’s a good sign.
Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:
Then there’s these from Speed…
…and Balls Cotton:
Finally, we’ll call it a wrap with yet another sordid story straight from the pages of The Crime Blotter, courtesy today of the unfortunate victim of an absolutely amoral person, as we’re told by FOX a…
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