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Kennedy is also one of the "Felonious Five" who installed George W. Bush in the White House. They got the nickname "Felonious Five" from Vincent Bugliosi, the prosecutor who put Charles Manson away for life. See his essay None Dare Call It Treason in The Nation, January 18, 2001. It begins: In the December 12 [2000] ruling by the US Supreme Court handing the election to George Bush, the Court committed the unpardonable sin of being a knowing surrogate for the Republican Party instead of being an impartial arbiter of the law. If you doubt this, try to imagine Al Gore's and George Bush's roles being reversed and ask yourself if you can conceive of Justice Antonin Scalia and his four conservative brethren issuing an emergency order on December 9 stopping the counting of ballots (at a time when Gore's lead had shrunk to 154 votes) on the grounds that if it continued, Gore could suffer "irreparable harm," and then subsequently, on December 12, bequeathing the election to Gore on equal protection grounds. If you can, then I suppose you can also imagine seeing a man jumping away from his own shadow, Frenchmen no longer drinking wine. This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 63%. (I'm a bot) Donald Trump spoke those words to Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, shortly after ending his first speech to a joint session of Congress in February of 2017 according to a New York Times report that was published on Thursday evening. The connections between Kennedy and Trump, per the New York Times report are surprisingly deep, given the president's general lack of DC experience-and Trump and his allies exploited them to perfection, encouraging the swing justice to retire before the 2018 midterms, which could return control of the Senate back to Democrats. As this new report details, these ties coincided with "a quiet campaign" to ensure Kennedy's retirement and give Trump a chance to fill a spot on the Supreme Court.

Yet looming over him was fallout from a secret audio recording of a private conversation between Cagle and Clay Tippins, a former Republican primary rival who finished fourth in the May 22 gubernatorial primary. “Obviously, it was a private conversation that was supposed to be confidential,” Cagle said Saturday in an interview with The Times. “It doesn’t change the fact that I certainly said what I said, but it was in the context of a political discussion by which he wanted to have.” By pushing the bill, which Cagle said in the audio was “bad policy,” the Walton Family Foundation, an education policy super PAC “that was getting ready to put $3 million behind Hunter Hill,” backed out. “Politics is sometimes ... it has to be created in a way that builds consensus,” Cagle said during the grand opening of his Gainesville headquarters. “It’s good public policy and that is indicative of the overwhelming support in both the Senate and the House, among the Republican party and the fact that the governor signed it,” Cagle said. Absolutely.” Cagle said he wants voters to consider his record, to look at what he’s done for public education and educational choice over the years. “The record is a record that is pro-education. “I would like for him to have a good set of moral values, which I do think Casey does or I wouldn’t have voted for him, but I don’t expect him to be the pastor. I’m not looking to him for that.” Debbie Morrin, a Hall County resident, said she only cares about finding the right person for the job, and still thinks that person is Cagle. I wouldn’t vote for anybody else.” On whether or not Cagle has spoken to Tippins since the recording was released or whether he plans to, Cagle said: “No, no, no, no.

But thanks to a Supreme Court decision in 1977, he is forced to pay the union “agency fees,” feeding the coffers of an organization he wants nothing to do with. More than 5 million government workers in 22 states are currently forced to pay these unholy tithes to big government unions just to keep their jobs. According to the unions, if Janus wins, government functions will be completely crippled and public unions will be destroyed. Among other taxpayer-friendly reforms, the landmark law allowed public employees to opt out of their unions without risking their job, prohibited government from withholding union dues from paychecks, and required annual re-certification of all government unions. Contrary to frantic claims that education in Wisconsin would be devastated, Wisconsin now boasts the second-highest high school graduation rate in the country, and the number of advanced placement exams taken by high school students has increased 47 percent since 2010. Before the passage of Act 10, the state’s largest teachers union had almost 100,000 members. As of 2015, the union stood at just 36,074 active members. As it turns out, giving workers the freedom to leave a union results in steep declines in union membership as unwilling members vote with their feet. This is all possible while maintaining good public services and giving public employees the freedom to not join a union. If Mark Janus slays the AFSCME giant in the Supreme Court, the big government union bubble will deflate just as it did in Wisconsin.