Author: Tod Nace

Thanks to Justice Roberts and SCOTUS, churches in Nevada have more regulations than casinos.

In a 5 to 4 vote, Roberts sided with the four other liberal members to regulate Nevada churches.

Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley in Dayton, Nevada argued that the state was treating churches harsher than casinos, restaurants, and amusement parks. Those businesses have been limited to 50% of their fire-code capacities. Meanwhile, churches have been restricted to a flat 50 person limit.

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., Clarence Thomas, and Brett M. Kavanaugh wrote in the dissent that the distinction makes no sense.

“The Constitution guarantees the free exercise of religion,” he wrote. “It says nothing about the freedom to play craps or blackjack, to feed tokens into a slot machine or to engage in any other game of chance. But the governor of Nevada apparently has different priorities.”

“A public health emergency does not give governors and other public officials carte blanche to disregard the Constitution for as long as the medical problem persists,” Justice Alito wrote.

In a similar case, the court made the same ruling in May and Justice Alito sided with the majority. What concerned him, in this case, is that casinos are being treated differently than churches.

“That Nevada would discriminate in favor of the powerful gaming industry and its employees may not come as a surprise,” he wrote, “but this court’s willingness to allow such discrimination is disappointing.”

In a second dissent, Justice Neil M. Gorsuch said the case was simple.

“The world we inhabit today, with a pandemic upon us, poses unusual challenges,” he wrote. “But there is no world in which the Constitution permits Nevada to favor Caesars Palace over Calvary Chapel.”

Justice Kavanaugh wrote: “Nevada’s 50-person attendance cap on religious worship services puts praying at churches, synagogues, temples and mosques on worse footing than eating at restaurants, drinking at bars, gambling at casinos or biking at gyms,” he wrote. “In other words, Nevada is discriminating against religion.”

Conservative Trump supporter Jessie Jane Duff ripped Rep. Ocasio-Cortez over her congressional speech on the floor discussing her confrontation with Rep. Yoho.

Jessie was responding to Herschel Walker, who also blasted AOC.

Walker tweeted: “Sorry @AOC that @TedYoho called you out of your name, but your credibility is in question because you didn’t say a word when @RashidaTlaib called the president a motherf***ker.”

Jessie Jane Duff added: “@AOC acts offended and plays her ‘lady card’ after calling people like me a Russian asset, racist and Nazi.”

AOC has never held her tongue from vile words for those she dislikes.

Hard to have sympathy for Ms. Ocasio-Cortez as she acts demure after nonstop offensive name calling.

Ed Hines asked “Is she aware shes pissing off a United States Marine? I know shes not the brightest bulb in the pack but jeez!”

Jessie Jane Duff replied “She could care less for me let alone anyone who isn’t supporting her agenda.”

On Friday, Fox News reported that acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf blasted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for what he called “dangerous” comments after the California Democrat dubbed federal law enforcement protecting federal property in Portland “stormtroopers.”

“One, it’s disgusting, two it’s an assault on every federal or civilian or state and local law enforcement officer who has taken an oath to protect their communities, to protect, in our case, federal facilities, to do their jobs and I think it’s very very dangerous,” Wolf said on Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom.”

DHS had deployed federal law enforcement to protect federal property earlier this month after weeks of protests and riots in the wake of the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

Law enforcement officers have been attacked, doxed and possibly blinded by lasers wielded by rioters as they protect property such as the Hatfield federal courthouse.

But Trump’s administration has faced criticism for its handling of the riots, with Democrats and others accusing it of excessive use of force. Both DHS and Justice Department inspectors general opened investigations into their agencies’ conduct on Thursday.

Pelosi has been a vocal critic of the federal response, accusing “unidentified” officers of “kidnapping” protesters (a claim DHS denies). On Thursday she again branded law enforcement as “stormtroopers.”

“The use of stormtroopers under the guise of law and order is a tactic that is not appropriate to our country in any way,” she said.

Wolf, in response, said the statement was “absurd” and law enforcement was enforcing laws passed by members of Congress, such as Pelosi.

Legal scholar Jonathan Turley blasted the mainstream media for its “willful blindness” as the Trump-Russia collusion narrative falls apart.

Turley, who has been celebrated by folks on the Right ever since being a witness called by the Republicans during the House impeachment investigation into President Trump, delivered on Saturday a rebuke of journalists who he claims have not owned up to their flawed reporting over the past few years.

“The media has steadfastly refused to see what should be one of the biggest stories in decades: an administration’s targeting of an opposing party’s presidential campaign based on false and, in at least case, possibly criminally falsified evidence,” he tweeted.

“Of course, willful blindness has its advantages,” Turley added, referring to the legal concept of deliberately ignoring facts. “Virtually none of these journalists or experts have acknowledged that the collusion leaks were proven false. But then, in Washington, success often depends not on what you see but what you can unsee.”

Turley linked to an op-ed he wrote for The Hill in which he listed out declassified documents, testimony, and other disclosures that refute statements about the Russia collusion investigation.

This comes as U.S. Attorney John Durham is conducting a review, which last year morphed into a criminal inquiry, into misconduct during the Russia investigation, including leaks.

The House Intelligence Committee released dozens of witness interview transcripts in May showing several top intelligence, law enforcement, and national security officials from the Obama administration all denied seeing evidence of collusion, a much different story than what the media and Democrats were saying at the time. Chairman Adam Schiff long insisted there was “collusion in plain sight.”

Special counsel Robert Mueller, who concluded his two-year Russia investigation last year, determined that Russia interfered in the 2016 election in a “sweeping and systematic fashion” but “did not establish” any criminal conspiracy between the Russians and the Trump campaign.

Still, after Trump declared he received “total exoneration,” Mueller told lawmakers last year that his investigation, which also explored possible obstruction of justice, did not completely exonerate the president.

Senator Ted Cruz ripped Justice Roberts after he sided with liberal justices in a 5-4 decision that rejected a request from a Nevada church to block the state government’s attendance cap at services.

Cruz wrote:

“John Roberts has abandoned his oath. But, on the upside, maybe Nevada churches should set up craps tables? Then they could open?”

Senator Tom Cotton also sounded off, writing:

“John Roberts at his hearing: If the Constitution says that the little guy should win, the little guy’s going to win in court before me.”

“What happened to that judge?” Cotton asked.

“He didn’t mention his belief that casinos have more rights than churches.”

The Chicago Tribune reported that a sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court denied a rural Nevada church’s request late Friday to strike down as unconstitutional a 50-person cap on worship services as part of the state’s ongoing response to the coronavirus.

In a 5-4 decision, the high court refused to grant the request from the Christian church east of Reno to be subjected to the same COVID-19 restrictions in Nevada that allow casinos, restaurants and other businesses to operate at 50% of capacity with proper social distancing.

Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley argued that the hard cap on religious gatherings was an unconstitutional violation of its parishioners’ First Amendment rights to express and exercise their beliefs.

Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the liberal majority in denying the request without explanation.

Three justices wrote strongly worded dissenting opinions on behalf of the four conservatives who said they would have granted the injunctive relief while the court fully considers the merits of the case.

“That Nevada would discriminate in favor of the powerful gaming industry and its employees may not come as a surprise, but this Court’s willingness to allow such discrimination is disappointing,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote in a dissent joined by Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh.

“We have a duty to defend the Constitution, and even a public health emergency does not absolve us of that responsibility,” Alito said. “The Constitution guarantees the free exercise of religion. It says nothing about freedom to play craps or blackjack, to feed tokens into a slot machine or to engage in any other game of chance.”

Kavanaugh also wrote his own dissent, as did Justice Neil Gorsuch.

Fox News reported that an illegal immigrant caused a South Texas motorcycle crash, killing three men, in an incident that “should have never happened,” three members of the Thin Blue Line motorcycle club said Friday.

In an interview on “Fox & Friends,” member David Weed told host Brian Kilmeade that last Saturday started out like “any other day.” 25 of their members were en route to their annual foundation meeting near San Antonio when 28-year-old Ivan Robles Navejas, a Mexican national living in the U.S. illegally, allegedly plowed into the front of their group.

“It’s really [an] unfortunate tragedy that happened,” Armando Florido said. “We do ride in a formation that is staggered in order to keep us safer. But, this gentleman crossed the middle line and came straight on and hit the first bike. And, it was a domino effect with an explosion and it was a really sad scene to see.”

“This is something that should have never happened,” he told Kilmeade. “This is something that should have been taken care of on his first offense while he was trying to become a citizen of this country, this great country that we live in.”

“We are going to miss these guys. These were great gentlemen. These guys are the front liners, the guys that run in when everybody is running away. And, it’s really a heartbreaking event,” he added.

Killed in the crash were Jerry Harbour, of Houston, road name “Wings,” retired police detective Joseph Paglia of Chicago, and Michael White, an officer in suburban Chicago. Four members were critically injured in the event.

Rico Garcia told Kilmeade that the crash “brings back deja vu” of a 2019 fatal crash that killed seven cyclists.

23-year-old Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, – who had just obtained his U.S. green card – swerved into the oncoming vehicles as he reached down to retrieve something. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) later filed a detainer against Zhukovskyy following his arrest.

On Thursday, Fox News’ Harris Faulkner challenged network contributor Marie Harf to name a Republican-run city that is currently under siege by rioters during an “Outnumbered” segment.

The discussion began with co-host Dagen McDowell ticking off a list of shootings in Chicago, long a Democratic stronghold, just in the past few days as the panel discussed Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s decision to accept federal assistance in bringing order to chaotic parts of the city, a reversal of her earlier position.

“What if it works in Chicago? What if the police in that city can stop the daily murders?” McDowell said before ticking off a list of shootings and killings during the past few days.

“What if this partnership actually works?” she added, decrying the use by some so-called “peaceful protesters” who “carry Molotov cocktails, metal pipes and hammers — is that where we are in this nation?”

McDowell added that “the blame lies fully on the governors and the mayors of these cities” who “are doing a disservice” to their residents by continuing to allow streets to be taken over and violence to proliferate.

“We should have seen this coming for a decade,” she added, stating that Democrat “sanctuary cities” that nullify federal immigration laws paved the way for the current unrest.

Faulkner brought in Harf, who claimed that it’s not a “binary choice” between caring for residents and law and order. She also said it was “really unfair” to blame the violence on mayors and governors and claim they don’t care for their citizens.

“These are tough situations and a large majority of people on the streets, by the way, are peaceful,” she added, noting that people who are throwing incendiary devices and committing other acts of violence should be “dealt with by law enforcement.”

“The challenge is always trying to figure out the right law enforcement way to that, and President Trump has made very clear that he’s going after Democratic-led cities. He has said that, just plain straight out,” Harf continued.

“And so, it seems to many people that this is a political strategy to show himself as a law-and-order president ahead of a tough election that he is couching in law enforcement activity,” she added.

At that point, Faulkner jumped in.

“So, Marie, is there another Republican-led city that is having the kind of problem we’re having in the Democrat-led city,” Faulkner asked.

“Well look, Democrats have been in charge of the big cities on our country for a long time…”

“It’s a yes-or-no question,” Faulkner interjected. “It’s a yes-or-no question.”

“It’s more complicated,” a frustrated Harf replied. “It’s not binary, Harris.”

“No no, it’s not a choice,” Faulkner again interjected. “Is there a Republican-led city that is having the same type of violence and unrest on its streets the way it is in [a] Democrat-led trail of cities?”

Harf responded that there are many Republican-led parts of the country that are violent.

“Do they look like the streets of Portland and Chicago?” Faulkner asked.

Harf then blamed President Donald Trump.

“The streets of Portland didn’t look like this until President Trump sent in federal troops, they were anonymous…and had them arresting people with no due process in rented vans,” she replied.

“When you have markings, you are not technically anonymous, but we won’t go there,” Faulkner responded.

As to Harf’s point, portions of Chicago have been deadly and violent for decades, with black-on-black violence and shootings predominant over the past several years.

And in Portland, police have been forced to declare riots on several occasions over the nearly 60-straight days of protests — long before the administration sent additional federal agents and officers to protect government property in the city.

Incidents of violence include tearing down statues and burning local landmarks, as well as attacks against Portland police facilities.

Most conservatives across the U.S. know the mainstream media stopped reporting the facts a long time ago. However, the blatant lies coming from the legacy media today are shaping the actual talking points Democrats like Maxine Waters are espousing.

Antifa is well organized. The riots that are persisting in Democrat cities across the country are not spontaneous events. These aren’t regular Americans who just happen to be leftists.

California Rep. Maxine Waters suggested Wednesday that President Trump is sending federal agents to American cities so that he can cling to power if not reelected in November.

“As a matter of fact, it has been suggested that this is a trial run of the president of the United States who may be organizing to not accept what happens when we have the election if he’s not elected,” the 81-year-old congresswoman told MSNBC.

“We have these paramilitary police officers or whomever they are, officers or agents of some kind that’s been organized by the president of the United States. He did not contact the local mayors. He did not contact the governors. He just sent them in. Who are these people?” Waters asked.

Waters also referenced some rioters in Portland, Oregon reportedly being pulled off the street in an aggressive and random way.

Most of those rioters in Portland are not citizens of Oregon. They are allegedly paid by Antifa’s organizers to destroy federal buildings and police precincts. They have been “occupying” Portland for 56 days and counting. Like clockwork every night they destroy property and set fires.

Then, we have an increase in violent crime in those Democrat cities like Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles. Chicago’s crime rate has gone up 48 percent and drive-by shootings are out of control.

That’s why President Trump announced Wednesday he was increasing the number of federal law officials under Operation Legend to help quell rising violent crime in America’s major cities.

These men and women are no secret police or “paramilitary” units, and Maxine Waters knows it.

“We just started this process, and frankly, we have no choice but to get involved,” President Trump said during a broadcast on live TV.

Operation Legend was named after LeGend Taliferro, a four-year-old boy who was fatally shot in June while sleeping in his Kansas City apartment. The operation was launched by the Justice Department in July in Kansas City.

Trump welcomed some of the Americans who lost loved ones to the White House and promised to act quickly to reinforce the law. One of those he welcomed was Charron Powell who is the mother of LeGend Taliferro, and her comments on live TV shamed Democrats like Maxine Waters.

Holding back tears, Ms. Powell spoke about Operation Legend.

“Operation Legend is not to harass, it’s not to harm, it’s not to hurt,” LeGend’s mother said, recalling her son’s life. “I want it to be successful. This is personal to us. We want justice for our son and others. We have to take a stand in our communities to ensure this operation is successful.”

“My one and only child who fought through open-heart surgery at four months is gone due to senseless gun violence,” she added.

“After listening to Charron Powell, the mother of #LeGendTaliferro, there is no doubt that Pres. @realDonaldTrump is doing the right thing by expanding #OperationLegend Communities are suffering because Democrat leaders won’t act. The Trump Administration is stepping up to help!” tweeted Paris Dennard along with the video of Charron Powell.