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The global environment will continue to throw us curveballs, writes Busisiwe Mavuso, but reform and institutional discipline make a huge difference to how SA weathers the storms. from News24 News24/TopStories/rss https://ift.tt/UPiFVEp via sinceretalk

In its landmark 6-3 immunity decision , the Supreme Court created a three-tiered framework under which presidents are absolutely immune from claims arising from their exclusive constitutional authority. They are entitled to presumptive immunity for all other official acts within the ‘outer perimeter’ of their duties, but have no immunity for unofficial, private acts committed while in office . Trump’s personal lawsuit against the IRS seeking a preposterous $10 billion in personal damages, his negotiated “audit immunity” forgiving his personal tax evasion, and the $1.8 billion he’s snatching from taxpayers to pay J6 criminals who broke the law in his name were unofficial, private acts merely cloaked under presidential seal. Suing an agency you control, seeking larcenous damages, does not flow from any ‘core constitutional functions’ of the presidency or their outer perimeter; they were undertaken to benefit Trump and his family personally. After Trump’s personal IRS lawsuit was dism...

There are three avenues to claim money for damage after a car accident that wasn’t your fault. from News24 News24/TopStories/rss https://ift.tt/vxuVHGc via sinceretalk

South African actor and singer Letoya Makhene has once again found herself at the centre of public controversy following explosive custody claims made by her baby daddy, Johnson Masondo. from News24 News24/TopStories/rss https://ift.tt/h2DjlUz via sinceretalk

Puck Chief Political Columnist John Heilemann says the jabs poking President Donald Trump are not just coming from late-night comedians anymore. Much of America appears to be jumping in on the comedy, thanks to Trump’s wash of bad policies and his cratering polls . Heilemann, reacting to Trump’s latest gaffe of celebrating the pardon of 250 convicted criminals on the nation’s 250 th anniversary, told MS NOW anchor Nicole Wallace that America appears to be treating Trump like an ongoing gag. “You know how seriously I take [society’s] signals, even if the signals themselves of what's going on are kind of risible and almost beyond parody,” said Heilemann. “These are signals, not noise. And I think they are telling us something about Trump's declining political power.” One of Trump’s greatest talents, said Heilemann, was reading society and knowing how to trigger and goad society into supporting him, often exciting the nation’s worst elements. “We understand what was so import...

After President Donald Trump helped nominate controversial Texas AG Ken Paxton as the Republican to run against Democrat James Talarico for Texas’ pivotal Senate seat, critics say the Lone Star state may now be in serious play . But it appears an unexpected new issue has reared its head to further complicate an easy Republican senatorial win in this red state — and nobody saw it coming. “My entire community is going to break rank. Everybody, all of us. We've had enough,” Texas Republican voter Cheryl Shadden told MS NOW reporter Josh Einiger . “… Red or blue. If you vote against data centers, we vote for you.” A lifelong conservative, Shadden is so angry she refuses to vote for Trump backed attorney general ken Paxton, Einiger reports. Instead, she's all in for Talarico to flip a seat controlled by Republicans since 1993. “You're willing at this point to forego basically every conservative issue and let the Senate fall into the hands of Democrats, if that's what it ta...

President Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion slush fund for Trump-linked institutions and Trump supporters is, according to one conservative, a gateway to something most right-wingers oppose: Reparations for the descendants of American slaves “It will set a precedent that a future president could use to bypass Congress and the courts to implement wide-reaching policies without congressional support—including race-based reparations,” wrote The Federalist Society's Darin R. Batram, who practices appellate and constitutional law in Washington, for The Wall Street Journal . Batram then reviewed how the fund was created, observing that Trump sued the IRS even though as president he had two conflicts of interest: First, that he was suing an agency he controlled; and second, that the Justice Department which he likewise controlled is supposed to defend the IRS from his litigation. Trump sued the IRS by alleging that it owed him $10 billion because a contractor associated with them leaked his ta...