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Chuck DarwinFormer Taiwanese President <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tsai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tsai</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ing</a>-<a href="https://c.im/tags/wen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wen</a> emphasized the importance of U.S. support for Ukraine during the Halifax International Security Forum on Nov. 23, 🔥urging Washington to prioritize helping Kyiv despite the rising threat of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. "They should do whatever they can to help the Ukrainians," Tsai said, according to a Politico report. ♦️"We [Taiwan] still have time." Tsai’s comments came after U.S. Indo-Pacific Command chief Adm. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Samuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Samuel</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Paparo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Paparo</a> acknowledged that ⚠️aiding Ukraine has begun to strain the U.S. military’s capacity to prepare for potential conflict in Asia. ❌Paparo highlighted the depletion of critical weapon stockpiles, including Patriots and air-to-air missiles. ⭐️During her Halifax appearance, Tsai argued that Ukraine's success against Russian aggression would serve as a global deterrent.<a href="https://kyivindependent.com/taiwans-former-president-urges-us-to-prioritize-aiding-ukraine-over-taiwan-politico-reports/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://kyivindependent.com/taiwans-former-president-urges-us-to-prioritize-aiding-ukraine-over-taiwan-politico-reports/</a>

Chuck DarwinLeonard Leo, an influential conservative lawyer who advised Donald Trump during his first term forcefully pushed back Friday on talk that one or more conservative Supreme Court justices might retire after Trump again takes office in January.  Leo, who helped the president-elect select three Supreme Court picks during his first term, said in a statement that discussions of Justices <a href="https://c.im/tags/Clarence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Clarence</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Thomas</a>, 76, or <a href="https://c.im/tags/Samuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Samuel</a> A. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Alito" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Alito</a> Jr., 74, stepping down are unseemly.  The comment drew a rebuke from <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mike</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Davis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Davis</a>, a Trump aide who is advising him on potential judicial picks this time around, while <a href="https://c.im/tags/Leonard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Leonard</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Leo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Leo</a> appears to be keeping his distance.  “No one other than Justices Thomas and Alito knows when or if they will retire, and talking about them like meat that has reached its expiration date is unwise, uninformed, and, frankly, just crass,” Leo said in the statement. “Justices Thomas and Alito have given their lives to our country and our Constitution, and should be treated with more dignity and respect than they are getting from some pundits.” <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/08/trump-supreme-court-leonard-leo-mike-davis/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/08/trump-supreme-court-leonard-leo-mike-davis/</a>

Nonilex<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> appointed 3 <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SCOTUS</a> justices as president. If he wins, he may get more appointments than <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/KamalaHarris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KamalaHarris</a> would have. In recent years, judges have retired in time to let the president they prefer fill their seats. The oldest justices today— <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ClarenceThomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClarenceThomas</a>, 76, & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Samuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Samuel</a> Alito, 74—are <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Republican</a> appointees. If they retired during a 2nd Trump admin, he could choose young replacements to cement <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/conservative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conservative</a> control of the court for decades.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PartisanCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PartisanCourt</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ActivistCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActivistCourt</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HarrisWalz2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HarrisWalz2024</a>

Chuck DarwinBacked by a cabal of wealthy conservative patrons like industrialist <a href="https://c.im/tags/David" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#David</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Koch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Koch</a>, banker <a href="https://c.im/tags/Richard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Richard</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mellon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mellon</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Scaife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scaife</a>, and the devout Catholic entrepreneur <a href="https://c.im/tags/Frank" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Frank</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hanna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hanna</a>, the Federalist Society under Leo became a breeding ground for conservative judges who were recruited at law school, groomed through the society’s program of events and talks, and then bound together through their careers. “The key was to figure out how to develop what I call a ‘pipeline’ — basically, where you recruit students in law school, you get them through law school, they come out of law school, and then you find ways of continuing to involve them in legal policy,” Leo later explained. In 2005, the Federalist Society began openly advocating for <a href="https://c.im/tags/John" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#John</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Roberts</a> — a former member — to be nominated to fill a vacant seat at the Supreme Court, the first time it had campaigned publicly for a particular candidate. A few months later, its sway had grown so much that it torpedoed President George W. Bush’s own preferred candidate for another vacant seat on the Supreme Court — <a href="https://c.im/tags/Harriet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Harriet</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Miers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Miers</a>, a judge and close friend of the president who wasn’t a member of the Federalist Society — and pressured him to nominate <a href="https://c.im/tags/Samuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Samuel</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Alito" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Alito</a>, one of its members, in her place. Leo worked closely with the "Judicial Confirmation Network", a new nonprofit organization set up using funds from <a href="https://c.im/tags/Robin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Robin</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Arkley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Arkley</a>, a California businessman known as the “foreclosure king,” who had made billions buying up mortgages of people in financial difficulties. The idea for <a href="https://c.im/tags/JCN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JCN</a> had been hatched at a dinner in Washington attended by Leo and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia shortly after Bush’s reelection in late 2004. JCN spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on radio and online advertisement to shape public opinion. It was run by <a href="https://c.im/tags/Neil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Neil</a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ann" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ann</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Corkery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Corkery</a>, a couple who had been members of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Opus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Opus</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dei" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dei</a> since at least the eighties. Neil had been a critical figure in getting a new residence for male, celibate members of the Catholic movement built in Reston, Virginia. “Opus Dei members preach their faith through their work as well as the friendships they develop,” Ann explained. She and her husband would later preach their faith by becoming central figures in a series of nonprofits that would channel dark money for Leo’s efforts.

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