Joan Feynman, sister of a Nobel laureate, made her own mark in physics despite her mother’s doubts

Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement from the Supreme Court in the summer of 2018, at the age of 83. He did so knowing that a Republican President would pick his successor, and the Senate was in control of the Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Democrat Harry Reid was Senate Majority Leader for the first six years of the Obama Presidency. In 2013 and 2014, the last two years in which Reid controlled the Senate Calendar, Ginsburg was 80-81 years old. Had she announced her retirement she likely could have told Obama who she wanted to replace her, and I’m guessing he would have acceded to her request. //

Justice Ginsburg sacrificed that opportunity so she would continue to write dissents on cases of interest to her since she was almost certainly going to remain in the losing minority on most such cases. //

One supposition is simply that she was confident Hillary Clinton would win in 2016, and she wanted the arc of her history as a Justice to be completed by having the first female President of the United States appoint her replacement to the Supreme Court. That would have made a nice ending to the movie “On the Basis of Sex”, which was a biographical account of her efforts as an attorney to extend the protections of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to women.

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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg calls Kaepernick protests 'dumb and disrespectful'

6:01 AM · Oct 11, 2016

If RBG is against flag burning and thinks Colin Kaepernick “dumb,” imagine what she would have thought of rioters and/or people threatening to “burn down” the Supreme Court process that she so honored?

For those Democrats wanting to pack the Court? RBG wasn’t going for that either.

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RBG: “Bad idea when [FDR] tried to pack the court… If anything would make the court appear partisan it'd be...one side saying, ‘When we’re in power we’re going to enlarge the number of judges so we'll have more ppl who will vote the way we want them to.’"

The Congress passed the Act of April 22, 1864. This legislation changed the composition of the one-cent coin and authorized the minting of the two-cent coin. The Mint Director was directed to develop the designs for these coins for final approval of the Secretary. IN GOD WE TRUST first appeared on the 1864 two-cent coin.

Another Act of Congress passed on March 3, 1865. It allowed the Mint Director, with the Secretary's approval, to place the motto on all gold and silver coins that "shall admit the inscription thereon." //

Later, Congress passed the Coinage Act of February 12, 1873. It also said that the Secretary "may cause the motto IN GOD WE TRUST to be inscribed on such coins as shall admit of such motto." //

The motto has been in continuous use on the one-cent coin since 1909, and on the ten-cent coin since 1916. It also has appeared on all gold coins and silver dollar coins, half-dollar coins, and quarter-dollar coins struck since July 1, 1908. //

A law passed by the 84th Congress (P.L. 84-140) and approved by the President on July 30, 1956, the President approved a Joint Resolution of the 84th Congress, declaring IN GOD WE TRUST the national motto of the United States. IN GOD WE TRUST was first used on paper money in 1957, when it appeared on the one-dollar silver certificate. The first paper currency bearing the motto entered circulation on October 1, 1957.

Tonight, at his rally in Fayetteville, NC, President Donald Trump took a moment to remember Ginsburg:

“As we meet tonight our nation mourns the loss of a legal giant, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Her landmark rulings, fierce devotion to justice, and her courageous battle against cancer inspired all Americans. You may agree, you may disagree with her, but she was an inspiration to a tremendous number of people – I say all Americans. Justice Ginsburg’s close relationship with a friend of ours, a friend of mine, Justice Scalia, is also a powerful reminder that we can disagree on fundamental issues while treating each other with decency, dignity, and respect. Our thoughts and prayers are with her family, Thank you very much.”

Biden allowed himself to be compromised while Communist China was aggressively building up its military strength by stealing US Military secrets from the US, including stealing business propriety secrets from US companies, and not skipping a beat in becoming the most serious military threat to the very survival of the United States and its ally, Taiwan.

Hunter’s small company, Rosemont, was given $1.5 Billion to create a Chinese Equity Fund entitled Bohai Harvest RST (Shanghai) Equity. Hunter then got involved in many investment deals, outlined in the below listed video, including investing in companies under investigation by the FBI because they were stealing US Nuclear Secrets from the United States, and with companies intending to take control of rare earth minerals to the detriment of the US, in order to serve the interest of the Chinese Communist Military. //

Biden’s son Hunter has never been trained to manage investments, nor has he ever had the experience of dealing with the complexities of doing business in Communist China. Yet, he flew into China on Air Force Two and was given a deal by Communist China that no one else in the world has ever received in history, not Goldman Sachs, J P Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, B of A Securities, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, etc. Those firms do not believe that an inexperienced Hunter or his small company can manage such a massive investment portfolio . //

The infiltration of the US Military Industrial Complex by Communist Chinese companies operating in the US is being supported and facilitated by Douglas Emhoff, Kamala Harris’s husband. Douglas Emhoff is employed by DLA Piper; the firm is the consultant on behalf of a bevy of Chinese Communist Party-owned companies and the firm employs former Chinese Communist Party Officials. Douglas Emhoff has served as a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property and Technology Practice Sector and its Media, Sport, and Entertainment Sector since 2017.

As Tropical Storm Higos blew in from the Pacific, Stephen Stanek, a covert CIA operative, faced a decision. It was time to either cancel the operation he was running or go forward with it. The storm was barreling through the Philippines but was then projected to veer north and miss their area of operation.

Stanek’s partner for the operation, a younger man named Michael Perich, had recently graduated from the Merchant Marine Academy. A football player at the academy, Perich was now at the beginning of his career in paramilitary operations and had just recently been trained as a scuba diver.

Two other men were aboard their 40-foot vessel, Jamie McCormick and Daniel Meeks, both in supporting roles. Stanek, a retired Navy ordnance disposal diver, was highly experienced but had only recently attained his license to be a ship captain, according to those who knew him.

The crew had spent the last several days sailing up the coast of the Philippines after departing Malaysia in what was to be the maiden voyage of their ship, which was secretly owned by the CIA’s Maritime Branch.

Their cover story for the 2008 mission was that a client in Japan had bought the vessel, and the crew had been hired to transport it there from Malaysia. They had paperwork and documentation to back up the story if questioned.

Their actual target was a small piece of land to the north of Luzon, the Philippines’ largest island. The CIA believed the Chinese military was occupying this small island in an area that has been hotly disputed. The U.S. in recent years has closely watched China’s military moves in the South China Sea, particularly as Beijing has built up artificial islands on reefs and atolls that were once barely visible at low tide in order to extend its territorial claims.

Everybody should get a hearing and a vote, said Joe Biden, “even in an election year.”

Bottom line? The history is on the side of the President and McConnell.

Donald J. Trump
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.@GOP We were put in this position of power and importance to make decisions for the people who so proudly elected us, the most important of which has long been considered to be the selection of United States Supreme Court Justices. We have this obligation, without delay!