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a preliminary injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Jinsook Ohta requiring the lottery pool to be opened
A liberal-majority appeals court in California handed the Trump administration a victory by blocking a lower court's ruling that ordered the State Department to open its application pool for the 2027 Diversity Visa lottery, which admits roughly 55,000 immigrants from low-immigration countries each year.
In a 3-0 ruling, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked a preliminary injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Jinsook Ohta requiring the lottery pool to be opened after Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a notice in November delaying the program's acceptance of new applications in order to "implement certain changes," but the application period never opened.
The three-judge panel consisted of Clinton appointee Mary Margaret McKeown, Biden appointee Holly A. Thomas and Bush appointee Norman Randy Smith wrote a separate concurrence.
A month later, the State Department ordered an indefinite pause on issuing diversity visas after a Portuguese national who was issued a lottery visa in 2017 committed a mass shooting at Brown University, killing two people and injuring nine others. The shooter, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, was also tied to the murder of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor two days after the Brown University shooting.
In-N-Out president Lynsi Snyder has teased an eastward expansion for the SoCal burger joint in the past, while insisting they will always have a presence in California, and now she has revealed four states she is targeting.
The 44-year-old president and owner of the burger chain – the granddaughter of founders Esther and Harry Snyder – recently spoke with actor Terry Crews to commemorate the fast food chain’s 78th anniversary, with the first restaurant opening in Baldwin Park, California on October 22, 1948.
Snyder moved her family to Tennessee last year to start the chain’s eastward growth, though there are four states she is eyeing for further expansion.
“If you look at the map, you’ve got Texas. There’s Arkansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma. There are some states that are possibilities,” Snyder explained.
She added, “New Mexico has been waiting for us, and that will be soon,” referring to a November 2023 Instagram announcement that they will open an Albuquerque restaurant by 2027.
The chain – which has remained private and family-owned since its inception, without turning to franchising – operates 445 restaurants in 10 states, with Snyder adding there are many states who request the chain to expand there.
A Sacramento health care giant abruptly scrapped a $1 billion Bay Area expansion Friday, blaming red tape and dealing a crushing blow to the local economy.
Sutter Health will no longer pursue building a hospital in Emeryville, citing California’s environmental review law that has plagued construction projects for its red tape.
“Over two years, we pursued relief under the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA. Those efforts did not secure the certainty needed to advance the hospital project, leaving it vulnerable to litigation that could delay construction and new hospital services for years,” the company said.
Under CEQA, projects need to complete adequate reviews of their environmental impacts before receiving approval to proceed. That process can be bogged down by lawsuits and take years.
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The stunning decision comes after more than a year of planning over the proposed hospital, which would have included a 17-story tower with approximately 325 beds, emergency services and a rooftop helipad.
Two satellites from Russia’s Rassvet constellation, developed as a rival to Starlink, have begun losing altitude and falling out of orbit.
According to space researcher Anatoly Zak, three of the 17 satellites launched in July failed to reach a stable orbit at around 500 km. Another satellite is still trying to gain altitude.
The first batch ran into trouble, too: one satellite has already fallen out of orbit, while another 14 reached just over 500 km instead of the expected 800 km.
We’re seeing this now play out in California and Washington where secretaries of state insist that there are no non-citizens registered to vote, then admit that they have no ability to check the citizenship of whoever is voting, but insist that there’s no reason to believe that there are non-citizens voting because it’s illegal for non-citizens to vote… and so they don’t have to worry about non-citizens voting.
However, according to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, there are some 300,000 possible non-citizens who have been flagged on voting rolls.
Rather than straight up denying it, states like Washington and California have taken to slow walking the review of the names, arguing that they have no ability to check citizenship (because again, they choose not to have any ability to check citizenship and refuse to use the SAVE system) ...
How big is the problem? I’m going to guess that 300,000 is only the tip of the iceberg. If you doubt that, consider the high standards over in Washington.QuoteAppearing at an event with Gov. Bob Ferguson Friday morning, Thurston County Auditor Mary Hall said she has never seen a case of a noncitizen voting in an election in her 30-year career.
“We keep very tight records in our voter registration database,” Hall said. “We are a vote ID state, and the voters do attest to the fact they are a citizen of the United States.”
I'm sure the Allah-gator will eat her last.
for truth!
