Let's talk American politics again...
The U.S. House voted to launch an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. Surprisingly, the Republican majority held. A win for Speaker Johnson.
I've been a critic of Johnson (where's the Israel funding? why didn't he hold the line on a continuing resolution? why's he meeting with McConnell?), but I've also been pushing for an inquiry. So, well, done.
At the same time, the Supreme Court is considering two challenges to Trump's prosecution that will thwart Special Counsel Jack Smith's entirely political rush to have a trial before the 2024 election.
One involves presidential immunity from prosecution for acts in office for which he was not impeached. The other involves a statute passed after the Enron scandal, 1512(c)2, which has been abused to go after January 6 defendants, including the former president.
Smith has asked the Court to bypass lower courts and rule right away on immunity. The Court decided today to hear the 1512(c)2 case.
So Trump may avoid federal prosecution in D.C. before the election -- and the Florida case is not looking good for Smith. The state cases are nakedly political. Meanwhile, Biden faces possible impeachment.
The best day Trump has had in a while -- and Biden's worst, really.
This week's show will be slightly different from the norm: we'll focus on clips and topics, rather than guests -- and that, hopefully, will mean more input from the callers (unless you are all watching football on opening weekend).
Topics:
- The state of the economy
- The fight against crime
- The midterm election fight
- The struggle for peace between Russia and Ukraine
- The airstrike on the Venezuelan drug cartel
- The attempt to sink Kennedy
- The war in Gaza
- The case against Harvard
- The Trump presidency
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This week's Torah portion includes several laws about conduct in civic and personal life, the common theme of which is boundaries -- setting bounds to what one may do at home, at work, and even in the battlefield.
One noteworthy passage concerns Amalek, the evil nation that attacked the Children of Israel as they made their Exodus from slavery to freedom. Deuteronomy 25:17-19 commands Jews to obliterate Amalek's memory.
The South African government accused Israel of genocide on the basis of a story about Amalek in the Book of Samuel, in which King Saul was commanded to wipe out the entire evil Amalekite nation.
Because Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quoted this week's portion -- "Remember what Amalek did to you" (25:17), the South African government claimed he was commanding soldiers to commit genocide.
It was an absurd and malevolent misreading of the Bible and of Jewish tradition. The commandment, as observed by Jews today, is to remember the evil of Amalek and fight ...
