Late last week Portland, Ore., Mayor Ted Wheeler took to video to plea for the community’s help to “unmask” antifa. The violence-prone anarchist-fascist group has terrorized Portland with months of violent and destructive insurrectionist riots despite Joe Biden merely calling antifa an “idea.”
US lumber prices skyrocket 250% as Covid drives home-buying demand higher
Prices for lumber managed to grab the headlines after an unprecedented sharp increase which currently threatens housing affordability across the United States.
“Lumber prices have skyrocketed nearly 250% since April 2020. This price spike has caused the price of an average new single-family home to increase by more than $24,000,” reported the National Association of Home Builders.
On Monday, the May futures contract price per thousand board feet of two-by-fours reportedly surged from $48 to $1,420. The moonshot reportedly caused lumber trading to halt for the day.
Biden on Giuliani raid: ‘I had no idea this was underway’
FBI raided Giuliani’s Manhattan apartment Wednesday
President Biden said he did not know about the FBI plans to raid the home of former President Trump’s personal attorney and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani before it happened, and that he learned of the operation “when the rest of the world learned about it.”
NBC News asked Biden in a Thursday interview if he was aware of the FBI raid on Giuliani’s home beforehand.
“I give you my word I was not,” Biden replied. “I made a pledge. I would not interfere in any way or try to stop any investigation the Justice Department had underway. I learned about that last night when the rest of the world learned about it. My word — I had no idea this was underway.”
Unusual Supreme Court vote rules illegal immigrant can avoid deportation on technicality
The entire case centered on the word ‘a’
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in favor of an illegal immigrant who was facing deportation, stating that they are entitled to discretionary relief because the government did not follow the rules.
Federal law says that an illegal immigrant in such a situation can avoid deportation at the attorney general’s discretion if they have been in the U.S. for at least 10 years. The clock officially stops when they receive “a notice to appear” with information about their hearing. But in cases like plaintiff Agusto Niz-Chavez’s, the government sent multiple documents containing different pieces of information. The court’s majority ruled that because the law says “a” notice, that means it must be a single document.
“At one level, today’s dispute may seem semantic, focused on a single word, a small one at that,” Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in the court’s opinion. “But words are how the law constrains power. In this case, the law’s terms ensure that, when the federal government seeks a procedural advantage against an individual, it will at least supply him with a single and reasonably comprehensive statement of the nature of the proceedings against him.”
