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February 01, 2017 at 1:13 pm | By TALES AZZONI

FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2013 file photo, Ukraine's Roman Zozulya celebrates after scoring during the first leg 2014 World Cup qualifying soccer match against France at the Olympiyskiy national stadium in Kiev, Ukraine. The transfer of Ukraine striker Roman Zozulya from Real Betis to second-division club Rayo Vallecano Wednesday Feb. 1, 2017 is being called off in Spain after protests from fans who accused the player of having connections to radical groups back home. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

FILE - In this March 28, 2016 file photo, Ukrainian Roman Zozulya listens to the national anthems ahead of the international friendly soccer match between Ukraine and Wales at the Olympiyskiy stadium in Kiev, Ukraine. The transfer of Ukraine striker Roman Zozulya from Real Betis to second-division club Rayo Vallecano Wednesday Feb. 1, 2017 is being called off in Spain after protests from fans who accused the player of having connections to radical groups back home. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2013 file photo, Ukraine's Roman Zozulya celebrates after scoring during the first leg 2014 World Cup qualifying soccer match against France at the Olympiyskiy national stadium in Kiev, Ukraine. The transfer of Ukraine striker Roman Zozulya from Real Betis to second-division club Rayo Vallecano Wednesday Feb. 1, 2017 is being called off in Spain after protests from fans who accused the player of having connections to radical groups back home. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

FILE - In this March 28, 2016 file photo, Ukrainian Roman Zozulya listens to the national anthems ahead of the international friendly soccer match between Ukraine and Wales at the Olympiyskiy stadium in Kiev, Ukraine. The transfer of Ukraine striker Roman Zozulya from Real Betis to second-division club Rayo Vallecano Wednesday Feb. 1, 2017 is being called off in Spain after protests from fans who accused the player of having connections to radical groups back home. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

MADRID (AP) The loan of Ukraine striker Roman Zozulya from Real Betis to second-division club Rayo Vallecano is being called off after protests from Spanish fans who accused the player of having connections to radical groups back home.

Real Betis director Miguel Torrecilla said Wednesday that the clubs had agreed to scrap the move to "protect the person and the player."

"We received news that he is having problems with a radical (fan) group," Torrecilla said. "We talked to Rayo and we agreed that he will return to Seville."

Rayo fans began criticizing Zozulya on social media even before the loan was officially announced on Tuesday. A few supporters insulted the player as he arrived at the club's training center on Wednesday, and a large banner was in place demanding that he left the club.

Torrecilla said the clubs' lawyers would work on the legal details of revoking the transfer, which was made just before the end of the European transfer deadline.

Because the move to Rayo went through, Zozulya is not expected to be allowed to play for Betis or another European club until the new transfer window opens in the summer.

"He is very disturbed," Torrecilla said. "He didn't expect that this could happen. Yesterday he wrote a text to all Rayo fans but apparently it didn't reach certain sectors, so we will take him back."

The 27-year-old striker released an open letter to Rayo fans immediately after he was signed, saying the "misunderstanding" about his views happened when he arrived in Spain last year to play for Betis wearing a shirt that a local journalist thought displayed a badge supporting radical groups in his native country. He said that the journalist admitted the mistake at the time and issued an apology.

Zozulya said in his letter, which was released by the club on its website, that he supported the army back home to "help protect" his country at an "extremely difficult time" of war, but didn't support nor was linked to "any paramilitary or neo-Nazi groups," as many had alleged on social media.

"I know that this work that I've done fully coincides with the social values heralded by Rayo Vallecano and its unconditional fans," he wrote.

Rayo Vallecano, based just outside Madrid, was relegated to the second division last season. It is currently 17th in the 22-team standings.

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US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama make their way to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC on August 6, 2016. MANDEL NGANAFP/Getty Images

Barack Obama is living up to his promise of taking Michelle on a "very nice vacation ."

After the inauguration , the former First Couple took a trip to Palm Springs , but then traded in the desert sun for the warm Caribbean waters. He and Michelle traveled to the British Virgin Islands specifically Necker Island, which is owned by billionaire Richard Branson and are embracing all aspects of beach bum lifestyle, according to Elle .

The Obamas' new laid-back vibes becomes most apparent in their sartorial choices. The former president has always been an avid proponent of wearing baseball caps, but he took that enthusiasm one step further while on vacation. A Twitter video shows Barack and Michelle walking along the beach looking just like any other casual beach-goers. The former First Lady looks stylish in short shorts, a fedora and braids. But it's Barack who is the real surprise as he sports a backwards hat.

If he's wearing a backwards hat now, what does this mean about dad jeans ?

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Barack Obama's Now Mainly Focusing on Wearing This Casual Backwards Hat - TIME

Donald Trump has selected Federal Appeals Court Judge Neil Gorsuchto take a seat that constitutionally was President Barack Obamas to fill.

The Senate should have seated Obamas nominee, Judge Merrick Garland, and then turned to Trumps nominees as vacancies occurred. But that does not appear to be the political world America lives in, where Senate Republicans, led by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, have stolen an open seat that would have tilted the courts balance away from a right-wing majority.

In their New York University Law Reviewarticle,The Garland Affair: What History and the Constitution Really Say About President Obamas Powers to Appoint A Replacement for Justice Scalia, Robin Bradley Kar and Jason Mazzone comprehensively review virtually every past Supreme Court nominations in our history and compile the data cited below.

There have been 103 prior cases in whichlike the case of President Obamas nomination of Judge Garlandan elected President has faced an actual vacancy on the Supreme Court and began an appointment process prior to the election of a successor, they write. In all 103 cases, the President was able to both nominate and appoint a replacement Justice.

Lets get down to some numbers that put Senate Republicans judicial coup in context.

293:Number of days Republicans stonewalled President Barack Obamas nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court before the Senate term expired.

103:Number of Supreme Court vacancies filled by elected presidents. Thats right, 103 in a row.

8:Vacancies filled during election year. Eighttimes in our history, Supreme Court vacancies occurred during an election year and the elected presidents nominees were approved.

6:Number of unelected presidential Supreme Court vacancy nominations denied.Supreme Court vacancies were denied when the sitting president was notelected: Vice President John Tylers nominations after death of President William Henry Harrison; VP Millard Fillmores nominations after the death of President Zachary Taylor; and VP Andrew Johnsons nominations after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. President Obama was elected by the people, twice.

3:Lame-duck nominations denied.There were also three nominations made by sitting presidents post-election day, after the new president had been elected. John Quincy Adams tried after Andrew Jackson was elected; James Buchanan tried after Lincoln was elected; and President Hayes tried after James Garfield was elected. All were denied. President Obama made his nomination of Garland long before the election of Donald Trump.

84:Years since last election-year nomination. The last time there was a Supreme Court vacancy during an election year, President Hoovers nomination was approved.

9,498:Average days in the tenure of recent Supreme Court justices (since 1970).Thats right, since 1970, Supreme Court justices who have retired, had tenures averaging 26.1 years. So, this is a quarter-century: a big time decision.

1,461:The number of days Democrats should be willing to wait for the Senate to approve President Obamas rightful nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court.

1,151:Number of days Democrats will have to wait during Trumps term for Republicans to respect history and the right of every elected president to fill vacancies to the Supreme Court that occur during their term. Since Republicans have invented a new, first-time-ever, no-election-year approval precedent, Democrats will only be waiting 1,151 days

2:Number of balls and ovaries most Republicans have when it comes to something as important as the next Supreme Court vacancy. Precedent be dammed, they simply were not going to allow President Obama to appoint another Supreme Court judge that could shift the court. Period. Republicans have basically said to Democrats, when we are in charge, lets play by the rules, and when you are in charge, all is fair in love and war. Translation: our way or the highway.

Unknown: Democrat Senators with balls and ovaries.Senator Minority Leader Chuck Schumer suggested to MSNBCs Rachel Maddow, when asked about the stolen Supreme Court seat, there would be some opposition to Republican nominations, but nothing near the absolute resolve expressed by Republicans.

Will Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Corey Booker, Al Franken and the Gang of 49 step up and start the fight for our country on the steps of the Supreme Court? Will they show the toughness that Americans respect from their leaders? (Voters care a lot more about conviction than facts and policy.) Will they say enough is enough?

The big picture: judicial coup

The Senate should approve Obamas rightful nominee, and respect 200 years of history and the last 103 nominations and the rightful balance of powers. When the next Supreme Court vacancy occurs, it becomes fair to approve one of your nominees. To be clear, Democrats arenot refusing to approve Republican Supreme Court vacancies, but they are now out of sequence and when they approve ours, we will approve theirs.

And waiting an extra 1,000 days, for a decision that will last 26 years, is not a problem. Well wait. The importance of this decision cannot be overstated.

Short of devastating Obamacare, climate legislation or World War III, this quite simply may be the biggest decision Democrats make during the Trump term. Republicans ignore history, put their boots on Democrats necks and stall a rightful nomination for 293 days, and then fully expect Democrats to bend over, start playing by the rules again and approve their nomination?

Two wrongs dont make a right, you say? You got it wrong. I am not suggesting Democrats refuse to approve a Trump nominee, when a Trump Supreme Court vacancy exists. I am simply saying, Republicans must fill the seat that is rightfully in the hands of President Obama, before that can happen. The only time in our history when an elected presidents nominations were denied, were when they were made after the new president was elected. Not relevant this time.

President Obamas pick still must be defended.

Yes, Democrats have rejected nominees.But when a nominee was rejected, the elected president always had time to make a second appointment, and the elected president always had one of his appointments approved103 times in a row. If Republicans dont like Merrick Garland, vote him down and President

Want to win back some Trump Democrats? Democratic senators can start by showing some gumption, some resolve, and some principles. History is on your side. Be tough and regain some respect in the heartland.

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11 important numbers to remember how the GOP stole Barack Obama's Supreme Court appointment - Salon

No topic in the history of snopes.com has elicitedmore fact check queries than the life and presidency ofBarack Obama, about whom, at last count,we had posted more than 300 articles since he declared his candidacy in 2007. During his two termsin office notan aspect of Obama's lifewent untainted by rumor and gossip, from his religious beliefs to his citizenshipto his allegiance to his country. These were the most popular of all the Obamafact checks we completed:

False In August 2016, at the height of that year's U.S. presidential campaign, a satiricalnews site posteda spoof declaring that President Obama was seriously considering moving to Canada if Donald Trump won the election. All it took was a fewright-leaning websites reposting it without a "satire" disclaimer to prompt an all-out sharing frenzy.Read the full report here.

False Ironically, the same fake news sitethat managed to convince thousands that Obama mightflee to Canada racked up even more hitsthe followingmonth by claiminghe would refuse to leave office if Trump were elected. Doubly ironic was the fact that the same constituency that bought into the former bought into the latter, and made it go viral.Read the full report here.

False Two different fake newsarticles from two different web sites made the precisely same false claim in July 2013: that President Obama was on the verge of being impeached by Congress. The fact that not a single mainstream news source reported any such thingdid not discourage enthusiastic sharers; if anything, it had the opposite effect. Read the full report here.

False Groundless skepticism about the legitimacy of Obama's U.S. citizenship gave riseto "birtherism," a labyrinthine conspiracy theory holdingthat he was born onforeign soil, lied about being born in Hawaii, and produced forged documents when asked to release his birth certificate. None of these claims were supported by evidence. Read the full report here.

False Allmodern U.S. presidents have made prodigious use of the official directives known as executive orders to furthertheir agendas. By the end of his two terms, President Obama had issued fewer executive orders (279) than either George W. Bush (291) or Bill Clinton (308), but rumor nonetheless had it that the number topped 900 within Obama's first three years. Read the full report here.

False Hyperpartisan web sites managed to conflate separate news items about a 2015 Veterans Affairs budget shortfall in Congress and the funding of humanitarian relief efforts on behalf ofSyrian refugees scattered around the Middle East into a bogusreport accusing Obama of cutting billions from veterans programs and giving the money to Syrian immigrants inthe U.S. Read the full report here.

False Not ayear went by duringObama's term of office in whichrumors didn't circulatedthat he had canceled the National Day of Prayer, an official observance held every year since 1952. The rumors were baseless. Like his predecessors, Obama issueda public proclamation each year on the National Day of Prayer, though he observed the occasion privately. Read the full report here.

False As if by a miracle, a decades-old Columbia University student ID card cropped up in 2012 that seemed to prove what every "birther" had been saying for years: that President Obama was born outside the United States. Emblazoned on the card with Obama'sphoto were the words "foreign student." It was, of course, a Photoshop hoax. Read the full report here.

False As the first sitting president to visit Hiroshima, the site of anatomic bomb dropped by the U.S. on Japan in World War II, Barack Obama offered condolences for those who died. Social media users immediately condemned Obama for "apologizing" for the bomb something Obama did not do. Read the full report here.

False There is no better testament tothe awesome viralityof fake news than the fact that the most-accessed Obama fact check on snopes.com during his entire presidencywas arecurring spoofreporting that he banned the Pledge of Allegiance in schools. Why would he do such a thing? You'll have to ask the thousands who apparently believed this false story was true.Read the full report here.

Originally published: 01 February 2017

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