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Democrats.com has learned that Trump Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch has fathered multiple children from extra-marital relationships, casting doubt on his honesty and likelihood of serving on the nations highest court.

In our exclusive interview, Gorsuch reluctantly admitted to his sexual transgressions. I know its wrong, he said, but it has taken me years to make peace with this awful affliction. People do not interest me, but corporations totally turn me on. I cant help it. Corporations are beautiful, beautiful people and they have the right to exercise their religious and sexual beliefs.

Gorsuch supports unlimited corporate dirty talk, unconstrained by campaign finance limitations. In any conflict between individual rights and those of huge corporate enterprises, Gorsuch has always favored business interests.

Yes, Gorsuch admitted on his doorstep, accompanied by his wife, I was tempted by some mature, sophisticated corporations and I was seduced. I deeply regret being in bed with corporate powers, but I am a responsible man and I will step up and support the children that have come from these illicit liaisons.

These shocking revelations cast doubt on Gorsuchs impartiality with regard to corporate power. Im a Constitutional originalist, he asserted as his wife looked on, I think that marriage should be between a man and a flesh-and-blood corporation. At a closer look, Democrats.com discovered that his wife was, in fact, a large stack of incorporation papers.

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When the Progressives passed their Immigration Law in fall 2013, they handed the Cayman Islands a ticking time bomb of uncertainty and legal liability.

It is unclear whether the Progressives Cabinets belated tweaks to permanent residence regulations will be enough to defuse this dangerous piece of ordinance, or whether it will detonate and deconstruct Caymans entire immigration system. In the process the countrys Freedom of Information Law may suffer mortal collateral damage.

At the center of this scenario are a pair of rulings by Chief Justice Anthony Smellie.

In August 2015, the chief justice issued a landmark decision regarding two permanent residency applicants. In his ruling, the chief justice included two crucial criticisms that the PR points system (particularly the different weights given to different occupations) was problematic and arbitrary, and that the nearly 10 years the two PR applicants spent waiting for decisions amounted to unconscionably long delays.

Following the ruling, the government commissioned a consultants report from Ritch & Conolly law firm, which was completed in mid-2016, and presumably contains an analysis of weaknesses (and perhaps solutions to those weaknesses) in Caymans immigration system.

On the last day of February this year, the Progressives Cabinet made long-overdue changes to immigration regulations, with the promise that the backlog of 900-plus permanent residence applications would finally be cleared.

More than a month later, the Immigration Department has signaled it is about to begin considering PR applications, albeit with no apparent substantive action, no specific timeline and, most importantly, no actual decisions.

In the meantime, the deleterious effects of the Progressives PR freeze are rippling through the broader legal system and individuals personal lives.

In a Feb. 7 judgment in a family court case, Justice Richard Williams described the PR situation as a regrettable current state of affairs and a deficient part of the immigration process. In that case, the delays in processing PR applications from a couple who had since filed for separation introduced complexities in the division of assets and custody of their children.

Law firm HSM Chambers has described Cabinets changes as largely cosmetic tweaks that would give nearly all applicants more points on their applications but do not address more fundamental issues. HSM is leading two high-profile court challenges concerning the governments PR delays, which are still pending before the courts and are likely not be decided before the May 24 elections, but which represent real financial threats to Caymans public treasury.

The changes Cabinet made to the Immigration Law in February were probably informed by the 2016 report from Ritch & Conolly. In regard to statements about the Ritch Report, we employ qualifiers such as presumably and probably out of necessity because neither we, nor anyone else outside of Premier Alden McLaughlin and a small circle of officials, knows what the report actually says.

In late January, Chief Justice Smellie issued a ruling that accepted as an assumption the premiers argument that the Ritch Report constituted legally privileged advice, and then determined that, as such, it would not be appropriate to compel the government to turn the report over to Information Commissioner Jan Liebaers who had sought the document precisely in order to determine if it contained legal advice.

Mr. Liebaers is now seeking to challenge that ruling in the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal.

If the chief justices decision stands, in our view it opens up a gaping loophole in Caymans FOI Law. Any time a government minister wishes to keep a public record from going public, he could simply label it legal advice and refuse to allow anyone, even the information commissioner, from verifying if that assertion is correct.

Further, as we reported Friday, Mr. Liebaers said since the chief justices ruling was made public, a number of government entities have been attempting to deny the information commissioners office access to records, even without a ministerial certificate of exemption similar to the one issued by Premier McLaughlin.

Its too early to tell, but depending on various outcomes in court, Cayman could soon be welcoming many hundreds of new permanent residents, parting ways with millions of tax dollars in legal fees, and waving goodbye to FOI.

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EDITORIAL Permanent residence: The Progressives' explosive legacy - Cayman Compass

AMHERST Two Democratic congressmen urged a crowd of more than 1,000 at the University of Massachusetts Amherst on the evening of March 25 to organize in their communities to fight the Republican agenda on local, state and national levels and to do it now.

This isnt checkers its chess, said Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., the deputy chairman of the Democratic National Committee. We cant wait until 2018 to start organizing these streets. Weve got to organize right here, right now.

Ellison was joined by Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Worcester, to speak on Progressive Politics in the Era of Trump at Bowker Auditorium. Ellison is co-chairman of the Progressive Caucus in Congress, of which McGovern is a member.

The congressmen called for people to invest time and money in things like education, infrastructure, healthcare, food and shelter for all, and reducing the defense budget.

In response to a question from the audience about an overwhelming number of action alerts for protests and rallies, Ellison suggested that community organizers make priority lists for the policies they need to represent the most, and to work with other community groups to be active for the rest.

Nobody can do everything, but everybody can do something, Ellison said.

He stressed the importance of local and state elections for winning back the more than 900 seats Democrats have lost in state legislatures nationwide since 2008.

On another note, Ellison also underlined the importance of Democrats and progressives meeting somewhere in the middle to move forward against those policies of President Trumps administration that most Americans can disagree with, such as cutting care for the elderly.

Disunity can kill us, Ellison said. Look at the circular firing squad (Republicans) have created, shooting each other dead.

Referring to voters who are leaving the Democratic Party for third parties, Ellison suggested the DNC adjust itself to bring in the support of progressives.

I fear the energy wont dissipate, it will migrate, Ellison said.

McGovern talked about winning back the Obama-to-Trump voters, who voted for Trump because they wanted something different. Some of those voters regret their ballot choice, he said, and are even working to reverse Trumps policy decisions.

Even though there are 320 million people in America, they still feel alone sometimes, and thats what makes a good person vote for Trump, he said.

Ellison encouraged progressives who feel disenfranchised from the Democratic Party to get involved to make the change they want to see, and for Democrats inside the party to meet on things like higher minimum wages, environmental protection, and Medicaid and Medicare.

McGovern and Ellison also stressed the importance of quality education for all, and affordable higher education.

If you want to know why millennials are pissed, it may be all the student debt theyre humping, Ellison said.

The Trump administration is not likely to help, he said.

Trumps position on higher education is Trump University, Ellison said to a chuckling crowd.

Hes trying to tell you to be more worried about Muslims and Mexicans than higher education, he continued. If Sweden, Germany and France can have free higher education, the richest country in the history of the world can do it, too.

In regards to Trumps frequent attacks on the media and threats to the freedom of press, Ellison said these attacks go beyond journalists.

They are attacking (the peoples) right to know, he said.

McGovern, for his part, said Trump worries him.

I lose sleep at night thinking about these wacky and erratic behaviors, he said. This is not normal behavior.

He also questioned the White Houses ties to Russia.

I want to know if our president is a Manchurian candidate, he said. The only way were going to find that out is through an independent, non-partisan investigation.

The event was organized by Progressive Democrats of America, and moderated by UMass Democrats Casey Pease and UMass Progressives Julia Pelletier.

Morgan Hughes can be reached at mahughes@umass.edu.

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Many progressives are suffering Trump exhaustion. The new administration has set the country back on so many fronts that it may not even be possible to follow all the breaking, and very bad, news. Every time you take some comfort in a successful lawsuit against the dark side, a whole new set of evils are rolled out.

Trump wants the Environmental Protection Agency to declare that carbon dioxide is not a dangerous greenhouse gas, and to stop threatening coal plants. And you might despair about that until your realize that what hed really like is to abolish the EPA entirely.

Trump is authorizing oil pipelines like crazy and you might despair about that until you realize that he wants to use hydraulic fracturing to fill them with oil, visiting enormous environmental degradation on a wide swathe of America.

Trump wants to cut virtually all federally supported research, scientific or in the humanities, including on diseases like cancer and on climate change, and you might be distressed about that until you realize that he and his cronies would probably like to substitute state propaganda for science entirely.

Trump wants to try to enlist the federal government in a fight against local attempts to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. And you might be depressed about that until you realize that he probably doesnt want a minimum wage at all.

Trump wants to abolish internet privacy and allow private corporations to sell your browser history without your knowledge to other corporations. And you might despair about that until you realize that his ultimate goal to to get rid of net neutrality and make sure we can only visit the web sites of a handful of huge media conglomerates if we want the site to load in less than half an hour.

Trump wants a ban on entrants from six Muslim countries and you might despair about that until you realize his real goal is a complete Muslim ban, followed by a complete Mexican ban.

Trump wants to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, which international law does not recognize as Israels capital (it is a matter for final status negotiations with the Palestinians) an action that will deeply anger and set against the U.S. 1.6 billion Muslims. And you might despair about that until you realize that Trump likely will throw the weight of the U.S. government behind the determined and concerted Israeli government project of putting hundreds of thousands more Israeli squatters on land in the West Bank stolen from Palestinian owners with the likely ultimate outcome of their being made completely homeless in their millions.

I havent even covered all the bases! There is hardly any progressive achievement of the past 40 years which is not on the chopping block. There is hardly any hard-won right of citizens or consumers which is not in danger of being taken away.

The one thing of which I am sure is that we must not allow ourselves to be enervated and exhausted by Trump Fatigue. We have all been working toward certain societal goals, and well just have to keep at it. Were being made to take a step back on many fronts. But lets quote a right-winger right back at the administration: Bad! Bad! What? Does he notgo back? Yes! But you misunderstand him when you complain about it. He goes back like every one who is about to make a great jump forward. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil.

We will make our great jump forward, and will set records precisely because we have been backed up so far and have room to build up speed when we turn it around.

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Are Progressives Suffering From 'Trump Fatigue'? - Truthdig

Hundreds of liberals swarmed to a town hall meeting held by Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.) on Friday. The crowd yelled, jeered, and booed Harris at the event, which took place in the congressmans reliably conservative district.

According to a report by the Baltimore Sun, members of the crowd held signs that read, Dr. Harris, do no harm and Impeach Trump.

Harris, a physician who earned his medical degree at Johns Hopkins University and served in the U.S. Naval Reserve during Operation Desert Storm, is one of the most conservative members in the House of Representatives and a member of the House Freedom Caucus, which made headlines recently for its opposition to the American Health Care Act. The AHCA was backed by House GOP leadership and by President Donald Trump, but it failed to garner adequate support before being pulled from consideration by Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on March 24.

At the town hall meeting, which the Baltimore Sun reported was attended by about 900 people, Harris sparred with liberals and fought continuously to keep control of the event.

During one contentious moment, Harris threatened to remove a woman who abruptly yelled out during his presentation on improving treatment for Alzheimers patients. Someone in the crowd then yelled to Harris the individual didnt care to hear about Alzheimers disease, to which Harris fiercely responded, You may not want to hear about Alzheimers now, but you will at some point in your life. You will.

Meanwhile, Harris was met with a cascade of boos from the audience.

At another point during the hour-long presentation, Harris faced harsh criticism from the crowd for his support of restructuring Medicaid so that states have greater control over the entitlement program, a proposal called block-granting. Harris called it an inconvenient truth, a reference to Al Gores infamous film about global warming, that Medicaid doesnt provide high-quality care. Unsurprisingly, the crowd yelled and booed in response.

Harris also defended the proposition of building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Most Americans actually want a secure border, Harris said, which was followed by chants from the crowd of no wall. In one particularly raucous moment, Harris said, It was up to the voters of America to decide if that was important, referring to whether Trump should release his tax returns. Harris reportedly shrugged his shoulders and smiled, causing the crowd to scream and boo.

Harris isnt the only Republican to face large, mostly hostile town hall crowds in recent months. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) faced a similarly angry crowd one week ago at a town hall meeting, and Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) endured shouting matches at a town hall meeting he held in his deep-red state on Friday.

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