{foxnews.com} ~ Two rockets were fired at the Israeli city of Tel Aviv Thursday night, triggering air raid warning sirens... the country's military said. Sources told Fox News one of the rockets was intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system. People living in the area reported hearing an explosion in addition to the sirens. The Israel Defense Forces confirmed in a Hebrew-language tweet that two rockets were fired into Israeli territory from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. Israel's Channel 10 news, citing anonymous military officials, said the rockets were Iranian-made Fajr rockets. It said one of the rockets were intercepted and the other landed in an uninhabited area, and that there were no reports of injuries. Tel Aviv has not been attacked by rocket or missile fire since a 2014 war with Hamas militants. There was no immediate claim of responsibility Thursday night. Earlier Thursday, Hamas forces dispersed hundreds of Palestinians protesting dire living conditions in the territory, which has been blockaded by Israel and Egypt since the militant group took power in 2007. Videos circulated on social media showed police firing live rounds in the air, beating protesters and hauling them into police vehicles. Hamas says it is restoring order after demonstrators burned tires and blocked roads...
Political Editors: Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s former attorney general, scumbag-Eric Holder, recently spoke at Yale Law School and Columbia University, where he invoked his inner FDR and suggested that Democrats should increase the number of Supreme Court justices. Referencing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s decision to not hold a vote on Merrick Garland during scumbag/liar-nObama’s last year in office, scumbag-Holder argued, “Given the Merrick Garland situation, the question of legitimacy is one that I think we should actually talk about. We should be talking even about expanding the number of people who serve on the Supreme Court, if there is a Democratic president and a Congress that might be willing to do that.”
Recall back in 1937, Franklin Roosevelt, frustrated by SCOTUS’s ruling against several of his New Deal programs, sought to expand the size of the Supreme Court so he could pack it with justices of his own choosing. At the time, the scheme was recognized for what it was — a bald-faced power-grab, which FDR’s own party wisely shot down.
But several leading Democrats today clearly don’t share the same sentiments. In fact, Democrat presidential hopeful Kirsten Gillibrand recently stated that she’s open to court-packing. Don’t be surprised if other 2020 contenders follow suit. The Wall Street Journal observes, “Having dominated courts for decades, progressives can’t abide that the highest Court might no longer be an engine of progressive policy. Donald Trump’s determination to nominate highly qualified and principled judicial conservatives has heightened their panic.”
The most obvious objection to Holder’s idea would be the fact that such an action would only serve to further inject politicization into the one branch of government that was designed to be nonpartisan. It’s already the despotic branch. But that’s not enough. ~The Patriot Post
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