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HBO’s Vinyl debut is set for Sunday, February 14th. The show focuses on New York’s music scene during the 1970′s. The Hollywood Reporter sat with the show’s costume designer, John Dunn and executive producers Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese to discuss the fashion and overall inspiration of the show to recreate NYC 70′s aesthetic.
Although the team used vintage pieces as well has high fashion, throughout the first season Dunn mentions how important the culture of New York in the 70′s played a part in fashion and style of the show
“Of course, NYC 1973 was the zenith of cool — a mashup of glam rock, punk and disco. “I think Marty, Terry and Mick picked it because it was the birth of a new culture,” says Dunn. “Max’s Kansas City was at its height: Andy Warhol’s crowd, Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground, Bowie, Robert Mapplethorpe, Alice Cooper hung out there, and it’s extremely well documented.”
Read more of The Hollywood Reporter interview here and watch the Vinyl trailer below:


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This article has been updated to clarify Chris Swecker’s former role in the FBI.
(LifeSiteNews) — A former FBI executive on Monday joined a growing number of Republican lawmakers in torching the Biden administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) for sending a team of heavily-armed FBI agents to arrest pro-life Catholic author and speaker Mark Houck in front of his terrified family in a dawn raid Friday.
LifeSiteNews broke the now-viral story, which has dominated conservative media and generated massive backlash from elected representatives who demand the Biden administration answer for the apparent “weaponizing” of the DOJ.
Former assistant FBI director Chris Swecker, who headed up the bureau’s Criminal Investigative Division from 2004-2006 and whose 24-year tenure included time as a SWAT team member, told Fox News on Monday that he couldn’t “see circumstances here that in any way justify the use of a SWAT team for what would ordinarily be a misdemeanor assault, if what is alleged in the warrant is true.”
Former assistant FBI director Chris Swecker on criticism facing the FBI and DOJ following an arrest of a Catholic leader. https://t.co/fonjtEyzo7
— Todd Piro (@ToddPiro) September 26, 2022
RELATED: LifeSite journalist tells Real America’s Voice FBI raid on Mark Houck was an act of terrorism
The FBI arrest of the pro-life speaker came a year after Houck allegedly pushed an abortion facility employee to the ground twice on the same day. Houck’s wife Ryan-Marie said the clinic “escort” had been verbally harassing Houck’s then-12-year-old son while the pair were praying in front of a downtown Philadelphia Planned Parenthood, and that Houck pushed him away to protect the boy, LifeSiteNews reported. Ryan-Marie told LifeSite the clinic worker had not been injured.
Houck’s attorney, Thomas Moore Society VP senior counsel Peter Breen, said that the case against Houck had been thrown out, but the DOJ decided to pick it up in a kind of “political prosecution.”
The DOJ obtained a warrant against Houck under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, which makes it a felony to use force to intimidate, injure, or obstruct pro-life or pro-abortion protesters or clinic workers, or to obstruct or destroy abortion facilities or pro-life pregnancy centers.
Ryan-Marie, a homeschooling mother of the family’s seven children, told LifeSite on Friday that as many as 25-30 FBI agents surrounded their home at just after 7 that morning and “started pounding on the door and yelling for us to open it.”
“[T]hey had big, huge rifles pointed at Mark and pointed at me and kind of pointed throughout the house,” she said. “The kids were all just screaming. It was all just very scary and traumatic.”
READ: FBI raids home of Catholic pro-life speaker, author with guns drawn as his terrified kids watch
“So, dawn raid, guns drawn — that is reserved for gang members, for people who are armed and dangerous,” Swecker told Fox News. “And I read the warrant, I don’t see any facts and circumstances that justify that.”
The FBI confirmed Monday in statements to Fox News Digital that the arrest took place and that more than a dozen armed agents went to Houck’s home with guns drawn.
UPDATE (01/30/23): Mark Houck has been AQUITTED on both charges!
Thanks be to God LifeSiteNews can report that Mark Houck has been found "Not Guilty" on all counts today.
In a statement to LifeSiteNews, Pro-Life Coalition of Pennsylvania spokeswoman and Houck family friend Ashley Garecht said “We rejoice and celebrate that Mark Houck has been found not guilty on all counts.”
“This case was always about a father’s right to protect his son, and never had anything to do with the FACE act,” she said. “We are grateful to the judge for his integrity, and to the jurors for their thoughtful deliberations. We are grateful to Mark’s attorneys who labored so diligently in his defense. And we are grateful for all of those who surrounded and supported Mark and his family in prayer through this challenging ordeal.”
“Most of all we praise and thank God for his protection and provision,” Garecht added. “To Him be all the glory.”
The Thomas More Society is set to hold a press conference today on the 6th street side of the James A. Byrne U.S. Courthouse, 601 Market Street, Philadelphia.
Monday’s verdict came after a tense weekend wait following a deadlocked jury on Friday.
Several hours into Monday’s deliberations after the jury reconvened, an alternate was chosen to replace one of the jurors. Just before 3:00 p.m. EST, the jury delivered its verdict, acquitting Houck on both charges.
Mark Houck, a pro-life Catholic father of 7, became the latest victim of an FBI raid and arrest on the morning of Friday September 23 — for supposed “FACE (Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances) (Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances) Act” violations — at his rural home as his children looked on “screaming.”
The arrest and raid stems from an altercation with a Planned Parenthood worker.
According to Mark’s wife Ryan-Marie, a “pro-abortion protester” would verbally harrass Mark's 12-year old son — hurling vulgar and derogatory statements.
When the protestor encroached in the boy's space, Mark defended his son. At that point, “Mark shoved him away from his child, and the guy fell back,” Ryan-Marie recounts.
The protestor was not injured, but he tried to sue Mark Houck for the assault but his case was thrown out of court in the early summer.
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The description of this arrest sounds like it took place in a totalitarian state. A tragic unraveling of Justice in America. https://t.co/e3vEID7E39— Bishop J. Strickland (@Bishopoftyler) September 25, 2022
If convicted, Houck faces up to a maximum of 11 years in prison, three years of supervised release, and fines of up to $350,000, according to the Justice Department.
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“Just in the last few days we’ve seen some pretty glaring examples of what appear to be instances of DOJ [Department of Justice] overreach. You’ve got a Catholic father of seven who formed a group designed to encourage young men to be faithful to their commitments, arrested in front of his seven children just recently. You’ve got all these instances of overreach. It’s deeply concerning to us all. These are all things we’re gonna be looking into.” — US Senator Mike Lee
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However, a bureau spokesperson and a senior source who spoke with the outlet argued that the armed FBI agents weren’t part of a SWAT team, there were no more than 20 agents present, and that they didn’t point their guns directly at Houck or his family.
Meanwhile, though the FBI decided to carry out a guns-drawn raid to arrest Houck, the agency hasn’t made a single arrest in connection with the spate of vandalism, firebombings, and terroristic threats targeting pro-life centers and churches since the leaked Supreme Court opinion and ultimate overturning of Roe v. Wade in June.
READ: FBI has made no arrests in connection with Jane’s Revenge attacks on pregnancy centers, churches
In his comments to Fox, Swecker said the FBI has become a political organization, and that he has heard from “former FBI executives, police chiefs, [and] heads of state agencies who in the past have been big supporters of the FBI who are fairly disgusted with what just happened.”
Swecker said he is “deeply concerned” that the FBI’s apparent weaponization could lead to even more horrific incidents than Houck’s arrest, a warning posed in a Washington Examiner op-ed responding to LifeSite’s reporting about the FBI raid.
Meanwhile, Swecker hasn’t been the only one to speak out about the FBI raid.
GOP lawmakers blast the weaponization of the DOJ against conservatives
In comments made to The Daily Signal on Monday, Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas argued that the FBI’s Friday raid “appears to be nothing less than a brazen continuation of the abuse of power by federal authorities against average American citizens that must stop.”
“We owe the American people congressional hearings to provide public and transparent accountability for any and all wrongdoing,” Roy said. “Even further, the FBI needs a complete and total overhaul to return primary law enforcement power to the states and to get the Bureau out of the business of politics once and for all.”
Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas also denounced the FBI’s raid on Sunday, calling Houck’s arrest “absurd” and a “blatant, partisan abuse of power.”
This is absurd.
A blatant, partisan abuse of power.#JusticeCorrupted https://t.co/si3OZJtc36
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) September 25, 2022
In a Monday post on Truth Social, Arizona Republican Rep. Paul Gosar argued the “FBI has abandoned professionalism and is out of control.”
“We need transparency and accountability. Without both the agency is a threat to American democracy and should be shuttered,” Gosar said.
Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Doug Mastriano, who is running for governor in the Keystone State, also expressed “outrage” at the FBI’s “show of force carried out by the Biden regime against ordinary Americans … ”
In a Saturday statement, Mastriano called the raid “an abuse of power that stands against the fundamental principles on which our country was founded,” and promised that if elected governor he “will not allow the police state of Joe Biden to enforce his persecution against his political enemies on sacred Pennsylvania soil.”
🚨STATEMENT FROM DOUG MASTRIANO RE: BIDEN’S FBI RAID OF PENNSYLVANIA HOUCK FAMILY🚨 pic.twitter.com/mmH4REqhbI
— Jenna Ellis 🍊🦅 (@JennaEllisEsq) September 24, 2022
LifeSiteNews also previously reported that U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri called on Biden administration Attorney General Merrick Garland to “testify, under oath, before the Senate Judiciary Committee about your selective use and apparent political weaponization of the FACE Act.”
Mark Houck faces felony charges that could lead to up to 11 years in prison and fines totaling as much as $350,000.
A GiveSendGo fundraiser has been set up for the Houck family and has already reached over $250,000 in donations.


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A Mexican national who has spent several years organizing Californians against federal immigration policy filed a lawsuit last week against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Border Patrol, and other federal agencies.
Claudia Rueda, a 23-year-old student at California State University-Los Angeles (CSU-LA), claims that her application for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was unfairly rejected by immigration officials as a reprisal for her “constitutionally protected political speech” and “activism,” according to the court filing.
Rueda, who was brought into the United States as a six-year-old, said she faces deportation proceedings at the end of this month.
#HappeningNow: “I am still not free!” Immigrant youth and @CalStateLA student Claudia Rueda sues DHS over retaliation, illegal arrest, and denying her DACA #FreeClaudia #ICEoutofLA pic.twitter.com/YCXYtg680t
— NDLON (@NDLON) October 30, 2018
DACA, established by President Barack Obama’s executive order in 2012, allows some people who entered the country unlawfully as children to remain if certain conditions are met. The Trump administration unsuccessfully attempted to end the policy a year ago.
“I’m not going to stay silent when I face and continue to face this legal violence and retaliation against my existence,” Rueda told reporters while surrounded by comrades from a coalition called ICE out of L.A.
“The Department of Homeland Security is targeting me,” she said. “They want to deport me.”
Despite spending more than six years as a pro-migrant organizer, Rueda did not apply for DACA protection until after immigration officers detained her in 2017.
Rueda’s lawsuit contends that her outspoken actions “against the Defendants’ immigration practices” are “the only discernible difference” between her and the nearly 800,000 others who have already been approved for DACA status.
However, Rueda’s complaint makes no mention of her father, Hugo Rueda, who was arrested last year on narcotics charges after more than 30 pounds of cocaine was found in his car, and $630,000 in illicit cash was found in the family’s Los Angeles apartment. Nor does it acknowledge the circumstances of Claudia’s detainment that followed less than a month later, when she had been taken into custody outside of that same home for immigration infractions.
Her capture was part of a sting described by Border Patrol as “targeted enforcement actions that were initiated from a criminal investigation” of a transnational drug enterprise based in Los Angeles. Rueda was held at an ICE detention center for three weeks and eventually released on her own recognizance after progressive allies, along with elected officials like Mayor Eric Garcetti, lobbied on her behalf.
The Los Angeles Times recently reported:
(Claudia) Rueda was one of seven people arrested as part of an investigation into what the Border Patrol called “a cross-border narcotics smuggling operation.” All seven, however, were arrested on suspicion of immigration violations, not drug offenses, the Border Patrol said last year.
Mark Endicott, a supervisor with the Border Patrol in San Diego, told The Times last year that Rueda was “part of a support network” for a drug organization. Rueda and her attorneys have vehemently denied she has any links to criminal activity, and none of those arrested have been charged with drug offenses in the year since the incident, attorneys said.
Still, one of Rueda’s attorneys labeled her “the ideal Dreamer” — a term often used to define unlawfully present immigrants brought into the U.S. as minors who attended school here and claim to identify as American.
As a 17-year-old high school student, Rueda became involved with the Immigrant Youth Coalition where she served as its youth coordinator. The California-based activist group describes itself as “an undocumented and Queer/Trans youth-led organization” whose mission includes mobilizing young people and incarcerated individuals “to create social change that confronts the interlocking systems of oppression.” It is an offshoot of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON), which has received significant funding from George Soros’ Open Society Foundations and other grant-making institutions known to bankroll liberal and progressive causes.
— AJ+ (@ajplus) June 9, 2017
Rueda’s lawsuit states that she was arrested twice before applying for DACA, downplaying both episodes as “peaceful protest-related misdemeanors that prosecutors did not pursue.” In 2012, she was apprehended at a demonstration in downtown L.A. for disturbing the peace after she sat in the street blocking traffic.
“This is a risk I took for my community,” Rueda told Eastern Group Publications at the time, acknowledging that the arrest could affect her chances to receive DACA protection. “We were tired of living in fear and this action has helped me come out to really be undocumented and unafraid.”
Three years later, she was arrested for trespassing outside the office of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
“Because neither incident resulted in a conviction, neither disqualifies Ms. Rueda from DACA status,” Rueda’s lawsuit maintains, while referring to her as “a law-abiding” person with “no criminal history.”
Dr. Melina Abdullah, a professor at CSU-LA who also a prominent Black Lives Matter leader, has called Rueda “one of our most active and powerful students” and urged her following to “stand up for Claudia.”
Rueda’s attorneys said her federal lawsuit is the first to challenge a rejected DACA application. It is expected to be decided next year.

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Gone are the days when all people could watch from their television films, movies and shows that the whole family could watch. The shows that parents generally thought as safe enough for their young children are now filled with violent content. Today, the viewers are fonder of action films that show high levels of violence. Indeed, violence in television and films becomes the new high in the society.
Interestingly, violence as entertainment roots back thousands of years ago. In Egypt, the people were entertained by watching plays that re-enactment the murder of Osiris, their god. This had led to a considerable number of copycat killings. Likewise, the ancient Romans favored lethal sports. Even Saint Augustine gave proof to this by saying that the society became addicted to gladiator games ("Violence in Media Entertainment").
Although times have changed, violence still played a major role in entertainment. In fact, the number of violence depicted in media has increased. To give proof to this finding, Guy Paquette and Jacques de Guise conducted a research studying six major Canadian television networks. The researchers examined films, dramatic series and programs for children. They found out that between 1993 and 2001, physical violence increased by more than 300 percent. Specifically, the finding was that there was an average of 40 acts of violence every hour ("Violence in Media Entertainment").
The research also led to some interesting findings. Paquette and Guise found out that instances of psychological violence had increased in the last two years. The result showed that between 1993 and 1999, the incidents of psychological violence were stable. However, there was a noted increase of 325 percent between 1990 and 2001. Another interesting finding is that most of the media violence aired in Canada originated from the United States. The researchers further noted that most of the violent acts appear on TV shows before 9 in the evening and some of these shows with violent content were shown before 8 in the evening. This is the time when children are most likely at home and watching television ("Violence in Media Entertainment").
According to Anderson (2002), television is the main source of visual violence, especially for children. Many parents fear for their children, but they let them watch television where children might watch shows with violent content. Anderson (2002) adds that on the average, a child, whether supervised or not, watches around 8,000 televised murders and 100,000 acts of violence before he can even finish elementary school. These numbers double by the time the child reaches 18 years of age.
This problem is intensified as more teenagers go to MTV (Music Television) where they listen to 10,000 hours of rock music. Furthermore, they spend time in front of TV watching shows that contain violent and sexual contents that teenagers should not be watching (Anderson). Recent researches have shown that not only media violence increased, but they also became more sexual, more graphic and more sadistic. Movies today are all about violence where killing takes place. People can see clear images of bullets entering a person's body, of grenades exploding on people, and of persons lying in pools of blood ("Violence in Media Entertainment").
In addition, the number of casualties in movies and TV shows seem to entertain the viewers. For instance, the movie "Die Hard 2" consists of 264 deaths. The movie "RoboCop" showed 32 killed people and its sequel showed 81 killed people. Even "Silence of the Lambs" depicts a psychopath who rejoices in killing women and skinning them (Anderson). Unfortunately, children are the ones who are exposed to these violent contents. The Newsweek magazine reported that.
It gets dark early in the Midwest this time of year. Long before many parents are home from work, the shadows creep up the walls and gather in the corners, while on the carpet a little figure sprawls in the glow emanating from an anchorman's tan. There's been a murder in the Loop, a fire in a nightclub, an indictment of another priest. Red and white lights swirl in urgent pinwheels as the ambulances howl down the dark streets. And one more crime that never gets reported, because there's no one to arrest. Who killed childhood? We all did. (qtd. In Anderson)
Aside from MTV, wrestling has also become a favorite among many people, even among children. People are entertained when they see wrestlers claw at each other and beat each other violently. Likewise, most of the video games that even children have access to depict violence. Grand Theft Auto, for instance allows players to beat prostitutes to death after having sex with them ("Violence in Media Entertainment").
Despite the violent contents in the media, defenders of television programs come to the rescue by saying that what people see in TV has no bearing to their behavior. This means that when someone watches a show with violent content, he does not necessarily become violent. Anderson argues that if what people see on TV has no effect on human behavior, then TV networks must refund billions to their sponsors.TV executives argue that a commercial lasting 30 seconds can influence consumer behavior. However, they deny that a program lasting one hour can influence social behavior (Anderson).
In line with this, the issue whether media violence results to violence in society has been a topic of debates among people ("Research on the Effects"). Anderson believes that the impact of media violence is predictable. In fact, two reports in 2002 showed a link between TV violence and aggressive behavior among children and teenagers. Furthermore, the National Institute of Mental Health found out that violence shown in TV can "spill over into the playground and the streets." This is not the only proof of the relationship between TV violence and aggressive behavior. The study found out some kinds of aggression were positively correlated with the amount of TV viewing (qtd. In Anderson).
The finding of the National Institute of Mental Health is supported by several findings of long-term studies. A study conducted by psychologist Leonard Eron of the University of Illinois showed that the TV habits of children affect their aggressive behavior from childhood to adolescent years. The study further showed that the more violent the TV show was, the more aggressive the behavior was. Based from his results, Eron concluded that the relationship between watching violence on TV and aggression is cumulative (Anderson).
Twenty years after this first study, Eron and several of his researchers noticed the repetition of this pattern. Their study showed that the children who watched frequently watched TV violence were more likely to commit crimes at 30. The results of their research were proof that watching TV violence is a cause of aggressive behavior, crime and violence in the society. Furthermore, they proved that TV violence affects children and teenagers of all ages, genders and socioeconomic levels (Anderson).
The results of studies mentioned in this article are proof of the relationship between watching too much films, movies, and TV shows containing violence and violence in the society. Exposure to violence in the media from a very early age can result to unwanted behavior among viewers. Although there are some experts who still question the effect of media violence on social violence, the results shown in this article are enough to convince viewers to protect their children from watching too much television unsupervised.


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Cloud migrations within federal agencies can be complex and can sometimes take years to complete. Here are some tips for federal IT leaders looking to make the transition to cloud services, offered by feds who have already made the switch.
- Avoid vendor bias. Starting with a level playing field for all cloud vendors will help smooth the approval process, says NOAA CIO Zachary Goldstein.
- Create cross-functional teams. It’s essential to take a holistic approach and involve people from across the agency, says Veterans Affairs Department spokesperson Terrence Hayes.
- Run live pilots. “Testing and piloting are key,” says Justice Department CIO Joseph Klimavicz. “I always use my office as a guinea pig.”
- Check the network. Switching from servers down the hall to across the country can impact performance, says Klimavicz. Make sure network capacity and quality are up to the task.
- Devise a communication strategy. Cloud adoption can entail a huge culture change, says Goldstein. Agencies need a solid communication strategy that explains what they’re moving to the cloud and why they’re doing it.
- Learn from others. Agencies that have been down this road already can point out potholes, Goldstein adds. “We spent a lot of time with the General Services Administration before we went with Google Suite. We owe them a big debt of gratitude.”
For more one federal cloud migration, and why they often begin with a switch to cloud-based email, check out our feature story, “Feds Can Kick-start Cloud Migrations with Email.”


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When the statist legislative experiments of the New Deal fell, one after another, at the hands of an overreaching Supreme Court, Franklin Roosevelt displayed uncharacteristic political clumsiness and sought to pack the Court. Of course, that project failed, and he realized quickly that appointments were the key to removing the Court as an obstacle. The most important of those appointments—Felix Frankfurter, Hugo Black, William Douglas, and Robert Jackson—are the subjects of Noah Feldman’s highly readable and often absorbing Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR’s Great Supreme Court Justices.
Feldman, who teaches at Harvard Law School, has a great story here (or, more precisely, four great stories), and he tells it well. All these men came from obscure backgrounds and rose to great prominence under Roosevelt. With their judicial appointments, they became the core of the liberal bloc that pulled the Court out of the way of the New Deal. It was not, however, a serene arrangement: “Beginning as allies, they would become enemies, each with his own theory of how to understand the Constitution,” Feldman writes. Their fierce and consequential struggles made them the scorpions of Feldman’s title.
Feldman provides vivid biographical portraits of all these men, but what makes this book more than biography is the emphasis he places on the development of the judicial philosophy of each of his subjects.
Hugo Black brought what Feldman intriguingly calls “the distinctively Protestant method of biblical interpretation that he had used for two decades as a Sunday school teacher in Birmingham” to his reading of the Constitution and became the “inventor of originalism.” To be sure, it was in many ways a crude originalism, particularly with respect to Black’s obtuse no-law-means-no-law reading of the first amendment. Still, Black steered clear of many of the excesses of the Warren Court because of his adherence to constitutional text.
For many years, William Douglas cared more for his presidential ambitions than his judicial work, but once it was clear that the Court was where he would have to make his name, he pursued the extreme libertarianism that became his hallmark. The problem for him was his abrasive and irascible personality, which alienated his colleagues and essentially eliminated any influence he might have had on the direction of the Court. His autonomy-obsessed individualism, however, was later adopted by William Brennan, whose smooth and accommodating personality turned it into majorities during the Warren Court.
Robert Jackson eschewed a comprehensive judicial philosophy in favor of a pragmatic jurisprudence. His influence was predicated on his extraordinary facility as a writer and his problem-solving approach to cases. Jackson’s skill as a judicial rhetorician is most conspicuously on display in Barnette, the 1943 case that struck down a compulsory flag salute and rejected Frankfurter’s controversial three-year-old Gobitis opinion, which upheld a compulsory flag salute. Moreover, Jackson’s pragmatism made him especially adept at sorting out the nebulous issues of executive power. His concurring opinion in the 1952 steel-seizure case, which thwarted President Truman’s seizure of the steel industry, remains a central precedent on the breadth of presidential authority.
Feldman is especially refreshing in his analysis of Felix Frankfurter. He correctly sees Frankfurter’s principled judicial restraint as the stumbling block for many in accurately assessing his jurisprudence: “As the other liberals on the Court shifted ground, Frankfurter—to his astonishment—found himself transformed into a conservative. Frankfurter’s critics, then and later, have tried to explain how it could be that the country’s best-known liberal became its leading judicial conservative. But the source of the change was not Frankfurter, whose constitutional philosophy remained remarkably consistent throughout his career. It was the rest of liberalism that abandoned him and moved on once judicial restraint was no longer a useful tool to advance liberal objectives.”
Feldman’s narrative closes with the four scorpions all putting their intense differences aside in order to effect the unanimity of Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. Although routinely lauded now as a great act of judicial statesmanship—a view shared by Feldman—the case was in fact an act of great intellectual dishonesty for Black, Jackson, and Frankfurter, all of whom recognized that the Court was acting outside of constitutional law and in an exclusively political way. (The results-driven Douglas had no problem with Brown’s shoddy extra-constitutional rationale.) Thus, the scorpions established a model for judicial supremacy that has made usurpation an insufferably standard practice for the Court.
Brown has become the sacred text of living constitutionalism, a freewheeling interpretive approach that would have been anathema to Black, Jackson, and Frankfurter. It is difficult to imagine the later revolutionary judicial decisions on contraception, abortion, and homosexual rights without it: the enlightened jurist, believing that he is acting with the boldness and moral clarity of Brown, removes an issue from the reactionary messiness of democratic contention and resolves it once and for all along progressive lines. That is the baneful legacy of Brown.
With the exception of Douglas, all these men made genuine, and often brilliant, contributions to constitutional law, as Feldman’s accessible book establishes. But the decades following the departure of Roosevelt’s jurists demonstrate that the catastrophic legacy of Brown—the superstition that the Court can, with one case, resolve a complex political problem—undermines these achievements and continues to cause grave damage to the constitutional order that these men did so much to shape.

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Dr Poonam Gungadin (Regional Health Director, SSRN Hospital), MSc Health Services Management13/06/2022 2022-10-19 15:20
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The UK Border Agency has been accused of detaining children in degrading and disgraceful conditions at Heathrow Airport.
The Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) says children of all ages are held in unacceptable facilities nearly every day, and sometimes kept over night in small, stuffy rooms with no natural light.
The report claims there is no access to open air and no proper sleeping accommodation. There are only hand basins for washing, and children are often kept in the facility with adults they are not related to.
A spokesperson for IMB told the Press Association that the practice has continued despite the Government promising it would end the detention of children:
"This continues despite the Government saying that it would end the detention of children for immigration purposes. The IMB recognises that children cannot always be admitted to the country straight away and are sometimes held for their own protection.
"But it recommends that non-custodial, child-friendly accommodation is provided at Heathrow for families with children as a matter of urgency."
The IMB was set up to monitor and report on the welfare of people in immigration custody at the airport, and the teams are made up of unpaid volunteers who visit the airport at least once every week.
A spokeswoman for BAA said they had not seen the report and could not comment, but were "somewhat surprised by UK Border Force's response, since we have had many meetings with them recently and it has not been raised."