EDITORIAL
BY DHIREN SHAH
Hello Readers,
The Supreme Court of the United States unanimously (all 9 judges) gave a judgment that no state or state’s judiciary has any authority to block any legal citizen from appearing on a ballot for Federal office – including the Presidency. All 9 judges agreed that it is up to Congress to determine if the 14th Amendment applies in removing someone from the ballot. It’s the biggest win for President Trump after getting sued in many cases, including some recent verdicts for him to pay over $500 million or half a billion dollars. Trump is appealing judgments in the Appellate Court and Supreme Court of the US.
Also, South Carolina’s former governor and former US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley previously announced that she would support whoever was the nominee of the Republican Party. However, she flipflopped and changed her stance. She is the only candidate against Trump in the GOP presidential primary, and she is far behind in the polls. She lost by over 31 points in her own state of South Carolina’s Primary.
President Joseph Biden is facing some tough times for his policies on border security, supporting Israel in the Israel-Hamas war, and has started facing criticism for Ukraine’s war against Russia as well. Also, the way he pulled out of Afghanistan without any prior thought and leaving billions of dollars in equipment will be a problem. His age and his memory will be an issue for him in the upcoming election. I wish a strong candidate from the Democratic Party could have stood up against him, but now it’s too late. As for Vice President Kamala Harris, is she ashamed of calling herself Jamaican or Indian? Because the Black community has not really accepted her despite her claims of being Black.
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris finally decided to call for a ceasefire in Gaza on the threat of losing their voting bloc. However, Israel’s president did not agree and continued attacking Palestinians. Now the death toll is 30,000 plus and the whole world, who usually supports America (due to their money) called for a ceasefire for six weeks. Israel wants all the captives to be released but did not agree to release Palestinian prisoners. If there’s a ceasefire, six weeks will pass by quickly, and except for temporary humanitarian aid, nothing will change.
Last week, President Biden and former President Trump visit the border in Texas. Immigrants will be a big problem for candidates of both parties. However, I think President Biden and the Democrats wants immigrants to enter freely in this country, because the tradition is that when all of the new immigrants who enter and their children or themselves become able to vote, they usually vote for Democrats.
Haiti has had a lot of problems with gangs lately. Haiti’s government declared a state of emergency on March 3rd for 72 hours right after gangs with arms stormed major prisons, killed 12 and helped over 3,700 inmates escape from prison. Gangs are demanding the resignation of Ariel Henry, the Prime Minister. Henry’s whereabouts are unknown since going to Kenya last week. Gangs have controlled the capital of Port-au-Prince. Haiti is our neighbor. We should take care of those people. Many Haitian lives in the Local Talk area.
Locally, there will be four elections this year. School Board Elections, Municipal Elections, Primary Elections and the General Election. It will be an interesting year for all of us. Nature is giving us hard times, and politicians are giving us harder times as well. Nature, we understand and accept it, but politicians are harder to understand and most of the time we vote for a popular name, without thinking about a candidate’s true agenda.
For two weeks, I will be on vacation and Kristopher Seals, our content editor, will write in this space.
Have a wonderful week. I’ll talk to you in two weeks.
