EDITORIAL
BY DHIREN SHAH
Hello Readers,
Pete Hegseth, the U.S. Defense Secretary, is under fire after National Security Adviser Michael Waltz accidentally texted a journalist detailed plan for attacks on the Houthis in Yemen two hours before the attack. It’s a security breach, with classified information and very important for national security. Despite the huge error, the Defense Secretary and his team will not be charged. He may not have done it himself, but one of his team members made a huge mistake. However, it seems that nothing will come of it, as President Trump, the head of the whole administration, called it a “mistake” and did not express any anger. Many people, including Hegseth, said that the error did not even happen. However, The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg stands by his account that he was added to the conversation.
President Donald Trump has been deporting criminals to many countries. For some Venezuelans that were deported, they were led out in handcuffs. Many people did not like this, especially Federal Judge James Boasberg, who gave a temporary restraining order to block deportation. The Trump administration applied a 1798 law for the purpose of deportation. Although Judge Boasberg gave his judgment, Trump’s people stated that they had not received a written judgement, and the planes with the deportees had already left the US. Boasberg then stated that the deported undocumented immigrants be brought back. This will likely end up before the Supreme Court. This is a practice of most of the governments and police departments to use little known laws for the benefit of their accusations.
The New Jersey Gubernatorial election is close to just seven months away. Right now, a few candidates have already announced their candidacy. The “Local Talk” area is a highly Democratic populated area. New Jersey is mostly a Democratic area. However, New Jersey has a tendency to elect Republican governors every now and then. Since 1994, the trend in New Jersey to elect different party governors. From 1994-2001 a Republican, Christine Todd Whitman was the governor.
In 2001-2002 a Republican Donald T. DiFrancesco became interim governor. From 2002 – 2004 James E. McGreevey, a Democrat, became governor. After a scandal, he resigned and Richard J. Codey, a Democrat, became governor for 14 months from 2004-2006. From 2006-2010 Jon S. Corzine, a Democrat became governor. Then, from 2010-2018, Chris Christie, a Republican, became governor for two terms. Now, 2018-2025 (current) Phil Murphy, a Democrat, is the governor. New Jersey law limits governors to only two terms. Six Gubernatorial Democratic candidates met in the first debate hosted by Rider University: Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-Tenafly), Mikie Sherrill (D-Montclair), Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop, former Senate President Steve Sweeney, and teachers’ union leader Sean Spiller.
I received a message on Sunday March 22nd that “Pimp walks into Catholic Church and Punches Bishop for not paying his h–” It happened in 2017. Why are people circulating this and scaring people? If anyone receives this kind of message, please search for it before forwarding it to anyone, especially in WhatsApp. It happens too often, and there could be viruses.
Have a wonderful week. I’ll talk to you next week.
