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New Legal Challenge launched against UK Gov. to stop roll-out of Covid-19 Vaccine to Children after Judge takes Chris Whitty’s claims at face value in...

<p><strong>A new legal challenge has been launched against the UK Government in an attempt to put an immediate end to the roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine to children and teenagers, after a Judge refused the Claimants’ application for permission for judicial review of Covid-19 vaccination of children.</strong></p>
<p>On September 28th 2021, the Administrative Court in London adjourned a case against the Government on the roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine to children, instructing the Government to submit evidence to the court by October 11th 2021 justifying Covid-19 vaccination of children.</p>
<p>However, having considered the matter on all documents, statements and submissions filed, The Honourable Mr Justice Jay refused the Claimants’ application for permission for judicial review of government’s roll out of the vaccines to 12 to 17 year-olds.</p>
<p>As is standard process in this type of case, the Claimants have therefore renewed the application, the effect of which is the matter will be considered by a different Judge with benefit of oral argument from the parties’ barristers.</p>
<p>The <span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jhmPApMgjqyLmyqhFcrL_Q2C3Ln5Ugro/view?usp=sharing">reasons for the refusal</a></span> are short, but the Judge effectively decided that the Claimants are simply trying to present an alternative expert view to those of the government advisors whereas they have to show the advice received or government’s decision on it was irrational.</p>
<p>The four Chief Medical Officers for the United Kingdom relied on a modelled predicted saving of 110,000 days of school absence between approximately 2.7 million pupils, and a supposed consequent avoidance of mental ill-health and disruption to education, as justification to overrule the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation’s decision to not recommend the jab was rolled-out to children.</p>
<h4>But fundamental points not addressed in <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jhmPApMgjqyLmyqhFcrL_Q2C3Ln5Ugro/view?usp=sharing">the judgment</a> include:</h4>
<p>a) how any rational assessment of the benefit of avoiding X days of absences from school could expressly exclude consideration of an assessment of the likely absences caused by vaccine adverse effects and/or administration of the vaccination programme itself.</p>
<p>b) how any rational assessment of a purported risk to mental health caused by absence resulting from Covid-19 (known to be almost always of short duration for children because of mild symptoms) could be made without any evidence as to the extent and seriousness of any such risk or of the assessment of such risk.</p>
<p>c) how any rational assessment of benefit versus risk (i.e. the benefit of avoiding X days school absences, as modelled, versus the risks of Vaccine adverse effects causing quantifiable X days school absences as well as of known physical harms to children as expressly recognised by the JCVI)  -which is the required balancing exercise required in order to consider administration of any medical treatment –  could be made by the CMOs or the Defendant without taking the risks-side of that equation into account, either at all or in any measured way, so as to arrive at a conclusion that benefit outweighed the risks; and in particular</p>
<p>i) how the CMOs or the Defendant could arrive at that conclusion in the absence of any new data contradicting the JCVI’s earlier assessment that the risk of harms to children were serious and with long-term unknown sequelae, notably from heart inflammation, and that more data was required;</p>
<p>ii) how the CMOs’ and Defendant could rationally assess the benefit they identified (avoiding X days’ school absence) as outweighing the risks (unknown future harms) identified by the JCVI, the expert body advising the government on vaccine safety and causing it to recommend against mass vaccination of healthy 12-15 year olds;</p>
<p>iii) why the CMOs (and the Defendant) did not assess the benefit of avoiding X days school absences in light of the CMOs’ own knowledge that the level of natural immunity in children from prior infection is about 50%, which level is substantially higher that the level used in the Warwick university modelling study on which the CMOs relied in assessing the potential benefit of the Vaccines in avoiding school absences.</p>
<p>iv) why the CMOs and the Defendant did not assess the benefit and risks of other solutions to the health impact of school absences, such as, for example, changing the policy of causing absence through the mass testing and isolation of healthy children, as alternatives to conducting a mass vaccination programme of healthy children (such an alternative would result in a risk to children no greater than Sars-COV-2 itself, which is a negligible risk, but would avoid all the risks of adverse effects of the Vaccines).</p>
<p>The effect of this policy is a factor which should reasonably be taken into account in considering why children have suffered mental ill health because of school absences imposed by it. A few days’ absence from school for children because of a head cold has not previously been regarded as a cause of mental ill health. Repeated and lengthy mass enforced absences inflicted by government policy might well be.</p>
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<p>Further, the judgment does not identify the evidence by which the learned judge made an assessment that the Defendant has taken relevant matters into consideration and that he did so proportionately, save as to say that it is broadly in the evidence provided by the Defendant’s witness statements.  </p>
<p>Further, where the judgment refers to ‘good evidence’ that the vaccine reduces infection and transmissibility, it does not identify the source of that good evidence (whether by reference to the Defendant’s witness statements or otherwise), nor does it indicate how the learned judge has been able to assess the evidence as ‘good’.</p>
<p>Nor does the judgment indicate whether or how the Defendant made any reasonable assessment of the degree to which the Vaccines reduce transmission of Sar-COV-2  when  assessing the presumed benefits of vaccination. Underestimating the level of prior infection by about half renders reliance on the CMOs’ (and therefore the Defendant’s) calculation of benefit unsafe and should be enough to disturb the reasonableness of their reliance on that calculation of benefit.</p>
<p>Add to that an unreasonable assessment of effect of the Vaccines on transmission, for example because that assessment relies on measures of effectiveness against Alpha not Delta, (which is accepted to be by far the predominant variant in the UK) ought to put the matter beyond question: the estimate of benefit in avoiding X days of school absences is intrinsically unreliable and there is therefore no real benefit on any basis for a mass vaccination programme of healthy 12-15 year olds.</p>
<p>The learned judge has effectively given the benefit of no doubt to the Defendant’s witnesses, apparently assuming that what they say can be taken at face value as statements of the facts that were relied on. However, this ignores the serious and substantial issues raised in the Claimants’ Reply Submissions pointing to demonstrable inaccuracies in that evidence, as well as evidence and submissions brought to the Court’s attention that the Defendant has failed to take account of material pieces of evidence.  </p>
<p>The Defendant’s position, and the qualifications of those people advising him, are not sufficient reason to favour their evidence in such way, certainly not in the face of the failure to disclose key reports relied upon in their decision making and credible evidence presented by the Claimants which may prove their assertions to be wrong.</p>
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<p>The Claimants have asked for the next hearing to be at earliest opportunity having regard to the nature of the decision being challenged and the fundamental concern raised within the claim that the safety of many children is at risk, as appears to be being reflected by a concerning number of reports of sudden and unusual onset of serious illness and clotting events following vaccination. </p>
<p><a href="https://theexpose.uk/2021/10/27/deaths-among-male-children-increased-by-89-percent-since-given-covid-19-vaccine/">Data published by the Office for National Statistics</a> also shows that <span><a href="https://theexpose.uk/2021/10/27/deaths-among-male-children-increased-by-89-percent-since-given-covid-19-vaccine/">deaths among children have increased by 62% against teh five-year-average</a></span> since Chris Whitty overruled the JCVI and advised the Government to roll-out the Pfizer vaccine to children. Worryingly, the data also shows that there has been an 83% rise in deaths of male children.</p>
<p>We will provide a further update on the request for a new hearing once it has been confirmed.</p>
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Health Advisors’ Answer to Ireland’s Vaccine-Induced Epidemic – More of The Same Until “Transmission-Blocking Vaccines” Are Available

<p class="has-text-align-justify"><strong>“Ireland now has the highest number of patients in hospital with Covid-19 since March, despite over 91% of the population over-12 being vaccinated – the highest jab rate in the EU.  The number of Covid-positive patients in Irish hospitals now stands at 513 – figures not seen since the end of the infamous third wave last winter … 101 of these are in ICU,” <a href="https://gript.ie/highest-covid-numbers-in-hospital-since-march-despite-91-jabbed/">wrote <em>Gript News</em></a>, an Irish independent media outlet, on 27 October 2021</strong></p>
<p class="has-text-align-justify">The week before <a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/waterford-city-district-has-state-s-highest-rate-of-covid-19-infections-1.4707344">it was reported</a> that Waterford city, with 99.7% of its adult population having had two Covid injections, is one of the most “vaccinated” regions in the entire world and has Ireland’s highest rate of Covid-19 infection.</p>
<p class="has-text-align-justify"><em><a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/covid-19-number-in-hospital-with-the-disease-reaches-highest-level-in-seven-months-1.4711225">The Irish Times quotes</a></em> health officials’ concerns and you have to read them to believe them:</p>
<p class="has-text-align-justify">“The State’s chief medical officer Dr Tony Holohan said he was ‘increasingly worried about the rising incidence of the disease nationwide … we are seeing a continuing increase in hospitalisation and intensive care admissions – a substantial amount of whom are not fully vaccinated.’</p>
<p class="has-text-align-justify">“HSE’s national director of acute operations Liam Woods described the vaccine as ‘our best defence’ against Covid-19.</p>
<p class="has-text-align-justify">“Dr Anne Moore, a vaccine specialist at UCC’s school of biochemistry, said there would be a large increase in cases until there was a ‘transmission-blocking vaccine’.”</p>
<p class="has-text-align-justify">For anyone who takes <em>The Irish Times</em> article at face value, only one thought springs to mind – “Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice,” <a href="https://theexpose.uk/2021/10/30/stupidity-is-a-more-dangerous-enemy-of-the-good-than-malice-dietrich-bonhoeffer/">Bonhoeffer’s Theory of Stupidity</a>.</p>
<p class="has-text-align-justify">In Ireland there was no impact on all-cause mortality death rate during the “2020 pandemic year.”  In the video below <a href="https://thefatemperor.com/time-to-think-the-basic-data-says-it-all-simplified-and-clear/">Ivor Cummins</a> chooses his words and is careful not to discuss “hot topics” to avoid censorship while explaining viral transmission and the data.</p>
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<p class="has-text-align-justify">Returning to <em>The Irish Times</em> article.  It’s interesting that <a href="https://www.newchildrenshospital.ie/team-manager/mr-liam-woods/">Liam Woods</a> was Director of Finance of HSE before being appointed Director of <a href="https://www.hse.ie/eng/about/who/acute-hospitals-division/about/">Acute Services</a> and as is Dr Moore’s “transmission-blocking vaccine” comment  What is a transmission-blocking vaccine?  <em>The Irish Times</em> didn’t elaborate so we looked it up. </p>
<p class="has-text-align-justify">When we search for “<a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Covid+transmission-blocking+vaccines&atb=v283-1&ia=web">Covid transmission-blocking vaccines</a>” only resources related to the current Covid injections are returned and only in respect of “transmission” and “vaccines.”  It seems “transmission-blocking” is a term yet to be widely used, if at all, in the “Covid science” world.</p>
<p class="has-text-align-justify">When we search for “<a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=transmission-blocking+vaccines&atb=v283-1&ia=web">transmission-blocking vaccines</a>” the only results returned, after scrolling through a few pages of search results, are those being developed for malaria or insect-borne diseases.  And there is a reason for that.  The aim of transmission-blocking vaccines is to interrupt a parasite’s sexual stages of development and a virus does not have sexual stages in its life-cycle.</p>
<p class="has-text-align-justify">A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine">vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity</a> to a particular infectious disease.  Malaria is a tropical disease caused by a parasite.  It is transmitted by mosquitoes and is not transmitted directly from one human to another.  Malaria is neither <a href="https://kidshealth.org/en/teens/contagious.html">infectious nor contagious</a>. </p>
<p class="has-text-align-justify"><em><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/immunology-and-microbiology/plasmodium-falciparum">Plasmodium falciparum is the most-deadly</a></em> of the human malaria parasites.  As one approach to halting transmission to humans, transmission-blocking vaccines attempt <a href="https://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13071-016-1802-0#Sec10">to prevent the parasite from completing its life-cycle</a> in a mosquito.</p>
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<p>“In the progression of the life cycle of Plasmodium falciparum, a small proportion of asexual parasites differentiate into male or female sexual forms called gametocytes. Just like their asexual counterparts, gametocytes are contained within the infected host’s erythrocytes (RBCs). However, unlike their asexual partners, they do not exit the RBC until they are taken up in a blood meal by a mosquito. In the mosquito midgut, they are stimulated to emerge from the RBC, undergo fertilization, and ultimately produce tens of thousands of sporozoites that are infectious to humans. This transmission cycle can be blocked by antibodies targeting proteins exposed on the parasite surface in the mosquito midgut, a process that has led to the development of candidate transmission-blocking vaccines (TBV), including some that are in clinical trials. Here we review the leading TBV antigens and highlight the ongoing search for additional gametocyte/gamete surface antigens, as well as antigens on the surfaces of gametocyte-infected erythrocytes, which can potentially become a new group of TBV candidates.” – Abstract, <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30962400/">Transmission-Blocking Vaccines: Old Friends and New Prospects</a>, June 2019</p>
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<p class="has-text-align-justify">The term “transmission-blocking vaccine” suggests it blocks transmission.  Notably, a <a href="https://www.who.int/tdr/publications/tdr-research-publications/malaria-transmission-blocking-vaccines/en/">2000 World Health Organisation publication</a> states: “A vaccine which blocks the transmission of malaria would be of great public benefit … however, it does not reduce a person’s chances of becoming infected, or reduce the severity of disease.”</p>
<p class="has-text-align-justify">So, can we conclude that Dr. Moore, a vaccine specialist, either: has misused the term – and by doing so admitted Covid injections do not prevent transmission – or, is she psychologically preparing the Irish public to line up for the next generation of “transmission-blocking vaccines”?</p>
<p class="has-text-align-justify">If it is the latter, and assuming the science has improved since 2000, which part of <a href="https://www.immunology.org/public-information/bitesized-immunology/pathogens-and-disease/virus-replication">the virus’ life-cycle</a> do they propose blocking?  When the virus attaches to cells or when it penetrates our cells, maybe?  Whether immunity is vaccine or naturally acquired, is that not what it does?</p>
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<p><strong>Innate Immunity to Viruses</strong></p>
<p>“Viral infection induces an extensive array of defence mechanisms in the host. Innate defences come into play to block or inhibit initial infection, to protect cells from infection, or to eliminate virus-infected cells, and occur well before the onset of adaptive immunity.” – <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7151814/">Immune responses to viruses</a>, 15 May 2009</p>
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<p><strong>Adptive Immunity</strong></p>
<p>“The adaptive immune system takes over if the innate immune system is not able to destroy the germs. It specifically targets the type of germ that is causing the infection. But to do that it first needs to identify the germ. This means that it is slower to respond than the innate immune system, but when it does it is more accurate. It also has the advantage of being able to “remember” germs, so the next time a known germ is encountered, the adaptive immune system can respond faster.” – <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK279396/">The Innate and Adaptive Immune Systems</a>, 30 July 2020</p>
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<p class="has-text-align-justify">I am reluctant to offer my personal view as I am not a vaccine specialist, immunologist, virologist or medical doctor but Dr Moore’s comment begs it of me.</p>
<p class="has-text-align-justify">Dr. Moore’s comment sounds like hogwash and an attempt to confuse people with pseudo-science mumbo jumbo.  Or, perhaps it is a cover story for <a href="https://theexpose.uk/2021/10/30/gov-reports-show-fully-vaccinated-and-children-developing-ade/">people’s immune systems collapsing post-Covid injection</a> or that there are <a href="https://theexpose.uk/2021/08/30/american-scientists-confirm-toxic-graphene-oxide-and-more-in-covid-injections/">parasites in some Covid injections</a>. I don’t know.  But as far as I can tell, the objective is for more people to have as many injections, as often, as possible and health advisors will say anything to get the job done regardless of the cost to health or lives.</p>
<p class="has-text-align-justify">On the other hand, maybe I’ll stand corrected.  Maybe she will redeem herself and explain what she means by “Covid transmission-blocking vaccines.” She will need to if she wants to convince people to allow them to be injected into their bodies.</p>
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An unusual alliance appears likely to fracture Texas’s abortion ban

<p>The abortion providers suing to block <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/8/31/22650303/supreme-court-abortion-texas-sb8-jackson-roe-wade-greg-abbott">SB 8</a>, Texas’s aggressive anti-abortion law, came into Monday’s Supreme Court argument with four votes on their side. Two months earlier, four justices thought the law should have been temporarily blocked while the legal challenge against it was sorted out — although the five most conservative justices voted against the abortion providers the first time <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/21a24_8759.pdf"><em>Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson</em></a> was before the Court.</p>
<p>The same case is now back before the justices, this time raising a narrow dispute about who’s even allowed to sue to block the law. And the abortion providers appear likely to have picked up a crucial extra vote to gain the majority.</p>
<p>All four of the dissenters from the September order appear likely to rule against Texas. Though Chief Justice John Roberts, a conservative George W. Bush appointee, did ask one or two skeptical questions of Marc Hearron, the lawyer representing the abortion providers, he seemed to grow increasingly annoyed with Texas Solicitor General Judd Stone. At one point, Roberts admonished Stone for resisting a hypothetical question asked by the Chief.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, it also appears likely that Justices Brett Kavanaugh or Amy Coney Barrett will switch sides and provide the fifth (and maybe a sixth) vote against Texas. At one point in the argument, Kavanaugh pointed to a <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/21/21-463/197884/20211027164758725_21-463%20tsac%20WWH%20-amicus-FPC-final.pdf">brief filed by the Firearms Policy Coalition</a>, which argued that, if SB 8 is allowed to stand, “it will undoubtedly serve as a model for deterring and suppressing the exercise of numerous constitutional rights” — including the Second Amendment.</p>
<p>Kavanaugh appeared to view such an outcome as untenable, and that’s bad news for SB 8.</p>
<p>That said, even if the Court does rule against Texas in <em>Whole Woman’s Health</em>, there’s no guarantee that such a decision will do much to help abortion providers in Texas.</p>
<p>The narrow question currently before the Supreme Court in <em>Whole Woman’s Health</em> — and in <a href="https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/united-states-v-texas-3/"><em>United States v. Texas</em></a>, a similar challenge to SB 8 brought by the Justice Department that is also before the justices — is not whether the Texas law should be struck down. It is whether anyone is allowed to sue to block the law. The reason there’s any uncertainty about how to answer this question is that SB 8 was drafted for the <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/10/22/22740640/supreme-court-abortion-texas-sb8-united-states-whole-womans-health-jackson">very purpose of evading judicial review</a>.</p>
<p>So even if the Supreme Court does rule that the abortion provider plaintiffs are allowed to sue, it is likely that there will still need to be more litigation in a federal trial court before SB 8 is actually determined to be unconstitutional and is blocked by a court order.</p>
<p>Texas’s law effectively bans abortions after the sixth week of pregnancy, a clear violation of the Court’s decision in <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/505/833"><em>Planned Parenthood v. Casey</em></a> (1992), which guarantees a right to abortion until the fetus is sufficiently developed to survive outside the womb. Nevertheless, even if a trial court does find SB 8 to be unconstitutional, any order it issues blocking SB 8 could be swiftly <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/10/9/22717731/texas-abortion-ban-sb8-circuit-court-appeal">halted by the conservative United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit</a> — forcing the plaintiffs to once again return to the Supreme Court to challenge the Fifth Circuit’s decision.</p>
<p>Looming over all of this is another abortion case — <a href="https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/dobbs-v-jackson-womens-health-organization/"><em>Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization</em></a> — which will be argued in December, and asks the Court to overrule <em>Roe v. Wade</em> altogether.</p>
<p>There is a risk, in other words, that by the time the courts sort out whether to strike down SB 8, the Supreme Court will declare that there is no constitutional right to an abortion. And then it won’t matter nearly as much what the courts do with SB 8 — because Texas will be able to pass a law criminalizing abortion outright.</p>
<p>Texas’s anti-abortion law is, Chief Justice Roberts wrote previously, “<a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/21a24_8759.pdf">not only unusual, but unprecedented</a>.” It effectively prohibits all abortions after the sixth week of pregnancy, but does so through a scheme that, in Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s words, was “engineered to prohibit women from exercising their constitutional rights and <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/21a24_8759.pdf">evade judicial scrutiny</a>.”</p>
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<p>Under a doctrine known as “sovereign immunity,” private plaintiffs typically are not allowed to sue a state directly in federal court. But the Court held in <a href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/209/123/"><em>Ex parte Young</em></a> (1908) that private plaintiffs may sue <a href="https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/209/123.html">the state official tasked with enforcing the law</a> that such a plaintiff wishes to challenge. So, for example, if a law permitted the state attorney general to bring criminal proceedings against abortion providers, a party challenging the law would sue the attorney general.</p>
<p>But SB 8 explicitly forbids any “<a href="https://legiscan.com/TX/text/SB8/id/2395961">officer or employee of a state or local governmental entity</a>” in Texas from enforcing it. Instead, it may only be enforced through private lawsuits. These lawsuits may be filed by “any person” who is <em>not</em> an employee of the state against anyone who either performs an abortion or who “aids or abets the performance or inducement of an abortion.” Plaintiffs who prevail in these lawsuits receive a bounty of at least $10,000, which must be paid by the defendant.</p>
<p>So the idea is that no one can sue to stop the law because no state official is a proper defendant.</p>
<p>This structure, it should be noted, does permit abortion providers to perform an abortion that violates SB 8, wait until they are sued, and then argue in Texas state court that SB 8 is unconstitutional. The problem with that approach, as Hearron told the justices, is that “no rational abortion provider would violate this law.”</p>
<p>Anyone who does so could be bombarded with thousands of lawsuits, forced to hire an army of lawyers to defend against them, and then be ordered to pay a bounty of <em>at least</em> $10,000 — which means that there is no upper limit on that bounty.</p>
<p>The abortion provider plaintiffs’ <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/21/21-463/197889/20211027165628612_WWH%20v%20Jackson%20-%20Petitioners%20brief.pdf">primary argument</a> is that, under <em>Young</em>, they may sue state court judges who hear SB 8 lawsuits, and the state court clerks who docket those cases. Yet, while the justices did spend a good deal of time discussing whether judges and clerks are proper defendants, their most revealing questions focused on whether a law like SB 8 should be allowed under any circumstances.</p>
<p>The three most conservative justices — Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch — appeared likely to uphold Texas’s scheme, although Thomas did ask some tough questions of Stone, the Texas lawyer. Thomas noted that SB 8 is unlike other laws permitting lawsuits against private defendants because other laws typically only allow plaintiffs who’ve been injured in some way to file suit.</p>
<p>SB 8, by contrast, effectively deputizes anyone who is not a state official to enforce the state’s anti-abortion law — regardless of whether a particular plaintiff was actually injured by the person they are suing. As Thomas put it, SB 8 plaintiffs are “acting in concert with the state” to enforce the state’s law.</p>
<p>The three liberal justices, meanwhile, left no doubt that they view SB 8 as unacceptable. Sotomayor, for example, pointed to the Court’s school segregation decision in <a href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/358/1/"><em>Cooper v. Aaron</em></a> (1958), which held that the Constitution “can neither be nullified openly and directly by state legislators or state executive or judicial officers nor nullified indirectly by them through evasive schemes.”</p>
<p>Justice Stephen Breyer, meanwhile, quoted early 20th century Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, who said, “I do not think the United States would come to an end if we lost our power to declare an Act of Congress void. I do think the Union would be imperiled <a href="https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artIII_S1_1_1_2_3_1/">if we could not make that declaration as the laws of the several States</a>.” SB 8, Breyer suggested, would prevent the Court from striking down state laws.</p>
<p>Roberts, meanwhile, seemed to share the liberal justices’ concerns. He imagined a slightly different version of SB 8, where the minimum bounty was $1 million instead of just $10,000 — and warned that no one would reasonably be willing to risk violating such a law because the cost of losing would be so high. He also criticized Texas for passing a law that allows abortion providers to be sued anywhere in the state, rather than following the ordinary rules governing which legal venues are appropriate.</p>
<p>So that leaves Kavanaugh and Barrett as the justices in the middle, and both appeared sympathetic to the plaintiffs’ arguments.</p>
<p>If SB 8 is upheld, and the Court permits the use of private bounty hunters to limit constitutional rights, another state could easily use this mechanism not just to restrict abortions and reproductive care, but also to chill other constitutional rights. As the Firearms Policy Coalition argued in its <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/21/21-463/197884/20211027164758725_21-463%20tsac%20WWH%20-amicus-FPC-final.pdf">amicus brief</a>, “it takes little in the way of creative copying for States hostile to the Second Amendment — New York, California, New Jersey, Hawaii, etc. — to declare that the ownership or sale of a handgun is illegal ... and set up a bounty system with the same unbalanced procedures and penalties adopted by Texas in this case.”</p>
<p>This possibility seemed to bother Kavanaugh, who asked about whether a state could authorize a million-dollar bounty against anyone who sells an AR-15, a popular form of semi-automatic rifle.</p>
<p>Even more significantly, Kavanaugh appeared to echo the liberal justices’ concerns that Texas is gaming the system. <em>“</em>There’s a loophole that’s been exploited here,” he told Stone, and suggested that the question before the Court in the <em>Whole Woman’s Health</em> case is “should we extend the principle of <em>Ex parte Young</em> to close this loophole?”</p>
<p>Stone, meanwhile, had a disastrous exchange with Kavanaugh where he argued that someone targeted by an SB 8-style law would have to lobby Congress to enact a federal law protecting their constitutional rights. It “would be difficult to get legislation through Congress,” Kavanaugh deadpanned in response to Stone — an acknowledgement the federal government’s dysfunctional legislative branch is not likely to do much of anything at all.</p>
<p>Barrett, meanwhile, played her cards a little closer to her chest than Kavanaugh, but she seemed bothered that there was no adequate way to challenge SB 8 unless the federal judiciary intervenes. At one point, she expressed concern that abortion providers “cannot get full review” of the law in state court. At another, she questioned whether an SB 8 defendant would be able to get a broad injunction blocking the law in state court.</p>
<p>So, while it remains to be seen how each justice votes, it appears that there may be as many as six votes to allow a lawsuit against SB 8 to move forward. The possibility that <em>any</em> constitutional right could be undermined by an SB 8-style law appeared to bother at least some of the conservative justices who ordinarily vote against abortion rights.</p>
<p>That doesn’t necessarily mean that legal abortions will move forward in Texas — as mentioned above, there is a risk that the courts do not effectively block SB 8 until after the Court hands down its <em>Dobbs</em> decision, which could allow Texas to criminalize abortion outright.</p>
<p>But it does suggest that, at the very least, the Supreme Court isn’t going to give states the power to give the middle finger to its decisions.</p>
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The abortion providers suing to block SB 8 , Texas’s aggressive anti-abortion law, came into Monday’s Supreme Court argument with four votes...

Service workers are getting paid more than ever. It’s not enough.

<p>If there’s one thing many workers have learned from the pandemic, it’s that while money is a lot, it’s hardly everything.</p>
<p>Employers in almost every industry say they’re <a href="https://www.vox.com/business-and-finance/2021/10/26/22733082/labor-shortage-inflation-immigration-foreign-workers">struggling to find workers</a>, but the situation is especially severe in the leisure and hospitality sector. While workers in these industries are getting paid more than ever, it still doesn’t seem like enough. Bars, restaurants, and hotels across the country are posting signs advertising open jobs — or asking customers to be patient since they don’t have enough staff. In August, the latest available month for openings and turnover data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), there were a near-record 1.7 million <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/jolts.a.htm">open jobs</a> in leisure and hospitality — 10 percent of all jobs in the sector — and a record of nearly a million people <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/jolts.t04.htm">quitting</a>.</p>
<p>While lots of breath has been spent suggesting people aren’t returning to these jobs because they’re lazy or on the government dole, the apparent shortfall in workers instead demonstrates longstanding problems with the industries themselves. Thanks to technology, the hospitality business has been undergoing a transformation over the past decade or so, as food delivery has become mainstream and automation has taken over many face-to-face interactions.</p>
<p>But human beings are still integral to keeping these industries running. As a result, restaurants and hotels are closing or unable to operate at full capacity, which is forcing companies to either change their working conditions or their business models to survive. The reasons it’s currently tough to hire in the sector are myriad and range from the romantic, like a push for worker empowerment and reevaluating the meaning of life, to the quotidian, like a lack of child care and opportunities for advancement.</p>
<p>“Hospitality jobs, especially front-line, are notoriously known for low-wage, low-skill kinds of work — it’s associated with working conditions that are not necessarily conducive to adequate life-work balance,” Bruce Tracey, a professor of human resource management at Cornell and editor of Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, told Recode. “So that’s already a stretch to attract people.”</p>
<p>“And then go to the last 18 months and the industry broadly has shown its vulnerability and its fragility,” Tracey said.</p>
<p>Many Americans have been able to hold out for jobs in other industries or better jobs within leisure and hospitality thanks, in part, to an <a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PSAVERT">increased level of savings</a> and decreased spending during the early pandemic as well as other cost-cutting. Additionally, unemployment benefits provided a much needed cushion to those working in food service, hotels, and entertainment — industries that were hit hard early in the pandemic.</p>
<p>The assumption that workers would be forced to go back to work once pandemic benefits ran out didn’t prove true. However, when individual states rescinded their unemployment benefits this summer, it <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/20/business/economy/unemployment-benefits-economy-states.html">didn’t have a meaningful impact</a> on the worker shortage in many industries, including leisure and hospitality. Data from September, when the benefits were cut on a federal level, show a similar story, suggesting there are reasons beyond financial keeping people from taking these jobs.</p>
<p>Before the pandemic, Maureen Neer was a chef de cuisine who typically put in 70 hour weeks, much of it unpaid. “It was sort of like a badge of honor for chefs to be ultra-hardworking, sleep-deprived, to work as much as you can,” Neer said.</p>
<p>When the pandemic hit, she decided it was time to reevaluate her work-life balance and change industries. She convinced a telecom company that her skills ordering supplies for restaurants made her a good candidate as purchasing and operations manager there. She’s been at her new job for a year and is enjoying how different it is from her prior profession.</p>
<p>“I’m still getting to work from home, which gives me a lot more free time to do life things. And I have health insurance, which is nice, and it just feels a little more stable and less likely for me to get burnt out,” Neer said. She sometimes fantasizes about cooking again but keeps reminding herself that “there were a lot of very legitimate and valid reasons why I quit the industry.”</p>
<p>For starters, while pay for non-managers in the leisure and hospitality sector <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t24.htm">rose a dramatic 13 percent in September</a> compared with a year earlier, the average wage is less than $17 an hour, according to the latest BLS wage data. That’s less than even the next lowest-paid sector, retail, which brings in $18.68 per hour. (BLS wage data goes by industry, not occupation.) And a $2 an hour raise also doesn’t mean that much in an industry where many people work part time.</p>
<p>Indeed, weekly pay in the industry averages out to just $416.08, with workers putting in <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t23.htm">25 hours a week</a>. In other industries, people are typically able to get more hours and thus bigger paychecks. (On average, for all private sector jobs, people work 34 hours a week.)</p>
<p>Leisure and hospitality is far from the only sector undergoing a hiring crunch, so many people are able to find better, higher-paying work elsewhere. People are leaving for a variety of jobs, including those in factories and warehouses, customer service, and health care. These are often jobs that have better benefits and more predictable schedules. Unsurprisingly, interest in jobs <a href="https://www.hiringlab.org/2021/10/28/job-seeker-interest-shifting-toward-higher-wage-jobs/">on the hiring platform Indeed</a> skew heavily toward positions with higher wages as well as ones that offer remote work — something that’s not really possible in the leisure and hospitality industries.</p>
<p>Jobs outside that sector also have a clearer path to advancement, according to Cornell’s Tracey. He gave the example of a luxury hotel where it took people 15 years to rise from an entry-level position to general manager. “How long does it take for people to train up to be a brain surgeon?” Tracey said.</p>
<p>But as the pandemic wears on, the lack of affordable child care is perhaps the biggest hurdle to getting people back to work. Many child care workers left their low-paid industry during the last eighteen months, leading to <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/3/25/22345214/child-care-covid-19-daycare-american-rescue-plan">child care deserts</a> where even those with the financial means can’t obtain adequate child care. For people in lower income brackets, including those working in leisure and hospitality, paying for child care can eat up most of their wages, so staying home to watch children is simply a smart financial decision.</p>
<p>As Louis Hyman, a labor relations professor at Cornell, put it, systematically undervaluing child care — considered to be women’s work — has led to this situation.</p>
<p>“Instead of workers suddenly realizing that there is more to life than their service economy job (did anybody not know that?),” Hyman told Recode in an email, “It’s just the patriarchy.”</p>
<p>Still, living through a pandemic gave many people the time and the distance to take stock of their life, and some landed on reprioritizing the importance of work within it. That’s especially true in industries like leisure and hospitality, which disproportionally employs women and people of color, who were <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investigations-discovery/hospitalization-death-by-race-ethnicity.html">disproportionately ravaged by Covid-19</a>.</p>
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<figcaption><span class="e-image__meta">A hotel worker holds a mop in protest outside West Hollywood City Hall as supporters march and demonstrate ahead of a City Council vote on a hotel worker protection policy on July 19 in California. Hospitality workers have been protesting their poor treatment.</span></figcaption>
<span class="e-image__meta"><cite>Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images</cite></span></figure>
<p>“Those are people in our industry,” D. Taylor, international president of Unite Here, a union that represents workers in the hotel and food services industries, said. “They reassessed: ‘What am I doing here? Why am I doing this? Am I getting ahead? Do I have a shot at the American dream?’”</p>
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<aside><q>“If [workers] held the power, they’d be making 30 bucks an hour” —D. Taylor, international president of Unite Here</q></aside>
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<p>Even those who are benefiting from rising wages in leisure in hospitality are questioning the work. For example, a teacher in New York state who works at a winery on weekends, told Recode that he’s been making more, due to a raise and increased tips. But since the pandemic, he’s had a change of heart and wants to spend more time with his own kids.</p>
<p>“It’s hard to say no to money,” the teacher, who asked that we not use his name, said. “Before [the pandemic] I almost looked to be stressed, but now I’m good. I don’t need any more.”</p>
<p>A lot has been said about power being in the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/05/upshot/jobs-rising-wages.html">hands of the worker</a>. A flurry of news about higher wages, signing bonuses, and employee perks, like the ability to work from home, has made it seem as though employees completely dictate their terms of employment. But while employers are certainly having to work harder to hire and retain employees, worker power is likely overstated, especially among lower-wage workers.</p>
<p>“If they held the power, they’d be making 30 bucks an hour,” Taylor said. “They have some power now.”</p>
<p>Problems within the leisure and hospitality sector predate the pandemic. The rise of online ordering and home-sharing apps has sent shockwaves through the industries, and was already causing unrest among leisure and hospitality employees. The pandemic, as it’s wont to do, just made the trend more extreme. It caused working conditions to deteriorate more, but at the same time, it’s also given workers more power than before, thanks to the ongoing labor shortage.</p>
<p>To compete in the online space, <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/delivery-wars/id1465767420?i=1000525523220">restaurants have partnered with tech platforms</a> like Grubhub and Uber Eats to market, sell, and deliver their goods. While expanding their customer base, these platforms also <a href="https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/technology-media-and-telecommunications/our-insights/ordering-in-the-rapid-evolution-of-food-delivery">cut into restaurants’ already low margins</a>. And workers at those restaurants bear that strain. Additionally, many restaurant workers either lost their jobs or unwittingly became front-line workers during the pandemic, which put them constantly at risk of getting sick. The situation is <a href="https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w24361/w24361.pdf">similar at hotels</a>, which have faced an existential crisis from competitors like Airbnb and were largely empty last year. That has meant less money going to hotels and, by extension, to their employees.</p>
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<figcaption><span class="e-image__meta">A delivery worker pushes his bicycle in Manhattan borough on October 27.</span></figcaption>
<span class="e-image__meta"><cite>Eduardo Munoz/AFP via Getty Images</cite></span></figure>
<p>The nature of leisure and hospitality work is also changing. Some companies are using software and robots to complete more mundane tasks, and in turn making the jobs themselves better. By not having to take orders or schedule employees, some employees can focus on the more compelling components of their jobs.</p>
<p>So far it’s unclear whether <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/restaurant-robots-kitchen-labor-shortage-11628290623">using machines to flip burgers or bake pizzas</a> will reduce the need for human labor overall or just redirect it to other tasks. Of course, some companies will simply get by with fewer people, say by reducing how often they clean hotel rooms or by opening fewer days per week or by offering fewer menu items or amenities.</p>
<p>Cornell’s Tracey, however, sees elevating tasks as a way to offer better jobs with better pay.</p>
<p>“The mindset is changing,” Tracey said. “I speak with operational managers and leaders all the time, and many of them are trying to express how much gratitude they can muster to anybody who’s willing to show up.”</p>
<p>That’s expressed itself in higher wages, better benefits, and more flexible hours. That is not just beneficial to employees.</p>
<p>“Some places have gone to try out what it means to actually be a high-road employer,” Heidi Shierholz, president of the Economic Policy Institute, said. “Reduced turnover, higher productivity, higher morale — through all that stuff you recoup the cost of the increased pay.”</p>
<p>But that’s by no means universal.</p>
<p>Yamir Contreras, a unionized housekeeper at a hotel in Rhode Island, hasn’t seen her pay grow since before the pandemic. Her workload, however, has.</p>
<p>Many of her former colleagues left to find better-paying work in other industries, she told Recode through a union interpreter. Where there were once 25 housekeepers, there are now 11 doing the same amount of work. Her pay has not been raised, but she doesn’t want to leave since the job is near her home and her kids. It’s also just what she’s used to.</p>
<p>“What’s really sad is that there are people here who have worked for 10 years and they’re still not even making $18 an hour,” Contreras said. “And hotel jobs are hard. When you work your whole life in a hotel, you go home, and you retire with a walking stick.”</p>
<p>To wit: An aging population that’s <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-pushed-many-americans-to-retire-the-economy-needs-them-back-11635691340">retiring earlier than usual</a> is one of the many reasons there aren’t enough workers to go around.</p>
<p>In response to poor conditions, there’s been <a href="https://twitter.com/aaronsojourner/status/1375443938396409861">unprecedented interest</a> in unions — though <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm">union membership is still only at 11 percent</a>, thanks in part to the difficult governmental hurdles to forming unions. Taylor, the union president, said worker discontent is higher than he’s seen in his 35 years of organizing.</p>
<p>“There’s never been a better time, frankly, to unionize because workers know that corporate America is not going to take care of them, governments aren’t going to take care of them,” he said.</p>
<p>The union <a href="https://unitehere.org/press-releases/as-workers-rise-up-during-striketober-10000-hospitality-workers-march-picket-vote-to-unionize-and-more-in-fight-for-good-jobs/">hosted numerous actions</a> among hospitality workers last month including marches and strikes. They’re asking for fair workloads, living wages, and an end to job cuts. Already, thanks to the labor shortage, leisure and hospitality jobs have been forced to become better than they used to be.</p>
<p>Dewayne Jamison, a stadium worker in Seattle who helps keep the many concession stands stocked with food and beer, recently got a promotion and a big raise to $24 an hour after a <a href="https://www.thestand.org/2021/10/a-new-standard-for-seattles-stadium-workers/">union agreement</a>.</p>
<p>A high minimum wage in Seattle, as well as hazard pay, made it so that even entry-level jobs were making nearly $21 an hour there. That meant the stadium food and beverage company had to increase its wages and benefits to compete.</p>
<p>“I never thought we’d get a $6 raise just like that, you know? That’s a game changer for a stadium worker,” Jamison said. “That’s a life changer.”</p>
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"Great Concern": US "Aware" Of Possible Russian Troop Buildup Near Ukraine

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<p>The Pentagon is monitoring the Ukraine region closely amid reports of a new buildup of Russian troops on the country's border, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said Monday.</p>
<p>According to The Washington Post, US officials are concerned over unexplained movements of Russian military units in the area.</p>
<p>Videos posted on social media show military trains and truck convoys moving tanks and missiles in Russia's southwest near Ukraine.</p>
<p>A US official, speaking on the basis of anonymity, confirmed that there had been some movement, though not as large as the surge in Moscow's forces early this year.</p>
<p>"We're aware of public reports of unusual Russian military activity near Ukraine," Kirby told reporters.</p>
<p>"We're going to continue to consult with allies and partners on this issue... As we've said before, any escalatory or aggressive actions would be of great concern to the United States."</p>
<p>The buildup comes just after US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin toured the Black Sea region, stopping in NATO partner states Ukraine and Georgia and alliance full member Romania, to express solidarity and build more support for confronting Russia in the area.</p>
<p>Russia-aligned separatists in eastern Ukraine have been battling Ukrainian government forces since 2014.</p>
<p>Also in 2014, Russian troops seized the Crimea region of Ukraine, sparking stiff Western sanctions on the country.</p>
<p>In March, just weeks after President Joe Biden's inauguration, Russia massed thousands of troops, heavy military equipment, naval vessels and aircraft on the Ukraine border and in Crimea, holding them there for weeks and sparking fears of an invasion.</p>
<p>Moscow called the movements an exercise, but many of the military assets remained for weeks, and analysts saw it as a warning to Biden.</p>
<p>Washington has refused to accept Russia's claim on Crimea and has delivered lethal military aid to Kiev for use in fighting the separatists.</p>
<p>Moscow has made clear its rejection of any effort to bring Ukraine, a former part of the Soviet Union, into the NATO alliance.</p>
<p>Kirby said that Washington would consult allies and partners on the reported Russian buildup.</p>
<p>"We continue to support deescalation in the region and a diplomatic resolution to the conflict in eastern Ukraine," he said.</p>
<p><i>(This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)</i></p>
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