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On April 1, 2021, a man named Watanabe Mitsuomi emerged from a secluded enclave on the grounds of the Enryakuji temple on Mt. Hiei, on the outskirts of Kyoto. In keeping with a tradition stretching back nearly unbroken for twelve centuries, Watanabe an unassuming-looking monk dressed in pale saffron robes and wearing nondescript eyeglasses under his shaved head had spent every single day for twelve years rising at four a.m. to read aloud the Buddhist sutras. The former engineering graduate and company employee entered monastic life in 2002, and in April of 2009 he swore off television, newspapers, and other contact with the outside world. For twelve years after that, he devoted himself to prayer on Mt. Hiei, utterly alone.
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Rep. Alcee Hastings, civil rights lawyer and judge elected to 15 terms in Congress, dies at 84
Hastings announced in 2019 that he was being treated for pancreatic cancer.
By Harrison SmithWashington Post
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Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla., speaks during a House Rules Committee hearing on the impeachment against President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill in Washington on Dec. 19, 2019. AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File
Rep. Alcee L. Hastings, a charismatic civil rights lawyer who became Florida’s first Black federal judge, was impeached on corruption charges and made a remarkable comeback as a liberal Democratic member of the U.S. House and the dean of his state’s congressional delegation, died April 6. He was 84.
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On April 1, 2021, the United States Supreme Court issued a long-awaited landmark decision that finally resolves a deep split of authority in the Circuit Courts of Appeal regarding the definition of an autodialer under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). In a unanimous opinion, the justices overturned a Ninth Circuit ruling that broadly defined the type of automatic telephone dialing system (ATDS) prohibited by the TCPA. See Facebook, Inc. v. Duguid, Case No. 19-511 (2021).
While the TCPA defines an ATDS as equipment that has the capacity to store or produce telephone numbers to be called, using a random or sequential number generator, and to dial such numbers, the Ninth Circuit broadly construed that definition and held that it is enough for a phone to be able to dial stored numbers automatically to qualify as an ATDS under the TCPA which definition would encompass the capabilities of most smartphones. Gi
by Ralph Scharnau posted with permission
The framers of the United States Constitution established a government composed of three separate branches, legislative, executive, and judicial. The Supreme Court functions as the highest tribunal in the nation’s federal judiciary system. Unlike members of Congress and the President, who are elected, Supreme Court Justices are recommended by the President and approved or rejected by the Senate.
The U.S. Constitution does not dictate the number of judges on the Supreme Court but only that federal judges serve with good behavior and receive compensation for their services. In 1869 Congress set the number of Supreme Court justices at nine where it remains today. Justices usually serve until retirement or death.