Jenrick calls for removal of judges who ‘bring personal politics’ into job
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Jenrick calls for removal of judges who ‘bring personal politics into the job.’

Shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick has said judges who “bring their own personal politics” to the job need to be removed. Mr Jenrick said tighter checks are needed before judges are appointed to see if they have partisan views, as well as a system which would allow for them to be removed from their position if political meddling is confirmed. He told The Daily Telegraph: “If judges want to enter the political sphere themselves, then they should stop being judges and go into politics. “We have to have a situation where judges who act politically and bring their own personal politics into their job as a judge are held to account and, frankly, can be removed.” Mr Jenrick said he has exposed judges who have tweeted “highly political, partisan messages”, while others have acted as trustees of charities which...
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Liz Cheney calls Trump would-be tyrant as he imagines ‘guns trained on her face’
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Liz Cheney calls Trump would-be tyrant as he imagines ‘guns trained on her face’

Politics tamfitronics Donald Trump has called former congresswoman Liz Cheney a radical war hawk and said she should face being under fire with rifles “shooting at her” – prompting the anti-Trump Republican to warn the public against dictatorship and a presidential candidate who “wants to be a tyrant”.Cheney recently endorsed Kamala Harris and has campaigned with her, trying to persuade Republicans who don’t want Trump to win another term in the White House in this election to vote for the Democratic ticket of the US vice-president and her running mate, Tim Walz.Harris on Friday said Trump’s violent rhetoric about Cheney “must be disqualifying” ahead of the 5 November presidential election. Meanwhile, the Arizona attorney general, Kris Mayes, on Friday said her office had opened a “death threat investigation” surrounding Trump’s comments about Cheney.While still in...
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NASA chief calls for investigation into report that Musk and Putin have spoken regularly
Science & Technology

NASA chief calls for investigation into report that Musk and Putin have spoken regularly

NASA Space Technology CNN — NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on Friday called for an investigation into a Wall Street Journal report that SpaceX founder and Donald Trump ally Elon Musk and Russian President Vladimir Putin have been in “regular contact” since late 2022.The report, which said the SpaceX founder has discussed “personal topics, business and geopolitical tensions” with the Russian leader, raises national security concerns as SpaceX’s relationships with NASA and the US military may have granted Musk access to sensitive government information and US intelligence.“I don’t know that that story is true. I think it should be investigated,” Nelson told Semafor’s Burgess Everett. “If the story is true that there have been multiple conversations between Elon Musk and the president of Russia, then I think that would be concerning, particularly for NASA, for the Department of Defense, for some of the...
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