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EgyptAir-Airbus-A320

In this Dec. 10, 2014 image an EgyptAir Airbus A320 with the registration SU-GCC on the tarmac at Cairo airport. Egyptian aviation officials said on Thursday May 19, 2016 that an EgyptAir flight MS804 with the registration SU-GCC, travelling from Paris to Cairo with 66 passengers and crew on board has crashed. The officials say the search is now underway for the debris. (AirTeamImages via AP)

Egypt’s Civil Aviation Minister Sherif Fathi said at a news conference in Cairo that EgyptAir flight 804 was a terror attack is more likely than not the cause of the crash.

“On the contrary. If you thoroughly analyze the situation, the possibility of having a different action or a terror attack, is higher than the possibility of having a technical failure,” Mr. Fathi said.

EgyptAir flight 804 from Paris to Cairo crashed with 66 passengers and crew on board in the Mediterranean Sea off the Greek island of Crete early Thursday morning. Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos said EgyptAir flight 804 made abrupt turns and suddenly lost altitude just before vanishing from radar at around 2.45 a.m. Egyptian time.

“It turned 90 degrees left and then a 360 degree turn toward the right, dropping from 38,000 to 15,000 feet and then it was lost at about 10,000 feet,” Kammenos said, adding the aircraft was 10-15 miles inside the Egyptian FIR and at an altitude of 37,000 feet.

Alexander Bortnikov, the head of Russia’s top domestic security agency, said on Thursday that “in all likelihood it was a terror attack.” Mr. Bortnikov, the head of the Federal Security Service, called for a joint action to track down those responsible for that “monstrous attack.”

Last October, a Russian plane flying from Egypt crashed into the Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people on board. The Kremlin said it was brought down by an explosive device, though some in the world community remained skeptical. Now, Egyptian officials are not ruling anything out but are also cautious in their public statements.

EgyptAir said the Airbus A320 vanished 10 miles (16 kilometers) after it entered Egyptian airspace, around 280 kilometers (175 miles) off Egypt’s coastline north of the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria. The airline said the Egyptian military received an emergency signal from the aircraft’s Emergency Locator Transmitter, or ELT, which is a battery powered device designed to automatically give out a signal in the event of a sudden loss of altitude or impact.

However, the Egyptian military denied it had received a distress call. Egypt’s state-run daily Al-Ahram quoted an airport official as saying the pilot did not send one, though the newspaper did not identify the official.

Flight 804 was carrying 56 passengers, including one child and two babies, three security staff and seven crew members, officials said. Minister Fathy said identities would not be released until relatives could be contacted, but described those those on board as including 15 French passengers, 30 Egyptians, one Briton, two Iraqis, one Kuwaiti, one Saudi, one Sudanese, one Chadian, one Portuguese, one Algerian and one Canadian.

Officials from France, Greece and Egypt said boats and ships from several multiple countries were scouring the waters off of the Greek island of Karpathos, a location near where a witness reported seeing a fireball in the sky. By midday, an Egyptian plane reportedly spotted two orange items–one of which was oblong–a Greek military official believed to be from the missing plane.

The official said the items were found 230 miles south-southeast of the island of Crete but still within the Egyptian air traffic control area, an indication a plot was primarily meant to send a message to Egypt.

Egypt's Civil Aviation Minister Sherif Fathi said

Economy

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A worker in the mid-Atlantic manufacturing sector works with raw aluminum materials. (PHOTO: REUTERS)

The Manufacturing Business Outlook Survey (MBOS), the Philadelphia Federal Reserve’s gauge in the mid-Atlantic region, fell slightly deeper into contraction in May. The survey posted a negative reading of 1.8 in May, down from another negative reading of 1.6.

The Wall Street expectation was for a positive reading of 3.5.

The Manufacturing Business Outlook Survey’s employment index displayed similar weaknesses in May, despite improving 15 points this month. The employment index posted its fifth consecutive negative reading at -3.3. Further, more than 69% of the firms reported no change in employment, but the percentage reporting decreases (17%) far exceeded the percentage reporting increases (14%).

After a sharp drop last month, the average workweek index ticked up 1 point but remained negative.

Source: Philadelphia Federal Reserve Manufacturing Business Outlook Survey Mid-Atlantic Manufacturing

Source: Philadelphia Federal Reserve

The latest regional report follows the monthly Empire State Manufacturing Survey, which is conducted by the New York Federal Reserve in the Northeast. It also plummeted back into contraction after a brief monthly positive showing.

The Manufacturing Business Outlook Survey (MBOS), the

Economy

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Weekly Jobless Claims Graphic. Number of Americans applying for first-time jobless benefits.

The Labor Department reported Thursday that weekly jobless jobs fell by 16,000 to 278,000 for the week ending May 14, missing the median estimate for 275,000. The prior week, which was the highest number since February 2015, was unchanged at 294,000.

Still, the Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report marks 63 consecutive weeks of initial claims below 300,000, the longest streak since 1973. However, the record high number of long-term unemployed Americans has greatly reduced the pool of eligible applicants.

A Labor Department analyst said there were no special factors impacting the data and no state was triggered “on” the Extended Benefits program during the week ending April 30.

The four-week moving average–which is widely considered a better gauge, as it irons-out volatility–came in at 275,750, a gain of 7,500 from the previous week’s unrevised average of 268,250.

The highest insured unemployment rates in the week ending April 30 were in Alaska (3.8), Wyoming (3.0), West Virginia (2.5), New Jersey (2.4), California (2.3), Pennsylvania (2.3), Puerto Rico (2.3), Connecticut (2.2), Illinois (2.2), and Massachusetts (2.0).

The largest increases in initial claims for the week ending May 7 were in New York (+14,494), Pennsylvania (+3,547), Michigan (+3,278), Georgia (+1,555), and Texas (+941), while the largest decreases were in Kansas (-3,216), Ohio (- 2,525), Missouri (-1,218), Tennessee (-952), and California (-821).

The Labor Department reported Thursday that weekly

World

A frosted glass partition is seen at the EgyptAir counter at Charles de Gaulle Airport outside Paris, France, Thursday, May 19, 2016. EgyptAir said a flight from Paris to Cairo disappeared from radar early Thursday morning. (AP Photo/Raphael Satter)

A frosted glass partition is seen at the EgyptAir counter at Charles de Gaulle Airport outside Paris, France, Thursday, May 19, 2016. EgyptAir said a flight from Paris to Cairo disappeared from radar early Thursday morning. (AP Photo/Raphael Satter)

EgyptAir flight 804 from Paris to Cairo crashed with 66 passengers and crew on board in the Mediterranean Sea off the Greek island of Crete early Thursday morning. Now, Greek defense minister Panos Kammenos said EgyptAir flight 804 made abrupt turns and suddenly lost altitude just before vanishing from radar at around 2.45 a.m. Egyptian time.

“It turned 90 degrees left and then a 360 degree turn toward the right, dropping from 38,000 to 15,000 feet and then it was lost at about 10,000 feet,” Kammenos said, adding the aircraft was 10-15 miles inside the Egyptian FIR and at an altitude of 37,000 feet.

Alexander Bortnikov, the head of Russia’s top domestic security agency, said on Thursday that “in all likelihood it was a terror attack.” Mr. Bortnikov, the head of the Federal Security Service, called for a joint action to track down those responsible for that “monstrous attack.”

Last October, a Russian plane flying from Egypt crashed into the Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people on board. The Kremlin said it was brought down by an explosive device, though some in the world community remained skeptical. Now, Egyptian officials are not ruling anything out but are also cautious in their public statements.

“I’m not excluding any theory,” Egyptian Minister of Aviation Sherif Fathy said. “I’m also going to use the term ‘vanished’ plane until we find the wreckage of the plane if there is any wreckage and until we know what happened for sure.

“There are hypotheses and theories about what happened but we want to be professional,” he said. “We have to make sure we find out where the plane is and then we can start to do our job of determining the cause of this incident.”

EgyptAir said the Airbus A320 vanished 10 miles (16 kilometers) after it entered Egyptian airspace, around 280 kilometers (175 miles) off Egypt’s coastline north of the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria. The airline said the Egyptian military received an emergency signal from the aircraft’s Emergency Locator Transmitter, or ELT, which is a battery powered device designed to automatically give out a signal in the event of a sudden loss of altitude or impact.

However, the Egyptian military denied it had received a distress call. Egypt’s state-run daily Al-Ahram quoted an airport official as saying the pilot did not send one, though the newspaper did not identify the official.

Flight 804 was carrying 56 passengers, including one child and two babies, three security staff and seven crew members, officials said. Minister Fathy said identities would not be released until relatives could be contacted, but described those those on board as including 15 French passengers, 30 Egyptians, one Briton, two Iraqis, one Kuwaiti, one Saudi, one Sudanese, one Chadian, one Portuguese, one Algerian and one Canadian.

Egyptian Prime Minister Sherif Ismail told reporters at Cairo airport that it was too early to say whether the crash was a result of a technical issue or a terror attack. The Egyptian government and economy have suffered as a result of recent terror attacks. The country relies heavily on tourism for economic growth and development.

“We cannot rule anything out.”

EgyptAir flight 804 turned abruptly and lost

Opinion

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Marrisa Johnson and Mara Jacqueline Willaford, both members of the Black Lives Matter movement, hijacking a campaign event for socialist and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in Seattle, Washington.

In a statement on the Nevada rampage by some of his supporters, Bernie Sanders said a remarkable thing. He said, “Our campaign has held giant rallies all across this country, including in high-crime areas, and there have been zero reports of violence.”

Who lives in “high-crime areas”? We all know the answer: dark people. But it wasn’t dark people hurling chairs and death threats at the Nevada Democratic Party convention. It was Sanders’ own white followers. (The YouTube videos make that clear.)

One reason there’s been no violence at Sanders’ rallies is that outsiders aren’t disrupting them. It is Sanders’ white posses that are invading the events of others, be it Democratic Party meetings or Donald Trump rallies.

Now, the Sanders statement did say, “I condemn any and all forms of violence, including the personal harassment of individuals.” But then he likened this outrage to shots being fired into his campaign office.

The problem with this attempt at symmetry is that we don’t know who fired into his campaign office. It is my hope that the perpetrator is caught and thrown in jail. But we know exactly who threw chairs. The FBI, meanwhile, should be hot on the tails of the creeps who made death threats against a Nevada Democratic Party official and her family. That’s a federal crime.
Sanders should have made his condemnation of violence short and sweet. In doing so, he could have emphasized that the vast majority of his supporters are good, nonviolent people.

But then he went on, stoking the self-pity that has permeated his campaign. This was not the time to go into his allegedly unfair treatment at the hands of Democratic officials as he’s been doing ad nauseam.

If Sanders’ tying of political violence to “high-crime areas” were his only racially tinged remark, one might give it a pass. But he has a history.

There was his infamous waving-of-the-hand dismissal of Hillary Clinton’s commanding Southern victories, which were powered by African-American voters.

“I think that having so many Southern states go first kind of distorts reality,” he said.

Whose reality, one might ask. Actually, the overwhelmingly white electorates of Iowa and New Hampshire (where Sanders won big) got to go first. He didn’t have a problem with that.
This is a veiled racism that cannot find cover in Sanders’ staunch pro-civil rights record. Real black people seem to make Sanders uncomfortable (as Larry David captured on his “Saturday Night Live” skits).

Sanders’ idea of a black surrogate has been the academic Cornel West. West has called Barack Obama “a Rockefeller Republican in blackface” and “a black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs,” among other nasty things. Ordinary African-Americans tend to revere Obama, so where did this crashing insensitivity come from?

It may have come from decades of being holed up in the white radical-left universe. In the 1960s, Sanders abandoned the “high-crime areas” of Brooklyn, his childhood home, and repaired to the whitest state in the nation. (Vermont had become a safe haven for liberals leaving — the word then was “fleeing” — the cities.)

Nuance alert: Sanders has done good work in attracting more white working-class voters to the Democratic side. His emphasis on economic issues is a welcome change from the party’s frequent obsession with identity politics. That is admirable.

Less admirable are the windy justifiable-rage explanations in what should have been a simple censure. And to then link expectations of violence to “high-crime areas” was pretty disgraceful. There should be no white-privilege carve-out for thuggery.

If Bernie Sanders' tying of political violence

Opinion

Obama-Biden-Iran-Deal

President Obama delivers remarks to announce a historic nuclear deal he says will verifiably prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon on July 14, 2015.

Here is a quick pop quiz. What happens if we lie to the government? What happens if the government lies to us? Does it matter who does the lying?

Last year, the Obama administration negotiated an agreement with the government of Iran permitting Iran to obtain certain materials for the construction of nuclear facilities. It also permitted the release of tens of billions of dollars in Iranian assets that had been held in U.S. banks and that the courts had frozen, and it lifted trade sanctions. In exchange, certain inspections of Iranian nuclear facilities can occur under certain circumstances.

During the course of the negotiations, many critics made many allegations about whether the Obama administration was telling the truth to Congress and to the American people.

Was there a secret side deal? The administration said no. Were we really negotiating with moderates in the Iranian government, as opposed to the hard-liners depicted in the American media? The administration said yes. Can U.N. or U.S. inspectors examine Iranian nuclear facilities without notice and at any time? The administration said yes.

It appears that this deal is an executive agreement between President Barack Obama and whatever faction he believes is running the government of Iran. That means that it will expire if not renewed at noon on Jan. 20, 2017, when the president’s term ends.

It is not a treaty, because it was not ratified by a two-thirds vote of the Senate, which the Constitution requires for treaties. Yet the Obama administration cut a deal with the Republican congressional leadership, unknown to the Constitution and unheard of in the modern era. That deal provided that the agreement would be valid unless two-thirds of those voting in both houses of Congress objected. They didn’t.

Then last week, the president’s deputy national security adviser for strategic communications, Ben Rhodes, who managed the negotiations with Iran, told The New York Times that he lied when he spoke to Congress and the press about the very issues critics were complaining about. He defended his lies as necessary to dull irrational congressional fears of the Iranian government.

I am not addressing the merits of the deal, though I think that the more Iran is reaccepted into the culture of civilized nations the more economic freedom will come about for Iranians. And where there is economic freedom, personal liberties cannot be far behind.

I am addressing the issue of lying. Rhodes’ interview set off a firestorm of criticism and “I told you so” critiques in Capitol Hill, and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee summoned him to explain his behavior. It wanted to know whether he told the truth to Congress and the public during the negotiations or he told the truth to The New York Times last week.

He apparently dreads answering that question, so he refused to appear and testify. One wonders how serious this congressional committee is, because it merely requested Rhodes’ appearance; it did not subpoena him. A congressional subpoena has the force of law and requires either compliance or interference by a federal court. Rhodes’ stated reason for not testifying is a claim of privilege.

What is a privilege? It is the ability under the law to hide the truth in order to preserve open communications. It is a judgment by lawmakers and judges that in certain narrowly defined circumstances, freedom of communication is a greater good than exposing the truth.

Hence the attorney/client and priest/penitent and physician/patient privileges have been written into the law so that people can freely tell their lawyers, priests and doctors what they need to tell them without fear that they will repeat what they have heard.

Executive privilege is the ability of the president and his aides to withhold from anyone testimony and documents that reflect military, diplomatic or sensitive national security secrets. This is the privilege that Rhodes has claimed.

Yet the defect in Rhodes’ claim of privilege here is that he has waived it by speaking about the Iranian negotiations to The New York Times. Waiver — the knowing and intentional giving up of a privilege or a right — defeats the claim of privilege.

Thus, by speaking to the Times, Rhodes has admitted that the subject of his conversation — the Iranian negotiations — is not privileged. One cannot selectively assert executive privilege. Items are either privileged or not, and a privilege, once voluntarily lifted, cannot thereafter successfully be asserted.

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee should subpoena Rhodes, as well as the Times reporter to whom he spoke, to determine where the truth lies.

It is a crime to lie to the government when communicating to it in an official manner. Just ask Martha Stewart. One cannot lawfully lie under oath or when signing a document one is sending to the government or when answering questions from government agents. Just ask Roger Clemens. Stated differently, if Rhodes told the FBI either what he told Congress or what he told The New York Times — whichever version was untrue — he would be exposed to indictment.

Ben Rhodes is one of the president’s closest advisers. They often work together on a several-times-a-day basis. Could he have lied about this Iranian deal without the president’s knowing it?

Does anyone care any longer that the government lies to the American people with impunity and prosecutes people when it thinks they have lied to it? Does the government work for us, or do we work for the government?

COPYRIGHT 2016 ANDREW P. NAPOLITANO

Here is a quick pop quiz. What

Polls

Donald Trump vs Hillary Clinton

Donald Trump, left, and Hillary Clinton, right, move to secure the Republican and Democratic presidential nominations.

Presumptive Republican nominee Donald J. Trump has pulled ahead of Democratic frontrunner Hillary R. Clinton in a head-to-head matchup. Though the results are within the margin of error, it represents a 10-point swing since April when Mrs. Clinton was up by 48% to 41%.

In the latest [content_tooltip id=”37989″], Mr. Trump now leads Mrs. Clinton 45% to 42%, but has turned his image around at the same time the former secretary of state’s has declined. Both candidates have largely consolidate their base, with 83% of Democrats backing Mrs. Clinton and 82% of Republicans backing Mr. Trump.

“Though I don’t like to read too much into general election polls before Labor Day, this one is significant for two reasons,” PPD’s senior political analyst Richard Baris said. “First, Hillary Clinton has no Electoral College path with 31% of the white vote. Donald Trump is outperforming among critical groups and it’s overwhelming his deficit among other demographics. Second, his image is clearly repairable to a greater degree than most assumed. Her’s is not that flexible and it shows.”

However, The Donald leads big among independents (46% to 30%) and is winning whites by 24 points (55% to 31%), both being substantial improvements over 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney. He’s even ahead by 9 points among white women (47% to 38%). This is overwhelming Mrs. Clinton commanding 83-point lead among black voters (90% to 7%) and 39-point lead among Hispanics (62% 23%). Worth noting, that is the second poll that suggests Mr. Trump will also outperform Gov. Romney among Hispanics, despite his promise to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexican border.

Mrs. Clinton leads by 14 points among women (50% to 36%), but Mr. Trump leads by a larger 22-point margin among men (55% to 33%). He also clobbers Mrs. Clinton by 37 points (61% to 24%) among working-class white, or whites without a college degree.

Still, the Fox Poll also finds majorities of voters feel both frontrunners lack strong moral values and will say anything to get elected. By a 49% to 37% margin, voters say that Mrs. Clinton is more corrupt.

New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, the frontrunner for the Libertarian Party nomination, would take 10% nationally in a hypothetical three-way matchup, but that still wouldn’t hand the race to Mrs. Clinton. Mr. Trump still holds the edge over the Democratic frontrunner–42% to 39%.

While the former secretary of state still holds a small lead on the PPD average of polls, the gap has closed to within the margin of error and is clearly moving in Mr. Trump’s favor. He now trails by just over 2 points.

The Fox News poll is based on landline and cellphone interviews with 1,021 randomly chosen registered voters nationwide and was conducted under the joint direction of Anderson Robbins Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R) from May 14-17, 2016. The poll has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points for all registered voters. The poll includes an oversample of additional interviews among Hispanics/Latinos nationally.

Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee, has

Politics

Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump Holds Indiana Primary Night Gathering In New York

NEW YORK, NY – MAY 03: Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump speaks to supporters and the media at Trump Tower in Manhattan following his victory in the Indiana primary on May 03, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

(New York, NY) — Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump on Wednesday released a list of potential Supreme Court nominees to replace Justice Antonin Scalia. Mr. Trump said the list, which was compiled with input from conservatives at the Heritage Foundation and Republican Party leaders, first and foremost considered the preservation of constitutional principles.

“Justice Scalia was a remarkable person and a brilliant Supreme Court Justice. His career was defined by his reverence for the Constitution and his legacy of protecting Americans’ most cherished freedoms,” Mr. Trump said in a statement. “He was a Justice who did not believe in legislating from the bench and he is a person whom I held in the highest regard and will always greatly respect his intelligence and conviction to uphold the Constitution of our country.”

The next president will likely appoint anywhere from 1 to 4 Supreme Court justices, which will shape policy for the next generation. With President Barack Obama attempting to nominate his third justice, the ideological bent of the high court hangs in the balance. Justice Scalia, who was the longest serving justice on the high court before he died in Texas, was a prominent voice for the conservative cause and U.S. Constitution. He once told Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace that he did not want his replacement to “go about undoing everything” he spent his career fighting to protect.

“The following list of potential Supreme Court justices is representative of the kind of constitutional principles I value and, as President, I plan to use this list as a guide to nominate our next United States Supreme Court Justices,” Mr. Trump added.

Steven Colloton

Steven Colloton of Iowa is a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, a position he has held since President George W. Bush appointed him in 2003. Judge Colloton has a résumé that also includes distinguished service as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa, a Special Assistant to the Attorney General in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, and a lecturer of law at the University of Iowa. He received his law degree from Yale, and he clerked for Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Judge Colloton is an Iowa native.

Allison Eid

Allison Eid of Colorado is an associate justice of the Colorado Supreme Court. Colorado Governor Bill Owens appointed her to the seat in 2006; she was later retained for a full term by the voters (with 75% of voters favoring retention). Prior to her judicial service, Justice Eid served as Colorado’s solicitor general and as a law professor at the University of Colorado. Justice Eid attended the University of Chicago Law School, and she clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas.

Raymond Gruender

Raymond Gruender of Missouri has been a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit since his 2004 appointment by President George W. Bush. Judge Gruender, who sits in St. Louis, Missouri, has extensive prosecutorial experience, culminating with his time as the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri. Judge Gruender received a law degree and an M.B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis.

Thomas Hardiman

Thomas Hardiman of Pennsylvania has been a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit since 2007. Prior to serving as a circuit judge, he served as a judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania since 2003. Before his judicial service, Judge Hardiman worked in private practice in Washington, D.C. and Pittsburgh. Judge Hardiman was the first in his family to attend college, graduating from Notre Dame.

Raymond Kethledge

Raymond Kethledge of Michigan has been a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit since 2008. Before his judicial service, Judge Kethledge served as judiciary counsel to Michigan Senator Spencer Abraham, worked as a partner in two law firms, and worked as an in-house counsel for the Ford Motor Company. Judge Kethledge obtained his law degree from the University of Michigan and clerked for Justice Anthony Kennedy.

Joan Larsen

Joan Larsen of Michigan is an Associate Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. Justice Larsen was a professor at the University of Michigan School of Law from 1998 until her appointment to the bench. In 2002, she temporarily left academia to work as an Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. Justice Larsen received her law degree from Northwestern and clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia.

Thomas Lee

Thomas Lee of Utah has been an Associate Justice of the Utah Supreme Court since 2010. Beginning in 1997, he served on the faculty of Brigham Young University Law School, where he still teaches in an adjunct capacity. Justice Lee was Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department’s Civil Division from 2004 to 2005. Justice Lee attended the University of Chicago Law School, and he clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas. Justice Lee is also the son of former U.S. Solicitor General Rex Lee and the brother of current U.S. Senator Mike Lee.

William Pryor

William H. Pryor, Jr. of Alabama is a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He has served on the court since 2004. Judge Pryor became the Alabama Attorney General in 1997 upon Jeff Sessions’s election to the U.S. Senate. Judge Pryor was then elected in his own right in 1998 and reelected in 2002. In 2013, Judge Pryor was confirmed to a term on the United States Sentencing Commission. Judge Pryor received his law degree from Tulane, and he clerked for Judge John Minor Wisdom of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

David Stras

David Stras of Minnesota has been an Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court since 2010. After his initial appointment, he was elected to a six-year term in 2012. Prior to his judicial service, Judge Stras worked as a legal academic at the University of Minnesota Law School. In his time there, he wrote extensively about the function and structure of the judiciary. Justice Stras received his law degree and an M.B.A. from the University of Kansas. He clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas.

Diane Sykes

Diane Sykes of Wisconsin has served as a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit since 2004. Prior to her federal appointment, Judge Sykes had been a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court since 1999 and a Wisconsin trial court judge of both civil and criminal matters before that. Judge Sykes received her law degree from Marquette.

Don Willett

Don Willett of Texas has been a Justice of the Texas Supreme Court since 2005. He was initially appointed by Governor Rick Perry and has been reelected by the voters twice. Prior to his judicial service, Judge Willett worked as a senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, as an advisor in George W. Bush’s gubernatorial and presidential administrations, as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Policy, and as a Deputy Attorney General under then-Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott. Justice Willett received his law degree and a master’s degree from Duke.

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