Trump’s Scotland golf courses are losing money

the great businessman

Sad!

NEW data: @realDonaldTrump's other Scottish course also lost money last year. In all, Trump Scottish courses lost about $6.3M in 2017. They've now cost him $281M, all in cash, without either one ever turning a profit yet. https://t.co/eyZYQn5mhx

— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) October 6, 2018

Could be! Even locals wondered why Trump built a course on North Sea coast that was regularly shrouded in cold fog. https://t.co/qFskkMuoDz https://t.co/iZO3X98Qcm

— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) October 8, 2018

In Scotland, a holiday-cabin complex called "turnberry" wants to change its name b/c customers think it's connected to @realDonaldTrump's Turnberry resort. https://t.co/YZxZEgc2hV

— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) October 9, 2018

The Scottish Government has been urged to apply for an unexplained wealth order to investigate Trump’s deals to acquire his Scottish properties – a UWO is tool to target suspected foreign officials who may have laundered stolen $ in the UK, by @MartynMcL https://t.co/z528MCaTb8

— Wendy Siegelman (@WendySiegelman) February 27, 2020

Trump "facing new questions last night about how he financed lavish spending in 2014, including the purchase of Turnberry in Scotland and Doonbeg in Ireland, shortly after a trip to Moscow." He paid cash. https://t.co/ddDI0CmsNh

— Glenda Gilmore (@GilmoreGlenda) February 28, 2020

Eric Trump wants members of his dad's golf course to pay $6,500 a pop to meet him in Scotland or Ireland for a couple rounds of golf. It will probably cost taxpayers a lot more. https://t.co/K1RF7gIg53

— russchoma (@russchoma) March 3, 2020

Supreme Court poll and facts

This is the opposite of what the extreme conservative judges want to do:

Our March poll found a growing share of Americans said the Supreme Court should base its rulings on what Constitution means today #Scotus https://t.co/3BCGNfPkTI pic.twitter.com/hUKryIqAZQ

— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) October 6, 2018

The average tenure of a Supreme Court justice is nearly 17 years #Scotus https://t.co/X3DR3V9gja pic.twitter.com/tbgUODJS8q

— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) October 6, 2018

Narrowest confirmations to #SCOTUS since Senate expanded to 100 members:

Brett Kavanaugh: 50-48
Clarence Thomas: 52-48
Neil Gorsuch: 54-45
Samuel Alito: 58-42
Elena Kagan: 63-37

Narrowest confirmation ever was Stanley Matthews, 24-23, in 1881.https://t.co/u9dC0IlPs0

— John Gramlich (@johngramlich) October 6, 2018

The Senate has had 100 members since 1959.

Future of the Supreme Court

The confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh was a triumph for the conservative legal movement. But it may have inflicted lasting damage on the Supreme Court. https://t.co/9S9WuIlVCz

— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) October 6, 2018

With Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation likely tomorrow, here a few thoughts on what this might mean for the next 5-10 years of Supreme Court action. (Thread.)

— Orin Kerr (@OrinKerr) October 6, 2018

Kavanaugh’s confirmation makes SCOTUS a partisan institution. Only one thing can hold back Trump now. https://t.co/XbmYhn9EY2 pic.twitter.com/2SHAnBdY1b

— Slate (@Slate) October 6, 2018

from this article:

“In the past year, conservatives on the court have already shown just how far they are willing to go in abandoning basic principles of political fairness if it happens to help their side. They have approved the Muslim ban by pretending, on the flimsiest of evidence, that it is not in fact a Muslim ban. They have allowed Ohio to purge its voter rolls in a transparent attempt to tip the state’s precarious political balance in the direction of the Republican Party. And they have upheld Texan electoral maps that had clearly been gerrymandered with a view to reduce the voice of African-American voters and make it more difficult for Democrats to get elected. “

Early voting dates

Here's a list of early voting dates for the states that allow it https://t.co/K4XuDNDY5F

— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) October 6, 2018

Primary turnout was up

Nearly 14.6M people voted in contested Democratic House primaries this year, more than 2.5 times as many as voted in such races in 2014 (fewer than 5.6M). Turnout in contested Republican House primaries rose too, but less so than in the Democratic races. https://t.co/7x5OE7BnxH pic.twitter.com/hBTgkcezn8

— Pew Research Fact Tank (@FactTank) October 6, 2018

People with the same name as a famous person

i've found my new favorite subculture pic.twitter.com/3tQG5LCZF5

— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) October 6, 2018

Chief Justice Roberts sitting on complaints against Kavanaugh

Chief Justice John Roberts, who referred the Kozinski complaint to another circuit the day after he received it, has been sitting on Kavanaugh-related complaints for weeks, the Post reports. https://t.co/1hvtHD2dkL

— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) October 6, 2018

The last day to register to vote in every state

The revolution will be registered… pic.twitter.com/a4reB5mSFe

— Jeffrey Lieber (@JeffLieber) October 6, 2018

Damage done to the Voting Rights Act by the Supreme Court

This is one thing that should be corrected by Congress. It won’t happen unless Democrats win.

"Unless Republicans have a change of heart — or unless they lose control of Congress — it will be impossible to undo the damage caused by the Supreme Court." That's why our #LAVfield team is on the ground in 5 states to elect voting-rights champions. https://t.co/YuoPRohrFw

— Let America Vote (@letamericavote) October 6, 2018

Republicans violated the spirit of the deal on judges

update 10/18/18

Republicans violated the spirit of the deal:

It used to be that the one element that bound people in the Senate together was their word was their bond. A deal was a deal. Anyone who would believe that Mitch McConnell’s word was good in a deal is a sucker. https://t.co/KQ4B3m0mxQ

— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) October 18, 2018

Republican-appointed judges have an edge on US courts

Senate Democrats agreed to confirm 15 lifetime federal judges on Thursday in exchange for Republicans agreeing to go into recess through the midterms so endangered Democrats can campaignhttps://t.co/UDWLgMRVEf

— POLITICO (@politico) October 11, 2018

Republicans outmaneuvered Democrats on this one.