Israel Advances Plan For Palestinian Prisons With Crocodile-Filled Moats

DOJ Finds USDA Preferences For 'Socially Disadvantaged' Farmers Discriminatory Authored by Bryan Hyde via American Greatness, The Department of Justice (DOJ) has concluded that the U.S. Agriculture Department’s (USDA) favors for “socially disadvantaged” groups unconstitutionally discriminate based on race and sex. Just the News reports that the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) has determined conservation‑planning programs that authorized USDA to waive user fees for “socially disadvantaged” farmers as defined by race‑ and sex‑based criteria, violated the Constitution’s equal-protection guarantee. 🔥Hot off the presses: @TheJusticeDept explains that the @USDA cannot give benefits only to certain...

Federal Appeals Court Rules Sex Offenders Have Constitutional Right To Live With Their Children Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, A federal appeals court ruled July 6 that convicted sex offenders retain a fundamental constitutional right to live with their own children. The new ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit arises out of an Alabama case but could help reshape strict sex offender residency laws in the other two states in the circuit—Florida and Georgia—and serve as persuasive authority elsewhere. At the heart of the case...

BlackRock Private Credit Fund Cuts Asset Values By 5%, As Golub Gates After 8.5% Redemptions Just another day in private credit paradise... er, hell.  One day after Gundlach repeated his warning that the private credit crisis will end in tears for bagholders, Blackrock cut the value of its publicly-traded private credit fund by about 5%, as it - like most of its peers - struggled under the weight of troubled loans, markdowns and lower returns. BlackRock TCP Capital Corp., a publicly traded middle-market lending fund, said markdowns totaled $35 million in the quarter...