The highest court in New York declined to quickly consider former President Donald Trump‘s appeal of a gag order after his felony conviction last month and before a debate next week. A list of decisions released on Tuesday said the New York Court of Appeals dismissed the appeal “upon the ground that no substantial constitutional question is directly raised.” However, court spokesman Gary Spencer said Trump has a 30-day window to file a motion for leave to appeal, which could lead to the high court eventually taking up the matter, according to CNN. Presiding Judge Juan Merchan barred Trump from commenting publicly on jurors, witnesses, and the judge’s family, but not the judge himself or Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Trump faced thousands of dollars in fines and a threat of jail time for speaking out in violation of the gag order that he claimed had infringed upon his First Amendment rights. A lower appeals court already shot down a defense request to lift the order. The AP says Merchan himself may soon rule on whether to keep it after a Thursday deadline for prosecutors to respond. Trump was convicted of falsifying business records to allegedly cover up a tryst with adult film star Stormy Daniels for a “catch-and-kill” scheme to influence the 2016 presidential election. Merchan scheduled sentencing for July 11, days before the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Trump, who denied the affair and pleaded not guilty to the charges, vowed to appeal. Legal experts doubt the 78-year-old Trump will end up behind bars, though the Secret Service has reportedly coordinated with local jail officials just in case. He could get probation. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP It remains to be seen whether Trump will continue to be limited in what he can say about the New York case leading up to his appearance at his first 2024 debate against President Joe Biden next week. Another judge implemented a gag order against Trump in special counsel Jack Smith’s 2020 election case, and federal prosecutors have also sought one in a Florida classified documents case. Trump is trying to fend off a fourth criminal matter in Georgia related to the 2020 election. Whether the Georgia or federal cases will reach the trial stage before the 2024 contest is unclear.

The following is a transcript excerpt from Dr. Jordan Peterson’s “We Who Wrestle With God” tour. In this segment, he explains the problem with the historical definition of sanity — being a well-constituted individual — is its sole reliance on the individual. He establishes a difference between being depressed and not being situated in the hierarchy of social order (having an intimate partner, family, job, and so forth). Social interaction is critical to finding meaning. Dr. Peterson’s extensive catalog is available on DailyWire+.  Our Protestant, liberal definition of sanity is wrong. We tend to think of sanity in terms of internal psychological organizations. We think you are sane if your psyche is well-constituted or if you are biologically healthy in relationship to neurological function, as an individual thing: A well-constituted psyche means you are sane. The idea of self-actualization goes along with that. If you are a sane person, you are a sane individual: Sanity is the description of the well-constituted individual.  One of the corollaries might be that you could regard any social constraint on the flowering of your individuality as antithetical to your sanity. I would say corrosive criticisms of social institutions tend to presume that axiomatically: “Nothing should interfere with my self-actualization. All social constraint is antithetical to that spontaneous organization and to sanity itself.” I do not think that is the correct notion of sanity. It is too atomistic; it is too individual. For example, how sane are you going to be in a terrible marriage? I do not care how well-constituted you are individually. This is a different question.  When people would come to me and they were depressed, I would try to find out if they were depressed or if they just had a horrible life. Those are not the same questions because if you are depressed, you have a life that, in principle, should work but is not. So if they said, “Look, I have a lot of things going for me. I have a good job, I have a good family, my wife loves me. But man, I am miserable all the time,” we would delve into that a bit more deeply. That sounds like depression. But they might come and say, “I am miserable. I am suffering. I don’t even want to be alive.” Then I might ask: “Well, do you have an intimate partner?” “No, not really. And I have a history of catastrophic relationships.” “Do you have any friends?” “Well, I have this one person I phone once every month or so, but other than that, no I don’t really see anyone.” “Do you have any close family?” “No, my family is pretty fractured. I don’t get along with my mom and dad. I don’t see my sisters or my siblings much.” “How about a career or, failing that, a job?” “Well, I’ve always kind of been under-employed, and I just lost my job and that is not going very well.” And so on. You can walk through someone’s life and find out if they are reasonably embedded in a hierarchy of social institutions. If they are not — no intimate partner, no family, no children, no friends, no job, no career, no educational pathway, no engagement in civic responsibility, no church attendance, no spiritual life, no routine — then they are not depressed; they just have a horrible life, multidimensionally. It is no wonder they think they are depressed; there is nothing in their life that is working. But that is not exactly a diagnosis at the level of the individual; it is a diagnosis of the relationship between the individual and the structure containing social institutions. If you do not have an intimate partner, a family, any friends, a career or a job, any civic involvement or any involvement with religious institutions, and no creative striving, all you have left is pain. That is what you have. WATCH: The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast on DailyWire+ There is a different way of thinking about sanity. Sanity is not being well-constituted as an atomized individual. Sanity is what makes itself manifest if you are properly situated in the hierarchy of social order. Now, some of that is internal because of your mess of fragmented subpersonalities. For example, anger can pull you in one direction, anxiety can pull you in another direction, impulsive enthusiasm can pull you in another direction, and lust can pull you in a different direction — those are all subpersonalities in some real sense. They are ways of perceiving and acting in the world. You need to integrate them within yourself so that as an individual, you are integrated. But the nature of that integration is dependent on your integration within the broader social context. You can think of sanity as a distributed phenomena. That is another reason you do not want to casually denigrate social institutions because we are social creatures — deeply social creatures. You can tell that because you can take the most anti-social people, the most violent predatory and parasitic criminals, and punish them by putting them in solitary confinement. Think about that: The people who like other people the least, who are most likely to pathologize their social relationships, and who would be long-term, habitually sadistic, violent criminals find it virtually unbearable to be forced into isolation. We are unbelievably social. One of the corollaries of being miraculously social is that to be well-constituted, you have to be a harmonious player in a multidimensional symphony of social interaction.  It is very hard to stay on the straight and narrow without a partner who does not share your blindspots and correct you constantly. Now, that is annoying because there is tussling about it; there is a fractious, adversarial element to that because you are married, and you do not see eye to eye — and thank God for that because sometimes in your foolish instance of being right, you are wrong and wrong in a way that will take you out. So you better have a partner who does not think the same way you do. Fortunately, if you have a partner who does not think the same way you do, if you can get the dialogue flowing, that is a mutually corrective mechanism. Then, the truthful dialogue between partners in a marriage is actually the process by which sanity itself is generated, which I mean technically. You are too complex to regulate yourself — period — so you need other people to help you do that. If you have a wife or a husband, someone who knows you who is there for the long-run, you can help each other find the meaningful path and stay on it. You cannot do that alone. * * * To continue, listen or watch more content with Dr. Jordan Peterson on DailyWire+. Dr. Jordan B. Peterson is a clinical psychologist and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto. From 1993 to 1998 he served as assistant and then associate professor of psychology at Harvard. He is the international bestselling author of “Maps of Meaning,” “12 Rules For Life,” and “Beyond Order.” You can now listen to or watch his popular lectures on DailyWire+. Be sure to PRE-ORDER Dr. Peterson’s newest book: “We Who Wrestle with God.” (Portfolio/Penguin. November 19, 2024.)

Hillary Clinton attacked Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on his Christian faith in a recent interview, calling the conservative justice “scary” and “a fanatic” for his religious views. The former secretary of state and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee made the remarks in April during a podcast interview with Democracy Docket’s Marc Elias. A clip from that discussion resurfaced on social media over the weekend. “You know, I was in the Senate when both John Roberts and Alito were nominated to the court by George W. Bush. Therefore, I had a chance, as you rightly say, to interview both of them,” Clinton said. "Alito struck me almost immediately…as a radical, as a fanatic, about his views of culture and the role of religion in our society and his religion…And I found him scary."@HillaryClinton explains how she views the current Supreme Court. Watch here: https://t.co/v3VJj3YOYh pic.twitter.com/KQu1ThNdFZ — Democracy Docket (@DemocracyDocket) June 15, 2024 “And I found John Roberts to be a kind of conservative, corporate-oriented lawyer, who had a kind of preconceived notion of the way things and people should work,” Clinton continued. “And I voted against him because I thought he was not only a candidate of the far Right, the Federalist Society and their agenda, but that his life experience was just too narrow to really be in that position.” Alito, however, seemed like a “radical” due to his Christian faith, Clinton said. “Alito struck me almost immediately upon sitting down to talk with him as a radical, as a fanatic about his views of culture and the role of religion in our society, and his religion, not maybe yours or mine, Marc, but his religion. And I found him scary, and I said so on the floor of the Senate when I voted against him,” Clinton said. “We got the judges that had been groomed, put into the pipeline to do what they are now doing,” she added. Roberts and Alito are both lifelong Catholics. Alito frequently votes with the Supreme Court’s conservative majority, while Roberts is considered a swing vote on many cases. Alito has found himself headlining the news several times in recent months. Last month, a pair of reports from The New York Times said Alito’s homes displayed an upside-down American flag and an “Appeal to Heaven” flag, which people at the Capitol riot reportedly carried on January 6, 2021. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP Several Democrat senators subsequently demanded Alito recuse himself from cases involving the 2020 presidential election, which Alito refused to do. Then, last week, Alito was secretly recorded by a liberal activist pretending to be a religious conservative who told Alito she does not think “we can negotiate with the Left.” “One side or the other is going to win,” Alito allegedly responded, according to the recording, adding that there can be “a way of living together peacefully,” but “there are differences on fundamental things that really can’t be compromised.” Alito has been a particular target of the Left in the two years since he authored the court’s opinion in overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark abortion case.

University of Missouri student Riley Strain’s death was, indeed, accidental, according to autopsy results released three months after the 22-year-old finance major’s body was discovered in a Tennessee river. The autopsy results, obtained by WSMV, concluded that Strain’s death was an accident and that he died as a result of drowning and intoxication. At the time of his death, he had a blood alcohol content of .228, three times above the legal limit to drive. Strain had gone missing two weeks before his body was found in the Cumberland River in Nashville on March 22. Strain was last seen walking in the direction of the river, and his body was removed from the river around 7:30 a.m. on March 22, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department announced on X at the time. Strain, who was 6-foot-7, had been missing since March 8 when he was visiting Nashville with fraternity brothers, WKRN reported. One of his friends reported him missing the next morning after Strain failed to return to their hotel. Strain and his friends had been drinking on Broadway Street in Nashville before Strain was told to leave Luke’s 32 Bridge, a bar owned by country singer Luke Bryan, for reasons that have not been disclosed. Family friend Chris Dingman told NewsNation’s Elizabeth Vargas that Strain had been asked to leave because it seemed like “he had had enough” to drink. TC Restaurant Group, which owns and operates the bar, told the New York Post that Strain was escorted out of their “Broadway exit at the front of our building” at around 9:35 p.m. “He was followed down the stairs with one member of his party. The individual with Riley did not exit and returned upstairs,” the group added. Strain reportedly told his friends he would see them back at their hotel, but 13 minutes later, Strain was captured on surveillance cameras crossing Gay Street, the opposite direction of the hotel and a nearly 17-minute walk from the bar, The New York Post noted. Strain appears unsteady and seemingly unsure of where he is going in the video as people pass by. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP Shortly after this, Nashville police officer Reginald Young caught Strain on his body cam as the officer was responding to a vehicle burglary. The officer asked Strain how he was doing, and Strain replied, “Good.” Then, Strain kept walking, not appearing to be in any kind of distress, the Post reported. Nashville police said Strain was seen at 9:52 p.m. on Gay Street, according to the Post. A local homeless man also claimed to see a “very, very intoxicated” Strain nearly fall into the river, the Post reported previously. The final ping on Strain’s phone came between 10 and 10:30 p.m. near the sheriff’s office and the river, the Post reported. His final text was sent to a woman he was seeing, which said, “Good lops [sic]” in response to her asking how he was doing on the trip. It is unclear what Strain meant by the text. Strain’s bank card was found days later on an embankment of the river, where his body was eventually found.

A pair of House Republicans introduced legislation on Tuesday that would slash federal taxes on tips after former President Donald Trump promoted the idea earlier this month. The bill, spearheaded by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Matt Gaetz (R-FL), would “amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that tips shall not be subject to income or employment taxes.” It takes inspiration and its name — the “Tax Free Tips Act ” — from a legislative push by Ron Paul, a former congressman and candidate for president, to nix federal taxation on tips. “Ron Paul had it right and so does Donald Trump,” Massie said in a statement. “Taxing tips is regressive and goes against American tradition,” Massie added. “But now digital payments allow the government to tax every transaction, even those that historically have not been taxed. With inflation raging, it only makes sense to eliminate the tax on tips and provide relief to working folks.” Gaetz said he was “proud” to join Massie in co-sponsoring the tax-relief legislation. “As the cost of living continues to rise, the hardworking men and women in the service industry, many of whom may be working a second job to make ends meet, must be allowed to keep every dollar of tip money they earn,” Gaetz said. Trump said at a campaign stop in Las Vegas earlier in June that if he is re-elected to the White House in November, he wants to change the tax code to exempt tip income from federal taxes. “Those people that have jobs in restaurants or whatever the job may be, a tipping job, we’re not going after it for taxes anymore, that will be ended,” Trump said. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP A press release from Gaetz’s office noted that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is an original co-sponsor of the legislation. I absolutely LOVE President Trump’s plan for NO TAX ON TIPS!! Write it on every receipt you sign! pic.twitter.com/BygpUWAunR — Marjorie Taylor Greene ?? (@mtgreenee) June 15, 2024 Greene posted to X after Trump’s comments about scrapping taxes for tips to say that she “absolutely” loved the plan. She shared a photo of a receipt that had a message written on it that said,” VOTE TRUMP! No tax on tips!!” and encouraged followers to write the same thing on their own receipts.

Keith Urban opened up about Nicole Kidman’s unconditional love and resilience when she was honored at the 49th AFI Life Achievement Award Gala. On April 27, the Oscar-winning actress earned the Lifetime Achievement Award, which recognized her contribution to the arts. Dozens of her friends and colleagues were on hand to share stories and praise for Nicole, including Keith, who delivered a touching speech about how much she had given him, even when she had every reason to walk away. “We got married in June 2006, and barely four months into our marriage, my addictions … that I’d done really nothing about, blew our marriage to smithereens,” he revealed in a video shared on June 18. “Four months into a marriage, I’m in rehab for three months,” he continued. “I had no idea what was going to happen to us … If you want to see what love in action really looks like, give that a whirl.” Keith Urban Praises Nicole Kidman’s “Passion” For Life In a 2022 interview with The Times, Keith revealed that he fell into drugs and alcohol to cope with his early fame. He went into rehab in 1998 but had a relapse eight years later, which was just when he was beginning his life with Nicole Kidman. “Nic pushed through every negative voice,” he added during his April speech. “I’m sure even some of her own and she chose love. And here we are tonight, 18 years later.” Keith Urban went on to praise Nicole Kidman’s passion for life and for always knowing the “importance of expressing feelings.” “I wasn’t raised like this at all. So our girls are very lucky to be learning from you, baby,” he said. Nicole sat in the audience with their two daughters, Sunday, 15, and Faith, 13, visibly moved by his words. “I know tonight’s all about her body of work so far … but next year, we’ll be 20 years that I’ve been madly in love with you,” Keith concluded. “Congratulations, baby girl. I love you.” This story’s featured image is Monica Schipper/WireImage. The post Keith Urban Emotionally Shares How Nicole Kidman “Chose Love” After He Blew Their “Marriage to Smithereens” appeared first on InspireMore.

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