"When you are the salt of the earth‚ you're going to make people 'salty‚' okay?" Sage advice from Taylor Trice‚ a young woman who applied to work at a Starbucks coffee shop because she was interested in their tuition assistance program for Arizona State University's online program. "Prior to working...

With the 2024 presidential election drawing near‚ there’s a debate brewing amongst some legal scholars if Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor should retire. Sotomayor‚ 69‚ is the oldest Supreme Court justice appointed by a Democrat. Some Democrats fear another Ruth Bader Ginsburg scenario could occur. Ginsburg‚ a liberal justice‚ passed away during President Trump’s term‚ leading to the appointment of Amy Coney Barrett. “Sotomayor has been an outstanding justice‚ but the Ruth Bader Ginsburg precedent ought to be extremely sobering‚” said Paul Campos‚ a law professor at the University of Colorado Boulder‚ according to Huffington Post. “The cost of her failing to be replaced by a Democratic president with a Democratic Senate would be catastrophic‚” he added. Some Leftist Legal Scholars Push For 69yr Old Justice Sonia Sotomayor To Retire. Sotomayor is 12 years younger than President Joe Biden. https://t.co/stqdhHtBoU — Brian Doherty (@BDOH) March 29‚ 2024 Democrats talk a lot about the damage done to the Supreme Court since it has swung in a more conservative direction. So‚ @jbarro asks‚ why aren’t they demanding Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s retirement? https://t.co/sll8s53d4N pic.twitter.com/3fAnRPkxO1 — The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) March 22‚ 2024 From the Huffington Post: And now‚ Democrats may be about to lose the Senate‚ White House or both. But on the left‚ there is little open debate about whether she should retire. The relative silence recalls the almost total lack of pressure on Ginsburg to retire exactly one decade ago. Ginsburg‚ seemingly betting she would outlive a Republican-held Senate and then Donald Trump’s presidency‚ died of pancreatic cancer at age 87‚ just weeks before Joe Biden won the 2020 election. When Trump nominated her replacement‚ Amy Coney Barrett‚ and she was confirmed on Oct. 26‚ he cemented the 6-3 conservative majority that then took less than two years to fully overturn Roe v. Wade‚ among other seismic jurisprudential shifts. Fearing a repeat of history‚ a handful of people who were critical of Ginsburg’s judgment‚ are wearily reprising their warnings ― including Lucas Powe Jr.‚ a Supreme Court historian at the University of Texas at Austin. “I would love to see Sotomayor retire‚” Powe said. “I would love to trade her for a 50-year-old justice.” According to the New York Post‚ Senate Republicans would refuse to fill a Supreme Court vacancy during a second Biden term if they retake the majority. GOP Senate would refuse to fill Supreme Court vacancies in second Biden term: insider https://t.co/0tBU5JYGm5 pic.twitter.com/1y0YO9Vm46 — New York Post (@nypost) March 24‚ 2024 The New York Post reports: The move — a reprisal of the party’s stonewalling tactics after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in 2016 — would allow the GOP to prevent Democrats from expanding their bloc on the high court for years and limit their own future losses. The issue has returned to the fore once again as Democrats fret about the health of Justice Sonia Sotomayor during a contentious election year. “I think Republicans would be prepared to stonewall any Biden Supreme Court nominee that was unacceptable to the Republican conference” a senior GOP aide close to Senate leadership told The Post. The aide said a liberal justice‚ such as Ketanji Brown Jackson‚ would be a non-starter for a GOP-controlled Senate. “Do you think [Democratic Sen. Chuck] Schumer would vote to confirm a Trump judge? No way. These people want to pack the Supreme Court‚” the insider said of Dems. The race for control of the Senate heavily favors Republicans. Of 33 seats up for grabs‚ Democrats and independents aligned with them will be defending 22‚ while Republicans will guard just 11. Republicans have an almost guaranteed victory in deep red West Virginia‚ where Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin is retiring. Democratic senators in Ohio and Montana are also under threat as both states will likely back Trump by large margins.

A United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Paris was diverted to Denver Thursday evening due to an ‘engine issue‚’ adding to the woes for the airline. United Flight 990‚ using a Boeing 777-200‚ landed in Denver after the crew reported an issue with one engine. The flight carrying 273 passengers and 12 crew members landed safely. ALERT – A United Airlines (Boeing 777-200) flight from San Francisco to Paris diverted to Denver due to an engine issue — Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) March 29‚ 2024 Boeing curse strikes again: United Airlines plane diverted to Denver due to engine problems during international flight to Paris https://t.co/L7OsdI3AOV pic.twitter.com/EaVGVsfeFF — Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) March 29‚ 2024 Fox Business reports: The flight was canceled once it landed in Colorado. “We are working with our customers to provide them with flight options on Friday‚” the Chicago-based carrier said in a statement. The incident comes more than a week after CEO Scott Kirby reassured fliers in a letter that the carrier is looking into the string of incidents that involved its aircraft in the last few months – from engine and structural issues to a wheel falling off during takeoff. Before Thursday’s incident‚ at least six unrelated incidents had occurred on planes operated by United since early February. Five of them involved a Boeing aircraft. A United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Paris was diverted to Denver Thursday evening due to an engine issue‚ the carrier said. https://t.co/PL72PK2ASz — CBS News (@CBSNews) March 29‚ 2024 The incident follows the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) saying it would increase oversight of United Airlines. United Airlines To Face Increased FAA Oversight Per CBS News: It comes after several other recent flight incidents involving United‚ including a mishap on March 7 when a tire fell off a United Airlines jet taking off from the San Francisco airport‚ an emergency landing of another flight in Los Angeles due to hydraulic issues the following day‚ and a panel flying off an aging United Boeing 737. CBS News reported last week that the Federal Aviation Administration has been weighing possible temporary action against United‚ including some potential restrictions on its ability to add new routes or planes. In a letter to employees March 22‚ Sasha Johnson‚ United vice president of corporate safety‚ seemed to acknowledge some temporary FAA action was coming. "Over the next several weeks‚ we will begin to see more of an FAA presence in our operation as they begin to review some of our work processes‚ manuals and facilities‚" Johnson wrote. "As part of this effort‚ the FAA will also pause a variety of certification activities for a period of time. Those activities will differ depending on the work group and we will learn more from the FAA about that soon."

Louis Gossett Jr.‚ the first Black man to win an Oscar as a supporting actor‚ has died at the age of 87.