SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — President Obama’s appointees to the U.S. Supreme Court are not all alike. So seemed to be the thrust of an AP story noting that Judges Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor split on the issue of whether children who arrived in the U.S. with their undocumented parents and subsequently turn 21 should retain any kind of preference for permanent residence. Sotomayor said they should; Kagan agreed with the Obama administration that they should go to the back of line. It’s also apparent that Jews on the court don’t always vote the same way. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg agreed with Kagan; Justice Stephen Breyer supported Sotomayor.
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Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Illinois) expressed anger at those who would fault the U.S. government for bringing Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl home from Afghanistan in an exchange for five Taliban militants. In an AP story carried by the U-T, Schakowsky said she was “grateful” that the U.S. didn’t “leave someone on the battlefield.” As for the men traded for Bergdahl, she described them as former Afghan government officials who were never charged with any acts of wrongdoing against the U.S.
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In a story by the U-T’s Debbi Baker, California Highway Patrol officer Kevin Pearlstein reported that driver Mary Lowrey, 80, died after her car crashed into the center divider of Interstate 8 near West Main Street in El Cajon after she, for unknown reasons, abruptly turned left.
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The U-T’s David Garrick reports that San Diego Police Chief Shelley Zimmerman will appear at a town hall meeting at 6:30 p.m., on Wednesday, June 11, at Pacific Beach Middle School. She will be accompanied by Interim City Councilman Ed Harris.
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Carl Icahn, the billionaire investor, has his eye on Family Dollar Stores, report the Bloomberg News and Charlotte (N.C.) Observer in the U-T’s business section. Less than thrilled by the prospect, Family Dollar Stores adopted a resolution prohibiting any investor from acquiring more than 10 percent of the company.
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Jenn Harris has a unique business, High Heel Golfer, in which she teaches women not only to golf, but to use the time on the 18 holes for networking with business contacts. In a U-T story by Hang Nguyen, she advises her clients not to try to make a business deal while walking the course, but rather to wait until the 19th hole (that is after the match) to discuss specifics. Small talk while walking should be about the client’s personal interests or industry matters—or, of course, about golf. Deal-making specifics can come later
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Donald Sterling, the oft-reviled owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, says he’s not going to sell the team, not even for $2 billion. An AP story by Tami Abdollar printed in the U-T quoted Sterling as saying “from the onset, I did not want to the sell the Los Angeles Clippers…. I have decided that I must fight to protect my rights. While my position may not be popular, I believe that my rights to privacy and preservation of my rights to due process should not be trampled. I love the team and have dedicated 33 years of my life to the organization. I intend to fight to keep the team.”
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Preceding prepared by the staff of San Diego Jewish World