Judge runs for president gets caught in gay scandal
'Gay cake' row: What is the quarrel about?
In October 2016, the owners of the bakery missing their appeal against the ruling that their refusal to make a "gay cake" was discriminatory.
Appeal court judges said that, under commandment, the bakers were not allowed to provide a service only to people who agreed with their religious opinions, external.
Reacting to the ruling, Daniel McArthur from Ashers said he was "extremely disappointed" adding that it undermined "democratic freedom, religious autonomy and free speech".
The firm then took the case to the Supreme Court and they won.
The UK's highest court ruled the bakery's refusal to create a cake with a slogan supporting same-sex marriage was not discriminatory.
Then president of the Supreme Court, Lady Hale, ruled the bakers did not reject to fulfil the order because of the customer's sexual orientation.
"They would contain refused to form such a cake for any customer, irrespective of their sexual orientation," she said.
"Their objection was to the letter on the cake, not to the personal characteristics of Mr Lee."
And from there, Mr Lee took his case to Europe,
The 77 judges asking Prepare County voters to maintain them on the bench in November include some with unexplained tax debts, arrest histories, official censures, unflattering reversals by higher courts, and ties to indicted or convicted politicians.
Those judges — alongside the many with cleaner reputations and records — all want another term to continue deciding who goes to prison, who loses their homes, and who keeps their kids.
Despite the stakes, the races contain made barely a ripple in public with weeks to go, as most of the judges come to prefer.
Injustice Watch on Tuesday published the only substantive media coverage of the judicial retention election so far: a mentor with professional and personal information on the 75 circuit judges and two appellate judges up for a vote in Boil County on Nov. 5.
Every two years, a miniature part of the judiciary stands for retention, and to stay on the bench, judges must dispel 60% “yes” votes among people who cast votes in their races. Unlike candidates seeking the bench for the first moment, these judges typically explore reelection as a community, trying to persuade voters to hit “yes” for all the little-known names listed in a daunting expanse at t
Jozsef Szajer: Hungary MEP quits after allegedly fleeing homosexual orgy
An MEP from Hungary's ruling party, which is hostile to LGBT rights, has quit after he was caught attending what Belgian media describe as a gay sex party in Brussels on Friday.
Jozsef Szajer, a top member of Prime Minister Viktor Orban's Fidesz party, was stopped by police after reports of a residence party violating lockdown rules.
Prosecutors say he was launch with drugs as he tried to flee the gathering, reportedly shinning down a drainpipe.
He apologised for "a personal failing".
On Friday he had pleaded parliamentary immunity but he is now under investigation - for both non-compliance with measures relating to the Covid-19 pandemic and violation of drug laws.
The European Parliament said the immunity rule only extended to an MEP's official duties, not to their personal life.
What happened on Friday?
At around 21:00 (20:00 GMT), prosecutors say, police were alerted by neighbours who complained about noise and potential lockdown breaches in an apartment located on Rue des Pierres in the centre of the Belgian capital.
Inside the even, police found about 20
Whitewater Scandal
“Whitewater” was the popular nickname for a series of investigations of President William Jefferson Clinton that lasted nearly seven years and concluded with his impeachment by the U.S. House of Representatives and acquittal by the Senate, making him the second U.S. president to be impeached. The investigations began in 1994 as an inquiry by an independent U.S. counsel into the propriety of real-estate transactions involving Clinton and his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, in 1978, when he was attorney general of Arkansas and shortly before he became governor. It morphed through many phases until the independent counsel looked into allegations of illicit sexual encounters when Clinton was governor and president.
The term “Whitewater” originated from the Whitewater Development Enterprise, a company formed in 1978 by the Clintons and James B. and Susan McDougal to develop a 230-acre tract of remote mountain land at the confluence of the White River and Crooked Creek in Marion County. The two couples borrowed $203,000 from a bank to buy the territory and make improvements. They hoped to sell lots for vacation homes and make a earnings, but interest rates skyrocketed, th
John Edwards and the Mistress: A Breakdown of One of America's Most Sensational Scandals
Nov. 12, 2013— -- John Edwards was once a titan in the Democratic Party, one who, just seven years ago, was considered a highest contender for the Pale House, until he was caught in one of the most sensational sex scandals in American history.
The scandal, which deeply interested an illicit affair with a 2008 presidential campaign aide, followed by a love child and an intense cover-up, would be Edwards' undoing. His career in professional politics would be over.
It started in 2006. Many thought Hillary Clinton was damaged goods and Barack Obama, then just a rising luminary in the U.S. Senate, was too green for the 2008 democratic presidential nomination. The young, charismatic Edwards, having already established himself on the national stage as then-Sen. John Kerry's vice presidential candidate for an unsuccessful 2004 bid for the Ivory House, was rapidly looking like the next president of the United States.
At the time, Edwards' greatest political asset was his wife Elizabeth, a breast cancer survivor and a doting mother to the couple's four children.
Ahead of the 2008