Author: MGSN

The Supreme Court, in a controversial 5-4 decision put the lower court’s ruling on hold, effectively allowing Alabama to proceed with its preferred map as it prepares for primary elections in May. Many legal scholars opined that the Majority’s decision is at odds with well-established precedent and, in effect, decided the issue, despite holding the lower court’s ruling in abeyance, since it prevented what would have been a re-drawn congressional district that would have favored a minority’s election (a Democrat) in that second seat the lower court ordered. Most noteworthy is the dissent of Chief Justice Roberts. The same jurist…

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It is a critical time in the life of the “constitutional federal republic” known as the United States of America. It is a form of government wherein the people hold power through their duly representatives, who are bound by the principles enunciated in the Constitution, which created a national government consisting of a legislature, an executive and a judicial branch.Those elected representatives have a long history of belonging to only two major parties, who battled every election for control of both the White House and Congress. Both parties had a long history of standing firmly behind the constitution.In 2016, the…

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MGSN article on Digital Nomads drew significant interest from our viewers.As documented in the MGSN article, the Digital Nomad Visa is a product of the pandemic and the growth and permanency of remote workers. Significant contractions in the hospitality sector caused a negative impact on tourism-related income.Several countries developed the Digital Nomad Visa as means to recapture the derivative income that tourism contributed to the local economy. The fact that the remote workers are earning money from employment/business opportunities located out of the host country makes the Visa a perfect solution.The Digital Nomad is spending money in the local economy…

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The Arizona Democratic Party’s executive committee formally censured Sen. Kyrsten Sinema last because of her inaction on changing the filibuster rules to pass voting rights reform. Does Senator Sinema have any legal rights to challenge this action? A review of several commentaries indicated that the censorship of Senator Sinema was a violation of her right of freedom of expression. In the general sense there could be a basis of facts to come to this conclusion. The Senator expressed support for the underlying civil rights legislation but felt the dismantling of the filibuster would place minority parties in a difficult position…

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The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down the vaccine mandate for business, except as to healthcare workers nationally. The mandate required businesses with 100 or more employees to either get vaccinated or tested weekly, until it was overturned by the SCOTUS. The Supreme Court ruled that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) vaccine or test rule, acted outside of its scope of authority. The Court, by a vote of 6-3, ruled that “OSHA has never before imposed such a mandate. Nor has Congress. Indeed, although Congress has enacted significant legislation addressing the COVID-19 pandemic, it has declined to enact…

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