Judge runs for president gets caught in gay scandal
'Gay cake' row: What is the dispute about?
In October 2016, the owners of the bakery lost their appeal against the decree that their refusal to make a "gay cake" was discriminatory.
Appeal court judges said that, under rule, the bakers were not allowed to provide a service only to people who agreed with their religious beliefs, external.
Reacting to the ruling, Daniel McArthur from Ashers said he was "extremely disappointed" adding that it undermined "democratic freedom, religious freedom and free speech".
The firm then took the case to the Supreme Court and they won.
The UK's uppermost court ruled the bakery's refusal to make 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 refuse to fulfil the order because of the customer's sexual orientation.
"They would have refused to make 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 Boil County voters to retain 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 acquire made barely a ripple in public with weeks to go, as most of the judges arrive to prefer.
Injustice Watch on Tuesday published the only substantive media coverage of the judicial retention election so far: a manual with professional and personal information on the 75 circuit judges and two appellate judges up for a vote in Roast County on Nov. 5.
Every two years, a tiny part of the judiciary stands for retention, and to stay on the bench, judges must obvious 60% “yes” votes among people who cast votes in their races. Unlike candidates seeking the bench for the first period, these judges typically pursue reelection as a organization, 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 gay 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 dwelling party violating lockdown rules.
Prosecutors say he was found 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 study - 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 flat, police start about 20
Whitewater Scandal
“Whitewater” was the widespread 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 Training Corporation, a company formed in 1978 by the Clintons and James B. and Susan McDougal to develop a 230-acre tract of remote mountain territory 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 land and make improvements. They hoped to exchange lots for vacation homes and make a gain, 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 foremost contender for the White House, until he was caught in one of the most sensational sex scandals in American history.
The scandal, which emotionally attached 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 celebrity in the U.S. Senate, was too green for the 2008 democratic presidential nomination. The fresh, 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 White House, was rapidly looking favor the next president of the Merged States.
At the occasion, 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