SCOTUS Watch!

Big decision coming from Supreme Court.

Controversial decisions on the Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act are coming.

The LGBT community is patiently waiting on the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court.

The conservative wing of the Supreme Court includes Chief Justice John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clearance Thomas, and Samuel Alito are not approving. The swing resides in Chief Justice Roberts and Kennedy. They are the swing justices.

The liberal wing of the Supreme Court includes Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg are likely going to favor the rights of the LGBT community.

President Barack Obama last year came out in favor of gay marriage and there are over 12 states that have legalize gay marriage.

This decision could impact a lot of Americans who love their partners and want to have the rights as straight couple to marry.

Again, gay marriage doesn't bother me. It doesn't bother me that two loving people want to celebrate unison of love.

Who are we to stop them?

Wednesday and Thursday will be the day of reckoning for all who fought for the right to marry.

Developments will continue.

SCOTUS Gives Voting Rights The Ax!

Conservative wing of the Supreme Court struck down provision that prevents voter discrimination.

In a major decision, the conservative wing of the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a portion of the Voting Rights Act that advocated for Southern states to be monitored for scheming during elections.

The progressive movement is outraged by the decision. Many figured that the Supreme Court is now acting like a bunch of activists. The 5-4 decision once again proves that each decision made by the court will greatly affect everything.

In Shelby County v. Holder, the United States Supreme Court struck down Section 4(b) of the Act and its formula for requiring preclearance as unconstitutional based on current conditions, saying it was rational and needed at the time it was enacted but is no longer necessary, notwithstanding the fact that Congress had nearly-unanimously reauthorized the Act in 2006. Preclearance itself was not struck down, but has no effect unless Congress passes a new formula.

That portion of the Act in question was designed to prevent discrimination in voting by requiring all state and local governments with a history of voting discrimination to get approval from the federal government before making any changes to their voting laws or procedures, no matter how small. In an opinion by Chief Justice John G. Roberts that was joined by Justices Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, and Alito, the Court did not invalidate the principle that preclearance can be required.

Petitioner Shelby County, in the covered jurisdiction of Alabama, sued Attorney Genera Eric Holder in Federal District Court in Washington, D.C, seeking a declaratory judgment that sections 4(b) and 5 are facially unconstitutional, as well as a permanent injunction against their enforcement. The District Court upheld the Act, finding that the evidence before Congress in 2006 was sufficient to justify reauthorizing §5 and continuing §4(b)'s coverage formula. The D. C. Circuit affirmed. After surveying the evidence in the record, that court accepted Congress’s conclusion that §2 litigation remained inadequate in the covered jurisdictions to protect the rights of minority voters, that §5 was therefore still necessary, and that the coverage formula continued to pass constitutional muster.

BREAKING: Nelson Mandela Gravely Ill!

Former South African president Nelson Mandela health has taken a toll for the worse.

The former South African president and ambassador of peace in the last African nation occupied by White rule is gravely ill and the nation is preparing for his departure.

Nelson Mandela, age 94 is suffering from a lung infection that is considered severe. He was admitted to a Pretoria Hospital after it became apparent that treatments aren't working.

We here at Journal de la Reyna will continue to follow this story.

Embarrassing Pictures Force Woman To Sue Former School!

Chelsea Chaney is suing her former high school after a picture of her turned up on public websites.

Since this is an issue of what you post on the social networks, we will clearly explain this story.

Even though this has nothing to do with him, Snoop Dogg (or known as Snoop Lion) continues to be in the news. This controversy once again shows that whatever you post on the internet is there "FOREVER".

I've learned this. And hopefully she'll learn this.

At least on this message she will now make sure that everything posted stays just simple. She will keep her posting on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube smaller and it may drive her away from them.

I've done it. Millions of others have too.

A woman from Georgia is suing her former high school after it was revealed that some of her pictures on the social network Facebook were turning up on the school's rules of the media policy website.

She wants $2 million in damages for the embarrassing photo being seen. She is standing near a cuttout poster of Snoop Lion. She is wearing a scantly clad bikini.

The Daily Nothing has covered this. Of course I am guessing they were hoping that Big Snoop would have some role in this so they could blame President Barack Obama for this. They reporting that Chelsea Chaney, who is now a freshman at the University of Georgia, said the photo was taken on a family vacation when she was 17 years old. She took the picture sometime ago.

Chaney posted the photo on her Facebook page, believing that only people she had accepted as Facebook friends (and, of course, their friends) would be able to see it.

The director of technology at Starr’s Mill High School then decided to show the image during a well-attended district-wide seminar focused on the long-term dangers of social media.

In the seminar, which allegedly occurred when Chaney was a student at the school and a minor, the caption of Chaney’s bikini-clad photo was allegedly: “Once it’s there, it’s there to stay.”

“I was embarrassed. I was horrified,” Chaney told a WSB-TV reporter. “It never crossed my mind that it would ever — that this would ever happen to me.”

The school official allegedly failed to obtain — or, apparently, even try to obtain — Chaney’s or her parents’ permission.

The unnamed school official did later apologize, in writing, explaining that the image had been “randomly chosen.”

Chaney did not accept the apology. She also remains skeptical of the motive.

“I just don’t think it was random,” she said. “It wasn’t my main picture. You had to go looking through it.”

Pete Wellborn, an attorney now representing Chaney and her family, told the ABC affiliate that he has filed a lawsuit on her behalf for $2 million, alleging that the school district violated federal law, state law and Chaney’s constitutional rights.

Wellborn maintains that a person does not cede rights to others by posting images on Internet sites such as Facebook.

“Their idea that putting something on Facebook gives them a license to steal it and carte blanche to do with it what they did is wrong ethically, it’s wrong morally and it’s absolutely wrong legally,” the attorney argued.

“I just don’t want this to happen to another student,” Chaney added, according to the station.

The school district denied legal liability but otherwise declined to comment on the litigation.

Snoop Dogg appears on Doggystyle Records/RCA Records.

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Lil' Snupe Passes Away!

Teenage rapper Lil' Snupe was gunned down. Many in the entertainment industry are expressing condolences to the rapper. Meek Mill and Rick Ross are devastated over the lost.

We here at Journal de la Reyna express our condolences to family of Lil' Snupe.

Okay, the internet is buzzing about an inspired rapper named Lil' Snupe. The 18-year old rapper was tragically gunned down in Louisiana. Many in the entertainment industry are expressing their condolences to the rapper.

MTV News reports that less than 48 hours after Lil' Snupe was shot and killed, authorities have identified a suspect in the death of the Meek Mill protégé.

According to a statement released to MTV News by Louisiana's Winnfield City Police Department on Friday (June 21), warrants have been issued for the arrest of 36-year old Winnfield resident Tony Holden.

The convicted felon stands 5'8" and weighs approximately 215 pounds, according to police records, and has black hair and brown eyes.

Police officials are asking that anyone with knowledge of Holden's whereabouts to contact the Winnfield Police Department immediately at 318-628-3511.

"Holden has not been located at this time and is considered armed and dangerous," the police department told MTV news in a statement, accompanied by a color photograph of the accused.

The WPD's investigation revealed that the shooting death of Lil' Snupe (born Addarren Ross) at the Maplewood Apartments at 1901 South Jones Street in Winnfield, Louisiana, was the result of an altercation that erupted during a private video-game session a friend's apartment. The R.N.I.C. (Real Nigga In Charge) MC was in town visiting from Jonesboro when he was fatally shot twice in the torso.

The 18-year old rapper was signed to Meek Mill's Dream Chasers record label on the spot late last year after the two met during the MMG (Maybach Music Group) rapper's Grambling State University tour stop. After hearing Snupe's demo, the Dreams & Nightmares spitter knew that he had to sign the upstart lyricist and guide him away from the streets.

"He was spittin' so much pain, he's from the south with a flow like an East Coast guy," Meek told MTV News back in February during NBA All Star weekend. "Like with that bounce flow, all over the place, he really can spit, and he was talking that talk that I can really relate to. I seen potential in him."

The "Nobody Does It Better" spitter was poised to become one of the most sought-after new artists in hip-hop with weighty co-signs from the likes of Rick Ross, who wanted the young upstart to contribute a few bars to Maybach Music's new compilation LP, Self Made, Vol. 3 and "Take Over" collaborator DJ Khaled.

We do not endorse or condone this behavior of the young rapper. We do respect his talents and ability to use his given. This young entertainer would of had a future. How could a callous individual take such a young life.

You notice that in Black America, our society is stuck in the cultural ills that the junk food media paints us out to be! They paint young Black teens as "natural born criminals" and "violent".

It's not fair, but that's the perception by Whites and even some Blacks.

Trayvon Martin was killed by a reckless fool. They painted Martin as the thug and that fool as the hero. The junk food media always painted the victim as the aggressor. Look at how they've handled the Stuebenville case in which the girl was painted as a slut.

Meek Mill appears on Maybach Music Group/Atlantic Records. He is affiliated with Dream Chasers Records.

Rick Ross appears on Def Jam. He is affiliated with Maybach Music Group.

Lil' Snupe appears on Dream Chasers Records.

Loserville Defends Controversial Talker Bill Cunningham!

Controversial talk radio/talk show host Bill Cunningham runs afoul with "phony" liberal agitator Tamara Holder.

The fake liberal Tamara Holder got into a heated confrontation with conservative agitator Bill Cunningham on That Guy Who Helped Obama Win show a couple of days ago.

Cunningham told Holder to shut up and know her place.

Now Loserville is discussing how to be a little more civil in discussion.

Unfortunately Chief Roger can't stomach a network that's civil. The chief loves constant agitation. He's built his fortune on the formula of his boss Rupert Murdoch.

Cunningham is a controversial talk radio and reality television host. He's based out of Cincinnati. He often on his weekday program on WLW 700 AM talking about issues in the city and on the Sunday show, he looks at That Guy Who Throws Shit To The Wall's website to get his daily talking points. During the days off, he heads off to Greenwich, Connecticut to film his daily talk show that deals with issues he complains about on radio. He has a syndicated show on The CW network.

Cunningham is good friends with That Guy and King Hippo. They each respect each other and have a strong dislike for President Barack Obama.

Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) had to distance himself from Cunningham after the agitator made reference to Barack Obama's middle name being Hussein. The reason was to paint the president as a Muslim and dictator.

Cunningham, Holder and That Guy are frequently attacking the president over petty nonsense.

Again, Loserville finds controversy where there is none. Look at the IRS scandal for example. A bunch of poor uninformed citizens defend billionaires and corporations. Because the Tea Party groups aren't grassroots organizations, they are businesses masquerading as political organizations.

Curtains For Paula Deen!

Nosedive for celebrity chef.

The controversy finally taken its toll. The celebrity chef was fired from The Food Network after it was revealed that she had said racial slurs towards her Black patrons.

The Southern based chef Paula Deen was embroiled in a huge controversy. According to a lawsuit, the celebrity chef went into a verbal tirade against Blacks. She was known to utter a racial slur about them.

Is there hope That Guy Who Helped Obama Win will give Deen an exclusive interview?

Will Chief Roger get a network together and call it Dine?

Are you accepting of Paula Deen's apology?

Well the news is getting worse. The Chicago Tribune says the impending loss of Deen's broadcast deal represents a potentially huge setback for a television personality who has built an empire on high calorie food, with cookbooks and restaurants in her native Georgia and other states.

The Food Network said in a statement it "will not renew Paula Deen's contract when it expires at the end of this month."

A spokeswoman declined further comment but the network, which is owned by Scripps Network Interactive Inc, said on Thursday it "does not tolerate any form of discrimination and is a strong proponent of diversity and inclusion."

The network's decision to drop Deen was announced hours after she failed to make a scheduled appearance on the NBC television morning show "Today" to discuss the controversy. She later apologized on video that was posted online.

"I want to apologize to everybody for the wrong that I've done. I want to learn and grow from this," Deen said in one video posted on YouTube and other websites.

The controversy surrounding Deen erupted earlier this week when a deposition was released in transcript form in which Deen, who is white, was asked if she had used the "N-word," and responded, "Yes, of course."

Asked about the epithet in the deposition, Deen said she had used the slur when describing, probably to her husband, how a black man robbed a bank where she was working in the 1980s. She said she had used the word since, "but it's been a very long time."

A former employee of Paula Deen Enterprises, Lisa Jackson, is suing Deen and her brother, Earl "Bubba" Hiers, in federal court alleging racial and sexual discrimination in the workplace. The deposition was related to the lawsuit.

The lawsuit alleges that, while discussing with Jackson plans for Hiers' 2007 wedding, Deen said she wanted a "true southern plantation-style wedding." She went on to say in the lawsuit, she would like to see "n-word" wear long-sleeve white shirts, black shorts and black bow ties. You know in the Shirley Temple days, they used to tap dance around," Deen said, according to the lawsuit.

'PLENTY OF MISTAKES'

In one video message posted on Friday to YouTube, Deen apologized to "Today" host Matt Lauer for failing to show up for her interview, as she tried to reach out directly to the public.

"I want people to understand that my family and I are not the kind of people that the press is wanting to say we are," Deen said in that message.

In another video statement posted on YouTube and other websites, Deen said she had made "plenty of mistakes along the way."

"But I beg you, my children, my team, my fans, my partners, I beg for your forgiveness," she said.

Deen did not directly mention the lawsuit or her deposition in either of the two widely shared video statements.

You can't butter the public!

A spokeswoman for Deen did not return calls or an e-mail seeking comment.

Howard Bragman, vice chairman of the reputation management service Reputation.com, told Reuters the chef "needs to be honest, emotional and convincing."

"She's never going to come back whole, she's never going to come back to where she once was," Bragman said in a phone interview. "Do I think she can salvage some measure of a career? Yes I do, there's a lot of people who still like her - the butter manufacturers of America. But she's never going to come back whole."
Long before becoming a celebrity chef, in 1989 Deen started out of her home a catering service called The Bag Lady. It later became the critically acclaimed restaurant The Lady and Sons in Savannah, Georgia.

Her show "Paula's Home Cooking" debuted on The Food Network in 2002 and her program "Paula's Best Dishes" premiered in 2008. She had a longstanding love for butter as an ingredient, but after revealing last year that she had Type 2 diabetes, she became a paid spokeswoman for drug maker Novo Nordisk and introduced light recipes.