In the spotlight: the image of the American Supreme Court tarnished

The Supreme Court of the United States, Washington.

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The US Supreme Court is waiting to know the name of the candidate Donald Trump is due to announce next Saturday.

A Supreme Court whose image could well be tarnished by the political battle between Republicans and Democrats, according to the

.

The daily, which is no longer under any illusions about the possibility of a progressive judge being appointed, believes that the main victim of this war between Republicans and Democrats is none other than the Supreme Court, an institution supposed to be non-partisan .

An institution discredited and which, in the event of a Democratic presidential victory, and if the Democrats also won a majority in the Senate, could even be the subject of a reform, as some elected officials have suggested.

In particular, it would be a question of increasing the number of judges who sit on it in order to restore a balance between progressives and conservatives.

Because if this is not the case, we know what will happen, warns the daily, in particular concerning three central and major subjects: firearms, abortion and religious freedoms.

Republicans who support Joe Biden

If Republican senators seem ready to follow Donald Trump in terms of the appointment of a new Supreme Court justice, other Republicans are no longer hesitant to show their support for Joe Biden in the presidential race.

After the announcement yesterday of the widow of Republican Senator John McCain, former Republican presidential candidate, who announced his support for the candidacy of Joe Biden whom her husband had faced in 2008 while running for vice-president,

returns today to the panel of Republicans who openly display their support for the Democratic candidate.

There are dozens of them, including former members of the Trump administration such as James Matthis or John Bolton.

We also find elected officials or former elected officials such as Jeff Flake, former senator from Arizona, Rick Snyder, former governor of Michigan, Charlie Dent or John Kasich.

Hundreds of administration officials have also given their opinions on the matter.

Positions used by the Democratic Party to demonstrate that their candidate is able to unite the Americans.

A message, specifies the daily, intended for voters still undecided.

Celebrities pay the arrears of ex-inmates in Florida

Celebrities, including Michael Bloomberg and basketball star LeBron James, have paid twenty million dollars to pay off the debts of former inmates in Florida.

These former detainees did not have the right to vote under a law that prohibits them from voting if they have fines or court costs to pay.

In total, 775,000 former detainees are in this situation, according to

.

Their voices may well be decisive for Democrats if they are to win in this hotly contested state.

Two weeks before the deadline to register on the electoral lists of celebrities including Michael Bloomberg, LeBron James, John Legend and Steven Spielberg participated in this initiative.

In total, 44,000 people or companies have financed a fund to settle these arrears and allow these former detainees to participate in the election on November 3.

Over 300,000 children out of school in Peru

A consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the Peruvian Ministry of Education.

A figure that represents 15% of registered students, according to

.

Children who no longer have any connection with school either because they had to work during this pandemic period to help their families, even because they did not have the means to follow classes remotely.

And according to the Peruvian Ministry of Education, which is behind the count, the figure could be even higher.

This is proof that the education system does not work, believes an education specialist in the columns of daily life.

Peru is one of the countries most affected by the pandemic, recalls

and the closure of classes was one of the first measures announced.

For a few weeks now, the authorities have put in place the “

 ” program which should allow

students 

to take courses on television, radio or even on the Internet.

A program on which the Ministry of Education relies a lot.

Reaction of the Brazilian press after Jair Bolsonaro's speech to the UN

A speech during which Jair Bolsonaro denounced, among other things, a brutal campaign of disinformation on the Amazon and the Pantanal, two regions where fires continue to wreak havoc.

The

information site

scrutinizes the statements and reveals a lot of " 

 ".

For example: Contrary to what Jair Bolsonaro claimed, satellite images clearly show that those responsible for the fires are not the Indians who burn small plots of land, but the large landowners who deforest the forest.

According to a political scientist interviewed by the weekly

, the speech was one of the most empty ever made at the UN, " 

 ", according to him.

On social networks, Internet users have had fun sticking a long nose of Pinocchio on the president's photos.

Regarding the appeal that Jair Bolsonaro launched to the international community to fight " 

 ", 

recalls that this community is certainly being prosecuted in Afghanistan or Eritrea, but not in Brazil.

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