GORSUCH TOUTS LIMITED ROLE FOR JUDICIARY
KY.» New Supreme LOUISVILLE,
Court Justice Neil Gorsuch espoused a limited role for the judiciary in a speech Thursday in the hometown of the powerful Kentucky lawmaker who championed his confirmation.
A limited judicial role sometimes means that a “real-life ‘good guy’ ” loses a case because a judge’s ruling conforms to “exactly what the law demands,” Gorsuch, a Denver native, told an audience at the University of Louisville that included Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. “It is the job of the judge to apply it, not amend the law ... even when he might well prefer a very different outcome,” Gorsuch said. “That last part’s pretty tough.”
With McConnell seated just feet away, Gorsuch drew laughter when he noted: “Sometimes, too, the real-life ‘good guy’ loses because of a law enacted by Congress.”
Congo leads world in sex abuse allegations against U.N. peacekeepers.
CONGO» In BUNIO, a yearlong investigation, the AP found that despite promises of reform for more than a decade, the United Nations failed to meet many of its pledges to stop sexual abuse by its peacekeepers or to help their victims, some of whom have been lost to a sprawling bureaucracy. Cases have disappeared or have been handed off to the peacekeepers’ home countries — which often do nothing with them.
If the U.N. sexual abuse crisis has an epicenter, it is Congo, where the overall scale of the scandal first emerged 13 years ago — and where the promised reforms have most clearly fallen short. Of the 2,000 sexual abuse and exploitation complaints made against the U.N. worldwide over the past 12 years, more than 700 occurred in Congo. The embattled African nation hosts the U.N.’s largest peacekeeping force, costing a staggering $1 billion a year. The mission is so problematic, the U.S. ambassador the U.N., Nikki Haley, has threatened to cut off funds for it.
SEC under fire for being hacked despite warnings on security.
The Securities and Exchange Commission waited until Wednesday to disclose a hack of its corporate filing system last year. The disclosure raises questions about the agency’s ability to protect important financial information and comes as Americans are still weighing the consequences of the massive hack at Equifax.
The SEC, the federal agency responsible for protecting investors and ensuring markets function properly, is under fire after disclosing the hack of its electronic network that whisks company news and data to investors. The breach occurred despite repeated warnings in recent years about weaknesses in the agency’s cybersecurity controls.
Experts question the length of time taken to disclose the breach and why the SEC isn’t meeting the same security standards it demands of corporate America.
“Public companies have a clear obligation to disclose material information about cyber risks and cyber events. I expect them to take this requirement seriously,” SEC Chairman Jay Clayton warned in a speech in July.
Baby whose mother chose giving birth over chemo has died.
MICH.» A preemie ANN ARBOR, whose gravely ill mother had hoped to save her by shunning chemotherapy during pregnancy has died, a relative said Thursday. Sonya Nelson said her niece, Life Lynn DeKlyen, died Wednesday evening at the University of Michigan Hospital. Life’s mother, Carrie, died Sept. 9, three days after giving birth to her sixth child.
Relatives said Life had been doing better than expected after being born prematurely at 1 pound, 4 ounces. Nelson said the baby had good and bad days at the hospital, but “took a turn for the worse” this week.
“We don’t have any answers,” Nelson said, adding “the cards were kind of stacked against her” after being born at 24 weeks and five days into the pregnancy — about “the earliest you can survive.” — The Associated Press