Court cards trumped !
Trump wins Supreme Court ruling and can appear on all November state ballots, Top Democrat “working on” bill responding to Trump ballot ruling
A leading House Democrat is preparing legislation in response to the Supreme Court's ruling on Monday that Colorado could not disqualify former President Trump from its state ballot, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: The ruling determined that only Congress can enforce language in the 14th Amendment barring anyone who "engaged in insurrection" from holding federal office.
"Congress will have to try and act," Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, told Axios.
What he's saying: Raskin, a former member of the Jan. 6 select committee, said he is already crafting the bill, telling Axios, "I'm working on it — today."
Raskin pointed to legislation he introduced with Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) in 2022 creating a pathway for the Justice Department to sue to keep candidates off the ballot under the 14th Amendment.
"We are going to revise it in light of the Supreme Court's decision," Raskin said.
Raskin suggested the bill would be paired with a resolution declaring Jan. 6 an "insurrection" and that those involved "engaged in insurrection."
Reality check: The bill will face almost certain stonewalling in the House, where even moderate, swing-district Republicans such as Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) are cheering the Supreme Court's ruling.
"I don't have a lot of hope that Speaker [Mike] Johnson will allow us to bring enforcement legislation to the floor, but we have to try and do it," Raskin said.
The Democrat said he will beseech Republicans to join the bill, but acknowledged that most of the ones who might have – such as former Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger – are already out of Congress.
What's next: Raskin said the bill is "one on a huge list of priorities" he would have as Oversight Committee chair in a Democratic House majority.
"It's clearly something that we need to focus on," he said.
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Supreme Court rules states can't kick Trump off the ballot
The decision swiftly ended the legal fight over whether states can bar Trump from their ballots based on the Constitution's 14th Amendment.
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Huawei's new CPU matches Zen 3 in single-core performance - HiSilicon Taishan V120 server CPU benchmark
By Tomshardware
A Geekbench 6 result features what is likely the first-ever look at the single-core performance of the Taishan V120, developed by Huawei's HiSilicon subsidiary (via @Olrak29_ on X). The single-core score indicates that Taishan V120 cores are roughly on par with AMD's Zen 3 cores from late 2020, which could mean Huawei's technology isn't that far behind cutting-edge Western chip designers.
The Taishan V120 core was first spotted in Huawei's Kirin 9000s smartphone chip, which uses four of the cores alongside two efficiency-focused Arm Cortex A510 cores. Since Kirin 9000s chips are produced using SMIC's second-generation 7nm node (which may make it illegal to sell internationally according to U.S. lawmakers), it would also seem likely that the Taishan V120 core tested in Geekbench 6 is also made on the second-generation 7nm node.
The benchmark result doesn't really say much about what the actual CPU is, with the only hint being "Huawei Cloud OpenStack Nova." This implies it's a Kunpeng server CPU, which may either be the Kunpeng 916, 920, or 930. While we can only guess which one it is, it's almost certain to be the 930 given the high single-core performance shown in the result. By contrast, the few Geekbench 5 results for the Kunpeng 920 show it performing well behind AMD's first-generation Epyc Naples from 2017.
This appearance of what is likely the Kunpeng 930 is the first we've seen since it was announced in 2019. A report from The Next Platform in 2021 expected the 930 to launch that year on TSMC's 5nm, followed by the Kunpeng 950 on TSMC's 3nm node in 2023. Obviously, that didn't happen, and even if the 930 and 950 were going to be made on TSMC's cutting-edge nodes, those plans had to be shelved since Huawei is banned from fabbing at TSMC.
Additionally, the benchmark was only run on one core, and since the last-generation Kunpeng 920 capped out at 64 cores, this result was likely run on a virtual machine or some configuration where only one core was tested. That in turn means the multi-core score isn't really useful and can't tell us too much about how performant the full chips are.
Taishan V120 Performance in Geekbench 6Processor Single-Core ScoreTaishan V120 CPU1,527Epyc 74131,538Xeon E-21361,553Epyc 95541,957Xeon w9-3495X2,087
Per Geekbench's processor rankings, the Taishan V120-powered server CPU is about on par with AMD's Zen 3-based Epyc Milan CPUs, specifically the midrange Epyc 7413. It's also about equivalent to Intel's Xeon E-2136, a Coffee Lake-based Xeon from 2018. Considering the Geekbench 6 result says the Huawei CPU operated at 2.9 GHz, it's not a bad result; the Epyc 7413 boosts to 3.6 GHz and the E-2136 to 4.5 GHz.
However, it is clearly behind modern Epyc Genoa based on Zen 4, as well as Intel's Sapphire Rapids, which are both around 25% faster. To be fair to the Taishan V120 chip, it is likely fabbed on a less performant node, as Genoa uses TSMC's 5nm and Intel uses its own Intel 7 process.
Unfortunately, without a look at multi-threaded performance, power consumption, and efficiency, it's hard to say how competitive Taishan V120 cores will be. For servers in particular, power and efficiency are key due to the cost of electricity, and even if Huawei's latest server CPUs are fast, that won't mean much if they consume tons of power.
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This 9-0, is a class-of-its-own US Supreme Court process directional decision.
Someone should put this together with other Rumbles/YouTubes on the process leading up to this decision.
Especially including Cruz’s given his once clerkship with Roberts.