SCOTUS Keeps Marching Right
Plus: What Election Reformers Can Learn from the Same-Sex Marriage Push
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KIM WEHLE: SCOTUS Keeps Marching Right
DURING A SPEECH LAST MONTH, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said: āThere are days that Iāve come to my office after an announcement of a case and closed my door and cried. . . . There have been those days. And there are likely to be more.ā Given the blockbuster cases that remain in the hands of the right-wing Supreme Court majority this term, she probably wonāt be alone in shedding tears later this month.
The rule of law has already suffered some devastating blows this term. On March 4, the Court gave Donald J. Trump and his insurrectionist enablers a cataclysmic win by deactivating the plain meaning of Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, which expressly bans anyone āwho, having previously taken an oath . . . to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the sameā from holding federal office again. Not a single justice dissented.
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NICK TROIANO: What Election Reformers Can Learn from the Same-Sex Marriage Push
IN DECEMBER 2022, PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN signed a bipartisan bill that just two decades earlier seemed like a far-off dream for its advocates: the Respect for Marriage Act. The law, which solidified the rights granted in the 2015 Supreme Court ruling Obergefell v. Hodges, felt surreal to me, as a gay man who didnāt come out until after college in 2012, and even then, only to friends and family. When I ran for Congress in 2014 in a conservative rural district in Pennsylvania, I chose not to disclose this part of my identity; I did not feel comfortable doing so.
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Happy Monday! I hope you had a wonderful weekend, as mine was filled with graduations and recitals. And a first visit from the tooth fairy! Momentus life occasions for my little ones. (With some big ones TK, as they say in this business.) Thankfully, we beat the heat! But itās the dome is here now, and it might stay longer! Even Denver, where weāre headed later this week (see you there?) isnāt safe! A happy belated Fatherās Day to all the dads out there.
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Primaries in Virginiaā¦ Hereās what to watch for tomorrow (VA Mercury). My district, VA-7, is losing Abigail Spanberger. Who replaces her, I think, is a bellwether of where Dems are going.
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Ukraineās naval drone successā¦ holds a huge lesson for the U.S. Navy (Max Boot, WaPoš).
New 'Washington Post' chiefs canāt shake their pastā¦ in London (NPR).
Meanwhile, in Ohioā¦ Toxic garlic should have prompted EPA to warn against gardening near Ohio derailment, watchdog says (CBS).
ā¦and in New Jerseyā¦ A bombshell indictment against a local Democratic boss, George Norcross (Politico).
My Republican Party is gone... America will follow under Trump. Ohio dismantling truth. (Nerissa Young in The Columbus Dispatch.)
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Spotting Real Expertiseā¦ How do we sort the trustworthy experts from all the nonsense dressed up to look like the real thing? (Connors Institute)
I think our priorities are misalignedā¦ Chuck Schumerās viral tweet is nowhere near as cringeworthy as Mike Leeās.
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ChatGPT has caused a massive drop in demandā¦ for online digital freelancers ā here is what you can do to protect yourself (TechRadar).
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A new sideshowā¦ In the āYoung Thugā case. Brian Steel is going for the judge! (In case you forgot about what the trial was about, Vulture has you covered.)
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