AvatarKam Meyer10 hours agoThe Supreme Court’s Selective Memoryverified_publisherThe New Yorker - Jill LeporeThe Court’s originalist justification for striking down a New York gun law is more than capricious—it relies on a fundamentally anti-democratic historical record that deliberately excludes women and people of color. This week, in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, the Supreme Court …
AvatarKam Meyer10 hours ago‘This fall, Roe is on the ballot’verified_publisherPOLITICO - By Jonathan Lemire and Eugene DanielsPresident Biden called on Congress to restore abortion right protections. President Joe Biden on Friday called the Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade a “sad day for the Court and for the country” and called on Congress to restore abortion rights protections. “Now with Roe gone, let’s be …
AvatarKam Meyer12 hours agoIf the Supreme Court Can Reverse Roe, It Can Reverse Anythingverified_publisherThe Atlantic - Mary ZieglerThey really did it. For months and even years I have seen this coming, and yet the reality of the Supreme Court’s decision is still a shock. How can it be that people had a constitutional right for nearly half a century, and now no more? How can it not matter that Americans consistently signaled …
AvatarKam Meyer9 hours agoArizona GOP chair subpoenaed in federal investigation of fake electorsverified_publisherCNN - By Sara Murray(CNN) — Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward and her husband, Michael Ward, were both subpoenaed Friday as part of the federal investigation into fake slates of electors, a source familiar with the matter tells CNN. The investigative move is just the latest sign of the widening probe that …
AvatarKam Meyer8 hours ago'A revolutionary ruling — and not just for abortion:’ a supreme court scholar explains the impact of Dobbstheconversation.com - Morgan MariettaThe Supreme Court’s decision to reverse 50 years of constitutional protection for the right to get an abortion is more than 200 pages long. Morgan …
AvatarKam Meyer6 hours agoThe Supreme Court just made it a whole lot easier to conceal-carry a gun.Grid - Kaila PhiloThe high court’s decision on a New York gun law case opens the door for gun owners to carry firearms in public without a license. In a major …