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Earlier this week, 207 members of Congress asked the Supreme Court to revisit Roe v. Wade and take up the question of whether it “should be reconsidered and, if appropriate, overruled.” The amicus brief was submitted in June Medical Services L.L.C. v. Gee, a case to determine if Louisiana can require abortion providers to obtain admitting privileges—highly politicized business contracts—with nearby hospitals. Providers warn that the law, if enacted, will shutter clinics, which of course the court already understands. Читать дальше...

Every December 31, Chief Justice John Roberts releases his annual year-end report on the federal courts. It’s a unique opportunity for him to speak not as a member of a nine-person court but as the de facto leader of the American judiciary. In 2017, he praised federal judges and court employees for responding with “extraordinary neighborliness, generosity, and dedication” to a surge in natural disasters. Last year, he discussed the federal courts’ response to abuse and misconduct by judges that became public during the #MeToo reckoning. Читать дальше...

For the better part of a decade, America’s main base of operations for its military occupation of Iraq was a cluster of bases and old Saddam Hussein–era palaces surrounding Baghdad International Airport. It was from here, around BIAP, that American and allied generals promulgated orders to their tens of thousands of field troops, and U.S. operators trained Iraq’s budding special operations forces. This is also where, in the early weeks of the 2003 invasion, Sgt. 1st Class Paul Smith became one... Читать дальше...

Andy Beshear wasn’t meant to be the next governor of Kentucky. Shortly after he won the Democratic nomination in May, Matt Bevin, the Republican incumbent, was leading by a comfortable 6 points in the polls. Beshear, however, made a crucial choice early in the race. He didn’t rail against President Donald Trump. He talked of jobs, health care, and pay raises for schoolteachers. And when he won in a close November election, pundits said it was because he had focused on “kitchen-table issues,” a term that seems... Читать дальше...

Jay Livingstone knew something had to be done about Massachusetts’s abortion law. The state, despite its liberal leanings, still had a ban on its books that predated—although it was superseded by—Roe v. Wade. If today’s Supreme Court overturned that 1973 decision, returning the issue to the states, abortion would become illegal immediately in Massachusetts.