Новости за 07.04.2020

It was death at Rikers Island, the awful emblem of New York State’s jail and prison system, that propelled calls for cash bail reform. Those demands achieved some success: Beginning this January, courts across the state could no longer set cash bail for misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies. But Rikers remains a deadly place, now host to one of the most concentrated coronavirus outbreaks worldwide. The jail’s chief physician called it a “public health disaster.” On Sunday, Michael Tyson, a 53-year-old... Читать дальше...

Last week, the famously stoic Anna Wintour said she “broke down” upon hearing from her friend Ralph Lauren, the designer and businessman worth approximately $6 billion, that the philanthropic wing of the Ralph Lauren Corporation had pledged $10 million to organizations undertaking coronavirus relief efforts. As the pandemic continues to spread and medical supplies around the globe run low, a number of luxury and mass market brands have pledged money to charities fighting the outbreak or even pivoted... Читать дальше...

For 230 years, the Supreme Court of the United States has been a political institution, but only rarely a partisan one. More than a century ago, the court controversially concluded that the Constitution required freedom of contract between employers and employees. The bare 5–4 majority that struck down a maximum-hours law for bakery workers in the infamous 1905 case of Lochner v. New York consisted of two justices nominated by Democrats and three nominated by Republicans. A Democrat dissented alongside three Republicans. Читать дальше...

Congress is out of session and out of town until late April, even as the coronavirus pandemic continues to exact a mounting death toll and inflict significant economic danage on the public. Federal lawmakers are already considering another round of legislative relief when they return, perhaps by filling the many voids in their last attempt. Some are also considering a more far-sighted proposal: establishing a 9/11-style commission to study the United States’ response to the outbreak and determine exactly what went so calamitously wrong. Читать дальше...