Новости за 20.06.2022

Are the Senate’s negotiations over a gun safety bill stalled? It depends on who you read. Over the weekend, as reports came in, things were looking grim. But here at the start of a new week, Punchbowl News (subscription required) is reporting that they’re back on track after almost getting derailed. Naturally, this new story is made possible by congressional staffers stepping up to spin an optimistic scenario to a newsletter that they know was headed toward a lot of important people’s inboxes around seven o’clock on Monday morning... Читать дальше...

Writing in the interwar gloom of the late 1930s, Cyril Connolly warned that “there is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.” It was a catchy encapsulation of an idea with ancient roots, that “good art” calls for monastic devotion and insulation from the trivial worries of the world and the flesh. Young children, however, are all flesh, demanding their own abundant measures of devotion, and merrily trampling peace, attention, and boundaries. How, then, can art and babies possibly co-exist? Читать дальше...

For the moment, no one outside the Supreme Court knows whether Justice Samuel Alito’s leaked draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade will ultimately win five votes. No matter how the final decision turns out, however, the leaked draft has done liberals an unexpected favor: It has disclosed the hard right’s strategy for framing the next stage of the war over the Constitution and the courts. This is a war that, so far, liberals have largely lost, so it’s as good a moment as any for them to finally... Читать дальше...

The Supreme Court released its decision in American Hospital Association v. Becerra last week. While the case wasn’t as high profile as some of the others on the docket this term, it was poised to be a significant ruling nonetheless. The justices agreed to hear it last summer to determine the scope of a legal doctrine known as “Chevron deference,” all rooted in an underlying dispute over Medicare reimbursement rates.