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In Supreme Court cases where at least one justice disagrees with the majority, three words almost always appear: “I respectfully dissent.” The formulation signals a polite disagreement, one where the justices recognize that different jurists can read the law and the Constitution in different ways and still act in good faith. Collegiality is a virtue to the court for a pragmatic reason: The justices have to work with each other for most, if not all, of the rest of their lives.

I’ve never lived without Roe, and while I can’t precisely remember the first time someone working in abortion rights told me to expect that we would lose them soon, I know that it was more than 10 years ago. I also know that it takes time to adjust to the unsettling of established rights, of established law—decades of which were demolished in a few brief lines of Justice Samuel Alito’s 79-page majority opinion, issued Friday morning, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization: “The Constitution... Читать дальше...

Friday’s landmark ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson’s Women Health Center is first and foremost about abortion. But the reasoning used by the 6–3 majority to overturn Roe v. Wade can also be applied in other cases where the court has protected a constitutional right through the due process clause. These cases include Griswold v. Connecticut, which established the right to obtain contraception, and Obergefell v. Hodges, which extended the right of marriage to same-sex couples nationwide. A concurring... Читать дальше...

Well, Senator Susan Collins, whaddya think?

Remember 2018, when Brett Kavanaugh came to call on you? Remember what you said?

“We talked about whether he considered Roe to be settled law,” Collins told reporters. “He said that he agreed with what [Chief] Justice [John] Roberts said at his nomination hearing, in which he said that it was settled law.”

Remember your big floor speech defending your vote for Kavanaugh? I bet you do. Let’s remind people of some of what you said:

“As Judge Kavanaugh asserted to me... Читать дальше...

In his 2020 article “US HEALTHCARE IN OUR NEOLIBERAL ERA,” public health expert John E. McDonough wrote, “Sometimes we’re like fish in a water-filled tank. Noticing the water can be tough because it’s everywhere. While other societies around the globe have vigorous debate over neoliberal policies in their midst, Americans are mostly unaware. To many, the notion that we still live in the Ronald Reagan era seems bizarre. And yet, here we are.”

Until this week, the most broke state in the country (S&P credit rating: BBB positive) was on track to host a “battle of the billionaires,” the most expensive governor’s race in history. Now, with the Illinois Republican primary scheduled for next Tuesday, the GOP billionaire may be dropping out.

President Biden is on course to make a landmark breakthrough on gun control, but it isn’t through the gun-control bill Congress is working on. The Biden administration looks close to confirming a new director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives—the federal agency that has the authority to confiscate firearms and rein in gun trafficking. It would be the first time since 2015 that the agency has had an actual confirmed director. That would mean that during a serious national discussion on gun control... Читать дальше...

It is an iron law of political scandal: Inevitably, there are echoes of Watergate. But at Thursday’s fifth hearing of the January 6 committee, the Watergate echoes reverberated so loudly that they were like shouted words bouncing off the walls of a canyon.