Новости за 29.06.2022

In 1997, then-Justice Antonin Scalia voted with the majority in Babbitt v. Youpee, where the court ruled that the federal government couldn’t transfer a Native American man’s land to his tribe instead of his heirs if he died without a will unless his family was compensated for it. Years later, the man’s granddaughter, April Youpee-Roll, had the opportunity to meet Scalia at a book-signing event in Washington.

Back when she could barely read, Grace McGarry would go into her mother’s room, bypass the children’s books, and head straight for Our Bodies, Ourselves—a 193-page book about reproductive health, which included information on abortion. “This was my thing,” said McGarry, now in her thirties and with some 17 years of working in rape crisis centers and abortion clinics under her belt. “It was universally agreed by anybody who knew me when I was young.”

Now that the Supreme Court has issued its ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and Roe v. Wade is overturned, a larger question looms: Where does the anti-abortion movement go from here? For half a century, as courts upheld Roe as precedent and this “settled law” grew increasingly popular with the American public, conservatives worked tirelessly to install judges who would to unwork decades of progress. Thanks to a mix of guile (judicial nominees obfuscating their views to credulous senators)... Читать дальше...

A spacious ballroom at the Arizona Grand Resort in Phoenix was packed the weekend of March 11 with scores of Donald Trump loyalists still fuming about widely debunked claims that Joe Biden won the 2020 election thanks to rampant fraud. Dubbed an “election integrity summit,” the gathering was the handiwork of Trump’s former legal adviser, the veteran conservative activist Cleta Mitchell. And while Mitchell has garnered national attention for riling up Trumpists with false claims of election fraud... Читать дальше...

When the Supreme Court sits in October, having taken a break after its current bout of country-shaking decisions, it will decide whether Californians have the democratic right to decide how the animals they eat are treated. In 2018, the Golden State’s voters overwhelmingly supported Proposition 12, a ballot initiative that requires that many animal-derived products, like pork and eggs, sold in California come from animals raised on farms that give them more space to move. Specifically, it required... Читать дальше...

For years, it has been fashionable to call Donald Trump “deranged” based on his inflammatory rhetoric and torrent of lies. But until the shocking Tuesday afternoon testimony of Cassidy Hutchinson before the January 6 committee, America had no idea how deranged the former reality TV star turned president actually was.