Новости за 08.07.2022

Justice Brett Kavanaugh visited Morton’s Steakhouse in Washington, D.C., on Thursday night for dinner. According to Politico, abortion rights protesters somehow learned of his outing and arrived outside the premises to protest his presence there. Such tactics toward the justices are increasingly common in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, in which Kavanaugh voted with the majority to overturn Roe v. Wade.

A basic rule of Donald Trump is that he often accuses his foes of what he does himself. He described his first impeachment as a “coup attempt” just over a year before he incited a mob to attack Congress and the vice president. He accused President Joe Biden and his son Hunter of enriching themselves through foreign policy while his own son-in-law started a hedge fund with Saudi investors after supervising Middle East diplomacy. And he routinely described opponents as crooked and corrupt when he... Читать дальше...

If you have spent any time studying the law or listening to the pontifications of mainstream legal pundits, you have likely heard some version of an oft-repeated refrain about Roe v. Wade: “Yes, women should have the right to receive an abortion, but Roe itself was a poorly reasoned decision.” Whether it’s the legal blogger Benjamin Wittes calling on liberals to let Roe die or the influential Yale Law professor John Hart Ely writing that Roe is a “very bad decision,” many members of the ostensibly... Читать дальше...

With seven victims who have lost their lives and one toddler left orphaned in Highland Park, Illinois, the latest young white male mass shooter with an AR-15 rifle continues a string of tragedies that devastates and frustrates us all. Robbed of a sense of safety, many are angry at the snail’s pace of progress on rational reforms to our gun laws, despite the continuing rise of mass shootings. Robert Crimo, who has now confessed to the shooting, is alive in custody.