Новости за 10.04.2023

I wrote this article long before the latest mass shooting that just happened, this time in Louisville, Kentucky, because we all know the pattern, and it never changes. There’s a mass shooting and dead innocents, often children. Angry calls for Republicans to do something, and nothing gets done. The incident fades from the 24-hour news cycle, and we resume the waiting game for the next one. It’s Sisyphus with a boulder that rolls downhill and crushes him over and over for eternity.

Less than two weeks before Monday’s mass shooting at a bank in downtown Louisville, the state of Kentucky banned local law enforcement agencies from enforcing federal firearm laws.

Since the bombshell ruling that could potentially take abortion medication off the market, only a handful of Republicans have commented on it—and some not even directly.

The bombshell ruling that could take abortion pills off the national market was based in part on a “study” of anonymous posts on an anti-abortion website.

A shooting at a bank in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, has left at least five people dead and eight wounded.

Last week, ProPublica published a comprehensive investigation detailing Clarence Thomas’s quarter-century friendship with Harlan Crow, a billionaire megadonor for conservative causes and Republican candidates. Supreme Court justices do not live on some sort of judicial Mount Athos; they are allowed to have friends. But Thomas’s friendship with Crow is still a fairly unusual one, judging by ProPublica’s reporting.

One of the great underappreciated tragic moves by a political figure of my adult lifetime (a time frame that alas now describes far more years than I’d prefer it to) was Thurgood Marshall’s decision to retire from the Supreme Court in late June 1991.

In August 1945, as World War II drew to a close, a wealthy candy manufacturer named Robert Welch had a dark vision of the future. That month a Baptist missionary and Office of Strategic Services officer named John Birch was killed by Communists in China. His death, Welch believed, marked “the first casualty in the Third World War between communists and the ever-shrinking free world.” When Welch founded the John Birch Society 13 years later to “safeguard the Constitution,” he named the organization in his honor. Читать дальше...