Fox News is upset about protesters outside judges’ homes and apparently has no idea what’s been going on for the last 40 years [ed. note: TheDailyShow insta]
"It's become pretty clear the leaks about internal Court deliberations (if not the draft opinion itself) are from the Thomas-Alito camp, and are designed to weaken the Chief Justice and intimidate any of the newer justices from joining him for fear of seeming weak or unprincipled." [ed. note: Bill Kristol tweet]
In Texas, abortion laws inhibit care for miscarriages - "As the Supreme Court appears poised to return abortion regulation to the states, recent experience in Texas illustrates that medical care for miscarriages and dangerous ectopic pregnancies would also be threatened if restrictions become more widespread."
Hong Kong arrests 90-year-old cardinal on foreign collusion charges
Opinion We’re in danger of losing our democracy, but most Americans are in denial
INSIDE THE NEW RIGHT, WHERE PETER THIEL IS PLACING HIS BIGGEST BETS: They’re not MAGA. They’re not QAnon. Curtis Yarvin and the rising right are crafting a different strain of conservative politics. - "And the way conservatives can actually win in America, he has argued, is for a Caesar-like figure to take power back from this devolved oligarchy and replace it with a monarchical regime run like a start-up. As early as 2012, he proposed the acronym RAGE—Retire All Government Employees—as a shorthand for a first step in the overthrow of the American 'regime.' What we needed, Yarvin thought, was a 'national CEO, [or] what’s called a dictator.'
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"'I tend to think that we should seize the institutions of the left,' he said. 'And turn them against the left. We need like a de-Baathification program, a de-woke-ification program.'
"'I think Trump is going to run again in 2024,' he said. 'I think that what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people.'
"'And when the courts stop you,' he went on, 'stand before the country, and say—' he quoted Andrew Jackson, giving a challenge to the entire constitutional order—'the chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.'
"This is a description, essentially, of a coup."
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