The formal dissent, jointly written by Justices Stephen G. Breyer, Elena Kagan and Sotomayor, minces few words but primarily adopts a tone of deep concern or even alarm about the implications of the majority’s ruling. Probably the harshest attack on the majority comes on Page 5, where the dissenters assert:
Excerpts from the dissent by justices: Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor. (Some emphasis has been added.) After today, young women will come of age with fewer rights than their mothers and grandmothers had. The majority accomplishes that result without so much as considering how women have relied on the right to choose or … Continue reading Eloquence Exemplified In Dissent: Courting the Post-Roe Future
Axios: Jun 19, 2022 – Politics & Policy 6 in 10 Americans now say Trump should be charged for Jan. 6, poll finds Julia Shapero Nearly six in 10 Americans think former President Donald Trump should be charged with a crime for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to … Continue reading Poll: 60% Say Trump Should Be Charged for Jan. 6; Texas GOP Is Wacko
[NOTE: A couple of wars ago, I often fantasized about some kind of fusion between antiwar and environmental activism. Didn’t happen then. Could it be starting now, catalyzed by the Ukraine invasion?] New York Times: New Brand of Activist Takes Aim at Ukraine War and Climate Crisis, Together Led by young women from Eastern Europe, … Continue reading Ukraine, Oil & A New European Antiwar Movement?
Washington Post — Opinion I saw Mugabe wreck a democracy. The Jan. 6 hearings matter — a lot. Opinion by Evan Mawarire — June 14, 2022 Evan Mawarire, an evangelical pastor and the director of education at the Renew Democracy Initiative, is the inaugural Agora Institute-RDI dissident in residence at Johns Hopkins University. In 2008, … Continue reading It CAN Happen Here, Like It Did In Zimbabwe