State Court To Decide If Minneapolis Will Have A Vote On Replacing Police DepartmentThe Minnesota Supreme Court will decide if the question over reimagining the Minneapolis police department will be counted in the upcoming election. Early voting begins Friday. ….. Read More.NPR – Politics | Politics & GovernmentThu, September 16, 202119 hours ago
Clarence Thomas blasts media, defends Supreme Court after Texas abortion decisionJustice Clarence Thomas became the latest member of the U.S. Supreme Court to take aim at the media, defending the court as nonpartisan Thursday as he warned against “destroying our institutions because they don’t give us what we want, when we want it,” according to reports. ….. Read More.FOX NEWS – Politics | Politics & GovernmentThu, September 16, 202112 hours ago
Appeals court rules article about Devin Nunes’ family farm wasn’t defamatory, but tweeti…8th Circuit finds Esquire’s 2018 article wasn’t defamatory, but a 2019 tweet from its author might have been, sending case back to lower court. ….. Read More.DES MOINES REGISTER – Politics | Politics & GovernmentThu, September 16, 202123 hours ago
Court Says COVID-19 Can No Longer Justify Immediate Expulsion of Migrant Families”The Court is not convinced that the transmission of COVID-19 during border processing cannot be significantly mitigated.” The Biden administration can’t keep expelling migrant families under the banner of pandemic precaution, a federal court says. On Thursday, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia struck down the administration’s interpretation of a public health rule known as Title 42, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had declared as grounds for banning border crossings and immediately expelling anyone caught entering the country. With “the wide availability of testing, vaccines, and other minimization measures, the Court is not convinced that the transmission of COVID-19 during border processing cannot be significantly mitigated,” the new ruling says. Title 42–based immediate expulsions—which the CDC said were a necessary public health measure during the COVID-19 pandemic—were started under former President Donald…
How Do You Expect Me to Write My Book With All This Going On?GARYWORDS at GaryTalk.com – Hey, you guys! You House Managers, Trump Attorney’s, Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts, and you guys and gals in the United States Senate, I’m trying to write my first novel, here. Stop taking up all my time and sapping away my energy with this Senate Impeachment Trial you’ve been spending hours and […] ….. Read More.GARYTALK – Conversations & Commentary | This, That and The OtherFri, January 31, 20202 years ago
Jane Roe’s Baby Tells Her StoryNearly half a century ago, Roe v. Wade secured a woman’s legal right to obtain an abortion. The ruling has been contested with ever-increasing intensity, dividing and reshaping American politics. And yet for all its prominence, the person most profoundly connected to it has remained unknown: the child whose conception occasioned the lawsuit.Roe’s pseudonymous plaintiff, Jane Roe, was a Dallas waitress named Norma McCorvey. Wishing to terminate her pregnancy, she filed suit in March 1970 against Dallas County District Attorney Henry Wade, challenging the Texas laws that prohibited abortion. Norma won her case. But she never had the abortion. On January 22, 1973, when the Supreme Court finally handed down its decision, she had long since given birth—and relinquished her child for adoption.The Court’s decision alluded only obliquely to the existence of Norma’s baby: In his majority opinion, Justice Harry Blackmun noted that a “pregnancy…