As of today, “American women of childbearing age have less power to decide what happens in their own bodies than they did the day before, less power than their mothers and even some of their grandmothers did,” writes the Times editorial board.
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“There’s a lot of frustration out there about all the delays on the way to emergency use authorization of vaccines for the youngest Americans,” writes .
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With Trump, "the question has never been whether he’s committed outrageous misdeeds, but whether those misdeeds can be made to matter," writes . "Over and over again, the answer to that question has been no."
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Friday's judicial earthquake had its origin in the compromises of two pro-choice men who smoothed Thomas's path to the Supreme Court: Bush, who wanted to appease the right. And Joe Biden, who wanted the good will of his colleagues.
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"it’s clear that over the years the Supreme Court has become yet another partisan institution, one that’s unaccountable to the American people. It’s hard to see the court’s aggressive moves to remake US constitutional law as anything but anti-democratic."
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“To make the 2022 elections a referendum on Roe, Democrats have to put protecting Roe and abortion rights on the table,” wrote earlier this month.
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“If voters help us maintain our control of the House and expand our majority in the Senate by at least two votes this November, we can make Roe the law all across the country as soon as January,” write and .
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"American Pride celebrants have taken to the streets in a country where, this year, more than 300 anti-L.G.B.T.Q. bills have been introduced in state legislatures. Given this climate, Pride cannot be just a gay party or a corporate branding opportunity."
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“The best that gun control advocates can hope for after the Bruen ruling is what Congress passed: gradual legislative tinkering,” writes the editorial board.
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Excellent piece by Linda Greenhouse on what the abortion decision says about today's Supreme Court:
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“Future scholars of mass movements will find in the pro-life cause a remarkable example of sustained activism against substantial odds,” writes .
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"While his wife ran around helping Trump with his coup, Thomas was the senior firebrand in a coup of extremists on the court," writes.
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My Sunday column: The End of Roe is Just the Beginning:
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“If this is the kind of neutrality we should expect, the damage to the court is just beginning,” writes , one of six experts weighing in on key passages from the Dobbs opinion.
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“The Constitution provides a number of paths by which Congress can restrain and discipline a rogue court,” writes .
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“I grew up in a world in which girls’ options were far more limited. The younger women don’t know the battles, so how can they see the benefits?” #NYTLetters
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?Abortion Is Just the Beginning’: Six Experts on the Decision Overturning Roe
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"Given this climate, Pride cannot be just a gay party or a corporate branding opportunity," Mark Gevisser writes in a guest essay. "It must once more find its role as an emblematic struggle against the gathering of illiberal forces."
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"It is tempting, in the immediate wake of the court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, to say that there’s nothing to be done about the reactionary majority on the court. But that’s just not true."
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Gun violence in the United States, writes the Times editorial board, “is several distinct and deadly crises happening simultaneously — suicides by firearms, homicides related to domestic violence, gang killings and spectacular mass shootings.”
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Linda Greenhouse has written more (wise and cogent) words about the Supreme Court than anyone else in American history.
Today she explains that it has fatally undermined its legitimacy.
This great essay had to be as painful to write as it is to read
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Six justices have overturned Roe, but the Supreme Court doesn’t get the final say on abortion. The American people do.
We must restore our democracy so that a radical minority can no longer drown out the will of the people.
& I have a plan:
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So much for precedent.
See what Justices Kavanaugh, Thomas, Gorsuch, Alito and Coney Barrett had to say about Roe v. Wade before they were confirmed.
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The evidence and widely held views about the relationship between hot economies and inflation have changed over time, writes . “It’s a story that is, frankly, not very encouraging for those who want to think of economics as a science.”
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“Any progress on guns is progress worth making,” writes the editorial board.
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In search of a friend to turn to, they found one in Donald Trump. “We moved into Mar-a-Lago and Donald kept our secret,” Judith Giuliani told .
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“I was covering the first President Bush’s nomination of a 43-year-old U.S. appeals court judge for the D.C. Circuit to take the seat of retiring Justice Thurgood Marshall,” writes . “The warnings were clear even then.”
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“This year," writes , “in every country, we must remember that Pride’s power comes from its politics of struggle.”
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“Making abortion unthinkable might start with the law, but it won’t end there,” writes . “For it is not only the supply of abortion that matters but also the demand.”
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“Make no mistake, this radical decision affects all Americans, not just those in states where the right to a safe, legal abortion will soon fall,” write and .
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“Expect anti-abortion activists to set up websites pretending to sell abortion pills or even selling fake abortion pills,” write , and .
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“Women’s rights had to take a back seat to re-election….”
Excellent column from ?? this week — how decades of craven politics and misogyny led to this moment.
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Talk about walking the walk! Thank you, for this excellent piece about what we can do to help those in need of abortion.
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Thursday's Supreme Court decision “reveals the vast gulf between ideologues on the court and those Americans — ordinary people and their representatives in Congress — who want this country to be safer from guns,” writes the Times editorial board.
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“In the face of a reckless, reactionary and power-hungry court, Congress has options. The problem is politics,” writes .
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“It’s a 50-state fight, and I think it’s really incumbent on us to make the case not just that abortion should be illegal, but it should be unthinkable,” says in a special Opinion roundtable about the fall of Roe v. Wade.
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“Friday, with the release of the Dobbs decision, we entered a perilous time that threatens millions of women across this nation,” write and .
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