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Six Ex-Utah Players Claim Kyle Whittingham, Program Mishandled Their Injuries

A group of Utes from the 2020s made public accusations in the ‘Salt Lake Tribune’ Friday.

Sports Illustrated

Bari Weiss’s ascent at CBS News was 50 years in the making

A half-century ago, CBS’s own president was boasting of his support for an antidemocratic political project. Our new book uses never-before-reported documents to tell the story of a scheme to undermine accountability journalism

The Guardian - US

Robert Reich Says 'The Rules Of The Game Changed' In The 1980s. Median Wages Stagnated While Wealth Flowed To The Top

Economic inequality in America today stems from a shift in the early 1980s when “the rules of the game changed,” former Labor Secretary Robert Reich recently warned.

Benzinga

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New book sheds light on Lincoln’s misunderstood killer: ‘He’s not that person at all’

In Midnight on the Potomac, author Scott Ellsworth looks back at the tumultuous last year of the US civil war

The Guardian - US

‘We’re on a knife edge’: Alex Gibney warns about the dangers of dark money

In two HBO documentaries, the acclaimed film-maker shines a light on the concerning trails of corrupt political spending in America

The Guardian - US

Expressive Discrimination: Universities' First Amendment Right to Affirmative Action — Part 2

Continuing my serial blogging on whether private universities can use a Boy Scouts expressive association theory to have race-based affirmative action.

Reason

Trump’s Project 2025 agenda caps decades-long resistance to 20th century progressive reform

For much of the 20th century, efforts to remake government were driven by a progressive desire to make the government work for regular Americans, including the New Deal and the Great Society reforms.

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Project 2025 started a half-century ago. A Trump win could solidify it forever

Trump is trying to complete the right’s master plan. He must be stopped

The Guardian - US

Manhunt episode 2 recap: everyone is a suspect

In Manhunt episode 2, Stanton continues his search for Booth as a new president is sworn in and Lincoln's burial plans are arranged.

WhatToWatch

Manhunt episode 1 recap: death of a president

In Manhunt episode 1, viewers see the key moments before and after Lincoln's assasination.

WhatToWatch

Defending Clarence Thomas from My Good Friend Steve Lubet

The best and most incorruptible Supreme Court Justice in U.S. History

Reason

The D.C. Circuit Mulls Trump's Alarmingly Broad Claim of Presidential Immunity From Prosecution

His lawyers say no jury can ever consider charges based on his "official acts" as president, which include his efforts to reverse Joe Biden's election.

Reason

Ending affirmative action does nothing to end discrimination against Asian Americans

In two cases challenging the use of race in college admissions, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the educational benefit of racial diversity is no longer what it once called a “compelling interest.”

The Conversation

Noah Feldman: Affirmative action is radical Supreme Court's latest casualty

Affirmative action died Thursday at the hands of the Supreme Court’s conservative constitutional revolution. In a 6-3 decision, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, the court overturned nearly 50 years of precedent and held that it’s unconstitutional for universities to take account of racial diversity in their admissions.

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The Conversation

A jury of ex-presidents? No, but Trump's fate will be decided by 12 citizen peers, in a hallowed tradition of US democracy

It is not the federal government that will hold Donald Trump’s future in its hands. It will be 12 jury members in his eventual trial.

Liverpool Echo

Future of men's mental health hub uncertain after £2k bill

Lewis Powell opened Inner Guru’s The Hub after struggling with alcohol and drugs himself

Reason

Re-reading Justice Thurgood Marshall's Opinion in Bakke

In 1978, the Supreme Court issued its first significant affirmative action judgment in Bakke. The Court split 4-4-1. Four Justices argued that the 1964 Civil Rights Act barred the use of race in university admissions. Four justices contended that neither the Act nor the Fourteenth Amendment prohibited the use of…

Tribune News Service

Noah Feldman: Supreme Court will end the era of college diversity

At the end of this month, the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to hear arguments in two closely watched cases on affirmative action in higher education. They’re widely expected to overturn the 1978 case that allowed racial diversity to become an organizing principle for college admissions. Like Roe v. Wade,…

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Analysis: Supreme Court is bold, confident, conservative and ready to move further right

WASHINGTON — This is not the Supreme Court most Americans have known.

Los Angeles Times

Abortion and the Supreme Court: A short legal history of Roe

WASHINGTON — The early American laws prohibiting abortion were adopted in the 19th century in an era when women could not vote or hold elective office.

Tribune News Service

Stephen L. Carter: Supreme Court’s leak investigation is self-destructive

In “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” — John le Carré’s classic novel about the hunt for a traitor near the top of British Intelligence — the hero, George Smiley, tells a colleague that “the art” of being a mole “is to be one of a crowd.” The greater the number of…

WEKU

The original Roe v. Wade ruling was leaked, too

Leaks of any kind are rare at the Supreme Court, but in 1973, the original Roe decision was leaked to the press before the court formally announced it. The chief justice was furious.

Salon

Republicans won't let Robert Bork go

Republicans now insist that each Supreme Court nomination starts where the last left off

The Guardian - US

‘The Scheme’: a senator’s plan to highlight rightwing influence on the supreme court

Sheldon Whitehouse spent nine years rousing the Senate to act on climate change. Now he’s set his sights on the changes at the supreme court

Tribune News Service

Noah Feldman: This Supreme Court won’t uphold college affirmative action

A revolution in university admissions appears to be at hand.

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