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CNN
10 hours ago
- General
- CNN
Free Speech or Disruption? SCOTUS Declines to Hear Student Gender Shirt Case
Massachusetts middle school student Liam Morrison's T-shirt reading 'There Are Only Two Genders' has ignited a national debate over free speech in schools. After being sent home twice—once for the original message and again for a censored version—the Morrison family sued, claiming a First Amendment violation. Liam's attorney, David Cortman, who is senior counsel for the Alliance Defending Freedom, joins Michael Smerconish to dig into the case and SCOTUS decision.
Boston Globe
21 hours ago
- Politics
- Boston Globe
I love America. Now it stands to lose a generation of people like me.
The Trump administration's attack on Harvard is a clear warning to all current and future international students in the United States. Cities across the country will lose an annual influx of bright young people, Boston more than many. This is particularly depressing for foreigners who love and admire America. People like me. Advertisement America stands to lose more than tuition at its universities. International students contribute more than $ Get The Gavel A weekly SCOTUS explainer newsletter by columnist Kimberly Atkins Stohr. Enter Email Sign Up Equally important, America's university system was an ace in the hole in terms of international diplomacy. It could attract the best and the brightest from across the globe and turn them into friends or future citizens. Comparatively few students considered going to China to pursue their dreams. But many will now avoid the uncertainty that now comes with studying in the United States. Advertisement My love for America started early. I went to kindergarten here while my dad attended Duke University on a student visa. I loved the Power Rangers and chasing a ball with a swarm of kids playing soccer. The first book I read aloud was the 1961 American children's classic ' My admiration deepened as an undergraduate at Princeton University. The conservative legal scholar I became a staunch defender of the country. Although I'm aware of its many contradictions, I am quick to mention America's contributions to the world. In the 18th century, the immortal prose of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution heralded the modern rebirth of democratic government around the globe. The next three centuries loosed a torrent of world-changing inventions that drew on research from many countries and became supercharged in the US. All of these come from America. Many come directly from its universities. Advertisement America's genius seems to stem from a culture of trying new things, along with the political and economic institutions that allow them to scale. In Denmark we are slower to celebrate individual achievement. In the emblematic fairy tale, written by the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen in 1843, an I was wrapping up the semester at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government when the news broke. My classmates and I trembled. Would we graduate? We risked losing everything we had worked for. Many prospective international students will now look at America and decide it is not worth the risk. Not when the government could yank their university's ability to host international students on a whim. Not when the government could revoke their visas Scholarship funders will also think twice. A Any university could be next. I remain hopeful that America will return to the veneration for knowledge and democratic institutions for which it has long been admired on the global stage. But today those ideals are tinder for an out-of-control bonfire. The country's ability to attract talent will be diminished for years, if not decades. Advertisement America remains a shining city on a hill. But only because it has set itself on fire.
Boston Globe
2 days ago
- Business
- Boston Globe
To farmers beset by his policies, Trump is still the salt of the earth
Advertisement A fulsome debate on energy, regulations, and taxes is essential, but the current Congress and administration seem incapable of delivering such a debate. Rather, we seem to be paddling full speed toward the lip of the dam trusting more in ideology than in common sense. Get The Gavel A weekly SCOTUS explainer newsletter by columnist Kimberly Atkins Stohr. Enter Email Sign Up Tom Ford West Falmouth But not to worry — subsidies will soften the blow of Trump's tariffs Tim Keegan suggests toward the end of his op-ed, 'I'm a farmer, and I back Trump's tariffs even if they will hurt me,' that he is not, in fact, going to be hurt by Donald Trump's tariffs because he expects to receive 'trade interruption payments' that will shield him from financial harm. So, what was the point of running this opinion piece when its entire premise is faulty? Does Keegan care about the harm Trump's tariffs will cause those of us who are not going to be compensated, who will lose jobs because of reduced demand for products due to price increases, or whose small businesses will be forced to close? Whatever happens, Keegan will get his. The rest of us are on our own. Advertisement Roy Pardi Somerville These Trump supporters earn no sympathy The Vermont dairy farmer seemingly assumed that deportations would address our 'border problem' by weeding out the 'bad people.' Now he's shocked that he and his business might suffer because of Trump. The Iowan, meanwhile, is confident that he will be bailed out by a big government subsidy. Indeed, the current House budget bill has proposed increasing farm subsidies by about $50 billion over the next 10 years. I grew up on an Iowa farm, and I know the challenges they face. But I also know the safety net that has held up Iowa agriculture for decades. The farmers have their (corn) cake and eat it too. Tobin Wirt Sandwich They were sold a bill of goods Vermont dairy farmer Dustin Machia says he voted for Donald Trump for president last year in part because 'we had a border problem. ... We don't need the drugs and the gangbangers.' Now he feels misled because he was under the impression that 'they weren't going to come on farms and take our guys.' Advertisement Yes, I would tell Machia, you were misled, but it was by right-wing media that told you a) to fear immigrant crime and b) that Trump would make you better off. Mark Hooker Newton Highlands
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Friday's Mini-Report, 5.30.25
Today's edition of quick hits. * SCOTUS news: 'The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration's bid for permission to revoke temporary legal protections for more than 500,000 immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela pending further litigation, in a decision that a two-justice dissent said creates devastating consequences.' * Good for the CDC: 'Days after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that Covid shots would be removed from the federal immunization schedule for children, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued updated advice that largely counters Mr. Kennedy's new policy.' * Putting aside the question of why this is a presidential priority, there's also the question of whether Trump has the authority to fire the National Portrait Gallery director: 'President Donald Trump announced Friday that he has fired the director of the National Portrait Gallery, Kim Sajet. ... It is unclear if the president has authority to dismiss Sajet. The Smithsonian's programming is not under the purview of the executive branch.' * On the heels of NPR's related lawsuit: 'PBS sued President Trump on Friday to block an executive order that would cut federal funding for public television and radio, arguing that it was unconstitutional.' * One of the problems with this story is that Trump's statement included a great many elements, many of which were outrageously untrue: 'President Donald Trump said Friday that he will no longer be 'Mr. NICE GUY' with China on trade, declaring in a social media post that the country had broken an agreement with the United States.' * Quite a shakeup at ICE: 'Several Immigration and Customs Enforcement leaders are leaving their roles, the agency announced on Thursday, in the third major change among its leadership in recent months. ... The Trump administration has struggled to meet President Trump's campaign promises of mass deportations, grappling with a lack of extensive resources despite efforts to bring in personnel from other parts of the federal law enforcement system.' * Direct lobbying campaigns like these remain highly unusual and inappropriate: 'President Trump revived his criticism of the Federal Reserve in a private meeting with its chair, Jerome H. Powell, on Thursday, saying it was a mistake not to lower interest rates. The meeting, which was organized at Mr. Trump's request, is the first since the president returned to the White House.' * Trump could comment on a story like this one, but at least so far, he hasn't: 'The United States and 10 allies on Thursday said the military cooperation between Russia and North Korea flagrantly violates U.N. sanctions and has helped Moscow increase its missile strikes on Ukrainian cities.' Have a safe weekend. This article was originally published on
Axios
3 days ago
- Politics
- Axios
Three takeaways from the Supreme Court's big NEPA ruling
Here are three takeaways from Thursday's Supreme Court ruling that put new limits on federal reviews of infrastructure and energy projects. Why it matters: Narrowing the National Environmental Policy Act's scope has giant implications for President Trump's pro-fossil "energy dominance" agenda. 1. This case is sneakily a huge deal. It wasn't among the highest-profile SCOTUS battles that touch environmental policy, like the "Chevron deference" and "major questions" rulings. But a spin through the docket shows that powerful K Street lobbies, environmentalists, and senior members of Congress all took keen interest. 2. It could have long-term climate policy effects. One thing to watch over the horizon is how much it curtails future presidents from stitching carbon emissions into project decisions. Biden-era officials were taking steps in that direction, though Trump 2.0 has been reversing them, such as this week's formal withdrawal of 2023 Council on Environmental Quality guidance. 3. It could have unpredictable effects. A hot center-left view these days is that NEPA (and other review layers) make it too hard to build anything — including low-carbon infrastructure. Aidan Mackenzie of the Institute for Progress, writing on X, shouts out Justice Brett Kavanaugh for being "full abundance-pilled." The Kavanaugh-written decision says NEPA thwarts all kinds of projects — including transmission and wind turbines. Check out Mackenzie's entire thread, which delves into what discretion agencies will and won't have under the ruling. Catch up quick: The case centered on federal approval of an 88-mile railway to carry oil from Utah's Uinta basin to larger rail networks and Gulf Coast refineries. It reverses an appellate ruling that regulators needed to weigh matters beyond the railway's direct effects, such as drilling impacts, refining pollution and climate change. "NEPA does not allow courts, 'under the guise of judicial review' of agency compliance with NEPA, to delay or block agency projects based on the environmental effects of other projects separate from the project at hand," the 8-0 decision states. The court's three liberals issued a concurrence on the fresh limits on NEPA reviews weighing upstream and downstream project effects. But they ding the majority for "unnecessarily grounding its analysis largely in matters of policy." What they're saying: The American Petroleum Institute applauded the court's "long overdue steps to restore NEPA to its original intent." But API said "common-sense permitting reform" is still needed. On the flip side, the Center for Biological Diversity said the ruling "guarantees that bureaucrats can put their heads in the sand" on how projects affect ecosystems, wildlife and the climate.
