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July 1, 2024

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-1-2024

Published: July 2, 2024 07:34

Today the United States Supreme Court overthrew the central premise of American democracy: that no one is above the law. It decided that the president of the United States, possibly the most powerful person on earth, has “absolute immunity” from criminal…

June 30, 2024

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-30-2024

Published: July 1, 2024 06:15

In addition to his comments about Russia in Ukraine, Trump said something else in Thursday’s CNN presentation that should be called out for its embrace of one of the darkest moments in U.S. history. In response to a question about what the presidential…

June 29, 2024

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-29-2024

Published: June 30, 2024 03:41

There are many things I would like to write, but I am home, finally, after many months on the road, and it has been a long week. I am going to bed. Tomorrow, I will be out in my kayak in the place where I took this photograph, no matter what the skies…

June 28, 2024

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-28-2024

Published: June 29, 2024 07:49

There is huge news today: in the case of Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, the Supreme Court overturned the Chevron defense doctrine that underpins the administrative state. I am putting that down as a marker because I’ve had a very busy week of travel…

June 27, 2024

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-27-2024

Published: June 28, 2024 08:43

Tonight was the first debate between President Joe Biden and presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, and by far the most striking thing about the debate was the overwhelming focus among pundits immediately afterward about Biden’s…

June 26, 2024

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-26-2024

Published: June 27, 2024 07:19

Today President Joe Biden pardoned more than 2000 former military personnel who had been convicted of engaging in consensual sex under a gay sex ban in the military that has since been repealed. People covered under the pardon can apply to have their…

June 25, 2024

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-25-2024

Published: June 26, 2024 06:11

These days, reality is undermining the political power of the mythological image of the American cowboy. In the years after World War II, that image helped to sell the idea that a government that regulated business, provided a basic safety net, promoted…

June 24, 2024

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-24-2024

Published: June 25, 2024 06:29

Two years ago today, on June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that recognized a woman’s right to terminate a pregnancy. The vote was 6–3.