Who will step up and say so? It’s 4 a.m. Not another car in sight. No headlights in the distance. The light is red and you’re in a rush to get to the airport. You run the light. It’s against the law but there’s no one to enforce it. Is it still the law? That, essentially, is what scholars of the Constitution, William Baude of the University of Chicago and Michael Stokes Paulsen of the University of St. Thomas, ponder in their paper examining Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment initially passed to prohibit Civil War participants from holding office. It reads in full: No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, un-der the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.
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Penny Pepper explores how she encourages disabled people to reclaim labels – to twist and refute them
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. Toujours la meilleure chanson dans les presque 70 ans du Concours Eurovision de la Chanson. Le style unique de France Gall et sa capacité à transmettre des émotions authentiques ont fait d’elle une artiste vénérée, capable de toucher le cœur de chacun de ses auditeurs. Je l’ai vue pour la première fois en 1965 […]
“Jenin is a not a bomb factory.”
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How is a shopping site operating in the UK able to market knives seemingly at school kids without sanction? Katherine Denkinson investigates.
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Here’s one of those mildly boring updates about when and where I’ll be reading poems over the coming months. First, a couple of new shows to announce for March 2024. Tickets have just gone on sale for CHESTER (Storyhouse) and LINCOLN (Theatre Royal). Earlier this week, tickets also went on sale for a couple of…
Biden is "practically" declaring a climate emergency.
The Nib's Inkwell members tell us.
As readers will remember, I didn’t think much of the other cases against Trump, not because he isn’t likely guilty, but becaus none of them were the important thing he did: try a coup.
They also violated the cultural rule that elites don’t get indicted for such things. Of course, they should, but doing it only against Trump and not against other very senior politicians who have clearly committed crimes is likely to cause an escalation of intra-elite fighting, but that’s a minor thing.
The US isn’t much of a democracy, but to the extent it still is, protecting what remains is important, and there’s little question in my mind that Trump did try to overthrow an election which clearly went to Biden. (I didn’t endorse either Biden or Trump, this is not a partisan question to me.)
So I’m pleased to see this indictment.
Preparation time: 10 min.Baking time: 25 to 30 min.Oven temperature: 325°F Here is a springtime dessert of tangy-sweet rhubarb and cool, creamy yogurt. Rhubarb, the traditional “pie plant” combine naturally with yogurt. Cinnamon and toasted almonds top this low-calorie dessert. For 4 servings you will need:1 lb. rhubarb½ cup sugarCinnamonPlain yogurt or vanilla yogurtToasted sliced […]
Donald Trump is requesting that the judge order the government to build a SCIF at Mar-a-Lago so that he doesn’t have to make a trip to the courthouse to review all the classified documents he stole. It’s awfully inconvenient for him to do that . All the TV lawyers are puzzled by this because a judge doesn’t have the authority to order anything like this and it would be unusual, to say the least, to allow the documents to go back to the place where he previously stored them in toilets and ballrooms and refused to give them back. He’s very busy, you see: He says that Biden has the IQ of a first grader…
The Opposition’s shadow treasurer (yep, really) Angus Taylor has been asking his colleagues if he can borrow their fingers and toes to help him work on his numbers in the event of a #LibSpill. ”Yeah, numbers aren’t really Angus’ thing... Read More ›
While the nation’s highest court and one of the two major parties have been busy...
Geneticist Paul Nurse on his Nobel Prize-winning discovery, the importance of failure, and a revelation about his own origins.
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They have to ruin everything: The wife of an Arkansas Republican state lawmaker has expanded the culture wars to miniature free libraries that encourage passersby to take a book and maybe leave one. “I have been swapping out books in little free libraries for awhile,” Jennifer Meeks announced in a Facebook post. “From what I have seen a lot of these books and other things don’t align with Christian values.” The Aug. 1 post has since been either deleted or made private, but not before it was screenshot by the Faulkner County Social Justice Coalition, which displayed it on the group’s website. “Today, I saw a bunch of Pride stuff in one,” Meeks said in the post. “There’s a group of leftists, especially in Conway, who are very active in keeping little libraries well-stocked.” Meeks wrote that she had been doing some stocking of her own. “Recently I have been picking up free Bibles at flea markets and thrift stores,” she reported. “Sometimes I find good devotion books or kids’ Bible stories at a good price to add.