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Today in History
Today is Wednesday, July 7, the 188th day of 2021. There are 177 days left in the year.
by Associated Press
Jul. 6 2021 @ 7:54pm
Today is Wednesday, July 7, the 188th day of 2021. There are 177 days left in the year.
Today s Highlight in History:
On July 7, 1981, President Ronald Reagan announced he was nominating Arizona Judge Sandra Day O Connor to become the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
On this date: In 1846, U.S. annexation of California was proclaimed at Monterey after the surrender of a Mexican garrison. In 1865, four people were hanged in Washington, D.C. for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln: Lewis Powell (aka Lewis Payne), David Herold, George Atzerodt and Mary Surratt, the first woman to be executed by the federal government.
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Finally The Court as It Should Be!
The current term of the Supreme Court has delivered a lot “huh???” moments, with the Court botching cases, dodging cases, and yielding a lot of decisions with very strange splits among the justices with little or no ideological clarity. But as Paul noted earlier, today we finally got two major rulings against leftist totems by the 6 – 3 split we’ve long been promised on voting rights/safeguarding ballot integrity, and protecting donors from state harassment.
I think it is possible we may start to see more of this next term, because of one aspect of how the Court works that has drawn little notice. It involves Chief Justice John Roberts, who is rightly a source of frustration for his penchant for dodging tough cases, contradicting his own prior votes and language on similar cases, or ruling in the most minimalist way possible in order not to change any constitutional doctrines too dramatically.