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Overnight News Digest: Nearly half the SC Justices are women, although one is despicable [1]
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Date: 2022-06-30
SCROTUS
Supreme Court orders Ninth Circuit to reconsider California’s ban on large gun magazines in light of new ruling — sf chronicle
After striking down restrictions on carrying concealed firearms in California and other states, the Supreme Court told an appeals court Thursday to reconsider the legality of California's ban on gun magazines that can hold more than 10 cartridges. The court’s order, in an appeal by an affiliate of the National Rifle Association, signaled the potentially broad impact of its June 23 ruling overturning laws that require gun owners to show a special need for self-defense in order to carry the weapons outside the home. In the 6-3 ruling, Justice Clarence Thomas said a state seeking to justify limits on gun ownership or possession must prove its law is “part of the historical tradition,” dating back as early as the colonial period.
Two takes on today’s SCOTUS EPA ruling although only one is factually correct
x It's impossible to overstate the impact of #SCOTUS decision against @EPA regulation of CO2 emissions. Unless #Congress (ahem) passes tough legislation, the federal government is rendered toothless in its battle against #GlobalWarming & #ClimateCrisis .
https://t.co/7Io5zFYFFq — Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) June 30, 2022
The Supreme Court has handed down another win for skeptics of progressive overreach. On Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency does not have the authority to set national energy policy and regulate carbon emissions from power plants. The ruling was a blow to the Biden Administration, which has pursued an aggressive clean energy agenda. But it was a win for democracy—as well as for a politically sustainable approach to climate change. You won't hear much about that in the mainstream press. Expect instead an endless litany of hysteria about our dying planet and the right-wing plot to accelerate the end of the natural world. "Run out of words to describe this court, but, among other things, it's now a threat to the planet," tweeted MSNBC host Chris Hayes in a typical missive.
Nearly 5,000 people have been hospitalized amid one of the severest heat waves Japan has seen in over a century, with 37 million people in and around Tokyo told to conserve electricity in response to record-breaking temperatures that are straining the power grid. According to the Fire and Disaster Management Agency, the number of people sent to hospitals for heatstroke and heat exhaustion is four times that in the same period a year ago. On Monday, Japan’s Meteorological Agency announced the end of the rainy season in Tokyo and neighboring areas in eastern and central Japan, marking the earliest declaration since data became available in 1951. Strong high pressure has controlled Japan’s weather since the weekend and is expected to do so for an additional week — perhaps longer.
x It's always unusual to see the potential for a tropical storm scraping the South American coast and reaching Central America as a hurricane. To see this possibility in late June...wowzers. And that's not all, folks. @CC_Yale
https://t.co/y5wrUG4QY4 — Bob Henson (@bhensonweather) June 27, 2022
x The disturbance in the northern Gulf has a 40% chance to develop into a tropical depression before making landfall on the TX coast tonight or early Thursday. Regardless, heavy rainfall is likely in this area with flash flooding possible tomorrow.#TurnAroundDontDrown pic.twitter.com/fTO8P2BG7e — National Weather Service (@NWS) June 29, 2022
More than 7 million people in Bangladesh are in desperate need of shelter and emergency relief after what one aid agency has described as the worst flooding to hit South Asia in living memory. Hundreds of thousands of homes near the Bangladesh-India border are underwater, and in the worst-hit areas whole neighborhoods have been submerged, aid agencies said Tuesday. At least 207 people in both countries have died since the floods began in April, according to official figures. Torrential rain has caused rivers in Bangladesh – a densely populated delta nation – to overflow, submerging areas that border the Indian state of Meghalaya, according to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). Some 94% of Bangladesh’s Sunamganj town and 84% of the surrounding Sylhet district are now submerged, the IFRC said. Roads leading to the region have been largely cut off and there are power cuts even in areas not underwater.
COVID boosters for the fall must target newer Omicron mutations, FDA says — la Times
U.S. regulators told COVID-19 vaccine makers Thursday that any booster shots tweaked for the fall will have to add protection against the newest mutations of Omicron. [...] The recipe: Combination shots that add protection against the Omicron relatives named BA.4 and BA.5 to the original vaccine. Those subvariants together now account for just over half of new U.S. infections, according to estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Two takes on Biden’s support for filibuster suspension, but only one is factually correct
“President Joe Biden said he would support suspending the Senate filibuster rule to codify abortion rights established in the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling.”
x If Republicans can end the filibuster to install right-wing judges to overturn Roe v. Wade, Democrats can and must end the filibuster, codify Roe v. Wade, and make abortion legal and safe. — Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) June 27, 2022
x It is abundantly clear the Democratic Party is becoming more radical and will change every institution in the country that stands in the way of their desire to grab power.
It is a very sad and very dangerous development.
https://t.co/QxJIsexaNB — Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) June 30, 2022
Florida Judge Will Temporarily Block 15-Week Abortion Ban — ny times
A law banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy violates privacy protections in the Florida Constitution, a state judge ruled on Thursday, a day before the new restrictions were to take effect. In a defeat for the administration of Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, Judge John C. Cooper of the Second Judicial Circuit Court in Tallahassee ruled from the bench to block the law, which Mr. DeSantis signed in April. Florida currently allows abortions until 24 weeks, making the state a refuge for women seeking the procedure from across Southeastern states with tighter restrictions. [...] The issue will most likely end up before the Florida Supreme Court, which in the past has cited a broad privacy amendment that voters wrote into the State Constitution in 1980 to block other abortion restrictions from taking effect. But Mr. DeSantis has reshaped the court after several retirements, making it much more conservative and prompting some court observers to predict that the justices could overturn precedent that extended privacy protections to abortions.
What is behind the entry of Russian troops into Nicaragua that Daniel Ortega covers up as “humanitarian assistance” — the gal times (bet this is the first OND appearance for this news platform!)
x What is behind the entry of Russian troops into Nicaragua that Daniel Ortega covers up as “humanitarian assistance”
https://t.co/A4SnJ7wE6D via @The Gal Times — Tifani Roberts (@TifaniRoberts) June 20, 2022
For retired Nicaraguan Army Major Roberto Samcam*, the “humanitarian assistance” label is a disguise that Daniel Ortega uses to authorize the entry of Russian troops, ships and aircraft to Nicaragua, at a time when there is global tension over Russia's military invasion of Ukraine. “The Ortega regime wants to disguise the presence of Russian soldiers under the argument that they are coming to participate in humanitarian aid actions. The exercises scheduled against illegal activities in the Caribbean Sea, drugs, do not fall within this type of action, nor of course those scheduled with the Special Operations Command, whose missions do not include humanitarian aid”, adds Samcam “The humanitarian term is defined for activities in which the Army participates as a complement to the State in cases of natural disasters, for example, earthquakes, floods, forest fires , transfer of people or populations that are at imminent risk of losing their lives”, explains the soldier. “In the case of the Russian military presence in the country, it is not justified in any case, because not even with the possible floods that there may be right now due to the heavy rains, the mayor's offices would be the ones in charge and the Army has the Directorate of Civil Defense for these cases.” * Samcam fought along with current Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega in the Sandinista guerrilla army that ousted dictator Anastasio Somoza in 1979, then served in his military during a decade-long war with the US-funded Contra rebels. After leaving the army, he co-founded the Patriotic Group of Retired Soldiers, and is now an outspoken Ortega critic.
The human rights organization Amnesty International says Russia committed a war crime by bombing a theater where hundreds of civilians were sheltering during the March siege of Mariupol, the southern Ukrainian port city that Russian troops destroyed and now occupy. The strike killed at least a dozen people. Russia blocked Amnesty's Crisis Response Team from entering Mariupol so researchers interviewed survivors in other parts of Ukraine, examined satellite data and hired a physicist to model the detonation.
x There are new tensions between Russia and Norway, and it has nothing to do with the border the two countries share.
It involves a territory that’s actually in the middle of the Arctic Ocean.
https://t.co/tGJkRlrU0M — euronews (@euronews) June 30, 2022
Israeli lawmakers voted to dissolve the Knesset on Thursday morning, sending Yair Lapid to the premiership and the country to its fifth election in three years. Lapid will assume the position of caretaker prime minister on Thursday at midnight until the next round of Israeli elections, set to take place on November 1.
Is the understated Lapid betting a scathing, divisive Netanyahu will defeat himself? — times of india
An earthquake hit northern Israel on Wednesday evening, just as outgoing Prime Minister Naftali Bennett was wrapping up the final business of his collapsed government — pledging to help his interim successor Yair Lapid, announcing he wouldn’t be running in the coming elections, and handing what little remains of his Yamina party to the control of longtime ally Ayelet Shaked. [...] As with the four previous electoral bouts, Netanyahu, now 72, still fiery and indomitable, is in one corner, scathing and contemptuous of those who dare to challenge him. Unlike those four past contests, however, there’s an incumbent in the other corner — and interim prime minister Yair Lapid (a former amateur boxer) has precisely four months to persuade the electorate to let him retain the title. But if outcampaigning the hyper-experienced, nimble and ferocious Netanyahu were not onerous enough, Lapid must overcome another challenge: Israeli demographics.
x The Proud Boys' role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, as well as their chauvinistic beliefs, hyper-nationalism and violent messaging contributed to New Zealand's decision.
https://t.co/3vHNKunfr5 — NPR (@NPR) June 30, 2022
Brutal killing in India stirs fears of escalating religious violence — wapo
A grainy smartphone video shows the final moments of Kanhaiya Lal Teli’s life: The tailor is seen measuring customers in his shop, but when he turns his back, they suddenly attack him. A second video shows the aftermath. Brandishing bloodstained cleavers, two men warn Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi about inflaming religious tensions in India and vow to avenge acts of blasphemy. Indian authorities on Wednesday voiced fears about spiraling violence after the grisly murder of the Hindu man — and the chilling videos filmed and posted online by his apparently Muslim attackers — sent shock waves through a country already struggling to contain religious tensions.
x Trust me, you don't want to have it.
https://t.co/j4qHXQ8CwQ — BuzzFeed (@BuzzFeed) June 29, 2022
Gas lines and scuffles: Sri Lanka faces humanitarian crisis — ap news
What’s happening in this South Asian island nation of 22 million is worse than the usual financial crises seen in the developing world: It’s a complete economic breakdown that has left ordinary people struggling to buy food, fuel and other necessities and has brought political unrest and violence. [...] Eleven people have died so far waiting for gasoline. The latest was a 63-year-old man found dead inside his vehicle on the outskirts of Colombo. Unable to get gasoline, some have given up driving and resorted to bicycles or public transportation to get around. [...] The government has closed urban schools and some universities and is giving civil servants every Friday off for three months, to conserve fuel and allow them time to grow their own fruit and vegetables. Food price inflation is running at 57%, according to government data, and 70% of Sri Lankan households surveyed by UNICEF last month reported cutting back on food consumption.
Striking a blow against a pernicious form of pollution, California lawmakers on Thursday passed the nation’s most far-reaching restrictions on single-use plastics and packaging, with Gov. Gavin Newsom expected to sign the bill. [...] The bill requires that by Jan. 1, 2028, at least 30% of plastic items sold, distributed or imported into the state be recyclable. By 2032, that number rises to 65%. It also calls for a 25% reduction in single-use plastic waste by 2032 and provides CalRecycle with the authority to increase that percentage if the amount of plastic in the economy and waste stream grows. In the case of expanded polystyrene, that number needs to reach 25% by 2025. If the number isn’t hit, the ubiquitous, hard-to-recycle foamy plastic will be banned. Some 128 California cities already have bans on polystyrene.
x BREAKING: Ralph “Sonny’’ Barger, the charismatic and strong-armed founder and leader of the Oakland chapter of the Hell’s Angels, who ruled during a time when the rough riding motorcycle club was its mystical and terrorizing peak, has died at 83.
https://t.co/HclmPSQo0N — San Francisco Chronicle (@sfchronicle) June 30, 2022
Netflix prepares series of Homero Gómez, activist who protected monarch butterflies and was murdered — the gal times
Homero Gómez González, the activist who protected monarch butterflies and was murdered in 2020 in Michoacán, will have his own series on the Netflix streaming platform , according to his brother and municipal president of the municipality of Ocampo, Amado Gómez. The mayor detailed through his account from Facebook that the filming work has already begun by the production company Península and that the series will be called “El Guardian”.
x Convoy protesters plan to stand up to high fuel prices by filling up their cars and driving around New Zealand
https://t.co/xTyqPUKIan pic.twitter.com/SqHt4cNSuT — Weird News (@weirdnews) June 30, 2022
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