As we approach the end of the Supreme Court’s annual term, the decisions announced are getting increasingly significant and controversial. This week saw two important rulings: The Amarillo lawsuit seeking to ban the abortion drug mifepristone was thrown out on grounds that the plaintiffs lacked standing, and the ATF’s decision to count bump-stock-inhanced semiautomatic rifles as machine guns was thrown out, fully legalizing rapid-fire weapons like the one used in the Las Vegas massacre of 2017.
The featured post “This Week’s Legal Decisions” will examine those cases in detail, and also look at a lower-court ruling that threw out Florida’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors. It should appear shortly after 9 EDT.
The weekly summary will Hunter Biden’s conviction, the Florida government’s inability to see climate change in its massive rainfall, the carefully-edited videos that unfairly smear President Biden’s mental capacities, Florida’s ban of a book about book banning, and a few other things. I’ll try to get that out around noon.
The Weekly Sift 