It’s been a tough week. Thursday’s debate was disappointing, to put it mildly, and the airwaves are full of calls for Biden to step aside. The Supreme Court threw hundreds of pages worth of major decisions at us over three days, ranging from the deeply objectionable (Bribery is fine now.) to non-decisions that punt a major issue to the other side of the election. (Emergency services can stop airlifting pregnant women out of Idaho for a few months.) And they still haven’t told us whether Trump can shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and get away with it — or, more specifically, whether Jack Smith can prosecute him for his conspiracy to steal the 2020 election.
So there are two featured articles this week. The first “They Both Lost. Now What?” covers the debate, and revisits my article three weeks ago against Biden leaving the race. Thursday didn’t come out the way I had imagined it would, so I need to think things through again. That should be out shortly.
The second, “Down to the Wire”, covers the Court decisions. I confess I didn’t read everything that came out Wednesday through Friday, so in places I’m relying on secondary sources. I’ll aim to get that out between 10 and 11 EDT.
The weekly summary is going to be short and fail to do justice to the rest of the world. I’ll try to get that out between noon and 1.
The Weekly Sift 