Today’s edition of quick hits.
* Late breaking SCOTUS news: “The Supreme Court’s GOP-appointed majority on Monday granted the Trump administration’s request to lift a lower court injunction that had blocked the administration from implementing an executive order that blue states said carries extreme risks for the midterm elections. The court emphasized that its action doesn’t mean that any measure taken by the administration to implement President Donald Trump’s order will be lawful.”
* It’s a safe bet China took note of this announcement: “The United States will not join South Korea in large-scale amphibious landing exercises next month because of demands in the Middle East, the South Korean military said Monday — raising further questions about the sustainability of U.S. military commitments in Asia as the Iran war strains resources.”
* It’s difficult to imagine that sailor’s anguish: “The father of a sailor aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln will remain in custody after being detained over the weekend by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Department of Homeland Security said. In a statement provided to MS NOW, a DHS spokesperson said removal proceedings are pending for Luis Manuel Aviles Roa of Key West, Florida, whose family members said Saturday that he had been detained.”
* The latest in a series of setbacks for the Post: “An arbitrator has ordered The Washington Post to reinstate a Black opinion writer fired over social media posts about violent white men following last year’s killing of Charlie Kirk. The ruling Thursday said the newspaper did not have sufficient cause to terminate Karen Attiah, who at the time was the last Black full-time member of the Post’s opinion desk. The arbitrator, Sarah Miller Espinosa, also ordered the Post to award Attiah full back pay and lost benefits.”
* A good ruling, which will be appealed: “A federal judge on Friday struck down the Trump administration’s ban on issuing visas to immigrants from 75 countries, finding that the policy was ‘contrary to law’ and beyond the legal authority of Secretary of State Marco Rubio.”
* When the public can’t count on the accuracy of administration data, it’s a serious problem: “U.S. Senate Democrats asked the Department of Agriculture late on Wednesday to explain what caused the agency to vastly overstate beef export sales last month and what role department staff losses played in the mistake.”
* The CDC shouldn’t have worthwhile “zombie programs,” but it does: “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still has an Alzheimer’s disease program. Congress appropriated $41 million to it this year. There’s just no one staffing it. Then there’s the agency’s Office on Smoking and Health. Congress allocated $246 million for that. Its staffers were cut, too. Same for the epilepsy program. Its sickle cell disease data collection operation. Its rape prevention unit.”
See you tomorrow.
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