‘The issue in Hamm, the decision that the Court handed down Thursday night, is quite narrow. After Dunn, it was no longer a question of whether Alabama could execute Reeves. The only question was how Alabama could conduct this execution — and whether the state was allowed to use a method that may very well amount to torture, even over Reeves’s objection….’

— via Vox

‘As the nation reckons with the mass deaths from Covid-19, the collective power — and joy — of a second line provides inspiration for how the rest of us might mourn….’

— via Vox

‘Behind closed doors, Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife is working with many groups directly involved in controversial cases before the Court….’

— via The New Yorker

‘Even if you are a political junkie, there’s a good chance you didn’t realize that the United States Constitution grew 58 words longer this week.

Those words, which begin, “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex,” are the text of the Equal Rights Amendment. Section 3 of the amendment states that it takes effect two years after its ratification, which happened on Jan. 27, 2020, when Virginia became the 38th state to sign on. By its own terms, then, the 28th Amendment went into force on Thursday. American women are, at long last, equal to men in the eyes of the law. Hallelujah.

Or maybe not….’

— via New York Times