SD enterprise: Amy Coney Barrett Just Got Interesting

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What the hell happened in politics this week? Esquire's legendary blogger Charlie P. Pierce has answers

Amy Coney Barrett Recusing Herself from a Case on Public Funding for Religious Schools Is Mighty Interesting

Something interesting is happening in the chambers of the Supreme Court. The Nine Wise Souls are preparing to hear the case of Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School Board v. Drummond and St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v. Drummond. At issue is a decision by the Oklahoma Supreme Court that denied public funding for a Catholic virtual charter school on the grounds that all the state's charter schools must by law be public schools and that funding religious charter schools is unconstitutional. In January, the Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal in the last week of April. At the time, Justice Amy Coney Barrett declined to participate in that decision.

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Some Serious Russian Maritime Mischief Seems to Be Afoot

Our friends, the International Consortium for Investigative Journalists, have taken their act to sea these days, tracking some serious Russian maritime mischief in and around the Mediterranean—specifically, running guns to Libya, and ferrying various types of contraband to various other places, on ships of dubious provenance.

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Karoline Leavitt Is the Living Embodiment of Hamlet's Line 'One May Smile, and Smile, and Be a Villain'

The woman is the living embodiment of Hamlet's conclusion that "one may smile, and smile, and be a villain." On Monday, she was asked about the White House's using an app meant to help migrants as an encouragement to self-deport, and she referred to how the White House disseminated a video of Salvadoran soldiers and police officers brutalizing the subjects of the administration's human-trafficking program.

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Newly-Minted Wingnut Darling Justin Eichorn Got Charged With Attempting to Solicit a Minor Online

It was a target-rich environment out there this week, and we begin with the winner of this week's FAFO Medal—Minnesota Republican state senator Justin Eichorn. He achieved some fame in wingnut circles by proposing that the state's legislature declare "Trump Derangement Syndrome" a legitimate form of mental illness. Chuffed by his newfound eminence among the goobers, Eichorn apparently decided to make a phone call.

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The Kennedy Files Are an Early Easter Basket Full of CIA Hijinks

It may be the distraction everybody says it is. It may be a shot across the bow from a corrupt president against investigators who might choose to inconvenience him. It could be both of those. But the release Tuesday of nearly 70,000 pages of heretofore classified documents related to the assassination of John F. Kennedy is an early Easter basket full of very interesting accounts of the covert doings of the CIA in the 1960s. And whatever the motives behind their release may be, it is all information that we should have had years ago.

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Friday, March 21, 2025

Amy Coney Barrett Just Got Interesting

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