Saturday, July 12, 2025

Supreme Court decisions that fractured the mighty conservative supermajority

While the Supreme Court's conservative supermajority is pushing the law rightward, the justices appointed by GOP presidents don't always row in sync. ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌  ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ 
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Sat Jul 12 2025

 
Supreme Court Chief Justice chats with Justice Sonia Sotomayor in the House of Representatives ahead of President Joe Biden's State of the Union address on March 7, 2024.

While the Supreme Court's conservative supermajority is pushing the law rightward, the justices appointed by GOP presidents don't always row in sync.

People place a cross by the Guadalupe River, across from Camp Mystic, following deadly flooding, in Hunt, Texas on July 10, 2025.
 

Grim reality looms as Texas flood rescue turns to recovery

 

A week after deadly flash floods, as rescue turns to recovery, more than 160 people remain missing in Kerr County, Texas.

President Donald Trump, right, and Russia's President Vladimir Putin are seen during the G20 leaders summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Nov. 30, 2018.
 

How the Trump-Putin bromance flowered − then soured

 

Trump said he would end the war in Ukraine within his first 24 hours in office. His patience with Russia's Putin now appears to be wearing thin.

This illustration shows a glowing stream of material from a star as it is being devoured by a supermassive black hole. When a star passes within a certain distance of a black hole - close enough to be gravitationally disrupted - the stellar material gets stretched and compressed as it falls into the black hole.
 

What's at the center of a black hole? Here's the sobering answer.

 

First, the good news: Black holes aren't out to get us. But they do hold unfathomable mysteries.

Jonathan McComb surveys the Guadalupe River at a staging area before heading out with a search-and-rescue team to look for victims of the recent Kerr County floods. McComb survived the 2015 floods in Wimberley, 80 miles east of Kerr County, but lost his wife and two children and vowed to help others if he survived.
 

Texas flood search becomes a calling for man who lost family in 2015

 

Jonathan McComb was the only one of his family to survive a Texas flood in 2015. Now he's in Kerrville to help after another tragedy.

Frustrated couple, headache and fight on sofa in divorce, disagreement or conflict in living room at home. Man and woman in toxic relationship, cheating affair or dispute on lounge couch at house
 

'Banksying' is a new dating trend. It might be cruelest one yet.

 

Daters, beware: "Banksying" is a new toxic dating trend, and it's leaving people in turmoil.

LOVE ISLAND USA -- Episode 726 -- Pictured: Cierra Ortega -- (Photo by: Ben Symons/Peacock)
 

Cierra's 'Love Island' apology, cancel culture and why Gen Z has a big problem

 

Cierra Ortega was removed from "Love Island USA" after old social media posts resurfaced. It's becoming a common tale for Gen Z reality stars.

People gather outside Glass House Farms outside of Camarillo on July 11, 2025, the morning after federal immigration agents detained hundreds of workers at the facility.
 

200 arrested in federal immigration raid, workers reportedly injured

 

Hundreds were arrested amid immigration raids at a cannabis farm

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani campaigns on July 10, 2025.
 

We're one step away from an AOC presidential run

 

The Democratic Party is lost in the wake of Donald Trump's second presidential victory. Would an Alexandria Oscasio-Cortez run give them direction?

President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump and Texas Governor Greg Abbott meet with local emergency services personnel as they survey flood damage along the Guadalupe River on July 11, 2025 in Kerrville, Texas.
 

'This is a tough one' Trump says in visit to flood-ravaged Texas

 

"It's hard to believe the devastation," Trump said. "Trees that are 100 years old just ripped out of the ground. I've never seen anything like this, and I've seen a lot of bad ones."

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