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      Trump raises tariffs to 15% on imports from all countries

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      President announced increase from 10% using different authority from mechanism that supreme court struck down on FridayDonald Trump announced on Saturday that he would raise a temporary tariff rate on US imports from all countries from 10% to 15%, less than 24 hours after the US supreme court ruled against the legality of his flagship trade policy.Infuriated by the high court’s ruling on Friday that he had exceeded his authority and should have got congressional approval for the tariffs he introduced last year under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), the US president railed against the justices who struck down his use of tariffs – calling them a “disgrace to the nation” – and ordered an immediate 10% tariff on all imports, in addition to any existing levies, under a separate law. Continue reading… More

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      US lawmakers seek release of double amputee from Georgia ICE detention

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      Congress members write to Kristi Noem to express ‘grave concern’ over detention of Georgia barber Rodney TaylorRepresentative Pramila Jayapal and 20 members of Congress are seeking the release of Rodney Taylor from Stewart detention center in Georgia, several weeks after the one-year anniversary of when agents seized the double amputee outside his suburban home in Loganville, about 40 miles north-east of Atlanta.The representatives sent a two-page letter on 17 February to Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, and Todd Lyons, the acting director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), drawing extensively from the Guardian’s reporting and quoting several stories in detail with “grave concern” due to Taylor’s “extreme hardship in detention and [because] his health is continuing to deteriorate”. Continue reading… More

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      The US Supreme Court Blinks: Tariffs, Partisan Justice and the Court-Packing Debate

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      At the risk of mixing metaphors, much of the usually relentlessly partisan Republican majority’s “shadow docket” strategy to facilitate US President Donald Trump’s anticonstitutional excesses always had a problem, because much of it consisted transparently of “kicking the [constitutional] can down the road,” delaying judgment — but sooner or later, that can was going to… Continue reading The US Supreme Court Blinks: Tariffs, Partisan Justice and the Court-Packing Debate
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      ‘Trump, I’m not afraid of you’: meet some of the people suing the president

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      More than a hundred lawsuits were filed against the Trump administration over the past year. Four people explain why it’s important to protect rights and fight backDonald Trump’s second term has been marked by a rollback of civil liberties.He has terminated all federal diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility offices and positions. He has declared that the government will only refer to individuals by their biological “sex” instead of their gender identity. He has also set a sweeping anti-immigration agenda, attempting to end birthright citizenship, pausing refugee admissions and increasing immigration enforcement operations around the country. Continue reading… More

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      Trump’s global tariffs have finally been overturned. What next? | Steven Greenhouse

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      The US supreme court ruled against the president. Let’s hope the court removes its pro-Trump glasses on other issues and stands up for the rule of lawThere’s no denying that the US supreme court’s long-awaited ruling that overturned Donald Trump’s global tariffs is important, and if the ruling turns out to be a harbinger that the court is ready to abandon its startling sycophancy toward the US president, it could prove hugely important. The ruling this Friday is the first time during Trump’s second term that the justices have struck down one of his policies. Not only that, the policy they struck down is Trump’s signature economic policy – he has used tariffs to bash, lord over and terrorize dozens of other countries and make himself the King of the Economic Jungle.In the court’s main opinion, joined by three conservative justices and three liberals, chief justice John Roberts used some sharp language to slap down Trump’s tariffs, writing that the constitution specifically gives Congress, not the president, the power to impose taxes and tariffs. (Roberts noted that tariffs are indeed taxes.)Steven Greenhouse is a journalist and author, focusing on labour and the workplace, as well as economic and legal issues Continue reading… More

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      The Nancy Guthrie Kidnapping Spectacle

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      Guy Debord (1931–1994), was a French writer and filmmaker who cofounded the Situationist International, a late 1950s radical European avant-garde movement, which preached that, in the modern age, people had become like American science fiction author Philip K. Dick’s androids, dreaming of electric sheep, machines that simulate life to fill the emotional void left behind… Continue reading The Nancy Guthrie Kidnapping Spectacle
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      How Jesse Jackson’s ‘radically inclusive’ vision shaped the Democratic party we know today

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      The civil rights trailblazer imagined a future for America in which the marginalized became the center of US politicsReverend Jesse Jackson, the civil- and human-rights trailblazer who died on 17 February, imagined a version of America where the marginalized became the center. His was a much more progressive vision than what the Democratic party thought possible after the civil rights movement, and through Jackson’s National Rainbow Coalition – launched after his first presidential campaign in 1984 – he laid the groundwork for a new era.“This Rainbow Coalition is the embodiment of a national politics that is radically inclusive,” Charles McKinney, a professor of history at Rhodes Collegesaid. “He was like: ‘I’ve got something for the middle class, I’ve got something for the elite, and I also have something for working-class folks. To me, that was the embodiment of his politics.” Continue reading… More

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      Epstein files place renewed attention on US authorities’ failure to stop him

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      Files show accuser in 2011 provided extensive account of abuse as questions mount over why action was not takenThe Department of Justice’s release of millions of Jeffrey Epstein files has not only prompted questions about his crimes – but renewed attention on authorities’ failure to stop him after an accuser reported him in 1996.This new cache of Epstein files has provided more insight into authorities’ familiarity with allegations against him in the years that followed, including time between his sweetheart plea deal in 2008 and federal arrest nearly six years ago. Continue reading… More