In which the Supreme Court tries to make sense of immigration law without going utterly mad
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On Monday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the lawsuit filed by 26 states over President Obama's 2014 executive actions on immigration — which would have protected up to 4.5 million unauthorized immigrants from deportation if they'd ever been implemented. (They were put on hold by the injunction the Supreme Court is currently evaluating.)
That could create a judicial mess, with the lawsuit continuing to plod through the lower courts in search of a final ruling while activists try to force a circuit split by filing a lawsuit to start implementing the executive actions.
This isn't inevitable. The court just has two months, or a little less, to figure out whether it can get to a five-vote majority — most likely by Chief Justice Roberts or Justice Kennedy joining the liberals to kick the case out entirely, by denying that the states had legal grounds to bring it, without ruling on the merits of Obama's actions.
One thing was certainly clear from the oral arguments: Immigration law is a series of compounding kludges. That makes it hard for the states to argue that Obama's 2014 executive actions crossed a bright line. It also makes it hard for the feds to argue that there is any limit to what the president can do.
Outside the Court, immigrant activists held the biggest demonstration that many court watchers had ever seen; they were met with a few dozen counterprotesters, one of whom attempted to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" at them through a megaphone but forgot the words.
(If you're interested in Supreme Court stuff that isn't just tea-leaf reading, check out Vox's Libby Nelson's write-up of an opinion the Court released today that could affect the sentences of a few thousand federal prisoners.)
Yahoo is trying to pull off a tricky corporate manuever: selling off its unprofitable core business (the things you think of as Yahoo) while holding on to its stakes in other, profitable companies like Alibaba.
Bids for the company are expected to come in before tomorrow's earnings call — which will then be closely scrutinized for any evidence that the company has already found a buyer.
Of course, the fact that bids are supposed to come in before earnings are announced, and the fact that the company has been pretty reticent to provide other details about its finances, has made the bidding process a little hard.
We don't yet know exactly who's made bids. Likely suitors include Verizon and the owner of the Daily Mail. (Google and Time Inc. have reportedly decided not to file bids.)
As Vox's Timothy Lee writes, it might actually make sense for Verizon to buy Yahoo — it would expand its ownership of ad networks, and ads are easier to sell in bulk.
The bombing comes after several relatively quiet weeks in Israel, which had some in the country wondering if the relatively frequent attacks of recent months were settling down.
More importantly, though, the attack is a disquieting reminder of the extremely deadly second intifada of the early 2000s, when bus bombs were a frequent tactic of Palestinian terrorists.
The intifadas play a tremendous role in the collective memory of both Israelis and Palestinians, something this 2013 feature from the New York Times illustrates better than anything else I (Dara) have seen.
One big difference between the current wave of violence and the intifadas: The current attackers aren't affiliated with established terrorist networks. That makes them harder for Israeli law enforcement officers to track down.
Helena is "an organization of 30 global influencers who work together to achieve positive global impact." Good luck figuring out what the hell that's supposed to mean.
"We all have to decide what to think about these questions. We all already interact with arguably conscious non-human animals of various levels of intelligence, and many of us will at some future point interact with arguably conscious machines of various levels of intelligence."
"A natural hierarchy arose in the hospital. … The ones with schizophrenia, on the other hand, landed at the rock bottom — excluded from group therapy, seen as lunatic and raving, and incapable of fitting into the requirements of normalcy."
"Those who banked on the plausible in Weimar Germany were proven naïve, even if they constantly adjusted their definition of plausibility to accommodate the latest bizarre occurrence."
"If we all can agree that representation matters, then white people are impossibly well represented — while seeing an Asian face in the movies is bordering on the impossible. And apparently it's getting more impossible every day."
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