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Today's News (2020/1/2)
Jan. 2nd, 2020 11:32 pmIn major escalation, American strike kills top Iranian commander in Baghdad
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/defense-secretary-says-iran-and-its-proxies-may-be-planning-fresh-attacks-on-us-personnel-in-iraq/2020/01/02/53b63f00-2d89-11ea-bcb3-ac6482c4a92f_story.html
By Mustafa Salim, Missy Ryan, Liz Sly and John Hudson
Jan. 2, 2020 at 10:18 p.m. PST
BAGHDAD — A U.S. airstrike killed Iranian Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad late Thursday, the Pentagon said, a dramatic escalation of tensions between the two countries that could lead to widespread violence in the region and beyond.
Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper said the Pentagon had taken “decisive defensive action” against Soleimani, the revered military figure who had close links to a network of armed groups backed by Iran across the Middle East and, according to the United States, bore responsibility for hundreds of American deaths.
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It’s Happening: Congressional Lawmakers Ask Supreme Court to End Legal Abortion
According to Americans United for Life and conservative lawmakers, everyone expects the Supreme Court to end legal abortion eventually, so why wait when the Court could do so this summer in June Medical Services?
https://rewire.news/article/2020/01/02/its-happening-congressional-lawmakers-ask-supreme-court-to-end-legal-abortion/
More than 200 members of Congress, along with the largest anti-choice advocacy group in the United States, filed amicus briefs Thursday urging the U.S. Supreme Court to use this spring’s abortion rights case to end legal abortion.
Americans United for Life (AUL) and conservative lawmakers called on the Court to revisit and overturn Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey at its “earliest opportunity,” describing the historic decisions as “unworkable” and arguing that the U.S. Constitution does not recognize the right to an abortion. AUL and anti-choice lawmakers made these arguments in amicus briefs filed in June Medical Services, LLC v. Gee, a case challenging both a Louisiana admitting privileges requirement and the ability of providers to challenge certain types of abortion restrictions on behalf of their patients.
The Roberts Court will hear arguments in the case in March. A decision is expected this summer.
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Relevant thread on Twitter; I won't copy it here, but do read it.
https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1212933074155003904
18. I find this to be puzzling. Soleimani has always been planning covert/overt action. Why now?
Killing him to deter further plans (as statement notes) isn’t going to stop any of that
Punishing him for US Mil deaths is justified but is USG prepped for covert response?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/defense-secretary-says-iran-and-its-proxies-may-be-planning-fresh-attacks-on-us-personnel-in-iraq/2020/01/02/53b63f00-2d89-11ea-bcb3-ac6482c4a92f_story.html
By Mustafa Salim, Missy Ryan, Liz Sly and John Hudson
Jan. 2, 2020 at 10:18 p.m. PST
BAGHDAD — A U.S. airstrike killed Iranian Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad late Thursday, the Pentagon said, a dramatic escalation of tensions between the two countries that could lead to widespread violence in the region and beyond.
Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper said the Pentagon had taken “decisive defensive action” against Soleimani, the revered military figure who had close links to a network of armed groups backed by Iran across the Middle East and, according to the United States, bore responsibility for hundreds of American deaths.
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It’s Happening: Congressional Lawmakers Ask Supreme Court to End Legal Abortion
According to Americans United for Life and conservative lawmakers, everyone expects the Supreme Court to end legal abortion eventually, so why wait when the Court could do so this summer in June Medical Services?
https://rewire.news/article/2020/01/02/its-happening-congressional-lawmakers-ask-supreme-court-to-end-legal-abortion/
More than 200 members of Congress, along with the largest anti-choice advocacy group in the United States, filed amicus briefs Thursday urging the U.S. Supreme Court to use this spring’s abortion rights case to end legal abortion.
Americans United for Life (AUL) and conservative lawmakers called on the Court to revisit and overturn Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey at its “earliest opportunity,” describing the historic decisions as “unworkable” and arguing that the U.S. Constitution does not recognize the right to an abortion. AUL and anti-choice lawmakers made these arguments in amicus briefs filed in June Medical Services, LLC v. Gee, a case challenging both a Louisiana admitting privileges requirement and the ability of providers to challenge certain types of abortion restrictions on behalf of their patients.
The Roberts Court will hear arguments in the case in March. A decision is expected this summer.
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Relevant thread on Twitter; I won't copy it here, but do read it.
https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1212933074155003904
18. I find this to be puzzling. Soleimani has always been planning covert/overt action. Why now?
Killing him to deter further plans (as statement notes) isn’t going to stop any of that
Punishing him for US Mil deaths is justified but is USG prepped for covert response?
