WHY GOP LEADERS REMAIN LOYAL TO TRUMP | Look Back At It, This Week In Review
October 14, 2016
ED BOARD OVERTURE
|The Editorial Board of The New York Times gets ruthless with The Donald in response to the letter his lawyers sent The Times on Wednesday. “It should come as no surprise that DONALD TRUMP, the Republican nominee for president, is as ignorant about constitutional law as he is about every other matter pertinent to the nation’s highest office.”
WHY THEY'RE STICKING WITH TRUMP
|In The Atlantic, Russell Berman considers why Republican leaders remain loyal to DONALD TRUMP’S bid for the presidency. He says, the reason is simple: The Supreme Court. Women’s votes be damned! Berman: “Conservatives have prized the Supreme Court as much if not more than Congress and the presidency for decades. But the degree to which it is driving activists and party leaders this year is without precedent.”
LETTING IT ALL HANG OUT
|During a debate Wednesday, SENATOR MIKE LEE explained in the simplest terms his party’s refusal to grant JUDGE MERRICK GARLAND a hearing, noting the GOP will still block his nomination even if HRC takes the White House.
A FIGHTING CHANCE
|In The Atlantic, Garrett Epps considers whether counterterrorism lawsuits stand a chance in court. He concludes the Supreme Court’s disinterest in revisiting 9/11 is “hardly peculiar.” Epps: “Americans always prefer to move forward, especially when the path behind them is littered with bones.”
INTEGRATION STARTS WITH CLASS, NOT RACE
|“Nearly a decade ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that school districts could not assign students to schools based on their race.” That’s WaPo’s Emma Brown reporting on the 100 school districts that are actively pursuing socioeconomic integration.
OPPOSITES ATTRACT
|Whether it’s DONALD TRUMP calling new concussion rules “soft,” or COLIN KAEPERNICK’S peaceful pregame protest, or RBG’S response to such protests, we’re seeing an unexpected collision between sports, protest and politics. In The New York Times, Sam Borden reports on the collision he’s calling a “full-blown five-lane merge.”
LOOK BACK AT IT
|Bloomberg’s Kimberly Robinson gives us a review of SCOTUS this week writing, “The stakes here high for the hours-long debate that took place earlier this week, where interruptions, allegations of question dodging and even threats to jail Democrats transpired. I’m not talking about the Oct. 9 presidential debate though. Nope. This all went down at U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments.”
OTHER NEWS
A Streamlined Test to Determine Insider Trading
The New York Times“Congress has never passed a law defining the crime of insider trading. This legislative vacuum has left the courts to make up the rules as they see fit.”
Administration backs U.S. Supreme Court review of Lexmark patent exhaustion ruling
Reuters“The U.S. Supreme Court should overturn a ruling that allows Lexmark International to sue aftermarket resellers of its ‘single use’ toner cartridges for patent infringement, the Obama administration said Wednesday in a brief filed with the high court.”