SCOTUS Makes the US President a King: A 6-3 choice cut up alongside occasion strains discovered Donald Trump is entitled to absolute immunity for all “official acts” as president. He will not be immune for unofficial acts. Within the opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote, “The President shouldn’t be above the regulation. However beneath our system of separated powers, the President is probably not prosecuted for exercising his core constitutional powers, and he’s entitled to at the least presumptive immunity from prosecution for his official acts. That immunity applies equally to all occupants of the Oval Workplace.” Actually looks like the president is above the regulation in your interpretation right here, John. Did not we agree on no extra kings? I assumed the entire level was no extra kings right here?
So, what now? Trump’s Jan 6 trial will most certainly be delayed, and a second Trump presidency feels much more ominous, what with SCOTUS giving presidents carte blanche to do no matter atrocities they really feel like and having no ramifications. Trump, in the meantime, posted on Reality Social: “BIG WIN FOR OUR CONSTITUTION AND DEMOCRACY. PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN!” As The Nation’s Elie Mystal mentioned, “Biden has the chance to do the funniest factor ever…”
SCOTUS continues to seize extra energy over legislative/govt department: In one other blow to the functioning of the federal authorities, to science, and to democracy, the justices determined in a 6-3, party-line ruling that individuals and companies can sue businesses over guidelines they applied years in the past. Quoting Justice Jackson, Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern writes that “right this moment’s choice successfully makes final week’s reversal of Chevron retroactive, unleashing countless assaults on company rules that had been seemingly settled over the past 4 many years.”
“With worry for our democracy, I dissent.” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a dissent within the immunity case. It’s chilling.
Sotomayor: With worry for our democracy, I dissent. pic.twitter.com/Sr5dmv8SoH
— Leah Litman (@LeahLitman) July 1, 2024
Taking pictures on Capitol Hill: One particular person is lifeless after a capturing at round 12:30 am Monday evening on the 1000 block of East Pike Avenue on Capitol Hill. Pleasure-revelers reportedly heard the pictures and the commotion. The investigation remains to be creating.
Taking pictures within the Worldwide District: At round 4:30 am Sunday morning, police discovered a 35-year-old man with gunshot wounds on the 500 block of Eighth Avenue South. He died from his accidents.
Mussel mayhem: The Quagga mussel, an invasive species, may actually fuck up Washington’s recent water by crusting over and clogging hydroelectric dams and irrigation methods, or by disrupting fish ladders and harming native species. The Columbia River Basin had been the final US watershed to be freed from the quagga mussels till they popped up in Idaho’s Snake River final 12 months. With a possible risk to the area, Washington’s Invasive Species Council estimated an invasion of mussels in Washington lakes and rivers may price $100 million “to maintain the state’s energy and water infrastructure operating.” The Legislature green-lit practically $2 million this 12 months to fight the mussels.
Summer time is lastly right here: Not but. Tomorrow.
For sun-starved Seattleites, summer season begins (for actual!) on Tuesday this 12 months. ☀️
For cool-weather followers, effectively, the times are already getting shorter. 🧛
— Seattle Climate Weblog (@KSeattleWeather) July 1, 2024
No return date for caught astronauts: NASA will say the astronauts caught on the Worldwide House Station are “not stranded,” however how else would you describe being in a spot with no skill to go away it? You’d say “stranded,” and also you’d particularly say stranded if the place the place you had been was outer area and the explanation you could not depart was as a result of the Boeing-designed area capsule that introduced you there was leaking and had thruster points. Anyway, the “not stranded” astronauts had been supposed to remain on the ISS for one week. It has been a number of weeks. They’ve but to set a return date. So, in my ebook, they’re stranded.
Talking of Boeing: The aerospace firm plans to purchase up its provider, Spirit AeroSystems, for $4.7 billion. Issues disrupting manufacturing at Spirit are linked to the problems and malfunctions cropping up with Boeing planes this 12 months, like that one airplane the place the door simply kinda flew off. Will shopping for Spirit repair this stuff? Boeing thinks so.
Hey, batter-batter: In some baseball mishap I will not spare the mind cells attempting to grasp or talk to you, the Mariners wanted certainly one of their pitchers to bat on Sunday. So, Luis Castillo took the mound. He was not good. Seems we would like a batter, not a damaged ladder, and we would like a pitcher and never a belly-itcher. Is that an excessive amount of to ask?
Mariners had pitcher Luis Castillo at bat.
No swings. Simply 3 strikes 🤣 pic.twitter.com/rtFFowmHVd
— Seattle Mariners ON Faucet (@MarinersONTap) June 30, 2024
RIP Residing Pc Museum: Microsoft co-founder Paul G Allen’s museum of classic computer systems will shut completely. The museum by no means reopened after closing in 2020 in the course of the pandemic. Unhappy to see Allen’s pet tasks crumple up and die with out him right here to steward them.
Good for her: Simone Biles, 27, is certain for the Olympics this 12 months after profitable the Olympic trials over the weekend. Based on the Related Press, Biles “is the oldest American lady to make an Olympic gymnastics workforce because the Nineteen Fifties.” Not solely is she the oldest, however Biles continues to be one of the best regardless of bowing out of the competitors for psychological well being causes on the Olympics three years in the past. After a less-than-stellar displaying in Japan, Biles and the remainder of the US ladies’s gymnastics squad will probably be competing in Paris like they’ve one thing to show.
🚨 Cease what you’re doing and watch Simone Biles’ ground routine. 🚨 #USAGTrials24 pic.twitter.com/eLBMtZuSEm
— NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) July 1, 2024
Talking of France: After the primary spherical in a snap legislative election, France’s far-right occasion beneath Marine Le Pen surged, recording a document variety of votes. In the meantime, President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist occasion faces close to collapse. If the far-right contingent, generally known as the Nationwide Rally occasion, takes a majority within the runoff election, Macron will probably be compelled to elect a first-rate minster from the occasion. The leftist Fashionable Entrance occasion took second place within the elections, so now the centrists should resolve in the event that they need to again the left and win or assist the fascists. Marvel which tack they’re going to take.
ICYMI: Final week, the Home of Representatives handed a decision that might bar the State Division from citing the Gaza Well being Ministry’s official dying toll statistics within the Israel-Hamas warfare.
Extra issues to worry: The scientists monitoring fowl flu within the US are involved “gaps in surveillance” will preserve them a number of steps behind a possible pandemic. Chook flu made the soar to mammals lately and has contaminated 129 dairy farms nationally. Scientists fear the flu will soar to people, however it’ll be onerous to detect since information is spotty and the completely different authorities businesses that monitor animal well being and human well being have completely different approaches. Nature positive retains us on our toes, huh!
Storm surges: Hurricane Beryl is the earliest Class 4 hurricane on document. Beginning its life as a tropical melancholy, Beryl reached hurricane standing in solely 42 hours. That is quick. Beryl’s power—which it is about to make use of to batter the Caribbean—comes from record-breaking heat waters. The ocean water is presently as sizzling as it might be at peak hurricane season, and the season has solely simply began.
The grind by no means stops: “Stephen Ok. Bannon plans to document his podcast after which report back to jail”
A tune on your Monday: This would be the tune of the summer season, belief me!