Jeffrey Epstein
Fig. 1. “Donald Trump with his future wife Melania Knauss, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at Mar-a-Lago in February 2000.” Photograph credited to Davidoff Studios Photography/Getty Images, February 2000,[1] fair use.
Three batches of documents have now been unsealed.[2] And there just aren’t very many juicy details that we didn’t already know. And none of it seems to implicate any new people.[3]
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, “Conservatives Are Having a Meltdown Over Trump and the Epstein List,” New Republic, January 3, 2024, https://newrepublic.com/post/177828/conservatives-meltdown-trump-epstein-list
Victoria Bekiempis, “Jeffrey Epstein: documents linking associates to sex offender unsealed,” Guardian, January 4, 2024, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/03/jeffrey-epstein-list-names-released
Victoria Bekiempis, “Second wave of court documents related to Jeffrey Epstein unsealed,” Guardian, January 4, 2024, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/04/jeffrey-epstein-second-round-documents-unsealed
Chas Danner, Benjamin Hart, and Matt Stieb, “Who Are the Newly Revealed Jeffrey Epstein Associates?” New York, January 4, 2024, https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/who-are-the-newly-revealed-jeffrey-epstein-associates.html
Victoria Bekiempis, “Third batch of Jeffrey Epstein documents unsealed,” Guardian, January 5, 2024, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/05/jeffrey-epstein-documents-unsealed
Illiberalism
Gilead
Donald Trump
Coup attempt
Josh Gerstein, Kyle Cheney, and Erica Orden, “Supreme Court will take up Trump’s eligibility to run for president,” Politico, January 5, 2024, https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/05/trump-supreme-court-14th-amendment-eligibility-00134133
Abortion, reproductive freedom and health
Fig. 2. Sign at demonstration in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, May 3, 2022. Janni Rye, via Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.
If you’re reading tea leaves, here seem to be the salient points:
- The Supreme Court will hear the case on emergencies requiring abortions, removing the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals from the case.[4]
- The Supreme Court allowed Idaho to enforce its ban in the meantime.[5]
Mark Sherman, “Supreme Court allows Idaho to enforce its strict abortion ban, even in medical emergencies,” Associated Press, January 5, 2024, https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-abortion-medical-emergencies-idaho-8ca89d7de0c1fa9256dcd27d1847e144
- [1]Martin Pengelly, “‘She say anything about me?’ Trump raised Ghislaine Maxwell link with aides,” Guardian, October 4, 2022, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/oct/04/trump-ghislaine-maxwell-epstein-maggie-haberman-book-confidence-man↩
- [2]Victoria Bekiempis, “Jeffrey Epstein: documents linking associates to sex offender unsealed,” Guardian, January 4, 2024, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/03/jeffrey-epstein-list-names-released; Victoria Bekiempis, “Second wave of court documents related to Jeffrey Epstein unsealed,” Guardian, January 4, 2024, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/04/jeffrey-epstein-second-round-documents-unsealed; Victoria Bekiempis, “Third batch of Jeffrey Epstein documents unsealed,” Guardian, January 5, 2024, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/05/jeffrey-epstein-documents-unsealed↩
- [3]Victoria Bekiempis, “Jeffrey Epstein: documents linking associates to sex offender unsealed,” Guardian, January 4, 2024, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/03/jeffrey-epstein-list-names-released;
Victoria Bekiempis, “Second wave of court documents related to Jeffrey Epstein unsealed,” Guardian, January 4, 2024, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/04/jeffrey-epstein-second-round-documents-unsealed; Victoria Bekiempis, “Third batch of Jeffrey Epstein documents unsealed,” Guardian, January 5, 2024, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/05/jeffrey-epstein-documents-unsealed; Chas Danner, Benjamin Hart, and Matt Stieb, “Who Are the Newly Revealed Jeffrey Epstein Associates?” New York, January 4, 2024, https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/who-are-the-newly-revealed-jeffrey-epstein-associates.html↩ - [4]Mark Sherman, “Supreme Court allows Idaho to enforce its strict abortion ban, even in medical emergencies,” Associated Press, January 5, 2024, https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-abortion-medical-emergencies-idaho-8ca89d7de0c1fa9256dcd27d1847e144↩
- [5]Mark Sherman, “Supreme Court allows Idaho to enforce its strict abortion ban, even in medical emergencies,” Associated Press, January 5, 2024, https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-abortion-medical-emergencies-idaho-8ca89d7de0c1fa9256dcd27d1847e144↩