Imperialism
Israel
Palestine
Fig. 1. The ruins of a terminal at the Gaza airport. Image by Said Khatib (Agence France-Presse) on September 9, 2018, via the Times of Israel,[1] fair use.
Gordon Lubold, Nancy A. Youssef, and Annie Linskey, “U.S. to Deliver Aid to Gaza Through Military Airdrops,” Wall Street Journal, March 1, 2024, https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/u-s-expected-to-deliver-aid-to-gaza-through-military-air-drops-79814c51
Ishaan Tharoor, “Gaza’s spiraling, unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe,” Washington Post, March 1, 2024, https://www.washingtonpost.com//world/2024/03/01/gaza-humanitarian-catastrophe/
Tara Copp, “US military aircraft airdrop thousands of meals into Gaza in emergency humanitarian aid operation,” Associated Press, March 2, 2024, https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-gaza-airdrop-humanitarian-assistance-f8bc071193f89906abf21478bc70a084
Felicia Schwartz, “US begins Gaza aid airdrops after Joe Biden rebukes Israel,” Financial Times, March 2, 2024, https://www.ft.com/content/c36c0386-8acb-48bc-a84b-8dfa636d00b4
Felicia Schwartz and Mehul Srivastava, “Israel has ‘basically signed on’ to a ceasefire, US official says,” Financial Times, March 2, 2024, https://www.ft.com/content/b42490ae-8ea1-4744-8745-87123450c6c6
Neri Zilber and Felicia Schwartz, “Netanyahu allies lash out at Gantz over Washington trip,” Financial Times, March 3, 2024, https://www.ft.com/content/1068b774-6ce2-4b41-8552-df64d12c7be1
Illiberalism
Gilead
Donald Trump
Coup attempt
Fig. 1. Cartoon by Ben Jennings, January 24, 2024, via the Guardian,[2] fair use.
The justices said the Constitution does not permit a single state to disqualify a presidential candidate from national office, ruling that such responsibility “rests with Congress and not the states.” The court warned of disruption and chaos if a candidate for nationwide office could be declared ineligible in some states, but not others, based on the same conduct.
“Nothing in the Constitution requires that we endure such chaos — arriving at any time or different times, up to and perhaps beyond the inauguration,” the court said in an unsigned, 13-page unsigned opinion.[3]
If “[n]othing in the Constitution requires that we endure such chaos,”[4] what about the chaos of Donald Trump’s coup attempt, still unresolved three years later? What about the chaos of unlimited guns? What about the chaos of women having to travel to obtain urgent medical care? I see a whole lot of chaos the Supreme Court enables.
Ann E. Marimow, “Supreme Court keeps Trump on ballot, rejects Colorado voter challenge,” Washington Post, March 4, 2024, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/04/supreme-court-trump-ballot-decision/
- [1]Agence France-Presse and Times of Israel, “20 years after its opening, destroyed Gaza airport embodies grounded peace hopes,” Times of Israel, September 12, 2018, https://www.timesofisrael.com/20-years-after-its-opening-destroyed-gaza-airport-embodies-grounded-peace-hopes/↩
- [2]Ben Jennings, “Ben Jennings on Donald Trump’s progress along the Republican nomination trail – cartoon,” Guardian, January 24, 2024, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/jan/24/ben-jennings-on-donald-trumps-progress-along-the-republican-nomination-trail-cartoon↩
- [3]Ann E. Marimow, “Supreme Court keeps Trump on ballot, rejects Colorado voter challenge,” Washington Post, March 4, 2024, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/04/supreme-court-trump-ballot-decision/↩
- [4]U.S. Supreme Court, quoted in Ann E. Marimow, “Supreme Court keeps Trump on ballot, rejects Colorado voter challenge,” Washington Post, March 4, 2024, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/04/supreme-court-trump-ballot-decision/↩