Supreme Court Experiment We can All Learn From

Gear VR arrives late this October at or near the launch of Samsung’s Note 4; it’ll be primarily available via Samsung’s online store, though select carriers (in the US first) will sell it at retail for an unknown price. Roughly every hour, they changed the price of the small cup to $1 and increased the price of the larger cup by 5 cents to $1.25. About half the time, they offered a small coffee with a “just below” price of 95 cents or a larger cup upgrade for $1.20. Well, 56 percent of them upgraded to the larger cup when they didn’t have to cross the round-number boundary to upgrade ($1 to 1.25). But only 29 percent did when the smaller cup was at the just-below price of 95 cents and they had to cross the $1 threshold for the larger cup. While the larger cup was now more expensive than before, so was the smaller cup.

As the pandemic hit, there was a devastating reality: If Black people living in rural areas get Covid-19 and can’t access the treatment they need, they are more likely to get severely ill or die from the virus, or have prolonged and difficult recoveries. Bethany Mollenkof has worked with STATnews for the past six months documenting how COVID-19 has impacted the Black rural South. Black and brown people often get flattened into statistics, becoming a mass rather than existing as individual men, women and children. I’m fully vaccinated, but if I was going to get one of those “breakthrough” cases, that was going to be the place. I read Capitol Fax about once a week, but it should be one of my daily must-reads. On Friday of that week, Leader McConchie, who is also fully vaccinated, announced that he had a mild breakthrough case. In the People’s Temple of the Sunshine State, this faith has led the people’s leader to hand out the Kool-Aid to his own citizens, leading them to their own deaths. In this state, atrocities creep. Aaron Blake, also of The Washington Post, reviews the overall results of Republican actions that forced government shutdowns, then muses: Given those results, why do they do it?

Moreover, the court has erected procedural and evidentiary hurdles that make it harder to challenge those Republican efforts. There is an awful lot of word salad coming from Democratic politicians today who say they are going to fight back against the Texas law that the Supreme Court has allowed to take effect but also cannot say what that means. On Thursday, Biden released a statement saying: “I am directing that Council and the Office of the White House Counsel to launch a whole-of-government effort to respond to this decision, looking specifically to the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Justice to see what steps the Federal Government can take to ensure that women in Texas have access to safe and legal abortions as protected by Roe, and what legal tools we have to insulate women and providers from the impact of Texas’ bizarre scheme of outsourced enforcement to private parties.” This statement is correct, but let’s be honest: The White House already knows what legal tools they have or do not have in this circumstance. Elizabeth Austin of Washington Monthly reports on data out of the University of Texas showing that over a 15-year period starting with graduation, racial and gender pay equity is a reality for humanities, education, and health graduates of the University of Texas system.

Lyft is expected to post $562 million in quarterly revenue at a net loss of $226 million, Refinitiv data showed. The humanities data is perhaps the most surprising. As they sliced the data by student major, gender, race, and family income, they found that Black, brown, and female alums are often massively underpaid compared with their white male peers in many high-wage career paths, such as computer science, engineering, and business. It echoed Justice Elena Kagan’s argument that “racial discrimination and racially polarized voting are not ancient history. A Supreme Court where 5 of 6 conservative justices were appointed by GOP presidents who initially lost popular vote & confirmed by senators representing minority of Americans are taking away voting rights & reproductive rights from millions of Americans. Perpetual threat of devastating liability.” That’s not the only failsafe Republicans built into the law to make any victory over it fragile and temporary, either: “the law specifies that any court ruling that any part of SB8 is unconstitutional is temporary and can be overruled as soon as a friendlier court comes along.

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