Plus: American Medical Association, Gone Woke, Calls for Eliminating Sex on Birth Certificates
August 6 2021
Happy Friday from Washington, where Justice Brett Kavanaugh made a hash of the Supreme Court’s ruling on the eviction moratorium. GianCarlo Canaparo explains how. A teachers union sues a mother for questioning critical race theory, our Virginia Allen reports. The American Medical Association wants to knock sex off birth certificates, Jarrett Stepman writes. On the podcast, the head of Philanthropy Roundtable makes the case for individual giving over government spending. Plus: consequences for a governor and compassion for an Olympic athlete. On this date in 1948, diver Vicki Draves claims the gold medal at the London Olympics, becoming the first Asian American to win gold for the U.S. Two days later, her friend and fellow diver Sammy Lee becomes the second.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh decided that although the eviction moratorium was against the law, it should be allowed to stand. What sort of judicial philosophy is that?
“The mandate to collect names, addresses, and transactions of customers means almost every company even tangentially related to cryptocurrency may [have] to surveil users,” says the Electronic Frontier...
The lawsuit alleges that the district told teachers that “to be less white is to be less racially oppressive,” that “white identity is inherently racist,” and that teachers who disagree are “racists.”
