Ed Whelan

@EdWhelanEPPC

Distinguished Senior Fellow and Antonin Scalia Chair in Constitutional Studies, ; co-editor (1) SCALIA SPEAKS, (2) ON FAITH, (3) THE ESSENTIAL SCALIA

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    Russians board International Space Station wearing Ukrainian colours "It became our turn to pick a colour. We had accumulated a lot of yellow material so we needed to use it," he joked. "That's why we had to wear yellow."

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  2. 13 hours ago

    Yuri Gagarin died in 1968, so this seems very weird.

    The Space Foundation has stripped honours from Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first man to ever be in space.
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    Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearing is an invaluable opportunity to build up the court’s legitimacy, amid those who would tear it down, writes

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    14 hours ago

    Exactly. And I can give an example of how this is supposed to work.

    Forms of protest I've seen over the years that don't drown out speakers: 1. Sitting silently in the room, but holding up signs. 2. Silently filing out of the room as the talk begins. 3. Staging a competing event at the same time, with the opposite message.
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    Mar 18

    Mark Joseph Stern claims my report on Yale Law "distorts reality." He claims that the panel "remained audible" as the protesters chanted outside, and that the police—while present—were not called to escort panelists out of the building. Audio of the event debunks both claims.

    Here's what really happened at YLS last week.
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  6. 15 hours ago

    This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—March 19

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    Mar 17

    Meet Emma Weyant. She swims for the University of Virginia and represented the USA at the Tokyo Olympics. She finished in second place to a male in the women’s 500 at the national championships. She’s the true champion to all of us.

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    Mar 17

    At the NCAA swim championships at Georgia Tech

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    Mar 18

    If you believe that a woman can have a penis, I'd like to know when you decided that was true and what lead you to that conclusion. I didn't see that claim advanced in earnest until 2019 on Twitter, but perhaps it has always been true for you.

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    Mar 18

    Abraham Lincoln once asked an audience how many legs a dog has if you count the tail as a leg. When they answered “five,” Lincoln told them that the answer was four. The fact that you called the tail a leg did not make it a leg.

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    Mar 18

    If you support this, you’re actively participating in the wilful destruction of women’s sport & women’s rights to fairness & equality. It’s shameful.

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    “It means the world to be here.” Lia Thomas spoke about swimming in the NCAA women's championships.
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    Mar 18

    Virginia School Covered Up Sexual Assault That Left Victim Hospitalized - reports.

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  13. Mar 18

    If you retain a Citibank credit card or account, you're subsidizing this.

    Citigroup offers a new employee benefit: we'll pay your travel to an abortion clinic so you can kill your unborn child. Evil.
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  14. Mar 18

    A more fit term, coined by now-Second Circuit judge Steven Menashi, is "zombie Constitution": so-called living constitutionalists "want to take the corpse of constitutional text and reanimate it with new principles in every generation."

    Reminder: There's no such thing as a "living Constitution."
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  15. Mar 18

    Citibank: So you're saying that the reason for canceling is dissatisfaction with how miles are credited to your account? Me: No, that's not at all what I said.

    . is going to pay travel costs for employees' abortions. Time for me to cancel Citibank credit card I've had for 35 years. And, no, this isn't "cancel culture." I'm not acting in response to Citibank *speech*. I don't want to subsidize abortion.
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    . is going to pay travel costs for employees' abortions. Time for me to cancel Citibank credit card I've had for 35 years. And, no, this isn't "cancel culture." I'm not acting in response to Citibank *speech*. I don't want to subsidize abortion.

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  17. Mar 18

    From : Lia Thomas Shows Us It’s Time to End the Charade

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    Mar 18

    This insanity is fully supported by the Biden White House. If you think that women's sports should be for women, vote Republican.

    Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas wins women's 500-yard NCAA title
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    1/ THREAD. I have appended an update/correction to my Original Jurisdiction post from yesterday about the March 10 protest at Yale Law School. The disruption was much worse than I originally reported. Here's the text of my update on .

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  20. Mar 18

    It's supposedly "hate speech" to contest the absurd proposition that "a man who IDs as a woman therefore really is a woman."

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