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...They answer to a higher power. The more America’s Supreme Court resembles a theocratic body, the more it imperils itself. edward.luce@ft.com...
...Four years later, McConnell railroaded the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett just days before the 2020 presidential election....
...by Séan Hewitt and Luke Edward Hall (Particular Books)A landmark illustrated anthology of queer ancient Greek and Roman love stories, many of them previously censored, brings a gorgeous celebration of love...
...by Sylvia de Gay for Robert Sloan of New York, made in a textile design called Bright Butterflies....
...Claer Barrett, consumer editor Top tip for making the most of your day: If you recognise an FT writer, don’t be shy — say hello and introduce yourself....
...“Children have always chosen animals,” says Katy Canales, project curator at Young V&A, which reopens today in east London following a £13mn renovation....
...The focus of events in Windsor will be on St George’s Chapel, a 15th-century chapel in Windsor Castle where the funerals of George VI, the late Queen’s father, George V, her grandfather, and Edward VII,...
...King Charles III will be crowned with St Edward’s Crown at Westminster Abbey, London on May 6....
...“It’s going to make us an institution that’s as well regarded as the V&A or the National Portrait Gallery for photography,” says Phillip Roberts, the man who has been hired as the Bern and Ronny Schwartz...
...The King continues to dispute claims that he ordered the killing of the rightful monarch Edward V and his younger brother Richard, then imprisoned in the Tower of London....
...nonetheless signed on to the decision abolishing Roe v Wade....
...Anyone in search of a bespoke suit in the late 1960s would have found London’s Savile Row a daunting prospect. “Dead, intimidating, forbidding,” is how Edward Sexton, the veteran tailor, recalls it....
...But the other five conservative justices could easily ignore Roberts and overturn it in full — the direction in which Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh, the two most recent appointees, appeared to be...
...Letter in response to this article: Consumer boycott would bring big emitters to heel / From Andreas V Georgiou, Darnestown, MD, US...
...Since Amy Coney Barrett joined there is a strong whiff of anti-secularism and disdain for modern society from the bench. You get the sense that the spirit of Opus Dei is lurking in there somewhere....
...The last time the court ruled on affirmative action in 2016 it ended in a 4-3 vote to uphold the status quo — with Roberts in the minority....
...Samuel Alito wrote the opinion, joined by the five other conservative jurists on the nine-member bench: John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett....
...Edward Luce responds Rana, my wife would laugh at me if I took your question literally and answered it with a straight face....
...Only under questioning did Fletcher recall a facetious tweet she had sent as debate raged over the statue of slave trader Edward Colston, which was tipped into Bristol Harbour last year....
...In a sense, Ms Barrett is more than within her rights. Judges are there to rule on the specific cases that come before them....
...Ms Barrett could make a majority. Three of the nine justices — Chief Justice John Roberts, Mr Kavanaugh and Ms Barrett — worked on George W Bush’s Florida legal team....
...Ms Barrett in 2017 criticised that ruling in a law review article, arguing that Mr Roberts had “pushed the Affordable Care Act beyond its plausible meaning to save the statute”....
...Should Barrett have donned her robes, that would mean a third of the court — including John Roberts, the chief justice, and Brett Kavanaugh, who joined in 2018 — had worked as legal aides on Bush’s 2000...
...(FT) The day ahead Monetary policy Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas president Robert Kaplan is expected to moderate a conversation on national and global economic issues for a virtual Global Perspectives...
...It is a significant, but not earth-shattering, discovery — here’s why. (Atlantic) Meet our journalists: Edward Luce Edward Luce is the US national editor and columnist at the FT....
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