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- The Hound | June 26
The Hound | June 26
Three terrible SCOTUS rulings, inside fights about the Colorado River, and more.
Hi there,
It’s Friday. Did you have a good week? Well, the Supreme Court is here to ruin it. Yesterday, they handed down decisions:
Allowing the Trump administration to strip temporary protected status from hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Syrian refugees who are now vulnerable to deportation.
Agreeing to shield Monsanto from liability over Roundup, a victory to the company’s new owner as it dealt with lawsuits claiming a key ingredient caused their cancers.
Striking down a Hawaii gun law that banned people from carrying guns in most public spaces and private property without the owner’s permission.
Each ruling went against ordinary people and in favor of powerful interests: the gun lobby, a corporate agrochemical giant, and an administration pursuing mass deportation.
Yet the New York Times, CNN, The Washington Post, NBC News, ABC News, CBS News, and other mainstream outlets continue to cover these decisions as isolated legal developments — discrete rulings to be summarized and moved past, rather than pieces of a pattern that demands explanation. This isn’t jurisprudence. It’s an agenda.
🖊️ Sign the petition to call on The New York Times, CNN, The Washington Post, NBC News, ABC News, CBS News, and other mainstream outlets to cover the Supreme Court as what it has become — a captured institution advancing far-right and corporate interests at the expense of public safety, environmental accountability, and human rights.
The public deserves reporting that connects the dots across rulings, terms, and decades, and that treats the Court's transformation as one of the most consequential political stories of our time.
Read about this, and more, with today’s stories:
US supreme court allows Trump administration to strip Haitians and Syrians of protected status (The Guardian)
US supreme court strikes down Hawaii’s gun restrictions in major second amendment ruling (The Guardian)
As Colorado River States Struggle to Reach Agreement, New Mexico Brings on a Fresh Voice (Inside Climate News)
Hakeem Jeffries Downplays Socialist Wins. Others Aren’t So Sure. (The New Republic)
Hundreds of Calls for Help: What 911 Logs Reveal About the Local Jail (The Marshall Project)
Carbon Captured (ProPublica)
Until next time,
Harry from The Hound
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