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Covered pretty much everywhere (front page of CNN/FOX/younameit).
With the main swing vote in the U.S. Supreme Court leaving, and a replacement nominated by President Trump, the right wing of the court should become clearly dominant, allowing Roe v. Wade opponents, and other right-wing causes, a new chance at victory.
takyon: SCOTUSblog has a round-up of coverage:
Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement today, effective July 31, 2018. Amy Howe covered the news for this blog; her coverage first appeared at Howe on the Court. Other early coverage comes from Richard Wolf of USA Today, Michael D. Shear of The New York Times; Bill Mears of Fox News; Robert Barnes of The Washington Post; Jessica Mason Pieklo of Rewire.News; Nina Totenberg of NPR; Lawrence Hurley of Reuters; Greg Stohr of Bloomberg; and Pete Williams of NBC News. Analysis of Justice Kennedy's legacy comes from Noah Feldman of Bloomberg; Wolf of USA Today; Mears of Fox News; and Reuters staff. Coverage of the reaction from Congress and the President comes from Carl Hulse of The New York Times; Alex Pappas and Mears of Fox News; Seung Min Kim and Josh Dawsey of The Washington Post; and Alex Seitz-Wald and Rebecca Shabad of NBC News. Patrick Gregory of Bloomberg has a piece looking at potential replacements for Kennedy.
Early commentary comes from Jill Lawrence for USA Today; Bill Blum in The Progressive; Emily Bazelon for The New York Times; Elizabeth Slattery for The Daily Signal; Garrett Epps for The Atlantic; Richard Hasen for Slate; Ian Millhiser of Think Progress; and Joshua Matz for The Washington Post. Another piece in the Post comes from Philip Bump, who focuses on control of the Senate. More commentary comes from Scott Lemieux for NBC News and Matt Ford for The New Republic. Andrew Cohen writes for TNR, and he also has a piece in Rolling Stone. Commentary from Vox comes from Dylan Matthews, Andrew Prokop and Matt Yglesias. Pieklo and Imani Gandy released an emergency podcast reacting to the news. Various law professors give their analysis for Stanford Law School Blog.
Anthony Kennedy was sworn in on February 18, 1988.
(Score: 3, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 27 2018, @11:34PM (9 children)
Why are the Democrats about to restart their KKK chapters?
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by jmorris on Wednesday June 27 2018, @11:44PM (3 children)
Shhh. We aren't supposed to remind that people that the KKK was the terror wing of the Democratic Party up until Antifa replaced them when the Party made a shift in direction in the 1960s. Ever since the Klan has been a punch line since the first rule of terrorism is you really need a State sponsor or at least a major faction like a national party to provide cover. Without that cover we get the ridiculous current situation where any group of three Klansmen involve one clueless idiot, one actual Klansman and one Fed... or now more likely one idiot, one Fed infiltrator and a local LEO infiltrator stepping on each others' dick.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 28 2018, @03:43AM (2 children)
You go ahead and mention it as often as you want! Racist shitheads were the KKK and I couldn't give two shits what political party they rallied behind. Except the Green party, those people are demons! Oh, and whatever dimension you heil from.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 28 2018, @04:04AM (1 child)
Freudian slip? But Freud as a Jew, who fled Austria, and went to England, to avoid Nazis, but now the Nazis are in England, more than Austria, or even Australia.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 28 2018, @03:43PM
Nope 100% intentional, do you not read the shit jmo writes??
(Score: 3, Insightful) by hemocyanin on Thursday June 28 2018, @01:01AM
How I wish you posted that under your real pseudoname. ;-) Too awesome.
(Score: 5, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Thursday June 28 2018, @01:45AM
Why are the Democrats about to restart their KKK chapters?
Why bother, the Republicans' are already up and running.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 28 2018, @10:10AM (2 children)
They're not, the parties switched their stances some 50-60 years ago.
I'm not sure how you managed to use Internet, since you have obviously not seen an information source at least since the days of PDP-1.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday June 28 2018, @05:02PM
You're not going to get anywhere with these people. They're not thinking; they fire off pre-programmed talking points without ever stopping to assess their truth.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday June 28 2018, @06:49PM
You're under the mistaken impression that the GP was trying to present information rather than propaganda.
That said, the KKK isn't all that important a force today, mostly because the cops are doing a fair amount of what the KKK used to do.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.