What the Supreme Court's Ruling Means for Transgender Bathrooms in Schools

August 5, 2016
Good morning from Washington, where the Supreme Court could make history by deciding who gets to use which school restroom. Kelsey Harkness looks ahead. President Obama is too easy on criminals, Hans von Spakovsky argues. How would the merger of big health insurers change things under Obamacare? Melissa Quinn reports. Plus: Ana Quintana considers safety at the Olympics in Rio, Cully Stimson tells what pot pushers don't want you to know, and Nolan Peterson recalls a brave Ukrainian soldier. The Summer Games commence at 7 p.m. ET.
News What the Supreme Court's Ruling Means for Transgender Bathrooms in Schools "It's significant that the Supreme Court said we're going to put a hold on that—we're going to preserve the status quo as it's always been in society, as it's always been in schools," said Jeremy Tedesco, a lawyer with Alliance Defending Freedom. Read More
Commentary Presidential Abuse of Pardoning and Clemency Power Must Be Curbed Those of us concerned over President Barack Obama's excessive use of his power under Art. II, §2, Cl. 1 of the Constitution to grant pardons and commutations to hundreds of drug dealers should realize that he is not the first president to misuse that authority. Read More
Analysis A Year After His Death, What I Wish I Could Tell the Ukrainian Soldier I Befriended "I first met Daniel two months before his death, while I was embedded with the Ukrainian army's 93rd Brigade in a front-line village called Pisky, just outside the Donetsk airport," writes Nolan Peterson. Read More
News Anthem to Federal Government: Approve Merger and We'll Expand to More Obamacare Exchanges If four insurance companies succeed in court, allowing the mergers to proceed, the number of major health insurers in the U.S. would decrease from five to three—a change that President Obama's administration warned would "fundamentally reshape the health insurance industry." Read More
Commentary Forget Zika, Urban Crime Is the Real Threat to Rio's Olympic Games Researchers at the University of São Paulo have concluded that only three or four of the expected 500,000 foreign tourists will get sick because of Zika. Read More
Commentary The Dirty Little Secret Pot Pushers Don't Want You to Know About You don't have to smoke marijuana, eat it in a brownie, or chew it in a marijuana-laced gummy bear to reap the medicinal benefits. Read More
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