Wednesday, June 17, 2020

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING PART 1 (0:0 - 10:58): ────────────────── Further Questions about Religious Liberty Brought Forward After Monday’s Supreme Court Ruling NEW YORK TIMES (ADAM NAGOURNEY AND JEREMY W. PETERS) A Half-Century On, an Unexpected Milestone for L.G.B.T.Q. Rights NEW YORK TIMES (ADAM LIPTAK) Civil Rights Law Protects Gay and Transgender Workers, Supreme Court Rules NEW YORK TIMES (THE EDITORIAL BOARD) Gay Rights Are Civil Rights NEW YORK TIMES (MICHELLE GOLDBERG) Surprise! Justice on L.G.B.T. Rights From a Trump Judge PART 2 (10:59 - 16:0): ────────────────── Why Are Members of Congress on Both Sides of the Aisle Relieved about the Bostock v. Clayton County Decision? POLITICO (BURGESS EVERETT AND MARIANNE LEVINE) GOP backs Gorsuch's LGBTQ decision after conservative blowback PART 3 (16:1 - 24:59): ────────────────── What’s Going on in Seattle’s ‘Autonomous Zone’? Why Declaring Autonomy and Actualizing It Are Two Very Different Things NEW YORK TIMES (MIKE BAKER) Free Food, Free Speech and Free of Police: Inside Seattle’s ‘Autonomous Zone’ WALL STREET JOURNAL (JOHN CARLSON) Officials Skedaddle in Seattle WALL STREET JOURNAL (THE EDITORIAL BOARD) The Seattle Secessionists