Lawrence Hurley
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Senior Supreme Court Reporter, NBC News Human-powered; Herefordshire-born Signal: @lawrencehurley.25
This headline kind of wrote itself bethesdamagazine.com/2026/07/24/w...
And the exhibition on Black British music culture across the street at V&A East is also worth a look. From the 2 Tone section:
The David Bowie collection at the V&A Storehouse is pretty cool, as is the museum as a whole.
The museum at Bletchley Park about the WW2 codebreakers is very nicely done.
The Trump administration's ouster of Maduro & apparent friendly relations with new leader Delcy Rodriguez potentially undermines the argument that TdA members are part of a Venezuelan-led "predatory incursion" that could trigger AEA. That's if courts are willing to look under the hood:
Trump's big plan to use an obscure law to quickly deport Venezuelans remains on ice: -Alien Enemies Act use blocked since April 2025 -Appeals court ruling to come -Contempt litigation ongoing -Big changes in Venezuela could undermine rationale 👇 www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Trump is also trying to claim that the Supreme Court ruling somehow broke new ground rather than just recognizing the status quo that's existed for decades.
Trump says he wants to ask Supreme Court to rehear the birthright case, something he can do but has very little chance of success.
As someone who encountered US politics first as an adult, I still don't get the notion that any party's decision to pick a candidate is supposed to be a sacrosanct application of pure democracy. The election is on Election Day.
Justices Kagan and Barrett due to testify next week on the Hill re: Supreme Court's budget
Thomas also didn't address the question of whether the children of long-term residents who entered the country illegally could get birthright citizenship.
SCOTUS brushed past JD Vance's equivocation about his plans to run for future office in reaching the merits of his challenge to campaign finance restrictions in last week's ruling:
The Supreme Court term is over. What did we learn? www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
England has only ever played two competitive matches at the Azteca and neither was against Mexico. One win, one loss (sigh).
People are sheltering at the African-American History & Culture museum
This quote is an all-time classic: www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
The right-wing view on today's birthright citizenship ruling is that the majority "re-wrote" or "nullified" the citizenship clause, which is an odd way of characterizing a ruling that affirmed the operational understanding of the 14th Amendment that has until now never been widely questioned.
If I'm reading Alito correctly, he appears to support Congress passing a law providing a pathway to citizenship for longstanding residents who entered the country illegally:
This is how the Cook and Slaughter rulings were -- unusually -- handed out together in the Supreme Court public information office today (rubber band included):