Legal history of firing-squad executions • SCOTUS aims to strike down Roe • Prejudice against working poor • Before there was Trump, there was Reagan • Plus John Stoehr's week
The weekend edition of the Editorial Board!
Welcome to the weekend edition of the Editorial Board, where you fill find a roundup of everything produced over the last week by our amazing stable of writers.
This week features Magdi Semrau on right-wing propaganda paving the way for Trump; Lindsay Beyerstein on at least four conservative justices on the Supreme Court aiming to strike down Roe; Issac J. Bailey on GOP governors’ prejudice against the working poor; and Mia Brett on the legal history of firing-squad executions.
This week featured me, too. Here’s what you may have missed:
• Monday May 17, 2021
Moral people don’t draw attention to their virtue, but amoral people spend a lot of time sending signals Read more• Tuesday May 18, 2021
There's just one reason to oppose a bipartisan commission to investigate the 1/6 insurgency Read more• Wednesday May 19, 2021
There are two ways of reading Joe Manchin's new voting-rights proposal. That's probably by design Read more• Thursday May 20, 2021
How can the Republicans avoid relitigating the 2020 election when their future depends on relitigating it? Read more• Friday May 21, 2021
Nearly everyone missed Chuck Schumer implying this week that the filibuster's death is coming Read more
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On that note, here’s the weekend edition …
May 21, 2021
South Carolina went 10 years without an execution. There's no good reason for firing squads now
By Mia Brett
Rather than quibbling over the most humane way for a state to kill one of its own citizens, I argue we must use every tool to end the death penalty even if that means delaying it one execution at a time, writes Editorial Board member Mia Brett.
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May 19, 2021
Republican governors believe the working poor must be forced back to work. They are wrong
By Issac J. Bailey
There are many reasons the working poor don’t return to work, writes Editorial Board member Issac J. Bailey. But to the GOP, it can only be because they are lazy and want to be taken care of, instead of wanting to take care of themselves.
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May 18, 2021
At least four justices want to overturn Roe
By Lindsay Beyerstein
If Roe is struck down, it should refute the myth that conservative justices are reverent of precedent. Yet they are happy to legislate from the bench in order to control women’s bodies, writes Editorial Board member Lindsay Beyerstein.
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May 18, 2021
Trump's 'big lie' is actually the GOP's 'long lie'
By Magdi Semrau
The GOP’s undermining of the democratic process is possible due to the decades of disinformation that preceded it, writes Editorial Board member Magdi Semrau.