From the “honorable “ Judge James Ho as reported by HCR, Letters from an American, August 16 on the use of mifepristone for an abortion:

“ Antiabortion doctors suffer a moral injury when they are forced to help patients who have complications from the use of mifepristone, Ho wrote, because they are forced to participate in an abortion against their principles.

Those doctors also experience an aesthetic injury when patients choose abortion because, as one said, “When my patients have chemical abortions, I lose the opportunity…to care for the woman and child through pregnancy and bring about a successful delivery of new life.” Indeed, Ho wrote, “It’s well established that, if a plaintiff has ‘concrete plans’ to visit an animal’s habitat and view that animal, that plaintiff suffers aesthetic injury when an agency has approved a project that threatens the animal.”
#Lettersfromanamerican #mifeprestone #abortion

Letters from an American by Heather Cox Richardson

July 31, 2023

At Ukraine’s request, Saudi Arabia will host peace talks with up to 30 countries next month about negotiating an end to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-31-2023

#Ukraine #Bidenomics #HeatherCoxRichardson #LettersFromAnAmerican #Biggs #Trump #GOP #Peace

The rallying cry for the pro-democracy anti-autocracy coalition has got to be "A more perfect union" and "All people were created equal." Some encouraging reading for the Fourth!

#LettersFromAnAmerican #HeatherCoxRichardson
#FourthOfJuly
#independenceday

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/july-3-2023?r=5s750&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#HeatherCoxRichardson #LettersFromAnAmerican

More evidence of SCJ Clarence Thomas' compromise and other highlights from news in the US on May 4.
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/may-4-2023

#HeatherCoxRichardson April 23rd's #LettersFromAnAmerican excdllent summary about the trouble in #Sudan ends with this astute observation:

"Burns warned the international community that if we are going to stop the 'continued cycle of violence and human suffering,' negotiators must stop prioritizing the voices of 'the armed and corrupt' over those actually interested in real political reform."

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/april-23-2023

#HeatherCoxRichardson #LettersFromAnAmerican April 19, 2023

Once more for those in the back:

"The debt ceiling is not about future spending; future spending is debated when Congress takes up the budget. The debt ceiling is a curious holdover from the past, when Congress actually wanted to enable the government to be flexible in its borrowing rather than holding the financial reins too tightly."

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/april-19-2023

#HeatherCoxRichardson 's #LettersFromAnAmerican on the Mex drug cartel, its Chin & Guat suppliers, & the Treasury's power to curb the fentanyl industry.

"As I read about the U.S. Treasury sanctions on fentanyl supply chains today and then thought about how Treasury sanctions against Russia have hamstrung [it] without a single shot from [the] U.S. military...I wondered if people really understand how much is at stake in the Republicans’ attack on our financial system."

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/april-14-2023

#HeatherCoxRichardson issued today's #LettersFromAnAmerican early: An activist Trump-appointed judge tries to ban the nationwide use of a popular abortifacient; a Supreme Court justice admits he's accepted lavish vacations for 25 yrs and never reported them despite rules requiring him to do so; unemployment for Black Americans is at an historic low; 3 TN politicians, 2 of whom were expelled from the state legialslature in a blatantly racist move, are celebrated by the VP https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/april-7-2023

April 5th's brilliant installment of #HeatherCoxRichardson 's #LettersFromAnAmerican on Republican attempts of minority rule in a number of states. Democracy will win but it will take a lot more sustained effort from all of us to defeat the fascists and authoritarians and undo all the damage and restrictiona they have imposed so far.

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/april-5-2023

“I should like to know if taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle and making exceptions to it…where will it stop?” - Abraham Lincoln

#HeatherCoxRichardson #LettersFromAnAmerican for March 10

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/march-10-2023

I love how #HeatherCoxRichardson ties current events to historical ones. Today I learned about the election on #RutherfordBHayes and the whitewashing of the end of Reconstruction comparing it to #Desantis actions in Florida against #LGBTQIA+ youth.

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/march-2-2023

#LettersFromAnAmerican

#HeatherCoxRichardson writes about the nincompoopery of extremist Republican politicians in our Congress willfully ignorant of how the US government is organized by way of a nonsense letter to Transportation Secretary Buttegieg on the train derailment in Ohio. #LettersFromAnAmerican

I am embarassed for my country and especially for the fools who elected these fascist boobs.
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/february-25-2023

My sense is that these two things are not mutually exclusive: “Either 21 Republican lawmakers charged with oversight of our government don’t know how the government works and didn’t care to find out, or they are deliberately misleading their loyalists.”

#Politics #History #Oversight #Transportation #NTSB #OhioTrainWreck #LettersFromAnAmerican

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-25-2023

“[The Democrats] orientation toward the future, growth, and prosperity is a striking contrast to the vision of today’s Republicans, who look backward resolutely and angrily to an imagined past.”

#Economics #Politics #History #LettersFromAnAmerican

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-23-2023

So let’s see here: the President makes a surprise trip to the capital of an ally at war; a sitting Congress-critter calls for our nation to be literally torn in two in violation of her oath of office; and the lying liars at Faux News have not only been caught in their election lies, but have been given footage of the insurrection by the Speaker of the House to do who knows what with. Yep, the world is still freaking nuts.

#History #Politics #LettersFromAnAmerican

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-20-2023

I have to agree with Professor Richardson on this one: “It’s hard to see how a teacher can explain ‘missteps, errors, contradictions, and wrongs’ from 1942 that were rooted in a law from 1790 without using the word ‘systemic.’”

#Racism #SystemicRacism #History #Politics #Teaching #Education #LettersFromAnAmerican

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-19-2023

They couldn’t have figured that out *before* the heckling?! 🙄 “Republican leaders are recognizing that the sight of Republican lawmakers heckling the president of the United States didn’t do their party any favors.”

#Politics #History #Economics #Security #LettersFromAnAmerican

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-18-2023

Someone was desperate to maintain ratings and market share, whatever the cost: “A legal filing today in the case of Dominion Voting Systems against the Fox News Corporation provides a window into the role of disinformation and money in the movement to deny that President Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election.”

#Politics #Election2020 #Investigation #LegalFiling #History #LettersFromAnAmerican

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-16-2023

“The [Munich Security Report] notes that Russia’s ‘brutal and unprovoked invasion of a sovereign state’ is ‘an attack against the foundational principles of the post–World War II order,’ with ‘an authoritarian power’ setting out ‘to eliminate a democracy.’ ... ‘[T]he main fault line in global politics today,’ the report suggests, is ‘that between democracies and dictators.’”

#History #Security #Politics #LettersFromAnAmerican

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-13-2023

I did not know this. Happy birthday to both President Lincoln and NAACP: “On February 12, 1809, Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky. Exactly 100 years later, journalists, reformers, and scholars meeting in New York City deliberately chose the anniversary of his birth as the starting point for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).”

#History #Racism #EqualityBeforeTheLaw #NAACP #LettersFromAnAmerican

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-12-2023