- New York Times: “Justice Scalia, whose legal theories, vivid writing and outsize personality made him a conservative leader on the Supreme Court, was found dead in Texas [at the age of 79].”
- New York Times: Battle Begins Over Naming Next Justice
- Politico: Obama’s Supreme Court short list – The president has a chance to make a big statement with his pick to replace Scalia.
- New York Times: Highlights From Justice Antonin Scalia’s Opinions
- Who Are The Possible Candidates To Fill Scalia’s Seat?
- From President Obama’s statement: “I plan to fulfill my constitutional responsibility to nominate a successor in due time,” he said, during a weekend trip to Palm Springs. Obama, who is in the final year of his presidency, said: “There will be plenty of time for me to do so and for the Senate to to fulfill its responsibility to give that person a fair hearing and a timely vote…These are responsibilities that I take seriously, as should everyone, they are bigger than any one party; they are about our democracy. They are about the institution to which justice Scalia dedicated his professional life and making sure it continues to function as the beacon of justice that our founders envisaged.”
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Daily Archives: February 13, 2016
Obama designates three new national monuments in California
Washington Post – “President Obama has set aside more of America’s lands and waters for conservation protection than any of his predecessors, and he is preparing to do even more before he leaves office next year. The result may be one of the most expansive environmental and historic-preservation legacies in presidential history. On Friday [February… Continue Reading
Wikimedia Foundation removes Diary of Anne Frank due to copyright law requirements
Wikimedia Blog – [February 10, 2016], “in an unfortunate example of the overreach of the United States’ current copyright law, the Wikimedia Foundation removed the Dutch-language text of The Diary of a Young Girl—more commonly known in English as the Diary of Anne Frank—from Wikisource. We took this action to comply with the United States’… Continue Reading
U.S. Global Health Budget Tracker
Kaiser Foundation: “The U.S. Global Health Budget Tracker is now updated with new data from the President’s budget request. You can use this interactive tool to compare funding levels for different global health program areas, agencies, and initiatives in the just-released President’s request to prior years, and check back to track the Congressional appropriations process… Continue Reading
Bridges, highways, roads in America in critical disrepair
A Country Breaking Down, Elizabeth Drew, The New York Review of Books: “The near-total failure of our political institutions to invest for the future, eschewing what doesn’t yield the quick payoff, political and physical, has left us with hopelessly clogged traffic, at risk of being on a bridge that collapses, or on a train that… Continue Reading
Database of 48 million pirated research papers is focus of litigious revolt against paywalls
Meet the Robin Hood of Science by Simon Oxenham – The tale of how one researcher has made nearly every scientific paper ever published available for free to anyone, anywhere in the world. “On September 5th, 2011, Alexandra Elbakyan, a researcher from Kazakhstan, created Sci-Hub, a website that bypasses journal paywalls, illegally providing access to… Continue Reading
Montreux Jazz Festival Launches Video Archive Spanning Almost 50 Years
Via The Quietus: “Montreux Jazz Festival turns 50 in July this year. To celebrate, the Swiss festival has launched a new digital platform for its archive of concert videos. Montreux Jazz Live is the culmination of an eight-year project to digitise the festival’s video archive, which goes back to 1967. Currently featuring over 800 videos,… Continue Reading
