It's Thursday, December 5th, 2024.

One of the most consequential Supreme Court cases of our era gets underway.

A major CEO gets capped in broad daylight on the streets of New York City.

And Joy Reid of MSNBC justifies my vote for Donald Trump.

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Look for the PIN tweet. And now on with the Thursday edition. The U.S. v. Scrimetti got underway at the Supreme Court yesterday.

That case stems from a Tennessee law that bans meatball surgery and chemical castrations in the

name of gender for children. The ACLU, along with the Biden administration, sued Tennessee to block that law.

The Supreme Court earlier this year took that case up and heard arguments yesterday.

Some of the more galling statements that I've ever heard from any official within our government took

place yesterday. We'll start with Justice Kintanji Brown Jackson, who compared

banning meatball surgery in the name of gender for children. How she compared that to banning

interracial marriage. Being drawn by the statute. That was sort of like the starting point.

The question was whether it was discriminatory because it applied to both races and it wasn't necessarily invidious or whatever.

But, you know, as I read the statute here, excuse me, the case here, you know, the court starts

off by saying that Virginia is now one of 16 states which prohibit and punish marriages on the

basis of racial classifications. And when you look at the structure of that law, it looks in terms of

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