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How powerful is the president?
Less than Donald Trump thinks he is, according to the Supreme Court, which said that just like everybody else in the United States, Trump must turn over his business and tax records in response to a grand jury subpoena.
Penn State’s Stanley M. Brand, who served several years as counsel to the House of Representatives, explains the June 9 ruling as well as decisions in two companion cases that concerned the most far-reaching questions about the limits on presidential power since the 1970s.
But, if you’re hoping to get a peek at those documents before the election, don’t hold your breath.
Also today:
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Naomi Schalit
Senior Editor, Politics + Society
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Investigators are trying to follow the president’s money, and the Supreme Court just gave them the green light.
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Stanley M. Brand, Pennsylvania State University
In cases testing the limits of presidential power, the Supreme Court ruled the president has no special protections that exempt him from complying with subpoenas from Congress or state grand juries.
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Politics + Society
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Kirsten Carlson, Wayne State University
Land in what is now eastern Oklahoma, which was granted to the Creek Nation by Congress in 1833, is still under tribal sovereignty, the Supreme Court ruled.
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Carla Flink, American University
State and local government jobs are being axed, public schools won't get money the state planned to send them, and fire and police departments budgets are being slashed. All because of the pandemic.
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Arts + Culture
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Tabitha Moses, Wayne State University
The use of military metaphors in some contexts can be helpful. In medicine? Not so much.
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Economy + Business
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Tom Zoellner, Chapman University
A scholar of slavery in the British Empire describes the first boycott against sugar made with slave labor in the West Indies.
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Tom Lyon, University of Michigan; A. Wren Montgomery, Western University; Kim Wolske, University of Chicago
Research shows that millennials don't drive as much as previous generations, largely because of their beliefs.
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Environment + Energy
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Joshua Sbicca, Colorado State University; Alison Alkon, University of the Pacific; Yuki Kato, Georgetown University
Hip food offerings can signal that a neighborhood is gentrifying – especially when they repackage traditional foods for wealthy white eaters.
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Health
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Matthew Lee Smith, Texas A&M University ; Ellen Schneider, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Marcia G. Ory, Texas A&M University ; Tiffany Shubert, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The recent fall of Chief Justice John Roberts underscores that falls can happen to anyone. They are a major cause of disability in seniors - but there are some clearcut ways to prevent them.
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Andrew Lakoff, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
The WHO is a health agency, not a political one. Yet political leaders have often criticized it. Still, the move by the US to pull out from the organization is unprecedented.
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Ethics + Religion
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Ahmad Qais Munhazim, Thomas Jefferson University
Rejected by their countries but seen as outsiders in the West, queer and trans Muslims often live in limbo. The mental health costs of alienation can be severe, says a scholar of Islam and sexuality.
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Vicki Daniel, Case Western Reserve University
The #SayTheirNames campaign recalls the long struggle by Black Americans to assert their humanity in death, with roots in the fight for slave burials.
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Nadia Rubaii, Binghamton University, State University of New York; Julio José Araujo Junior, Rio de Janeiro State University
The Bolsonaro government cannot simply allow Brazil's out-of-control coronavirus pandemic to decimate its Indigenous population, Brazil's Supreme Court says.
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From our international editions
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Adam Kamradt-Scott, University of Sydney
The actions of one country cannot be allowed to undermine decades of multilateral efforts to improve the health and well-being of all peoples of the world.
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Ross Harvey, University of Johannesburg
The ruling elites in parts of Africa are destabilising efforts to maintain order by living by their own rules
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Lorenzo Capriotti, Università di Bologna; Harry Cliff, University of Cambridge
The unique nature of the new particle could help us understand other, more complex mechanisms in physics that are not within our reach today.
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