How do you cut $880 billion from Medicaid without people knowing youβre cutting $880 billion from Medicaid? Republicans think theyβve found a way, and it relies on budgetary tricks and some major deception.
Justice David Souter has passed. He was a model of independent jurisprudence, defying Republicans who had hoped he would deliver consistently conservative rulings. As a justice, he became a rare convert to liberal and progressive causes, and he stood by his beliefs through it all. Rest in power.