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The Supreme Court reputedly has a long-awaited conservative majority committed to enforcing the meaning of the Constitution as it was understood when it was adopted. This commitment to originalist interpretation will soon be tested in two cases now before the court that have what lawyers call bad optics.

One case, United States v. Rahimi, involves a Second Amendment challenge to a federal statute criminalizing the possession of firearms by people subject to certain domestic violence restraining orders. State courts typically use these orders to forbid threatening or abusive conduct toward the subjects intimate partner. The federal gun ban is automatically imposed if the order either says that the subject presents a credible threat to the physical safety of the partner or explicitly forbids the use of physical force against the partner.

The other case, Garland v. Cargill, involves a regulatory ban on bump stocks that enable a semiautomatic rifle to achieve a rate of fire comparable to that of fully automatic machine guns. After a 2017 Las Vegas massacre in which semiautomatic rifles equipped with bump stocks were used to kill 60 people and injure hundreds more, the Trump administration classified them as machine guns, which made them illegal.

No judge can relish being accused of siding with domestic abusers or of allowing a weapon to remain on the market that facilitated mass murder. Unless the court rules in favor of the government in these cases, denunciations undoubtedly will follow, especially in an election year.

These cases have come before a court that has been transformed by Republican efforts to stop the politicized use of judicial power to effect progressive social change. What began with calls for judicial restraint during the Nixon era eventually became a long campaign devoted to promoting originalist theories of interpretation.

This effort had its first conspicuous success in 2008, when a 5-to-4 majority struck down a handgun ban in District of Columbia v. Heller. Justice Antonin Scalias majority opinion featured a detailed originalist analysis that rejected an overwhelming and longstanding consensus in the lower courts. Rather than assume that the Second Amendment protects only a right of state governments to maintain militia organizations, the court concluded that the constitutional right of the people to keep and bear arms may be exercised by individuals for the purpose of self-defense.

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Hillary Clinton told Jimmy Fallon on Monday that voters disappointed in the choices for the 2024 presidential election need to get over themselves and get out to vote.

Clinton joined The Tonight Show to discuss the new Broadway show Suffs, which she produced. The new musical is based on the American womens suffrage movement, focused mainly on the events leading up to the ratification of the nineteenth amendment to the Constitution.

After some lighthearted conversation about Clintons Easter celebrations, Fallon said Can we talk about the upcoming presidential election?

Oh, no, Clinton quipped. Lets stick with the Easter bunny.

We have to, Fallon insisted. I mean, its Trump versus Biden.

What do you say to voters who are upset that those are the two choices? Fallon asked.

Get over yourself, Clinton replied bluntly. Those are the two choices.

Clinton then added, Its kind of like one is old and effective and compassionate, has a heart, and really cares about people, and one is old and has been charged with 91 felonies.

I dont understand why this is even a hard choice, Clinton continued. But we have to go through the election and hopefully people will realize whats at stake.

Clinton said that this election would answer existential questions, like What kind of country were going to have, what kind of democracy were going to have.

People who blow that off are not paying attention, because its not like Trump his enablers, his empowers, his allies are not telling us what they want to do, Clinton said. I mean, theyre pretty clear about what kind of country they want.

Get out there and vote, Fallon agreed.

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During the 2016 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton was criticized for her use of the word "superpredators" back in 1996. Some on the left laid into her, accusing Clinton of racism.

Meanwhile, her opponent, DonaldTrump, trying to sucker leftist Bernie Sanders voters into not voting for her, piped in, saying yes, she was smearing African Americans. This was the same Trump who in 1989 had called for the execution of the "Central Park Five," five Black and Latino men who as teenagers were convicted of brutally raping a jogger but were later found to have been innocent.

Superpredators were taken at the time to mean young street thugs who repeatedly committed violent crimes with no conscience or empathy and were undeterred by traditional punishment. New York happens to be one of the safest cities in the country, but instances of brutal crimes, especially on the subway, get highlighted by national media. And usually, the individual pushing some bystander in front of a subway train is a person of color.

Ronna McDaniel's conduct following the 2020 election was shocking enough, but NBC's decision to hire her as a paid political analyst almost topped it. The blowback from the company's own commentators prompted the executives to turn around and send McDaniel packing.

Note that other kinds of killers -- serial killers and mass shooters -- tend to be white. They have similar histories of mental illness, addiction and arrests. They, too, are superpredators.

Call them what you want. They must be taken off the streets. That means they must be involuntarily retained in a prison or mental hospital.

Some ditsy newsrooms continue to frame the problem as "larger society" having failed these individuals: "Accused Subway Shover Found Little Help in New York's Chaotic Shelters" (The New York Times).

It may be true that these predators have trauma in their background and serious mental illness. It is true that the mental health shelters are overwhelmed and unable to ensure that every resident has the full array of psychiatric services.

But it is also true that people who enter them are free to leave. And they can't be forced to go to appointments and take their medications: city Department of Homeless Services rules.

There comes a time when an accumulating list of serious acts of violence requires involuntary confinement. Ideally, it would be a compassionate place. But it can't be a place where the "clients," as social workers like to refer to them, can walk out the door.

The most recent subway shover, Carlton McPherson, 24, lived in one of the shelters where he worked off his anger. He was given a cane after being treated for a leg injury and used it to attack a security guard. The person he threw in front of a train in East Harlem was Jason Volz, a 54-year-old man.

The shelters themselves are often scenes of rampage. If certain people can't be controlled within a mental health facility, what hope is there for controlling them once they've left?

The man charged in the recent shooting death of New York City Police Officer Jonathan Diller is Guy Rivera. Rivera, 34, had been arrested nearly two dozen times on drug and attempted assault charges. What was he doing out free?

This is a big sprawling problem. The closing of mental hospitals decades ago was intended to save taxpayers money while offering "clients" more humane care in community centers. But community centers were also not free and were never properly financed.

Outpatient services could probably help a lot of mentally ill people. But there are those they obviously cannot reach. These individuals spread fear and crime in their own neighborhoods and beyond. The "clients" create communities of innocent victims.

In the off-chance they can be fixed with intensive psychiatric care, treatment must be done in locked facilities. Meanwhile, it's time to call these sick people by their proper name, superpredators.

Harrop, who lives inNew York City and Providence, Rhode Island, writes for Creators Syndicate:fharrop@gmail.com.

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Bill Clinton to publish a memoir about life after the White House following the November election

Updated: 7:17 PM EDT Apr 4, 2024

Following the upcoming presidential election, former President Bill Clinton will release a memoir about his life after serving two terms in office.The book, titled "Citizen: My Life After the White House," is expected to be released on Nov. 19, according to Reagan Arthur, Knopf executive vice president and publisher."CITIZEN is the story of my twenty-three-plus years since leaving the White House, told largely through the stories of other people who changed my life as I tried to help change theirs, of those who supported me, including those I loved and lost, and of the mistakes I made along the way," Clinton said in the press release announcing the memoir.The announcement comes after Clinton joined President Joe Biden along with former President Barack Obama at a New York City fundraiser last week where he issued a stark warning about the threat former President Donald Trump would pose if reelected.The publisher said that Clinton will touch on "crucial events of the 21st century," including the Iraq War, the Haiti earthquake, culture wars, the elections of 2008 and 2016 and the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, as well as discussing political moments involving his wife, Hillary Clinton."Clinton also weighs in on the unprecedented challenges brought on by a global pandemic, ongoing inequality, a steadily warming planet, and authoritarian forces dedicated to weakening democracy at home and across the globe," the press release says.Clinton's book "My Life," published in 2004, detailed his journey from Arkansas to the White House, and it sold more than 400,000 copies on the first day it was available.Former presidents and first ladies have gone on to sell millions of copies of their books and memoirs. Michelle Obama's memoir "Becoming" sold more than 2 million units in all formats and editions in the US and Canada during the first 15 days of its publication, and Barack Obama's "A Promised Land" sold more than 3.3 million units across all formats and editions in the US and Canada during its first month of publication, according to Penguin Random House. According to Simon & Schuster, Hillary Clinton's "What Happened" sold more than 300,000 copies in all formats.

Following the upcoming presidential election, former President Bill Clinton will release a memoir about his life after serving two terms in office.

The book, titled "Citizen: My Life After the White House," is expected to be released on Nov. 19, according to Reagan Arthur, Knopf executive vice president and publisher.

"CITIZEN is the story of my twenty-three-plus years since leaving the White House, told largely through the stories of other people who changed my life as I tried to help change theirs, of those who supported me, including those I loved and lost, and of the mistakes I made along the way," Clinton said in the press release announcing the memoir.

The announcement comes after Clinton joined President Joe Biden along with former President Barack Obama at a New York City fundraiser last week where he issued a stark warning about the threat former President Donald Trump would pose if reelected.

The publisher said that Clinton will touch on "crucial events of the 21st century," including the Iraq War, the Haiti earthquake, culture wars, the elections of 2008 and 2016 and the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, as well as discussing political moments involving his wife, Hillary Clinton.

"Clinton also weighs in on the unprecedented challenges brought on by a global pandemic, ongoing inequality, a steadily warming planet, and authoritarian forces dedicated to weakening democracy at home and across the globe," the press release says.

Clinton's book "My Life," published in 2004, detailed his journey from Arkansas to the White House, and it sold more than 400,000 copies on the first day it was available.

Former presidents and first ladies have gone on to sell millions of copies of their books and memoirs. Michelle Obama's memoir "Becoming" sold more than 2 million units in all formats and editions in the US and Canada during the first 15 days of its publication, and Barack Obama's "A Promised Land" sold more than 3.3 million units across all formats and editions in the US and Canada during its first month of publication, according to Penguin Random House. According to Simon & Schuster, Hillary Clinton's "What Happened" sold more than 300,000 copies in all formats.

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