The anti-abortion cause gets another big win from the Supreme Court.
President gets a big win at the NATO summit in Europe.
And Marco Rubio educated Democrats on the Constitution.
He Just Keeps Winning
This is from Perplexity:
NATO countries have agreed to raise their collective defense spending target to 5% of their gross domestic product (GDP) by 2035, marking a significant increase from the previous 2% goal set in 2014123. This new target is set against a backdrop of heightened security concerns, particularly regarding Russia and ongoing conflicts in Europe.
The 5% target is divided into two main components:
- 3.5% of GDP is to be allocated to “core defense requirements,” such as personnel, weapons, and traditional military expenditures—what was previously covered by the 2% target345.
- 1.5% of GDP is earmarked for broader defense and security-related investments, including infrastructure (roads, bridges, ports), cybersecurity, energy pipeline protection, civil preparedness, resilience, innovation, and bolstering the defense industrial base345.
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/nato-countries-will-pay-5-gdp-wDdgXFlXRKOm.GQ9Px.7Ow
Big Win
According to the Post Millennial:
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Thursday that states are allowed to cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood. The ruling came in response to a case out of South Carolina.
The case centered around whether patients on Medicaid, a government health insurance program for low-income patients, can sue in order to choose their own qualified healthcare provider. South Carolina was sued under Section 1983 after the state blocked Medicaid funds from going to Planned Parenthood in 2018, citing law prohibiting public funds for abortions.
Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in the opinion for the court, “Section 1983 permits private plaintiffs to sue for violations of federal spending-power statutes only in ‘atypical’ situations … where the provision in question ‘clear[ly]’ and ‘unambiguous[ly]’ confers an individual ‘right.’” He wrote that the law in question “is not such a statute.”
“This case concerns one of the conditions state plans must meet. Located in §1396a(a)(23)(A), Medicaid’s any-qualified-provider provision, as it is sometimes called, requires States to ensure that ‘any individual eligible for medical assistance … may obtain’ it ‘from any [provider] qualified to perform the service … who undertakes to provide’ it. The provision does not define the term ‘qualified,’ perhaps because States have traditionally exercised primary responsibility over “matters of health and safety,” including the regulation of the practice of medicine,” Gorsuch wrote.
In response to the 2018 announcement that South Carolina would not allow Planned Parenthood to participate in the state’s Medicaid program, “Planned Parenthood and one of its patients, Julie Edwards, sued the director of the State’s Department of Health and Human Services. They argued that South Carolina’s exclusion of Planned Parenthood from its Medicaid program violated the any-qualified-provider provision.”
Speaking Truth
LOL!
According to the New York Post:
Vice President JD Vance was suspended from the left-leaning social media platform Bluesky on Wednesday, just minutes after joining and sharing his first post.
“Hello Bluesky, I’ve been told this app has become the place to go for common sense political discussion and analysis,” Vance wrote in his first post on the X competitor. “So I’m thrilled to be here to engage with all of you.”
The vice president went on to weigh in on the Supreme Court’s ruling that upheld Tennessee’s restrictions on transgender medical treatments for minors.
“To that end, I found Justice [Clarence] Thomas’s concurrence on medical care for transgender youth quite illuminating,” Vance wrote, including a screenshot of the conservative justice’s statement agreeing with the 6-3 ruling.
“He argues that many of our so-called ‘experts’ have used bad arguments and substandard science to push experimental therapies on our youth,” the vice president continued. “I might add that many of those scientists are receiving substantial resources from big pharma to push these medicines on kids.”
“What do you think?”
Within 12 minutes of the post, and Vance announcing on X that he had joined the platform, his Bluesky account was suspended, according to Axios journalist Marc Caputo.
“Not found. Account has been suspended,” read a message on Vance’s Bluesky page.
The ban was brief, as the vice president’s account was reinstated just minutes later.
It does not appear that the vice president’s post ran afoul of any of Bluesky’s community guidelines.
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