President Barack Obama meets with Elena Kagan, then solicitor general, in the Oval Office, a file photo.Photo: “President Barack Obama meets with Solicitor General Elena Kagan in the Oval Office” by Pete Souza, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
In unusually pointed public remarks, the liberal justice faulted the conservative majority’s decisions on gerrymandering, voting rights, campaign money and presidential power, while rejecting the idea that the court simply does the president’s bidding.
The annual Emissions Gap Report finds current policies point to about 2.8C of warming this century. The task now, it says, is to keep the overshoot small and short.
The envoy called the Russian leader a humanitarian after the 74-year-old’s release in St. Petersburg. Several Republican senators objected, and the Kremlin signaled only cautious interest in renewed peace talks.
