Constitutional phrase of the day: Bills of Attainder
A federal judge in Boston, where a lot of these cases seem to get filed, ruled yesterday the regime has to keep reimbursing all Planned Parenthood chapters for health services provided to Medicaid patients. In her ruling Judge Indira Talwani agreed with the non-profit that the provision in the Big Ugly Bill stripping it of funding was an unconstitutional Bill of Attainder. Being helpful, she even pointed the regime to the exact section in the Constitution (Art. 1, Sec. 9) that prohibits Congress from passing"bills of attainder," or punishments for doing something Congress doesn't like (the Constitution reserves punishment for the courts). To make sure the lawyers got the point, she quoted Republican Congressman on the floor talking about how they wanted to punish Planned Parenthood. Who knew: Words have meaning. But onto the headlines:
Some T rides this morning were shot; wait until it gets really hot
07/29/2025 - 9:17am
A UHub correspondent who takes both the Red and Green lines to work was not a happy camper this morning, reporting around 7:50 a.m.:
Person shot in Mattapan Square
07/28/2025 - 10:04pm
A person was shot in the leg on Edgewater Drive at River Street around 9:25 p.m. Read more.
Globe sues Boston to try to get video from the school bus whose driver ran over and killed that 5-year-old in Hyde Park
07/28/2025 - 5:36pm
The Boston Globe today sued the city for refusing to hand over even redacted video from cameras on the school bus involved in a the death of Lens Arthur Joseph on Washington Street in Hyde Park on April 28....
Quincy man charged with attempted murder for shooting at pregnant woman in fit of Expressway road rage, DA says
07/28/2025 - 1:55pm
A man driven into a rage by a woman honking at him after he nearly slammed his pickup into her car on I-93 inbound, stopped, got out and shot at her in the afternoon rush hour on July 1, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports....
In East Boston, one minister now tells congregants to stay at home to avoid getting grabbed by ICE, denominations say in suit against regime
07/28/2025 - 12:50pm
A series of religious denominations across the US today sued the regime for its policy of disregarding the sanctity of churches in its mad dash to grab as many brown people as possible....
Andrew Square briefly gains a river
07/28/2025 - 11:37am
A roving UHub videographer shows some of the impromptu river flowing down Father Songin Way, onto which he was forced to divert due to a burst water main on Boston Street in South Boston this morning....
Judge extends her order requiring regime to keep making payments to Planned Parenthood chapters to all of the chapters, including in Massachusetts
07/28/2025 - 11:11am
A federal judge who last week said the regime had to keep making Medicaid payments just to smaller Planned Parenthood chapters this morning...
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