053 The Erickson Report for May 6 to 18

053 The Erickson Report for May 6 to 18

This episode:

US COVID deaths hit 1,000,000
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/covids-toll-us-reaches-1-million-deaths-unfathomable-number-rcna22105

SCOTUS to overturn Roe v. Wade
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473
https://www.history.com/topics/womens-rights/roe-v-wade
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/410/113
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/505/833/case.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education
https://www.oyez.org/cases/1850-1900/163us537
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griswold_v._Connecticut
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenstadt_v._Baird
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/02-102
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/478/186
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/obergefell_v._hodges
https://news.gallup.com/poll/1576/abortion.aspx
https://www.marquette.edu/news-center/2021/new-marquette-law-poll-finds-sharp-decline-in-public-opinion-of-the-supreme-court-s-job-performance.php
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/16/post-abc-poll-abortion-supreme-court/
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/abortion-roe-v-wade-polling-where-americans-stand
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/21/politics/cnn-poll-abortion-roe-v-wade/index.html
https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-texas-california-foster-care-scott-wiener-b17a53196d54c7929d3c340b1bf3410c
https://www.colorado.edu/today/2021/09/08/study-banning-abortion-would-boost-maternal-mortality-double-digits
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23021104/texas-abortion-murder-charge-starr-county
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/05/02/abortion-ban-roe-supreme-court-mississippi/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/22/braun-supreme-court-interracial-marriage/
https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/sen-braun-open-to-u-s-supreme-court-rescinding-ruling-that-legalized-interracial-marriage/article_19cf8eaa-f75a-5642-865e-5ce88b374160.html
https://www.vogue.com/article/anti-birth-control-movement

Inflation is driven by corporate greed
https://apnews.com/article/us-inflation-rate-historic-high-4ba3435cc3730198e299690a9d968038
https://www.wbur.org/npr/1092291748/economy-recession-inflation-federal-reserve-interest-rates
https://www.npr.org/2022/02/13/1080494838/economist-explains-record-corporate-profits-despite-rising-inflation
https://truthout.org/articles/corporate-profits-reached-record-high-of-nearly-3-trillion-in-2021/
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/11/30/executives-hike-prices-us-corporations-rake-biggest-profits-1950
https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3n5m3/applebees-wayne-pankratz
https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1509634830505426952
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/20/intergenerational-wealth-middle-class-spiral/
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/12/07/richest-1-took-38-new-global-wealth-1995-bottom-half-got-just-2

David H. Gans on originalist roots of abortion under the 14th amendment:
https://www.theusconstitution.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Issue-Brief-Reproductive-Originalism-FINAL.pdf

Jordan Smith of "The Intercept" on Alito's reasoning:
https://theintercept.com/2022/05/04/roe-abortion-supreme-court-samuel-alito/