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Abortion Drives Ohio Election on Amending the State Constitution – The New York Times
For more than a century, Ohio voters have been able to amend the State Constitution with a simple majority vote.
That could end on Tuesday, because the state’s Republican-controlled Legislature has called for a special election that would raise the bar for amendments from a simple majority to 60 percent of the vote.
The reason is no secret. Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year, voters across the country, in multiple elections, have approved ballot measures protecting the right to abortion. A similar election has been scheduled for November in Ohio, and legislators are hoping the higher bar for passing amendments will lead to its defeat.
The GOP’s Stealth Plan to End Direct Democracy in Ohio – Mother Jones
The Guardian view on the Bibby Stockholm: a gesture of self-defeating cruelty | Editorial | The Guardian
…those who seek asylum should not be treated as effective prisoners while their claims are being processed. That principle has long been flouted in practice by the UK and is formally repudiated by the Illegal Migration Act, the legislative device by which Rishi Sunak hopes to satisfy his pledge to “stop the boats” that carry migrants across the Channel.
The mere fact of having made that journey now leads to automatic disqualification from entitlement to asylum in the UK, regardless of the validity of the claim. Since there are very few legal ways for refugees to reach Britain, it is a reasonable assumption that thousands of victims of persecution who are desperate to find safety in Britain will, instead, be categorised as “illegal”.
Every year almost 25% of young Greenlanders between the ages of 15 and 24 attempt suicide (Italian)
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Chinese scientists leaving the U.S. as many feel unwelcomed – AsAmNews
The number of departures increased from 900 in 2010 to 2621 in 2021. The rate of researchers leaving increased by 75% since 2018, the year then-President Trump launched the China Initiative, an initiative intended to root out economic espionage from China but resulted in a number of false prosecutions, ruined lives and the vast majority of cases being dropped…
…The Biden Administration ended Trump’s China Initiative in February of 2022, three years after it began.
A number of high profile prosecution ended up being dropped or ending in acquittals including Anming Hu of the University of Tennessee and Gang Chen of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Civil rights groups blasted the China Initiative accusing it of resulting in racial profiling
Source: Chinese scientists leaving the U.S. as many feel unwelcomed – AsAmNews
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