Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote a column we wish all the members of the media had to read word-for-word, out loud, before they could log on to their computer systems.
Since that seems unlikely, we're giving you a multi-post thread that reproduces the column in its entirety.
In a flurry of body punches over the last several days, the nation’s highest #court gutted the federal government’s ability to regulate fat-cat #corporate polluters or stock swindlers, but said poor folks who sleep outside because there’s nowhere else to go can be arrested.
Then, with a fierce right hook, it issued a 6-3 partisan #ruling that will help #TFG — who appointed three of them — evade #justice while placing all future #presidents above the #law.
Justice Sonia #Sotomayor, one of the three liberal naysayers, read her blistering minority opinion from the bench Monday morning, arguing that the #court’s finding that a #president performing official acts can be immune from criminal prosecution “effectively creates a #law-free zone around the president, upsetting the status quo that has existed since the founding.” She ended with the words, “with fear for our #democracy, I dissent.”
Summing up, Goetze concludes that the complexity of #emdiplomacy is reflected in the complexity of the #HRE and calls for more a more inclusive approach meaning more exchange between different research tradition, combining constitutional history, court studies and dynastic history and #NewDiplomaticHistory. (7/7)
Moreover, #emdiplomats played an increasing role in acquiring and commissioning #art acting as brokers in the developing market for art. This points to the close connection of #emdiplomacy, art, commerce and consumption.
This again shows the manifold tasks that diplomats had to perform. They had not only to have knowledge about art and craftsmanship to be able to acquire them for their home #court, but they had to be able to decipher the hidden, allegorical meanings of art. (4/7)
Let's end this week with an #emdiplomacyReadingRecommendation! Through sheding light on #diplomacy at the #court of Polish king #Sigismund III #Vasa (1566-1632) this brand new anthology edited by Oliver Hegedüs and Kolja Lichy highlights a widely overlooked region and makes an important contribution to the history of #emdiplomacy beyond the south-west European focus that dominates research.