After Virginia ratified the Equal Rights (for women) Amendment, the bully's lawyers declared that it was too late, because the deadline had passed. A congresscritter says that that was mistaken, and that Biden should reject that conclusion and allow the ERA to enter the Constitution.

I support the ERA. I am not an expert on the legal question of whether it is still possible for it to be adopted under the law from the 1970s.

*US Judge Rules Guantánamo [prisoner]'s Imprisonment Illegal.*

I expect this will be appealed up to the Supreme Court. If it affirms the decision, I am not confident that will result Asadullah Haroon Gul's release. That's because the US treats continued imprisonment as the default, even if it is illegal, unless all the conditions combine to make the prisoner's release an option.

That is clearly unjust. If the US has no legal basis to keep someone in prison, it must release per, even if that means releasing per into the US as an immigrant.

If US officials didn't want that, they should have treated him justly.

Billionaires use special kinds of trusts to hand billions to their heirs with no inheritance taxes.

New Zealand will require the larger banks to report on the climate risks to their investments.

*Amazon workers in Staten Island to file for union vote.*