Below, you will find some headlines we may have missed and some interesting video clips on several subjects. Please feel free to share anything you may have run across; just make sure it’s not from a MAGAt infested shithole.
SCOTUS:
Supreme Court rules Mexico can’t sue US gunmakers over cartel violence
The Supreme Court on June 5 rejected Mexico’s attempt to hold U.S. gunmakers liable for violence and atrocities Mexican drug cartels have inflicted using their weapons.
The court unanimously ruled that firearms makers are protected by a federal law barring certain lawsuits against them.
“An action cannot be brought against a manufacturer if, like Mexico’s, it is founded on a third-party’s criminal use of the company’s product,” Justice Elena Kagan wrote.
Supreme Court sides with straight woman in ‘reverse discrimination’ case
The Supreme Court agreed on June 5 that a worker faced a higher hurdle to sue her employer as a straight woman than if she’d been gay.
The unanimous decision, which landed amid a national backlash against diversity, equity and inclusion programs, could trigger a wave of “reverse discrimination” lawsuits.
The justices rejected a lower court’s ruling that Marlean Ames could not sue the Ohio Department of Youth Services because she’d failed to provide “background circumstances” showing the department was “that unusual employer who discriminates against the majority.”
Unanimous Supreme Court sides with Catholic Charities in Wisconsin case
A unanimous Supreme Court ruled that Catholic Charities can opt out of participating in a state unemployment compensation program in Wisconsin.
The opinion by Justice Sonia Sotomayor reversed a state Supreme Court decision.
“It is fundamental to our constitutional order that the government maintain ‘neutrality between religion and religion,'” Justice Sonia Sotomayor, one of the court’s three liberals, wrote in her opinion for the court. “There may be hard calls to make in policing that rule, but this is not one. When the government distinguishes among religions based on theological differences in their provision of services, it imposes a denominational preference that must satisfy the highest level of judicial scrutiny.”
Economy:
The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits last week rises to highest level in eight months
WASHINGTON (AP) — Filings for U.S. unemployment benefits rose to their highest level in eight months last week but remain historically low despite growing uncertainty about how tariffs could impact the broader economy.
New applications for jobless benefits rose by 8,000 to 247,000 for the week ending May 31, the Labor Department said Thursday. That’s the most since early October. Analysts had forecast 237,000 new applications.
Weekly applications for jobless benefits are considered representative of U.S. layoffs and have mostly bounced around a historically healthy range between 200,000 and 250,000 since COVID-19 throttled the economy five years ago, wiping out millions of jobs.
10-year Treasury yield rises ahead of key jobs report
The 10-year Treasury yield ticked higher on Thursday as investors awaited the upcoming nonfarm payrolls report for more clarity on the state of the U.S. economy.
The benchmark yield rose more than 3 basis points to 4.402%, while the 2-year yield jumped more than 5 basis points to 3.93%. The 30-year long bond yield was flat at 4.888%.
One basis point equals 0.01%. Yields and prices move inversely in the bond market.
