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CNN
8 hours ago
- Politics
- CNN
Amy Coney Barrett leaves no doubt that she stands with Trump and the conservative supermajority
For months, Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett has faced fierce criticism from conservatives over some of her decisions in cases involving President Donald Trump. That even included Trump at times. But after Friday's blockbuster opinion in the birthright citizenship case, that blowback was suddenly a distant memory. It was Barrett, who Trump nominated to the high court in September 2020, who delivered the president a clear and dramatic win, kneecapping the ability of lower court judges to block his agenda. Trump, who has privately complained about Barrett, was effusive in his praise. 'I want to thank Justice Barrett, who wrote the opinion brilliantly, as well as Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Thomas – great people,' Trump said during a celebratory news conference at the White House. 'I just have great respect for her. I always have,' Trump said. 'And her decision was brilliantly written today — from all accounts.' Given the Supreme Court's 6-3 conservative supermajority – cemented when Barrett succeeded the late liberal icon Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg – the court's liberal wing has always faced an uphill climb to wind up anywhere but in dissent. But at times, Barrett and Chief Justice John Roberts have shown willingness to break from their more conservative colleagues. Many conservatives were apoplectic in March when Barrett voted to reject Trump's plan to freeze nearly $2 billion in foreign aid. The backlash over that decision from some close to Trump was swift, with one conservative legal commentator describing her on a podcast as a 'rattled law professor with her head up her a**.' Others took to social media to describe her as a 'DEI hire' and 'evil.' The anger directed at Barrett, a former appeals court judge and law professor, intensified when the Supreme Court divided 4-4 in a high-profile case questioning whether a Catholic charter school in Oklahoma should be entitled to taxpayer funding. Barrett recused herself from taking part in the case – she had multiple ties to the attorneys representing the school – and the even split left in place a ruling from Oklahoma's top court that found the school unconstitutional. In private, some of Trump's allies had told him that Barrett is 'weak' and that her rulings have not been in line with how she presented herself in an interview before Trump nominated her to the bench, sources told CNN. 'It's not just one ruling. It's been a few different events he's complained about privately,' a senior administration official said earlier this month. So it was notable that Barrett, the second-most junior member of the court, was assigned Friday's major opinion. Because the senior-most justice on each side of a decision assigns the author of that decision, it means Roberts assigned the case to Barrett. Most court watchers assumed Roberts would write the opinion himself, or that it would be unsigned. It was, by far, the highest-profile opinion Barrett has authored on the court. And it was a major win for the president – the second time the Supreme Court has ended a term in as many years with a blockbuster ruling in his favor. Last year, the court ruled that Trump was entitled to immunity from criminal prosecution on federal election interference charges. Barrett's opinion doesn't necessarily mean that Trump will be able to enforce the birthright citizenship order. Lower courts are likely to move swiftly to shut it down through other paths, such as through class-action lawsuits. But it will at least make it harder for groups challenging future Trump policies to get those measures paused on a temporary basis. 'As the number of universal injunctions has increased, so too has the importance of the issue,' Barrett wrote, without addressing the fact that some of that increase has been the result of a president who had admittedly sought to push the boundaries of the law in his favor. 'As with most questions of law, the policy pros and cons are beside the point,' Barrett wrote. 'Under our well-established precedent, the equitable relief available in the federal courts is that 'traditionally accorded by courts of equity' at the time of our founding. Nothing like a universal injunction was available at the founding, or for that matter, for more than a century thereafter.'
CNN
10 hours ago
- Politics
- CNN
Amy Coney Barrett leaves no doubt that she stands with Trump and the conservative supermajority
For months, Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett has faced fierce criticism from conservatives over some of her decisions in cases involving President Donald Trump. That even included Trump at times. But after Friday's blockbuster opinion in the birthright citizenship case, that blowback was suddenly a distant memory. It was Barrett, who Trump nominated to the high court in September 2020, who delivered the president a clear and dramatic win, kneecapping the ability of lower court judges to block his agenda. Trump, who has privately complained about Barrett, was effusive in his praise. 'I want to thank Justice Barrett, who wrote the opinion brilliantly, as well as Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Thomas – great people,' Trump said during a celebratory news conference at the White House. 'I just have great respect for her. I always have,' Trump said. 'And her decision was brilliantly written today — from all accounts.' Given the Supreme Court's 6-3 conservative supermajority – cemented when Barrett succeeded the late liberal icon Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg – the court's liberal wing has always faced an uphill climb to wind up anywhere but in dissent. But at times, Barrett and Chief Justice John Roberts have shown willingness to break from their more conservative colleagues. Many conservatives were apoplectic in March when Barrett voted to reject Trump's plan to freeze nearly $2 billion in foreign aid. The backlash over that decision from some close to Trump was swift, with one conservative legal commentator describing her on a podcast as a 'rattled law professor with her head up her a**.' Others took to social media to describe her as a 'DEI hire' and 'evil.' The anger directed at Barrett, a former appeals court judge and law professor, intensified when the Supreme Court divided 4-4 in a high-profile case questioning whether a Catholic charter school in Oklahoma should be entitled to taxpayer funding. Barrett recused herself from taking part in the case – she had multiple ties to the attorneys representing the school – and the even split left in place a ruling from Oklahoma's top court that found the school unconstitutional. In private, some of Trump's allies had told him that Barrett is 'weak' and that her rulings have not been in line with how she presented herself in an interview before Trump nominated her to the bench, sources told CNN. 'It's not just one ruling. It's been a few different events he's complained about privately,' a senior administration official said earlier this month. So it was notable that Barrett, the second-most junior member of the court, was assigned Friday's major opinion. Because the senior-most justice on each side of a decision assigns the author of that decision, it means Roberts assigned the case to Barrett. Most court watchers assumed Roberts would write the opinion himself, or that it would be unsigned. It was, by far, the highest-profile opinion Barrett has authored on the court. And it was a major win for the president – the second time the Supreme Court has ended a term in as many years with a blockbuster ruling in his favor. Last year, the court ruled that Trump was entitled to immunity from criminal prosecution on federal election interference charges. Barrett's opinion doesn't necessarily mean that Trump will be able to enforce the birthright citizenship order. Lower courts are likely to move swiftly to shut it down through other paths, such as through class-action lawsuits. But it will at least make it harder for groups challenging future Trump policies to get those measures paused on a temporary basis. 'As the number of universal injunctions has increased, so too has the importance of the issue,' Barrett wrote, without addressing the fact that some of that increase has been the result of a president who had admittedly sought to push the boundaries of the law in his favor. 'As with most questions of law, the policy pros and cons are beside the point,' Barrett wrote. 'Under our well-established precedent, the equitable relief available in the federal courts is that 'traditionally accorded by courts of equity' at the time of our founding. Nothing like a universal injunction was available at the founding, or for that matter, for more than a century thereafter.'
Chicago Tribune
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Chicago Tribune
Glenview native wins Ruth Bader Ginsburg's son's 'emerging artist' music contest
Glenview native Oliver Talukder, who plays oboe for the Opera Philadelphia Orchestra, is musically inspired by everyone from Lady Gaga to Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. His closest brush with celebrity, however, came when he recently won a recording contract from the son of late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Talukder won the 2025 Emerging Artist Competition, hosted in May by Chicago-based Cedille Records, founded in 1989 by James Ginsburg, and the Zell Family Foundation. Talukder won over the judges by playing oboe, English horn, flute and piccolo in a nearly 30-minute performance at the Spertus Institute Feinberg Theater in Chicago. 'We had brilliant performances all around, but what made Oliver stand out was an innate musicality and imagination in his musical choices—both in terms of what he played and how he played it,' noted Ginsburg. 'He has a knack for communicating to and really communing with the audience. You could really feel it.' The connection is intentional, Talukder says. 'Whenever I perform—even when I'm preparing for it and thinking about the pieces—I always put myself in the shoes of the audience,' he said. 'I'm always looking at new ways to engage the audience. I like playing music I like listening to, so that impacts how I play.' Ginsburg explained that the contest, open to musicians under age 35 who are from the Chicago metro area and have never appeared on a commercially-released album, is part of his record label's mission to bring Chicago's wealth of classical music talent out into the world and accessible to listeners. 'There are so many artists who have made their recording debuts on the label,' he noted. 'As we were starting to work more with these artists in building their careers, we got to thinking: Why don't we help the next generation of wonderful Chicago classical musicians or ensembles be noticed by having a competition and making the grand prize their debut recording?' Ginsburg's relationship with classical music was cultivated by his mother, the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. 'She was, to quote a phrase, 'notorious' for her love of classical music, particularly vocal music and opera,' he said. 'Music was always playing in the house. My mother discovered my love of classical music as a listener when I was a toddler and really nurtured that, taking me to Little Orchestra Society concerts in New York and later the Young People's Concerts with the Philharmonic. Pretty quickly I graduated to the New York City Opera at the Met. The love of music was something Mom very much encouraged.' This inspired Cedille Records' creation of the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Fund for Vocal Music, which helps fund recordings by vocal artists. Since it was announced in 2022, seven such albums have been recorded, Ginsburg said. Talukder's introduction to classical music was a familial one as well: his two older brothers picked up instruments in elementary school. At the age of 7 or 8, while attending his eldest brother's performance in a Midwest Young Artists concert, Talukder heard the sound of his future. 'I listened to this piece they played—'Scheherazade,' by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. It has a lot of great, gorgeous oboe solos,' Talukder recalled. 'After the concert, I went up to my brother and asked him what that instrument was. To my surprise, he said that was the oboe. That's when I fell in love with the oboe.' Talukder went on to play the instrument, as well as the English horn, in the Chicago Youth Symphony for four years. A 2020 graduate of Maine East High School in Park Ridge, Talukder played tenor sax in the school's Jazz Band and flute and piccolo in the marching band. He was one of two Maine East musicians selected to perform for a production of 'In the Heights' at the Illinois High School Theatre Festival in 2019. 'Any musical activity at school, I was involved in somehow, in some capacity,' Talukder said. 'I loved it so much. The environment felt like my second home.' In the summer of 2019, as a touring member of the prestigious Carnegie Hall National Youth Orchestra, Talukder played oboe at the Royal Albert Hall in London—the very place where, in YouTube videos, he had watched and admired major orchestras performing at the BBC Proms classical music festival. 'It was a full circle moment,' Talukder said. 'I was so inspired by those orchestras on YouTube and now I could be the next generation, inspiring people, connecting with them. That was the moment I decided I wanted to go around the world, spreading music, spreading joy.' A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Talukder was awarded first place in the 2022 Midwest Double Reed Society Competition and named Outstanding Instrumentalist in the 2024 Sphinx Orchestral Partners Audition Competition. He was granted tenure with the Opera Philadelphia Orchestra as second oboist in late 2024. Talukder will head into the studio to begin recording his first album this fall, he said. He'll become one of the roughly 80 recording artists and ensembles that have made their debut with Cedille Records, Ginsburg said. There are currently about 200 artists on the label, which has earned 36 Grammy nominations and eight Grammy Awards, according to the company. Talukder says his debut will be 'very Chicago-centered' while paying tribute to his parents and 'the cultural threads that define who I am,' he said. His upbringing in Glenview is an important part of this, he noted. 'I talk a lot with my friends about 'the village,'' Talukder said. 'I talk about this because my dad is from Bangladesh and he literally grew up in 'the village' in a very basic house. The thing that helped him grow up was the community. I think the community in Glenview is something that really allowed my general upbringing and my musical upbringing to flourish …. I think my roots in Glenview keep me grounded. Even when I move to a new city, I always think about that.' The next Emerging Artists Competition is scheduled for 2029, when Cedille Records marks its 40th anniversary, Ginsburg said.
Yahoo
10-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Coalition Hopes to ‘Accelerate' Career Training, Apprenticeships
Hoping to promote the growth of career training and apprenticeships, a coalition including five governors and major labor unions have come together to align career training and push for national policy change. The American Federation of Teachers, the nation's second-largest teachers union, and CareerWise USA, which runs apprenticeship programs for high-schoolers in five states, announced the Education and Apprenticeship Accelerator late last month. Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter The International Union of Painters and Allied Trades and the governors of California, Colorado, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania have also joined the coalition. Its goal is to improve and expand Career Technical Education (CTE) both in high schools and community colleges and create more student internships and apprenticeships where students are paid to both work and go to school. Only about 5% of high school students nationally have a chance at an internship or apprenticeship, estimates available show. AFT President Randi Weingarten said the union sees a need to shift away from the 'college for all' mindset of the last 20 years, and be a part of giving students other ways to prepare for work and life. 'Look how many kids we've seen in schools that feel totally at sea,' said Weingarten, who also called for changes in a May 6 New York Times opinion piece 'Stop Trying to Make Everyone Go to College.' Instead of working independently and sometimes at cross-purposes, which has kept the number of opportunities for students low, CareerWise founder Noel Ginsburg said the new partnership will help government, business and schools work together in support of training efforts. Challenges include aligning school and work schedules, finding transportation for students between work and school, giving students course credit for work-based learning and making sure students are working in fields that are hiring. Both Ginsburg and Weingarten said the states can serve as laboratories to find the right formulas to succeed, then the partnership can promote them and find a common plan that covers all states. 'This is intended to truly create…examples for the country in multiple states that can show how this matters,' Ginsburg said. 'We'll bring resources to it, both financial, technical and consulting, to enable these states to accelerate faster, to make this happen,' Ginsburg said. '(We'll) bring these systems together so that our gears aren't grinding, that they are connected and, in fact, we're moving forward.' Governors of the participating states echoed the call for improving training opportunities for students. Apprenticeships are common in Europe, with more than half of students in countries like Switzerland participating. Apprenticeships In the U.S. usually start after high school, instead of the equivalent of junior year in Europe, and have traditionally been in construction trades. But apprenticeships across the country have been growing in recent years and in other fields, particularly health care, information technology and advanced manufacturing. New U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon has also voiced support of the Swiss apprenticeship system on social media, and has called for more CTE, apprenticeships and tuition assistance for career training. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in April calling for a million more apprenticeships. But the administration also shut down a Department of Labor advisory panel on apprenticeships that Ginsburg had a major role on and put a 'pause' May 29 on Job Corps, a training program for 25,000 young people a year, a decision that is being challenged in court.
Yahoo
24-04-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
UM Health-Sparrow honors longtime volunteer with 2025 Founders' Award
LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — The University of Michigan Health-Sparrow honored community volunteer Deborah Ginsburg with the 2025 Founders' Award for her contribution to the mid-Michigan community. Sparrow reports that Ginsburg has supported the hospital for decades. She began her work as a part-time team member in 1979. She was a longtime member of the Sparrow Hospital Guild, where she served as Chair, and joined the Sparrow Women's Board of Managers in 2016, leading the board as Chair from 2021 to 2022. Ginsburg also served two-year terms on the Sparrow Foundation Board and the Sparrow Hospital Board. She and her husband, Ira Ginsburg, the former senior vice president of operations and the 2012 Founders' Award recipient, are members of the Sparrow Foundation's Philanthropist League. 'We often encounter people in what is often a stressful time in their lives. To me, volunteering and supporting the many selfless people who help our patients and their families is what influences me, and I hope, in some small way, influences others too,' said Deborah Ginsburg in a news release sent to 6 News. Sparrow says Ginsburg currently serves on the Ele's Place Board of Directors, supporting children and young adults as they navigate grief in a safe and compassionate environment. 'The Founders' Award is presented by the Sparrow Women's Board of Managers to a volunteer, community member, retired team member or physician who has made a positive impact on the health of the Mid-Michigan region through their involvement with University of Michigan Health-Sparrow,' said Sparrow in a news release sent to 6 News. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
