 March 5, 2024 |
Good morning. We’re covering a legal victory for Donald Trump and a constitutional right to abortion in France.
Plus: Writing jokes for awards shows.
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| Donald Trump said he was pleased with the court’s decision. Doug Mills/The New York Times |
The Supreme Court ruled that Trump can stay on ballots
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that states cannot bar Donald Trump from running for another term, rejecting a challenge from Colorado that threatened to remove the former president from ballots around the nation.
The decision, while not a surprise, is the most important ruling concerning a presidential election since George W. Bush prevailed in Bush v. Gore in 2000.
The case was based on a constitutional provision, Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, that prohibits insurrectionists from holding office. All the justices’ opinions focused on legal issues without taking a position on whether Trump had committed insurrection.
All nine justices said that states could not bar candidates from the presidency based on the provision, while five conservative justices ruled that Congress must act to give Section 3 force. Here are highlights from the ruling.
“I was very honored by a 9-to-nothing vote,” Trump said in an interview on a conservative radio show.
What’s next: The decision comes during a pivotal week for the presidential race: Today is Super Tuesday, when many states hold their presidential primaries, and on Thursday President Biden is scheduled to deliver the State of the Union address. In the coming months, the Supreme Court may rule on a host of other legal issues related to Trump.
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| People gathered at Trocadéro Square in Paris to watch live coverage of the voting. Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters |
France made abortion access a constitutional right
French legislators voted to explicitly enshrine access to abortion in the Constitution, making France the first country to take that step.
“We are sending the message to all women: Your body belongs to you, and no one has the right to control it in your stead,” Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said before lawmakers voted, 780 to 72, for the amendment.
The amendment declares abortion to be a “guaranteed freedom,” which means that future governments will not be able to drastically modify the current laws that fund abortion for women who seek it up to 14 weeks into their pregnancies, according to the French justice minister.
The decision to amend the Constitution was spurred in part by the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, ending the constitutional right to abortion in America. But the move also reflects the widespread support for abortion in France, and a successful campaign by a coalition of feminist activists and lawmakers from multiple parties.
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| The U.N. found evidence of sexual violence at a rave in Israel. Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times |
The U.N. found evidence of sexual violence in Hamas attack
A U.N. report found “reasonable grounds” to believe that sexual violence was committed in multiple locations during the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attack on Israel, and “clear and convincing information” that sexual violence was inflicted against some women and children while they were held hostage in the Gaza Strip.
It was compiled by a team of experts deployed by the U.N. to Israel and the West Bank. In the report, they said they had also heard accounts of sexual violence against Palestinians that implicated Israeli security forces and settlers.
At the White House, Vice President Kamala Harris pressed for a pause in fighting in Gaza in a meeting with a member of Israel’s war cabinet.
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It takes a team to make Oscar audiences laugh
About two dozen writers will contribute to Jimmy Kimmel’s script for the Oscars this Sunday, a little-heralded job that faces extra scrutiny this year after Jo Koy criticized his writers during an uncomfortable Golden Globes monologue in January.
Joke writers sometimes have to navigate a gantlet of publicists, managers and even family members before a performer sees their material and tries to get laughs from a self-conscious audience that grows more sour as losses mount. One writer likened writing for award shows to giving a best man’s speech at the world’s biggest wedding: “You want it to be a little bit edgy, but not so much that it turns off the grandparents.”
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That’s it for today’s briefing. Thank you for spending part of your morning with us, and see you tomorrow. — Dan
P.S. Rod Nordland, a longtime international correspondent for The Times who has a malignant brain tumor, wrote about fighting for the best possible life.
You can reach Dan and the team at briefing@nytimes.com.
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