The Supreme Court, in an 8-to-1 decision, ruled today that the government can take guns away from people subject to restraining orders for domestic violence.
The decision ended a 16-year streak of major rulings expanding gun rights. In particular, a 2022 ruling from the court vastly expanded Second Amendment rights and created a new test to assess gun laws by looking at historical practices to judge their constitutionality. Using that test, a federal judge had ruled that it was unconstitutional to take guns from domestic abusers.
But today, Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority, said that Second Amendment rights do have limits. “When a restraining order contains a finding that an individual poses a credible threat to the physical safety of an intimate partner, that individual may — consistent with the Second Amendment — be banned from possessing firearms,” he wrote.
Justice Clarence Thomas, the author of the majority opinion in the 2022 decision, was the only dissenter. He argued that the government has a better way to disarm dangerous people: by prosecuting them for criminal violence.
Dangerous heat is rising around the world
The Eastern U.S. blistered today on the fifth day of a heat wave that is expected to continue into next week in some parts of the country. See how your area will be affected.
Over the last year, an estimated 6.3 billion people — or roughly four out of five people in the world — lived through at least one month of abnormally high temperatures. Scientists have repeatedly blamed the rise in global heat on the emissions from burning fossil fuels. In just the last few weeks, heat waves killed several election workers in India, tourists in Greece and hundreds of pilgrims headed to Mecca.
Trump has eroded Biden’s financial edge
Donald Trump and the Republican Party raised $141 million last month, far outpacing President Biden’s fund-raising efforts, which pulled in $85 million, according to the campaigns.
Donations to Trump’s campaign surged after his felony conviction in New York, reaching $70 million in the first 48 hours after the verdict. The reclusive billionaire Timothy Mellon also gave $50 million to a pro-Trump super PAC.
“For months Joe Biden has been the only candidate on the airwaves,” my colleague Shane Goldmacher said. “With this shift, Trump is expected to now have the financial firepower to advertise in the battleground states.”
The Washington Post’s leadership was shaken up again
Robert Winnett, the editor selected to run The Washington Post, said today that he wouldn’t take the job. His announcement came after reports raised questions about his ties to unethical news gathering practices in Britain. He will remain with The Daily Telegraph in London.
Several Post journalists told The Times that they were relieved that Winnett would not be leading the paper. But his decision adds more uncertainty to the future of a newsroom that the company’s chief executive, Will Lewis, said he plans to radically reorganize. The Post’s previous editor resigned after clashing with Lewis.
Not much happens in “The Bikeriders.” But it’s beautiful.
“The Bikeriders,” which arrived in theaters today, is based on a photo book of the same title by the great American photographer Danny Lyon. The film follows the rise and inevitable dissolution of a Midwestern motorcycle club across the 1960s into the early ’70s. Not much happens, our critic Manohla Dargis writes, but the people are beautiful and so are their bikes.
The movie stars Austin Butler, Jodie Comer and Tom Hardy, a troika of charisma bombs who Manohla said just have to show up for her to do the same. Here are six other new movies our critics are talking about.
Conan O’Brien is setting a new standard
Some former late-night hosts vanish (Johnny Carson, Craig Kilborn). Others relapse (Jon Stewart). Most enter a more modest era (David Letterman, Jay Leno). But Conan O’Brien, who left his show in 2021, took none of those paths.
Instead, he set off on a post-show comedy career that may turn out to be more impressive than his late-night tenure, our critic wrote. His new projects reflect a change in how O’Brien sees his own gifts.
Nature’s epic side-eye
A flounder looks like a hallucination of a fish. Its body is flat, its head is permanently tilted, and instead of having one eye on each side of its head, both eyes are crowded together.
The anatomy of flounder and other flatfishes is so odd that critics once used it as evidence against Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution: How could natural selection favor the slow migration of an eye from one side to the other? Well, while the reason is still a bit of a mystery, researchers have found plenty of evidence suggesting that the fish evolved from an ordinary-looking ancestor.
Have a transformative weekend.
Thanks for reading. I’ll be back on Monday. — Matthew
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