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April 9, 2021, 5:03 PM
Texas Governor Greg Abbott throws out the ceremonial first pitch at the opening day baseball game between the Chicago Cubs and Texas Rangers Thursday, March 28, 2019 in Arlington, Texas. Abbott declined to throw the first pitch this year, citing Major League Baseball’s stance on Georgia’s new voter law.
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Are there sufficient reasons for the Court to hold that the unborn are persons within the meaning of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment? Edward Whelan continues to doubt it. He also questions whether such a holding would have much legal effect. To these doubts he adds finally the view that the equal protection argument ought not to play much of a part in “pro-life legal strategy.”
Since questions of strategy have not been my concern, I will continue to say nothing about them, save that any strategy about anything should be aligned with the truth; my first and second essays together argue that there are here two truths converging on the same result. (1) The original public meaning of “any person” in the equal protection clause includes the unborn, as began to be judicially acknowledged and enforced almost as soon as intrusive limitations on the meaning of that clause s “deny . . . equal protection” fell away in the 1950s and, coincidentall
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Showers, storms possible through tonight ahead of rainy weekend Daniel Susco
Showers and thunderstorms remain possible tonight, but rain chances taper off after midnight.
[4:15 PM] Storms have developed this afternoon in eastern Indiana and western Ohio. As the storms move east, a few severe storms will be possible, with the main threat of damaging winds. pic.twitter.com/lzzJhNogah NWS Wilmington OH (@NWSILN) April 9, 2021
Skies will be mostly cloudy with overnight lows falling to the mid-50s, according to the National Weather Service in Wilmington.
Expect a rainy Saturday with a chance of a thunderstorm after noon. Highs will be near 72 degrees with wind gusts as high as 26 mph. New rainfall amounts between one-tenth and one-quarter inch are possible, except for higher amounts during thunderstorms.