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South Korea’s President Impeached
South Korea’s National Assembly voted to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol on Saturday, suspending him from office after his stunning declaration of martial law earlier this month caused widespread outrage and plunged the country into a constitutional crisis.
With the impeachment vote, Mr. Yoon has been suspended from office. Under South Korea’s Constitution, Prime Minister Han Duck-soo will step in as interim leader.
RFK Jr. Lawyer Asked FDA to Revoke Polio Vaccine
The lawyer helping Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pick federal health officials for the incoming Trump administration has petitioned the government to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine, which for decades has protected millions of people from a virus that can cause paralysis or death.
Trump Advisers Seek Bank Regulator Cutbacks, Echoing Project 2025
President-elect Donald Trump has said that he has “nothing to do with” Project 2025, the 900-page playbook of recommendations for the next administration produced by a highly influential, conservative think tank.
He has tried to put space between himself and the plan and said in July that “some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal,” without specifying which points he was referring to.
Yet Trump’s ties to Project 2025 are numerous, and a report from The Wall Street Journal on Friday underscored one striking similarity between the document and the president-elect advisors’ ambitions for the incoming administration.
The Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, reported that advisers to Trump and officials from his new Department of Government Efficiency have “asked whether he could abolish the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.,” or the FDIC…
Gillibrand Presses Biden to Adopt Equal Rights Amendment
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York is on a mission in President Biden’s final days in office. She wants to convince him that he can rescue his legacy by adding the century-old Equal Rights Amendment, which would explicitly guarantee sex equality, to the Constitution as a way to protect abortion rights in post-Roe America.
He could do it all, she contends, with one phone call.
Both houses of Congress approved the amendment in 1972, but it was not ratified by the states in time to be added to the Constitution. Ms. Gillibrand has been pushing a legal theory that the deadline for ratification is irrelevant and unconstitutional. All that remains, she argues, is for Mr. Biden to direct the national archivist, who is responsible for the certification and publication of constitutional amendments, to publish the E.R.A. as the 28th Amendment.
Texas Sues New York Doctor for Prescribing Abortion Pills
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit accusing a New York doctor of prescribing abortion drugs to a Texas resident in violation of state law.
This lawsuit is the first attempt to test what happens when state abortion laws are at odds with each other. New York has a shield law that protects providers from out-of-state investigations and prosecutions, which has served as implicit permission for a network of doctors to mail abortion pills into states that have banned the procedure.
