3 News Stories You Should Read Today – 4/17/2018
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“He’s one of the richest people on earth. He’s an adult. He’s 30-some years old. He can answer questions if he’s the CEO. … Stop juvenilizing men here in Silicon Valley.”
That’s how Kara Swisher, co-founder and executive editor of the technology news website Recode, reacted to the treatment Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg received from lawmakers during his testimony on Capitol Hill last week. (Recode is owned by Vox’s parent company, Vox Media.)
Swisher was speaking on Politico’s Women Rule podcast. She’s a veteran tech journalist, hosts the Recode Decode podcast, and runs one of the most influential conference seriesin Silicon Valley. I reached out to her to find out more about why she thinks the media and lawmakers “juvenilize” men in Silicon Valley, and what it will take to stop it.
A lightly edited transcript of our conversation HERE.
Once again, the president is taking steps to make sure he doesn’t anger Putin.
It appears that President Trump just blocked his own administration’s plan to sanction Russia.
Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations, announced Sunday that the Trump administration would hit Russia with new sanctions on Monday over its support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s chemical weapons program in the wake of the April 7 chemical attack in Douma, Syria, that killed dozens of people. The sanctions were explicitly focused on Russian companies that deal in equipment linked to Assad’s chemical weapons program.
But just a day later, the White House backtracked, with press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders saying that the administration was merely “considering additional sanctions on Russia” and that “a decision will be made in the near future.”
Supreme Court Strikes Down Part Of Immigration Law
The Supreme Court declared a clause in federal law, requiring the deportation of immigrants convicted of a “crime of violence,” unconstitutionally vague Tuesday.
It’s a blow to the Trump Justice Department, and came at the hands, ironically of conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch, who sided with the court’s liberals in a 5-4 decision.
In 2015, the court also held that a clause alluding to a “violent felony” in the Armed Career Criminal Act was unconstitutionally vague.
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