Official 2005 photo of Chief Justice John G. R...

“You’ll remem­ber me now!”

An enor­mous week! The Supreme Court declared that it can­not be a crime in any state to look His­panic and not carry papers to show that you were born in the United States. Nor is it a crime to falsely claim that you received a valor medal. The Court also ruled the Patient Pro­tec­tion and Afford­able Care Act’s indi­vid­ual man­date to be con­sti­tu­tional, thanks to an unex­pected vote by Chief Jus­tice John Roberts (and a cor­re­spond­ingly unex­pected dis­sent by Jus­tice Anthony Kennedy). The House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives, for the first time in Amer­i­can his­tory, voted to hold a sit­ting Cab­i­net mem­ber in con­tempt of Con­gress. Much of Col­orado is ablaze, in some of the worst wild­fires in many years. Debby did Tampa. Ann Curry left the Today show. Spider-​​Man got a reboot. And Spain will meet Italy in the Euro Cup final on Sun­day, after Italy thanked Ger­many yes­ter­day for its finan­cial bailout by defeat­ing the two-​​ton Teu­tons two-​​one.

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