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US aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln finally heads back home after nine months

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/uss-abraham-lincoln-return-america-37576242

> Reforms that would break the supermajority right-wing Court’s grip on the country — its operating as a legislative veto for Democratic administrations and a hall pass for Republican ones — would go far beyond docket management and ethics reforms, though. Term limits, court packing, jurisdiction stripping — the ideas lighting up the intellectual left and spreading to Democratic officials would overhaul the Court as we know it. 

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/democrats-supreme-court-reform

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A quotation from Lincoln

   The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves — in their separate, and individual capacities. In all that the people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere.
   The desirable things which the individuals of a people can not do, or can not well do, for themselves, fall into two classes: those which have relation to wrongs, and those which have not. Each of these branch off into an infinite variety of subdivisions. The first — that in relation to wrongs — embraces all crimes, misdemeanors, and non-performance of contracts. The other embraces all which, in its nature, and without wrong, requires combined action, as public roads and highways, public schools, charities, pauperism, orphanage, estates of the deceased, and the machinery of government itself.
   From this it appears that if all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1854-07-01?), fragment on government

More about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/3093…

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The Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution required ratification by 27 of the then-36 states: on 6 December 1865, Georgia became the 27th State to ratify the Amendment which abolished slavery. Sadly, President Abraham Lincoln didn't get to witness this monumental event as he was assassinated on 15 April 1865 by John Wilkes Booth.
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