Susan Estrich
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Hospitalized during COVID-19Jul 26, 2020 12:00 am - I was due to have a mammogram. I skipped it. I was due for a follow-up chest MRI. I skipped that. As a former smoker, I had scheduled a CT scan for May. I skipped that, ...
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Threatening Obamacare in a pandemicJul 01, 2020 1:00 am - Maybe it's because he resents his predecessor's popularity, especially as his plummets to record lows. Or maybe he is just so clueless and in such a state of denial that...
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Trump and his courtJun 23, 2020 1:00 am - Twice in a week. First, the court holds that you can't discriminate against employees on the basis of sexual orientation. And if that isn't enough, the chief justice goe...
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Estrich: Gorsuch rises above ideology in gay rights caseJun 19, 2020 1:00 am - Finally, in a landmark decision authored by none other than Justice Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump's first Supreme Court appointee, gay, lesbian and transgender pe...
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The president doubles down on dividing the countryJun 14, 2020 1:00 am - America is being rocked by passionate protests reflecting all the pent-up anger of those who have been the victims of racism since the day they were born: the guys who a...
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Taking a risk for convention cheersJun 12, 2020 1:00 am - Modern conventions don't decide anything. On occasion, there are votes that matter - not on the roll call for president but on the seating of all-white delegations, or t...
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Selfishness and the sunMay 28, 2020 1:00 am - The weather was glorious in Southern California the past week, as it was in much of the nation. The beaches and Boardwalk were so crowded, full of families who had clear...
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Sleepless in Santa MonicaApr 09, 2020 1:00 am - When I was a kid, my mother and sister used to castigate me for being too emotional (I cried), not tough enough. "Susie just can't handle hard things," the two of them w...
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Let's get a mighty mayor, not a vanquished senator, for VPApr 01, 2020 1:00 am - The novel coronavirus has made clear who in this country actually runs things. It should be, and occasionally is, the president. But in this instance, President Donald T...
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Playing politics with a pandemicMar 04, 2020 12:00 am - On Dad's favorite morning show, Junior was asked whether he was "surprised the way they've been handling the coronavirus situation, meaning Democrats." Put aside all th...