Today’s edition of quick hits.<\/p>\n

* Devastation in Venezuela<\/a>: “Rescue teams rushed Thursday to areas hit hardest by a pair of powerful earthquakes that rocked Venezuela, killing at least 164 people, injuring nearly 1,000 and trapping many under the rubble. Wednesday evening’s 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes were among the strongest to strike Venezuela in more than a century and could be felt throughout the region.”<\/p>\n

* The Supreme Court’s Republican-appointed majority makes the wrong call, Part I<\/a>: “The Supreme Court’s Republican-appointed majority sided with the Trump administration over Haitians and Syrians on Thursday in a ruling on the administration’s attempt to end humanitarian safeguards under the Temporary Protected Status program. Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion curbed the power of courts to review government decisions to terminate protections under the TPS program.”<\/p>\n

* The Supreme Court’s Republican-appointed majority makes the wrong call, Part II<\/a>: “A divided Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration in a case about the federal government’s power to turn away asylum seekers if they’re still on the Mexican side of the U.S.-Mexico border. The case hinged on the interpretation of federal law that says a person can apply for asylum if they are ‘physically present in the United States” or if the person “arrives in the United States.’”<\/p>\n

* The Supreme Court’s Republican-appointed majority makes the wrong call, Part III<\/a>: “The Supreme Court’s GOP-appointed majority struck down a Hawaii gun law on Thursday, ruling 6-3 that the state can’t make concealed-carry permit holders get property owners’ permission before bringing guns onto private property open to the public. Justice Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion deeming the law unconstitutional.”<\/p>\n

* This ruling<\/a>unlike the others, did not fall along ideological lines: “The Supreme Court sided with the maker of Roundup weedkiller Thursday in a ruling expected to block thousands of lawsuits alleging it failed to warn people the product could cause cancer.”<\/p>\n

* A district court makes the right call<\/a>: “A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting mail voting, at least temporarily hobbling one of several attempts to limit mail-in ballots in the midterm elections in November.”<\/p>\n

* His own administration seems to have a very different perspective on this<\/a>: “U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday it may never be known who was at fault for a deadly strike on a girls’ school in Iran on February ‌28, the first day of the Iran war, that killed scores of children.”<\/p>\n

* Maybe Sean Duffy could look into recent developments in Boston<\/a>? “One day after a Delta Air Lines flight aborted a landing at Logan airport to avoid a potential crash, a second Delta flight pulled up abruptly before landing and performed a maneuver called a go-around Sunday because another aircraft was still clearing the runway, according to the FAA.”<\/p>\n

* It’ll be interesting to see what kind of answers these questions<\/a> generate: “Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., on Wednesday questioned the Trump administration over the mystery individual who got exclusive access to a new weight loss drug that is not available to the general public.”<\/p>\n

See you tomorrow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Steve Benen is a producer for “The Rachel Maddow Show,” the editor of MaddowBlog and an MS NOW political contributor. He’s also the bestselling author of “Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans’ War on the Recent Past.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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