Amerikas Verfassung

Folge 17: Afghanistan. Ein Jahr später, Vorwahlen Teil 3, die Wasserkrise in Jackson/Mississippi und die Durchsuchung des Anwesens Donald Trumps durch das FBI

(aufgenommen am 8. September 2022)

Housekeeping

• Joey Harkum Duo Live in Concert: 40. Städtepartnerschaftsjubiläum zwischen Schifferstadt, RLP & Frederick, Maryland
• Interaktive Online-Veranstaltung: Disney als Kunst - Experimentalkino und Popkultur von Fantasia zu Encanto
• Die Situation der arabischen und muslimischen Minderheiten in den USA seit 9/11

Afghanistan. Ein Jahr danach

• Im freien Fall in die Armut (Tagesschau)
• USA beschlagnahmen sieben Milliarden Dollar von afghanischer Zentralbank (Deutsche Welle)
• International economists ask Biden to release Afghan central bank funds (Reuters)
• Over 70 Economists Call for Biden Administration to Return Afghanistan’s Central Bank Reserves (Center for Economic and Policy Research)
• Ein Debakel für die Biden-Regierung (Tagesschau)
• ‘This Was the Albatross Around His Neck All Year’ (Politico)
• Afghanistan withdrawal began Biden's political slide (Axios)
• Democrats Are Outpacing Biden’s Standing Ahead of the Midterms. Will It Last? (Morning Consult)
• A year later, a look back at public opinion about the U.S. military exit from Afghanistan (Pew Research Center)
• A Brief Assessment of the Biden Administration’s Strategic Failures during the Afghanistan Evacuation (Report der Republikaner im Senat)
• Election Tracker (FiveThirtyEight/Ipsos)

Vorwahlen Teil 3

• Maura Healey to face Trump-backed Republican in deep-blue Massachusetts (The Washington Post)
• The betting odds on the Rhode Island governor’s race (Boston Globe)
• High water mark for House insurgents (Axios)
• Of 10 Republicans Who Voted to Impeach Trump After Capitol Riot, Only 2 Might Remain in Congress (Voice of America)
• Incumbents defeated in state legislative elections, 2022 (Ballotpedia)
• Trump-Aligned Challengers Ousting GOP Legislative Incumbents (U.S. News)
• How Trump’s Endorsements Elevate Election Lies and Inflate His Political Power (The New York Times)
• Sample Ballot (Alaska Division of Elections); Ranked-choice voting (RCV) (Ballotpedia)
• Peltola wins U.S. House race, first woman and Alaska Native to represent Alaska in House (Idaho Capital Sun)

Wasserkrise in Jackson, Mississippi

• In Jackson, Miss., a water crisis has revealed the racial costs of legacy infrastructure (Brookings Institute)
• The water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, has gotten so bad, the city temporarily ran out of bottled water to give to residents (CNN)
• Jackson, Mississippi Has No Safe Tap Water for the Foreseeable Future. It's a Crisis Decades in the Making (TIME Magazine)
• The water crisis in Jackson follows years of failure to fix an aging system (NPR)
• ‘A profound betrayal of trust’: Why Jackson’s water system is broken (Mississippi Today)
• State leaders meet privately to discuss long-term solutions for Jackson water crisis (Mississippi Today)
• Flooding broke open Jackson's water crisis, but it can't be disentangled from race, experts say (USA Today)
• Trinkwasser-Versorgung in US-Stadt Jackson zusammengebrochen (Der Spiegel)
• How Jackson, Mississippi, ran out of water (Vox)
• What Climate Change Means for Mississippi (EPA)

Durchsuchung von Donald Trumps Luxusanwesen Mar-a-Lago

• Presidential Records Act (PRA) of 1978 (National Archives)
• Trump Lawyer Told Justice Dept. That Classified Material Had Been Returned (The New York Times)
• A timeline of events leading up to the FBI search of Trump’s Florida estate (PBS)
• What Is the Espionage Act? Legal Experts Think Trump May Have Violated Law (Newsweek)
• Donald J. Trump v. United States of America (U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida)
• Documents at Mar-a-Lago Could Compromise Human Intelligence Sources, Affidavit Says (the New York Times)
• What we know about Trump and the empty folders (The Washington Post)
• What the F.B.I. Seized From Mar-a-Lago, Illustrated (The New York Times)
• A Timeline of Trump’s False and Misleading Statements on the Mar-a-Lago Search (The New York Times)
• Trump claims he declassified all the documents at Mar-a-Lago. Even if that’s true, it probably doesn’t matter. (The New York Times)
• ‘Deeply Problematic’: Experts Question Judge’s Intervention in Trump Inquiry (the New York Times)
• Bill Barr Interview on Fox News (Twitter, Aaron Rupar)
• Aileen Cannon (Ballotpedia)