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Elon Musk’s Starship reaches orbit on its third attempt – The Economist

THE WORLDs largest rocket has flown again, and the uncrewed test flight on March 14th, like the two previous ones, ended in rapid unscheduled disassembly (ie, catastrophic explosions). But the upper stage of Starship, built by SpaceX, Elon Musks rocket company, reached orbit for the first time and completed several test operations before being destroyed while re-entering Earths atmosphere. In a defiant post on X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, Mr Musk insisted that Starship will make life multiplanetary. This latest flight was one small step in that direction.

Starship is in fact two vehicles: the Super Heavy booster stage, a behemoth 71 metres tall, and the 50-metre Starship upper stage, which separates from the booster at an altitude of around 70km (44 miles) to proceed to orbit. The combined vehicles first test flight, in April 2023, ended roughly four minutes after lift-off, with the self-destruction of the entire spacecraft, after stage-separation failed and the rocket began to corkscrew erratically. During the second test flight, in November, the Starship upper stage successfully separated from the booster around three minutes into the flight, and continued to fly for another eight minutes, reaching an altitude of 149km. But both vehicles then suffered failures that led to their rapid unscheduled disassembly.

The third flight, once again from SpaceXs Starbase facility near Boca Chica in Texas, also led to the loss of both vehicles. But this time the upper stage reached orbit, at an altitude of 230km. SpaceXs aim is that both vehicles should eventually be fully reusable, flying back to Earth to land, as its Falcon 9 boosters already do. For these initial test flights, however, its plan has been for the Super Heavy booster to practise a soft splashdown at sea, slowing its descent using rocket engines before slipping beneath the waves, while the Starship, journey completed, then makes a hard splashdown (ie, falls into the sea from a great height).

Even these more limited goals have proved over-ambitious. In Novembers test flight, the Super Heavy booster exploded when it attempted to reignite its engines in preparation for splashdown. This time around, the reignition of its engines seems to have failed once again, leading to a hard splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Starship, however, reached a low-Earth orbit that took it across southern Africa. While in this so-called coast phase, it carried out a series of test operations: opening and closing its payload door (Starship will ultimately be able to carry as much as 150 tonnes of payload into orbit); transfering propellant between two on-board tanks (a warm-up for future Starship-to-Starship refuelling in orbit, a requirement for missions to the Moon and Mars); and, finally, attempting a controlled re-entry. On-board cameras showed the glowing pink plasma expected of a spacecraft re-entering the atmosphere. But contact was lost soon afterwards, and SpaceX announced that the vehicle had been destroyed. (Whether this was because of a failure of its heat-shielding tiles, loss of control of the Starship or some other reason is unclear.)

SpaceX has been mocked for the tendency of its test flights to end in expensive firework shows, but such criticism misunderstands the companys approach to rocket development. It prefers to iterate quickly and learn from failure, rather than painstakingly plan for a perfect launchwhich, in the rocket industry, almost never happens (as the loss of the Kairos rocket launched by Space One, a Japanese company, on its inaugural flight on March 13th, demonstrated). And a successful maiden flight is particularly unlikely for a system as complex as Starship, the largest rocket ever built, which is intended to carry humans to other worlds. Each of these flight tests continue to be just that: a test, SpaceX explained in a statement before the launch. They arent occurring in a lab or on a test stand, but are putting flight hardware in a flight environment to maximise learning.

This less risk-averse approach has undoubtedly enabled SpaceX to outpace its rivals in the industry; last year its Falcon 9 rockets flew more missions and launched more mass into orbit than did those of any other company or space agency. A more valid criticism of SpaceX is that it has cut corners in areas such as environmental protection. The first Starship test flight, last April, caused extensive damage to its launchpad, scattering debris over a wide area, and prompting the Federal Aviation Authority, which regulates rocket launches, to conduct a safety review. SpaceX has since upgraded its launchpad with a flame deflector system that sprays water beneath the rocket as it takes off, to reduce noise, heat and damage.

And while SpaceX may be making rapid progress by spacefaring standards, Starship development is taking longer than expected. The work is partly funded by NASA, Americas space agency, and is critical to its plans to return humans to the Moon later this decade. A lunar landing by astronauts in a Starship vehicle, as part of the Artemis programme, once planned for 2025, has been delayed to 2026. And even that looks like a stretch given that Starship has yet to fly successfully, let alone with humans on board.

Mr Musk has said that he hopes Starship will make at least six more flights this year. That is just about plausible, even allowing for his infamous over-confidence. But Mr Musk also says that he wants Starship to have completed hundreds of uncrewed launches, carrying satellites into orbit, before it carries astronauts. The paradox of SpaceXs approach to rocket development is that it is both faster than any of its competitors, and also slower than NASA needs. But whatever its speed of travel, SpaceX has just taken its next step towards the stars.

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Tesla is raising Model Y prices in the U.S. and Europe even as a China price war rages – Quartz

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Elon Musks Tesla will increase the price of its Model Y in both the U.S. and Europe, a slight uptick that comes even as it wages a price war against its Chinese rival BYD and other EV competitors in that market.

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Tesla said Friday on Musks social media site X that the price for all Model Y trims would increase by $1,000starting April 1. Reuters reports that Model Y prices in some European markets will also increase by about 2,000 on March 22, or about $2,200.

Musk has been trying to drive up sales in China, the worlds largest auto market, by cutting prices and offering new incentives in the price war against rivals like BYD, which is backed by Warren Buffett.

But the demand for electric vehicles has continued to decline in 2024, even as automakers aggressively slash prices and offer incentives to convince consumers. Tesla known for selling the most popular EV on the market, by some metrics is facing renewed skepticism from analysts and investors. Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas, for example, openly wondered in a note to clients earlier this month, Could Tesla lose money (sometime) this year? Jonah cut his price target for Tesla to $320 from $345, pointing out several concerns with the EV market.

And BYD announced its latest ultra-cheap car on Wednesday. The Shenzhen-based company said the updated version of its e2 EV hatchback will be priced at 89,800 yuan ($12,485), 12.6% less than the previous price of 102,800 yuan ($14,303). Its just the latest new model unveiled by BYD over the past month as the automaker looks to retain its dominance in Chinas EV market and maintain its aggressive stance against Tesla.

Tesla stock has had a brutal start to 2024, losing more than 34% of its value so far this year in a slump that has also threatened Musks status as the richest person in the world.

-William Gavin contributed to this article.

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Elon Musk’s brain implant company offers an intriguing glimpse of an internet connecting human minds – The Conversation

Elon Musks company called Neuralink, launched in 2016, aims to implant a piece of technology in peoples brains that would allow them to control a computer or phone by thought alone. This is otherwise known as a brain-computer interface.

After years of experimenting on animals, Neuralink recently announced the implantation of one of their devices in the brain of a person.

Yet neurotechnology, of which this is a form, holds the promise of alleviating human suffering and allowing people with disabilities to regain lost capacities.

And it raises further questions. Would people without disabilities also embrace technology that directly connects with their brains and nervous systems? What would happen in future if people were able to link themselves to devices, infrastructure and even other peoples brains in a kind of brain-computer internet?

Its now time to begin to think about those questions. Medical conditions such as locked-in syndrome prevent people from communicating or moving their limbs. Neuralinks device is initially aimed at restoring capacities to people with such conditions by controlling a computer cursor to communicate, or using a robotic arm to feed themselves.

However, the longer term aspirations of the company, as expressed by Musk, include the capacity to summon a self-driving vehicle by thought alone. These aspirations suggest that neurotechnology might connect people to a wide variety of technological systems currently in everyday use.

Read more: The brain is the most complicated object in the universe. This is the story of scientists' quest to decode it and read people's minds

Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) detect the electrical activity in the brain connected to a persons intentions. For example, if a person wants a cursor to move to the right, they might imagine waving their hand. This brain activity is decoded and converted into a command for a cursor.

This approach can work with a robotic arm, the lights in a smart home, a video game, or even a drone or robot. A BCI can be thought of as a universal controller, or as the eminent neuroscientist Professor Rafael Yuste has described it, an iPhone for the brain.

Neurotechnology can be invasively implanted in the brain or nervous system, or come in the form of wearable technology, such as a headset or earbuds. Air traffic controllers with external headsets can have their brains monitored to alert them when their attention levels are dropping.

Children in Chinese high schools have already had their brains monitored by teachers. The company Brainwave Science even offers a product to security services and police that can monitor suspects brains during interrogations.

However, things might go even further, as forms of direct brain to brain communication are being tested. Instead of calling your friend or texting them, you might one day communicate telepathically. Rudimentary forms of direct brain to brain communication between humans (and even between humans and various animals) have already been achieved.

Various militaries are also interested in the potential of super soldiers enhanced with neurotechnology, as they could operate more effectively in challenging environments, such as urban settings.

This would incorporate weapon systems, sensing and monitoring the human brains of military personnel in a distributed system of battlefield control. A particularly striking example of this approach comes in the form of the thought-controlled robotic dogs that have recently been demonstrated by the Australian Army.

This brings to mind the fictional Borg civilisation from Star Trek, who are a similar mix of biology and machine parts. The alien Borg are individuals connected by neurotechnology that operate together as an entity. The implications of an interconnected system of humans and machines enabled by neurotechnology is something we should start to think about, along with what values that society might have.

We can envisage all kinds of scenarios. In future, its possible that those who operate critical infrastructure in cities could have their brains monitored to prevent accidents. People with mobility issues might increasingly interact with devices in their home, turning lights on and off and controlling domestic robots via their brain-computer interfaces.

At some point, people without disabilities could also decide to dispense with handheld remote control appliances in favour of controlling devices with their brains. Prisoners and offenders in the community could be monitored in real-time to assess their mental states.

In time, these separate applications might start to make connections with each other in service of enhanced efficiency, commercial expediency, and social control. Neurotech could emerge as an essential infrastructure that becomes the key interface of human relationships with technological systems.

What emerges from all of this? There has some been some thinking and action in relation to the human rights and broader legal implications of neurotechnology. But much of the debate is rather individualistic in orientation and neglects the wider societal implications of changing human relationships with technological systems.

Consequently, we need a discussion about the larger purpose of neurotechnology, its use and implications. This needs input from a variety of groups, such as infrastructure specialists, designers, architects, human computer interaction specialists and community groups.

Neurotechnology is likely to have diverse impacts across society: in the home, the workplace, the criminal justice system and networks of infrastructure.

Teasing out the emerging issues across these different sectors should enable us to anticipate the harms and benefits of neurotechnology. This will allow us to shape its development to support humans and the environment.

To paraphrase the Borg: resistance may not be futile after all.

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Trump asked Musk to buy Truth Social last year in new revelation – The Washington Post

Former president Donald Trump asked Elon Musk in the summer whether the billionaire entrepreneur would be interested in buying Trumps social network, Truth Social, according to two people with knowledge of the conversation.

The overture to Musk, whose business empire includes SpaceX, Tesla and the social networking site X, did not lead to a deal. But the conversation, which has not been previously reported, shows the two men have communicated more than was known. The two have had other conversations, too, Trump advisers say, about politics and business.

Among the conversations was a meeting this month in Palm Beach, Fla., that also included a few high-powered Republican donors, the people said. The subject of that discussion is not clear, but after it was first reported by the New York Times, which noted that the meeting happened while Trump was looking for campaign contributions, the billionaire wrote on X that he is not donating money to either candidate for US President.

Musk, the worlds second-richest man, has increasingly voiced support for conservative ideology on X, including echoing Trumps unverified claims that the Biden administration is, as Musk wrote last week, importing voters and creating a national security threat from unvetted illegal immigrants.

At the time of last summers discussion, Trumps media company, which owns Truth Social, was trapped in a long-delayed merger process. Musk bought X, then known as Twitter, for $44 billion in 2022.

When The Washington Post asked Musk about the Truth Social call and his other talks with Trump, Musk responded only that he had never been to Mar-a-Lago, Trumps estate in Palm Beach.

Trump Media & Technology Group did not address any of the facts reported in this story when invited to do so by The Post. In an emailed statement, Trump Media spokeswoman Shannon Devine said only, We heard Trump and Musk were actually discussing buying the Washington Post but they decided it had no value.

A spokesman for Trumps campaign did not respond to a request for comment.

One of the reasons Trump has not posted on X is that he wants to create and keep financial value for his Truth Social site, which he assiduously tracks, according to people close to him.

He has relentlessly tried to promote it, telling his advisers that he wants to break news on the platform partially to bring in more users. Its hot, Trump says, often polling visitors to Mar-a-Lago about whether they have an account.

He has tweeted once since leaving the Oval Office only his dour mug shot last year from an Atlanta jail, where he was booked on charges of trying to overturn the 2020 election results in the state.

At the time of the summer call, Trump Media faced a dim financial outlook. In April, Trump had said in a financial disclosure filing for his presidential candidacy that his 90 percent stake in the company was worth between $5 million and $25 million and that his income from it had been less than $200.

Three months later, the companys proposed merger partner, Digital World Acquisition Corp., announced that it had offered to pay an $18 million settlement if the merger were completed to settle charges by the Securities and Exchange Commission that it had misled investors, further casting doubt over the deal at the time.

But in the past month, the SEC greenlighted Digital Worlds merger registration, setting the stage for Trump Media to become a public company potentially worth billions of dollars. That change could offer Trump a financial lifeline as he faces hundreds of millions of dollars in legal penalties. Shareholders are expected to officially approve the merger during a vote later this month, but a lockup provision of the deal would require Trump to wait six months before selling any shares.

Musk once belittled Truth Social, posting in 2022 that Trumps site had a terrible name and that it was time for Trump to hang up his hat & sail into the sunset.

Trump responded on Truth Social by posting a photo of the two men in the Oval Office alongside a caption: When Musk visited the White House asking me for help on all of his many subsidized projects I could have said drop to your knees and beg, and he would have done it, he wrote.

Musk, he added, should focus on getting himself out of the Twitter mess, saying the site was perhaps worthless.

Musk, however, publicly condemned Twitters banning of Trumps account after the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. The site, under Musk, reactivated Trumps account in late 2022.

In the past year, as Musks promotion of conspiracy theories and criticism of liberal causes as a woke mind virus have driven away users and advertisers, Musk has voiced enthusiasm about Trumps ability to win attention on social media. In August, he said on X: People are clearly interested in hearing from Trump. One may not agree with the man, but he is never boring!

He posted last week that Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a very real disease.

Trump has continued to insist to advisers and people close to him that Musk should buy Truth Social. If he chose to sell the platform, it could provide Trump a much-needed cash infusion, though the merger process and lockup period could complicate the deal.

Trump met with Musk after recent judgments against the former president in two civil cases that may cost him well over $500 million.

On Friday, Trump posted a $91 million bond to stay a judgment against him in a defamation suit brought by the writer E. Jean Carroll, which he is appealing. In a fraud case brought by the New York attorney general, Trump will need to pay penalties of more than $450 million or post a bond of the same amount later this month to stay the judgment in that case during appeal.

Trump has not said where he plans to get the money. Few Wall Street banks have lent him substantial sums since his Trump-branded Atlantic City casinos began failing in the 1990s, and borrowing against his properties may be difficult and expensive to do in short order, experts said. He lists 22 assets most of them real estate as valued at over $50 million each, according to a filing he made with the government in August, and dozens of other less valuable properties. But he has made no public moves to sell his best real estate.

Trumps attorneys have made a number of filings in recent days aimed at buying the former president more time to secure the needed funds or at least to reduce the amount he must provide.

They argued in court that even the worlds wealthiest people cannot come up with half a billion dollars so quickly.

No one, including Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Donald Trump, has five hundred million laying around, Trump attorney Christopher Kise argued before an appeals court judge last month. (Bezos, the founder of Amazon, owns The Post.)

Faiz Siddiqui contributed to this report.

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Award to honor Musk, Murdoch, Milken, Stewart and Stallone – The Washington Post

Since 2020, a foundation has honored prominent women with the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Leadership Award, named after the late Supreme Court justice who championed womens rights and liberal causes. But this years lineup stands out: Four of the recipients are men. Two of them have done prison time for financial crimes. One founded Fox News. Another is Elon Musk.

Musk, Martha Stewart, Michael Milken, Rupert Murdoch and Sylvester Stallone are the five iconic individuals who will receive the Ginsburg Leadership Award next month at the Library of Congress in an exclusive ceremony and gala, according to a news release from the awards organizer, the Dwight D. Opperman Foundation.

Musk will receive the award for entrepreneurship, Stallone for being a cultural icon, Stewart for industry leadership, Milken for philanthropy and Murdoch for being a media mogul, the news release said.

Stewart was on Ginsburgs original wish list of potential honorees, the news release said. But the foundation, which did not say how the honorees were picked, decided on a dramatic change this year.

Justice Ginsburg fought not only for women but for everyone, said Julie Opperman, chair of the Dwight D. Opperman Foundation and widow of the foundations namesake, in the news release. Going forward, to embrace the fullness of Justice Ginsburgs legacy, we honor both women and men who have changed the world by doing what they do best.

Irin Carmon, co-author of the book Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, said Ginsburg did champion gender equality but said Oppermans characterization is at odds with Ginsburgs views on the topic.

I think its worth clarifying that the cases [Ginsburg] brought on behalf of male plaintiffs in the 1970s with the ACLU Womens Rights Project were about challenging gender roles and stereotypes, Carmon said. They were men who were engaged in caregiving, or being supported by breadwinning spouses. They were not men who were fulminating about how birth control makes you fat, she said, referring to comments made recently by Musk.

When she said that she wanted men and women to be partners in gender equality, I do not think this is quite what she had in mind, Carmon said.

In announcing this years awards, the Opperman Foundation praised Musk for being a free-speech advocate. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO, who bought Twitter (now X) in 2022, certainly grapples with free-speech issues. But this week he was lambasted by Don Lemon for canceling a deal on X with the former CNN star a few hours after being interviewed by him.

His commitment to a global town square where all questions can be asked and all ideas can be shared seems not to include questions of him from people like me, Lemon wrote in a statement.

Ginsburg was the first Jewish woman to serve on the Supreme Court when she joined in 1993. The X owner has been accused of contributing to the rapid increase in antisemitism on his social media platform by amplifying anti-Jewish tropes. Some major brands have fled the platform after seeing their advertisements placed next to antisemitic content.

Murdoch, whom the Opperman Foundations statement called the most iconic living legend in media, was a trailblazer in conservative media.

Federal Election Commission records show that Julie Opperman has donated more than $200,000 to Republican politicians and organizations since 2014.

Milken has been a major philanthropist for cancer research and public health after he served prison time in the 1990s on six felony counts, including securities and mail fraud. He was pardoned by President Donald Trump in 2020. Stewart, the beloved lifestyle personality, served five months in federal prison after being convicted in 2004 of obstruction of justice, conspiracy and lying to federal investigators.

Stallone will appear in the upcoming action thriller Armored.

The honor was originally called the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Woman of Leadership Award when it was first awarded in 2020. Its first recipient, philanthropist and arts patron Agnes Gund, was presented with the award by the justice herself, and subsequent awardees were Barbra Streisand, Queen Elizabeth II and Diane von Furstenberg.

Ginsburg was longtime friends with Dwight Opperman, who served as president of West Publishing Co., which created the online research service Westlaw. He died in 2013.

Matthew Umhofer, the Opperman Foundations president, told The Washington Post that the RBG Award celebrates the achievements of individuals in their chosen fields without regard to politics.

Laura Wagner contributed to this report.

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Justice Ginsburg’s family decries bestowing RBG award on Elon Musk and Rupert Murdoch – Mother Jones

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On Wednesday, the Dwight D. Opperman Foundation announced the 2024 recipients of the Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Leadership Award. The winners: businessman Elon Musk, right-wing media kingpin Rupert Murdoch, lifestyle guru Martha Stewart, felonious Wall Streeter turned philanthropist Mike Milken, and actor Sylvester Stallone. The Foundation hailed these iconic individuals for their extraordinary achievements.

Veteran corporate lawyer Brendan Sullivan, who was Oliver Norths attorney during the Iran-contra scandal and who now chairs the RBG Award, noted, The honorees reflect the integrity and achievement that defined Justice Ginsburgs career and legend. And the chair of the foundation, Julie Opperman, a big Republican donor and the widow of publishing titan Dwight Opperman, who once was CEO of Thomson Reuters, remarked that the award embraces the fullness of Justice Ginsburgs legacy.

Attaching Ginsburgs name to Musk, who has amplified racist and antisemitic posts and ideas on X, and Murdoch, whose Fox News purposefully spread Trumps disinformation about the 2020 election and has repeatedly deployed falsehoods to challenge and undermine the values that Ginsburg fought for her entire life, seemed an odd and inappropriate choice. Thats what Ginsburgs family believes.

It has released a statement denouncing the awards:

The decision of the Opperman Foundation to bestow the RBG Womens Leadership Award on this years slate of awardees is an affront to the memory of our mother and grandmother, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Her legacy is one of deep commitment to justice and to the proposition that all persons deserve what she called equal citizenship stature under the Constitution. She was a singularly powerful voice for the equality and empowerment of women, including their ability to control their own bodies. As it was originally conceived and named, the Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Woman of Leadership Award honored that legacy by recognizing an extraordinary woman who has exercised a positive and notable influence on society and served as an exemplary role model in both principles and practice. This year, the Opperman Foundation has strayed far from the original mission of the award and from what Justice Ginsburg stood for.

The Justices family wish to make clear that they do not support using their mothers name to celebrate this years slate of awardees, and that the Justices family has no affiliation with and does not endorse this award.

The statement noted that the Ginsburg familythe Supreme Court justice died in 2020fully supports the sentiments expressed in a letter Trevor Morrison, a professor of law at New York University and a former clerk for Ginsburg, sent to Julie Opperman on Friday. He wrote that he was appalled by the news of these awards. Morrison pointed out:

Justice Ginsburgs extraordinary legacy is one of a deep commitment to justice and to the proposition that all persons deserve what she called equal citizenship stature under the Constitution. She was a singularly powerful voice for the equality and empowerment of women, including their ability to control their own bodies. Beyond those substantive values, Justice Ginsburg had an abiding commitment to careful, rigorous analysis and to fair-minded engagement with people of opposing views.

It is difficult to see how the decision to bestow the RBG Award on this years slate reflects any appreciation foror even awareness ofthese dimensions of the Justices legacy. I will not single out any awardee individually, and I do not mean to raise the same objections about each of them. But I do mean to register in the strongest terms my concern that not everyone on this years slate reflects the values to which the Justice dedicated her career, and for which the Justice is rightly revered around the world.

According to Morrison, the foundation did not consult Ginsburgs family about the awardees. He informed Opperman that Ginsburgs two children, Jane and James Ginsburg, have indicated to me that, unless the original award criteria, as accepted by Justice Ginsburg, are restored, they very much want their mothers name to be removed from the award. He added, Each of this years awardees has achieved notable success in their careers, and each may well deserve accolades of one form or another. But the decision to bestow upon them the particular honor of the RBG Award is a striking betrayal of the Justices legacy.

Julie Opperman according to Federal Election Commission filings, is a major Republican donor. In 2016, she donated $50,000 to Rebuilding America Now, a super PAC founded by Paul Manafort and Tom Barracktwo top Trump advisersto support the Trump presidential campaign. That year, she also donated $2,700, the legal maximum, directly to the Trump campaign. In 2020 Opperman contributed $200,000 to Republican campaigns and PACs, including a $100,000 donation to the Take Back The House 2020 PAC and $92,000 to the National Republican Congressional Committee.

The awards are to be handed out April 13 at a gala at the Library of Congress that will be part of an exclusive three-day event for 100 invited guests, which, according to the foundation, is the most anticipated in Washington, DC. With guests arriving from across the country and from around the world, gala chair Amy Baier said, we aim to make this as memorable an event for them as we are for these outstanding honorees. Yet with the Ginsburg family absent, it will be little more than a high-rent farce and an insult to her legacy.

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