内容摘要：“The way I see it, the Supreme Court is going to once again become irrelevant, just like it was in the old days of authoritarian rule ... when its ability to monitor constitutionality was basically null,” said Rafael Estada, a constitutional historian.

“The way I see it, the Supreme Court is going to once again become irrelevant, just like it was in the old days of authoritarian rule ... when its ability to monitor constitutionality was basically null,” said Rafael Estada, a constitutional historian.

“I asked if he’d been hurt, and he said, no. He was scared,” Worrall recounted.He wanted paramedics to help him corral the toothy reptile.

“I told him that we wouldn’t be sending an ambulance for something like that. And he said, ‘So you’re not going to send me any help until I get bit, is that right?’ I went, ‘That’s correct.’”The Welsh Ambulance Service isn’t alone in publicizing the wacky calls they got last year. The South Western Ambulance Service in England this week said more than a quarter of the 1 million-plus calls it fielded last year did not merit sending help.The non-emergency calls included a person looking for assistance in finding their walking stick, a patient who had fallen off a chair — who was already in the hospital — and a woman who complained of having a “horrendous nightmare.”

Emergency calls “are for situations where minutes matter and lives are at risk,” said William Lee, assistant operations director at South Western Ambulance. “Inappropriate calls tie up our emergency lines and divert valuable resources away from those in genuine need.”Worrall was gobsmacked the gator caller thought paramedics were the panacea for his problem.

“We could be on the phone to somebody with the alligator and the next call I take could be a cardiac arrest and they’ve had to wait in line for the call to be answered,” she said. “And we could have lost significant time getting hands on chest to do CPR.”

When she got off the phone, she took a short break to share the story with her amused colleagues.Other schools face the loss of federal funding and their ability to enroll international students if they don’t agree to the Trump administration’s shifting demands. But Harvard, which was founded more than a century before the nation itself, has taken the lead in defying the White House in court and is paying a heavy price.

Graduating students walk through Harvard Yard during commencement ceremonies at Harvard University, Thursday, May 29, 2025, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)Graduating students walk through Harvard Yard during commencement ceremonies at Harvard University, Thursday, May 29, 2025, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Among the Trump administration’s latest salvos was asking federal agencieswith the university. The government already canceled more than $2.6 billion in federal research grants, moved to cut off Harvard’s