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April 04, 2012 | | ROGUES The Roberts Court’s rulings appear to be a concerted effort to send us back to the Gilded Age. If the justices dump the Affordable Care Act, writes The Daily Beast’s David Dow, we should dump them. BACK ON TRACK The long-delayed trial of accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed is set to resume in a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, according to a Pentagon official. The trial began under the Bush administration, but was suspended when Obama was elected amid the administration’s plans to shut down the Guantanamo detention center and hold the trial in New York. After that effort floundered in the face of congressional opposition, Attorney General Eric Holder turned the case back over to the military, where the charges against Mohammed and four other accused hijackers were reinstated. TWISTER The Dallas mayor said Wednesday that it is a “miracle” that nobody died in a series of destructive tornadoes that touched down in Texas the day before. “I mean, we’ve got hundreds and hundreds of homes destroyed but amazingly no fatalities,” Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings told CNN. Meanwhile, the northern Texas communities of Lancaster, Forney, and Arlington began the recovery process, after an estimated 650 homes were ruined and 150 people spent Tuesday night in shelters. There’s a small chance of rain in the area on Wednesday, and an isolated thunderstorm is possible—but forecasters said the biggest threat is possible hail. 'Hide and Seek' Mitt Romney accused President Obama of running a “hide-and-seek campaign," Wednesday. “He wants us to reelect him so we can find out what he will actually do,” the GOP frontrunner said. “Unlike President Obama, you don’t have to wait until after the election to find out what I believe in—or what my plans are.” Romney pointed to the President’s controversial health-care bill as an example of Obama’s unclear platform, remarking that Democrats said the bill should be passed so that people could figure out what was in it. SINKING SHIP Yahoo continued to signal its decline Wednesday with an announcement that it will lay off 2,000 employees, its sixth mass firing in four years. The company has struggled to compete with Google, Facebook, and other upstart companies that cut deeply into Yahoo’s market, and has shuffled through three CEOs in the past four years. Yahoo says the cuts will save $375 million per year, and are part of a strategy to rejuvenate the company. Fired employees will be notified Wednesday; the company would not say whether they would receive severance benefits. | | 
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